Li Ming closed her eyes as she stretched her arms out and started chanting a very ancient spell as she called the black mist which was trying to get a hold on the situation after being attacked by a powerful spiritual arrow.

Though the attack from the arrow caused no physical damage to the mist, it was still enough to break the connection between the mist and the Valkyrie.

Li Ming took advantage of that short moment as she immediately started chanting, calling the mist to listen to her command and enter the crystal ball.

It took Valkyrie only a few seconds to realize exactly what was happening and she soon resumed her own chants. However, those few seconds were enough for Li Ming to get an upper hand but that wasn't enough at all.

Just when the mist was finally about to give up struggling under Li Ming's command, its broken link with the Valkyrie started to flutter to life, causing it to be confused as suddenly there were two different people trying to compel it at the same moment.

"Mallow!"

Snowy called the nine tailed spirit fox who had been patiently and excitedly waiting for her turn to act. As soon as her name was called, her silhouette disappeared from beside the Heaven Emperor and appeared next to the eagle like demonic beast.

Since the Valkyrie's entire attention was focused on getting the black mist back under her control and also because everything happened within a blink, no one noticed a nine tailed spirit fox appearing out of the blue, scratching the eagle's left eye with her sharp claws before disappearing immediately.

They noticed nothing until the demonic eagle's painful cry resonated through the area, pulling everyone's attention towards it.

The Valkyrie, who was barely a few seconds away from getting her control back on the mist, suddenly found her spell breaking as the demoic eagle started shaking its body vigorously, causing her to almost lose her balance.

"What's going on?"

She shouted in anger as her black glowing eyes looked around the finally adjusted on the face of the eagle where she found a huge scratch across its left eye.

An angry growl left her lips, causing the eagle to still while the evil army around her shivered in fear.

Her eyes immediately returned to look at the mist, only to find a smirking Li Ming looking back at her with a huge ball filled with the evil fog in her hands.

"If you think that by caging it you can stop me, then it's your biggest mistake. The shadow fog is mine to command and it will come back to me." She screeched as she glared at Li Ming.

But when the latter showed no response to her threat, it only tipped her anger more. A sharp shriek left her lips as she took out her machete and slashed it across the demonic eagle's neck, killing it in one move without a second thought.

Immediately, another demoic eagle beast steeped forward and crouched to let the Valkyrie mount it.

Li Ming already knew that the Valkyrie was going to try once again to took over the black mist, but she was not going to let it happen.

Just as the Valkyrie started chanting the spell, Li Ming launched the crystal ball in the air, muttering another spell that was in some foreign language. Within the next blink, the crystal ball disappeared in the thin air and took the evil mist along.

The Valyrie and her army were not the only confused ones, even her own people, along with her mates, were looking at her curiously.

She did not answer as she kept looking at the spot where the crystal ball was levitating a few moments ago. It was as if she was waiting for something.

It seemed like her short waiting period came to an end as a green symbol appeared at that spot, causing a soft smile to appear on her lips as she watched the symbol disappearing.

"What's happening? What did you do to my shadow fog?" The Valkyrie asked or more like shouted in anger as she glared at Li Ming with her dark evil eyes.

"It was never yours to begin with. I have sent it to the place from where it came." Li Ming replied with a calm tone even though she knew that any time soon the Valkyrie was going to lose her sanity which would lead to a grand battle between the two armies who had been waiting in the sidelines till now.

"No! It's.......It's impossible! You can't do that! You are not capable of doing that. It belongs to me! ME!"

The Valkyrie shouted in anger as she threw her head back and let out an ear piercing cry. Even Li Ming grimaced a little at its sharpness.

Just like what she predicted, as soon as the Valkyrie stopped screaming and screeching like a mad bird, she signaled her army to march forward.

Li Ming turned to look at her mates before settling her eyes on the Heaven Emperor. The latter blinked his eyes as a signal before he too signaled his men to move forward.

She watched as their army divided into seven different batches and started creating a formation as they kept marching towards the enemy.

She turned her eyes to look at Snowy and Mallow who were also standing beside her.

"Surprise me today." She murmered to both of them with a smile to which they both immediately nodded with determination.

With a last glance at them, she jumped on the back of the red dragon that had appeared beside her and the two of hem flew straight towards the Valkyrie and her demonic eagle beast.

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FLASHBACK...

"Is there anything else that you want to ask?" The voice of the old woman asked when Li Ming did not leave after a while if getting the answers to all her questions.

"Actually.....there's a favor that I need because you are the only one who can help me with this problem." Li Ming told the voice as she thought about how to reveal her request.

"Go on, child. We are listening." The voice told her with a hint of warmth in it which absolutely surprised her.

"The black mist that's present in the Demon Realm -"

"The Shadow Fog."

The voice of the child immediately corrected her causing her to stop.

"Yeah! The shadow fog. I'm aware that it's made of the void molecules of the primordial space and the Valkyrie has mixed her evil energy in it. She probably got her hold over the void molecules when she ended up in this world for the first time."

"I'm also aware that no power could destroy anything related to the primordial space, including those void particles and only the dead ones can connect with the primordial space."

Li Ming stopped talking for a second to take in a deep breath before she continued.

"I want to ask that if I can capture the Shadow fog, can you help me to send it back to the Primordial space? We don't need to worry about the evil energy because it will get destroy as soon as it will enter the primordial realm. You are the only one who can do this. Please."

Her request was genuine and the others seemed to realize it too.

"Of course, we can do it without any problem. But are you sure that you can capture it? And why should we help you?" The voice of a man questioned her.

Li Ming smiled softly as she replied, "I'm positive that I can find a way to capture the Shadow Fog. As for why you should help me - I'll let you guys leave."

Her words were followed by silence for the next several minutes but she made sure to stay as calm and collected as possible, not showing any kind of impatience or anxiety on her face.

"Alright! We will help you a very last time but you have to keep your promise. You will release us after this." The voice of the old woman finally spoke, causing a small twitch to appear on Li Ming's lips.

"Deal!"