Chapter 204: As Expected, Qingwan Is the Strongest!

In the mere dozens of breaths that passed while Lu Yuan and the Deity of Beauty turned and disappeared deeper into the cave to rescue people, something occurred at the cave entrance battlefield that was enough to overturn everything Li Guanqi and Fu Yuanshan had ever believed.

What froze them into statues was an incomprehensible "battle."

Time rewound to the instant Lu Yuan and the Deity of Beauty vanished into the passageway.

"Roar—!!!"

"Hiss—!!!"

"—!!!"

Three world-ending torrents of dreadful attack, carrying nothing but pure destructive will, had already engulfed and submerged the spot where Gu Qingwan, Li Guanqi, and Fu Yuanshan stood.

Before that shadow of death descended fully, the last thoughts flashing through Li Guanqi and Fu Yuanshan's minds were simple.

It's over!

No matter how strong Gu Qingwan was, she couldn't possibly protect the two of them—who were nearly spent, life force exhausted—at such close range from the full-force onslaught of three equal-tiered beings!

Yet, just as the filthy flood was about to touch Fu Yuanshan's body and the spiritual spike was about to pierce Li Guanqi's brow, at the very moment the towering blood wave was about to smash the spot where Gu Qingwan stood—

The figure of Gu Qingwan, who had hung there motionless as if unaware of the impending annihilation, finally... moved.

No, "moved" might be the wrong word.

She merely... barely lifted her eyelids.

The blood-red heavy pupils behind the thin mist looked increasingly indifferent against the backdrop of the eerie green turbulence, the filthy flood, and the scarlet blood waves.

As if the three super Malevolent Deities' hysterical frenzy and destruction were, to her, nothing more than...

a trivial, slightly noisy... "farce."

She slowly raised the flawless right hand that had hung naturally at her side.

No hand signs, no incantation, not even the condensed darkness she had used earlier.

Just... toward those three annihilating attacks that were now within an arm's reach, she casually, as if swatting away flies... lightly waved.

Yes, one wave.

The motion was offhand, devoid of any theatricality, without stirring any obvious energy ripple.

However—

The instant her pale hand swept out!

Centered on her, within a radius of ten zhang, the space seemed to be forcibly "peeled" away by an invisible giant hand!

The three horrifying assaults—capable of annihilating cities and tearing souls—that struck the edge of this "domain" at that moment

were met as if they had hit an invisible, immovable absolute barrier, denser and more unshakable than the world's walls!

There was no cataclysmic explosion, no sacrificial energy collision, not even any sound.

"Pop."

Three extremely faint, brittle noises—like bubbles bursting or strings being plucked—sounded almost simultaneously,

then, in the reflections of Li Guanqi and Fu Yuanshan's pupils, which bulged in terror and despair, a scene unfolded that utterly shattered their cognition.

The filthy torrent condensed by the Ten-Thousand-Corpses Pollutant Mother, a river of corrupted faces and soul-eroding filth, when touching the boundary of Gu Qingwan's "domain," as if thrown into the hottest furnace, silently... vaporized, gone!

Not a wisp of smoke, not a speck of filth remained, as if it had never existed.

The eerie green spiritual spikes formed by the Dream Demon, capable of plunging any living being into eternal ruin in an instant,

upon entering Gu Qingwan's "domain," struck an absolutely smooth mirror!

All the chaos, madness, and demonic thoughts were kept intact yet elevated and purified by a higher-level force!

Silently... they rebounded and dissipated!

They failed to penetrate even a fraction; not one spiritual ripple was stirred.

And the towering filthy blood-and-bone wave driven by the Blood Spirit Lord, viscous as substance and teeming with countless blood-skeletal monsters,

the instant it struck Gu Qingwan's "domain" barrier, met an invisible dam.

That force, grander and more irresistible, forcibly fixed and repelled it!

The great wave splintered and sprayed outward with Gu Qingwan's position as center,

but could not enter even half a foot within her ten-zhang radius!

The blood monsters writhing and roaring within the wave, upon touching the barrier, were purified as if by the purest holy light!

Before they could even scream, they turned into wisps of azure smoke and vanished.

A casual, offhand wave.

The full-power combined assault of three super Malevolent Deities—enough to destroy a realm—

was... completely, cleanly, and decisively... neutralized into nothing.

Not even a hem of Gu Qingwan's robe fluttered.

Within the cave, the destructive aura and turbulent energies that had boiled up due to the deities' rampage seemed to have been pressed to pause.

A moment of eerie stagnation and deathly silence appeared.

Li Guanqi and Fu Yuanshan froze in the exact expressions and postures they had held, having prepared to meet death,

like two vividly sculpted statues.

