Chapter 320 - 315: The Dawn Blossoming on the Left Shoulder

Chapter 320: Chapter 315: The Dawn Blossoming on the Left Shoulder

After trembling slightly, the two little ones stood up from Su Su’s hand. They glanced at each other, then bowed deeply to Qin Xiaoxia.

"We, Ai You and Axi, thank you, Master Sage!!"

"Mm, very polite."

Qin Xiaoxia tapped each of them on the forehead with his index finger. He let them giggle and hug his finger for a moment before pulling it back.

Once they returned, he would first baptize the two Little Ancient Demons with his Magic Blood.

The reborn Jilian would at least be more reliable than Demon Eye.

...

In contrast to the members of the Dawn Association, most of whom knew the battle was over, the French Army, the Super Research Department personnel, and the observers from various countries on the periphery were still on edge.

Jilian’s enormous body was still there, and the Dawn Sage had clearly removed the main part of the seal. After the recent waves of numerous monsters, they were deeply worried that Jilian, the most terrifying existence of all, would suddenly awaken.

Two Celestial Traveler Disciples, covered head to toe in blood-red, approached the wary French Army positions with light steps. Compared to the powerful and heavy-hitting members of the Silent Knight Order, Celestial Traveler Disciples were better at controlling their pace and stamina, so their exhaustion was comparatively less.

They relayed a message from Master Sage to the French, explaining that Jilian had fallen. However, because Jilian’s lingering resentment still remained, the French Soldiers were advised not to approach. They needed to wait for the Dawn Association to completely clear the battlefield.

After these Ancient Demon Remnants died, their most valuable parts were their wings. For some special ones, their hair was also valuable.

The Association members were searching through the piles of corpses for valuable targets, cutting off their wings. For individuals like the one with shimmering hair from before, they even shaved their heads clean.

Brown moved through the battlefield, specifically looking for individuals with traces of gold in their blood, and collected all of it.

In short, Master Sage had given the word: wherever convenient, they were to gather anything useful. It could be used to formulate new Magic Potions or research new Techniques.

Because they had suddenly obtained a vast amount of new Magic Pattern knowledge, the Red Demoness was in De Yi Country helping to categorize it. And although the Holy Spirit had gained a preliminary understanding of weaving Secret Realms, their strength wasn’t yet sufficient, and they lacked the Secret Realm permissions of the Association’s headquarters. Therefore, the task of creating the Secret Realm Array could only be handled by Qin Xiaoxia himself.

Naturally, he couldn’t implement the follow-up plan here. Not only was it unstable, but the two little ones were not in good condition.

He directly began to carve the Secret Realm Technique onto the left shoulder of Jilian’s body.

Shaping Material, guided by his Magic Power, gathered along the Technique’s paths, engraving it onto Jilian’s back. He needed to inscribe a massive Technique Array to draw upon the power of the headquarters’ Secret Realm and drag Jilian’s body away. The amount of Magic Power required would be immense.

"Mentor!!"

Su Su cried out in alarm, pointing at the path of Magic Power he had just drawn.

One look at her expression and Qin Xiaoxia knew something was wrong. Sure enough, when he turned around, the lines he had just inscribed had already faded to the point of being nearly invisible. Within a few breaths, they vanished completely.

"It seems I still underestimated a being of Jilian’s caliber. Even in death, it’s not easy to deal with..."

But several hundred of his Dawn brothers and sisters were watching. Master Sage couldn’t possibly disappoint them.

’Wait, Jilian has no soul right now!’

He glanced at the two Little Ancient Demons, who had passed out from exhaustion in Su Su’s palm.

With this in mind, Qin Xiaoxia decided to "leave his mark" on Jilian.

So the Technique Array wouldn’t stick. There were only two problems: his Magic Power output wasn’t strong enough, and the quality of the Shaping Material was poor.

The Crystalized Shaping Material he used before was a standard-issue product formulated by Dawn, a mixture of life materials from Earth and some easily obtainable Demon materials, combined with a small amount of powdered Magic Energy Crystal.

But it wasn’t that there was nothing better—it was just that the cost was a bit higher.

One of the benefits of a Dawn hooded robe was its many pockets, which could hold quite a lot. It saved a mysterious Guardian from the image-ruining act of needing to carry a backpack.

He pulled out four Magic Energy Crystals, each much larger than a quail’s egg, and held them between the fingers of his right hand. They looked exceptionally beautiful as they shimmered with a crystalline, multicolored halo.

These were four of the largest Magic Energy Crystals he kept treasured on his person. The larger the Magic Energy Crystal, the greater its power in both quantity and purity. Specimens this large had already undergone special changes and were considered quite rare.

To use an analogy from the xianxia novels he had read, they were on the level of Upper Grade or even Top Grade Spirit Stones. However, they were far more useful than those things, which ultimately just became currency. At least, according to the information from Akenis, no one was usually willing to trade away Magic Energy Crystals.

Then, the four Crystals between his fingers gradually turned red as Qin Xiaoxia saturated them from the outside with his own blood.

