<h4>Chapter 1531: Distorted Love</h4>


    Ultimately, the members of Team Zenith were disadvantaged in terms of numbers. Dragging the fight out would only cause them to fall into passivity. Sun Mengmeng had to finish off her opponent with this one attack.


    Her beautiful features took on a tinge of the fantastical when lit by the purple firelight.


    With the barest hissing of wind, she unsheathed a long dark-red dagger.


    The dark red de was gestated in fire and me. It tore apart countless golden lotuses, which exploded in a ze of golden mes and transformed the altar into a sea of fire. She had gained a tremendous attunement to fire, and even a sea of fire couldn''t stop her advance.


    She gathered the fire all around herself and prepared a devastating blow. Like a phoenix rising up from the ashes, she spread her wings wide and soared into the air, her de pointed straight at Feng Xian. She would take her down right then and there.


    As the lotuses exploded, their roots bombarded her like pellets, themselves exploding in shes of thunder.


    Her de shed at incredible speed. Lotus flowers exploded all around her, but they didn''t distract her from her attack.


    Feng Xian''s body grew taut. Her bones turned silvery-white as she shot forward like an arrow.


    "[Divine Arrow]!" She blurred; her attacks were so fast they were almost impossible to detect.


    Sun Mengmeng struck the divine arrow in the air in an explosion of silver light and purple mes.


    Feng Xian''s archery was about on par with Sun Mengmeng''s [Baptism of Hellfire: Full Moon] under regr conditions; when it was bolstered by a sea of mes, Sun Mengmeng easily won out.


    A golden path of light rapidly pierced through the mes. Qingyue Ge stood right at its head. "I''m here!"


    He closed the gap between them.


    "[Baptism of Hellfire: Phoenix Rising]!"


    Sun Mengmeng whirled her daggers all around her like a phoenix spreading its wings. A tail of fire glowed with radiant light, causing the stars themselves to quake.


    "Scram!"


    The mes shot forth in a whirlwind.


    The twobatants shed amidst a space of howling void. mes rose up from them both, curling up into the air. Golden lotuses sprouted and rooted themselves, as though dying and rebirthing within the omnipresent mes.


    Theybined into a majestic golden lotus that trapped Sun Mengmeng within, blocking her attacks.


    "Distill her essence!"


    Qingyue Ge shouted. mes bloomed around the golden lotus, refining and purifying everything around, even the altar itself.


    "[Lunarme Shot]!"


    Sun Mengmeng ignited the fire all over the altar, capturing it all in the form of golden me, which she merged with her purple fire to form purplegold arrows.


    Sun Mengmeng''s right hand blurred as countless arrows of purple me shot out of her bow like a meteor shower that tinted the air purple and gave the arena a phantasmagorical appearance. The air turned dry and arid, as though a cataclysm was nigh.


    Under the brilliant purple sky, everything began to burn, drowned in a sea of purple me. When her arrows exploded, they formed pirs of me over ten meters high.


    Feng Xian drew a divine de scintiting with light. The edge was keen and incredibly sharp. She swept aside the purple mes and began to unleash carnage.


    When he first fought Sun Mengmeng in the arena, Qingyue Ge hadn''t been able to unleash this technique fully. Now, however, with Feng Xian''s support, Qingyue Ge had more than enough time for his technique to manifest in full. Heaven and earth turned a resplendent gold. All within it transformed into Qingyue Ge''s domain.


    The golden lotuses rooted themselves in the void, a divine and holy deity of fire appearing over each one, chanting scripture in some unknownnguage. Even more frightening were the bones, skeletons, and malevolent specters underneath the lotuses, filled with grudges and curses, the contrast more dissonant than even the ninthyer of the underworld.


    Underneath the holiest of golden lotuses were the most malevolent curses and killing intent.


    Sun Mengmeng felt tremendous restrictions being imposed on her. Lotus flowers rooted themselves in the void and wound around her hands and feet. She tried to struggle, but Feng Xian sent a sword sh straight at her from afar. She knocked aside Sun Mengmeng''s garuda bow as a giant lotus formed underneath her feet. Strange tendrils writhed around her body; she couldn''t free herself.


    Qingyue Ge walked up to her, his gaze enraptured. A mysterious green lotus grew furiously by her side. Unlike the golden lotuses all around, this one seemed ethereal, as thoughposed of mental energy.


    "You are mine."


    Qingyue Ge reached out and plucked the green lotus.


    "Scram!" Sun Mengmeng gritted her teeth. She extended a hand and sparked mes all around her. Her body burned with purplish-ck me so intense that it dyed the heavens the same color.


    She cast [ck Sun], forming a corona of purplish-ck me around her. Then, she activated her most impactful soulshards for battle, transforming from a young woman to a fierce warrior with a chitinous carapace, wreathed in ck me.


    Her mes were so intense that the armor-type soulshard actually began to crack and split. ck mes seeped out from the cracks, burning so intensely that the ground began to melt and turn red.


    By then, Sun Mengmeng had transformed into a fearsome warrior of hell.


    Even so, she found herself unable to break free of Qingyue Ge''s bindings. The sea of lotuses gave rise to tremendous, almost unfathomable pressure. Qingyue Ge had mastered his domain.


    The lotus flower right beneath her body furiously absorbed the mes emanating from her. Sun Mengmeng''sst-ditch explosive effort hadn''t produced the effect she was hoping for.


    Qingyue Ge gazed at her in greed. "Ever since I met you in the qualifiers, I''ve wanted you. I was infatuated, enraptured, besotted. I begged my mother for a special lotus."


    The lotus roots writhed around his hand and transformed into a spear. "With this spear thrust into your body, you''ll be mine."


    That lotus was formed from Divinity Qinglian''s mental energy. When it rooted itself in a living organism''s mind, it had the effect of mind control


    Even though this virtual realm wasn''t part of the real world, the lotus struck directly at the cultivators'' mental projections, and that parasitic link would be reproduced back in reality. Leiting Ya would have killed for such lotuses.