Chapter 28: Earth’s True Goddess
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Bing Xue’s Doppelganger leaped off her apartment, which she had left behind to protect her family’s house. However, this very Doppelganger ended up being what saved New York City from a disaster beyond anybody’s control, which could have rivaled what happened in Russia.
Her inspiring words reached people’s hearts. And her powerful techniques, which controlled Time itself, regressed them all to their peak form and even revived those that had died! Such a miraculous thing had never been seen before.
No matter how strong the healer was, nobody could revive the dead, not even when they had just recently died. It was utterly impossible—a thing that was thought to be beyond fantasy. Yet Bing Xue here did the impossible.
Not only the hunters on the battlefield, but the people all around the world that were seeing this couldn’t believe their eyes. Some began to speculate what she was; others thought she was the true and only God of Christianity, who had descended in the form of an Angel to save everyone.
“Is that God?! It is God; it can’t be anything else!”
“He has taken another form, but without a doubt, this must be the second coming of Jesus Christ!”
“Lord Vishnu has come! He has blessed us! He has come to save humanity from their own sins!”
“No, that is definitely Buddha! Oh, Buddha! Thank you, thank you!”
“She… she revived everyone? What sort of being is she? Is she truly a Goddess?”
There was commotion all around the world!
Yet Bing Xue couldn’t care less about what they thought; her Doppelganger shared all her senses, and even a part of her mind was now controlling it. There were now many essences flowing through her endlessly.
Each Realm had different Essences. Mortals wielded Spirit and Elemental Ki Essence, Immortal wielded Immortal Ki Essence, Primordial wielded Primordial Essence, and Venerables wielded Primordial Venerable Essence.
And the Realm she had reached, Primordial Immemorial Venerable, was a step even higher—a whole Realm no other Venerables could ever reach. This was the Realm she was stuck on, slowly trying to get through by first accumulating as much of its Essence as possible thanks to all the Mana around, which helped her produce it rather quickly.
However, what about the other Realms below that? What about their Essence?
A single droplet of the Golden Dew-shaped Primordial Immemorial Venerable Essence was worth a near-endless supply of all other Essences below it.
This was why she had such an almighty power against everything except the Heavenly Will! And after reaching this realm, she was almost completely unparalleled.
In a world where such an entity as the Heavenly Will did not exist, it was confined only to its own world.
She was without a doubt the Heaven above Heaven!
Her body, made of reflecting golden lights with a beautiful dress made of rainbow light, shone like a star above the battlefield.
With a mere thought, a million spears made of Photon appeared above the battlefield.
“{Helios Judgement}”
Bing Xue activated a Superior Photonic Essence Art, combining all her Essences and further adding the power of her Skills, and even a droplet of her Immemorial Essence!
FLASH!
The light engulfed the battlefield, and the spears pierced every undead and every Shadow Beast. Their bodies exploded into ashes and disappeared. In just a split second, everything was cleared out, and both waves of monsters were gone in an instant! And above all, the four knights were...
Not dead?
“Hm?”
Her eyes looked down as she noticed something odd. Conquest had suddenly stuck himself back together and was recovering to fight again. The three other knights were constantly trying to summon more undead.
“As long as we are together, we are invincible! You cannot kill us, foolish magician!” Laughed at Conquest from below. He suddenly leaped into the skies boldly, attacking Bing Xue with his sword. “DIE!”
“Such an annoying fly.” Bing Xue sighed, waving her hand gently as Conquest was slammed into the ground without any effort, his entire body exploding into ashes and almost disappearing, only for the ashes and his armor to slowly rearrange together.
“I see how it is, so I need to kill all four at the same time, I assume?” Laughed Bing Xue. “You’re so hilarious. Don’t think that’s a clever way to escape death by my hands, fools.”
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
With four flashes of light, Bing Xue’s Doppelganger body instantly divided into four more. It all happened so quickly that the Knights were unable to react before they were pulverized into the ground by Bing Xue’s kicks, punches, and sword slashes.
“W-What is happening?!”
“How is she so fast- ARGH!”
“N-No! WAIT!”
“You can’t do this to US!”
