Mi Jinglun was a bit dazed. What he was seeing before him was truly difficult to comprehend.
"So it's her!" Fu Guang's expression shifted slightly. Like Mi Jinglun, he too recognized the woman.
She had once been a member of the Purge Force. However, after Yang Kai had sent the Purge Force to this place, he had taken her away for reasons unknown.
Though he was the commander of the Purge Force, when Yang Kai wanted to take someone away, he naturally would not interfere — he hadn't even asked why Yang Kai was taking her.
After that, the woman had vanished without a trace.
Until today, when she made a powerful appearance!
In a mere two thousand years, she had grown from Seventh-Order Peak to a level that even the Colossi had to take notice of. Something extraordinary must have happened behind the scenes.
Perhaps this was Yang Kai's arrangement...
Moreover, Fu Guang had sensed something else emanating from her — an aura that did not belong to the human race. The aura was remarkably pure and formidable, making even him, a Sacred Dragon, wary.
"Ruoxi..." On the other side of the Purge Platform, Gu Pan stared blankly at the familiar face and figure, her mind in utter disarray.
She couldn't help but recall the scene of her junior sister first entering the Linglong Blessed Land. Back then, Ruoxi had been naive and inexperienced. Thanks to her connection with Yang Kai, Gu Pan had looked after her in many ways — never imagining that one day this junior sister would grow to a height that left her gazing upward.
Ruoxi had always had various anomalies about her — this was something Gu Pan knew well. For instance, Ruoxi had advanced to Fifth-Order Open Heaven, yet after reaching Seventh-Order Peak she still had room to break through. It was precisely because of this that she had been taken away by Senior Brother Yang.
Perhaps Senior Brother Yang had discovered something back then...
Having rushed all the way here from the Chaos Death Domain after emerging from seclusion, Zhang Ruoxi swept her gaze left and right. Not seeing the figure she had hoped to find, a flicker of disappointment crossed the depths of her eyes.
She was not worried about the Master's life or death. With his great talents, he would have a way to handle even the most dangerous of situations. Not seeing him here could only mean he was somewhere unknown, fighting the Ink Race.
She couldn't help but recall the last time Yang Kai had entered the Chaos Death Domain.
At the time, she had still possessed some consciousness, but she had been occupied with using her own body to fuse the powers of Radiance and Luminescence, leaving her no room for anything else — she hadn't even had the chance to say a single word to him.
Yang Kai's visit had made her realize the urgency of the situation. So after he left, she had risked great danger to accelerate the fusion process. Fortunately, everything had gone smoothly.
After emerging from seclusion, she had immediately headed for the Star Boundary. But before she could reach it, she learned from Void Guard soldiers stationed at a Qiankun Hall along the way about humanity's great expedition plan.
She changed course, using the spatial formations laid by the Void Guard to teleport all the way to the outskirts of the Spiritless Land, then charged into the battlefield.
Otherwise, even with her current abilities, it would have taken her a year or more to travel from the Chaos Death Domain to here...
"I'm not too late!" Zhang Ruoxi thought to herself, her beautiful eyes sweeping across the battlefield as she took in the dire situation of the human army.
In her hand she held a broad sword. The blade of light that had just slain those Ink Lords had been unleashed by this very weapon.
In the center of the now-still battlefield, under the gaze of countless eyes, Zhang Ruoxi slowly brought her hands together around the broad sword's hilt, the blade pointed downward, gently tapping the void beneath her feet.
A whisper-like incantation escaped her lips. The sound was soft, yet every living being on the battlefield heard it with perfect clarity.
"In my name — disperse the darkness!"
The wings behind her flared open. The aura radiating from the woman with her lowered head grew ever more imposing and inviolable.
Where the blade's tip touched, a pinpoint of pale light bloomed. In the next instant, that light exploded outward like a blazing sun, spreading at inconceivable speed.
Blinding, pure radiance surged in all directions.
It was the Light of Purification!
Ever since Yang Kai had brought the Light of Purification out of the Chaos Death Domain, humanity had used it over the past several thousand years to reverse many dire situations — they had even refined it into tremendous weapons such as the Evil-Breaking Divine Spear.
But never before had anyone witnessed a burst of the Light of Purification on such a massive scale!
Even the Light of Purification that Yang Kai had once generated by sacrificing millions of Little Stone Race soldiers paled in comparison to the radiance now — like a firefly before a bright moon.
The nearly one hundred Ink Lords gathered on all sides were the first to suffer. When the light spread, they were the first to be engulfed.
The pure radiance brought endless warmth and light to humanity, but for the Ink Race it was nothing short of the deadliest poison.
The Ink Lords howled in agony and retreated, but the light was everywhere, wrapping around them entirely.
Dense streams of the Power of Ink were constantly being expelled from their bodies as they fought against the corrosive force of the Light of Purification.
The light continued to spread in all directions. Across the battlefield, countless Ink Race members howled and screamed. Innate Domain Lords, ordinary Domain Lords, and even commanders — every powerful member of the Ink Race was visibly weakening at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Meanwhile, the thick clouds of Ink that had accumulated on the battlefield over months of warfare melted away under the Light of Purification like snowflakes under a blazing sun.