The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 210: Battling The Infected

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The Dark Draconified Immortals were stronger than they imagined; the fusion between Urbosa and Merkite could achieve a level of strength close to a Primordial after all the training within Bing Xue’s Inner Realm. Although on their own they weren’t as strong, their combination caused their powers to not just become additive but multiply, all thanks to Bing Xue’s improvements upon their technique, using special Heavenly Formations placed on their Physiques.

Although the Energy Drain of such a form was huge, they were able to offset that by cultivating a large quantity of Internal Ki by growing as strong as possible back in the Inner Realm, even eating many Martial Beasts and Martial Herbs to improve their growth. That, and of course, their equipment, personally forged by Bing Xue with Peperina’s help.

“They survived our combined mother’s attacks so easily!” Orion said.

“Hmm, and they’re regenerating quickly; look at their wounds!” Athena analyzed.

“…” Urbosa and Merkite glanced at their attacker’s approach, her Divine Aura rapidly expanding, turning into clones of their fusion.

“{Divine Thunder Wind Domain}: {Myriad Storm Echoes}”

FLUOOOSH!

They conjured a powerful domain around them and their children, as a mighty tornado twisted space and time, trapping the immortals within an endless zone where winds sliced their bodies and thunder burned them.

“Let’s see if you can keep up your regeneration after this!” The fusion said as she unleashed yet another technique, now using their powerful divine spear.

“{Divine Thunderstorm Spear Arts}: {Tornado Rampage}!”

They charged forward, as they left the children within the “eye of the storm,” protected by their swirling domain, as their fused mothers thrust their spears against the trapped foes, unleashing explosions of winds and thunder that made the immortals explode into pieces.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“Woow! That’s insane!” Orion said. “Were our moms always so strong combined?!”

“I don’t know; this is the first time I see them fused!” Athena said. “It’s awesome!”

After having gotten used to their strength, it had become quite clear that the twins were much stronger than their mothers, Merkite and Urbosa, even at their base form due to the power they inherited from Bing Xue, which elevated them to Venerables.

However, that didn’t mean their mothers were going to just sit down and watch as their children risked their lives; they trained hard, perhaps not to catch up, as that was impossible, but to become strong enough to be reliable.

“Gryyaaargh!”

“Uuaaggh!”

“Gryyeeegh!”

The Dark Draconified Immortals screamed in agony, their bodies being sliced and cleaved apart, left as dozens of little pieces that were consumed by the storm.

However…

TRUUUM!

Darkness flowed through their bodies once more, as flesh and metal combined together, and they began to rapidly regenerate back, this time their human-like appearances becoming more twisted as they resembled even more monstrous beings.

“Gryyaaarrgh!”

“Gruoooggh!”

“Shyaaahhh!”

As they roared, they used their metallic wings and dark powers to move through the slicing winds and thunder, forcefully pushing themselves forward as much as possible.

However, the fusion between Merkite and Urbosa squinted into her four eyes.

“Again then, this time… I must destroy them. Until nothing remains!”

Her spear and her entire body started overflowing with divine thunder as winds wrapped around her rapidly.

And then…

“{Divine Thunderstorm Spirit Body Transformation}!”

RUMBLE!

Her body became made of thunder and winds, transforming from bones, blood, and flesh into pure divine elemental spiritual energies.

FLUOOOSH!

With hundreds of sparks of lightning coursing through their elemental bodies, Orion and Athena gasped, glancing at the scene in utter disbelief.

“Wooaaah!”

“I-It’s like mommy’s full elemental form, right?!”

They remembered that one time they spared Bing Xue, where she literally peeled her skin off and turned into a being made entirely out of colorful light that warped space around her!

Although this couldn’t compare to Bing Xue’s true body appearance, it was an imitation, and a good one at that, as Bing Xue had specifically helped them achieve it.

However, it was only possible when they merged…

Because only through the unification of body and soul could the sisters achieve this level of power necessary to reach this stage!

“{Thunderous Catastrophe}!”

With their spear becoming even larger and more majestic, the fused sister rushed forward, thrusting their spear a hundred times in a mere second, unleashing a thunderous catastrophe as explosions of divine lightning engulfed the dozens of foes in front of them!

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

“Gruuuaaarrghh!”

The Dark Draconified Immortals screamed in agony, their bodies literally disintegrating before the near endless outbursts of golden lightning erupting even from their own bodies.

