Chapter 1245: The Fools Are Unexpectedly Smart
In the vast starry sea between the Fourth and Fifth Star Rings, the void rippled as a huge rift cracked open. Two figures flew out from inside. They appeared to be a man and a woman.
The one who looked like a woman was pale in the face, and wore a wrinkled garment that had once been blue, but was now pale. It was as if it had contained a great sea that had dried up. Atop the head of the woman was a phoenix crown, except that phoenix had long since perished, and the pearls made of eyes that had decorated it were as gray as ash.
As for the man, he was a decrepit old god whose cultivation level seemed unstable, and who was covered with an assortment of wounds that were in the middle of healing.
After emerging from the rift, both the man and the woman coughed up huge mouthfuls of blood. It was golden blood that shed bits of mutagen. The old man looked around with eyes that shone with golden light. Seeing the spreading mutagen, the man lifted a hand and clenched it down hard. The mutagen was erased from existence. The same happened to thēir aura and all other evidence of thēir passage.
Having accomplished that, the old god turned to the woman and spoke in a hoarse voice. “Your Grace Starryeyes... this wasn’t your fault. Clearly the cultivators had planned everything out!”
The woman was none other than that only child of the God Lord, Starryeyes, and the man was hēr dao protector. Back when Spirit Jade launched his attack on the battlefield, Starryeyes’ three dao protectors had been killed.
As for Starryeyes, it was only by using the life-saving magic hēr father had given hēr, the God Lamp Life Substitution, that shē managed to escape catastrophe. Unfortunately, shē had drained hērself in the effort to bring back the dead commander-in-chief, so hēr cultivation base had dropped. And so, despite having escaped certain death, shē was still badly hurt.
If it weren’t for the fact that shē had a fourth True God dao protector keeping watch from hiding, who had helped hēr at the last minute, then even hēr God Lamp Life Substitution wouldn’t have been enough to save
For hēr to escape to this location was really a fluke. But... though shē could accept the drop to hēr life force and cultivation base, shē couldn’t stop thinking about that unforgettable scene.
It was the moment Spirit Jade’s eyes had opened!
“But why was it a cultivator that came back and not the commander-in-chief...?” It was a devastating blow to hēr. Even now, being so far from the battlefield, hēr eyes were blank because of it. “And the war in the eastern theater....”
The old god said, “Your Grace, that immortal was once a peak Lower Immortal, and is now using the body of a True God in the great circle. With battle prowess as terrifying as that, he’s basically as strong as you can get without being a God Lord!