Bai Cha led the two towards the tree.
The moment they stepped into this sanctuary, Leviathan’s finger twitched almost imperceptibly. As Mammon landed, his head was suddenly pushed down by an immense force, nearly twisting his neck.
This power, this touch, was definitely not their boss. Mammon, about to whine resentfully, looked up and his eyes widened.
Leviathan had somehow risen. The whites of his eyes were stained with dense black energy, leaving only the blood-red of his pupils eerily terrifying. Leviathan’s body was contorted into a bizarre posture, his right hand in a "black tiger stealing heart" position, plunging directly into Bai Cha’s chest.
Given the angle and the force, if Bai Cha hadn’t ducked her head, a third of it would have been missing. Looking at Lucifer beside them, Lucifer had been pushed away by Bai Cha. In reality, if Lucifer hadn't moved, he would have only injured his shoulder. Yet, Bai Cha had instinctively given him a push.
“Sister!”
“Master!”
Both cried out in alarm.
“What are you shouting for? This is a spiritual world, you can’t die here.”
At most, mental energy would be injured.
Bai Cha gritted her teeth, forcefully enduring the pain that almost made her faint. Her hands clamped down on Leviathan’s arms, blood flowing down his arms and onto Leviathan’s chest.
In that instant, Lucifer and Mammon heard Bai Cha and Leviathan’s heartbeats sync perfectly.
“Did you get it wrong? I’m asking if you got it wrong!”
“Say you won’t do it again, you will only surrender to me!”
“You are my child, mine!”
The piercing voices made Lucifer and Mammon’s ears ache. Looking up, both froze.
This was the interrogation room of their mother, which they had both experienced.
Leviathan was now bound to a cross, not a single piece of healthy flesh on him. His flesh was torn open, chains writhing within the torn flesh. Each of his twenty fingernails had five or six needles. Leviathan’s gaze was now merely numb and empty.
“Brother! You bastard, you can’t even rest in the universe!” Mammon immediately charged forward. This time, Lucifer didn’t stop Mammon. Lucifer’s method was more direct; he punched straight at the Dragon Mother.
“Hmph, so what if you found me here? You are also my children, do you think you can overturn anything in my hands!”
The voice of the gray shadow before them roared like a steam train’s whistle. Turning, it refocused its target on Lucifer and Mammon.
The two of them advanced together, their unadorned fists and palm colliding, resulting in a four-six split. The one retreating two steps was the Dragon Mother’s afterimage.
Even though it was so powerful it was a demiplane, this was only a small part of its original will. The prolonged confrontation with Leviathan had already weakened it.
Suddenly, a giant hand appeared out of nowhere from the sky. The giant hand, with a faint bloody hue, immediately suppressed the Dragon Mother’s afterimage as it emerged. At the end of the hand was a woman of enchanting beauty. The difference was that the woman had two pairs of arms. On these two pairs of arms, the Dragon Mother sensed a familiar aura.
“This is mine… you are actually Asura!” the Dragon Mother shrieked, “Have you absorbed Belial and Beelzebub!”
No one answered. The giant hand grabbed the Dragon Mother and brought it closer. It seemed to look at it with a hint of curiosity, then, like chewing gum, it directly threw the Dragon Mother’s afterimage into its mouth and chewed it with a smacking sound.
No one had time to pay attention to this strange and horrifying scene. Mammon and Lucifer had already rushed to Leviathan’s side. The Dragon Mother’s afterimage was being chewed to pieces, the torture instruments on the ground had turned to dust, and even the wounds seemed to be healing as if time were reversing.
But Leviathan still made no sound. His eyes were half-open, filled only with emptiness and void, as if his mind were in a state of chaos.
“Brother, wake up, I’m Mammon! I’m your brother!” Mammon roared desperately, channeling his power into Leviathan regardless of the consequences. “Brother, look at me, you’re alright now, let’s get out of here.”
“Leviathan, Leviathan!” Lucifer patted Leviathan’s cheek, pondered for a moment, then turned Leviathan over. He first pressed a few acupoints, then clenched his right fist, and delivered several heavy blows to Leviathan’s heart, immediately followed by cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
“Don’t just shout, come and do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,” Lucifer said calmly.
He never believed in those strange awakening methods in books that relied on emotion and belief. Instead of shouting those two words, Lucifer preferred scientific first aid.
After about ten minutes, Lucifer stopped. Leviathan’s breathing was still weak, but at least it had returned to normal. However, the next step posed a problem for Lucifer. He couldn’t stay here indefinitely waiting for Leviathan to wake up; who knew how long that would take.
“Move aside, move aside, let me.”
Bai Cha’s voice came from afar. Lucifer and Mammon quickly moved aside. They saw the blood-red Asura phantom twist its slender waist and step forward.
She gave Leviathan a beating.
That’s right, a beating, and she was scolding him while doing it.
And it was effective.
When Lucifer and Mammon returned to the small sanctuary within Leviathan’s mental world, they fell silent as they watched Bai Cha calmly pull Leviathan’s hand out of her chest, then gesture to the large hole in her chest.
Mammon nudged Lucifer with his elbow, his legs feeling a little weak. “Boss, you like violence?”
Lucifer remained silent. Every time he saw Bai Cha hit someone with her fist, he was filled with awe.
When Leviathan sat up from the ground with a dejected look, he saw Bai Cha jumping three feet high.
