Chapter 128: Three Guards Province (7)

Lia felt weightless. She didn’t collapse to the ground because she was stabbed, no, that was far from the truth. She collapsed to the ground due to the endless visions that kept appearing in her head.

The world around her vanished completely. It was replaced by an endless darkness that pulsed like a living heartbeat, and she drifted within it, unable to move her limbs, unable to sense her body. Only her mind existed.

Then, she heard it.

A voice.

No… several voices layered atop each other, distant and warped, like echoes bleeding through shattered glass.

“L▇▇▇▇n of g▇▇s”

The words scraped across her consciousness. Her mind trembled when she heard the voice.

Another pulse of darkness appeared, and more whispers emerged out of it.

“▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ god▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ nirvana▇▇▇”

The voices were overlapped and twisted. Each syllable glitched, stretched, and tore apart before fully forming.

Again, she heard the voice once more.

“L▇▇▇▇n of g▇▇s”

This time it was clearer, sharper. It felt like someone was pushing these words directly into her soul.

A cold chill ran down her spine.

The darkness around her trembled.

“▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ god▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ nirvana▇▇▇”

“▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ reborn soon…”

The voices looped. Each repetition grew steadier and less distorted. The static faded. Eventually the meaning began to take shape, as if ancient beings were trying to communicate through a broken channel.

“Legion of gods!”

The phrase struck her mind like light.

Memories began to surge into her mind.

The last echo rang out loud and clear.

“The legion of gods!” This time, it was Lia who shouted.

As soon as she shouted, the darkness around her cracked.

Then, a scene unfolded before Lia, as if a curtain of void was pulled aside.

A long, endless walkway stretched into the distance. At its far end stood a colossal throne forged from light and shadow, suspended above a dark space. Countless tiny lights flickered in the background like shattered fragments of a broken cosmos.

A woman walked along this walkway.

Her face was glitched, distorted, impossible to perceive correctly. Her form remained clear, yet every attempt to focus made her features blur like corrupted data, as if just looking at her face would cause a glitch in reality.

Step by step, she advanced.

With each step she took, abstract shapes on the sides of the walkway bent in reverence. Illogical, indescribable beings knelt as though compelled by a force beyond comprehension.

Whispers filled the air.

“EM ▇ress.”

“EM▇ress.”

They greeted her one after another, their voices echoing with devotion and fear.

The woman reached the end of the walkway. Without hesitation, she sat upon the throne.

Her posture was relaxed, one hand supporting her chin, her gaze sweeping across the entire world with absolute indifference.

“Long live the empress!”

The chant roared from every direction.

Lia’s entire body trembled. A chill crawled across her spine, gripping her even here inside her own mind.

Following that, the darkness completely disappeared. Immediately after, a flash of gold erupted.

The scene shattered like glass. The walkway, the throne, the kneeling figures, everything vanished. The endlessly looping vision that had plagued her mind also disappeared completely.

In the shining golden light, new words surfaced.

“Hongmeng!”¹

The words reverberated inside her soul.

….

Boom!

The golden light emerging from Lia’s body spread everywhere.

This golden light was not spiritual energy nor was it cosmic energy. No, it was something far more powerful.

A power that would make others kneel.

Golden light surged even brighter from Lia’s body. The ground beneath her cracked as the energy erupted outward. Her trembling figure rose into the air as if pulled by an unseen force.

Everyone watched in shock as she ascended with the golden light. The glow wrapped around her like a cocoon, shifting and pulsating with overwhelming pressure.

“This power is…” The immortal lady’s eyes widened. She could feel the golden radiance brushing against her own soul, unfamiliar yet indescribably ancient.

At that moment, a powerful scripture appeared inside Lia’s mind.

The name of the scripture was:

[Endless Heavens of God Transformations]

The scripture worked like a miracle. She didn’t even need to utilize it, the golden radiance permeated her entire body, and immediately, an earth shattering transformation was beginning to take place.

The golden radiance wasn’t there to strengthen her body. It was there to forcibly reconstruct her existence from the inside out.

Her organs shifted, dissolved, and reformed in entirely new patterns, rearranging themselves into structures no longer belonging to mortal physiology.

