Sorry for the delay again.

Tomorrow 10 chapters will be published:)

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Yumo's current plan? Yeah, Mengxi designed the whole thing.

Made sense, really. As the Guiding Saint's daughter, Mengxi knew her mother's abilities and personality better than anyone. When it came to helping Yumo break free and teaching her mom a lesson, Mengxi threw herself into it with enthusiasm. Talk about a leaky little cotton-padded jacket.

Mengxi understood something crucial about her mother's power, the Guiding Saint could see the future and read people's hearts. So if they wanted to beat her, the real battle had to happen outside the battlefield. The moment the Guiding Saint focused all her attention on Yumo going full throttle, that's when they'd make their move. Plus, Mengxi didn't even tell Yumo the actual tactics to keep her thoughts hidden from her mother.

She just told Yumo to go completely wild once she ran into Maya.

Meanwhile, she and Youlan hid in this cave, using the Night Thorn Garden's power to transfer her own pain and pleasure directly to her mother.

Mengxi's goal was simple, mess up the Guiding Saint's spell chanting. All of her mother's strongest moves relied on those complex, ancient divine language incantations. Whether it was forbidden-level attack or sealing magic, or activating the different forms of the Staff of Truth, everything needed those ancient divine chants. Disrupt the chanting, create an opening for Yumo!

To pull this off, Mengxi had really gone all out.

Following the plan without hesitation, she'd swallowed every kind of pepper, concentrated acid fruit juice, even aphrodisiac succubus extract...

Right now, with fire burning in her mouth, acid stinging her nose, and heat coursing through her body, Mengxi's eyes were streaming with tears.

Waaah...

"It h-hurts so much..." she whimpered pitifully, shooting a resentful look at the honey-haired woman beside her who seemed to be having way too much fun with this.

You... you bastard... you're totally taking revenge on me, aren't you?!

The blood thorns wrapped around her body made Mengxi's heart burn with indignation. They'd agreed it would just be the spicy and sour stuff, but Youlan had gone completely off-script! She'd bound her up with blood thorns, constantly tickling her with the thorns, stimulating all her sensitive spots.

Not only that, she kept injecting various toxins into her body, leaving her system in complete chaos!

"You... you jerk..."

Staring at Youlan's wickedly smiling face, Mengxi made a mental note. After this was over, she was definitely borrowing that feather duster from Yumo and giving this bad woman a thorough lesson!

Meanwhile, seeming to catch Mengxi's accusing stare, Youlan just smiled wickedly and waved her hand with mock innocence.

"Just bear with it, Mommy Mengxi~~ I'm only doing this for Mother's sake~~ Definitely not taking revenge or venting, okay~"

"Aaaah..."

Mengxi endured the pain and bared her teeth, her expression clearly showing she wasn't buying a word of it.

...

Faced with Mengxi's protest, the smug Youlan naturally ignored her. Instead, Yumo's eldest daughter shifted her attention from Mengxi to Pierre, who had just entered the cave.

"My dear strong, reliable, and clever brother, you want to help Mother too, right?"

"Huh?!"

Still trying to process Kalina's words, Pierre immediately perked up and raised his hand eagerly.

"Yes yes yes! I want to help Mom too!"

"Mm, what a filial son Mother has."

Youlan nodded with satisfaction.

"You know Mother expended a lot of energy in that fight with the Guiding Saint just now. So while we're disrupting the Guiding Saint, we also need to provide Mother with some support."

"So... what do I need to do?"

"You're going to take some recovery medicine, and then I'll transfer the healing effects to Mother through my power."

"Take some recovery medicine?"

Pierre blinked, then confidently thumped his chest.

"No problem! Leave it to me!"

"Good. Then start chugging."

"Chugging?"

Pierre tilted his head, seeming confused by his sister's word choice. But when he followed Youlan's pointing finger and looked behind him, Pierre's eyes shrank and his mouth fell open, his face showing complete existential crisis.

Because as the blood thorns retreated, thousands of massive barrels filled with spirit medicine appeared before Pierre.

Each barrel was bigger than Pierre's entire body.

More importantly, a thick bitter smell constantly wafted from the barrels...

Obviously, Pipi, who hated bitter things, found these potions absolutely revolting.

"Ah... th-this much? Do I... do I have to drink all of it?"

To this, Youlan naturally nodded.

"Of course. The consumption from Mother's battle with the Guiding Saint is beyond our imagination. Plus with Mother's bottomless health pool, we need to make up for all that lost stamina. This might not even be enough. Pipi said he wanted to help Mother, right? Then start drinking."

As soon as she finished speaking, Youlan snapped her fingers.

Before Pierre could react, a crimson figure charged straight at him.

"Huh? Kal?!"

"Stupid brother, stop babbling and drink!"

CRASH!

With a tremendous bang, Kalina mercilessly tackled Pierre to the ground and sat on top of him. Then she ruthlessly shoved a huge funnel into Pierre's mouth.

"Mmmph mmph mmph!"

Ignoring Pierre's garbled protests, Kalina immediately began pouring barrel after barrel of healing concentrate into the funnel.

In that moment, Pipi's face showed the expression of someone who'd given up on life entirely.

...

But Pipi's sacrifice was definitely worth it. Through the Night Thorn Garden's ability, the healing power entering Pipi's body was transferred along with Mengxi's pain to that epic battlefield in the distance.

Hm?

Wait... what's this?

Feeling that comfortable warmth spreading from her abdomen, Yumo, who'd been enduring agony, showed a flicker of confusion and looked down at her body in shock. Her previously wounded body, torn up by Maya's constant attacks and the grievous wound effect from the Bow of Finality, was starting to heal.

Like she'd drunk some kind of potion that could resist holy divine erosion.

"Is this... Youlan's ability?"

Yumo panted and murmured to herself.

As she spoke, Momo's voice reached her ears.

"Dummy, do what I tell you next~ ...Hey! Don't get all suspicious! That was your little girl's secret instructions to me before the operation started, okay?!"

Yumo: "Huh??"

...

Back to the present.

After feeling the strange sensations in her body, Maya's spell chanting was predictably interrupted by these bizarre feelings. With the chanting cut short, the highest-level sealing magic that should have completely subdued Yumo also collapsed, dissolving into countless golden particles that scattered between heaven and earth.

Damn it!

How the hell did they pull this off?

I can't sense their presence at all, yet they can interfere with me?

For a moment, even this Guiding Saint who usually saw through everything showed confusion. But Maya knew she didn't have time to puzzle over this right now. With the sealing formation failed, she had to quickly retreat from Yumo's sensing range.

Even though some mysterious sensation had disrupted her spell, Maya was still the Guiding Saint and one of the Alliance's strongest leaders, she quickly suppressed her body's strange reactions through sheer willpower.

At the same time, the silver-haired woman suddenly raised her hand, chanting rapidly.

As the incantation left her lips, the golden ring on her slender finger once again blazed with brilliant golden light.

However, just as the Staff of Truth was about to transform into its teleportation form(the Golden Gate), the gradually rippling golden light suddenly faded under Maya's stunned gaze... As the golden light disappeared, the ring remained just a ring, unchanged.

"Hah???"

Witnessing this scene, Maya couldn't help but cry out in shock.

At the same time, not far away, Yumo, bound by chains, gradually revealed a wickedly savage smile on her blood-covered face.

Heh...

Hehe...

Hehehe...

"Finally... got you~"