When Yasenia opened her eyes again, they changed to a mix of silver and red. She looked at Angel's dancing eyes and caressed her cheek softly. Angel made more incoherent sounds as Yasenia caressed her. She truly felt her heart breaking seeing her like this. 'Even in this estate of mind, you can recognize me. Don't worry, love; you will return to normal soon.'
The red in her eyes receded slowly until her iris were completely silver with bloody red cracks on them. She had clearly relaxed again. However, those eyes were filled with an unsettling calmness. After giving Angel a kiss on the forehead, she laid her back on the coffin and turned toward Fu Jing Jing. She slowly said, her tone even.
"Finish it. I will protect the area if someone dares come close."
Both of them let out a breath they didn't know they were holding. They didn't dare question anything more and began the ritual again.
From inside the black sphere created by [Day and Night], Fu Jing Jing waved her arms and manipulated the energy in the surroundings.
The crystal began covering the surroundings again, advancing at a much higher speed than before. Yasenia ignored it and kept her eyes fixed on Angel.
Slowly but surely, Angel was slowly trapped inside the crystal coffin again. Since she didn't even understand what was happening, Angel looked at that with a foolish expression. This made Yasenia's aura even more profound as any signs of emotions left her silver-red slit-eyes.
The Mirror caught something strange, but it didn't dare provoke the unstable creature who was about to explode at the slightest push. The current dragoness was like the calm before the storm.
When Angel was completely covered in that crystal coffin, Yasenia observed a change slowly occur. Compared to before, the chain that connected the Mirror and Angel's heart gradually changed from golden to black.
Fu Jing Jing explained, "It is changing colors because the Heavens doesn't view master-slave contracts well. However, it won't affect either of them in any bad way."
Yasenia listened, but her entire being seemed frozen in ice. The dragoness did not relax a single muscle for a single instant, nor did she liberate Fu Jing Jing from her current spherical and transparent black prison.
Moreover, without the need for the motion of stabbing the ground, Yasenia deployed [Full Moon] to cover the whole ritual area.
Her energy control in the [Day and Night] mode was completely different from before. Even Fu Jing Jing was impressed by the effortlessness Yasenia had in creating complex energy patterns.
The silver dome stretched outward for almost two hundred meters, covering the whole ritual area with comfortable space to maneuver around.
Hours went by, and cultivators approached the place out of curiosity.
Their previous fight had been too destructive, and cultivators in the surrounding area flocked toward them.
Furthermore, the giant silver dome was too eye-catching to miss, even from a distance.
However, Yasenia was naturally releasing her aura, flooding more than five hundred meters around her with a presence that would scare even a first-level Unification Realm expert.
Some brave ones approached, but the moment they crossed the sensing area of the dragoness in this mode, which was one whole kilometer, a star rain fell down from the sky.
White explosions flooded the surroundings as Yasenia kept her position, and her eyes didn't even move from the crystal coffin.
This brutal massacre was like a signal, and many stopped trying to advance.
The cultivators in the surroundings discussed what was happening. "What's going on here?"
"Maybe a treasure is being born? Normally, treasures have defenses before they appear completely. That attack reminded me of something similar."
"The Heavenly dragoness is inside." A voice from a man came from the side, alerting the group of cultivators.
"What do you mean?"
The man that previously talked with Yasenia said, "The Heavenly dragoness is inside. There was a fierce battle before. That attack over there is one of the aftermaths of that battle."
They followed his gaze, and their gaze landed upon an enormous crater that went far beyond anything they could do.
"Hisss."
They took a sharp breath, stunned at the might of the attack. At first, most of them thought that it was just a landmark of the area! That's how impactful it was.
Fu Jing Jing's attack was like a deterrent that made every single one of them halt their steps. "Maybe this one isn't for us."
"Did the Heavenly Dragoness truly fight against something like that?"
"What kind of monster is she...?"
"Shall we wait here?" Asked a man.
