Curious and brimming with energy, Little March clenched her fists, her eyes filled with anticipation as she waited for Dora-Caelus to take out a new gadget.
As a result, the two of them leaned in close, two fluffy gray heads huddled together, sneaking around and whispering conspiratorially while pointing fingers at the void. March 7th immediately got anxious.
"Hey, hey, what is it?"
March 7th anxiously reached out to tug at Caelus's sleeve. "What time is it now? You're still in the mood to hide things? Hurry up and take it out!"
However, Caelus remained indifferent to this. Not only did he completely ignore her, but he also immediately turned around, coordinating with Stelle to hunch over and block the view of his covered hands.
The more they acted like this, the more March 7th felt like ants were crawling in her heart, an agitation and curiosity scratching at her like a kitten.
"Oh my, why are you still keeping people in suspense at a time like this!"
March 7th was burning with anxiety. "If you keep being so wishy-washy, by the time General Jing Yuan gets beaten down by Phantylia, we're all done for!"
Then, March 7th saw Stelle and Caelus's bodies stop as if a pause button had been pressed. She hurriedly leaned over to pull at the two of them.
"What exactly is wro—ng~!"
But at a certain moment, the action of tugging Caelus's arm froze. March 7th blinked her beautiful pink-blue eyes, staring in shock as Caelus suddenly turned around and knelt on one knee.
"To March 7th—The wind and dust with bright eyes unstained by the mortal world, the soul of youth that time does not age. The gazes we tentatively exchanged will eventually turn into a life flowing together."
The gray-haired young man's expression was gentle, his words sounding like a deep and affectionate poem.
"...Huh?"
March 7th didn't quite react. She opened her mouth blankly, looking at Caelus with utter astonishment.
The edges of the young man's eyes seemed like the night; once brushed away, one could see all living things growing in abundance. His bright golden pupils were like the sun, shining into the heart and stirring up a thousand emotions.
The moment their gazes met, a few traces of crimson involuntarily rose on March 7th's face, her eyes instinctively wandering, unable to settle.
"You... You... what are you doing...!?"
Her flustered words came to an abrupt halt like a television being switched off, because March 7th saw that Caelus, kneeling on one knee, was holding a small black box in his hand. Lying quietly inside the box was a—
"—R-Ring!!!"
The ring's overall shape resembled the letter A, with a dazzling gem embedded at the tip.
March 7th's pupils contracted abruptly. Only then did her brain accept and finish processing the information contained in Caelus's first sentence. The analyzed result drove her brain toward chaos.
Thump, thump, thump!
Her heart drummed like thunder. A mindset even more nervous than when facing the Tree Abomination Dragon caused her blood circulation to accelerate until she was flushed red. Her entire person was in a dizzy state, her cheeks instantly covered in scarlet clouds.
"You... You this... This is too sudden!"
March 7th's mind went blank. She stared at the ring like a boiled lobster, completely unsure of how to react for a moment, flustered and at a loss.
"...Isn't this too hasty? No, no, no, I need time to think about it..."
The shocking fact instantly made March 7th's eyes spin in circles.
At the bottom of the turbulent Ancient Sea, on a battlefield where wolf-smoke rose in all directions, the atmosphere in this corner suddenly became not quite right.
"Void Break!"
Welt waved his cane. Pitch-black and dark-gold ripples of light wrapped around the nearby Tree Dragons and Abundance Dark Lotuses in a spiraling gesture.
The gravitational field bent space-time, tearing the Abundance Dark Lotuses apart, crushing the Destruction Dark Lotuses that were gathering Tailed Beast Balls, and causing the half-formed Tailed Beast Balls to explode via compression.
"Stelle, Caelus, March, ten o'clock direction, focus on defending against the Tree Wood Dragons... Cough!?"
Noticing ferocious Abomination Dragons roaring from the distance again, yet not seeing the fighting figures of Stelle, Caelus, or March 7th, Welt hurriedly turned his head to shout a reminder.
It would have been fine if he hadn't turned his head, but one look and it was a disaster!
Welt's eyes widened abruptly. What did he see?
Caelus was kneeling on one knee, holding a ring in his hand, appearing to be proposing to March 7th!?
