Chapter 118: Chapter 116: Scarlet Moon, Chaos State
The scarlet moon writhed with flesh and blood. Eyeballs and sharp teeth constantly emerged from its surface, releasing a shower of scarlet particles that wove a magnificent, blood-red sunset.
A Female Knight in a dark War Skirt, its hem trailing scarlet flames, stood beneath the blood moon, her figure tall and slender, exuding a heroic aura.
She held a knife in one hand. The hilt was etched with intricate patterns, and blood-red filaments, like new sprouts, coiled around it. Eyeballs emerged from the blade, which resembled the fang of an Abyss Overlord—seemingly as thin as a cicada’s wing, yet incomparably domineering.
This bizarre scene looked as if it was shifting between two and three dimensions.
The long knife, in reality, was transformed from Moon Cage Grass.
The War Skirt she wore was a special skill derived from the Ghost Maid’s possession abilities.
Due to devouring too much Divinity, its Spiritual essence would transform, aligning it with the god’s Favored. This would ultimately twist the Master’s Soul, dragging their Pet Beast into the Abyss as well.
However, some uniquely gifted prodigies possessed special methods to control this form freely.
This was referred to as the Chaos State.
Their combat power would burst exponentially; they would be untainted, immune to curses, and capable of striking back even at a Radiant Moon.
At this moment, the feast was a landscape of ravines carved by sword strikes. The sticky, moist walls of flesh were easily sliced open, their fleshy tendrils writhing as they slowly healed.
The zombified guests, corrupted by the Evil Gods’ influence, had been indulging their base desires before being obliterated into dust by a single sword strike. Only a few powerful Beast Tamers had fallen into a coma.
"Unexpected... Princess, you’ve hidden your strength so deeply to have actually reached this stage."
The clown who had presided over the entire banquet was long gone.
In its place was a frenzied, cancerous, three-headed beast. Each head wore a grinning mask riddled with cracks. Its body was covered in knife marks and scattered limbs, as shattered blade lights poured into it, indiscriminately annihilating all eerie structures.
Because Chu Yi’s performance had been so remarkable, the beast had overlooked the Moon Princess.
This future Favored, chosen by the Night Goddess, had actually mastered the Chaos State, severely wounding it in an instant.
This was also partly because Chu Yi had stripped away some of its bizarre powers.
CLANG!
The Moon Princess responded with a resonant slash. Her slender arms wielded the blade with swift precision, weaving a torrential storm of attacks, imbued with the force of wind and thunder, that crashed down upon the clown.
Blood splattered and limbs flew, creating a scene of dazzlingly brutal, yet strangely beautiful, violence...
Typically, she would first unleash a furious barrage. Once her opponent’s resistance was shattered, she would use the Moon Cage to seal them, followed by dimensional reduction attacks.
But Chu Yi, by tearing apart the threads and slaying the bizarre entity, had taught her a different lesson.
She now used the Moon Cage Grass as an art knife, treating her slain foes as canvases, meticulously cutting them apart, achieving an effect similar to Chu Yi’s manipulation of the String of Destiny.
The results were quite good.
The clown, who initially held the upper hand, was now being frantically whittled down. The art knife cut indiscriminately, directly severing its vital threads, causing the clown’s composure to shatter and its hatred for Chu Yi to deepen.
First, Chu Yi had wreaked havoc at the banquet, completely disregarding the script. Then, he had extorted and threatened the clown, taking a batch of Divinity. After the clown finally managed to send Chu Yi away, the Moon Princess had exploited a loophole in the banquet to launch a sneak attack.
The root of everything was this King of Black Robes! You truly deserve to die!
SWISH! SWISH!
Blade lights scattered chaotically, like swirling snowflakes.
The clown was chopped into pieces, its limbs scattering and one of its heads sent flying. The head rolled dozens of times, yet still emitted a wild laugh.
"Hahaha... Princess, do you think I’ve lost?"
