Chapter 346

Page 154: Things That Must Be Done

Even though it was still invisible, I could feel a huge amount of energy from the direction of the operating room.

“High concentration of magic… No, that’s a divine technique reaction! Sister Ling Qing, you take everyone up to safety first!”

Although she had not been studying magic for long, she was still a witch who researched magic. Sister Zi noticed something unusual and, disregarding the danger, ran towards the operating room after leaving these words.

Before entering, Old Lady made a joke saying that summoning heavenly lightning might affect others. It seemed that this was more than just a joke. In Heavenly Path’s eyes, mortals were nothing more than ants.

The situation deteriorated even further.

Although I didn’t know what this sudden divine technique was, it definitely wasn’t something Old Lady did. Although she had extracted a lot of condensed divine power from me, the quantity in front of me far exceeded what I had previously donated… This was undoubtedly heavenly punishment.

Was this the punishment Old Lady faced again for defying Heavenly Path as a sinner? A divine power nuclear bomb?

“Alright! You all go up too!”

I pushed Lin Hua and then put You Zi into Xiao Lei’s arms, instructing them, “We don’t know what will happen here. Even above might not be safe. After you follow Sister Ling Qing up, run as far as you can! Oh, and bring my mother along too!”

“Wait, what about you?”

Lin Hua glanced at Mother and then grabbed me, asking, “You don’t even understand magic. What can you do by staying here?”

Tsk, these truths are somewhat hurtful…

“I may not be able to help much alone, but I still have this!”

I pulled out the vial containing soul adhesive from my pocket.

“As long as I merge with Cherry Sauce, we can become true gods and accomplish anything… Believe me! Hurry up and leave!”

Sister Ling Qing didn’t understand what was happening, but as her secretary, she obediently followed Sister Zi’s instructions and began organizing the evacuation. Aunt Zhen and the others, although worried about Grandmother’s condition, knew that staying would only cause trouble, so they followed Sister Ling Qing through the teleportation platform in batches.

The teleportation platform rose a light screen. Before leaving, Xiao Lei shouted at me, “Chairman, be careful!”

— “Alright, now that the nuisances are gone, it’s time for us to help.” —

Cherry Sauce picked up the vial and removed the stopper.

— The final fusion? —

“Isn’t it that ‘I’ should go help instead of us? Am I being treated like a tool for cleaning up messes?”

Although I complained, I didn’t mind this feeling of being relied upon, because that was my value.

But Old Lady really never lets people rest until the end…

“A severe overflow of divine power. Xiao Kai seems to have experienced something similar before. Let me handle it again as an air purifier!”

Rubbing the ring, I activated Goddess Mode (Megami Mod).

In this state, I rapidly consume my stored divine power, while the divine power leaking in the operating room recharges me. With this cycle, I not only break the original three-minute limit but also clear the dispersed divine power.

Several witches maintained a pale blue barrier of magical energy outside the operating room, trying to isolate the divine power, but unfortunately, despite the same essence, the purity of divine power and magical energy differed greatly. Occasionally, divine power leaked through the barrier, and the witches gradually showed signs of poisoning.

Creating a barrier of magical energy doesn’t require a spell; thanks to the high synchronization rate with the altar, I only need to imagine it in my mind to receive a response from the altar. The chaotic divine power around me was reallocated, forming a stronger white light curtain, replacing the fragile barrier of the witches, isolating the dispersed divine power inside.

I instructed, “Leave the isolation to me. Send someone to start the ventilation spell in the power room!”

These witches collapsed once the spells were canceled, and two with milder symptoms supported each other and staggered towards the power room on the opposite side of the cave.

I was about to rush into the operating room when the door suddenly opened.

It was a room filled with toxic divine energy, white fog-like divine power spewing from the gaps in the door. Walking out from the mist was Sister Zi, who had rushed in earlier, wrapped in a layer of magical energy, dragging a bed. On the bed was a figure glowing with white light… It was likely Grandmother, undergoing transformation, and Old Lady’s last spell had succeeded.

“Spirit Dream, give me a hand…”

Sister Zi’s steps were unsteady, and her voice was weak.

Her magical energy barrier couldn’t protect her from the divine power’s influence. It was a miracle that she could walk out like this.

I tore open a gap in the barrier and rushed in to carry Grandmother out, supporting the feverish Sister Zi back outside the barrier.

“Zi! What you did was too reckless!”

“Boss asked me to get the old lady out first.”

I placed them on the ground in front of the rest area.

Two witches came over to provide emergency treatment for Sister Zi, extracting excess divine power from her body using a spell to extract magical energy.

I touched Sister Zi’s forehead; my cold winter hands felt how hot she was.

“Don’t talk, rest well. Don’t burn yourself into a fool. I don’t need two fools as girlfriends.”

Sister Zi grabbed my hand again.

“…We must save Boss and the others.”

