The battle had reached its crescendo—reality itself fraying at the edges, the Void Emperor's cursor flickering erratically as Luo Feng's completed Eclipse form warped the rules of existence around them. The Death Queen was cackling as she turned divine wrath into abstract art, Li Qing's frost had evolved into something resembling sentient blizzards, and the plush demons had somehow unionized mid-apocalypse.
Then—
A flare of foxfire so brilliant it seared shadows into the fabric of reality.
Xiao Jiuying stepped from the flames, whole and unbroken, her nine tails fanning out like a wildfire given sentience. Every memory, every stolen moment, every secret she'd ever kept—all of it burned in her golden eyes as she surveyed the chaos.
And then she looked straight at Luo Feng and said:
"Who the hell are you?"
The battlefield froze. The Eclipse Core in Luo Feng's chest stuttered like a dying star. Even the Void Emperor's cursor paused mid-click, as if the universe itself needed a moment to process this betrayal.
The Death Queen's poisoned dagger slipped from her fingers. "Oh you vicious little—"
Li Qing's frost spontaneously formed the words NOT FUNNY in midair before shattering from sheer exasperation.
Xiao Jiuying circled Luo Feng with exaggerated curiosity, her tails flicking in delight. "Hmm. You look... vaguely familiar. Were you one of my less memorable conquests?"
Luo Feng's voice cracked. "Jiuying."
She paused. Leaned in close. Then—
The kiss was less a romantic reunion and more a theft of cosmic proportions—her lips searing against his with the heat of a newborn star, her tails wrapping around them both in a supernova's embrace. When they broke apart, the afterimage hung in the air like a divine spotlight, illuminating the Void Emperor's horrified realization:
He wasn't just fighting an Eclipse Bearer anymore.
He was fighting an Eclipse Bearer with a fully powered, fully remembered, and fully mischievous Fox Spirit at his side.
Somewhere in the newborn star's corona, a plush demon waved a tiny "CALLED IT" flag.
END OF CHAPTER 92