CHAPTER 263: CHAPTER 115: BATTLE OF THE SUMMONERS

The dawn scattered, and the sunlight streaming in through the withered tree gaps gilded Yue Jinghua and Fa Xiaoyi in golden light.

Behind Fa Xiaoyi, a beautiful snake large enough to be two stories tall coiled on the ground, its hair intertwined with small snakes gleaming with a piercing luster under the sunlight.

Its face, identical to the Feise Empress Dowager’s, left Yue Jinghua momentarily stupefied. However, it didn’t take long for her attention to shift to the beautiful snake’s closed eyes.

Yue Xiaoqi didn’t have the luxury of falling asleep to stories as a child, but this didn’t stop her from immediately associating the beautiful snake with the famous snake-haired sisters in Greek Mythology.

Petrification, Yue Jinghua frowned. On her stealthy approach, she noticed quite a few assassins had died petrified.

"Qing Pu, no wonder they look down on you, just look, that’s what you call dying of envy, both summoned creatures, yet there’s such a huge gap in quality," Yue Jinghua scorned in her heart. Petrification, that was a rather high-level Dark Technique, and she wondered at which Beast Stage that Dark Demon Beast was.

"Little Shanshan, you’re finally awake, wuwu, I’ve been bullied by the master and Pu,"

"Little Qing, you’ve grown taller,"

"Ow ow, don’t forget about me as well,"

Looking over there, three Summoning Spirit Woods and two beasts who were long-lost friends hugged together in a tight embrace, while on the other side was Fa Xiaoyi’s awe-inspiring beautiful giant snake. Yue Jinghua felt a surge of frustration so intense she almost choked on her own blood.

"To each their own, I also didn’t expect Prince Fa to keep such a beautiful snake. Unexpectedly, you harbor a mother complex, your Demon Beast resembling the Consort like it’s her twin," despite being choked with frustration internally, Yue Jinghua maintained a polite and amiable facade, smiling radiantly with her pearly white teeth showing, stubbornly not letting out a sigh.

Demons are born from the heart; many Demon Beasts can transform into different appearances based on their summoner’s request.

Her sudden appearance exposed the secret that a superb master was hiding behind her. Fa Xiaoyi had a bleak and cold demeanor; it was unknowable what he was plotting in his heart.

After successfully escaping, Yue Jinghua searched throughout the Shang Palace but failed to find any traces of the Feise Empress Dowager. Strangely enough, she also found a memorial tablet for the Feise Empress Dowager in the palace where Fa Xiaoyi lived in his early years.

Seeing the Feise Empress Dowager in her current half-human, half-snake form, Yue Jinghua realized that something must have transpired between her and Fa Xiaoyi.

"You’re not weak either, raising a Sixth-level... Seventh Rank Mutant Flash Cloud Leopard," Fa Xiaoyi glanced at Little Shanshan who had just ripped apart Xie San’s throat, a hint of amazement flashing in his eyes. As a fellow Summoner, even though he was a Dark Element Summoning Demon, his ability to appreciate Dark Beasts was still first-rate.

The original qualities of leopard species were speed, agility, and ferocity.

After a month of recuperation and feeding on the Green Liquid, it was as if Little Shanshan had undergone a complete renewal of marrow and bone. The Beast Stage of Little Shanshan had undergone a qualitative change. Originally Little Shanshan was the size of a cat and completely black with no traces of any other color, capable of emitting lightning-based attacks from its mouth.

This time upon awakening, its figure had become more agile compared to before, with tufts of lightning sparks occasionally shooting from its black fur. Its limbs were strong and powerful, and when its sharp claws and fangs sliced through the air, they created flares of purple and turquoise lightning like the edge of a blade.

Under its feet, clouds gathered, and its speed increased to almost twice as fast as before.

Compared to the Beautiful Snake Demon Gore, which Yue Jinghua couldn’t casually bring along, her Little Shanshan could be carried around. Held in her arms on ordinary days, it appeared just like a dark cat that noble ladies would admire and play with in their hands.