“You’re poisoned. Rest well. I’ll take care of the rest… No, only I can take care of the rest.”

In such a high concentration of divine power, no one else could move except me.

Counting the time, those in the operating room were in grave danger. I had to act quickly. After entrusting Sister Zi to the witches, I charged back into the operating room. The vision was terrible, and the light from the surgical lamp couldn’t penetrate the white fog formed by the divine power.

There were two ways to deal with this divine power:

First, refining it into a denser, more stable liquid form, similar to what Old Lady did to Xiao Kai.

Second, absorbing it directly into my body as a storage container.

Refining takes time, and absorption has limits; neither is perfect. Fortunately, both methods can be used simultaneously. Before handling everything, I had to ensure everyone’s safety.

“Senior Sister! Cough, cough, cough!”

No one responded, and I never imagined I’d be choked by divine power.

“Cough, where did everyone go?”

Strangely, there was no one in the operating room.

Despite the poor visibility, the operating room, which was converted from a laboratory, wasn’t large. Yet, crawling and searching, I found no trace of anyone, and the tendrils extending from my back found nothing… Wait, I touched something.

The tendril found someone.

Following this single discovery, I traced it and grabbed a leg.

I recognized these pants.

“Mama?!”

Good news was that Old Lady hadn’t disappeared;

Bad news was that she was also dazed by the divine power.

I had to get her out first. Trying to lift her onto my shoulder, I heard something fall and roll on the ground…

“It’s the jewel!”

Though I couldn’t see it, I immediately understood after a moment’s thought.

With over ten people in the surgery, I wondered why I couldn’t find anyone. It turned out Old Lady had put them all into the spatial jewel.

The situation in the operating room was roughly clarified. The sudden high-purity divine power, suspected to be heavenly punishment, caused the witches to attempt evacuating with Grandmother. However, they underestimated the “toxicity” of the divine power. As soon as they moved Grandmother onto the mobile bed, they lost their resistance. Sister Zi managed to push the bed out, but finally, Old Lady, holding the jewel containing everyone, lost consciousness and couldn’t enter herself…

But the spatial jewel had rolled away somewhere. Entering or exiting the spatial jewel required a verbal incantation, so the senior sisters couldn’t come out.

Leaving a tendril to search for the rolling jewel in the operating room, I carried Old Lady out.

My feet felt heavy, and my head was dizzy. My body was saturated with divine power, and even I showed signs of poisoning. Closing the barrier nearly caused me to stumble, almost taking Old Lady down with me.

Sister Zi, looking better, struggled to sit up.

“Spirit Dream? Where’s Boss?”

“The others are in the spatial jewel, but we don’t know where it rolled to. The tendril I left is searching inside. The refining spell is running, and once those divine powers are cleaned up, we can return.”

I lay on the rocky ground, panting.

Laying Old Lady gently down, the witches resumed their emergency procedures.

Sister Zi stared at me intensely, as if trying to see through me.

“…Are you in fusion state now?”

“Yeah, only the current ‘me’ can handle this, right? But don’t worry, I know who I am. I won’t misuse the adhesive myself.”

“…You look different.”

Sister Zi weakly smiled and then sternly reminded, “We’ve saved the person, but the matter isn’t resolved yet.”

I knew what she meant.

“Yeah, if this wave of divine power is a heavenly punishment, and Old Lady hasn’t vanished yet, there might be another wave.”

I had another doubt: Why was the heavenly punishment pure divine power?

I thought it would have more specific effects, like heavenly lightning…

Sister Zi asked, “If there’s another wave of heavenly punishment, what will you do?”

“If I find the jewel, I’ll take Old Lady out of the research institute.”

Sister Zi, despite having a fever, was still clear-headed. Her brow furrowed as she realized my plan.

“Are you going to withstand the heavenly punishment with her? If this attempt fails, the next wave might be larger. Even if you somehow survive the next round, there will be another. This is impossible. And what about your altar?”

“But if Mama stays here, it will endanger others. She’s unconscious, so someone needs to take her away to a deserted place, and I’m the only one who can do it… Ah, found it.”

The tendril finally located the spatial jewel in the operating room.

The notebook materialized into a pure black bird, flew out of the operating room, spat the jewel into my palm, and then merged back into my sleeve.

Boss, Miss Ke Man, Miss Xin Zi, and the other witches involved in the surgery were inside, though unconscious. The spatial jewel contained no divine power, so the situation was relatively safe.

Just as I was about to release them, Sister Zi covered the jewel in my hand.

“Spirit Dream, you must come back. Your grandmother’s condition is unclear. She contacted an excessive amount of divine power during her transformation, and we don’t know what consequences it might have… For me, for Lin Hua and Zhao Lei, you must come back.”

Her tone was serious.

“Okay.”

“You must promise me!” Her voice grew louder.

“…I promise.”