Corrupt Creations

A huge torrent of Mana started to move restless around the purple goddess and without Darya even noticing, the whole sky had been consumed by and ethereal energy.

"Illusive Ethereal Plane!"

Boom!

Darya felt like every single thing circling around her, had changed into that ethereal energy. Even the lake water had reverted back to purple. It was like she had been suddenly transported to another dimension.

The technique the Illusive Ethereal Goddess was using, was meant to entrap someone in a cage of illusions and even though Darya could pretty much use her powers and defend herself against anything, she would be disoriented for some time, since for her, reality was mixed with illusions.

During that time, the goddess was going to execute her real plans.

Inside the Glazed Lake Sect, the Palace Masters were trying to pressure the purple figure in front of them down, with their strong and powerful auras. But unfortunately for them, the purple goddess felt nothing and could freely move.

But instead of attacking them, her purple body suddenly started to inflate, drawing a lot of energy towards herself and absorbing it inside of her. She was initiating a process of self-explosion.

However, a self-exploding Mana Sovereign Realm entity, wouldn't just cause damage in a big area of effect, it would probably obliterate everything inside the Glazed Lake Sect.

Qiao Xuan's self-explosion generated a golden sun, that if it wasn't stopped by the Elf Queen, it would certainly have destroyed the entire valley where that fight had happened. However, he was a Mana Sovereign initial-stage Realm cultivator, while the Illusive Ethereal Goddess was even stronger than him, exuding a pressure that came from a Mana Sovereign late-stage Realm cultivator at least.

If one of her bodies were to self-explode, the entire Glazed Lake Sect was going to vanish in a puff of purple smoke and due to the special nature of her bloodline abilities, she would be fine.

The eleven Palace Masters felt those huge waves of Mana coming towards their enemy and every single one of them jumped forward, using their best abilities to stop her actions. They knew that everything was going to be doomed if she were to explode.

However, as they tried to approach her, the huge flux of energy coming towards the purple goddess, constantly repelled the Palace Masters and every single ability they tried to cast at her direction.

The Illusive Ethereal Goddess was so much more powerful than those Palace Masters, that she didn't even need to use her own Mana to repel them, just the energy she was gathering was enough to stop those women.

While the Palace Masters were doing everything they could, in order to stop that massive self-explosion from happening, inside Meiyi's bedroom, things were getting complicated as well.

"What are your real intentions by bringing her back to your sanctuary?" The Lake Goddess kept releasing her aura while she asked.

The Illusive Ethereal Goddess was already prepared to face some hurdles and difficulties, so she started to put her plans into action.

"That does not concern you. It is better for you to handle her over for me, else things are going to change for the worse." As she finished talking, an ethereal fog started to move in front of her, creating two separate images.

One of those images showed Darya's figure still trapped inside a world of illusions. She was fighting back and destroying those illusions one by one, but they just kept coming at her. All in all, it served to show the Lake Goddess, that the water elemental spirit was out of the reach at that moment.

The second image though... It was showing what was the real Illusive Ethereal Goddess trading chip.

The Lake Goddess observed the image of that purple female body, that kept absorbing more and more Mana and understood what her enemy was trying to say. However, her stance didn't change.

"Are you sure you want to do that...? You're seriously underestimating me." This was the first time that the Lake Goddess changed her intonation.

While saying those words, her beautiful black as the night hair started to dance and the secret lake inside the sect started to respond to her.

Boom!

Katcha!

Katcha!

On the world outside of the Glazed Lake Sect, the sky started to part and an overbearing pressure began to descend towards the ground. Even the Mana Sovereign Realm cultivators felt their bones cracking and their energy veins constricting.

It was like an entity a hundred times more powerful than them, was looking at their direction. No... It was like the heavens was about to eliminate them.

No one but the Illusive Ethereal Goddess and the Lake Goddess could understand what was really happening, but they knew things were reaching the climax.

The purple goddess' forehead frowned, since she was not believing on what was happening. Using a power that didn't come from this plane was strictly forbidden, but the way things were progressing, it seemed everyone would have to suffer because of that.

"You..."

"Answer me... Are you going to kill her, once you get back?" The Lake Goddess posture seemed to be unwavering.

The Illusive Ethereal Goddess felt the overbearing pressure coming from the High Heavens and she looked into the Glazed Lake Goddess' ocean eyes. They were crystal clear and unwavering, just like her stance.

"... No... I won't kill her. However, she will stay forever locked inside my sanctuary."

Immediately after hearing her words, the Lake Goddess let go of her aura and powers. At the outside world, everything abruptly returned back to normal. The pressure vanished and everyone felt a heavy weight being lifted off of their shoulders.

"Sigh... You can take her."

Right after she heard those words, the Illusive Ethereal Goddess activated her aura and Meiyi's body got enveloped in an ethereal formation. The formation slowly vanished, bringing together Meiyi's body. She was now, officially back to her bloodline roots, somewhere inside the Illusive Ethereal Sanctuary.