[Check Out My P4treon For +50 Extra Chapters On All My Fanfics!! And get chapters before publishing them here for free on my p4treon][https://p4treon.com/roaverse]
===
All the changes came with extraordinary abruptness.
In the world where only black and white remained, it felt as though even sound was severed by that blade that cut through heaven and earth.
And in this black and white world.
Jing Yuan saw the Vulpin girl struggling out of the rubble, covered in injuries.
He also saw the pitch-black sun in her hands.
"...!?"
Jing Yuan's pupils constricted. He instinctively thought the black orb in Baiheng's hand was the pitch-black sun hanging high in the sky.
But he quickly realized that such a thing couldn't exist on the Xianzhou.
This black 'sun' was something else.
And Baiheng was holding it... she probably intended to use the Star Skiff to deliver this 'sun' into Shuhu's body and detonate it, intending to kill Shuhu and save Dan Feng and Jingliu.
"..."
Jing Yuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something.
But his voice seemed to be cut off.
What was he to say?
If not for this sky-cleaving slash, Baiheng would likely have already climbed onto the Star Skiff, initiating her final charge toward the Thousand-Face Tree.
If not for this world drained of color, Jing Yuan might not even have noticed Baiheng's determination and action.
And just as Jing Yuan was still caught in confusion and brainstorming,
the colorless world slowly regained its hues.
The silent world became noisy again.
And the wails and mad laughter of the Thousand-Face Tree finally rang out once more.
"Hee hee hee!!! It hurts so much!!! Why didn't the power of the gods work?! Who are you?! Hee hee hee—!!! Show yourself!!!"
Shuhu, which had been split in two by that slash, collapsed with a roar.
It was not dead, but it also did not immediately heal and stand up as it used to.
The golden branches, obscuring the sun and sky, along with golden leaves like a storm, swept toward the edge of the sky.
However, in the next instant,
a cold, indifferent voice, from the depths of space,
was brought along by the blade light that flared up again:
"I mourn for the departed—"
The blade light, manifesting once more, silently 'swallowed' the golden storm. The fruits among the branches, however, were thrown away, spared from the attack.
The blade light, in an incomprehensible way, annihilated almost all of Shuhu's lush branches.
And lingering on the remaining trunk after the annihilation was an inky blackness that was steadily devouring the golden light.
After a moment of silence,
came Shuhu's agonized wails!
And a fear of pain and death that it had never before displayed.
"Aah aah aah—!!! It hurts! It hurts!!! It hurts a hundred times more than being killed, you bastard!!! Who exactly are you?!"
At this moment,
Dan Feng, who had been trapped in a death-induced illusion, was forcibly freed from his endless Dragon's Rage, the beautiful illusion devoured by the black sun, thanks to the residual power of the two successive slashes.
Jingliu, exhausted and on the verge of collapse from constantly having to fend off attacks, finally found an opportunity due to the annihilation of the branches.
She guided the weakened Dan Feng away from the maddened Shuhu.
However, even when they were far from the Emanator's battlefield,
everyone, including Shuhu's followers, spontaneously paused their fighting.
They looked at Shuhu, who was displaying fear for the first time.
Both the Cloud Knights and the Abundance followers showed a hint of disbelief in their eyes.
Even Teng Xiao,
was now commanding the Divine Foresight to stare intently in a certain direction beyond the sky.
Soon,
a figure, trailing a stream of light, descended from the horizon.
White long hair, blood-red eyes, a faded trench coat, and a long blade.
She looked like a passing swordsman.
Her face held a calm indifference, devoid of joy or sorrow.
"Who are you, sir/madam?"
Teng Xiao's sharp instincts were screaming alarm.
A raw survival instinct urged him to stay far away from the woman before him.
It was as if this woman were hundreds of times more dangerous than Shuhu!
Even the Divine Foresight spontaneously took up a defensive posture.
That was a divine creation personally bestowed by the Aeon of the Hunt!
"..."
Acheron merely glanced at Teng Xiao in silence.
Hmm, an unfamiliar Luofu General.
She hovered high in the sky, taking in the entire battlefield below.
She saw Jing Yuan, Jingliu without her blindfold, and the dying Dan Feng.
Is time still this early?
Acheron briefly mused inwardly.
Then, she finally spoke:
"Acheron, a Galaxy Ranger."
"..."
You must be joking!
Hearing this, Teng Xiao couldn't help but vehemently complain in his mind.
A Galaxy Ranger? He'd have found it more believable if she had called herself an Emanator of Destruction.
Wasn't his Xianzhou the most direct faction of the Path of the Hunt under the Emperor's Bow? Did he not know what the Path of the Hunt was like?
There wasn't a hint of the Hunt in those two slashes the woman just performed.
Acheron saw that Teng Xiao didn't speak.
She took it as his tacit acceptance.
She then turned around to face Shuhu, who was desperately trying to resist the Nihility erosion.
It was effective, but the effect was not as good as hoped.
Acheron had not held back at all in the two slashes directed at Shuhu.
The fully released power was what dragged the entire Xianzhou into that gray-white illusion.
At the same time, it made Acheron realize just how much she had been holding back when she slashed Acheron in Penacony in the original plot.
"Shuhu, Emanator of Abundance, correct."
"Who exactly are you?! This is clearly the power of Nihility! You are no damn Galaxy Ranger!"
After the initial panic, Shuhu finally realized the source of this power.
When he heard the woman claim to be a Galaxy Ranger moments ago, he was nearly amused to death.
Acheron shook her head, dispensing with any further conversation.
She raised her long blade and slashed out again!
"The Styx is without ripple, guiding the wanderers."
Compared to the blade light that seemed capable of cleaving the sun, Acheron's chant was as calm as reciting poetry.
The blade light was narrow and long. Teng Xiao had no doubt that if this slash landed on the Xianzhou, it could easily cut the Luofu in two.
Yet, apart from the increasingly desolate, bare giant tree, whose body was growing more and more inky black and whose wails were becoming more miserable,
the entire Luofu, surprisingly, only had its sky cut, and not a single person died under the residual power of the long blade.
Shuhu was genuinely starting to feel fear now.
It was different from previous deaths.
In the past, countless deaths and revivals had led Shuhu to believe it was an immortal and invincible great being.
But now,
it saw that pitch-black sun and felt the erosion of Nihility.
It suddenly realized.
If it allowed this woman to keep slashing, if it allowed this woman to keep forcing it toward that pitch-black abyss,
it would truly be completely swallowed by that abyss!
Trapped for all eternity!!
No, impossible!!
It was an envoy of the god; it was meant to be an eternal and immortal being!
It absolutely could not be cleaved to annihilation by this woman here!!
Absolutely not—
"Aah aah aah—!!!! Go!! Get away from me!!"
Another slash fell.
It was sudden, leaving nowhere to hide.
Shuhu couldn't even clearly see how the opponent had drawn her blade.
But it already felt the power of Nihility, which annihilates everything, bearing down on it.
And the slashes continued, one after another.
Merciless, like the grim reaper from hell.
===
Note: This story is currently available up to chapter 20 on my Patreon, go check it out.
Gain access to exclusive early chapters, and so much more. This is your chance to get a ton of exclusive content while supporting my work.
https://p4treon.com/roaverse
if you want more updates == supports with power stones
Power Stones==Bonus Chapter