The following events occurred in a flash. Seizing the Warden, Blood Nether took command of the Heaven Warding Temple, and through it, of the entirety of the Celestial Realm. The G.o.d Executing Immortal Sword the Warden studied also fell in her hands...almost. As she stepped toward it, as if recognizing her scent, the ancient weapon unleashed horrendous brutality, nearly shredding her to pieces. Knowing she couldn't keep it under control, Blood Nether left it in the Warden's custody and fell in the shadows, devoting all her time to fighting the havoc Konrad wrought within her heart while awaiting his next move.
Meanwhile, Archdemons from the Overlord's house rushed into the Celestial Realm to bring him back to h.e.l.l, while Rati brought her maimed father back to the Sea Dream Temple, and Rakshasis carried Durga back to the Eternal Void Sect. At the same time, Heaven and h.e.l.l's Will finally awoke, and as if in tacit understanding, released new waves of inheritances while removing the shackles of all demons and devas, thereby allowing them to reach their full potential.
Not that it mattered. At this point, such a.s.sistance was far too late. Still, deities such as Talroth, Surya and Dolgron made the best of the opportunity, actively seeking the road to higher levels and pursuing greater strength. On that topic, to placate his second wife, Dolgron let her "surviving sisters," the disguised Yvonne, Else and Gulistan, inherit Apep's archduchy, and adopted them in his house.
Little did he know that the three had long since turned it into their plaything, even building an underground formation that drained all the negative energies throughout the Archduchy to let their cultivation rise at a startling speed. All approached increasingly closer to transcendence while their cultivation neared the peak of the Boundless Sea Devil Realm. Breaking through was but a matter of days.
In the meantime, the mangled Daksha lay within his chambers with a low-spirited Rati by his side. Till now, she'd yet to reveal that the Rudra Daksha allowed to take part in the contest was none other than the Chthonian Primogen. Perhaps she feared her father wouldn't be able to take the blow, or she knew the knowledge would do him no good. In any case, regardless of the reason, Rati kept her mouth shut.
"Aaaargh!"
Daksha groaned in pain. With his Legendary G.o.d cultivation, he should have been able to heal himself in a heartbeat. What a pity that Konrad's chthonian energies and devil force wreaked havoc within his body and suppressed his regeneration abilities. In the current circ.u.mstances, without external help, Daksha would need at least one thousand years to grow back his limbs, and more to dispel the lingering side effects.
