The scarlet flower bloomed gorgeously, and within a moment, the aura of corruption completely enveloped the bottom layer of the holy tree.
At this moment, the bottom layer of the Holy Tree is like a sea of blood hell, filled with a corrupt red mist that will kill you if you touch it.
Seeing that the red mist of corruption was about to spread outside, the original corruption pool that had turned into a black pool suddenly started to move.
The thick black water in the black pool gurgled and rolled into dark foam, and then all of it was submerged into the roots of the trees below.
The originally sacred golden tree roots suddenly appeared with dark lines. It was a darkness that could be completely swallowed up by even light. The moment the lines appeared, the shadows expanded.
The black shadow expanded rapidly, and then fire patterns emerged from the shadow. The two-color curtain, mainly black and supplemented by red, instantly wrapped the entire bottom layer of the holy tree.
Before the blooming scarlet corruption could successfully spread, it was trapped in a small space by a deeper force.
If the corrupting red mist emitted by the Scarlet Flower is allowed to spread, all the lives in the holy tree will be infected and then wither under the power of corruption.
Michaela's sacred tree will also turn into the second Galede, which may even be worse than Galede, because the goddess of corruption is here.
"Tsk, this isn't right."
Xia Yu, who was wrapped in black wings, controlled the darkness in the roots of the tree to prevent the spread of the corrupting red mist, while frowning and thinking about this unreasonable scene.
According to normal circumstances, even if Malenia loses her personality to resist scarlet corruption, she will not bloom immediately.
The first and second stages of the game prove this. The tone of the first stage is sad, with pain and struggle everywhere.
At this stage, Marlenia does not know any corrupt law prayers and can only use the flowing water sword technique.
It was the sword technique of Flowing Water Sword that was opposed to corruption that prevented Marlenia, whose personality was broken, from completely succumbing to the fate of blooming.
After all, flowing water does not corrupt the household hinge, and the flowing water sword, which represents change, is the nemesis of unchanging corruption. This is why the blind swordsman in blue can seal corruption.
But when Marlenia was beaten to the point of death, she blossomed.
The second stage is coming. The tone of this stage no longer has any sadness, but can make people feel relieved and accepted.
Whether it is Marlenia's lines or the background music, it shows that she obeyed her destiny of blooming, and she did bloom.
She no longer even suffered or struggled, and fully accepted her identity as the corrupt goddess.
The two stages are Malenia's psychological journey, a process from resisting fate to accepting fate.
So...there must be a process!
What does it mean to bloom when you come up? What about your struggle? What about your resistance? Why can you accept your fate so easily and calmly?
Did someone give instructions? Or is there someone behind the scenes?
Xia Yu, who was thinking silently, pieced together the clues he knew, and he did think of two candidates.
They are the god-man Michaela and the sealed corrupt god.
But it should be impossible for a corrupt god. That thing is still sealed in the Ansel River. If it could affect Malenia's choice, Malenia would have blossomed long ago, why wait until now.
So, it was actually Michaela who made Marlenia bloom?
But that is even more impossible. In order to cure her sister's corruption, Michaela abandoned gold fundamentalism and turned to research on pure gold. She even watered the sacred tree with her own blood.
Such a god who values his sister would take the initiative to let his sister accept corruption and become a goddess of corruption?
Everything is possible and nothing is possible.
Gumperson's law has shown that probability has a contradictory side, that is, the more likely things may not happen, and the less likely things may happen.
Therefore, Michaela, who is the least likely, is the most likely.
This is not something Xia Yu made up out of thin air. First of all, Marlenia, a brother-controller, would hardly refute her brother's wishes. Even her own name is "Mikayla's Blade".
If Michaela lets Marlenia bloom, then Marlenia might actually bloom right away.
She trusted her brother unconditionally, even if he asked her to give up her self-flowering and become a corrupt goddess.
"..."
Xia Yu was silent for a while when he came to this conclusion, and then he shook his head hard. The guess cannot be regarded as fact, even if it is infinitely close to the truth.
Sure enough, there was still a fight, and after Malenia was subdued, his suspicions could be verified.
…
Outside, the scarlet flowers gradually faded away.
The blooming Marlenia also flew out of the buds. At this moment, her appearance had changed drastically.
A pair of beautiful yet strangely corrupt wings condensed from her back. They were composed of Ionian butterflies as the main body, with falling leaves as decorations, and were woven with red hair.
Malenia floating in the air, her naked body looks like an ancient Greek sculpture, revealing a strong divinity.
The goddess of corruption is here!
"This is really troublesome."
Xia Yu spread out his four black and red wings to disperse the surrounding red mist, hugging Millicent across his arms, looking at the aloof Marlenia and murmuring to himself.
