The massive phantom of the Netherworld Saint Tiger Emperor stepped out from behind Fang Fan. The Ink-Blue Giant Tiger nearly filled the cramped room, and six colors of markings blazed across its body—
Ghostly blue cat markings, emerald Snake-Scale Patterns, icy blue phoenix markings, silver-blue dolphin markings, glazed pagoda markings, and violet-black Evil God Demonic Runes. Six lights intertwined and spun,
Then collided with the Eight-Winged Angel's golden Holy Light in midair.
Holiness and destruction, light and evil—when those utterly opposed forces met, they did not repel each other.
Instead, they clung together like two magnets that had spent eons searching for one another.
The Destructive Evil Breath awakened the Angel God Power, making it erupt like a long-dormant volcano.
The Angel God Power purified the Destructive Evil Breath, lending its ferocity a trace of sacred majesty.
The two forces coursed back and forth through Fang Fan's and Qian Renxue's meridians. With every circuit, both their Soul Power surged higher.
Qian Renxue tilted back her head, the pale curve of her neck graceful in the candlelight. Her golden hair spilled across the pillow, a few strands damp with sweat and clinging to her cheeks.
She bit her lower lip to keep quiet, but the rush of power she had never felt before still drew a stifled moan from deep in her throat.
The phantom Eight-Winged Angel behind her threw back its head and cried out. Stimulated by the Destructive Evil Breath, the Holy Light patterns on its wings grew more intricate and brilliant. The markings of the Holy Light Shadowbird in her Eighth Soul Ring merged with the Netherworld Saint Tiger Emperor's Evil God Demonic Runes across its wings, adding a dark-gold will of destruction to the Holy Light.
Her Soul Power smashed through its bottleneck amid that fusion. Eighty-sixth