Powerful Magic Power blurred into a purple, particle-like flame in his hand. After just over a minute, all the Magic Energy Crystals had turned a deep purplish-red, containing countless swirling vortexes of Magic Power within.

At Qin Xiaoxia’s current level, as long as lost blood wasn’t completely disintegrated, it would fly back to him even if he were injured and spurting it out—it might not even get a chance to spurt out at all. By the same token, true blood loss was just like expending a huge amount of Magic Power; it couldn’t be replenished so easily.

When the four Magic Energy Crystals took on a burning, purplish-red state, his face couldn’t help but turn a shade of pale.

Watching from the side, Su Su’s heart ached for him, yet she also had the irresistible urge to pull out her phone and take a picture.

In Sister Su’s eyes, her Mentor’s current appearance was a work of art: long strands of silver and black hair falling, beautiful and brilliant Crystals held between his fingers, his face a touch pale—an image with its own built-in lighting and aesthetic rendering.

But an action as obvious as taking a photo or video with her phone? Her Mentor would have to be an idiot not to notice. She could only give up, feeling a bit resentful.

"Hoo..."

He let out a soft breath. Even his old back felt sore.

He steadied his breathing, and a fierce Magic Fire ignited around his body. The blaze startled the two sleeping Little Ancient Demons awake, and they scrambled to hide inside Su Su’s sleeves in fright.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The four sudden, tremendous bangs not only startled Su Su and the two Little Ancient Demons beside him, but they also shocked every Association member who was cleaning up the battlefield.

They looked toward Master Sage and saw that his Magic Power had erupted into a towering inferno hundreds of feet high, repelling all other colors and turning everything into a sea of purple.

Endless crystalline particles danced like living Elves within the roiling purple flames.

Even the Crystal Ball Witch had retreated to a great distance.

’Master Sage is getting serious!!’

Everyone thought this with excitement, but they quickly realized this was no time to be a spectator. They still had to hurry and finish clearing the battlefield.

The four brilliant, special Magic Energy Crystals shot out like four cannonballs, embedding themselves directly into the snow-white flesh of Jilian’s left shoulder. Within seconds, they stained a large surrounding area purplish-red.

This time, he had to use a Secret Realm Array that he had either never used before, or had never been ruthless enough to bear using. The consumption was so great that, despite having debated it with the Red Demoness over a hundred times, he had never once put it into practice.

Surging with Magic Power, he closed his eyes and placed his right hand on the center point where the diagonals of the four embedded Magic Energy Crystals would intersect.

WHOOSH—

A light breeze caressed the air, but in a short time, it intensified, finally becoming a howling gale.

Qin Xiaoxia stood at the center of the winds, his robes and silver-black hair whipping wildly. His body, along with a hundred-meter space across half of Jilian’s shoulder, was completely enveloped in purple light.

In the distance, everyone, ordinary person or not, could see the dazzling purple light transform into a pillar that connected directly to the sky.

The clouds spontaneously gathered toward this spot.

To Qin Xiaoxia’s senses, everything around him was a gentle caress. A tidal rhythm, like being in a mother’s womb, converged around him, bringing warmth and stability. Despite having lost a massive amount of Magic Power, his spirit felt no discomfort.

’The Power of the World?’

He had no time to dwell on it; he immediately focused his mind on the task at hand.

And beneath his palm, Jilian’s left shoulder, which had already been stained purple, began to sprout countless branch-like patterns. They grew outward from the position of Qin Xiaoxia’s hand and the four corners marked by the embedded Magic Energy Crystals.

He made a small change in his mind, incorporating a trace of the "patented" Sealing Magic Pattern he had obtained from Akenis into the foundation, but without forcefully interfering with the original flow of the Magic Pattern Technique.

"What is the Dawn Sage doing to Jilian’s corpse?"

The observers from various countries and the French all had this same question in their minds, and their breathing couldn’t help but quicken.

The light and shadow in the distance were like a scene straight out of mythology, a Miracle in the making. Even knowing that real history was different, it was still hard to believe this was the Earth they all knew.

Du Peipei exchanged a look with a fellow Hua Country agent. Besides sharing the same shock, a particular sentence came to her mind.

Everyone within Hua Country’s Special Security Team knew that their team leader, Tao Xingzhi, had once had a chance encounter with the Dawn Sage in Shen City.

Based on the cryptic words of Master Sage at the time, one could infer that Dawn had begun preparing for another possible Dark Tide thousands of years ago.

’Jilian’s seal! I’m afraid the ancient Dawn Association might have had the power to destroy Jilian directly back then!!’

’Such terrifying foresight, such terrifying planning! Not even a monster like an Otherworldly Ancient Demon could escape it!!’

But at the same time, as Du Peipei took a deep breath, her eyes were filled more with admiration.

Only someone like this was worthy of the title of humanity’s Sage!

In those dark times when Jilian and other terrifying existences ran rampant, this was the reason humanity and the world were able to endure!