He also thought about letting Millicent have a fateful battle with Malenia in person. No matter whether Millicent lost or won, he would suppress Malenia in the end.
Then, while Malenia was not blooming, he directly allowed it to be reborn, eradicating the scarlet corruption that had been parasitic since birth.
As a result, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and the goddess of corruption came directly.
Forget about the fateful battle. Among the two people present, he was the only one who could compete with the goddess of corruption.
Millicent, who was being hugged by Xia Yu, heard Xia Yu's mumbling, and without any hesitation, she grabbed Xia Yu's clothes and spoke urgently.
"Xia Yu, don't worry about me, just run away."
She also saw the extremely oppressive and corrupt goddess in her eyes. She was a god who had no chance of winning.
"What are you thinking about?"
Xia Yu lowered his head and smiled: "How could I abandon you? Moreover, no one can stop her except me now."
"Xia Yu..."
Millicent was a little touched. She had been taken care of by Xia Yu all the way, but now she could only hold back when facing the most powerful enemy.
"Okay, you can rest with your sister first, and then you can come out after I deal with her."
"My sister?"
Millicent looked up in confusion. Weren't her sisters swallowed by the tree spirit? What does it mean to rest with them?
Before Millicent could think clearly, Xia Yu suddenly used both hands to throw Millicent out.
And in the shadow at the edge, a dragon head covered with black lines suddenly appeared, and under Millicent's stunned gaze, it swallowed her in one gulp.
At the last second when her vision went dark, Millicent finally understood what it meant to rest with her sisters.
…
Scarlet and Flame confronted each other, and after sending Millicent to a safe space, Xia Yu looked at the corrupt goddess holding a sacred prosthetic knife.
"Big sister? Are you still conscious?"
"..."
Marlenia, who had accepted the power of the Corruption Goddess, had no intention of speaking. She raised her prosthetic sword high and then erected it in front of her chest.
Seeing this, Xia Yu didn't say any more nonsense, mainly because it was useless to talk nonsense now, and Marlenia obviously couldn't listen to anything.
He made a virtual gesture and pulled his palm out of the air, and an extremely gorgeous sword was pulled out from the void.
After taking out the Sword of Night and Fire, black and red colors wrapped around it, extending the hollow sword body a lot.
Then the darkness and flames became restrained and solidified, dividing the sword into two parts like rubies and black gems, with golden runes lingering at the connection.
Xia Yu, holding the sword of True Night and Fire, squinted at the motionless goddess of corruption, with the four wings behind his back slightly closed.
Whoosh!
Clang!!!
With a flick of his wings, Xia Yu held the night fire sword and collided with the prosthetic sword of the Corruption Goddess. Xia Yu looked serious and ferocious, while the Corruption Goddess remained expressionless.
At this moment, both of them were holding swords and fighting with each other in the most primitive way. The two faces were only a palm's width apart.
The face of the Corruption Goddess was eroded by corruption, and both eyes were blind. Only the skin below the nose was still intact.
Although it looks a bit scary at first glance, it is quite stunning when you look at it face to face, especially the incomplete beauty, which makes the goddess of corruption even more sacred.
Xia Yu's eyes lit up when he saw it.
The next second, the light in Xia Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter, yellow sparks burst out from the corners of his eyes, and yellow twisted flames were ignited in his eyes.
Blank epilepsy!
The blazing epilepsy compressed to the extreme shot out from Xia Yu's eyes. The nemesis of scarlet corruption is flame, and epilepsy is also fire.
Because the distance was too close, even though the Corruption Goddess quickly dodged to avoid it, she was still scratched on the head by the epileptic fire.
The twisted yellow flames immediately spread over it, and the Corrupt Goddess who lost the initiative was immediately caught by Xia Yu, and the Nightfire sword struck down on her head.
The Corruption Goddess had no choice but to ignore the ecstasy in her ears and raised her sword to block Xia Yu's direct attack.
Clang!
The two people who were originally on equal footing were now one on top and one on the bottom. The corrupt goddess who was suppressed beneath her finally changed her expression.
But she didn't pull away. Instead, she suddenly raised her golden prosthetic foot and kicked Xia Yu straight in the chest.
Xia Yu did not dodge, and immediately retracted the hand holding the sword, then reached forward, grabbed the ankle of the corrupt goddess and pulled it back violently.
The body of the corrupt goddess suddenly lost her balance and was pulled in front of her by Xia Yu.
Face to face again, Xia Yu's eyes lit up again.
boom!
This time, the Corruption Goddess failed to dodge, and the lightning fire exploded in the Corruption Goddess's face with lightning speed.