"Huh? Are you stupid? Why would we?" Said a woman that got really scared after seeing the crater.
"Well, Yasenia is a beast, and normally, they are weaker just after evolving, right? Maybe we can take that time window to ambush her."
It was common knowledge that a beast would be at its weakest when the evolution finished, so if they were lucky, they would be able to capture, kill, or slave the powerful creature, in this case, Yasenia.
However, many of them disagreed. "I'm not doing this. That woman is a freak. I haven't seen her lose besides the time she faced off against Isla, and she was a whole realm lower!"
Another said, "That's true. What about now that she is similar to us? Even weakened, she would be able to beat us senseless, and in the best-case scenario, we make her flee. Bye!"
The third one nodded. "Moreover, if we mess with her when she is weakened after she recovers, we will have to bear her retaliation. I really don't want to die so young. I'm also leaving."
Most people left, but others stayed in the surroundings to spectate. They wanted to see what all these things would lead to.
After waiting for more than one day, the fluctuations of that place became much stronger. Pulse after pulse of energy emanated from the center of the area.
Right after that, the spiritual energy in the surroundings rushed toward the center of the dome more violently than before. It was like a whirlpool of pure energy was being devoured by something.
At that moment, Angel felt like she was taking a bath in a refreshing spring. Her muddy and tired mind slowly reawakened, and her meridians and dantian regenerated. Angel felt like a lot of time had gone by, but it also felt like all had happened in an instant.
Her body felt light, her pores opened, breathing the world's energy, and her mind became clearer by the second. 'What happened? I remember entering a cave and then... I forgot.'
Angel tried reminiscing as the energy warmly flowed inside her meridians and dantian, giving her enormous strength.
Even her bloodline was changing.
Her body figure and face didn't change besides further perfecting. Her long blonde hair was now glossy as if made of threads of gold, shining beautifully with the sunlight.
Her skin was fair and supple like a marshmallow, and her facial features lost imperfections creating a cute yet somewhat mature and gentle countenance.
When her eyes opened inside the crystal coffin, they also somewhat changed. Her eyes were big and had a natural moist sheen, giving her a naïve and innocent gaze. Just one look, and you would want to pinch and pat her until she smiled.
Her facial features combined into an extremely appealing and saintly face that would create a good impression on anyone who looked at her.
Even her body was perfected; her breast became rounder and softer, her waist slimmer but more defined, and her muscles, bones, and skin more resistant without losing femininity. However, her height remained in the mid 150cms, staying as short as before.
The transformation was drastic, but it also perfectly maintained Angel's core appearance unchanged.
Yasenia saw all of this with the same eerily calm face. She had been standing in the same place for almost a day straight, and the only thing that moved was because of the winds created by the ritual.
Not even Fu Jing Jing and the Mirror knew what was going on in the dragoness's mind.
The Mirror had somewhat of a bad feeling, but it didn't know why. However, it couldn't stop the ritual nor do any tricks since it could feel that the moment it did something strange, those silver-red slit eyes would notice.
Even though Yasenia didn't have a spiritual sense yet, [Day and night] created an absolute domain that overcame the strength of spiritual sense manifold. When Yasenia activated [Day and Night], she was the ruler of her surroundings.
That is why the Mirror had that feeling.
The climax of the ritual arrived.
The crystal coffin and all the glass and crystal around exploded into pieces with a powerful explosion!
The surrounding vegetation was blown apart as the shockwave even reached those cultivators in wait on the outskirts.
The sharp crystals injured Yasenia's skin, creating bloody traces, but Yasenia didn't even flinch, close her eyes or move out of the way. Using an energy membrane to protect her eyes, she didn't lose sight of the ritual for a second!
Fu Jing Jing chanted, "May all Truths in the world guide you. May you walk this path and understand your objective. May you create a new path for the truth!"
*Woosh!*
An enormous vortex appeared that sucked in all the crystal shards and grounded them into pure translucent energy.
