The battlefield screamed when she appeared.
Xiao Jiuying—or what was left of her—stood at the epicenter of the carnage, her nine tails now fused with strands of the Wife of Ashes' silver hair. Their merged form pulsed with unstable divinity, one half burning with foxfire, the other dripping liquid void. But the true horror lay in her hands:
A God-Sealing Nail, gripped like a dagger, its tip glistening with fresh blood.
"Little patchwork man," she cooed, her voice layered with the Wife's ghostly echo. "Did you miss me?"
[System Alert: Divine Abomination Detected]
[Mission: Survive the Nine-Tails Goddess]
[Reward: Truth About the Nails]
[Failure Penalty: Being Rewritten From Existence]
Luo Feng's claw-mark burned, its golden veins now blackening at the edges.
[The Revelation: Nails as Weapons]
The battle froze as she moved—not attacking, but demonstrating.
With a single strike, she plunged the nail into the earth.
The ground unraveled.
Reality peeled back like rotting skin
Soldiers' screams looped in fractured time
A chunk of the battlefield ceased existing
"See?" The Nine-Tails Goddess wrenched the nail free. "They were never seals. They're keys."
Her tails lashed, revealing the horrifying truth:
"Every nail you pulled out unlocked the First Horror's prison."
[The Choice: Kill or Save?]
Li Qing's frost crept toward the abomination. "We end this now."
Varkus' lightning coiled. "She's too far gone."
But Luo Feng remembered—the Wife of Ashes' final whisper:
"Find the last nail inside yourself."
The Nine-Tails Goddess smiled, extending a clawed hand.
"Join us, Storm Lord. Let's unmake the gods together."
[Check-In Complete (Catastrophic Truth)]
[Reward: Nails' True Purpose Revealed]
[Penalty: Nine-Tails Goddess Now Actively Hunting Luo Feng]
As she vanished in a swirl of foxfire and void, one last taunt lingered:
"Come find me when you're ready to finish what we started."
END OF THE CHAPTER49