"Little girl, be careful!"
Fang Ming shouted a warning, he hadn't expected Fang Daolong to still intend to use the little girl.
The little girl knew that the two opponents were difficult to deal with, and they were also Fang Ming's parents. She was somewhat hesitant in her actions.
"Combine the talismans!" Fang Daolong shouted to Fang's mother.
Fang's mother drew half of the talisman with one hand, and Fang Daolong drew the other half. The two talismans merged into a giant cage that enveloped the little girl.
The little girl quickly commanded the blood python to grow larger to block Fang Daolong's attack.
But she underestimated the power of the talismans. Under the talismans, the hundred-meter-long blood python was easily suppressed, shrinking to only a few meters in size in an instant.
The talisman net, along with the blood python, pressed down on the little girl.
Seeing that the situation was dire, the little girl immediately wanted to escape the coverage of the talisman net. But she then realized that her movements were extremely difficult. The talisman net had sealed off the surrounding space as well!
Nowhere to run!
The little girl was instantly enveloped. The talisman net tightened when it encountered a person, binding the little girl tightly and emitting a golden light to suppress her movements.
"Ah!" The little girl screamed and fell from the sky.
As the talisman net suppressed her, it also continuously eroded the resentment within her body. For a vengeful spirit like her, this was equivalent to her flesh and blood being corroded!
"Damn it!" Fang Ming cursed. He transformed into his vengeful spirit form and leaped up, trying to catch the falling little girl.
"Stop!" Fang Daolong rebuked.
He reached Fang Ming first and pushed him down with a palm strike.
"Bang!" Fang Ming smashed heavily onto the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Fang Ming!" Even though she was bound, the little girl kept an eye on Fang Ming's situation. Seeing him get hit, she cried out in alarm.
Fang's mother caught the little girl, who was bound in a ball, and holding her by the back, looked down at the father and son.
"Don't worry, Daolong won't hurt Fang Ming," Fang's mother said in a deep voice.
The little girl turned her head and glared at Fang's mother.
"If anything happens to Fang Ming, I will not let you go!" the little girl said fiercely.
"We are his parents, how could we possibly harm him?" Fang's mother replied.
"Hmph!" The little girl snorted.
Below, Fang Daolong had struck Fang Ming down. He descended and walked to Fang Ming, looking down at him.
"I must take the divine child away. Don't struggle pointlessly anymore," Fang Daolong said in a deep voice.
Fang Ming's entire body ached. He couldn't stand up and struggled on the ground for a long time without any strength.
It was clear that Fang Daolong had used some trick in that palm strike, which had temporarily incapacitated Fang Ming.
"Let go of the little girl, and I won't interfere in your matters with Chang Sheng anymore," Fang Ming said with difficulty.
"Impossible!" Fang Daolong snorted. "The life and death of the world are on the divine child. Even if I don't do it, she must have the resolve to sacrifice herself!"
Fang Ming gritted his teeth and tried to stand up. His teeth were so tightly clenched that blood trickled from his lips, and bloodshot veins appeared in his eyes as he glared at Fang Daolong.
"You're talking nonsense!" Fang Ming cursed. "Why should the common people of the world be exchanged for the sacrifice of my loved ones? Do you really consider yourselves my parents when you treat me like this?"
"Words are useless. I will send you away from the Chang Sheng Realm now. You won't be able to come back in the future. This is not your world," Fang Daolong said.
Then, Fang Daolong extended his right hand, drew a talisman, and sent it into the void. The scene around the talisman immediately shattered, revealing a surreal landscape.
"Go back." Fang Daolong pulled Fang Ming, who was struggling to move, and walked step by step towards the talisman.
"Let me go! Let me go! I don't want to go back!" Fang Ming struggled, but his strength was like that of an ant before Fang Daolong. His struggles were completely ineffective.
He could only watch as he was dragged step by step towards the passage back to reality.
Fang Daolong ignored Fang Ming's struggles and even quickened his pace.
Suddenly, Fang Daolong felt resistance as he pulled Fang Ming. He turned his head and saw that Fang Ming had dug his hands deeply into the stones beneath the ground.
With every step Fang Daolong took, Fang Ming's arms were forced to tear apart the stones beside him. Fang Daolong only realized when he saw that Fang Ming's arms had already gouged out two ravines five to six meters long on the ground.
And Fang Ming's arms were already bloody and mangled, with a layer of scales scraped off the surface.
Blood flowed from Fang Ming's arms to the ground, drawing two dazzling bloodstains.
"Why are you doing this?" Fang Daolong sighed.
"Please, I beg you, let the little girl go," Fang Ming pleaded, tears flowing from his eyes for some unknown reason.
"As long as you let the little girl go, I'll do anything you want!" Fang Ming's mind seemed to grasp a lifeline. He quickly said, "I'll help you deal with Chang Sheng. I, that's right, I know him, I can ambush him..."
Fang Daolong quietly watched the bewildered Fang Ming. After he finished speaking, he said, "No, you can't defeat Chang Sheng."
"No, absolutely not. I can beat him, I definitely can beat him!" Fang Ming seemed possessed, repeating the words.