Then Xia Yu suddenly raised his knees, and pushed the top of his knee hard into the belly of the Corrupt Goddess. With such force, the Corrupt Goddess's body bent deeply, and then flew backwards under the spreading sonic boom.
The corrupt goddess flying upside down fluttered her wings repeatedly to slow down her flying body.
"It's not bad, but I don't need to borrow strength."
After the test just now, Xia Yu compared the power between himself and the Corruption Goddess, and determined that he could be tough now, or the kind of toughness that had the upper hand.
Either they are evenly matched, or they can crush and kill instantly, or they can take the best strategy. Now it is a situation where they are evenly matched.
It's okay, acceptable.
On the other side, the goddess of corruption wiped out the yellow flames on her face, and the aura of corruption on her body gradually became stronger. Although she had no eyes, Xia Yu still felt the gaze staring at him.
Well, I'm sure, the other party was pissed off by him.
Whoosh!
Corruption's wings waved gently, and the body of the Corruption Goddess was filled with scarlet butterflies. An illusory double image emerged from her body, and the butterflies took shape.
In an instant, four butterfly clones flew out and rushed towards Xia Yu from all directions.
These four butterfly clones all held long swords, and when they waved, they formed multiple gorgeous slashes like flowing water, overwhelming Xia Yu in the center.
Abandoning the human personality of suppressing corruption, today's Corruption Goddess combines scarlet corruption with flowing sword skills. In terms of combat effectiveness alone, she is a more perfect form.
Compared with Shattered Star Latarn, which is suitable for large-scale battles, Marlenia's flowing water swordsmanship is more suitable for small-scale one-on-one battles.
Xia Yu narrowed his eyes, and purple lightning spread across the sword. When he swung the sword down, purple ripples were drawn down, and violent pressure suddenly appeared!
gravity!
The space was suddenly squeezed, narrow black cracks appeared, and the almost invisible clone was crushed directly, turning into petals and falling to the ground.
Then Xia Yu took advantage of the situation and wielded the terrifying sword energy with purple lightning. The purple and almost black sword energy came to the goddess of corruption in an instant, leaving pieces of collapsed and broken space in the void that the sword energy crossed.
The Corruption Goddess failed to hit a single blow and immediately retreated.
But for some reason, the distance between her and Jian Qi not only did not become farther, but instead became closer and closer.
The sword energy carrying gravity magic has the ability to draw the enemy closer to itself. Unless the Corruption Goddess can break through gravity, she can only be restrained.
Seeing that she couldn't escape, the Corruption Goddess simply stopped flapping her wings and raised her prosthetic hand behind her, which was the start of a water bird's dance.
Swish——!
In an instant, the Corruption Goddess disappeared from the spot, and scarlet sword energy appeared in the space on all sides, penetrating the space with unrivaled force and slashing towards the purple-black sword energy.
Waterfowl dance wildly!
There was a soft swish sound, and the gravity sword energy that seemed to be able to crush the space was immediately hit by countless scarlet slashes.
There was only a crisp sound, and the gravity sword energy was filled with cracks in the blink of an eye, and then exploded, but the goddess of corruption did not appear.
Xia Yu's eyes narrowed and his four wings suddenly wrapped around him.
In an instant, the goddess of corruption appeared in front of Xia Yu, followed by countless scarlet slashes.
Scarlet sword energy flew in all directions, and the surrounding tree roots and walls were washed away and shattered by the sword energy. Then the Corruption Goddess condensed her body, and boundless sword energy erupted all over her body again.
The four wings used as protection were also in tatters. Just when the Corruption Goddess was about to kill the enemy with a thrust, a sudden change occurred.
Suddenly two giant black hands protruded from the ground, holding the goddess of corruption in their hands. Then the fire patterns lit up, and the blazing flames suddenly rose up!
boom!!!
The flames exploded, and the giant black hand was swallowed up by the flames. At the same time, the corrupted goddess held by the giant hand was also wrapped in it.
Flames danced wildly all over the sky, illuminating the entire sacred tree space as bright as day. The flames turned into fireballs, and the fire patterns on the surrounding shadows lit up at the same time, injecting more fiery atmosphere into it.
Under the blazing heat like the sun, the space trembled and twisted, and the roots of the underground trees sank layer by layer. If Xia Yu's darkness hadn't enveloped this space, the ground below would have disappeared long ago.
The fireball broke through a trace of red light, and the figure of the Corrupt Goddess rushed out of the fireball and flew out awkwardly. There were flames left on her wings, and there was also a burning smell.
Although the Corruption Goddess can use the power of corruption to restore her own injuries, she can only avoid further burns under the flame nemesis.