The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 269 - 254: As You Wish!_1

Chapter 269: Chapter 254: As You Wish!_1

At that moment.

The High Order Alien God that had taken possession of Luo Hongyan’s body gazed quietly at Pang Jian with a complex and indecipherable look in his eyes.

His gaze was no longer indifferent and calm, but suddenly became somewhat... nostalgic for the past.

He looked at Pang Jian as if reminiscing about their shared experiences, as if remembering the profound memories that still could not be eroded even after he had transformed into an Alien God.

"Luo..."

Pang Jian was abruptly shaken.

He and Luo Hongyan, who had become the leader of the Alien Gods in the depths of the void, locked eyes, their gazes ignoring the layers of Divine Power sealing them and tightly connecting them together.

From the depths of Luo Hongyan’s strange and bewitching pupils, he saw scene after scene flash by...

He saw himself, one after another!

In Bagua City, he earnestly asked the other, "What is your name after all?"

Also in Bagua City, he blocked in front of the other time and again, seeing from Luo Hongyan’s eyes his own broad back.

In the Cloud Marsh cavern, he laid down a plaque named "Purgatory Gate" on the ground and entered the Copper Box in front of Luo Hongyan.

...

Scene after scene flashed by through Luo Hongyan’s deeply red, bewitching pupils.

The cold gaze from above gradually revealed many human-like colors.

At that moment, Pang Jian felt that the figure from the depths of the void was no longer the lofty Alien God from the Outer Realm, but had become the "Luo" who had accompanied him in the past, the one who had grown up with him.

Because Luo Hongyan’s eyes now had... emotions.

Just as Li Yuqing was preparing to take Pang Jian and retreat, at the critical moment when he intended to use "Burrowing" to dive into the ground and secretly send people like Zhou Qingchen away.

Luo Hongyan, who had taken control of the situation and suppressed Li Yuqing, about to pierce through the sea of swords, suddenly transformed from an Alien God into a human!

Pang Jian stared dumbfoundedly at her, watching as the corners of her mouth curled slightly, revealing a meaningful gleam in her eyes.

After hesitating for a moment, Pang Jian violently pulled out three heads wrapped in cloth from his storage ring.

He immediately unwrapped the first one, revealing Lou Yunming’s head and lifting it high.

"This man came from Yin Spirit Temple. He was the one who told Cao that you were the one sealed in the paper fan. It was he, who made the dwarf Cao Mang dare to make a move on you!"

"I beheaded him in Yuanmang!" Pang Jian said forcefully.

The crowd looked at him blankly; even powerful clansmen like Ling Meiyu and Han Zhiyuan had odd expressions on their faces.

"It’s useless, she is not Luo Hongyan anymore, she can’t hear you." Li Yuqing said, shaking her head gently.

However.

In the depths of the void, a hint of an unusual color suddenly appeared in Luo Hongyan’s deep red, bewitching pupils.

"He is Jiuyuan!"

Pang Jian then uncovered the second cloth bundle, presenting Jiuyuan’s head, likewise lifting it high into the air.

"It was under Jiuyuan’s orders that Zhao Ling and those Dark Ghosts died. It was also Jiuyuan who interfered, preventing me from saving you with a million Spirit Stones."

"I killed him in Yuanmang, and I also cut off his head," Pang Jian declared with resolve.

These words made the unusual color in Luo Hongyan’s eyes intensify.

Li Yuqing was astonished, suddenly realizing that the overwhelming Divine Power that had been pressing down on them was slowly weakening.

"Could it be? He... can he really call back that woman’s self-consciousness? Impossible, that goes against all reason!" The young girl from the Li Family was utterly baffled.

"He is Cao Mang!"

Pang Jian lifted the third cloth bundle, revealing the dwarf Cao Mang’s head, and also raised this person’s head high towards Luo Hongyan in the void.

Through the Red Crystal Sky Curtain, Pang Jian’s gaze was fixed upon the colossal form of Luo Hongyan above.

He looked straight into Luo Hongyan’s eyes and shouted, "I also cut off his head to avenge you!"

"It’s useless. She’s been possessed by a High Order Alien God and has long lost her own humanity; what you’re doing is pointless," Ling Meiyu of the Star River Alliance said, shaking her head.

Pang Jian turned a deaf ear; he still held Cao Mang’s head high so that Luo Hongyan, who was in the void, could see clearly.

He had a strong intuition that the Luo Hongyan he knew was slowly returning!

After a long, long time.

Luo Hongyan, who had not spoken since her appearance, moved her bright red lips slightly and said, "Pang Jian."

Upon hearing this, Pang Jian’s soul seemed to tremble!

He knew that an Alien God of the Outer Realm would never speak his name with such a tone and expression!

"Ah!"

The young girl from the Li Family covered her mouth, her beautiful eyes shining with an inconceivable light as she stared dumbfoundedly at the Alien God in the void.

The unassailable truths related to the Alien Gods spoken by her father, the towering giants who were friendly with her family, those truths that could not be overturned, were all broken by the three heads raised by Pang Jian!

The self-consciousness of the spiritual being within the Human Race body possessed by a High Order Alien God from the Outer Realm could actually be recovered!

"How can this be?"

Ling Meiyu and Han Zhiyuan were overwhelmed with a dreamlike sense of unreality.

"Pang Jian."

Luo Hongyan, hovering in the air as if overlooking all living beings below, uttered the name again.

