Listen While Reading: Punishing Gray Raven-----

  Although Meicus showed plete fiden the outside, deep inside he was beginning to question what he was seeing.

  “Did this woman just tank my attack? Capable of splitting a ti in half? Not even Gaxy Man could take it head-on; he was severely exhausted for a minute or two!”

  However, unlike Gaxy Man, Bing Xue wasn’t exhausted; in fact, she seemed pletely fine; even her clothes were fine!

  Even wheanked an attack hyper charged with eleagiergies of the highest power, which could only be unleashed by Meicus and his gigantic Silver Star.

  “My Silver Star is capable of destroyiire ps or wiping out all life from them,” he thought. “I’ve used it to easily mine any phat I find has enough materials for my ever-growing empire. But without my Empire here, the only thing I rely on is my one and only Silver Star! Yet she tanked…?!”

  “What’s wrong? You look worried!” said Bing Xue as she uhed her bde. “Maybe this will make you feel better.”

  “She saw through my fa?ade?!” Meicus panicked, gritting his teeth as he quickly jured a gigantic shield made of eleagic fields, capable of tanking multiple nukes. “You think a mere sword pierce through my-”

  “{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Endless Cycle of Harmony}”

  FLAAASH!

  For a moment, Meicus saw the vergeween light and darkness, Yin and Yang, life ah, the sun and the moon.

  His meical eyes widened in utter disbelief as he saw a gigantic bd white-colored lotus blossom in front of him.

  And then…

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  Hundreds of sshing attacks engulfed his shield, destroying it and shattering it into tless tiny pieces within mere seds.

  “W-Wha…?! I-Impossible!” Meicus screamed. “My Hundred-Layered Eleagic Photon Field Shield! I-It shouldn’t break; it never breaks!”

  “Anything that is matter break before the bde of my Soul.”

  Bing Xue’s word maed to reality as she swung her empty hand against Meicus; a giant sword made of crimson fmes maed.

  She titag without even giving him time to rest!

  “{Primordial Heaven Soul Bde}: {Red Heaven Inferno}”

  FLUOOOSH!

  Suddenly, it felt as if he had been engulfed by an endless inferno of fmes and a crimson sky, fmes surging from every angle as they cut through his meical body aed him.

  “UUAAAGGH! NOOOO!!! S-SILVER STAR!!!”

  With a desperate scream, a gigantic azure-colored portal opened in front of him, blog Bing Xue’s sword attacks as a massive, titanic star made entirely out of metal emerged.

  With thousands of meical tentacles equipped with gigantic cws and dozens of azure-colored eyes charging energy.

  “So this is the secret of your power, huh?”

  Bing Xue instantly cshed against thousands of meical tentacles at once, slig through them all with incredible precision. Each time they were to reach her, they were sliced apart and then exploded into pieces.

  SLASH! BOOM!

  SLASH! BOOM!

  SLASH! BOOM!

  SLASH! BOOM!

  This pattern tinued endlessly as Meicus could only wat utter disbelief as his Silver Star’s attacks were being rapidly overe by Bing Xue.

  To make things worse, Ra and Merh weren’t just watg! They flew around him and reached him from the rear, pointing their bzing spear at him.

  “You’ll pay for what you did to my Ra!”

  Merh was furious, thrusting her spear against Meicus, who desperately used Silver Star’s meical limbs to protect himself.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  Yet Ra’s spear bzed with the power of the sun’s psma itself, easily pierg all the metallic alloys in which Meicus creations were made, melting them and blowing them up into pieces.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  “W-What are these beings?! This universe…! It is way too powerful! I must escape!”

  Meicus quickly panicked as he opened an azure portal where the dimension where Silver Star was stored! However, the moment he rushed io hide while Silver Star distracted Bing Xue…

  “Where do you think yoing?!”

  With a furious roar, a third figure appeared from the skies, desding like a meteor of silver light, taking the form of a giant werewolf made of such light.

  “Huh?!”

  Meicus was uo do a sihing before the ohat desded tore his body apart with the force of his desding body alone.

  BOOOMMM!!!

  As Meicus died, the portal st Silver Star started to malfun, glitg and beginning to make his creation go insane.

  “W-Wha…?! You’re awake already?!”

  Bing Xue gasped, notig the young man from the future with powers simir to hers having already appeared.

  “Did you think your little trick would work on me for lohan an hour?!” he asked angrily. “I’ve adapted to it; it won’t work anymore either!”

