Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 680: Epoch Devil Puppet Descent.

The shockwave from Yasenia's all-out attack pushed Xiang Yinnu back several meters.

After the aftershocks subsided, she looked at the place where they fought and saw Yasenia heavily breathing and looking at her with eyes oozing combat spirit.

Her entire body erupted into chills, and her senses quickly searched and found the Devil Commander Puppet.

The dragon-human puppet was in an unrecognizable state. While four large gashes opened its chest, its limbs and skull were mangled after the explosion from [Celestial dragon Claw].

Following commands, the puppet was trying to stand up, but it kept fumbling and falling against the ground.

For Xiang Yinnu, her puppets were actually something very precious, so the almost demolished state was painful to look at. However, she didn't overreact like previously and cautiously observed the dragon.

The previously alluring face was now destroyed as one side of her face was brutally sliced, making her jaw slack and showing bone.

However, the perfectly fine side of the mouth arched upward as the long tongue of the dragoness licked the entire wound. With red eyes that looked lost in blood and a figure that had seemingly lost all her "humanity," only an injured but excited beast was left behind.

With a heavy step that cracked the ground, Yasenia gathered strength and prepared to lunge forward.

Xiang Yinnu's face became tense, and she ordered her remaining five puppets to fight with her. It looked like she would need to fight personally if she wanted to kill her this time. 'But, can she recreate an attack of that caliber at will? She must have constraints. Otherwise, Yasenia would've attacked sooner with something like that.'

Fourteen stars appeared around Yasenia, and her body blurred, speeding toward Xiang Yinnu. It was the speed acceleration from [Heavenly Constellation Steps, First Sky: Pegasus Gallop].

"[Puppet War Art: Balance Formation]."

The five puppets were pristine, except the one that Yasenia previously damaged with the Sun explosion. They all moved in a semi-circle before Xiang Yinnu and sped toward Yasenia.

Enhanced by [Creature Intent Level Four], the puppets were stronger, swifter, and had more intelligence and control.

Creature Intent was similar to a "Life-giving" intent for everything it affected.

Therefore, the strength of the five puppets was not to be underestimated. They were much stronger than the five low-level Epoch core cultivators she fought after hunting the Earth Serpent. Plus, their coordination was seamless.

The dragoness's eyes moved around quickly, calculating fighting tactics in nothing but a heartbeat.

When the first puppet arrived, she smiled widely, ignoring the pain, and continued forward while ignoring the oncoming sword slash.

Xiang Yinnu's heart dropped, and she quickly manipulated the puppet to stop and retreat. 'Is she going to do that attack again!?'

However, unlike what happened previously, Yasenia's body didn't burst with empyrean energies.

The dragoness pointed her sword at Yinnu and used [Lunar Star Charge].

She consumed half of the stars she had accumulated and half of the Moon energy she had saved in the previous battle. Yasenia's entire body and sword were enveloped in a spiral of silver energies with rotating white stars.

Xiang Yinnu's face crumpled. 'She deceived me!'

When her thoughts finished, the annihilating silvery vortex was in front of her eyes. Xiang Yinnu shouted with anger. "Don't underestimate me! [Devil Puppet Wall]!"

A wall of sewn creatures rose before her, surrounded by malevolent red and black energies.

BOOOM!

The sound of Yasenia colliding was followed by the wall before her eyes ripped apart, with Yasenia appearing in front of herself like an unstoppable silver meteor.

Thankfully, Yinnu could sense that the strength was much more manageable and that Yasenia had consumed quite a lot to pierce through.

Preparing her sword, Yinnu slashed and used her body cultivation's advantage, her physical strength.

Yet, unlike what she expected, as if Yasenia suddenly ignored the laws of motion, she came to a stop, making Yinnu slash at nothing and make her stance falter a little bit.

Yinnu's eyes looked down and saw the skin on Yasenia's legs ripping apart as they absorbed the absurd momentum that allowed the dragoness this heaven-defying motion-stop. Feeling danger, she began jumping back.

BANG!

The punch squarely landed, and Yasenia's brute strength sent the puppet flying with a crushed face. With a quick turn, she swung her sword in a wide arc. "[Draconic Dusk]."

All her Moon energy was transformed into Sun energy while releasing a massive arc that slammed onto two puppets, making them fly with deep wounds.

Then, Yasenia dodged the last two, moving like a fish in the water, and created distance with [Pegasus Gallop].

She turned around, looking at the fearless puppets rushing toward her, disregarding their injuries, and smiled wildly. Her sword pointed at the sky, and she grabbed it with both hands. Next, she swung it down with a radiant golden glow exploding from it.

"[Draconic Noon]!"

ROAR!

The image of a golden dragon rushed toward them, forcing the puppets to stop and block the attack.

BOOM!

The puppets on the outer side of their semi-circle formation flew while spiraling in the air without control, and the three in the middle rag-dolled on the ground for hundreds of meters.

Then, the dragoness closed her eyes for a second, and her spiritual sense swallowed the entire arena.

After locking into the six damaged puppets, her mouth opened, and her voice echoed. "[Starfall]!"

Hundreds of stars ballooned, filling the space above Yasenia with countless white orbs, and they all flew toward the six locations where the puppets lay.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

All the puppets were swallowed in the destructive explosions of star energies, and Yasenia finally destroyed them all.

By this time, however, Yinnu was already on her feet inside the damaged red dome, with strands of energy rushing toward her as her heavily wounded body ascended upward, making Yasenia frown. 'I lost the chance created by sacrificing my body. This won't work twice... Moreover, I smell danger coming from her.'

By now, the deep wound on her face was mostly healed, but her chest and waist still had large gashes on them, with added small cuts here and there from her clash with the five puppets.

Still, they were not bothering her anymore. Yasenia's regeneration factor was absurd, after all.

Meanwhile, Xiang Yinnu floated ten meters off the ground as a massive wave of energy burst from her charred and injured body. "[Epoch Devil Puppet Descent]."

Yasenia's face became serious, and she spun [Draconic Heart] once, activating [Day and Night Cycle].

BOOOM!

The aura on both sides skyrocketed.

On Yinnu's side, a giant humanoid, bipedal puppet, fell from the sky, reaching 75 meters tall.

Its body was completely black with red markings all over it. It looked like a bipedal beast with long claws and no fur. The body was extraordinarily muscular but also looked agile, while two horns curled forward on the draconic head.

It was a mix of many creatures, making it worthy of its ominous name.

Threads burst from its chest and wrapped around Xiang Yinnu, swallowing her into its body.

The dragoness felt the profound energy waves and smiled. 'This is her final card. I also need to go all out, then.'

While [Day and Night Cycle] rushed around her body, increasing her strength several times with her other intents and buffs, Yasenia activated [Empyrean Cosmos Dragon Transformation].

A hurricane of Sun, Moon, and Star energies enveloped Yasenia, and her body grew in less than two seconds, reaching more than 50 meters in height and more than 200 meters in length, with a wingspan of a similar size.

The beautiful Moon and Sun on the Celestial Dragon's wings glowed as her blue, scaly body shone with starlight with golden patterns on her tail.

The majestic dragon and devilish puppet looked at each other for a second and roared, announcing the beginning of the final fight.