Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 1168

Chapter 1168 Reducing Consequences

1168 Reducing Consequences

"Hong Meiling."

"Wang Wei?"

"Big brother?"

"I don't have much time," Wang Wei's voice echoed, followed by a portal opening before a talisman made from his blood rushed before her.

"Wang Ju won't be able to hold on until I come back. Use this talisman with my strength and help her seal the Abyss Gap. Don't take too long since your body and soul cannot withstand my power for too long."

"Alright."

"Big brother, are you alright?" Li Jun asked.

"I'll be fine. I'll see you soon."

The two felt his presence disappeared.

"Well, don't waste time."

"Right."

Hong Meiling crushed the talisman, feeling a terrifying power coursing through her veins. She was instantly intoxicated as the sensation that she could do anything overwhelmed her mind. Luckily, an unknown power rushed into her soul and strengthened her spirit, allowing her to regain clarity and thus have complete control over this newfound power.

'Is this his true strength? How he feel every day?' Hong Meiling thought briefly before remembering the task at hand. She looked at Li Jun. "Thank you for freeing me from my enslavement, and I promise to repay the favor once this is over."

"No need," Li Jun replied. He was stuck in this place for a while, so he doubted whether she could help him in any form or shape. Additionally, they were technically family if you consider her status as his sister-in-law's apprentice.

"This kind of karma is not something I'm willing to owe, so I will repay it one day," Hong Meiling said as she disappeared. She directly teleported outside of the Abyss Gap, where she immediately noticed Wang Ju. However, the Mistress of Shadow was in terrible shape.

As she sat cross-legged, floating in the void before a dark gate, her body released a powerful aura on par with the Golden God, but that was unimportant. Half of her body had transformed into shadow form, while the rest had a dark red and eerie aura.

"Corruption," Hong Meilling muttered before rushing over. However, a dark golden palm descended from the heavens out of nowhere, forcing her to stop her track and condense a defensive seal to protect herself.

"Golden God," She said with gritted teeth. 'No, wait, something's wrong with him.' Her enhanced senses immediately noticed an anomaly from the latter, especially the dark aura intertwined with his soul.

'He's also corrupted? No, this is not simple corruption from the Abyss. He is being controlled.' Hong Meiling immediately figured out many things in this brief interaction. The Golden God somehow had a connection with the Abyss and even teamed up with the latter, most likely to deal with Wang Wei.

However, the latter played with fire and was controlled, becoming a puppet for the Abyss.

"How ironic," she sneered. However, Hong Meiling knew this was not the time to be petty, so she calmed down to analyze the situation. 'The question is: why is he revealing himself now?' Her extended senses detected that the Golden God defeated the Myriad Emperor World's people with the mirror as his new "form" boosted his prowess. Luckily, the latter seemed in a hurry and did not focus too much on eradicating them.

Hong Meiling did not take long to get the answer to her question. The answer was her. The Abyss activated this chess piece known as the Golden God because she was about to help Wang Ju reinforce the seal, thus preventing whatever was inside from coming out.

Boom!

Hundreds of dark golden fists descended on her, all with the intention of completely annihilating her from existence. Hong Meiling generated a powerful defensive array to protect herself.

'His strength is so close to the Empyrean Realm that the gap could be described as a thread of a difference,' she analyzed. In this state, the Golden God - no, the Heaven Devouring Emperor - could be described as a Pseudo Empyrean - if such a thing existed.

'However, he's still not on my level.'

[Seal of Strength]

An enormous character for the word [strength] materialized in the heavens, and with one thought, it descended on the Golden God. The space around the character folded as it descended, a sign of the sheer force or power it contained. The Heaven-Devouring Emperor created golden walls before him to protect himself, but it was to no avail.

The seal crushed everything in its path, including the Golden God's body and soul, well, almost everything. A golden light flew from the center of the explosion into the distance.

'What's this? An armor?' Hong Meiling thought as she swiftly installed a potent seal to catch the armor, but the thing passed through her seal before disappearing in the distance.

'What an odd thing,' she concluded. 'More importantly, it's not the only odd thing in this experience.' She realized the Golden God was defeated too swiftly. Her strength indeed trumped him, but the difference was not large enough for an instant kill. By all accounts, this should have been a fiercer battle. The only reassurance she had was the fact that she detected that all the people previously controlled by the Golden God were now free, meaning the parasites died with their host or master.