Why Am I a Priestess When I Reach the Maximum Level? - [Vol. 6] Chapter 113

[Vol. 6] Chapter 113: The Beast of Chaotic Destruction

“They really set up an ambush here… Looks like Tao Mu has trained these little ones quite well.”

Seeing that the last two Demon Lords were also stopped halfway and couldn’t get close to the towering pillar, Xiao Kong visibly relaxed. She even had the leisure to comment from the air.

“Violet, do you think the enemy might still have other tricks up their sleeve?”

“Who knows…”

Not giving a definite answer, the priestess didn’t pay much attention to the battlefield below, which appeared tense but was actually already decided. Instead, she was scanning the crowd, searching for a figure from her memories.

…As expected, not here.

But in this situation, the Western Origin Spirit Maiden would never just leave the battlefield, abandoning the Peach Blossom Guards without leadership. That would be irresponsible to them and impossible to explain to the Peach Blossom Sage. If it were the person Violet knew, “Hen,” she would never do such a thing.

So…

The black-haired girl turned her head, her gaze shifting toward the towering pillar not far away, her eyes flashing with a subtle gleam.

It must be that she’s dealing with something more important.

“Xiao Kong, can you handle those two below?”

“Shouldn’t be a problem. Violet, are you ready…?”

“Well, we’ve been chasing for so long, it’s time to reveal their true face. No matter what they plan to do next, this time, I won’t let her slip away.”

“Is that so…”

A subtle trace of disappointment flickered in the gem-like vertical pupils, but Xiao Kong quickly composed herself, smiling and nodding slightly.

“Don’t worry, with me here, those last two Demon Lords won’t cause any trouble.”

“Alright, I’ll leave it to you then.”

With a flutter of her white wings, the girl turned and descended toward the giant pillar in the center of the ancient battlefield.

“Western Origin Spirit Maiden… Hen?”

The short-haired girl dressed as a cat girl shook her head, chuckling helplessly but saying nothing more as she parted ways with the priestess and headed toward the battlefield.

Soon, Violet arrived at the towering pillar, whose purpose and true nature remained unclear.

“Wow, it really looks spectacular up close…”

From a distance, it was clear that it was a column rising into the clouds, but up close, its diameter, a full hundred meters wide, seemed just as massive as an actual wall of the heavens.

The heavy and oppressive aura of ancient times spread slowly from within the column, giving an overwhelming sense of pressure. Violet looked up at the still-hovering [Eternal Light of Protection] over the battlefield, thought for a moment, and decided not to dispel it immediately, as she would with her light embodiment.

Better to be cautious.

Standing before the massive pillar, which was more like an immense wall with no visible top or curvature, the girl tapped her staff against it. The dull “thunk-thunk” sound echoed.

Hmm… seems pretty solid.

As the [Eternal Scepter of the World’s Heart] struck the stone pillar, the weathered marks left by wind and sun on the surface flaked off like an outer shell, revealing a strange, iron-gray texture inside, which felt even harder.

To be honest, this didn’t seem like any kind of metal, much less a common building material like stone or ore.

Oh well, let’s focus on the task at hand.

She glanced around cautiously, her spiritual senses expanding outward, quickly noticing some unusual details.

After walking around the “wall” with its slight curve for a while, Violet crouched down and found a long stone slab, nearly fused with the surrounding environment due to wind and sun exposure.

The slab was heavy, but it wasn’t much of an issue for the priestess. She flipped it over, revealing a hidden staircase leading downward.

She glanced up at the giant pillar that reached into the sky, and a realization struck her.

“Could it be that this thing extends far underground as well…?”

If… if the underground portion of this structure is even half the length of what’s visible above ground, it might stretch over ten thousand meters in total length. Far surpassing any of the twelve peaks of Cangyun.

Even the seven stone pillars supporting the ground beneath Yangyuan County and the [Seven Stars Evil-Subduing Seal] were incredibly impressive, but compared to this, they were nothing.

This pillar was undoubtedly related to the imprisoned Taotie… but what exactly is it? Is Taotie sealed beneath this pillar, like the way the Monkey King is trapped under Five Finger Mountain?

With this somewhat absurd thought in mind, Violet stepped onto the underground staircase.

The stone steps were clearly part of a spiraling corridor, winding around the underground portion of the pillar, continuously spiraling downward at a 30-degree angle.

Downward, spiraling further.

It was like an endless loop, and after walking for over ten minutes, the scenery before her hadn’t changed at all. It reminded her of the final trial she faced in the Demon God’s Three Trial.

However, the starry sky and long staircase were created by the Demon God Olivia using the divine authority of her magic power, a trick of a different space. In contrast, this spiral staircase truly exists, enduring for millennia and remaining unbroken.

It’s hard to imagine the immense effort and cost the beings of this place must have paid to construct this.

Xiao Kong likely knows the details of this space, as she had admitted that the [Six-Line Array Palace] was personally supervised by her. But Violet deliberately avoided asking her about the specifics of this place, as she didn’t want to be influenced by preconceived notions from someone else’s words.

What exactly is [Taotie], and how should one face it? The priestess wanted to see it with her own eyes and draw her own conclusions, not simply follow others’ opinions, just as she had done before with [Yazi].

So, Violet continued downward for several thousand meters. The temperature and energy in the surroundings became increasingly intense as she descended, eventually reaching a heat so high that most ordinary beings would struggle to endure it.

It seemed as though the endless spiral staircase had finally come to an end.

It wasn’t that she had reached the bottom of the giant pillar, but more likely, the builders had reached the limit of their ability to descend further due to the harsh environment. Thus, the staircase abruptly stopped here.

At the sudden end of the spiral staircase, what greeted her eyes was a vast, silver light pattern on the ground below, resembling a starry sky.

The silver markings were strikingly similar to the ones found beneath Yangyuan County, almost like chains and shackles binding the giant pillar, circling around it.

The pattern expanded into a cross-section far larger than the hundred-meter-wide pillar itself, propping up the entire underground space and blocking everything below from view.

“…It’s hard to imagine, this is [Taotie].”

Standing on the silver light pattern, a faint sense of realization suddenly washed over Violet.

It turned out that this giant pillar, which rose straight into the sky above and seemed endless even when several thousand meters deep underground, was actually a part of Taotie’s body.