  “I-I didn’t io seal you forever anyways!” said Bing Xue. “And that’s good; I’m gd you’ve adapted and bee better against Soul Attacks, son!”

  “Don’t call me your son!” He screamed angrily, his aura erupting tremendously.

  “B-Bing Xue, what’s going on?!” Merh panicked, gng at Bing Xue from afar. “Who is he?! Y-You said your son?!”

  “Long story short, he’s my son from a future timeline where I… where I died,” Bing Xue expined, only making things even more fusing.

  “E-Eh?!” Merh gasped. “But that’s…!”

  TRUUUM!

  Before they could tialking, however, the Silver Star suddenly started charging with eleagiergy, as its entire surface ged.

  Suddenly, its giant eyes gnced around as a huge mouth materialized.

  “Did you think you killed me?! The Silver Star is me, and I am the Silver Star, hahahaha! I have tless bodies. Do you truly believe you destroy me?”

  “Yes, I do!”

  Bing Xue ignored her son for a moment as she unleashed a powerful teique, an evolution of the Endless Cycle of Harmony that she infused with the power of the Sun and the Moon itself.

  “{Yin And Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Endless Cycle Of Harmony Echo}”

  FLAAASH!

  The same illusory domain was maed around the Silver Star, as Meicus quickly tried to destroy it by firing hundreds of beams from the Silver Star, which resulted to also be his sedary body.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  The Illusory Domain started dist and breaking apart into gss-like pieces, only for it to e back together almost instantly.

  “W-What?!”

  The alien supervilin of the parallel timeline world where superheroes and supervilied together was utterly fbbergasted. Even more when Bing Xue wasn’t even done usieique.

  Even when he had fought Gaxy Man, the sentinel of the gaxy, and many hty foes, even powerful wizards aically modified beings, or even desdants of a gods, he had never fought someone quite like Bing Xue before!

  Her very teique and her very words simply twisted reality around her... Her powers, her abilities, they trolled space...

  And even time!

  Yin and Yang verged, then exploded, geing an endless chaos.

  “{Endless Destru of Harmony: Chaos Unleashed}”

  Meicus watched the endless chaos rushing towards him and ing him entirely… the imagery of a withering lotus flower imprinted into his mind.

  “T-This is… a true Goddess?”

  SLAAASH!

  A gigantic sshing attaed Meicus and his Silver Star, splitting the titanic mae apart and then disiing both halves with a gigantic explosion.

  BOOOMMM!!!

  Nothing was left of him, not even ashes.

  “Hahh…”

  Bing Xue’s Illusory Domain dissipated, revealing no damage to the outside world. She had learo apply the power of Divine Domains to her own teiques, trapping foes within small, temporary pseudo-domains to e any damage she could cause iside world.

  She sheathed her sword and then finally g her son, who was looking at her while squinting his eyes.

  “You’ve grown stronger after we fought… How ironic,” he ughed. “It seems that I might truly be ging the future…”

  “e with me,” Bing Xue said. “Let’s ge the future together! I know we … If you’re with me, my son… I-”

  “No,” the young man said, pletely rejeg her offer. “I don’t need you to ge the future. This power… which I acquired and which I could never use to ge anything, This time, for sure, I’ll save this world. Without you.”

  “That’s…” Bing Xue sighed. “If I help you, then wouldn’t it be easier then?”

  “I said I don’t care anymore about you!” He angrily said. “I… I’m done.”

  As he turned his ba Bing Xue and was about to leave…

  Suddenly.

  “Wait!”

  A voice he could reize echoed behind him.

  The young man aralyzed, his eyes widening.

  “Please wait a moment… Bing Xue told me about you!”

  “…”

  The young man slowly turned his face, instantly reizing the face of the mother that raised him for his first six years of life.

  Before she died proteg him…

  “Mo… ther?”

  It was Urbosa, her golden eyes, her long gray hair, her pale colored fur, and her small, fluffy hands, which always held him so carefully.

  Despite him not being quite like her, she loved him with all her soul and with all her heart.

  “You haven’t even been born here… But I’m so happy to see you’ve grown to be su incredible young man…” Urbosa smiled tenderly, shedding a tear.

  Bing Xue was able to realize who was his mother based on his elements. While Merkite mastered the Wind Element, her sister, Urbosa, used lightning.

  And this young man used lightning elements the most, while wind was pletely absent from his teiques or skills.

  “Could you e talk with us? Please?”

  “…”

  The man, for a moment, hesitated as he g Urbosa and ended up shedding tears with each passing sed.