After withdrawing his inspection of the Dark Beast, Fa Xiaoyi’s gaze returned to Yue Jinghua. Under the morning light, the girl’s half-exposed flesh was as tender as a baby’s and her twinkling eyes shone like the stars, momentarily mesmerizing Fa Xiaoyi.

"Yue Jinghua," Fa Xiaoyi looked steadily at her, "you shouldn’t have come here."

For more than a decade, Fa Xiaoyi had meticulously planned this rebellion.

Nobody would have thought that a child only ten years old at the time harbored such a twisted psyche.

Ten years ago, when he was still a naive and romantic child, his mother, the consort, was poisoned to death overnight by the reigning Empress with a Poison Pill.

A mere child, Fa Xiaoyi, in despair, attempted to end his life with the Earth Yin Escape.

Since the founding of Shang Kingdom, everyone knew that the Sky Sun Shuttle and Earth Yin Escape were treasures, but no one knew the specific effects of these two treasures.

Fa Xiaoyi never expected that the Earth Yin Escape would be a Dark Demon artifact; as his blood seeped into the Earth Yin Escape, memories about the Dark Power flooded into his mind.

The origins of those memories were unclear, and it was unknown whether they came from a previous owner of the Earth Yin Escape or if they had always existed within it.

It informed Fa Xiaoyi of the cultivation methods for the Five-pointed Star’s Dark Power and even mentioned the existence of Dark Hell.

Qing Pu was right, Fa Xiaoyi was a rare summoning prodigy, with Elemental Perception and spiritual power far beyond ordinary people. In just one night, he sensed the sunless Dark Hell and the powerful existence of the Dark Demon Beast Beautiful Snake Demon Gore.

Gore was bound by the Plane Prohibition and couldn’t enter Canglong Continent. Utilizing the Dark Power, Fa Xiaoyi completely preserved the body of the Feise Consort, and using the Consort’s severe illness as a pretext, he kept it hidden from everyone in the palace.

By a stroke of luck or design, Fa Xiaoyi deceived Qing Pu and obtained the Diamond Summoning Manual. With the Summoning Power, he successfully summoned the Spiritual Sense of the Beautiful Snake Demon Gore for the first time.

The Spiritual Sense of Gore resided within the body of the Feise Consort, enchanting Fa Xiaoyun with her seduction, providing Fa Xiaoyi with enough motherly love. She was Fa Xiaoyi’s most loyal friend and also his soulmate.

All of this continued until Yue Jinghua returned from Hundred Beast Mountain, and then things began to change.

Close to the Summoning Array’s Spiritual Sense, Gore couldn’t survive for long on the Dark Energy-rich Canglong Continent. Only by truly merging with her physical body could she exhibit her full potential.

A month ago, while Fa Xiaoyi was on a mission in the insect tide of Yanpo Forest, he unexpectedly discovered the National Destiny Acupoint of Shang Kingdom, which turned out to be the weakest connection point to different planes on the continent.

"The Earth Yin Escape can tear through spatial rifts and is also known as the Plane Throat; it can take people through plane transversal. This secret, you shouldn’t know. To keep this secret, this Prince cannot let you go," Fa Xiaoyi gazed at Yue Jinghua with a sinister smile curling his lips, "Considering your unwavering loyalty to me, I have already thought of a way for you to forever be unable to disclose this secret. Yue Jinghua, I suddenly think that you are not so loathsome after all. This Prince will take you with me into Dark Hell."

Having said that, Fa Xiaoyi began to murmur a series of Dark Curses; waves of Dark Power surged from the depths of the National Destiny Acupoint, and the Beautiful Snake Demon Gore’s eyes slowly opened. Fa Xiaoyi laughed maniacally: "Transform into a Soul Stone Sculpture; Yue Jinghua, this is the fate for your abandonment of this Prince, to plunge into Dark Hell, condemned to never reincarnate."