“You dare talk back to me?!” Bing Xue roared. “Filthy animals. Perish painfully!”
All of Bing Xue’s Doppelgangers cut their limbs off and then pierced their chests, shattering a crystal inside, which was their Core, and then further shattering their Souls!
Crack, crack…!
“W-WAIT!”
“STOP THIS!”
“NOOO!”
CRASH!
Everyone saw in utter disbelief as Bing Xue killed four S-Rank Bosses at the same time with minimum effort. The best part was that she even destroyed and then ate their souls, ending their existences completely.
“Now, there are way too many of those, aren’t there?” She smiled, waving her hand. “{Spatial Compression}”
Her fists closed in the direction of the Black Gates, and all of them immediately were forced to pour every single Undead they had. Five more Bosses were also summoned, making people both panic and feel utter horror. Yet, at the same time, the gates started shattering into pieces and disappearing one after another.
Their pieces became bubbles of black light, containing fragments of the gate’s interior. It seemed that they didn’t truly lead to a Dungeon but to something else, the Underworld of the World of Eclipse, which Bing Xue had now taken large fragments from, quickly unifying them with her still-developing Dungeon Sphere.
“Thank you for the meal. Now, shall we finish this off? All five of you die.”
With her sword in her hand, Bing Xue cut through the Titan Skeleton, the Ancient Undead Dragon, the Risen Old Hero, the Fallen Undead God Fragment, and the Four-Headed Apocalypse Dragon with ease.
Their attacks and law-defying powers simply did not affect her at all; any trick they had below their sleeves couldn’t even be used properly, as they were pulverized and destroyed, and their souls only served as small aperitives for her endless desire to grow.
As for the rest of the Undead?
“What are you looking at me so scared for? Do you want to die like your bosses?” Bing Xue’s Doppelgangers raised an eyebrow, noticing every Undead and Monster was still trying to process what had occurred, all of them completely and utterly terrified.
“…”
One of the skeletons slowly walked towards her and kneeled.
And so did the rest of the Undead, one after another.
“Huh?”
As Bing Xue was trying to process what had happened, she sighed.
“No, sorry. I am not going to become your master. Die and become humanity’s experience points.” She smiled almost cynically, laughing at the almost innocent showcase of honor the Undead had for whom they perceived to be an almighty being that they had to serve.
“What are you waiting for? Fight and win! Quickly, move!” She ordered everyone else, incapable of realizing everyone was so shocked because of what she had done. “Or do you want me to force you to move?”
“Y-Yes ma’am!” Nicholas cried. “Ahem! Fight! Everyone, fight and protect New York!”
The war resumed at long last. The Undead were left heartbroken because Bing Xue rejected them, and they were forced to fight to the death against the living once more. She is now unable to go back to the Underworld because she just closed all their Black Gates where they came from!
The war still became bloody and intense. The Hunters kept dying again, but Bing Xue simply continuously revived them. Thanks to the new skill she got from that Chronomancer, she could save Immemorial Essence by simply using the Time Essence of Earth to fuel her time techniques. As long as they weren’t that complex.
Like this, an endless battle where humans kept dying and then reviving happened. Then Bing Xue decided to enchant their defenses using her techniques, covering them with Veils of Photonic Essence and enhancing their weapons with anti-undead light magic from the Skills she got after killing those popes and priests.
Nicholas and the other S-Rank Hunters were still fighting while trying to process what was happening, and once the battle had finally come to an end, Bing Xue left a strange rainbow-colored barrier around New York and disappeared without saying another word.
“Just… what the fuck happened? Didn’t I die?” Francisco was constantly touching his own neck.
“I also died…” Jackes sighed.
“A-Are we simply just… nothing to her? She can manipulate everything with so much ease.” John laughed. “She’s… truly someone incredible.”
“I’ll invite her to my guild, no matter what!” Aiyana smiled proudly, perhaps a bit too muscle-brained to think hard enough to realize such a decision was foolish.
“What? No, I’ll do it first!” Francisco said. “She was clearly an amazing magician!”
“Well, if you’re giving it a try, I might as well do so too.” Jackes laughed.
“Fufu, let’s see if you get to her first!” John smiled teasingly. "Also, why should she join any of your second-rate guilds when she could join the best in the country? Heh.”