"This is merely my means to please the Mother Goddess! Watch! Open your eyes wide and behold this world-changing power!"
Though battered and broken, the clown remained defiant.
He refused to acknowledge his failure or even contemplate being abandoned by the Mother Goddess.
The next moment, just as the Moon Princess activated her Moon Cage technique, a bizarre power radiated outward.
BOOM—
The entire banquet hall trembled. Ash-grey roots erupted from the earth, twisting like sinews as they rapidly shot skyward.
BANG!
A terrifying blast wave swept out, a shockwave powerful enough to obliterate everything, instantly wiping the entire banquet hall from existence.
Even the Moon Princess, protected by her Blood Moon Defense, was forced back dozens of steps, her blade held ready.
BOOM—
The fleshy structure of the banquet shattered. Its walls of meat peeled back like a blooming lotus, revealing the central Mother Tree’s main trunk, which reflected a murky, heavy Twilight Light.
The Moon Princess’s expression grew grave, her flawless, snow-white face a mask of vigilance.
A sliver of the Desire Mother Goddess’s will descended. This was destined to be an unprecedented battle.
But something felt off. It seemed she had overlooked something during the previous banquet.
"Praise the Mother Goddess!"
Gazing up at the writhing trunk of the Mother Tree, the clown—now just a small remnant of his former self—crawled on the ground, a joyous expression on his half-shattered face.
"Although the banquet was disrupted, causing the Mother Goddess’s will to descend incompletely and with a slight imperfection," he cackled.
"But, no matter! Once we consume you, we will claim your Moon Authority, complete the Primal Moon, and ascend as an Ancient Pillar!"
As if in response to his prayers, the trunk twisted into a thousand-foot-tall Giant Dragon. Scarlet eyeballs emerged one by one, peering into the truth as they firmly locked onto the Moon Princess.
At that moment, high above, a mass of thick ink writhed. It was followed by a burst of dazzling brilliance that rapidly expanded in mid-air, forming a vast eyeball. In an instant, it smashed down onto the Mother Tree’s main trunk, its tentacles coiling and its fangs gnawing.
The Mother Tree reacted instantly, realizing it had been ambushed. Its power was being devoured by this newcomer!
Without so much as a greeting, you start eating?
The Mother Tree was furious. She had been on the verge of obtaining the Moon Authority, only to become the cicada stalked by a mantis, with yet another Evil God playing the oriole behind.
Moreover, the Divine Eye only knew how to devour; there was no possibility of communication.
Immediately, the two Evil God’s Favored wrestled together. The surrounding environment rapidly deformed: dense, long hair sprouted, grotesque chewing sounds echoed, and rustling whispers filled the air.
"No... Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
The clown’s arrogant laughter died in his throat. He stared blankly at the scene. That forbidden entity... it actually enslaved an Evil God’s Favored?!
The clown, whose composure had already shattered, felt even more distressed.
Is this King of Black Robes truly my fated bane?
"Is that... the Divine Eye?"
The Moon Princess was stunned. This Favored of the God of Flesh and Blood had truly been enslaved by the King of Black Robes, and it seemed its power hadn’t diminished much either.
It seemed... Was the King of Black Robes’s target this Mother Goddess’s will?
"Senior, you’re amazing! You actually tamed an Evil God’s Favored," Princess Gu Guan said, her face full of admiration. Controlling an Evil God’s Favored was beyond incredible.
These twisted, chaotic, and lawless Favored were thought impossible to contract, yet this forbidden existence had managed it!
No, to be precise, what kind of Beast Tamer would even dare to contract an Evil God’s Favored? The very thought was inconceivable.
Unless they were insane!
"Well then," Chu Yi said, clad in his black robe, a smile playing on his lips. "Why don’t you guess which side has a better chance of winning?" He watched the two Evil God’s Favored battling violently in the distance, each eager to kill the other and seize their authority.