Chapter 778: Beneath the Underworld Moon

Priest Ao Gu Si, who had personally instructed Xia De not to kill anyone here, naturally would not kill Joey Barton.

This deformed middle-aged man, with a penetrating hole in his forehead, stood up tremblingly surrounded by those thousands of white shadows. Yin Yi Yi Lu Na squinted at them, seeing large swaths of white fog surging above the water domain:

"Look quickly, it's a Mystery Lock, finally someone is going to use a Mystery Lock!"

This was not the Narrow Gap of Life and Death; even if Joey Barton's state was good, using a Mystery Lock meant he was going to fight to the death.

Sensing the anomaly in space, Xia De, standing on the water surface, was not panicked. After sublimating from the second ring to the third ring a few months ago, he could even open a Mystery Lock to seal the Pus of Man; this time, he could naturally do it too.

【Tree's Kiss】 did not have very strong lethality, and 【Match Girl】 might let Priest Ao Gu Si and Sister Daifulin know that he was the God-Caller, so:

"Sleeping Princess!"

He held the sword with one hand and slashed forward violently. The darkness was slashed open, and rich colors spread to the left and right. Just like a pitch-black curtain being pulled back, it revealed a magnificent royal palace hall.

The dilapidated city where white fog diffused and the royal palace hall spliced together, but neither could completely cover this water domain; they merely appeared on the water domain forcibly like colored fragments spliced onto an oil painting.

Yin Yi Yi Lu Na still propped her face and watched this scene in the distance, then saw Xia De hold the sword with one hand, turn around, and quickly ascend the steps to the high part of the palace. An ice coffin fell from the sky and struck the platform at the highest point of the palace. The coffin lid slid open silently, and Xia De reached out, grasping the fair hand that extended from the ice coffin.

A witch with fiery red hair walked out from the ice coffin, bowed slightly to Xia De, and stood with him.

"I guess it's another witch."

The seventeen-year-old girl said softly in a monotonous tone, squinting at the two spliced Mystery Locks where Joey Barton was charging toward the palace with the undead, only to be swept clean by the scorching dragon's breath.

A Mystery Lock could provide the caster with home-field advantage. Judging from the results, with both sides opening Mystery Locks, Barton was being beaten by Xia De and the witch.

"Heh, that lady still has a tail... looks like a dragon's tail... A while ago, I even killed a dragon."

Yin Yi Yi Lu Na continued to mutter.

The old priest tasted the tobacco and revealed a smile, but said nothing. Sister Daifulin extended her hands toward the flames in front of her.

"Witch's Light of Feilianna!"

Xia De and the "Princess" extended their fingers forward simultaneously, and the spreading golden light washed over everything. The "Sleeping Princess" Mystery Lock constantly eroded the "Narrow Gap of Life and Death." Barton retreated steadily, never imagining he would encounter such a situation.

The girl with fiery red hair spat out scorching dragon's breath again. Although Xia De hadn't seen this move in the Gadis Library, the dragon's breath of a half-breed dragon was not to be underestimated either.

But the firelight did not just come from the shadow of Miss Delage beside him; the 【Night Watcher】 in Xia De's hand suddenly drew a crimson bright mark toward the ground. In that firelight, Sister Daifulin, whose body radiated fiery light, slowly straightened her waist.

"Ah?"

Xia De also hadn't expected this scene.

She bowed slightly to Xia De, then walked toward the chaotic space at the junction of the Mystery Locks, stepping on the red carpet beneath her feet. Joey Barton looked at her in fear. The nun said nothing, waved her hand, and threw out a ball of flames. The flames landed inside the 【Narrow Gap of Life and Death】 Mystery Lock. The next moment, the dilapidated city ignited a great fire; the Mystery Lock was actually burning.

Sister Daifulin was a genuine eleven-ring sorcerer.

A Mystery Lock belongs to an independent space, briefly detaching from the water domain of death. For Joey Barton, it was a weakening, but for Xia De, a living person, it was an enhancement. Sister Daifulin's phantom vanished. Taking advantage of the Primordial Fire burning Barton's Mystery Lock, the 【Night Watcher】 sprayed out dazzling sunlight rays forward, completely crushing the dilapidated city burning in the white fog.

Joey Barton was hit head-on by the 【Sunlight Ray】 and fell back onto the water surface. All illusions around vanished. He rolled a few times before struggling to climb up.