He had been tortured by the Dragon Mother for who knows how long, seeking death. But now, seeing Bai Cha, he wished he could die immediately. Although he was controlled by the Dragon Mother, he could perceive everything that happened in his spiritual world. It had truly left him with psychological trauma.
“Alright, don’t make that face. You put a hole in my chest and almost killed me. I beat you up, and we’re even.” Bai Cha gestured to the hole in her chest and shrugged.
Leviathan swallowed. He finally discovered someone more terrifying than Lucifer’s beatings. Although Bai Cha was right, being controlled by the Dragon Mother had indeed almost killed Bai Cha’s spiritual body. But thinking about the chaotic beating he just received from the gorilla, Leviathan truly couldn’t bring himself to say they were even.
“Alright, I’ll send you out first. If I don’t send you out soon, my spiritual power will run out.”
As Bai Cha spoke, she grabbed the three of them and separated a portion of her spiritual power, taking the three of them to soar into the sky. The remaining portion of her spiritual power was used to control her Asura phantom, which continued to munch.
She hadn’t finished chewing the Dragon Mother’s afterimage she had just consumed.
In the outside world, the three of them opened their eyes simultaneously. However, Bai Cha’s state was clearly not right. After a pause, she slowly got up.
“Can Leviathan hear me now?” Bai Cha asked Mammon.
Although she had brought Leviathan’s spirit and soul back, his body was still sealed in ice crystals, and they needed to find a way to deal with it.
“I don’t know.” Mammon shook his head innocently. “Brother used to only move his eyeballs, I don’t know what it means, and I don’t know if he can hear.”
Bai Cha nodded to show understanding. She tapped the crystal again, estimating its hardness. After thinking, she took out her phone and typed a few large characters, handing them to Leviathan.
“Mobilize your power to protect yourself.”
The few large white characters on the dark screen scrolled back and forth several times. Leviathan clearly understood. He looked at Bai Cha with a complex expression, then took a few steps back, gathering his strength.
Leviathan’s entire being felt unwell. He quickly looked at Lucifer, signaling with his eyes. Unexpectedly, a sly smile appeared on Lucifer’s gentle face as he winked at him. Like Mammon, he was smiling triumphantly.
Leviathan: “……”
I can hear you talking, just let me break the ice directly, don’t disassemble it so violently! Can you give me a chance!
You two are colluding to trick me!
Leviathan wanted to resist a little, but it was too late. Bai Cha’s speed was too fast, and she didn’t want to waste any more time.
Moreover, Bai Cha hadn’t interacted with Leviathan much, how could she possibly understand the meaning of Leviathan’s little glance?
Retreat, punch.
Bai Cha didn’t even use her blood power, her fist hitting the crystal ice surface.
“Bang!”
“Urgh?!”
The massive shattering sound mixed with a slightly rough groan. Leviathan’s muscular body was blasted by Bai Cha, rolling down the mountainside like a turtle kicked from the peak. He hit a large tree, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds he created, contemplating life.
“Brother!” Mammon quickly followed, rubbing Leviathan’s firm chest, which was filled with a look of having given up on life. He then lifted Leviathan’s somewhat stiff limbs, his face anxious yet amused.
“Don’t be nervous. After all, you haven’t been active for so long, it’s normal to not be used to it at first.” Bai Cha comforted Mammon. “Your dragon clan has such strong vitality, you should recover after resting for a while.”
Bai Cha was telling the truth, but Leviathan just wanted to curse. He knew for sure he had been tricked by Lucifer, the subtly cunning dragon. He wasn’t exactly known for his good temper, yet he couldn’t afford to offend either Bai Cha or Lucifer.
Let alone Lucifer being his boss, whom he couldn’t beat, but even just the way Bai Cha beat him in the spiritual world, Leviathan estimated he couldn’t win either.
As Leviathan’s ice crystal seal shattered, strange monsters scattered on the ground also woke up. As soon as these monsters awoke, their bodies were already covered in a pervasive bloody aura, accompanied by miscellaneous black smoke rising to the sky.
The orange-red sunset, originally gentle and beautiful, was now marred by the appearance of mixed bloody energy, and the sky had changed color. Raphael was still alright, but the demonic dragons, led by Lucifer, felt the pressure most clearly, their demonic energy instantly suppressed.
As demonic dragons, they were naturally arrogant. Leviathan and Mammon were the weakest. Lucifer was the first to recover. The suppressed demonic energy surged back, forcefully breaking through the mixed bloody aura and confronting it, surprisingly not at a disadvantage.
“Holy Light Purify!” Athena soared into the sky. She drew a golden slit in space in front of her with her right hand, and from it, Athena produced a golden scepter.
The magnificent scepter was raised high by Athena. In a flash, Raphael merged with Athena. Athena’s body stiffened slightly, a faint blush appearing on her fair face. Light wings unfurled behind her, and pure light energy poured out, instantly dispelling the evil blood aura within a radius of tens of meters.
In any country, those who reached the position of a shadow leader were never to be underestimated.
Bai Cha snorted coldly and sat cross-legged. The bloody aura on her body was more evil, even purer than demonic energy. If not for Bai Cha’s extremely powerful will, this bloody aura would have long ago turned Bai Cha into a destructive monster like these evil dragons.
And now, these mixed evil energies dared to show off before her?
It was like showing off a skill to an expert.