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　　TL: Zhao

　　Editing: Krisaia

　　[1]

　　An azure phoenix soared into the sky, turning everything around it into cinder and dust. The world was now in an apocalyptic state, painted in the color of death and destruction.

　　True to her words, Liu Meng had started to bury the entire world along with Li Yiming. Not only the people but every lifeform, ranging from trees, animals and even landscape. Everything was burned away.

　　Liu Meng suddenly stopped flapping her wings, noticing a glacial breeze around her. It carried such a freezing cold with it that the heat was instantly sucked out of the air, and snowflakes could be seen forming.

　　"Heaven's Punishment? How many times does this make?"

　　With a flap of her wings, the blue phoenix resumed its flight and spread out another ring of fire.

　　"Let's see how many times you can do this…" Liu Meng said. A crevice then opened on her forehead, revealing something resembling a third eye. What appeared turned out to be a blue spherical crystal, in which she had just imprisoned her Heart Trial clone. The gemstone siphoned all of Heaven's Punishment's power, growing brighter by the second.

　　"Heart Trial versus Heaven's Punishment… Are you trying to kill me, or empower me?" The fissure on Liu Meng's forehead closed up, and Liu Meng emitted a loud cry as she felt her power grow even stronger.

　　As Liu Meng's flames overwhelmed the abnormal cold, everything around her ignited once again. Before diving back down, she turned around and looked toward the East.

　　'That's where I left Li Yiming… What's happening over there?' Liu Meng sped through the air.

　　The entire city was now nothing but a giant, smoldering ruin. If it was not for the small green oasis preserved in the downtown park, one would not have been able to guess that there was ever a city at all. Liu Meng appeared in the distance and dashed toward the small spot of green.

　　"Stop!" Liu Meng was still too slow, unable to reach Li Yiming before he was swallowed whole by a newly formed fissure in the air.

　　"I'll get you back, whether you're in heaven or in h.e.l.l…" The flames once again burst out from Liu Meng's body, erasing the last trace of color left in the horizon.

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　　A body was spat out of the rupture created by Mr. Xie, falling down onto the ruins of the stadium.