My Beast Is the 12-Winged Angel Chapter 495 - 496: The Figure at the Bottom of the Demon Abyss!
Previously on My Beast Is the 12-Winged Angel...
Right at that instant.
An unseen ripple emanated from Sally at its core, abruptly surging outward.
Within a blink, the heavens' winds and clouds shifted dramatically, as though the whole expanse became a rippling mirror.
A grand, dazzling river vision, crafted from myriad past echoes and upcoming phantoms, gradually emerged.
Time River!
Yet on this occasion, it wasn't just a mere vision.
It genuinely materialized right in front of them!
Gu Xing, as the Time River fully took shape, experienced a jolt deep in his consciousness.
The surprise didn't stem from the Time River's emergence, but rather from this stream...
Where he detected a profoundly familiar aura!
Yet another Divine Position!
Furthermore, this Divine Position's essence tied intimately to the flow of time.
It aligned flawlessly with Sally!
"Within the Time River lies a concealed Divine Position..."
Gu Xing whispered softly, his gaze gleaming with excitement.
Even though the Supreme Goddess claimed to have woven the Divine Position into the fabric of existence, it appeared that wasn't fully the case.
"Sally," Gu Xing turned to the freshly transformed cat-girl standing nearby.
"Do you feel the precise spot of the Divine Position? Could you guide us inside?"
Sally shut her eyes, the silver Divine Pattern on her brow softly illuminating.
She stretched out her delicate fingers, seemingly grasping unseen strands in the emptiness.
Moments later, her eyes fluttered open, silver irises swirling with innumerable time shards:
"No problem!"
Sally led the way, venturing into the silvery stream.
Gu Xing and his guardian beasts trailed right behind.
The second they crossed the threshold, a sensation hit like slipping through a watery veil, with the entire surroundings twisting wildly.
No trace of sky or ground, just a swirling haze of luminous shades everywhere.
Sally advanced ahead, her forehead's time Divine Pattern radiating intensely, lighting their path.
Her form looked somewhat ghostly amid the Time River, on the verge of blending in completely, but it held steady and resolute.
The further in they pushed, the thicker the Time Law's force grew.
Fortunately, those wild, turbulent Time Laws.
As they neared Sally, they behaved like encountering their ruler or source, swiftly becoming tame and structured.
They converged on Sally, fusing seamlessly into her essence.
In this way, Sally's command over the Time Law surged ahead at a breathtaking pace.
Deeper along, a speck of golden radiance sharpened into view up front.
The glow felt gentle, untainted, infused with an ultimate godly presence.
It matched precisely the Divine Position Gu Xing had picked up earlier!
Sally reached out lightly, and that Divine Position, as if aware of her call.
Drifted toward Sally on its own, gradually embedding into her brow.
"Buzz——!!"
As that Divine Position fused willingly into Sally's forehead.
Suddenly, the time and space gleams encircling Sally quaked fiercely!
A might far grander than prior, in perfect harmony with time's very notion, started forging her Divine Body.
The ceaselessly moving Time River appeared to pause briefly in that very second.
Next, the disordered gleams and warped causal links inside were compelled into proper alignment.
The Time River itself, right then, achieved an all-time serenity and balance!
Sally gradually lifted her eyelids, her eyes shifting to a pristine silver hue.
By taking in this Divine Position, she had fully claimed dominion over the Time River.
Her look directed toward Gu Xing held a touch of awe.
During the fusion with the Divine Position, she had the fortune to catch a fleeting future vision.
That brief sight elevated her respect for Gu Xing even more.
Then, Sally gathered her mind a bit, and spoke deliberately:
"Master, the whole Time River stands fully mended at last!"
"Just a handful of lingering disruptions await your personal touch!"
Gu Xing felt a touch confused upon hearing this.
But with a soft gesture from Sally, various visions sprang up instantly in his view.
The golden beam that fell from above when Qing Shuang and Fei Yue departed the Ghost Race!
The inheritance bestowed by the Elf Empress prior to her passing!
The statue of the Twelve-winged Angel abandoned in the Angel World!
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"Master, these pivotal moments! Require your aid to fully mend them!"
"Since your being stands apart from the Time River!"
"And these temporal points bear your marks, you need to show up in person to realign every causal thread."
Listening to Sally's explanation, Gu Xing gave a firm nod.
Everything traced back to him, so he had no intention of dodging the duty.
Besides, with Sally now ruling the Time River, they could navigate it freely.
Still...
The Time River operated by its inherent rules, so he couldn't casually tamper with history.
Doing so might trigger the downfall of the entire Time River.
Therefore, at Sally's urging, he didn't waver and promptly entered one of those time nodes.
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At the same time.
Back in the primary timeline of reality.
Demon Abyss, its initial stratum, the deepest section.
This area starkly contrasted the turbulent, grimy, deranged higher Demon Realm.
Absent were the wailing twisted demons or the heavy Demonic Qi swirling up.
Even the space conveyed a chilling, spirit-chilling utter quiet, reminiscent of the primeval void prior to the cosmos forming.
At the heart, where time nearly stood still, a faint sparkle hovered in stillness.
It took the form of a silhouette.
She occupied the throne with regal poise, her bearing flawlessly transcending any species' grasp of perfection in allure.
Yet she exuded an unmatched godly aura that forbade direct stares or even a whisper of irreverence.
She served as the Demon Abyss's origin, the granter of strength to the nine Demon Gods.
Or more accurately, she represented another primal awareness spawned from the Primordial World's shattering.
It seemed she had perched there forever, mirroring this realm's endurance.
Motionless, icy, timeless!
However, the instant Gu Xing encountered the Supreme Goddess.
This deity, seemingly one with the shadows, her downcast gaze harboring infinite cosmic hush, quivered ever so slightly.
Not from astonishment or fury.
Rather, like subtle waves in still waters stirred by a distant pebble, hardly noticeable.
She lifted her head gradually.
Her deep eyes appeared to pierce through endless barriers of the Demon Abyss, fixing on Gu Xing's whereabouts.
"Oh?"
A soft sound echoed softly in the total quiet.
"Is this the path you've selected?"
A subtle arc hinted at her vague lips.
"Placing faith in a human, that species bound by such weak ties and sentiments?"
Her tone reverberated through the emptiness, laced with a trace of mockery.
"What a silly decision!"
"Just as you once made, my cherished sister."
She stood up leisurely, her dark robe flowing like night's curtain.
As she stirred, the Demon Abyss's lowest level started to quiver faintly, akin to a dormant colossal beast rousing.
"Yet, all shall reach its end shortly!"
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