“Phew…”

Once the fusion between Merkite and Urbosa was done, their Domain was undone, as there seemed to be nothing left at all…

“I-It’s done?!” Orion gasped. “That was so cool!”

“Amazing…” Athena’s eyes shone brightly. “Our moms are the best!”

“Heheh…” the fusion giggled, feeling embarrassed. “Now, we should-”

TRUUUM!

Suddenly, a powerful pressure surged from within their surroundings, as the fusion quickly put herself in front of their children, seeing as masses of tiny pieces of black flesh and metal began to merge together, forming…

New bodies! Endless darkness flowed through these new bodies, fueling their revival and making it even faster than before.

“B-Barely a few tiny pieces were left, and they’re regenerating?!” The Fusion asked. “This can’t be possible…!”

“It must be the darkness…” Athena said. “It’s the darkness! We have to find a way to make it disappear, or this will never end!”

“How do we even do that?!” Orion asked. “It’s a strange element we cannot control like Mana, Spirit Energy, or Ki!”

“Dummy, with these suits we’ve got!” Athena said. “We’ve also got a connection to the big evil dragon; he’s using these… these weird Symbol things! We somehow channeled their power—no, more like they gave it to us? But I think we’ve got the power to do something about the darkness!”

“Wait, how?!” Orion was still confused.

“RAAARRGH!”

The monstrous Dark Draconified Immortals roared, their Auras of Darkness and Immortal Ki overflowed from their bodies as they flew towards the children at lightning speed, surrounding them and attacking from every angle.

“You won’t touch them while I’m here!”

The fusion between Urbosa and Merkite didn’t stand there though, quickly rushing to fight against them, thrusting her spear and piercing their bodies one after another with her Pseudo-Domain encompassing her body and her children.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The Immortals were sent flying away, with massive holes through their bodies, yet the darkness filled the holes, rapidly recovering their bodies, more monstrous each time they were reborn.

“Athena, I’ll hold them off!” Said the fusion. “I’ll trust your judgment; please find a way to negate their Darkness!”

“Okay, mama!” Athena nodded. Her rainbow eyes glow brightly through her helmet’s visor. “Brother! Hold my hands!”

“Huh? But why…?” Orion raised an eyebrow as he held his sister’s hands.

“Because I’ve got an idea! This energy in our suits, can you feel it?” She asked.

“Barely,” said Orion. “It’s quite faint and… Hmm? Wait, what’s this?”

“Do you feel it better now?” Athena asked, as Orion noticed there were two small square-shaped formations composed of glowing divine white runes above and below them.

“W-When did you…?!” Orion was shocked.

“I’m always one step ahead!” Athena giggled. “This is a special formation I created using our new suits as part of its core! And it’ll help us… Do this!”

FLUOSH!

The two formations activated, and using the suits themselves as Cores, the suits began glowing; what was once a faint energy that was there but only quite so, began overflowing from their bodies.

From Orion, a sparkling silver-colored light emerged, an otherworldly energy he had never seen before or felt before at all.

And from Athena, this sparkling energy was completely white, overflowing with shiny, bright energies that overflowed through everything.

These two energies started to converge, fueled by the Symbols.

Athena used her own Formations to “reverse engineer” the origin of the energies themselves as her mind suddenly delved into an endless darkness.

And in there, the Symbols floated—the fragmented power of the Dark Storm Dragon, they weren’t quite unsealed, as he proclaimed.

“WHO’S THERE?!”

The Dragon’s voice echoed through the girl’s mind as she felt two massive crimson eyes glaring at her.

“YOU! WHO ARE YOU?!”

The pressure was immense, but Athena didn’t stop, quickly moving her consciousness deeper, looking at the glowing Symbols.

Two of them reacted to her and her brother!

They weren’t completely darkened like the rest; only half of it was dark; the other halves were glowing with their respective colors.

She also noticed one that was glowing red; the darkness was trying to corrupt it, but it was holding back strongly.

However, it didn’t react to her.

“I see this darkness… it originates from you!”

“YOU DARE ENTER MY OWN SOUL?! BEGONE!”

The Dark Storm Dragon had no time to waste dealing with a little girl inside his soul; the endless darkness wrapped around Athena’s consciousness, asphyxiating her.