"Sigh~" Fang Daolong rubbed his temples with a headache. He hadn't expected Fang Ming to have such deep feelings for the divine child, but it was too late to turn back now. He couldn't give up.
With that thought, Fang Daolong continued to pull Fang Ming by his horns towards the passage.
Suddenly, he felt the grip on Fang Ming loosen. He turned to look, and Fang Ming had surprisingly reverted to his human form to evade his grasp.
"It's useless," Fang Daolong returned to Fang Ming's front, intending to pull him up again.
But to Fang Daolong's surprise, Fang Ming suddenly jumped away.
"You..." Fang Daolong stared at Fang Ming in shock. Fang Ming was covered in bloody wounds, and blood dripped from the injuries onto the ground, all self-inflicted by Fang Ming!
Fang Daolong hadn't expected Fang Ming to go to such lengths, willing to mutilate himself to suppress the intense pain within his body!
"Haha, you won't catch me!" Fang Ming stood trembling, the intense pain making the veins on his forehead bulge.
In the sky, the little girl, seeing this scene, was stunned. Even the corrosive pain from the talisman net seemed to disappear. She... she saw Fang Ming bleeding all over!
"Fang Ming..." the little girl murmured, her anger erupting like a volcano. A powerful force surged within her.
Fang's mother felt the surge of resentment from the little girl and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes. She had heard Fang Daolong say that the divine child was extraordinary, but she hadn't expected it to be true.
"Suppress!" Fang's mother continuously cast several talismans onto the little girl's body. Soon, the power that was about to erupt within the little girl was instantly suppressed.
On the ground, Fang Ming looked up at the little girl and managed a weak smile.
"Little girl, I will definitely save you."
Seeing Fang Ming still struggling, Fang Daolong stopped wasting time. He flashed forward, appearing before Fang Ming. A talisman flickered in his palm as he tried to grab Fang Ming again.
At that moment, Fang Ming raised his hands and faced Fang Daolong.
"Annihilation!"
A strange wave emanated from the talisman on Fang Ming's back.
Fang Daolong felt a chill down his spine and retreated rapidly, looking at Fang Ming with disbelief.
"What is this ability of yours?!" Fang Daolong exclaimed.
He was a genuine Void Fiend! Even though his current strength was only that of an Ethereal Fiend due to his spiritual body, it was impossible for him to feel a sense of dread facing an attack from a Fierce Fiend.
It felt as if he had instantly encountered something that could kill him.
Fang Daolong had never felt this way before. Even when he had encountered Chang Sheng in the past, he hadn't felt this sense of crisis!
In the area where Fang Ming released Annihilation, all objects began to dissipate. This dissipation seemed to have opened a switch, spreading outwards from the area of Annihilation.
The entire mine world turned into a canvas that was constantly burning, the disappearing area growing larger and larger. Streams of white mist poured in, rapidly occupying the empty spaces.
"What's happening? The world is being broken through?" Fang Daolong said in disbelief. He couldn't even do this!
This was completely unscientific!
Once a memory world was constructed, it was completely independent. How could it be invaded by the Chang Sheng Realm if it disappeared?
"Because this is the essence of the memory world dissipating," Fang Ming suddenly had a thought and spoke it aloud.
"What?!" Fang Daolong was shocked. "How did you do it?"
But this time, Fang Ming ignored Fang Daolong. As the white mist of the Chang Sheng Realm poured in, the two talismans on Fang Ming's back seemed to become outlets. Countless white mists poured in, entering Fang Ming's body through the talismans.
The massive influx of resentment made Fang Ming feel as if his entire body was about to tear apart, but it did alleviate the original pain in his body.
"Ugh..." Fang Ming knelt on one knee, enduring the pain.
On the other side, the entire mine world was disappearing faster and faster. The cocoon nurturing the vengeful spirits in the sky began to gather surrounding resentment, expanding and growing larger.
"Thump, thump, thump..." The sound of heartbeats echoed.
Fang Daolong looked at the cocoon in disbelief. The mine's vengeful spirit was not dead yet!
At the same time, the little girl in Fang's mother's hand suddenly exerted a great force, breaking free from her restraint and plunging into the cocoon with the talisman net.
The speed was so fast that Fang's mother couldn't even stop her!
What was going on?!
This time, not only Fang Daolong but all three people present were stunned. Even Fang Ming looked confused, not knowing what was happening.
The mine world dissipated rapidly, and the cocoon nurtured at an equally rapid pace.
Fang Daolong still wanted to intervene, but it was too late!
The entire cocoon erupted with a massive shockwave.
"Boom—!"
The cocoon shattered, and a colossal figure appeared before them.
"Nine-headed snake?!" Fang Ming exclaimed in surprise, not expecting the little girl to transform into this form.
In the sky, a massive nine-headed python, a thousand meters long, hovered in the air. The nine heads had nine different colors: red, orange, yellow, green, white, black, cyan, blue, and purple. Its body was pure white, like porcelain.
Fang Daolong was even more confused. Why would the divine child transform into this? Even if she combined with the mine's vengeful spirit, she shouldn't have become like this!
"You hurt Fang Ming, you will all die!"
The little girl's nine serpent heads spoke in unison, clearly possessing individual consciousness but maintaining absolute unity on the matter of Fang Ming!