  “No…”

  “But…”

  “The path I must walk is one where you ot e with me, mother. Sorry. I have to go. Someone else… Someone else is waiting for me too.”

  “…”

  Urbosa g the young man flying away.

  At the very least, he didn’t seem as aggressive anymore; if anything, he had finally calmed down after seeing her.

  “So it was indeed our son.” Bing Xue nodded. “Hahh… It’s alright.”

  Urbosa hugged Bing Xue tightly as she cried.

  Even though this was the first time she met him, she instantly felt a e with him.

  Simirly to how she felt always ected to Hekita.

  “Maybe if we had let him see Hekita, maybe he would have…!”

  “It’s already clear he wants to walk a lonely path, Urbosa.”

  “But he’s our son!”

  “I know… But f him… is not the right thing to do either.”

  “Ahh… Just what did he gh in that world… His eyes were so full of hopelessness… I have never seen… Someoh a heart so wounded as him.”

  “Me her…”

  Bing Xue had picked up her family and wives on the way to the airport, who were waiting for her inside her Inner Realm.

  However, in this moment, she tried to let her son from the future see Urbosa and see if this could make him melt down.

  At the end, it didn’t work as she hoped.

  “Wow, okay, so a lot happened…” Merh said, walking to their side. “Um, I would like to learn more text? If possible…”

  “Ah, of course, sorry about that, Merh; a lot has happened, as you see,” Bing Xue nodded. “Shall we go somewhere safer? Let me fix this pce first… Thankfully, nobody died.”

  “Sure, take your time…” Merh nodded, although she felt a bit jealous of Urbosa, who was hugging Bing Xue all she wanted.

  “I want to hug you too, you know?” She thought, pouting and blushing a bit.

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  .

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  FLASH!

  He flew across the skies, defeating any troublemaking monster or foe he found. There were several strange “vilins” that appeared; every single one of them that posed a threat was swiftly eliminated.

  Only the smartest ohat hid mao survive his surveilnce. And once he was done, he moved forward, reag the outskirts of New York.

  He soared across the skies faster, and faster, and faster, enpassing his body with Spiritual Energy and Mana, and then his Primordial Venerable Ki.

  FLUOSH!

  Until suddenly, it felt as if his body passed through a thin, light membrane, reag “somewhere else” entirely.

  A world of twisted colors, darkness, light, and floating ruins of a civilizations, graveyards, destroyed churches, and enormous empires.

  All fallen, stored here…

  “The Graveyard of History… The Spiritual Pne, made out of Earth’s Collective sciousness and the Decayed History of Humanity and Life,” he said, gng around. “This is where you were hiding, right? And where I hid… and where you trained me. For many years.”

  He flew across this infinitely rger pce thah itself, a pce that was there, and that wasn’t there at the same time.

  If one was uo bee purely Spiritual, made of Spirit Energy, it was impossible to enter or eve this pce.

  “There it is.”

  A distortion within this desoted area was found by his bright rainbow wolf-like eyes, notig a gia made out of the ruins of a civilizations covered by white spiderwebs.

  He reached its entrance, walking ihout g about triggering any traps.

  Instantly after entering, he sensed hundreds of presences—mutated people turned half-spider, araoids.

  “Who dares enter our Queen’s Lair?!”

  They poiheir spears and ons against him.

  Instead of feeling anger, he felt nostalgic, though.

  “Ah, you guys are still here, huh? I’m gd to see you’re doing fine.”

  “H-Huh?”

  “What is this guy talking about?”

  “Ah, our Queen!”

  They gasped as they saw an incredibly powerful presence desd, materializing above him, half human-like and half spider-like.

  “Who are you?! How were you able to enter my Lair?”

  The young man smiled warmly, seeing her beautiful upper body, her slender figure, her pale white skin, bined with her long purple hair.

  Her long spider-like legs, so elegant aiful; her big crimson eyes above her forehead; and her sharp purple eyes, which glowed with a red glint sometimes.

  Her body was covered by a dark purple exoskeleto showed a beautiful and slender humanoid figure.

  “You’re as beautiful as the day I lost you.”

  His words, somewhat, resonated within her heart and her soul.

  “W-What?!”

  For a moment, the cruel and ing primal spider goddess blushed, as she felt fttered by this young mahereal charm.

  However, she quickly lost her temper, gritting her mandibles angrily!

  “Y-You dare flirt with me?! Capture him!”

  Without even fighting back, he let them cover him with spiderwebs and drag him away.

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  Pach