Social Animals? My Brother is a Female Empress in the Underworld and Earns 10 Billion a Month!

230: Power of MeritHer gaze fixed sharply on the cracks in the altar, and she shouted, ”Olexia!”

”Do the Western divine powers of the Goddess of Nature and the God of Light possess the ability to restrain and weaken all evil, twisted, and filthy things…?”

Seeing Shang Wan Ning suddenly pull such a move, Olexia instantly understood her intention and added, ”That is indeed the case, but neither of us currently possesses these two types of divine power.”

”The Eastern power of thunder and merit actually share similarities and can both produce significant effects.”

She paused for a moment before continuing to explain.

”However, if you use divine powers with other attributes, it will likely not only fail to achieve the expected results but might even have the opposite effect, or worse, provide nourishment for the thing below.”

Upon hearing this, Shang Wan Ning’s lips curled upward, revealing a confident expression.

She formed a ”Thunder Seal” with her hand, closed her eyes to look inward, and gently stroked the son of heaven sword.

Instantly, the sword light shot out in all directions like falling stars, dazzling and eye-catching.

Those army ants that were originally frantically gnawing on the Statue of the Deity seemed to smell the scent of their natural enemy.

They suddenly stopped their ”mouthparts,” ceased destroying the Statue of the Deity, and began to flee in a panic into the cracks of the Statue of the Deity.

Seeing that this move was effective, Shang Wan Ning did not hesitate to aim the son of heaven sword at the cracks in the Statue of the Deity.

She began to chant…

A stream of Lesser Five Thunders gushed out from the tip of the sword.

”The power of the Five Thunders Orthodox Method is slightly insufficient, and as for the Shangqing Thunder Method, I have not mastered it deeply enough.”

”In comparison, merit is more reliable, and I possess a vast amount of merit, so I can absolutely afford to squander some here.”

Shang Wan Ning muttered to herself.

After speaking, she turned her head to look at Olexia in the distance.

She saw that Olexia had long since pulled Chen Yu back hundreds of meters and had also conveniently erected a transparent protective barrier, enclosing herself and Chen Yu within it.

She pursed her lips, pouting slightly.

The grip on the sword hilt unconsciously tightened a few notches.

”I must also thank Her Excellency the Goddess of Desire. If you hadn’t guided me to discover the flaw in this thing, I’m afraid I really wouldn’t have been able to handle it.”

There was a hint of gratitude in Shang Wan Ning’s voice, but more than that, it was the relief of a burden being lifted.

”You’re welcome, I’m doing this for the sake of our good friendship.”

”Your Majesty, there is no time to lose, you had better act quickly.”

Olexia tactfully waved her hand, the meaning could not be more obvious—she did not want to be dragged into this at such a critical moment.

It would be best to watch Shang Wan Ning continue her ”performance” from afar like an outsider.

Just as the son of heaven sword was about to strike down, the thing inside the altar showed no reaction at all.

Except for those army ants still frantically scurrying about, it was as if they were completely unaware of the impending danger.

Shang Wan Ning steeled her heart and decided not to wait any longer.

She mobilized half of the merit within her body, pouring it continuously into the son of heaven sword.

”Ha!”

With her angry shout, the son of heaven sword slashed down violently, carrying endless ’might’ as it struck the altar fiercely.

A thunderous explosion was heard.

The entire altar shook violently.

Immediately after, a crack hundreds of meters long appeared on the altar, having been forcibly split open by the Empress’s sword strike.

In an instant, a burst of black resentment surged out like a volcanic eruption, shooting straight up above the strait.

The resentment was so thick it was almost suffocating, mixed with a foul stench, sounding like the roars and curses of countless wronged souls.

Shang Wan Ning stared intently, and from within the crack, a colossal monster slowly crawled out.

The monster’s body was incredibly massive, resembling a mountain, and its entire body emitted a suffocating stench.

Its body seemed to be pieced together from countless twisted limbs, with every joint constantly writhing.

And the resentful spirits of those army ants darted back and forth through these joints, as if they were the monster’s blood.