CHAPTER 206: ACCIDENT-PRONE RETAINER RITUAL

After the dark mist aura disappeared,

The mysterious inverted double-horned chalice phantom finally started working.

"Creak!"

"Crack crack!"

"..."

Getting into the normal fusion and refinement process,

Carlos kept a super careful expression, solemn prayers continuing to echo in the cave.

Suddenly,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom went through some weird change—

The entire retainer secret array started flickering bright and dim!

"This is bad news!"

Carlos’s face went white.

Was the ritual about to tank?

The chanting from his mouth suddenly changed tone, speeding up as he tried to calm the retainer ritual.

Right then,

Diliya’s cries of pain came from the inverted double-horned chalice phantom:

"Pain! So much pain!

No... no,

My... my body is... is splitting apart!!!"

Along with screams, a series of crack... crack crack sounds rang out.

Then,

"Boom!"

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom spat out like it was puking,

Ejecting an unconscious woman.

Her figure nearly perfect, face gentle and beautiful, expression pained.

This was clearly Diliya, who had just been swallowed.

Carlos frowned hard:

"???"

What the hell was happening?

Why did it spit out the material?

Had the ritual gone bust?

Carlos was totally confused about what was going down.

If the ritual failed,

Why was it still running? Why hadn’t the inverted double-horned chalice phantom

Disappeared?

At this point, he could only wait and see.

Carlos kept chanting prayers, keeping the ritual going that had gone through unknown changes.

After spitting out Diliya,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom started spinning,

Strange vibes constantly spreading outward, as if searching for something.

Going beyond the material plane, reaching into other dimensions—

The Spirit Realm, Mirror Dimension, even the deep dark mist layers...

Suddenly,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom blazed with light, mysterious power going beyond space before vanishing instantly.

"It disappeared???"

Carlos was totally blown away.

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom had mysteriously disappeared,

But the retainer ritual was still going, with surrounding psychic energy madly flowing in, forming psychic tides.

"What is this situation?"

Carlos had never run into such a weird thing.

The core inverted double-horned chalice phantom had disappeared, yet the ritual worked normally—even more stable.

"I wanna see what happens next."

Carlos kept maintaining the ritual, watching for any new developments.

...

In some deep dark mist plane, within a shattered space,

Stood a bizarre giant tree dozens of meters tall.

The trunk was covered with withered leaves, giving off a weird aura of decay, with no trace of life in the entire area!

Below this withered giant tree, tons of Black Sinners were flat on their faces, listening.

"How much longer

Do I have to wait for my descent ritual to be ready?"

A raspy voice came from within the giant tree’s canopy,

Pretty impatient—

It had been waiting way too long for the descent ritual to be done!

So long that it suspected those underlings had forgotten their mission,

Getting hooked on the material realm’s warm sunlight and pure souls,

Deliberately stalling.

"Lord Withered,

Please chill out.

Luckybe sent word

That the descent ritual is almost ready.

It’ll definitely start within three days!"

Among the face-down Black Sinners, an old Black Sinner shared what it knew.

"Luckybe is top-notch.

The material realm vessel she found for me is perfect!"

Hearing that the descent ritual would be done within three days,

The withered giant tree’s attitude softened a little.

"But besides her,

What’s the word on our other family in the material realm?"

The old Black Sinner said bitterly:

"Sir,

Right now only Luckybe and Jeff are still breathing among the high-level family in the material realm.

The other high-level family have all been taken out by human hands!"

Upon hearing this last sentence,

The face-down Black Sinners all showed grief,

Most hearing this for the first time,

Getting seriously pissed off.

The withered giant tree shook:

"I know.

Once the portal is set up,

I’ll team up with other tribes

To wash the material realm in blood together!

To get payback for our fallen heroes!"

"Blood wash!"

"Blood wash!"

"..."

This fired up the Black Sinners’ crazy desire for destruction.

They couldn’t wait to rush to the material realm, killing freely, trashing all those beautiful things!

Everything they had never had but yearned to destroy!

Right then,

A huge sound came from the sky, drawing the attention of all Black Sinners there:

"The... the sky!!!"

"What is that?!"

"Can’t sense its existence at all!!!"

"..."

An inverted double-horned chalice phantom slowly showed up.

Clear as day to the eye, yet sensing-wise, there was absolutely nothing in the air.

This bizarre thing put all the Black Sinners on high alert!

"Lord Withered,

What is this thing?"

Luckily,

Their clan’s False King-level powerhouse, Lord Withered, was right beside them.

The withered giant tree had no time to deal with its family.

The moment the strange phantom appeared in the sky,

Its spiritual instincts went into crazy alarm mode, intense threat feelings rising.

This was definitely a powerful existence no weaker than itself!

"Boom!"

The withered giant tree rose with terrible momentum.

Countless withered leaves danced, yellow decay painting the sky, terrifying withering aura spreading as it surrounded the mysterious phantom!

"What brings you to our clan’s turf, Your Excellency?"

The withered giant tree showed off its power, indicating it wasn’t to be messed with.

In the dark mist plane, there was no room to back down.

Once you backed down, powerful enemies would see you as weak and easy pickings, making things worse.

But the mysterious phantom in the sky didn’t budge, letting the withered giant tree test it.

"What the hell is this?!"

The withered giant tree’s mood got heavy.

Its withering power had already spread across the sky,

But weirdly, it couldn’t touch this mysterious phantom at all.

As if there was some unknowable layer of space between them.

"Definitely not spatial tricks!"

The withered giant tree detected no hidden spaces.

Suddenly!

An indescribable voice rang from the sky:

"##@@-&##@@"

Then,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom blazed with light, exploding with terrible devouring force that instantly wrapped around the withered giant tree on the ground!

"Damn it!

How dare you sucker punch me!!!"

The withered giant tree raged, crazy thick vines exploding from the ground,

Like spears carrying terrifying decay aura,

Piercing through space, charging straight at the phantom!

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom’s light flickered, totally motionless,

Letting these terrible vines pass through.

"What!?"

The withered giant tree was shocked. Even its withering sin vines, capable of infecting all space, couldn’t touch this mysterious phantom!

"Luckily,

This devouring force isn’t that strong—

It can’t shake my foundations at all!"