<h4>Chapter 1328: Struggle (Part 2)</h4>


    Saleen and the others approached the city high up in the sky. There were few professionals willing to fly at altitudes above 3,280 feet. Any mistakes could have ended up with them falling to their deaths.


    Saleen’s party flew at an altitude of 6,500 feet.


    With Saleen around, along with the Elemental Eye being able to be shared between all three of them through Sensory Sharing, the Winged Skull and Nailisi were able to see minute objects on the ground below.


    “Master, there.” Nailisi no longer bothered pointing.


    With senses being shared between the three of them, it meant that each of them had six eyes. It enabled them to take care of different angles respectively, eliminating any blind spots. It was something Saleen recently developed. While it was a simple matter, he somehow overlooked it in the past.


    There was a 10,000-strong army garrisoning at the north side of Hignd City. Saleen was able to see everything clearly from high up. It was none other than Fycro’s bug angel army. Arge number of holy masters were assigned to the army. They were absorbing the ck mist with a device near ces abundant with the substance, which were then sent back to their camp.


    Saleen was curious and observed closely what they were doing with the ck mist. He chuckled after finding out. The ck mist was meant for purification after being carted back to the camp.


    White powder-like substances were left behind after the ck mist was purified. The holy masters carefully collected the white powder and handed it to holy masters of high levels, which were then put into space equipment. Seeing how those people handled the substance, one could tell that the white powder was precious.


    Due to the ck mist having reached over 32,000 feet high, there was a vortex appearing at the center, sucking the mist back within. As such, the ck mist did not keep expanding. The density of the ck mist was hardly affected despite having some at the external fringes sucked away.


    Saleen was unable to tell what was in the ck mist with his Elemental Eye. He looked at the two at his side and said, “Fycro is collecting the white powder. Let’s get down there and make sure he doesn’t get much out of it.”


    “Get down there?” The Winged Skull felt rather dumbfounded.


    “Of course,” Saleen said as he took out three pieces of clothing, which he had both the Winged Skull and Nailisi wear.


    They were robes crafted using thunder dragon hide. Thunder dragons were immune to mist. The robes were crafted using thunder dragon hide enabled them to be isted from the mist’s corrosion for prolonged periods.


    After putting on the robes, Saleen took out his dragon boat, which was made using thunder dragons. Saleen modified it for quite a bit in the alchemy factories, allowing it limited flight. The three of them went into the boat and dived straight into Hignd City’s ck mist.


    Saleen’s sight was limited to several hundred feet after entering the ck mist. The dragon boat was slow in flight, equal to that of the mostmon birds. Saleen had no need for speed.


    He manned the dragon boat and steered it away from the vortex at the center,nding somewhereparatively t, before letting Nailisi purify those mists. The dragon boat kept the mist outside. Saleen left one opening opened, which was connected to Nailisi’s purgatory of purification. It was made to absorb the evil ck mist outside.


    Things were chaotic inside the purgatory of purification. Nailisi tried purifying all manners of tainted items back in Nature City. Everything in purgatory of purification ended up being tainted by the evil aura before being purified.


    Nailisi was not concerned. It did not result in her purgatory of purification losing its functions. On the contrary, the ce became more capable at purifying things. For example, the mist before them at the moment. The amount of ck mist gushing inside was tens of thousands of cubic meters. The mist liquefied into dirty water as it entered the purgatory of purification, which quickly cleared up. White residue was left on the ground after the mist was purified.


    The white residue was like sand. There was no evil aura found in it.


    Nailisi took a handful and handed it to Saleen. He held the white stuff in his hand and felt them for a bit. He found them peculiar since they had no attributes at all.


    It was worth noting that even a pile of excrement had attributes. It was a special thing about the material world, yet the white residue was devoid of any attributes. The white granules were incredibly hard. Saleen pinched them, which hurt his fingers. One pinch with his fingers was equal to an attack from silver grand swordmasters, yet the white granule lookedpletely unscathed.


    Nailisi’s purgatory of purification was 1,200 miles square. The space within was equal to a mid-sized nation. While the ck mist’s evil aura was powerful, in terms of size, it was not able to match the power of the rules within. Furthermore, the rules of the purgatory of purification would need to bepleted further, with every bit of ck mist purified.


    Those holy masters used special equipment to absorb the ck mist bit by bit, being careful of not getting too close. Nailisi, on the other hand, threw the door wide open and let the ck mist gush inside. Within 30 minutes, the ground was covered in ayer of fine, white sand.


    Saleen was figuring out how he could purify some of the mist. He cast Lightning Territory and shrunk it to just a feet away from his body. He slowly sucked the mist in to purify it using lightning. Doing so yielded unexpected results. ck mist purified using lightning yielded translucent golden granules instead of white ones. Complex lightning magic patterns were seen on the golden granules, which resembled his family badge.


