The golden light enveloped Li Xin and Celestia. When the liquid touched the golden light, it started to sizzle and burn, emitting a dizzying stench. The corridor also began to heave and squeeze violently. Li Xin maintained his balance amidst the shaking, constantly striking with his fists. The entire passageway shook violently again, and the ground beneath them suddenly gave way, causing them to fall rapidly.

Whizz...

Li Xin floated in mid-air with Celestia, and beneath them was a blood-black pool bubbling with foam and floating bones. Suddenly, faces emerged from the surrounding walls, snarling as they emitted high-pitched howls that assaulted their minds. Celestia's Magic Ring was breached, but Li Xin's Immovable Ming King Seal remained intact.

From the surrounding walls emerged tentacles like meat tumors, reaching for them. Li Xin's Spiritual Burst immediately blasted out, causing the approaching tentacles to explode in mid-air, unable to come close to them.

Li Xin carried Celestia over the blood pool, not wanting to linger in this place any longer. They floated over areas similar to the blood pool and entered a sticky and dim corridor. The corridor was sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, and periodically, Lickers would emerge from the corridor walls to attack them, only to be blasted away by Li Xin.

Gradually, Celestia's emotions stabilized, and from time to time, she would cast a spell to block the Lickers, although most only served as a distraction. The Lickers here were much more formidable than those outside, and many of her spells were not very effective in unexpected situations, and her reactions were inadequate. The real battle was vastly different from the practice at the Canon Law School, but Celestia was brave and bold, never the type to be easily frightened, somewhat resembling the idea of borrowing another's authority.

They advanced for quite some time in the darkness, and there were Inhalers in the corridor, but their number was not as terrifying as outside. They seemed to be parasitic here, launching sneak attacks that seemed undefendable, yet Li Xin could always spot and blast them ahead of time. The stinking liquid was also kept out by the protective golden light. The corridor, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, was like a maze. Who knew how long they had wandered until they finally saw the exit. It seemed as if everything returned to normal. As they stepped out of the corridor, Celestia was stunned by the scene before her. This wasn't a room in the ancient castle, but an isolated space under the sky, shrouded in mist, with dozens of giant chains entwined like pythons, hanging this space. The chains converged at a central point and suspended high in the air. The ends of the chains disappeared into the mist.

Under the chains was a tall humanoid creature. Originally wanting to crack a joke after surviving the ordeal, Celestia choked up immediately.

The peculiar giant sat there about four meters tall, with a pair of huge red fleshy wings on its back, sinewy and mottled, rotten and shriveled in many places. He wore damaged armor, which, despite being worn, faintly bore symbols like clan emblems. Draped over its back was a tattered dark red cloak, with silvery-gray disheveled and fluffy long hair. The damaged chest armor exposed bones and dark shriveled sinews, with the left chest appearing hollowed out, and something seemed to be faintly glowing, with a thin chain piercing through the chest and also converging in the misty point overhead.

Its sturdy lower limbs did not quite resemble human ones, with huge feet embedded into the ground, with a massive blood-red Greatsword stuck in the ground before it.

"Is this... an angel?" Celestia swallowed hard. Her damn luck to encounter a mythological creature in her Holy Land, really made no sense.

A door stood behind the Broken Angel, Celestia looked at Li Xin with excitement mixed with tension. It seemed the Broken Angel might be asleep, or perhaps already dead. They were somewhat lucky and might sneak past quietly. The moment they can leave here and activate the Gate of Truth to escape, witnessing is one thing, but she had no desire to linger here any longer after seeing the angel. If this creature woke up, they would become sacrifices.

They roughly estimated about two hours of wandering inside, if not for Li Xin's stable and confident demeanor and the miraculous protection of the golden light, she would have long collapsed.

The golden light was mysterious. Celestia had never seen such power before. It didn't belong to any Array nor seemed like Spiritual Ability, yet it brought a strong sense of belief that isolated everything outside. When Li Xin withdrew the golden light, Celestia instantly felt the bone-chilling malice behind them. Let alone being eaten by those monsters, the malice alone was enough to drive anyone mad.

