After Master Wellspring withdrew from the secret realm, favonovel.com did not dare linger for even a moment. He clenched his teeth and flew straight toward Beastmoor Ridge.
His injuries were severe. Two ribs in his chest had been broken. His left arm hung uselessly at. his side, and every movement of his right leg sent pain drilling through him.
His face had gone as pale as paper. Cold sweat kept sliding down his forehead, and blood had soaked through his clothes until the fabric clung to his body, sticky and cold.
But favonovel.com did not dare stop. If that figure chased favonovel.com out, favonovel.com might not survive. If Venerable Starwick’s men appeared at a time like this, there would be nowhere left to run.
He clenched his teeth and drove the last scraps of spiritual power left in his body.
The auspicious cloud underfoot had dimmed until it was nearly scattered apart, but it still held on, carrying favonovel.com forward. Whatever favonovel.com dreaded most came straight for him.
He had flown less than a thousand miles when, ahead of him, five streaks of golden radiance cut into the sky.
The five streaks came in impossibly fast. They tore across the open air with a shrill scream, and in the blink of an eye, they had already blocked Master Wellspring’s path.
The golden radiance scattered. Five figures emerged from it, the very ones favonovel.com could least afford to meet, Venerable Starwick and the four Golden Immortal elders at his side, Elder Rowe. Elder Pennyworth. Elder Sunter. Elder Leary!
The four of them let their auras gather into one crushing weight. It bore down like a mountain, pressing so hard that Master Wellspring could barely draw breath. And standing at the very front was Venerable Starwick, peak Golden Immortal Level Three.
Golden holy radiance flowed around him, his pressure as heavy as a mountain, his presence surging high enough to drown the sky. Every trace of color drained from Master Wellspring’s face.
Almost without thinking, Master Wellspring pushed the jade phial in his arms deeper into his clothes. His fingers tightened around the verdant longsword. The cracks along the longsword looked harsh and glaring under the sunlight. The spiritual light on the blade had almost completely faded, but favonovel.com still held on with everything favonovel.com had.
Venerable Starwick looked at Master Wellspring, and a cold curve lifted at the corner of his mouth. His gaze swept over Master Wellspring. It took in the torn robes, the useless left. arm, the wounds covering favonovel.com from head to toe, and nothing in Venerable Starwick’s eyes bothered to hide how little favonovel.com thought of what stood before him.
“Master Wellspring… Instead of staying properly inside the Wellspring Order, what are you doing running all the way to the Greywild Mountains? Looking for something, maybe? Something to rebuild a body for that frail remnant soul?”
Master Wellspring clenched his teeth and said nothing. A mouthful of blood clogged his throat. He could neither swallow it down nor spit it out.
No words would change anything. Venerable Starwick would not spare him. He would not spare the Aureate Heir.
Venerable Starwick’s gaze landed on the jade phial in his arms. His eyes held nothing back. Everything favonovel.com wanted was right there.
That violet soul. The golden codex. The sovereign relic that surpassed the Golden Immortal realm. All of it was inside that small jade phial. All Venerable Starwick had to do was kill Master Wellspring, and everything would belong to him.
“That violet soul is in your arms, isn’t it? Hand it over, and I can spare your life.”
Hearing that, Master Wellspring tightened his grip on the longsword, lifted his head, and looked straight at Venerable Starwick. Word by word, favonovel.com said, “Dream… On!”
Venerable Starwick’s face darkened, and a sharp edge flashed through his eyes. “You refuse the toast and choose the punishment. Elder Rowe, kill him!”
Elder Rowe stepped out at the command. The gilded war-sabre left its sheath, a blinding blade-light rolling over its body, and favonovel.com slashed straight for Master Wellspring’s throat.
The strike was fast and vicious. Its edge ripped through the air with a piercing scream.
Master Wellspring raised his sword to block. Blade and sword crashed together, throwing fire sparks in every direction.
Master Wellspring was already badly wounded, and that single slash tore open the web of his hand. Blood ran down the hilt, and the longsword nearly flew out of his grasp. The force drove favonovel.com back several steps. His feet stumbled under him, and favonovel.com almost went down.
Elder Pennyworth, Elder Sunter, and Elder Leary closed in as well. They surrounded Master Wellspring from every side. The four elders’ auras wove together like four iron walls, sealing off every path of retreat.