Her blood vessels branched like radiant runes, her bones melted into liquid gold before solidifying again, and her heart split into three crystalline cores that pulsed in perfect harmony.

The golden radiance permeated each part of her body, continuously refining her appearance and body.

What exactly was this golden radiance?

It was the power of Hongmeng and her own energy.

“The Law of Hongmeng!” Lia spoke out sharply.

Her purple colored hair highlights transformed into gold, and her face became much more refined and beautiful.

She looked like a beautiful god praised by many mortals.

[What is this power?]

The system of Lin Fang was dumbfounded when it felt it.

So was everyone in the scene.

“Lia?” Evan gulped and called out with a dumbfounded expression.

“This is…” Alissa had a surprised expression on her face.

“This power… it is similar to true origin energy. No… it feels more powerful.” Alissa was momentarily stunned.

Having felt it closely, she realized it completely.

For a moment, she didn’t know what to say anymore.

Amidst everyone’s stunned gaze, Lia slowly opened her eyes.

Immediately, she turned her attention toward the High Order member who had stabbed her.

The guy was looking directly back at her with a stunned expression.

Not because of her world defying transformation, rather because of the pressure she now emanated.

There was no doubt about it, this was a law transformation, and not only that, she had officially stepped into the 2nd rank.

She was now undergoing her 2nd metamorphosis.

But how could someone who had just reached 2nd rank cause him to feel pressure?

Refusing to believe it, he took a step forward. However, as soon as he took a step, he felt his entire body abruptly go weak. Not only that, the dagger in his hand suddenly felt heavy, and even more strangely, he realized his elixir field no longer had any energy, nor could he sense any.

“Y-You!” The High Order member trembled in disbelief. “How is this possible?”

“What did you do?” he asked, terrified.

He couldn’t feel his abyssal energy anymore.

“Return to origin.” Lia spoke calmly. “You temporarily returned to your origin.”

“What?” The High Order member was even more confused and creeped out.

“This is your origin.” Lia said with an indifferent smile on her face. “You were once a weakling with no power. All I did was revert you back to your origin. I can revert you back to your baby form, but I refrained from doing so because I wouldn’t like killing a baby.”

“You can die now.” She slowly dropped her degree like an empress, and immediately, a mysterious force formed around the High Order member and he burst into blood mist.

“Just what…?” Everyone was utterly terrified seeing the power from Lia.

Not only that, she looked completely different. She had become more beautiful and mysterious.

As all of this was happening, a certain individual was watching from above.

It was none other than Orin.

For a moment, he felt a threatening power from the girl. It absolutely left him enraged.

Hence, after pushing City Lord Dorian away, he directly launched his railgun at the City Lord Mansion.

Boom!

It shot toward everyone with immense speed. Lia’s expression changed drastically when she felt the power.

“Not good!” Lia shouted.

“What is that?” The railgun’s attack inched close, and everyone looked terrified.

They couldn’t do anything now. Once it hit, all of them would evaporate.

“We’re going to die!” Lin Fang shouted in shock.

As he shouted that, everyone except Lia unconsciously closed their eyes.

But the attack charging their way never came.

“Hmph.” A powerful yet ancient voice rang out across the entire area.

Alissa and Lia trembled when they heard the sound, and looking up, they saw a powerful barrier had formed, and the railgun’s attack was directly negated.

Right beside Evan now stood a heaven toppling beauty. She was beautiful and wore an ancient white robe, making her look more pretty.

It was none other than Immortal Lady.

She had taken action.

Both Alissa’s and Lia’s expressions changed when they set their eyes on her face.

They both saw it.

A terrifying power, a power that could swallow this world as a whole.

Looking around, everyone else had fallen down unconscious, even Lin Fang.

They also felt a sense of sleepiness assaulting them, but their special powers kept them awake.

“Oh?” The immortal lady turned to both of them with a curious look on her face.

Then, she withdrew her barrier and took a deep breath.

“Master!” Evan called out worriedly.

Master had actually come out into the real world and even deflected an attack. This was definitely something that could tax her powers massively.

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