Rezen was definitely not being kind or anything but rather wanted to fish in troubled waters


    While his escaping abilities are top-notch, the same cannot be said for his fighting abilities


    He is still only at the 6th fusion rank or what the rest of the world call the peak of the apprentice rank


    His power is far from enough to fight against mages that condensed a Blessed Land using the earth realm’s origin energy


    As such, he cannot let the Serpentine Empress be alone on the gathering point. There is a need for someone to fight her and in this case, it would be the realm’s chosen which was none other than ude Preston


    As soon as ude was sent out of Rezen’s farm, he found himself at one of the seemingly infinite folds of space


    The space that held the Blessed Lands from all the fallen 7th rank mages and the space that the realm has chosen to purify the said Blessed Lands


    “C-ude Preston!” A surprised voice eximed as the Serpentine Empress stared at the realm’s chosen in disbelief


    She is aware of how overpowered and blessed a realm’s chosen could be but this is still beyond her expectations


    ude was fast! He was too fast!


    Even at the most conservative calction of the Serpentine Empress, ude still arrived too early


    There was still quite a long time before the Blessed Lands were thoroughly purified, giving others a chance to use the origin energy whether that person is ude or the Serpentine Empress


    This development has stunned the Serpentine Empress but she and ude was no different than mortal enemies


    There was no need to have a lengthy conversation between the two of them. They knew that they cannot let the other continue to live and the only way they could do that was to fight and try to kill the other


    This was especially so for the Serpentine Empress’s side. While she has confidence that she could mobilize the origin energy and use it as a fuel to escape from this broken realm, that is if the realm’s chosen is out of the picture


    As the darling of the realm, ude would be able to take the origin energy easier and faster than the Serpentine Empress could


    This situation was far from desirable to the Serpentine Empress and she could only fight


    Neither of the two hold back on their attacks. Both of them unleashed their overwhelming might at the same time as soon as their eyesnded on each other


    The surrounding space was automatically locked. They might be deep in the folds of earth’s space but considering that their might could literally shatter the fabric of space, it doesn’t matter


    Their attacks has the potential to destroy the surface world even if that was not what they intended to do


    Above the Serpentine Empress, the projection of her Blessed Land appeared. That was the biggest Blessed Land that ude has ever seen


    In fact, the Serpentine Empress is definitely the mage with thergest Blessed Land in the entire history of the earth realm


    With such arge Blessed Land, who could actually mock her and think that she is weak?


    This is the strongest enemy that ude could possibly fight and the oue of it is also a great decisive factor on whether the realm would be save or not


    With the power boost provided by the Blessed Land, the Serpentine Empress conjured ck whips on her hands and these whips acted like agile and tricky snakes


    They twisted in the air in a bizarre way, leaving a long trail of ruptured space. The whips’ might was literally apocalyptic and is not something that anyone below the 7th rank could possibly endure


    As for ude, as usual, he started by conjuring his chains of light that either wrapped or pierced through the Serpentine Empress’s Blessed Land


    Because of the chains of light, the Serpentine Empress’s power faltered. Her ck whips flickered for a moment as if they were about to fade before they were forcefully restored to their peak by her


    The connection she has with her Blessed Land was hindered, making it harder to extract power from it


    ude could give a huge debuff on his enemies using these chains and that always gave him great advantages on the battle


    With the Serpentine Empress experiencing unusual difficulty in using her strength, ude bursts into ck smoke that condensed in front of his enemy


    The two went face to face though the Serpentine Empress still has a dark fog covering her face


    As soon as ude’s figure reappeared, his palm already has his iconic Yin-Yang symbol


    The symbol that holds the power of both light and darkness, the two extreme opposites of each other


    “[Yin-Yang Palm!]”


    Without a shred of hesitation, ude mmed his [Yin-Yang Palm] on the Serpentine Empress’s stomach


    Surprisingly, he actually seeded innding a strike this early on the fight


    With the [Yin-Yang Palm] on his enemy’s stomach, ude didn’t waste any time and he quickly pulled his palm back


    He wanted to steal a part of the Serpentine Empress’s Blessed Land. Not only would this make her weaker than before but would also make him stronger and he would obtain more ‘fuel’


    This is a chance that ude would not pass by


    At first, it looks like he seeded. On his palm, a twisted image of a chunk of the Serpentine Empress’s Blessed Land could be seen


    He was half-way from stealing it from her when the unexpected happened


    The Blessed Land dissolved into pure golden origin energy and since ude technically hasn’t obtained this chunk yet, the Serpentine Empress still has some control over it


    ude’s enemy seeded on using the origin energy that was still hers and it bursts into bright purple mes


    Even a speck of fire could destroy an entire mountain depending on the strength it possesses or the type of energy used to create it


    As the purple mes were fueled by the precious and powerful origin energy, any normal mes don’t have a chance to match it


    The purple mes spreads from ude’s palm until it engulfed his entire body


    This was the first time that he had experienced something like this


    In the past, whenever his [Yin-Yang Palm]nded on the target, the work was already done. He had sessfully stolen a part of their Blessed Land


    However, the Serpentine Empress is really the Serpentine Empress. Just like a realm’s chosen, an outsider of the earth realm also cannot be judged usingmon sense


    Even when ude already half-seeded, she still managed to turn the tides of the battle


    In fact, this result might even be something that she had nned to happen


    As the mes engulfed ude, excruciating pain filled his senses. However, that was not the most shocking and anxiety inducing thing


    ude could feel that his energy whatever the form is was being ‘burned’ by the mes


    Whether that energy was his lifeforce, mana, or even origin energy, all of them were being burned to continue fueling the purple mes


    On the earth realm, the highest form of energy is origin energy. There should be nothing that could burn it aside from another origin energy but even that has a limit


    Using origin energy to burn origin energy is like using the same amount of origin energy to cancel out the same amount of origin energy


    However, these purple mes arepletely different. ude could feel that it could burn far more origin energy than what was used to create it!


    ude circted his energy especially his origin energy to try and expel these mes as he stared at the mes’ maker


    “How could you…” he muttered before seeing the Serpentine Empress’s body trembling


    If it was not for ude’s excellent vision that was the realm’s blessing for him, he wouldn’t have noticed that on the Serpentine Empress’s fair white arm, a tiny crack could be seen


    That crack seems to be the same crack that appeared on the mirror andpass that she previously used


    That mirror andpass is ‘hated’ by the realm. Their level is above than what the realm could tolerate and the more that they are used, the faster they were destroyed


    It seems that it was not only lifeless objects that would experience that. Even people once they exceeded what the realm could tolerate would also be destroyed


    The crack on the Serpentine Empress’s hand was a proof of that. The power she used to create the purple mes is a power that shouldn’t exist in the broken earth realm. Hence, the reason why a crack appeared on her body


    If she were to continue using that kind of power, no doubt that she would suffer the same fate as the treasures that she previously used


    This was a useful piece of information for ude that he could possibly exploit to emerge as the victor<!--


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