"What... are you doing!?"
Even with Old Yang's composure, his mentality couldn't help but collapse somewhat, his gaze exploding.
Holy crap~!
This is a battle with a Lord Ravager!
Along the journey, Old Yang had actually become somewhat accustomed to the Star Rail crew's unreliability and their tendency to cause trouble anytime, anywhere. But when everyone is fighting to the death against Phantylia, you suddenly pull a kneeling proposal? That's too outrageous!
If even Welt, who had a certain resistance to the Star Rail virus, was like this, there was no need to mention the others.
Three giant Ice Moon sword qi slashes cut toward a cyan Rinnegan Tree Abomination Dragon. Jingliu leaped into mid-air, her dress fluttering. After hearing Welt's shout, she spared a glance, and as a result, she was also dumbfounded.
What is the situation?
Jingliu's expression became extremely bizarre.
She didn't know what tone of voice to use to describe her mood at this moment.
"Whoa~! Confessing at a time like this? That's very romantic!"
Li Sushang, who wasn't yet familiar with the Star Rail crew, smiled and sighed with emotion, thinking she was witnessing love amidst life and death.
"Sky Dragon Reveals Shadow, break!"
The only one who could barely remain calm was Dan Heng · Imbibitor Lunae. His resistance to the Star Rail crew's antics and unexpectedness was even higher than Welt's.
Dan Heng manipulated the Abyssal Pearl to strike out. The shadow of a Sky Dragon appeared around the Abyssal Pearl as it tore through space like a meteor, strangling the Tree Abomination Dragon at the ten o'clock direction while circling.
Boom!
The Lightning Lord and Phantylia, two colossi at the kilometer scale, engaged in close combat. Just a single touch whipped up a storm of natural disaster levels.
The Lightning Lord's thunderbolt giant blade chopped down with heavy force and momentum. Phantylia's ten lotus tails overlapped in front of her, the tail tips easily blocking the long blade slashed down by the Lightning Lord.
The ten tails swayed and lifted, their massive power pushing the Lightning Lord's long blade up. Phantylia waved the Green Wood Fan; the scene looked somewhat like Sasuke activating Susanoo to hack at Six Paths Naruto's Nine-Tails in the Valley of the End.
The demon fan lightly tapped the void. The Ambrosial Arbor's root system suddenly knotted into a thousand-meter Wood Dragon, wrapping around and binding the Lightning Lord in place.
Phantylia turned and twisted her body as if dancing. Ten lotus tails swept past the Lightning Lord, smashing into the Lightning Lord's chest like a giant pendulum hammer, sending it flying back more than ten kilometers.
Phantylia looked at the tails behind her and giggled:
"Is the power of a Xianzhou General only at this level? The biting of ants cannot harm me in the slightest."
She was enjoying the battle at this moment, enjoying the power of her body!
The entire Ancient Sea whipped up monstrous waves because of the fallen Lightning Lord.
"Heh! Mere power of the Plagues Author, I can sever it in an instant!"
Losing the exchange but not the formation, Jing Yuan manipulated the Lightning Lord to stand up, about to charge at Phantylia again.
Jing Yuan's sword fingers moved, directing the Lightning Lord to block horizontally with its blade, but the blade edge was deadlocked and twisted by the lotus tails.
The paused attacks of Dan Heng, Jingliu, Welt, and the others made both Jing Yuan and Phantylia notice the anomaly over there. Both of them, while continuing to fight, spared a shred of their mind to look.
They both saw Caelus's action that looked like a proposal, and their movements paused briefly for an instant.
The corners of Jing Yuan's mouth twitched slightly.
Even at a time like this, can you guys be a little reliable!
Also, Caelus, didn't you say I am your Grandmaster? Proposing to another woman in front of my Master, is that really okay?
Of course, such thoughts were just finding joy in bitterness. Along the way here, Jing Yuan had deliberately observed the interactions between Caelus and his Master.
Although he still couldn't explain why Caelus had his Master's personal undergarments, he felt the two shouldn't be in that kind of relationship.
"Oh my, is the Benefactor giving up hope on surviving and doing the last thing in his life?"