Yasenia stood there as her blood flowed from her wounds into the vortex.
What Fu Jing Jing and the Mirror didn't realize because they were in the most important part of the ritual was that between those blood droplets, there was one that was different.
A pure, ethereal-looking golden droplet drifted inside the vortex and meshed with everything else.
That's right; it was blood essence!
If you remember, blood essence was the life of a cultivator, and every drop was as important as a limb. However, Yasenia had, without hesitation, used one right now. Even though Yasenia had more blood essence than a common cultivator because of her talent, this would definitely hurt her foundation.
The blue crystal chains that connected with the coffin dissolved in energy particles and mixed with the glass and crystal that the vortex was gathering into a pure glass and light-attributed energy.
Surprisingly, Yasenia's blood also mixed in this, changing that pure crystal's glow into a bloody undertone!
Only then did they realize that something was wrong.
Yasenia's blood should have been purified from when all the things converted, but instead, it mixed.
However, all rituals had one unavoidable fault Yasenia learned the hard way when Cecile's trouble happened. They couldn't be stopped when reaching the climax, or the ones doing it would be gravely injured or worse.
That is why the Ice Phoenixes didn't stop the ritual with Cecile even though they knew something was very wrong.
When they sneaked a glance in Yasenia's direction, they saw the same cruel smile as before, making their hearts drop. 'We've been tricked!'
Yasenia looked on as the vortex was absorbed in Angel's dantian, her smile becoming wider by the second. 'Did they really think I would forgive them for hurting Angel? Did they truly think my wrath would appease with those half-assed excuses?'
Although spending that blood essence would slow down her cultivation speed for the next years and maybe weaken her. It was something Yasenia could live with, knowing what effects it would have.
When Angel absorbed everything, the crystal coffin exploded, liberating her! Then, Yasenia heard Fu Jing Jing chant with gritted teeth, "Now, you shall become the master of the one and only Mirror of Truth and receive the knowledge of my inheritance!"
Angel slowly floated upward toward the Mirror, and the black chain pulled the Mirror's body toward her. Slowly, what was left of the Mirror fused inside Angel, and the surroundings became calm again…
Only for a second.
*BOOOM!*
Angel's aura exploded with such power that it blew Yasenia away for tens of meters! It would have been more if she hadn't used her Tail instantly as an anchor.
The aura explosion literally blew up [Full Moon] into pieces the moment it touched it and continued expanding. An enormous crater expanded from Angel as the central point as her aura inflated multiple times.
The cultivators outside felt like a steel wall slammed into them face-first and were sent flying with internal injuries. Some of the weakest ones even died because of the impact!
A big change occurred at that moment.
When Angel floated into the Mirror's previous position and assimilated the Mirror inside of herself, Angel opened her eyes violently and took in a deep breath.
She was like a suffocating person taking in air after leaving the water.
Right after, her hair color changed from her roots all the way to the tips, becoming a bright and beautiful scarlet, and her eyes turned green. With it, a slight bloody aura spread inside the holiness of the ritual.
Yasenia felt a soul-level connection at that moment with her, making her smile become even wider. 'No way, such extra benefits come with it? That drop was more than worth it.'
After taking some deep breaths, Angel blinked twice, regaining control of herself, and slowly floated down and landed on her naked feet.
When her feet touched the ground, in a three-hundred-meter area, the soil instantly became covered with a combination of red and blue glass and crystal. However, this happened only for a moment, after which it dissipated into particles.
Finally, Angel's red hair and eyes returned back to blonde and blue, finishing the ritual completely. Angel turned around and saw Yasenia looking at her with a smile. Then, her mellow and slightly deep voice caressed her hearing sense like a soft melody. "How do you feel, Angel?"
Angel smiled and opened her mouth, only to be interrupted by Fu Jing Jing's shout, "What is the meaning of this, Dragon!? What did you do!?"