Volume 5, Chapter 50 – The Departed Ancestor, Astral’s Collaborator

Ice-blue sword light swept forward with unstoppable momentum, mercilessly engulfing Hume within!

In just an instant,

The gray-white spiritual power aura completely collapsed, and the force unleashed by Hume’s self-destructing core was utterly annihilated by Bai Lianyue’s sword energy. Not only that, but Hume’s entire body was gradually reduced to nothing under this wave of energy impact.

Having one’s flesh destroyed by sword energy was undoubtedly an extremely painful affair.

It was equivalent to being subjected to death by a thousand cuts, chopped into mincemeat.

However, within the sword energy storm, in this process of continuous annihilation, Hume revealed a smile of relief.

—”So this is how it ends…”—

To repay Lord Astral’s kindness, to fulfill Lord Astral’s ambitions, Hume had spent these thousand years doing countless dirty and exhausting work.

Exploiting the people, plundering wealth, killing and arson, raiding homes and exterminating bloodlines, slaughtering alien races, collecting souls, instigating wars…

Hume himself had grown weary.

Ending it like this,

Perhaps was also a fine choice…

As his eyes slowly narrowed, within the endless ice-blue sword light, several familiar figures seemed to faintly appear—those were the orphanage children he had adopted back then. Watching those children wave hello to him one by one, Hume smiled with contentment.

In this moment, he seemed to once again don that familiar yet strange priest’s robe.

—”You’ve come to welcome me…”—

As these wistful words left his lips, Hume’s final head was reduced to nothing in the ravaging ice-blue sword energy…

After suppressing Hume’s explosion with a single sword strike and completely annihilating him, Bai Lianyue withdrew the curse power around her body. Countless Crimson Spectre Eyes slowly closed and disappeared into the black mud, while the black mud and black thorns retreated into the earth, vanishing without a trace.

The White Horizon Sword also transformed back into phone form, drilling back into the evil god miss’s pocket.

“He actually sought death willingly… How unexpected.”

Bai Lianyue muttered quietly.

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After this, she turned to look at Ailiya behind her. Upon seeing her daughter’s touching and beautiful face, the evil god miss immediately set aside her previous seriousness, and a gentle, doting smile emerged.

“Wow~ My Ai’er is so amazing~”

Grinning happily, the evil god miss excitedly hugged her daughter and continuously nuzzled Ailiya with her cheek.

“Mom, Mommy?”

Suddenly being embraced and having her face nuzzled, Ailiya couldn’t help but show a trace of blushing.

“Hehe, Ai’er is so wonderful~”

After nuzzling for a bit, Bai Lianyue very happily planted a kiss on Ailiya’s cheek.

“Ehehe~”

Without a doubt,

Miss Bai Lianyue was in an exceptionally good mood right now.

Her beautiful face was full of proud and satisfied emotions.

Although she had only briefly fought with Hume, the battle-experienced evil god miss quickly realized how powerful he was. Among those at Peak Divine Departure Realm, Hume was definitely among the most elite. In Bai Lianyue’s knowledge, those who could battle him without defeat were probably only Xi Xuan, Yelena, and the second-in-commands of the other two Lineages.

And Ailiya?

She was able to contend with him for so long with only Early Divine Departure Realm strength?

She had even temporarily suppressed Hume at one point?!

This showed~

Her daughter was truly amazing!!

With her daughter being so capable, Bai Lianyue as a mother was naturally overjoyed.

After raising this child for so long, she had finally grown up~

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Bai Lianyue’s current mindset was roughly like this.

“Worthy of being a child I raised—so awesome~”

As for Ailiya? She didn’t resist either, just letting herself be held in Bai Lianyue’s embrace and nuzzled continuously. Well, no matter what, for her having just experienced a major battle, this was indeed a kind of reward.

However,

While enjoying the warmth of Lianyue’s embrace, Ailiya also couldn’t help but cast her gaze toward behind the evil god miss, toward where Hume had been standing earlier.

“Lian… no, Mommy. Did we really just eliminate him like that? He’s someone from House Solrog… and apparently an Ancestor of considerable status.”

Upon hearing this,

Bai Lianyue’s movements slowed slightly.

“It’s nothing serious. That guy couldn’t possibly have revealed any intelligence to us.”