Reflected in the cyan Rinnegan, which was thirty or forty meters in diameter, was Caelus kneeling on one knee. Phantylia shook her leaf fan lightly and giggled:
"Rest assured, this little woman will preserve all your bodies, concoct them into Voidrangers, and let you be together forever."
"Or, the Benefactor can kneel down now and say some nice words, and this little woman might consider showing mercy~!"
Phantylia displayed an air of invincibility.
"Do you know that being invincible is actually a Debuff?"
Taking advantage of the moment March 7th was attracted by Phantylia's words, Caelus grabbed the young girl's fair, soft little hand and slipped the ring onto her slender, jade-like middle finger.
"!"
March 7th, her pretty face red as blood, retracted her palm wearing the ring in panic as if electrocuted, stammering as she wanted to say something.
But Caelus had already stood up and put another matching couple's ring on his own finger.
The gray-haired young man looked up at the god-like Emanator as massive as a mountain, staring Phantylia down without fear.
"Heh, keeping up appearances."
Phantylia lightly covered the corner of her mouth with the round fan and laughed sneeringly.
"Is that so?"
The corners of Caelus's mouth hooked up slightly. "Then I'll show you something good... Jingliu, Sushang, come here for a moment."
Caelus turned his head to call out to the two who were exterminating the Dark Lotuses.
"What are you going to do?"
Jingliu responded in confusion. The three-foot cold gleam in her hand swelled in the wind, transforming into a ferocious frost blade. Carrying a mighty Sword Intent sufficient to dye the surrounding ten miles in a momentary moon-white, she slashed out boldly!
She leveled a large patch of vines and ancient trees in front of her.
"Go!"
But before Caelus could answer, Moonscar, who had canceled auto-battle and taken back control of the body, pulled Jingliu and flew toward Caelus's side on her sword.
"Hmph, the struggles of ants!"
The chemical reaction between the Power of Abundance from the Ambrosial Arbor and the strange eyes made Phantylia very arrogant.
She believed the current her was invincible. Even if Jing Yuan had those helpers, they were not her match!
But thinking of the items Caelus took out earlier that allowed Welt and March 7th to summon Mashin Mechas they had never seen before, she hesitated in her heart, finally deciding to strike to stop it.
She commanded the Ambrosial Arbor to drop a branch.
"Don't even think about it!"
Hearing Caelus's words, Dan Heng and Old Yang, who had used their one-time items, reacted instantly, helping Caelus, Jingliu, and Sushang withstand Phantylia's attack.
"Hidden Moon in the Grotto-Heaven, Azure Dragon Cleanses the World, rise!"
A heaven-shaking dragon roar resounded through the world!
A verdant Azure Dragon, carrying storms and great tides, moved against the heavens, roaring as it bit onto the descending Ambrosial Arbor branch.
"Jingliu, this is for you. And Sushang."
Caelus took out a pair of Potara Earrings and handed them to the white-haired beauty and himself respectively. There was no need to say the second half of the sentence, but one had to put on a show.
"This is... an earring?"
Taking the item, Jingliu gazed at the golden pearl-like pendant in her palm, raising her eyebrows in confusion. "Why give me an earring?"
"You'll know once you put it on."
Caelus gave a mysterious smile to Jingliu. "Yours goes on the left ear. Sushang, yours goes on the right ear."
"?"
Jingliu was still somewhat baffled, only to see her own Little Master had already put the earring on and was looking at her intently.
"Alright... like this, right?"
Jingliu nodded helplessly and fastened the earring to her left ear. As soon as her voice fell, she felt a suction force coming from her Little Master's body.
What is the situation?
Amidst Jingliu's astonished expression, her body floated up uncontrollably. Sushang was the same; under the manipulation of an inexplicable force, the two were sucked together like magnets.
The Big Pillow collided with the snowy-jade-like warmth that was somehow chilly yet bouncy and soft.
Under the gaze of everyone, friend and foe alike, a dazzling, blinding light blossomed from where their bodies touched.
"What happened?"
March 7th's brain capacity wasn't even enough to think about the ring that had been put on her. She covered her eyes with her palm to block the blinding white light.
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