"Roar!"
After tearing apart two Golden Crows in a row, the Flying Sword "Silver Dragon" grew even more murderous.
Outside the dream, Silver Horn merely turned his gourd slightly, and the "Silver Dragon" instantly changed direction and pounced toward the third Golden Crow.
With the lesson of the first two Golden Crows, this next Golden Crow no longer dared to be careless.
Before those tens of thousands of Flying Swords even shot toward him, the Golden Crow had already spread his wings and soared, trying to pull away from them.
Yet just as the Golden Crow turned around, a chill rose in his heart.
By the time the Golden Crow realized something was wrong, a two-head-tall doll suddenly appeared out of nowhere and stepped on his neck.
"Hee-hee..."
The doll was only as thick as a forearm, and its face was very childlike.
There was even a pair of delicate little wings on its back, making it look very cute.
But when it opened its mouth and revealed those razor-sharp fangs, a soul-seizing aura instantly froze the Golden Crow in mid-air.
The next second, the doll’s scarlet hair began to grow rapidly, and a flame full of Evil Spirit Qi was born along with it.
The Golden Crow hadn’t even processed what was happening before his body was torn apart by some inexplicable force.
Crash...
Golden blood dripped from mid-air, and the sky full of light dimmed for it.
This Golden Crow might not have been the fastest to die, but it was definitely the strangest, and the most tragic.
Its body was completely dismembered into palm-sized fragments, without a single intact feather left.
Not only that, at the instant this Golden Crow died, the remaining six still-living Golden Crows all let out a simultaneous, shrill scream.
Because what the doll attacked was not the Golden Crow’s body, but the essence that constituted the existence called "Golden Crow".
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The "Silver Dragon" formed of countless Flying Swords split open at once, and in a single instant slaughtered all the remaining Golden Crows.
—From the Flying Swords’ entrance to the annihilation of all nine Golden Crows.
The whole process took only a few breaths of time.
So fast that even the true protagonist of this battle—Xiluo—didn’t react in time.
"Immortal Slaying Flying Knife?"
"I don’t need your help, I can handle this myself!"
Snapping out of her shock, Xiluo said in a low, rather annoyed voice.
Xiluo naturally recognized this Immortal Slaying Flying Knife; she had even contributed quite a bit to its completion.
At the very least, that’s how Xiluo herself saw it.
If she hadn’t supplied Silver Horn with all those weird Artifact Refining materials, there’s no way he could have refined the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife to this level in such a short time.
Xiluo still remembered the last time she saw Silver Horn use this Immortal Slaying Flying Knife—it couldn’t even kill a common Celestial God back then.
But comparing it now, it actually already had the ability to kill Golden Crows.
Those were top-tier Celestial Gods that had crossed the Divine Gate, approached the Celestial Gate, and were only one step from a Great Celestial God.
From the previous situation, it was clear: for Xiluo to kill even one of them, she had to completely unleash all her techniques—even when the target was the strongest Great Golden Crow.
"Most importantly, I still haven’t gotten his name yet!"
Listening to Xiluo’s unwilling grievance, Li Boyang’s figure slowly appeared behind her.
And with the appearance of this outsider, the entire dream world began to collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The boundaries between earth, sky, and sea were fading bit by bit, replaced by unobservable chaos.
"If you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to leave at all..."
As if to confirm Li Boyang’s words, the Taiyang in the sky suddenly began to turn in a strange way.
Even as the entire world vanished, that Taiyang still remained like an anchor, unchanged—just as if it really were the eternal Sun Star itself.
Seeing this, the anger and unwillingness in Xiluo’s heart vanished instantly.
"What is that!?"
Staring up at the Taiyang above her head, Xiluo gaped in disbelief.
She was the master of this dream, so why would something completely beyond her control appear in it?
"Something this simple and you still can’t see it?"
"That’s a ’Sun Star’ born of Refining Illusion into Truth. Someone is using your dream to perform Refining Illusion into Truth."
At first hearing Li Boyang’s explanation, Xiluo only felt it was utterly incredible.
Setting aside who was interfering with her dream, why would they Refining Illusion into Truth for a Taiyang?
"Could it be that Golden Crow?"
With a hint of incredulity, Xiluo turned to glance at Li Boyang beside her.
"Of course it’s not him. He doesn’t have the ability to meddle with your dream."
"In fact, even his ’awakening’ inside your dream has nothing to do with him personally."
His tone held undisguised disdain for that Golden Crow; Li Boyang only quietly gazed at the Taiyang.
"Isn’t that right, Emperor Hao?"
The Taiyang in the sky responded by changing form; a gigantic face surfaced on its blazing surface.
Like a titan peering through a bottle’s mouth to observe ants.
The crushing sense of oppression was enough to give anyone a fear of enormous things.
This was the true Lord of the Sun Star, the Celestial Emperor who could suppress an entire era!
Yet the one meeting that gaze was Li Boyang.
Li Boyang showed not the slightest fear at the size difference; instead, he even had the leisure to carefully study that face.
Although this was not the first time Li Boyang had clashed with Emperor Hao,
it was the first time he had seen the other’s appearance this clearly.
Compared to the murals in Hook Star Palace, the real Emperor Hao possessed a majesty and solemnity befitting His station.
—He is a final boss, but not a villain.
That was Emperor Hao’s first impression upon others: a sense of uprightness and vast righteous Qi.
"When did you notice?"
A rumbling voice resounded through this chaotic dream.
Emperor Hao no longer studied Li Boyang, instead going straight to the point.
"From the moment you tried to leave this dream..."
"The one who jumped out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace at the very beginning was the avatar you left inside this dream, wasn’t it?"
No hesitation, no doubt; Li Boyang’s voice held only calm certainty.
"So that’s how it is. It seems I still acted too hastily."
Equally not refuting Li Boyang’s deduction, Emperor Hao merely let out a soft sigh.
"Spare my children a path to life..."
"I will allow you and the Lord of the Mansion to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation in my era."
At this point, Emperor Hao’s tone paused slightly.
"My children are innocent. They are merely newborn Taiyangs; their time to fall has not yet come."
Emperor Hao did not expect Li Boyang to help Him; He only hoped the other would not obstruct Him.
In truth, this was also one of the main reasons Emperor Hao ultimately chose to reveal Himself.
This Taiyang being refined by Refining Illusion into Truth was a "redemption coupon" Emperor Hao had prepared ahead of time for His children.
Of course, even if Li Boyang disagreed, Emperor Hao would still keep striving and attempting again and again; this was merely one of those attempts.
Unyielding after a hundred setbacks, never giving up—this is merely the most basic quality of one who accomplishes great things.
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