In her deep red eyes, it seemed as though countless worlds were born and perished.

Behind her, on the blossoming lotus flowers in the void, many species that had appeared on the lotus leaves vanished abruptly like bubbles in water.

The grand chorus of voices gradually subsided.

The entire world quickly quieted down.

"What’s happening?"

"Whom was I praising?"

"Why, why am I kneeling?"

Those people who were bowing in worship, when the world calmed down and Luo Hongyan retracted her divine might, looked around bewildered, completely unaware of what had happened.

The next moment, they noticed Pang Jian holding a severed head, looking up at Luo Hongyan in the sky.

"Don’t."

Pang Jian shook his head gently at Her in the sky.

Li Yuqing suddenly let out a sigh of relief.

She felt the crushing divine power inching down upon her stop in its entirety the moment Luo Hongyan uttered Pang Jian’s name.

The Sword Light Deep Sea, buffeted by Luo Hongyan’s divine aura and teetering on the verge of collapse, did not shatter instantly.

"How could this be?"

Li Yuqing still couldn’t believe it.

Because the woman possessed by an alien god should not have held back at the critical moment, should not have stopped her actions of slaughter in this world.

Even less should she have called out Pang Jian’s name.

"Don’t kill everyone present."

Pang Jian made a request.

He was now certain that Luo Hongyan, who was floating in the void and wielding infinite divine power, was still the person he knew!

Throughout his journey, the alien gods from the Outer Realm he had encountered, such as the one possessing Xie Xiwen, or the one with a human face and spider’s body, or the so-called Ice Demon that tried to contaminate him.

All the alien gods looked at him with absolute indifference, without a trace of emotion.

Luo Hongyan was different.

Even under Luo Hongyan’s detached and calm gaze, there was a subdued emotion; Luo Hongyan was definitely not as Li Yuqing had said, completely erased by a high-order alien god from the Outer Realm!

She was Luo Hongyan herself!

"You..."

Luo Hongyan’s brows furrowed slightly.

"Whimper!"

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

Because of Her, the alien gods gathered here began to emit impatient soul sounds of dissatisfaction.

Her expression turned cold.

The lotuses filling the void behind Her, some radiating pure and pristine glimmers, others as if soaked in thick blood, descended upon the two most vociferous lower-order alien gods.

The two lowest-order alien gods, positioned furthest away with the weakest battle strength both had a strange, six-armed, three-headed form.

In an instant, they were enveloped by the falling lotuses, consumed by either the holy or bloodthirsty blooms, swallowing their odd forms.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The lotuses turned like grinding wheels.

The two alien gods dissatisfied with Luo Hongyan, their bodies covered in fleshly stone, were tortured as if dismembered, crumbling into small rocks flying out from the heart of the blossoms.

"Whoosh!"

The lotuses that devoured the alien gods rose again into the air, once more floating behind Luo Hongyan.

The alien god with a human face and spider’s body, the giant woodman, the banner with many eyes, and the bat that emitted darkness all silently watched this unfold without a sound.

"You haven’t changed."

Only then did Luo Hongyan look at Pang Jian, shaking her head, completing her earlier unspoken words.

Pang Jian’s heart surged with emotion.

Li Yuqing was indeed wrong; Luo Hongyan clearly had an independent consciousness, not the annihilation of humanity by an alien god from the Outer Realm!

"No, it shouldn’t be this way."

Li Yuqing’s complexion changed.

As if suddenly remembering something, she appeared increasingly anxious, her expression growing graver.

"Whoosh!"

The pressing-down giant hand, belonging to Luo Hongyan like The Red Crystal Dome, was suddenly retracted by Her.

The red brilliance that masked the sky disappeared.

Monoliths, blood wells, floated on either side of Her massive divine body left and right.

Pang Jian opened his mouth, wanting to ask what exactly was going on.

She shook her head, swept a cold look at the others below, and said, "Pang Jian, I have done as you wished."

The divine power that She spread out, filling the entire Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land, was slowly retracted by Her.

The people in the Forbidden Land immediately sensed that the suffocating, terrifying power disappeared all at once.

She then turned to the remaining alien gods, let out a strange soul whistle, and suddenly dashed towards the deep sky. Reaching a certain height, She easily broke through some invisible barrier.

Afterward, She condensed into a crimson streak of blood-light, heading straight for a place in the Second Realm.

In a single breath, She crossed millions of miles; within a few breaths, She had completely vanished.

"Phew! Phew! Phew!"

The remaining alien gods, after Her decision was made, however reluctantly, could only follow Her lead and fly out into the heavens.

The alien gods, one after another, chose to leave through the seals under the Sky Curtain, vanishing from the Forbidden Land.

"Bang!"

Jiang Li, with shattered kneecaps, sat down on the ground, looking up in the direction Luo Hongyan disappeared, murmuring, "Luo, Sister Luo, what exactly is going on?"

"She is not an alien god from the Outer Realm; she has self-awareness; she has humanity," said Pang Jian as he looked at Li Yuqing.

To her surprise, Li Yuqing, far from feeling relief at the resolution of the crisis in the Forbidden Land, instead looked even more burdened.

After a moment of silence, a hint of helplessness crossed Li Yuqing’s beautiful face, she said, "You are right, yet not entirely. She is not possessed or possessed by an alien god from the Outer Realm; She herself is an alien god!"

Pang Jian was shocked, "She is... a God Spirit?"

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