"Brother Li, are we going to run?" Celestia swallowed hard and softly reminded Li Xin, who was intently staring at the Broken Angel.

"Do you recognize this creature?" Li Xin inquired.

"Divine Relics can achieve a mythological form upon activating the Fifth Life Star. The one before us, with bloody wings, should be a Battle Angel on the Knightly Path. We shouldn't act recklessly, even a basic mythological form is overwhelmingly powerful against anything below the Fifth Life…" Celestia calmly advised, fearing Li Xin might get carried away.

"It's too late," Li Xin shook his head. Truly, they hadn't been able to leave since they appeared. This was the master of the ancient castle. "Later, you need to stand aside on your own, I may not be able to handle everything."

Celestia opened her mouth. Handle what, we are all going to die here. The Broken Angel, half-squatting on the ground, slowly lifted its head. Blood-red eyes opened, and a powerful suffocating aura enveloped the entire room. That face, half-covered with a mask, half-human and half-skeleton, was already cracked, with the blood-red giant eyes more like a human's, staring at Li Xin and Celestia. Its mouth opened, moving its body with a creaking sound, "Young Law Enforcer, and… a little flea."

Upon hearing that, the previously somewhat timid Celestia jumped back intensely like a cat with its fur bristled, "You're the flea, your whole family are fleas, you wretched flea, no wonder you are chained here."

The Broken Angel spoke in Hera Language, and Celestia retaliated in the same tongue, her tone was rhythmic and very imposing. After speaking, she immediately shrank back behind Li Xin, peeking her head out.

The Broken Angel gradually stood up, its nearly six-meter body exuded immense pressure, its blood wings behind expanding to six or seven meters in length, though the left wing was only half remaining, both broken and sinewy.

In an instant, the powerful aura from the Battle Angel directly pressed down on the two. Li Xin didn't mind, holding the Immovable Ming King Seal to bear it head-on, while Celestia huddled behind him, trembling.

Seeing a tiny Law Enforcer who had yet to reach the Fifth Life Star resist his aura, the Battle Angel showed a hint of surprise. Maybe he had truly weakened too much, unable to even intimidate a young Law Enforcer. The Broken Angel's eyes showed a trace of pain, not of physical or even soul suffering, but the helplessness and numbness from long-term decline, enduring life without living, and unable to embrace death, dwindling away bit by bit here. Looking at Li Xin, his eyes grew slightly more vibrant, "How nice it is to be young."

"Senior, my sister and I mean no offense. Could you tell us how to leave here?" Li Xin asked. It seemed there might be a possibility for communication, and he preferred peace before conflict.

"Senior?" The Broken Angel seemed unfamiliar yet somewhat reminiscent of the term. A glow flickered in its blood-red giant eyes, pupils constantly contracting, seemingly plunged into agony, "Who am I?"

The angel held its head, seemingly in confusion, and then started clawing at its own head, tearing shrunken skin and flesh away piece by piece. The tearing sound made Celestia's legs weak, the angel's featherless wings shuddered, flapping to and fro, shedding bits with each movement. The chain at its chest clattered along.

She didn't know what Brother Li was doing. Was this really the time for chatting? Just run, the door is right there. The angel was bound by chains; a chance might be there if they fought for it.

Li Xin just stared at the Broken Angel before him. He wasn't as optimistic as Celestia. The chains on the angel weren't like those other mighty chains. The angel bore no resemblance to a Fallen entity's aura, though he dared not make any hasty judgments, as habitual thinking could lead to disaster. The highest-grade Fallen he'd encountered was an Inhaler, a kind that absorbed and assimilated the food into its body, becoming a part of it—a monstrous aberration. But the Broken Angel before him, despite looking otherworldly, didn't exude chaotic vibes like an Inhaler, even though it seemed a bit mad now.

The door was there, yet judging from past experiences, Li Xin didn't think that was the true exit.

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