I reign supreme in the Western fantasy world for eternity.

The portal disappeared behind me, leaving only endless darkness and silence before me.

Lilith instinctively reached out to grab Ji Tian's sleeve, only letting out a sigh of relief when her fingertips touched the fabric.

She opened her eyes wide, trying to adjust to the sudden darkness, but she couldn't see anything; even her own fingers were hidden in the thick night.

"Master, is there no light source here?"

With a thought, a wisp of crimson flame rose from Ji Tian's palm, then rapidly expanded and spread, transforming into a fist-sized blazing ball of light that hovered in mid-air.

A miniature sun.

Then, using the power of the wind, it was lifted up, and the sphere of light rose into the air, slowly revealing the true nature of this space.

A large number of corpses.

The fairy's corpse lay scattered on the ground, most of it dismembered, with severed limbs and internal organs carelessly discarded on the ground, occasionally wriggling, the dark red bloodstains not yet completely dried.

The problem is that once these fairies die, they vanish, leaving behind only amber-like magic crystals, weak fairies, or nothing at all.

They were most likely treated with special methods, kept in a state of near-death, and may even still have residual consciousness.

Ji Tian raised his hand and covered Lilith's eyes: "Don't look, you'll have nightmares."

Lilith became even more curious upon hearing this. "It's not like I've never seen blood before. I'm not afraid of these things."

You'll get used to it!

So Ji Tian had no choice but to let go, and Lilith eagerly opened her eyes to look.

"vomit--!"

Acid churned in my stomach, and tears welled up in my eyes.

Wow, I guess I still can't adapt to this. I've really embarrassed myself.

Ji Tian didn't say anything to show his dislike. Instead, he reached out and gently patted her back to help her catch her breath.

Lilith took a few more breaths before straightening up, wiping her mouth with her sleeve, and said with some annoyance:

"I should have listened to you, Master! You're so kind!"

"Just don't vomit on me."

She sniffed shyly, preparing to snuggle into Ji Tian's arms and adopt a "I'm scared and need comforting" posture.

But Ji Tian didn't give her that chance.

The holy sword was drawn, its cold light flashing.

The sword light suddenly shone in the darkness, carrying the power of holy light as it drew a sharp arc and stabbed towards Lilith.

Before she could react, the sword tip had already passed over Lilith's shoulder and precisely pierced through the shadow that suddenly appeared behind her.

"Sizzle—"

A sharp shriek came from behind Lilith, as something was cut in half at the waist, followed by a piercing scream.

Lilith was startled and shuddered at the belated realization that her master wasn't trying to expel her from the family. She breathed a sigh of relief and then turned around.

A dark mass, like a solidified shadow, was dissipating. Its outline was vaguely discernible as that of a fairy, with a crack in its head as if cleaved by a holy sword. It was rapidly fading away.

'As expected, there's something wrong with the corpses of these fairies.'

From the shadows of the fairy corpses, black creatures of the same form slowly crawled out.

They peeled away from the outline of the corpse, coalescing into shadowy entities like a molted shell.

Dozens of them, hundreds of them.

The number is still increasing.

They surged in from all directions, with tremendous momentum.

Ji Tian's gaze swept over the churning darkness, and he quickly determined that it was the work of an entity that had obtained the authority of [Darkness], and thus possessed the characteristic of immortality to some extent.

But it's not a big problem.

The power of faith in the Holy Sword has a purifying effect on them, and the effect is outstanding.

With the wind-elemental power circulating to its fullest extent within his body, he transformed into a silvery-white afterimage, weaving among the shadow fairies.

Wherever the holy sword passed, golden holy light spread out like ripples. The shadow fairies that were touched did not even have time to make a sound before they vanished like dew evaporated by the scorching sun.

Those shadow creatures were as fragile as paper lanterns before the Holy Light.

As the last shadow fairy vanished in the sword light, the entire space suddenly lit up.

The thick darkness overhead seemed to have been torn open by some force, and pale light poured down from the crack, illuminating the lying corpses, the charred ground, and the white figure standing in the center of the corpses.

Everything returned to calm.

Ji Tian sheathed his sword and glanced around.

Those corpses have completely vanished.

……

High in the sky, Mia poked half of her body out from the back of the golden dragon. Her silver armor still bore the claw marks of the lynx fairy and the scorch marks from the aftershocks of the dragon's breath, making her look somewhat disheveled.

However, she didn't pay attention to that and immediately started to care about Jinlong.

"Little Flower, are you hurt?"

"It's just a few missing scales, it's nothing."

"Oh, that's good."

Unlike Ji Tian's situation, Mia's battle was exceptionally intense and protracted.

Hundreds of intelligent second-generation fairies are engaged in a chaotic battle, carving countless crisscrossing furrows across the plain, each collision accompanied by earth-shaking tremors.

Fireballs and ice spikes danced and crisscrossed in the air, and new rocks rose from the cracks in the ground. The entire battlefield seemed to be writhing, churning, and reorganizing as if it were alive.

Mia and Little Flower flew quite high, so from here the figures of those fairies looked like grains of rice. They could only judge the battle situation by the changes in the magic energy below and the changes in the environment.

"How long have they been fighting?"

"It started at least before we came in. These fairies all have a strong aura, but they are holding each other back, and none of them can spare a hand to deal with us."

Fortunately, Mia and the Golden Dragon did not have the vast reserves of magic energy that the second-generation fairies possessed, so they were not too conspicuous in front of those second-generation fairies who were known for their magical power.

"These fairies use magic in a very primitive way, clearly they haven't seen the power of forbidden spells. Why don't you prepare to release a forbidden spell in the air, and I'll use dragon language magic to assist you? We should be able to take care of most of them before they can react."

Mia shook her head.

"no."

"Why? Because this is the fastest way for us to get through this area."

"Because this is inside the World Tree." Mia raised her hand, her fingertips gently tracing the air as she felt the flow of magic energy.

"this one?"

"Yes, we don't know how stable this space is. If we release a forbidden spell here, it could trigger a chain reaction, such as spatial distortion, magic energy rampage, or even the collapse of the entire World Tree's internal structure."

We don't know what this tree is connected to, nor what will happen after it collapses.

Upon hearing this, Jinlong understood and praised him.

"Very good, it seems you are more cautious than you were ten years ago."

Mia smiled shyly, "Thank you for the compliment."

"Then let's keep waiting."

Mia sat up straight again, placing her staff across her lap, her gaze fixed on the churning battlefield. "We'll make our move after they've been weakened... Wait a minute, aren't the fairies below acting a little strange?"

"Hmm? The magic element fluctuations aren't abnormal, what's wrong?"

"They...it seems that some of them have turned black."