Volume 9, Chapter 13 – Heavily Wounded Michael

The Sanctuary Flames that could purify almost everything were something even an Abyssal Overlord had to temporarily avoid.

But when facing flames like these, Tianyin showed no intention of dodging at all.

“Conclusion… this level of attack can be ignored.”

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“Trying to leave? Do you even know what you’re saying?”

Returning to the real world, Xingyu Muxi immediately went to find her father and clearly explained her thoughts.

Just as Xingyu Muxi had expected, after learning of her desire to leave, her father’s face showed shock, surprise, and confusion.

“Father… I’ve already agreed to inherit the Throne-tier’s power… I’ve fulfilled the promise I made, so now you should let me do what I want to do, right?”

The girl’s beautiful eyes were filled with anticipation.

“I can agree to your request, but this isn’t something I can decide alone.”

Toward his daughter, Xingyu Muxi’s father was actually extremely protective.

Even so, he couldn’t ignore the demands of the elders and aristocratic partners over something like this. After all, a noble family was a collective, not something he alone could control.

“Father, does that mean you’re willing to agree to me leaving?”

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Xingyu Muxi’s eyes lit up slightly.

Although her father’s words had already revealed that he couldn’t decide the direction of things, in Xingyu Muxi’s view, as long as her father didn’t deliberately obstruct her, the rest would be easy to handle.

At worst, it would just be coercion or inducement. As for the noble family members other than her father, if they truly wanted to stop her from returning to Dawn, Xingyu Muxi wouldn’t mind using force.

Although she wasn’t the kind of girl who liked to rely on force, if she was truly pushed to that point, she wouldn’t hesitate.

“Although I don’t know why you want to return to Dawn.”

Xingyu Muxi’s father looked at her and gave a bitter smile.

“You’re my daughter. Even though I was forcing you before, wasn’t that also to protect you?”

“Now you possess powerful strength and are already capable of protecting yourself properly. So from now on, I won’t interfere with your matters anymore.”

“Go do whatever you want, my daughter.”

“Thank you…”

The care and love contained in her father’s words were something Xingyu Muxi genuinely felt.

In the past, Xingyu Muxi hadn’t liked her father very much. After all, his habit of putting the family first in everything almost never considered her feelings.

But thinking about it carefully now, as the head of the family, her father himself bore the heavy responsibility of the family’s rise and fall.

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Possessing a background envied by others, yet shouldering a responsibility that left him unable to control his own fate.

“Alright, you don’t need to worry about my side. What you should think about next is how to persuade the council formed by the noble families.”

In the end, the conversation between father and daughter came to a close just like that.

……

And as Xingyu Muxi began working on the noble families, within the Sanctuary Plane, the battle between Tianyin and Michael was still ongoing.

With the protection of the entire Sanctuary Plane, even though Michael wielded the Sanctuary Flames, he was still no match for Tianyin. However, under every attack that could have been fatal, he was constantly teetering on the brink of danger.

After fusing with the Supreme Authority, Tianyin’s combat power had already surpassed the Throne-tier. Even without using the power of rules, she was directly suppressing Michael.

“Who exactly are you?”

Although the battle was intense, Michael still couldn’t help but ask.

The reason was simple. In his impression, Tianyin had never possessed such combat strength.

At least before the Heavenly Father’s final summons before his death, Tianyin had felt weak to Michael.

Yes, although both were at the Throne-tier at that time, Michael could very plainly state that defeating Tianyin would only take him a few moves.

And in fact, when Tianyin fought the Black Dragon King, she had been completely suppressed. From that alone, Michael hadn’t been wrong in his judgment back then.

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Yet reality was so bizarre. The Tianyin who had given him such a weak impression not long ago had now become far stronger than anything Michael had ever known.

Even the Heavenly Father hadn’t been this outrageous.

Clang—!

A crisp sword ring echoed out. Tianyin didn’t answer Michael’s question and instead relentlessly launched another attack.

Facing Tianyin’s assault, Michael didn’t dare to confront it head on and could only rely on the plane’s protection to dodge in a sorry state.

“Ugh…”

This time, however, Michael wasn’t as lucky as before. Tianyin’s attack speed was simply too fast. The strike descended almost the instant she moved. Even a Throne-tier existence found it difficult to react to such speed.

“Puh…”

Unable to evade Tianyin’s attack, the part that was struck was the pure white wings spread behind Michael.

As angels of the Sanctuary, the importance of wings went without saying. Yet in battle, because they were so large, wings also became a weakness for the angel race.

During the earlier fighting, Michael had tried his best to avoid his wings being injured, but after narrowly escaping Tianyin’s attacks time and time again, he was finally struck.

Blood slowly flowed along the white feathers. Angel wings were actually densely packed with nerves, so the wound torn open by the sword brought Michael an intense pain that was impossible to ignore.

“…What exactly do you want to do?”

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Despite already being heavily wounded, Michael still didn’t forget to question Tianyin about her reason for invading the Sanctuary.

Calling it foolish wasn’t wrong. But this kind of questioning was also a way to buy time.

With his Throne-tier status and the recovery provided by the entire Sanctuary Plane, he only needed to delay for a tiny bit longer for the torn wounds to rapidly heal.

If this were the Tianyin from before, she might really have stopped attacking to communicate with Michael.

Unfortunately, the current Tianyin was no longer the naive and clueless Tianyin she once was.

“Speculation. Probability of a delaying tactic is 99%.”

She spoke a line that sounded completely incomprehensible, then without hesitation, launched another attack.

“Ugh…”

A painful groan escaped him. Even though Michael tried his best to dodge, he still failed to evade Tianyin’s strike.

The sharp sword energy directly cut away a portion of the wings behind him. After severing the wings, that same sword energy plowed a bottomless trench into the ground beneath Michael.

With just a single strike, the Throne-tier Michael was completely grievously wounded. Of course, if Michael had been replaced with a Legendary-tier angel instead… they might have already died under Tianyin’s sword.