Divine Flame Crystal

Chapter 573 Fading Power

Gray fog lingered, as heavy as the sea. Tiffany slowly opened her eyes, and a strange color was reflected in her silver-white pupils. It was the entanglement of light and darkness, no longer pure, nor corrupted, but a kind of...silent gray.

She stood on the broken rock platform, and in front of her was a giant beast that had just died - the Night Demon Spider King. It was the overlord of the abyss, with eight legs as big as a mountain, and poisonous demon blood that could corrode the soul flowing in its body. The spider king's body was covered with gray-white cracks, as if the veins of time were directly strangled by some force, and it was shattered in absolute "stagnation".

Tiffany raised her hand, and a gray light flickered in her palm. It was a power she had never understood before, strange yet familiar. This was the new power that was born after she absorbed the power of darkness and merged it with the power of light in her body. Let's call it "Faded Holy Light".

Tiffany looked at the space in front of her that was shattered by the faded holy light and fell into deep thought. "Is this... the new me?" She murmured to herself, but there was no joy or anger in her tone. Her voice was still gentle, but it had lost the comforting feeling of piety towards the light in the past. Tiffany now was like the most uncertain gray before dawn.

That is the boundary between sanity and madness.

The neutrality between salvation and destruction.

Above light and darkness - gray.

Thinking back to that transformation, Tiffany still felt a chill down her spine. It was a near-death choice. In order to track down Xingluo, she went deep into the abyss alone, intending to purify the Night Demon Spider King with the power of light, but she found out that it was just a trap set by the Church of Light.

"Holy See of Light...what exactly are you afraid of me knowing? Has the Holy See of Light fallen to the point of collaborating with the devil?" Tiffany had been completely consumed by remorse. She regretted betraying Xingluo, especially for such a hypocritical organization.

When Tiffany was on the verge of death, she made a decision that she would never have made before—to actively guide the dark magic power into the core of her soul and merge it with the holy light. At that moment, she almost thought she was dead.

There was no alchemy array, no holy trial, and no divine revelation. She just relied on pure will and faith to forcibly blend the two opposing forces. The result was the current "gray power".

The Night Demon Spider King was her first enemy after the fusion. This monster had lived in the abyss for three thousand years. It was not afraid of fire, swallowed up light, and was immune to ordinary dark magic. Ordinary people would only die when facing it.

But Tiffany only used three moves.

Tiffany took the first step towards the terrifying demon, and the gray area unfolded. The space dimmed, the colors peeled off, and all the spell structures automatically disintegrated. The Spider King could no longer rely on the power of the abyss to support his body.

The Night Demon Spider King took a step back in fear, and Tiffany took the second step with a cold look in her eyes, and was entangled in the gray lock. His spiritual consciousness was sunk, and the Spider King's will was forcibly "lowered in dimension", and even the thought of escaping was frozen in his mind.

The Night Demon Spider King was terrified and wanted to retreat, but Tiffany took another step forward and used the Ash Judgement. It was not an attack, but an act of "deletion", which stripped the target from the laws of reality, like the end of the Death Note.

The Night Demon Spider King turned into dust, leaving only a huge and dead spider shell.

But the price of this victory was also huge.

Tiffany's face was as pale as paper. She stood in the center of the gray fog, watching her slender fingertips slowly fade away, like the blank nothingness after the paint was washed away by water.

"If I continue to use this power...will I one day become a colorless person?"

She was not sure. But she knew that she didn't have much time left. Every time she used "Fading Holy Light", she would lose a cornerstone called "faith" in the depths of her soul.

During this period, Xingluo also began to take action.

On the other side, deep in the abyss.

"The wind here can even tear apart the soul." Xingluo slowly stood up from the pile of rocks. His cloak was torn and his armor was damaged in many places, but fortunately it could be repaired immediately. The magic core embedded in his chest was faintly flashing a dark red light.

He was still alive and even stronger than before.

Ever since he was framed by Tiffany and fell into the abyss, he understood a truth: no matter how much trust you have, you can never let down your guard, even if that person once smiled and said, "You are my most important friend."

"Tiffany, your choice is brave, but also foolish."

Xingluo whispered softly, but there was no hatred in his eyes.

At this moment, he was using the power of the abyss to perform a forbidden body-refining ritual, using the power of the divine flame crystal to directly inject the power of the abyss into the soul skeleton. In other words, he was no longer relying on magic power overdraft, but transforming his own "existence" itself into a magical medium.

"If my body is magic, then every breath I take can cast a spell."

This method is extremely dangerous. But it is precisely because of this that he can break through the barrier between the abyss and the main material plane.

Deep in the abyss is the realm of false gods under hell, where the spatial structure is completely separated from the real world. Ordinary people cannot return to the main plane unless they find a spatial "bridge" - and Xingluo is preparing to break through this bridge himself.

"Pandora...you must still be waiting for me, right?"

He looked up at the sky, which was a gray-black dome with no end in sight.

"When I return, I will make the entire church tremble."

At the same time, in the main material plane, the Moonfall Intelligence Organization has launched full-scale operations. As the leader in public, Mo mobilized a large number of resources to start looking for the "Abyss Rift". In the basement of the Flame Hammer Magic Shop, an antique teleportation array has been quietly built to welcome Xingluo back.

As the dwarven craftsmen crafted equipment that looked as extravagant as stage props, they whispered in Dwarven:

"Where the hell is the boss?"

"I heard he went to the abyss, but he's still alive."

"As long as he's alive, he can come back. And... this time when he comes back, I guess he won't just be the Marquis."

"Of course, who is our boss? He is the one who can brew this magical wine. It should be said that he is the god of wine."

"God?" The dwarves fell silent. Even though they were not affected yet, the Holy See of Light had already used all its forces to suppress them. Although their lives had not been threatened, this behemoth had already made them feel suffocated.

The story's wheel of fate begins to turn again.

Tiffany is looking for a new self in a fading world.

Starfall, ready to break the plane boundary in the form of elements.

Pandora is undergoing the ancient fusion trial in the distant ruins of the gods.

Meanwhile, in the main plane, the Holy See of Light is mobilizing the Holy Army, preparing to launch a massive purge in the name of "divine punishment."

War, love and hate, faith, power, all intertwined in a future that is about to collide.

Gray is the beginning and the end.