Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 180 Might Makes the Best Thing: Capturing Salang

As the Fiend Abyss hanging in the sky slowly disappeared, the sky above the ancient capital returned to its long-lost clarity.

Sunlight streamed unhindered into this ravaged city, bathing every broken wall in a warm golden glow.

This nightmare is finally truly over.

Beneath the city wall, Qin Yu'er gently exhaled a breath of stale air, her long, ice-blue hair swaying softly in the breeze.

Although she is a high-level mage, ordinary undead are no match for her without interference from monarch-level demons.

At this moment, the only problem is that the magic power is somewhat depleted; otherwise, there are no major issues.

"Are you alright?" A clear, ethereal voice came from behind.

Qin Yu'er turned around and saw that Soraka had appeared beside her at some point. The silver-haired woman was bathed in sunlight, as if her whole body was glowing.

"It's nothing, just a little exhausted." Qin Yu'er shook her head, a complex emotion flashing in her icy eyes. "But you... that seal from earlier..."

She had just witnessed Soraka effortlessly sealing away the Abyss, a scene that still haunted her mind.

The woman who rescued her in the Tianshan Mountains demonstrated strength far exceeding her expectations.

Soraka smiled slightly but did not reply.

She looked up into the distance, her gaze seemingly piercing through space: "The matter in the ancient capital is settled. Come with me to continue traveling the world."

These words sent a shiver down Qin Yu'er's spine.

She stared at Soraka's profile, her face so perfect it seemed otherworldly, devoid of any emotion.

In a daze, she remembered when they first met in the Tianshan Mountains, Soraka had also reached out to her in the same way, rescuing her from the eternal ice.

"Okay." As if guided by some unseen force, Qin Yu'er nodded.

Soraka smiled slightly, her slender fingers gently grasping Qin Yu'er's wrist. In an instant, Qin Yu'er felt her body begin to lighten, and looking down, she saw her body gradually transforming into starlight.

This wonderful experience was both familiar and strange—just like when I first walked through the walls of an ancient capital.

"Don't be afraid, relax."

Soraka's mission was complete, and she decided to continue traveling the world with Qin Yu'er.
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On the other side, when Salang saw the Abyss she had long awaited, only to have it sealed away by the suddenly appearing Soraka, she knew that her plan had failed.

Salang knew a little about this Star Goddess; she didn't seem like a normal human mage. Her strength was extraordinary, and he didn't know where she came from.

As a bishop of the Black Vatican, Salam had some knowledge of intelligence from all over the world.

The information she received was that this woman had traveled from North Africa to Asia, leaving behind many legends along the way.

Salang never expected that the other party would appear in the ancient capital, and with such powerful strength, suppress the appearance of the ancient king.

No matter how many schemes and tricks the Black Vatican uses, their ultimate goal is to awaken the Ancient King.

Only when the ancient king intervenes will the ancient capital fall completely, and only then will the Black Vatican's plan be considered a success.

Qin Xiaonan didn't remember clearly the Black Vatican's specific plans for the ancient capital, how they would be implemented, or how the spirits of the dead would be awakened.

So he chose the simplest method: summoning his clone Soraka. Might makes right. As long as he suppressed the Ancient King, no matter what the Black Church did, they were destined to fail.

As soon as Soraka sealed the Abyss, Salam knew his plan was over.

She decided not to linger and prepared to leave.

However, before she could escape the ancient capital, she was stopped by a charming woman in a light blue cheongsam.

This woman is Qing Ning.

After the Corpse of the Mountain led the undead army to retreat, Qing Ning, following Qin Xiaonan's guidance, quickly came to intercept Salang.

"You can't leave." Qing Ning smiled charmingly.

Salang does possess considerable strength; her poison and wind magic are not to be underestimated. However, Qing Ning, as a supreme monarch, although she suffered some depletion from her battle with the Mountain Corpse, the newly created Sun Disc within the "Abyss of Fiends" helped her recover much of her power. Moreover, the closer she is to the Sun Disc, the stronger she becomes.

If she had such a boost when she fought the Corpse of the Mountain, she was confident that she would be able to defeat it.

Salang knew Qingning, and when she saw the "totem beast" blocking her way, she dared not be careless in the slightest.

She waved her hands, and a foul-smelling green whirlwind instantly rose around her, transforming into dozens of poisoned tornadoes that swept towards Qing Ning.

Qing Ning's red lips curved slightly, and her slender fingers gently touched something.

The sand and gravel on the ground suddenly came to life, forming a flowing sand wall in front of her. The tornado crashed against the sand wall, making a series of friction sounds, but it could not break through.

Qing Ning covered her mouth and chuckled softly, then suddenly flicked her finger.

The sand wall instantly transformed into millions of sand needles, shooting towards Salam like a torrential rain.

Salang's pupils shrank sharply, and he hurriedly used his Wind Wings to dodge.

Her figure moved swiftly through the ruins, constantly scattering highly poisonous spores.

These purple spores swelled rapidly in the wind and quickly covered the entire area.

Suddenly, countless alluring poisonous flowers bloomed in the space around Qing Ning, each flower spewing out deadly poisonous mist.

She remained calm and unhurried, lightly touching the ground with her toes.

A golden halo spread out from beneath her feet, and wherever it passed, the poisonous flowers withered.

Upon seeing this, Salam quickly changed the shape of his hands.

In the raging hurricane, countless poisonous mists coalesced into giant snakes, their blood-red mouths gaping wide, and lunged at Qingning from all directions.

Qing Ning then opened her arms.

Her light blue cheongsam fluttered even without wind, revealing the shimmering sun-like patterns on her fair skin.

A massive sandstorm vortex suddenly formed around her.

"Dance of the Sands - Funeral to the Underworld!"

The violent sand grains spun rapidly in the vortex, each grain containing the sacred power of the sun disk.

The venomous snake was instantly crushed to pieces upon contact, turning into wisps of blue smoke and dissipating.

Salang knew she was no match for the totem beast, and she used this move to stall it and buy herself a chance to escape.

By this time, she had already used her Wind Wings and flown a distance.

"Want to leave?" Qing Ning chuckled softly, raising her jade-like hand slightly.

Suddenly, countless sand hands rose from the ground and precisely grabbed Salam's ankles.

At the same time, the sand in the sky coalesced into a giant net, completely blocking her escape route.

Salam frantically channeled his magic, attempting to corrode the sand hands with poisonous mist.

However, to her horror, the divine power contained within these grains of sand was actually purifying her poisonous magic!
"It's over~" Qing Ning's figure suddenly appeared in front of Salang, her jade finger gently touching Salang's brow.

A golden light flashed, and Salang immediately felt all his magic power sealed, causing his body to collapse limply.

The gap in strength between the two is still too large.

She could use her poison skills to ambush the injured Sandworm Lord, but she was powerless against Qing Ning.

However, Qin Xiaonan did not kill Salang directly, but handed her over to Han Ji, the president of the Clock Tower Magic Association.

(End of this chapter)