While kiting Gilshak, Bai Qiu kept a close eye on the cooldown timers for Liberation and Spear of Converging Mana Thrust.
And just as he opened his status panel to check, a new skill caught his eye…
Return to Origin (C Rank)
Actively casting this skill removes all negative statuses affecting the user (limited to C-rank or below), and by summoning the Wind of Miracle, restores 15% of health, stamina, and mana over 5 seconds.
If the user is unable to activate it due to being controlled, it will trigger automatically—removing all control effects, refreshing all other skills (except Return to Origin), and granting a Wind Shield that reduces incoming damage by 30% for 30 seconds. While the shield exists, 50% of damage dealt is converted into shield value.
Cooldown:
- Active use: 24 hours
- Passive trigger: 7 days
After sidestepping Gilshak’s blade energy, Bai Qiu closed the panel—what an unexpected bonus.
With his luck, gaining a pseudo-transcendent physique from the Miracle Fruit without proper preparation was nearly impossible.
But obtaining such a powerful skill was already a huge gain.
Seeing that the Liberation Ring had less than a minute remaining, Bai Qiu stopped using Fallen Dragon’s Bow to fire arrows.
Instead, he gripped the Purgatory Darkflame Spear, stacking the Liberation Rings to full, ready to unleash his Noble Phantasm at any moment.
After all, both Liberation and Spear of Converging Mana Thrust had a one-hour cooldown…
The duration of the natural miracle was also nearing its end—but that would still last a few minutes beyond his cooldown recovery.
When less than twenty seconds remained, Bai Qiu sent a private message, signaling Zhang Shiyao and A Yuan to begin charging their Noble Phantasm and water cannon.
At that moment, he descended to the ground.
The storm condensed into several powerful wind vortices, locking down Gilshak.
Simply restraining him was already enough—Bai Qiu no longer had the excess control to maintain flight.
Zhang Shiyao, who had been lying in wait with A Yuan, immediately sprang into action upon receiving the signal.
“Now! A Yuan, start charging your water cannon with full power!”
As she spoke, she activated Azure Light, splitting into her main body and clone, moving toward buildings on opposite sides—preparing to unleash her Noble Phantasm from three different directions!
The Liberation countdown: 3 seconds remaining…
A Yuan’s water cannon had already finished charging, launching toward Gilshak at incredible speed under its control!
At the same time, Zhang Shiyao began chanting her Noble Phantasm, forming a golden spear before transforming it into a golden arrow.
After witnessing Bai Qiu’s Noble Phantasm, her understanding of it had deepened significantly…
Gilshak immediately sensed something was wrong and turned toward the relatively intact cluster of buildings nearby—
“So you finally noticed?” Bai Qiu sneered.
He had never been alone.
This time… it would be the end!
Liberation—activate!
Layer upon layer of radiant rings lit up around the Purgatory Darkflame Spear, each one shattering into particles of light that merged into the weapon…
In an instant, the spear’s power reached its peak—and at that exact moment, the cooldown for Spear of Converging Mana Thrust ended!
“Gather all life and will, break the spine of the heavens, let the killing intent suspended above descend and bloom at this very moment!”
Just as Bai Qiu released an immense amount of mana to pour into the spear, the winds of the miracle that had been restraining Gilshak surged toward him as well—
Gilshak, regaining mobility, should have immediately rushed in to interrupt Bai Qiu’s Noble Phantasm.
And he did.
But— A Yuan’s water cannon had already broken through countless obstacles and slammed into him!
He casually cut apart the second water sphere with a single strike, but when the third one detonated— the immense force instantly locked him in place, its overwhelming pull restraining him completely!
At that moment, two arrows carrying a familiar aura shot toward him.
Gilshak was horrified—he could sense the presence of a causality-type Noble Phantasm from those arrows, and that aura was strikingly similar to Bai Qiu’s Noble Phantasm!
The collapse shockwave produced by the water cannon explosion could annihilate all matter—but the rank of Dark Energy was simply too high.
The water cannon only retained its pulling, restraining effect.
As for damage… it wasn’t entirely absent, but at best it just scraped off a layer of his armor.
[Noble Phantasm — Spear of Converging Mana Thrust!]
At that instant, Bai Qiu had finished charging.
With the blessing of the natural winds, the power of his Noble Phantasm rose to an even higher level!
Zhang Shiyao’s arrows also struck at that moment—one hitting his head, the other his chest—triggering violent explosions!
Under the massive bombardment of energy, Gilshak’s defenses finally broke.
His energy armor cracked all over, with chunks of it shattering and flying off…
Meanwhile, Bai Qiu, over a hundred meters away, was carried forward by the wind—closing the distance in an instant and appearing right before him!
Gilshak barely had time to raise his black blade horizontally in front of him!
Unable to withstand the force, his arms were forced backward, the dark blade pressing toward his abdomen—
Crack!
The point of impact shattered instantly.
Bai Qiu, carrying overwhelming momentum, drove the spear straight into his abdomen!
Clearly—his true body was inside!
“AAARGH!!!”
Amid Gilshak’s agonized scream, his entire avatar shattered into pieces.
The already heavily damaged dark energy core within his abdomen was instantly pulverized by the spear’s power—along with his entire body, completely annihilated!
In the end, only a cracked skull fell to the ground, the soul-fire in its eye sockets rapidly dimming…
“Still not dead?” Bai Qiu muttered in astonishment.
That single strike had exhausted all the power of the natural miracle—and drained every trace of wind-elemental mana within a hundred-kilometer radius…
And of the 80% of his total mana that had been spent, not a single trace showed any sign of returning—everything pointed to one conclusion:
It… was still alive!
Suddenly, a large hand formed from dark energy stretched out from within Gilshak’s skull and struck Bai Qiu’s chest at incredible speed.
Caught completely off guard and with his mana nearly depleted, Bai Qiu was hit directly!
A sinister, crackling laugh echoed from the skull—
“Heh heh heh… human, accept my final gift… now let’s see… do you still have the strength left to defeat it…?”
Whoosh!
A red arrow struck the cracked skull and exploded instantly, reducing it to fragments that scattered and vanished.
Bai Qiu’s expression darkened.
That final strike from Gilshak hadn’t dealt real damage—it had simply sealed his ability to use mana.
“Return to Origin!”
As Bai Qiu activated the skill, the damage he had just sustained was instantly healed.
His nearly depleted mana began recovering rapidly, and even the fatigue in his body faded at high speed.
Gilshak’s final attack was insignificant in terms of damage— but it was already too late.
Its summoning ritual… had been activated.
Accompanied by a resounding roar, a tremor echoed from the void—along with the unmistakable cry of a dragon.
Another transcendent presence began to spread…
— The end of the Chapter–
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