Yaoshi remained慈爱而包容. Facing Lan's undisguised killing intent, They showed not the slightest agitation—only turned slightly, and the boundless radiance of life became the gentlest of shields, placing Wei Qing under Its protection.
Yaoshi did not answer Lan's hostility.
Lan did not care whether Yaoshi answered.
Lan's arrow had always been aimed at one target only.
The cerulean figure moved faintly, as if drawing an invisible bow.
In that instant, the entire Luofu—no, even the surrounding star region—felt as though all existence had been condensed into a single point of ultimate sharp intent, pointing remotely at Yaoshi.
If that arrow loosed, it would pierce the Path itself and erase causality.
This was a full-force strike from an Aeon.
And yet, before that edge that carried the universe's killing intent, Yaoshi still remained serene.
They made no defensive or retaliatory gesture—only let that all-encompassing vitality shift slightly, like a veil brushing past Wei Qing, separating him from the spearhead capable of tearing everything apart.
No reproach. No anger.
At the very moment that annihilating arrow seemed about to leave the string, Yaoshi's figure vanished.
The Abundance aura blanketing the battlefield rapidly receded.
But Lan's locked-on intent did not disperse with Yaoshi's disappearance. They immediately adjusted direction and pursued Yaoshi's trail, departing without hesitation.
Yet just before leaving, Lan's gaze paused on Wei Qing again.
This was Lan's Emanator—and also Destruction's Emanator.
And… the successor of Abundance.
In the end, Lan still did nothing—apparently with no intention of striking down this "Abundance heir" on the spot.
They only looked at Wei Qing once, then continued chasing Yaoshi.
This Aeon-level standoff began and ended with terrifying brevity.
In a single blink, the two Aeons were gone as if they had never appeared at all.
The suffocating pressure vanished, leaving only dead silence across the battlefield—and an indelible shock and bewilderment etched into every living mind.
BOOM—!!!
Only then did the sounds of war, forcibly suppressed by the Aeons' descent, explode back into existence.
The wreckage of Jidu Mirage slammed into the sea of Scalegorge Waterscape, unleashing a sky-high roar of waves.
The Abundance followers, robbed of the object of their prayers, felt their fanaticism freeze—then collapse into immense loss and panic.
Shuhu was dead. Jidu Mirage was destroyed. Their greatest pillar was gone.
The war had entered the cleanup phase.
"To all Luofu Cloud Knights—follow me and purge these Abundance abominations!"
General Teng Xiao's voice struck like thunder, jolting the soldiers still dazed from witnessing Aeons.
"Purge the abominations!"
"For the Luofu!"
After that brief hush came an even more explosive fighting spirit. The commander had returned, the great foe had been slain—morale surged to its peak.
Jingliu and Dan Feng exchanged a glance. No words needed: the two top-tier powers of the Luofu charged first into the scattered Abundance ranks.
The remaining Abundance army was still vicious—but now it was a disorganized rabble, lacking the prior cohesion and threat.
The battlefield rapidly became one-sided.
…
Half a day later, under the combined purge by the Luofu main fleet and local defenders, the invading Abundance forces were annihilated. Only a tiny number escaped in the chaos—no longer a meaningful threat.
Restoration work in Scalegorge Waterscape began immediately: the Artisanship Commission and Alchemy Commission jointly purified the polluted sea and reinforced the seal on the Ambrosial Arbor's root.
Shuhu's incursion had been sudden and massive—but thanks to timely reinforcement, Luofu's losses were contained to the minimum, far better than expected.
At the Seat of Divine Foresight
Luofu's high command gathered.
"…Not long after we pulled the main force back, the Antimatter Legion on Yaqing withdrew on its own," Teng Xiao said from the head seat, eyes sweeping the room. "As we suspected, that 'siege' was a performance."
"The goal was to cooperate with Shuhu—to lure us away from the Luofu."
As he spoke, his gaze turned toward the two special presences in the hall.
"Thanks to Lady Herta and Lady Ruan Mei's calculations, the Luofu avoided catastrophe. This time, the Luofu owes the two of you a tremendous debt."
If not for those two Genius Society members using the Qiong Guan Array to foresee Shuhu's threat centered on Wei Qing—allowing the Luofu to play along, set traps in secret—the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Herta looked pleased, enjoying the praise. She waved dismissively, arrogance intact.
"No need to thank me. I'm more interested in someone right now."
"That someone promised to let me study him properly."
Ruan Mei said nothing, but her calm, water-like eyes also fixed on Wei Qing, silently echoing the same demand.
Originally, they only wanted to study what on Wei Qing made Memory, Finality, and Hunt all "care" about him.
They hadn't expected to witness this.
They had seen the descent of Abundance and Hunt—at the same time.
Was Wei Qing some kind of "Path succubus"?
Why were Aeons one after another interested in him?
And Yaoshi even granted him a blessing.
That was the very Path Ruan Mei was currently most fascinated by—if Shuhu's reputation weren't so infamously vile, she'd have tried to contact him herself long ago.
Yes—no one heard the actual conversation between Wei Qing and Yaoshi.
To everyone else, Wei Qing had simply received Abundance's blessing and become an Emanator of Abundance.
No one knew that Wei Qing had already become something different from them—
an Aeon-candidate of Abundance.
Even so, their shock didn't diminish. Those were Abundance and Hunt.
And now someone had somehow stepped onto both Paths—and become an Emanator on both.
…
The atmosphere in the hall turned subtly tense because of Herta's blunt words.
The Xianzhou Alliance wasn't inherently hostile to Pathstriders of Abundance—but since the only widely known Abundance Emanator had been Shuhu, plus Yaoshi's notorious reputation, no one had wanted to bring up Wei Qing becoming an Abundance Emanator until now.
But what comes eventually comes.
General Teng Xiao's gaze settled on Wei Qing—majestic, with a trace of complexity, though not much.
"Wei Qing," he said slowly, breaking the silence. "How… do you feel?"
To become an Emanator of Abundance was almost unheard-of in Xianzhou history—especially when the same man was also Lan's Emanator, the Luofu's successor candidate, and Teng Xiao's chosen heir.
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