The moment Hume showed that desperate expression, Bai Lianyue had already made this judgment.

“So, directly eliminating him was fine.”

While saying this,

The evil god miss slightly turned her head, glancing behind with the corner of her eye.

“Besides… knowing what House Solrog’s front company in this world is called is enough, isn’t it? Hehe… ‘Tianen Group’? …What a load of bull…”

Meanwhile,

At the edge of an unfathomably deep chasm somewhere in South America, a white-haired woman in high heels, wearing an off-white dress with an extraordinary bearing, sat quietly on a sofa by the canyon’s edge, sipping red wine while observing the movement within the canyon.

Sensing the increasingly rich divine power emanating from the great chasm, watching the pale golden light gradually overflowing from the ravine, the white-haired woman—Isabelle—raised the corners of her mouth in satisfaction.

“Lord Astral’s advancement seems to be proceeding smoothly.”

While speaking, Isabelle directed her gaze toward the edge of the chasm, watching truck after truck from the corporation dumping massive quantities of alien race corpses into the great chasm.

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“As for resentment… still need a bit more. For holy relics, finding two more should be sufficient.”

Isabelle muttered to herself.

Over these thousand years, to research methods for breaking through to Divine Graced Realm, House Solrog had initiated two completely different research directions.

One was using resentment and souls to create Divine Graced Realm by mimicking the method of evil god descent; the other was using holy relics left by the Lord in the mortal world along with the Heart of the World to complete the breakthrough.

Previously, Lord Astral had been forced to simultaneously fuse massive amounts of resentment and the Heart of the World in order to directly repel Gaia Lobir, causing his body to nearly collapse and frightening Isabelle into anxiety for a long time.

But looking at it now, this might actually be a blessing in disguise.

If Lord Astral could use this opportunity to completely control the power of the Heart of the World and massive resentment, his strength would definitely surpass ordinary Divine Graced Realm.

Even those terrifying evil gods would no longer be Lord Astral’s opponents.

Thinking of this,

Isabelle unconsciously raised the corners of her mouth.

However,

Before she could smile for long, as if sensing something, the smile on Isabelle’s face froze in place.

“Hume… is dead?”

The moment she realized this, Isabelle’s five fingers suddenly clenched with force, and the wine glass in her hand abruptly turned to nothing.

“It’s impossible for Ailiya to have defeated Hume… which means? The Terran Malevolence is already by Ailiya’s side. The operation at Bai Bin’s location probably failed too. In that case, that Bai Lianyue fellow should already know about our relationship with Tianen Group…”

At this moment, Isabelle’s expression grew increasingly grave.

“I hope Lord Astral can successfully break through before Bai Lianyue finds this place. If so, we can directly deal with the Terran Malevolence…”

However, just as Isabelle was muttering to herself, the golden orb on the table beside her suddenly emanated a trace of pale golden light.

Immediately after, Astral’s voice quietly emerged from the orb.

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—”Ailiya-Lingyuan has appeared here as well?”—

Seeing the orb flash, Isabelle immediately showed a respectful expression and softly explained:

“Yes, we originally wanted to capture her before the Terran Malevolence found her, then use her against Bai Lianyue. But it seems we’ve failed now, and Hume is dead too.”

—”Ailiya came too… This is not good news.”—

“Why do you say that?”

—”Do you think Ailiya has the strength to break through an interdimensional tunnel?”—

“You mean?”

Her pupils contracting, a trace of unease suddenly flashed in Isabelle’s eyes.

“The tunnel was broken through by Polarvitan? The Abyssal Lord… came over too?”

—”It should be so.”—

“This, this… what should we do?”

A rare trace of panic flashed in Isabelle’s eyes.

Counting the Celestial Blight Ulutiel who might have already infiltrated Earth… all three great evil gods were now on Earth! Lord Astral might be able to fight two after completing his breakthrough… but to deal with three?

That was impossible…

However, as if sensing Isabelle’s worry, Astral’s voice emerged from the orb again.

—”Don’t panic, Isabelle. Go meet someone for me now.”—

“Meet someone? Who?”

—”An old acquaintance, one of the Lord’s apostles… and the only Divine Graced Realm practitioner I know of.”—