Find a Troubled Girl after leaving the Guild

Li Ang more or less understood: she possessed a power that could break through the dimensional membrane and directly traverse into this Transcendent Realm; given that there existed beings capable of crossing space through rifts in the material and Magic Power Dimensions, it made sense that she could cross the Spiritual Dimension as well.

"You actually wield a power like that? Then what is it we’ve been guarding..."

Diao’s face showed a trace of confusion.

Not just her—even the Six Dragons had no idea what a Dragon God Witch was.

Li Ang was genuinely interested in this so‑called "Sect," but Lily really knew absolutely nothing. Knowing Zoe, Li Ang could guess that this big Zoe before him probably only handled eating, drinking, and fighting in the Sect; asking her to care about anything else was pointless.

"Can you still recover now?" Li Ang scrutinized Liluliss, whose surface showed no visible wounds.

He cared a lot about this. If she could recover, and return to her daughter’s side, wouldn’t that mean an extra Legendary Level ally?

Lily spread her palms and clenched them over and over, seemingly wanting to feel her own Power. As Spirit and Magic Power flowed, Dragon Scales rapidly covered her hands, turning them into Dragon Claws.

Dragon Transformation rapidly took shape and then reversed along her arms. A Power that reforged her body on the level of Spirit swept through, making her begin to transform.

However, the transformation halted abruptly when it reached her shoulders.

"Right now I can only do this." Lily crossed her hands over both shoulders.

After her palms turned into Dragon Claws, her wrists and arms did not undergo Dragon Transformation; they merely took on a light violet skin. This color was neither bruised nor sickly, but a transcendent texture. Just the Magic Power emanating from it made Li Ang feel that it possessed at least Tier Nine Defense strength.

"Is this the state you mentioned before, where Bahamut’s Power descended onto you?"

Whether it was the transformation or the sheer toughness of that flesh, it was all Power Li Ang had never seen or imagined. Only by attributing it to Bahamut’s Power could he accept it.

Fortunately, Lily nodded slightly, indicating the world was still within his frame of understanding.

"How can you return to the state of complete transformation?"

"It was supposed to take another year or two. A few days ago I’d just recovered to the point I could transform for a short while. And then I got hurt again by that damn Demon."

Lily swung her Dragon Claws angrily.

Li Ang looked at her Dragon Claws. This was a completely different Concept from Dragon Transformation Promotion. Li Ang’s Dragon Transformation Promotion "transformation" only activated the Power of Dragon he obtained through his link to Inanna and Leviathan, giving his body Dragon Race traits, whereas she was using a stronger Power to cover her body and directly Transform it into a new form.

If you had to draw a comparison, only the Demon King Zosia in the first Illusion Realm, whose body was wrapped in rank crimson skin after being rejected by the world for using the Reversed Spirit Casting Technique, was somewhat similar.

The Primordial Being had relied on the sheer ferocity of its own existence to clash head‑on with Bahamut’s force of rejection. The clash of those two Powers twisted its body, thus obtaining a Demon Form.

Liluliss, on the other hand, had the Creation Dragon God descend with a certain Power, transforming her into another posture.

No matter how you judged combat strength, in terms of Format she had already won.

At this moment Li Ang could also be sure that Zoe’s ability to perform Summoning of Bahamut definitely came from her. Regardless of where Ivynis’s Power originated, that part of Zoe’s Power had to have come from her mother.

No wonder whenever anything involved Dragons, she kept saying "I see Mom."

Li Ang opened his mouth, wanting very much to ask if she had sensed Zoe before, but because of those reasons, he still couldn’t bring himself to say it.

"That damn monster... The time we agreed on, it’s been delayed so long. I’m really in a hurry. Clearly, before that, I had never lied..."

As Liluliss spoke, her voice shifted into a low murmur, like talking to herself.

Li Ang and Diao stepped back a short distance, wanting to give her a moment alone.

But after barely ten seconds, Lily lifted her head again, her smile returning. She dispelled the transformation; the violet‑black Dragon Claws reverted to slender, fair hands.

"Since you two can get in here as well, you must be very strong. Let’s join forces and defeat that monster, then I’ll find a place where Spirit is more abundant and properly recover."

Li Ang and Diao exchanged a glance, as if they’d both thought of the same question.

"Is this what the Ten Thousand Spirits want?" Li Ang asked.

On this journey, that Being had been guiding him all along. Though he hadn’t yet seen it, there was a Demon in the central region—perhaps the Ten Thousand Spirits wanted Li Ang to deal with it.

"From just now, I haven’t heard the voice of the Ten Thousand Spirits at all," Diao said instead.

"That’s because the Spirits nearby have all been devoured by it... It’s coming!"