Their eyes were wide, mouths unintentionally agape.

Every muscle in their faces had locked from utter shock,

their breathing and heartbeat seeming to stop at that instant.

Their brains crashed from being unable to process a sight that totally exceeded understanding and violated all laws of power.

Wha... what happened?!

I... it stopped?!

Just like that... with a casual wave... it stopped?!

That was a combined strike of three super Malevolent Deities!!

How... how is this possible?!

What level of power is this?!

Are there things this terrifying beyond the Great Wall?!

Endless question marks and exclamation points crashed like a tsunami through their blank consciousness.

They felt like ants trying to comprehend the universe; all their assumptions and ingrained beliefs were utterly crushed, trampled, and powdered by Gu Qingwan's casual wave.

And Gu Qingwan seemed utterly uninterested in having casually neutralized that attack,

not even looking at the three super Malevolent Deities, which appeared momentarily stunned by their failed assault.

A faint trace of impatience hung behind the thin mist of her blood-red heavy pupils as she glanced over the three deific silhouettes that still radiated terror yet had become even more frenzied and chaotic from their recent defeat.

Then her gaze settled on the Ten-Thousand-Corpses Pollutant Mother.

That deity's counterattack had been the most direct and filthy.

Gu Qingwan spoke nothing, and made no complicated motion.

She merely directed the right hand that had just swept away and neutralized all attacks toward where the Ten-Thousand-Corpses Pollutant Mother stood.

Extremely casually... she bent her five fingers slightly, then... gently closed them.

The motion graceful, as if plucking an invisible flower from the void.

However—

The instant her fingers came together.

"Plop—!!!"

A dull, viscous sound, like countless pus-filled sacs being squeezed simultaneously!

Like the hardest rock instantaneously crushed into dust by an invisible force!

A nauseatingly grotesque thud detonated throughout the cave!

The monstrous, bloated, gore-splattering Pollutant Mother—the vast, filthy silhouette whose surface opened and closed with countless holes spewing putrid filth and corruption—was as if rubbed against the palm of an invisible, formless hand that enveloped the heavens and earth!

"Aaaaargh—!!!"

A howl beyond any previous roar, drenched with extreme agony, terror, and the last shriek before total erasure.

Sound like a billion filthy souls wailing in unison erupted from the distorted, forcibly compressed sack of the Pollutant Mother.

But it lasted less than half a breath before it stopped abruptly!

Because that "invisible hand" had completely... closed.

The Ten-Thousand-Filth Mother—the massive, filthy silhouette that had been rampaging—along with all the pus it had spat, vanished.

All the remnants of its filthy offspring, all the twisted faces floating in the pale mist, every corrupted energy and rule associated with it...

under Gu Qingwan's light squeeze, were like a fragile bubble full of sewage that a giant casually pinched and popped.

"Pop."

One light sound.

Complete... disappearance.

No traces left on the spot, no filth residue, no energy backlash, not even the conceptual echo of its former existence.

As if an eraser had rubbed a blot off a crude painting.

Clean, tidy, absolute.

The nauseating filth aura in the cave instantly dissipated by half.

The violent turbulence of energy seemed to calm briefly because one of its "sources" had been removed.

Dead silence.

Even deeper and more absolute than before, a silence that chilled the soul.

Li Guanqi and Fu Yuanshan still stood frozen, expression blank with their mouths open and eyes wide.

But their gaze, which had been filled with extreme shock, confusion, and emptiness,

now reflected not the three world-shattering deities nor the moon-white figure that seemed to wipe away fear,

but only enormous, blood-red question marks left in their thoroughly crashed brains:

...It’s... over?

The three... super Malevolent Deities... just... ended like that?

One wave... one pinch... one...

W-what the hell is that?!

They stood there dumbly, like two statues that had been drained of all spirit, shells left behind,

while Gu Qingwan hovered silently in midair.

Her moon-white qipao was immaculate.

She did not even confirm whether the three super Malevolent Deities had truly been completely erased,

as if that had always been a trivial, easily done task.

She only slightly lifted her head, her blood-red heavy pupils seeming to penetrate the thick rock and the distance of space,

and extremely precisely... looked toward the depths of the cave.

Her face remained expressionless.

But soon, the thin mist over her pupils flickered... very faintly.

At that same time, Lu Yuan, carrying the old man on his back and leading the Deity of Beauty, emerged from the cave.

Lu Yuan glanced at the thoroughly purified cave entrance, then at the two statuesque Li Guanqi and Fu Yuanshan.

Mhm~

As expected, Qingwan is the strongest!