The girl with fiery red hair also bowed slightly to Xia De and returned to the ice coffin. Xia De, whose consumption was somewhat high, ended his Mystery Lock, stood on the water surface with both feet, and looked at the embarrassed middle-aged man, or rather, child, not far away.

Sister Daifulin by the bonfire on the shore withdrew her hands, which already showed signs of scalding, from the bonfire and hid them in her sleeves.

Yin Yi Yi Lu Na immediately stood up:

"I think it's my turn, this battle should also end."

She also walked toward the end of the shallows.

On the water surface illuminated by the Underworld Moon, Joey Barton stood up with a bitter smile:

"Wa... Mr. Hamilton, I originally didn't want to do this."

Holding the Luo De cards in his right hand, he raised them with a trembling hand and placed them before his right eye. Although Xia De didn't know what he wanted to do, he still hurriedly swept the moonlight greatsword forward, but the eerie darkness behind Barton actually swallowed him.

He seemed to melt into the endless darkness at the end of the water domain, and that darkness even swallowed the light of the Underworld Moon.

Silent, all was still, but Xia De's heart suddenly beat violently. He knew that something was coming, coming from the deepest part of death.

A giant bone hand wearing a bright golden bracelet slowly extended from that darkness and slapped onto the water surface. The bone hand had seven fingers. Subsequently, another giant seven-fingered bone hand, also wearing a bracelet engraved with runes, extended from the darkness and slapped the water surface.

Xia De felt his blood pressure was almost high enough for blood to spray from his pores. The extreme sense of panic let him know that this was absolutely not an existence a mortal should touch.

"What is that?"

【The mark left here by the Old God who governs death.】

"Huh?"

【Don't worry, it's just a mark, and it's being borrowed by the power of the Myriad Phenomena.】

"No one told me in advance that there was an enemy like this! Why can he use paper cards like this? This isn't fair!"

【Because he is a Chosen One. Outsider, what should you use to counter the Myriad Phenomena cards?】

"She" chuckled.

Accompanied by the two giant bone hands pressing on the water surface, a giant skull wearing a golden crown finally emerged silently from the darkness. Golden flames flickered in its eye sockets, and between its neatly arranged upper and lower teeth was darkness that seemed capable of swallowing everything.

Xia De waved his hand, letting the Luo De card deck dancing in the sky return to his hand.

"Sunlight Spear!"

A clear and sharp sound came from very far away. Xia De looked up and saw that above his head, hundreds of dark vortices were forming simultaneously. Following that loud shout, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na on the shore ran forward violently, then jumped into the high sky, her long brown hair scattering behind her, and the dark golden scales suspended above her head.

The golden thunder spear in her hand was stained with a dark golden hue, the light illuminating her youthful and handsome face. The sunlight spear pierced through the dark vortex in front of her.

Even death could not eliminate this sound. Amidst the thunderous explosions, hundreds of thunder spears appeared above Xia De's head, bombarding the giant skull that had just revealed its head from the darkness of the end.

"Today's scene is truly..."

The old priest by the bonfire sighed incessantly.

The skull was disintegrating, but it still opened its giant mouth against the sunlight spears. Between its teeth, a black light ball was rapidly expanding. Joey Barton's voice came from somewhere:

"Bestow upon you — Fated Death."

The black ball shattered, time froze at this moment, all things ended, and the great power affected everything around it through the Chosen One and the power of the Myriad Phenomena.

But the water domain remained as silent as ever. The black light pierced through Xia De, but he still stood in his original place, completely unharmed.

"Why..."

The mark left by the Old God was blasted away by the sunlight spear thrown by the Chosen One of Balance. Joey Barton, completely exhausted, reappeared. The Underworld Moon illuminated him. He knelt on one knee on the water surface, no longer having the strength to continue fighting.

Although the Chosen One's talent was powerful, he was ultimately only a first-ring sorcerer. He was not an enemy like Dac Nisi, who could crush Xia De even without demons and talents.

"First of all, this is the end of everything, this is death itself. Instant death abilities and the power of the end have no meaning here."

Xia De said, then extended his hand, letting the two Luo De cards in front of him fly back. Those were 【Myriad Phenomena - Balance】 and 【Myriad Phenomena - Darkness】. These were also paper cards that Xia De could manipulate as if they were his own arms:

"Moreover, you shouldn't have borrowed the power of the Myriad Phenomena cards to unleash that strike just now.

I only realized when I was preparing to face it head-on just now that the Myriad Phenomena cards can actually cancel out the effects of the Myriad Phenomena cards. And your mastery of that card seems far inferior to my mastery of these two cards."