“Bastard! We’ll see about that!” Aiyana groaned angrily, pointing her axe at him.
“Fools…” Nicholas sighed, facepalming. “Bing Xue is simply not a woman you can recruit! She’s someone you must respect and-”
Nicholas quickly realized they weren’t listening, chatting, and talking amongst themselves after a battle everyone thought would have been the very end.
Although he felt slightly conflicted with himself right now, his Level had risen tremendously after that battle, his skills had developed further, and he felt stronger.
Yet he wondered for a second if it could even be possible to reach True Inner Strength, like what Bing Xue showcased.
So unbound by the system, she was definitely something better, something greater.
[Congratulations, humanity! You have completed the Raid successfully and fended off all foes!]
[Raid Score Points have been distributed across all Players that participated in the battle.]
[The Raid Shop is now open! Exchange your points for rare products you can’t get anywhere else!]
[Several Tower Gods are interested in all participants!]
Although most Players were overjoyed by seeing these messages, Nicholas only felt anger and frustration with himself.
“Is the power the System gives to us… Just not enough anymore?” He looked at his own arms, covered in many recently healed wounds. “For my daughters, I need to become stronger.”
As this happened all over the world, the belief, love, and fascination that people held for Bing Xue spread further across the globe, and their essence became Faith.
And this Faith flew towards her Soul and Body, like an endless source of new energy. Her developing Divinity absorbed such Faith, as she felt like she was slowly grasping a new power.
“Huh, so this is Faith?” She wondered, smiling. “I didn’t think I would be able to harness it from Earth, no less. How interesting. Unfortunately, I have no intention to become anybody’s god. I am but a guardian, and I am simply guarding my own home, nothing more, nothing less.”
As she sighed to herself, she looked in front of her; there were now over a hundred warriors from the Silver Moon Tribe, led by her mates Urbosa and Merkite. Her mother and her sister were also there.
They were all preparing themselves to clash against the same Raid that was right outside their village. Unable to price through her barrier, they’ve been stupidly trying to attack it for over an hour now.
“Alright, is everyone here ready?” She asked with a smile. “Today, all of you will break your limits and become much stronger! Take this first.” She said this as she shared a golden pill with everyone, even her two mates.
“What are these candies?” Asked Urbosa.
“Sniff, sniff, hmm? It smells a bit bitter.” Said Merkite, making a weird face.
“Haha, it MIGHT be a bit bitter and distasteful. But this is a special medicine that’ll help you open your Meridians!” Bing Xue said as she patted the big and strong shoulders of her tall mates. “Everyone, make sure to eat this pill! Once you begin hunting monsters, your levels will rise, which will generate more mana. This mana will help your cultivation progress rapidly. I want to share my power with you all, so you better work hard to attain it!”
“Yes!”
“We will, chief!”
“We shall fight!”
“Let us protect our home then!”
All warriors roared in unison as Bing Xue led them to battle the undead. Their weapons and armor were also brand new, made by Bing Xue inside of her Inner Realm, using the scales, bones, claws, fangs, and horns of the draconian returnee she had fought and killed before.
The armor made from his black scales could reflect most magic, and the weapons made from his bones and fangs could pierce through most defenses and magic barriers. The army of beastly warriors massacred the Undead much more easily than the humans.
And Bing Xue didn’t even have to revive any either!
“Certainly, humanity can’t easily compare with the inhabitants of the Tower…” Bing Xue sighed. “But what’s this feeling of joy? To see them grow strong. Haha, it reminds me of when I was raising all those people in my Sect…”
Bing Xue recalled the few good memories back on Murim and realized that perhaps it was time for her to continue the legacy of the Heavenly Martial Court here now. To bring order and stability to the chaotic Tower.
One step at a time, of course.
All ten waves and all ten bosses were defeated within three hours. The warriors became so strong, compared to before, that they had a hard time believing it themselves.
Above all, Bing Xue had also extracted ten more large fragments from the Underworld as she closed the Gates!
The Dungeon Sphere in her hands continued to grow larger and more complex.
“This Dungeon… I think I have some ideas on how I could use it.”
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