    He was ted. Saleen wanted to craft more lightning equipment, but he struggled to find the right materials. The translucent substances, while fine, could have been refined using Water me and made intorger sizes containing lightning attributes. The ck mist was very precious to him by then.


    Since the ck mist existed in practically inexhaustible amounts, Saleen did not need to stop Nailisi. The attribute-less granules would have been of great use.


    He cast Lightning Constetion. As the equipment came to be inhabited by a weapon spirit, its speed at casting lightning was frightening. Saleen brought out the Lightning Cage, sending it straight into the ck mist.


    Lightning magic patterns sparkled on the Water Shield. Saleen stepped outside the dragon boat and expanded the area of the Lightning Territory. Countless streaks of lightning zapped about. ck mist touched by the electrical charges was purified on the spot.


    The Lightning Cage was slow at absorbing ck mist, but it came with a benefit of not needing Saleen spend any of his powers on it. He took control of the eight Armoring Lightning Beads and let them zip about in the ck mist.


    Golden granules purified by the beads were the most solid and wererger in size. The lightning magic patterns on them were also clearer.


    With Saleen casting lightning skills, the amount of ck mist around quickly became rather inadequate. The Winged Skull was out to purify the mist too. Blood soul towers spun in their eyes. Two powerful souls saw the evil mist outside from within the blood soul towers and screamed in surprise, casting green light. The green light shot out of the Winged Skull’s eyes in beams about 320 feet long. ck mist dissipated as soon as the beams touched them.


    Mist that was cleaned by the Winged Skull yielded ck, transparent granules. The granules held profound death magic patterns, but they were something with which not even the Winged Skull was familiar. They were simply doing it out to share Saleen’s burden. The power from their eyes shot without retrain, purifying the ce at high speeds.


    The lightning warriors charged. Many warriors were tainted and abominated when they went about picking up the bone fragments. They were healed by Saleen using divine powers when he returned to Nature City, regaining their original form.


    The lightning warriors became considerably resistant to the mist. Compared to the taint from the fragments, the mist’s effects were insignificantly weak. The lightning warriors were able to resist the ck mist with only the electricity coursing about their bodies, gradually purifying them.


    While such purification process was rather slow, there were over 500,000 lightning warriors. Their massive numbers sped up the purification process. They picked up the golden granules as they went about purifying the ck mist.


    Saleen did not know what Fycro was up to by picking up the white granules. Since it was something that Fycro deemed necessary, Saleen needed to disrupt it. Fycro had taken Sharjah and wanted to get his hands on the Ring of Many Gods, so Saleen sent Bain to assassinate Sharjah and destroy the ring. With all those operations disrupted, Fycro’s ns would be affected.


    Even if he had no idea what Fycro was actually up to, he was still able to cause Fycro’s ns to fail. Such was the thought patterns of astrologers. While Saleen did not like being an astrologer, it did not stop him from using powers of the astrologers.


    Fycro’s holy masters were oblivious on the other side. They were still slowly absorbing the mist and sending it back to camp for purification. The holy masters did not have lightning equipment, so it was difficult for them to keep themselves safe if they were to be steeped in the mist. As such, they were only able to work at the external fringes, preventing them from seeing what Saleen’s party was doing.


    That operation ended up with Saleen staying over three days in the ck mist, which was shrunk to an area a little more than a mile wide. The vortex at the center was revealed, including the portal at its core. There were no longer any abominations that dared to charge from the other side.


    Saleen stopped absorbing. He had acquired massive amounts of crystallized granules. The white ones were the most plentiful, followed by golden ones and ck ones.


    The holy masters at the north found that the area of the ck mist had reduced. They were not concerned at first but soon found the phenomenon to be abnormal and alerted Fycro.


    The size of the White City in the Chaotic Swamp did not expand. The abyss before the city became deeper. There were various creatures moving about in the abyss. Among them were the Bug Angel Warriors. Those abominated bug angels were resurrected in the abyss. Their evil aura waspletely purified, yet they were unable to leave the Divine Abyss. They were forced to survive and deal with the harsh conditions within.


    The Bug Angel Warriors spent their days praying to Fycro, when they were not busy fighting, in hopes of being able to leave the pesky abyss. The prayers of those Bug Angel Warriors within the abyss sped Fycro’s acquisition of power of faith by tens of times. After all, Saleen had killed many Bug Angel Warriors.


    Fycro was training in the city and approaching key moments. He frowned when the holy masters told him about the matter. It was out of his area of control. He waspelled to put aside the training of an ability that he was about toplete and headed straight to Hignd City to solve the problem.