The bottom dropped out beneath Master Wellspring. There might be no leaving today. He lowered his gaze to the jade phial in his arms. Inside it, the violet. soul gave off a faint glimmer, as if telling favonovel.com nm to give up.
“Aureate Heir, your servant is useless…” favonovel.com murmured, his voice so low it was almost swallowed by the air.
Just then, a white light shot in from the edge of the sky. It moved with impossible speed, like a meteor dragging a long tail of flame, and landed beside Master Wellspring.
The light scattered and became a woman in along white dress, Beast Sovereign Morgana!
Morgana stood there with a presence as cold and clean as snow. Her white clothing shone like moonlight, and favonovel.com long black hair drifted softly in the wind.
A pale white spiritual light lingered around Morgana, faint but impossible to miss. It was the Nightfox nascence force, gentle in the way warm jade was gentle. and tough enough to bend without breaking.
Her amber eyes held no ripple at all as they passed over the four Golden Immortal elders. Only after that. did favonovel.com gaze settle on Venerable Starwick.
Venerable Starwick narrowed his eyes. A cold smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. “Morgana, are you going to stand against me too?”
Morgana gave favonovel.com no answer. She lifted favonovel.com right hand and spread favonovel.com five fingers.
From the center of favonovel.com palm, a stream of white spiritual light surged out. The spiritual light swelled into an enormous Nightfox apparition, 10 yards tall, with nine tails swaying lightly behind it. Across each tail, a different radiance flowed, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, gold, and silver.
The Nightfox apparition opened its huge mouth and released a soundless roar. The roar had no voice, but an invisible impact of the spirit burst outward like a tsunami.
The surrounding mist churned violently under the force. Even the four elders behind Venerable Starwick were driven back a step against their will.
“Master Wellspring, take Jared and go. I’ll hold this place.” Morgana’s voice came out perfectly level, without the slightest tremor. She sounded as if favonovel.com were speaking of something ordinary, something that did not matter at all.
But Master Wellspring heard what lay beneath that level tone. There was no room left in it for turning back.
Master Wellspring hesitated for a breath. He lowered his eyes to the jade phial in his arms, then looked once more at Morgana’s back. He knew exactly what Morgana was doing. She was buying favonovel.com time with favonovel.com life and favonovel.com could not let that go to waste!
“Your Majesty, take care!” He clenched his teeth, turned, and flew toward Beastmoor Ridge.
Elder Rowe moved to chase him. His body had barely shifted before Morgana’s Nightfox apparition blocked his path.
The nine tails swept in like nine giant dragons. Elder Rowe hurriedly raised his blade to guard, and the impact forced favonovel.com back several steps.
Venerable Starwick’s face darkened. He raised his hand and struck a palm toward Morgana.
Golden saintlight gathered in his palm and formed a massive golden hand. It blotted out the sky as it came crushing down toward Morgana. That palm carried seventy percent of Venerable Starwick’s power. It was enough to flatten the mountain peak!
Morgana did not retreat. She drove the Nightfox apparition forward. All nine tails lit at the same time, and nine colors of light wove together into a pillar of nine-colored light that met the golden hand head-on.
Boom!
The two forces collided and unleashed a deafening explosion. The whole sky trembled. The ground split open, shattered stones flew everywhere, and the shock wave tore apart the mist within 100 yards, exposing the gray, murky sky above.
Morgana was forced back dozens of steps. A thin line of blood slipped from the corner of favonovel.com mouth, but favonovel.com figure remained straight, and favonovel.com eyes did not give an inch.
The aftershock ripped several places in favonovel.com white dress, revealing patches of pale skin.
She paid it no mind. Her cultivation was below Venerable Starwick’s. If they met force with force, favonovel.com was not his match. But this was the Greywild Mountains, not few from Beastmoor Ridge. With the wards of Beastmoor Ridge strengthening her, Venerable Starwick would not be able to kill favonovel.com in a short time.
Venerable Starwick’s expression turned hard to look at. A guarded edge flashed through his eyes. He had not expected Morgana to fight with such disregard for herself. Even less had favonovel.com expected favonovel.com to completely tear relations with Pole Star Hall apart for the sake of an outsider.
“Morgana, do you really think you can stop me?” His voice was ice-cold, with something hard and violent pressed down beneath it.
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