However, the little hand of her ethereal avatar managed to touch the Symbols with her index finger and her thumb!

FLASH! FLASH!

“UGH?!”

The Dark Storm Dragon suddenly felt something weird going on! His Darkness… became lesser!

“W-What are you?! AARRGH! DIE!”

Before he could destroy her mind, Athena pulled out just in time, the Symbols within the Dark Storm Dragon going awry, as two of them were rapidly glowing brighter than they were supposed to!

“I understood how it works!” Athena opened her eyes. “The Symbols are actually the Power of the Dark Storm Dragon! Their actual original form is the darkened form they have taken. And the power we’ve gained from them is the result of an incredibly powerful seal placed into them, which reverses their darkness into this light!”

“E-Eh? So it worked or not?!” Orion asked.

"Yes, it did! I simply have to apply the Seal, which I’ve already copied and pasted into my Core Formation Frame and… Done!” Athena nodded, moving her fingers rapidly as she reassembled the runes and everything, fusing both formations into a huge square-shaped glowing ethereal construction.

FLAAASH!

Her formation spun around as it absorbed the Auras of Athena and her brother, rapidly releasing shockwaves of light, covering the bodies of the Dark Draconified Immortals!

“Gryyyaarrggh!”

“Uuaaaggh!”

“T-The Darknesssssss!”

They screamed in agony as they felt their own darkness rapidly begin to turn into light instead, burning their already monstrous bodies.

“Now, mom!” Athena said. “I cannot keep this up for too long!”

“Well done, dear!” Nodded the fusion between Merkite and Urbosa. “Let’s get it done!”

RUMBLE!

Her Domain compacted around her entire body as she turned back into her elemental form, and using her spear and lightning speed movements, she rushed towards the weakened monsters.

“Once more…!”

Her thunder and her winds combined as her spear glowed the brightest ever!

“{Thunderous Catastrophe Echo}!”

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

She started fighting against them all; the Dark Draconified Immortals still strong, fighting against her and trying to resist with claws and fangs while firing beams of darkness from their jaws.

However…

“{Thunderstorm Tempest}!”

Her Technique reached a new level, improving and evolving as her attacks converged into a massive tempestuous tornado of thunder, engulfing all foes that she hit!

FLUOOOSH!

And then, as they were all gathered within a single space, she descended and impaled them all at the same time, unleashing a massive explosion.

BOOOMMM!!!

The thunder burned their bodies into ashes, and the winds sliced the ashes into even smaller ashes, completely pulverizing their existences and even their souls.

RUMBLE!

A huge shockwave was released after that, leaving nothing behind but the fusion between Urbosa and Merkite glancing at the twins and around her.

“I-Is it done this time?”@@novelbin@@

They waited a couple of seconds… but the darkness never came back.

“It worked!” Athena celebrated. “Now we have to help everyone deal with these! They’re spreading everywhere, mom, brother!”

“Yeah! Let’s go then!” Orion nodded, rushing with his sister and mother to defeat the other threats.

Meanwhile, as the battle between the Dark Storm Dragon and Bing Xue continued, the massive mechanical behemoth felt strange inside of his soul.

“Uuuggh…! W-What is the meaning of this- ARCK! M-My soul! It’s trembling! Uurrggh…! Nnngghh…!”

Bing Xue clashed against his dozens of massive claws, noticing the endless Darkness that made him so powerful had weakened slightly—by at the very least, a 20%!

“This essence… Athena and Orion? Did they do this?” She instantly felt the essence of her daughter within the Dragon, even if briefly.

And then she smiled.

“That’s right, I am not alone… I have them!”

Bing Xue felt slightly moved, always having to fight on her own against these ridiculous foes, until now.

She could finally rely on others, unlike in Murim, it was different than back then!

“That was my daughter’s gift; are you enjoying it, Viper?!”

Bing Xue roared, wrapping her long, white-scaled snake tail around the dragon’s own body, punching his body and swinging her blade, dealing as much damage as possible.

“UUUAARRGH! Y-YOUUUU! DON’T CALL ME A VIPER! I AM A DRAGON!”

The Dragon roared back, clashing against her with all his body and powers, explosions of golden light and darkness erupting across the skies.

CLASH! CRASH! BOOM! RUMBLE!

As their battle continued, however, they were completely unaware of something else rapidly descending from outer space.

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