Lily had only spoken halfway when her expression abruptly changed. She pulled the two of them deeper into the tree hollow.

She swiftly wrote in midair with her fingers; complex Curse Runes, Magic Runes, and divine Runes intertwined together. A Barrier layered over the entire hollow, severing perceptions of Spirit and Magic Power.

Li Ang and Diao saw with their own eyes three streaks of streaming light flying quickly, skimming across the sky outside the ancient tree. They maintained the forms of birds and Fish—Ancient Spirits returning to the Sanctuary of All Spirits.

They were being pursued by something.

Once the Ancient Spirits swept past, the Demon Lily had spoken of finally revealed its true form.

Its entire body was rank crimson. What ran through its frame could no longer be called thorns; each spike was thick enough to be its Skeleton. Compared to normal beings, there were simply too many of them—calling it a Giant or a Golem made entirely of bone would not be an exaggeration.

Just from its exposed upper body, Li Ang felt that its height exceeded five meters.

This monster pieced together from blood‑red thorn‑bones had each bone sheathed in crimson keratin growing outward in all directions. This made their shape resemble flesh both riddled with holes and glued together, making it resemble a Skeleton whose flesh had rotted away to an extreme.

This visual sense of rot felt like a message in itself—that it had traversed a vast stretch of time and space to get here.

"It really is a Demon," Li Ang said in a low voice.

Whether it was the pressure etched almost into his body, or his understanding, as a Spiritual Forger, of the Power coiling around it, Li Ang could be certain of the blood‑bone Giant’s essence, even if he didn’t know why this Demon took on such a form.

Right—his panel.

Because beings in the Illusion Realm couldn’t be observed, Lily couldn’t observe them either. He had almost forgotten this.

Fortunately, this thing’s information could be displayed by the system.

[Evil King Demon Remains Arunak]

[God King Arunak, the wisest and most powerful of all the Deus People emperors throughout the ages. All spells were stolen into his hands; he suppressed every Sky Island he beheld, his strength unmatched. He improved the incomplete Creation Formula left behind by the Godfolk, developing the method of Star Soul Creation. He laid the foundations for thousands of years of Deus People hegemony. At the end of his reign, he was betrayed by his offspring and subordinates alike, and when gravely wounded was besieged by Ancient Witches seeking to overthrow the rule of the Deus. On the verge of death, he sent his mangled body into the Spiritual Dimension, vainly attempting to devour Power in the River of Spirits and return to the world. Once the Ancient Witches realized this, they entered the Sanctuary of All Spirits one after another to Seal him, delaying his absorption of Power. He has already awakened, but the God King’s consciousness has dispersed. What remains in the world is only his Demon Remains.]

[Species: Demon]

[Combat Wisdom: Tier Ten [Arcane Construction Law]]

[Servant: Arunak’s Claw]

[Energy Source: Creation Formula·Incomplete, Tier Nine. Spirit Body Devouring, Tier One to Tier Ten [restricted to within the Sanctuary of All Spirits]]

[Physical Strength: Regenerated Demon Bone Body, Tier Nine. Stealing Claw, Tier Ten]

[Special Attack: Stealing Technique Return, Annihilation Thorn, Multi-Secret Technique Radiation]

[Skills: Spell Stealing, Magic Power Magic Scripture, Spiritual Magic Scripture]

[Combat Power Amplification: 81%]

Diao’s trembling hand covered her mouth and nose. Both its outer appearance and that hollow hunger radiating outwards, enough to devour any Spirit and anything related to Spirit, were enough to make an Ancient Witch like her, who lived in company with Spirits, shudder.

Why they had been unable to hear the voice of the Ten Thousand Spirits from just now—the answer was self‑evident. All the Spirits that had helped convey information had been utterly devoured by it.

The three fleeing Ancient Spirits up ahead had originally been strong enough to exist as complex individuals within the Sanctuary of All Spirits, and they were exactly the fodder craved by the Demon Giant Remains.

The Giant raised its arm. That blood‑red Sharp Claw made of bone fragments pieced together couldn’t even be called a claw, more like a stake packed with spikes. The wave it released seemed to be some immensely powerful pulling Magic; it directly captured the three Ancient Spirits, dragging them toward it.

Before they even reached its face, a red flash flickered in the hollow eyes of the Demon Bones, and invisible Power entangled into Sharp Blades had already burned and destroyed the Ancient Spirits, turning them into those black, razor‑edged shards floating in the sky.

That form was the scar left behind by attacks too cruel.

Li Ang sat down, expression grave. "Let’s discuss how to deal with it."

"Uu..." Perhaps affected by the Demon Power, Inanna beside him slowly awoke.