"Myriad Phenomena..."

"Where did the paper cards in your hand come from?"

Xia De asked, lowering the 【Night Watcher】 to point at the water surface.

"After she died, I took her ashes to many places. In the winter of 1849, I went to the New Continent. Outside the Umur town settlement in the south of the New Continent, I fell into an ancient ruin and discovered this from a bronze-colored skeleton. From that time on, my talent became stronger and stronger."

Joey Barton said, gripping the paper cards tightly, shrinking there and sobbing:

"It really didn't work after all. Even though I have already made a big mistake and walked to this step, I still cannot see her."

Sister Daifulin and Priest Ao Gu Si by the bonfire saw that the battle had ended, so they also stood up and came to the edge of the shallows, looking at Xia De and Joey Barton together with Yin Yi Yi Lu Na.

The Underworld Moon quietly illuminated this place, and the originally lingering souls walked quietly toward the end of the water domain again. Everything was silent, and it was so solemn and respectful; all of this was very sacred.

And among the souls gradually moving away, only Xia De and Mr. Barton stood motionless. The departing white shadows made their figures also become somewhat blurred.

Everything had ended. Xia De didn't mind talking a few more sentences with the other party, letting the other party follow him back to the shore:

"You wanted to bring her back that much?"

"Yes, even if I have to pay everything. My life, which has been lived in reverse, has no great meaning. Only she is my only brilliance, my only happiness."

He climbed up stumbling, but he didn't want to struggle; instead, he turned and looked into the depths of the water domain:

"This is fine too. I have already made a big mistake, it's better to leave here. Leave, go find her... it's time to end. I am already a child now, the next step is to step from a new life into death..."

He staggered and followed those white shadows forward, but only walked two steps before falling onto the water surface again.

This deformed man didn't struggle anymore, but curled into a ball, holding his head and crying miserably as if howling. Xia De had seen many people cry, but had never seen anyone who could cry so miserably.

"Mid-Hill Fort is truly a place that produces all kinds of tragic stories."

"Ah!"

Joey Barton, who was howling and crying, suddenly screamed again. On his body, some decaying gray patterns gradually covered him. These patterns seemed to have crawled up from beneath the water surface. The intense power of the curse even made Xia De feel terrified; this kind of curse was something even he could not bear:

"Where did the curse come from?"

Beneath his feet was the water surface flickering with dots of silver light; there was no power of a curse beneath the water surface.

【Outsider, you have obtained partial information from death.】

【The Chosen One of Death has lost in death to a mortal who used other powers. You can consider this the curse of that ancient God of Death, or the curse of this death itself. He has been spurned, completely lost his qualification as a Chosen One, and this curse cannot be eliminated by any means.】

"I still don't understand, why did the God of Death curse him?"

"She" chuckled:

【He shouldn't have lost to you here.】

Xia De turned his head violently. Just now, he clearly felt the wind of someone speaking by his ear, but there was clearly nothing behind him:

"Is that so? This can also be considered him paying the price for everything he has done."

Xia De thought slowly in his heart, no longer looking at Mr. Barton, who was curled into a ball on the water surface.

He carried his sword and looked up at the Underworld Moon that shone from his own dream. The moonlight was so pure, so charming; he enjoyed this moment very much.

【Someone is coming.】

"What?"

Enduring the pain of his soul, Mr. Barton, with tears and snot streaming down his face, supported himself on the water surface, barely propping up his body. He wanted to leave with the souls, but when he looked up, he saw a pair of translucent boots stop in front of him.

It was a pair of brown ladies' short cloth boots, and the decorative laces were black. Continuing to look upward, the shoes connected to translucent legs, then a black floral skirt, then a ladies' white shirt, then the bellflower pinned to the chest, then the neck wearing a pendant that could hold a photo, then...

Mr. Barton knelt on the water surface, looking at that face through tear-blurred eyes; Xia De had one hand in his pocket, sighing as he looked at the two people in front; the three people in front of the shallows looked at the figures on the water surface with different expressions.

Everything was so quiet, the Underworld Moon illuminated all of this; although it was not bright enough, not warm enough, it was very gentle.

On the dark water domain, there were still galaxy-like dots of light. This light illuminated the path of departure, guiding the souls to brush past them who were lingering here, walking toward the end of everything.

Although this was death, Xia De liked the environment here very much; this place was truly beautiful. ===== CHAPTER 779 =====