Outside Sunscorch Valley, where the rain of blood had been blocking the view,the many spectators kept retreating while still trying to see if anything further would happen within the valley.That devil-sound from just now had affected even them.The life-and-death struggle between Mo Ye and Xia Li was already beginning to resemble the battles of great powers,those contests where they carved out a patch of heaven and earth for themselves to fight in while no outsider could draw near.Among the watching cultivators, everyone hoped Xia Li would win.People always loved seeing miracles appear where no one expected them.But on second thought, considering the gap in realm between Xia Li and Mo Ye,and the fact that the great xiao demon was also present,even if Xia Li had comprehended Fire True Intent, he likely could not hold much of an advantage."Now that a great demon has erged, I'd like to see how the Demon-Hunting Army explains this.""Explain? Publicly they'll issue a wanted order, then find a scapegoat. Mo Ye fakes his death, changes identities, and probably keeps living just fine inside the Demon-Hunting Army.""The Demon-Hunting Army is rotten to the core. They're practically the sa thing as the Heaven Alliance.""What a pity about Xia Li. If he had ti to grow, he'd definitely hold a major voice in the future.""Heh. And the Heaven Alliance would let him grow? Heard the news? Two Harmonization Patriarchs just clashed at the edge of Manzhou. One concealed their identity. The other was Treading Cloud Patriarch of Lingxu Cave Heaven.""As expected of the Heaven Alliance. Sending Harmonization cultivators to hunt a Golden Core. Shaless as always.""I'm past being surprised..."No one found that unusual in the least.That was precisely why geniuses could never show their heads.Even a dragon had to pretend to be a worm,unless it chose to beco part of the Heaven Alliance itself.While the spectators were still talking heatedly,the black clouds covering Sunscorch Valley suddenly parted,and a beam of sunlit radiance poured down inside.By the strength of that light, the distant onlookers could just barely make out what was happening within the valley.They saw the sea of blood.They saw the ten thousand resentful ghosts.They saw the soul-shaking bone pagodas.And they saw the resplendent great fla Buddha."A Dharma Heaven and Earth transformation?"One cultivator imdiately assud the great fla Buddha was so form of Dharma Heaven and Earth technique."No, not quite. It isn't fully real, but neither is it fully unreal. It's a fla-ford projection. But why does it feel so sacred?""The Buddhist path has always had a deep grasp of the boundary between real and unreal. How would we be able to see through it?""True enough...""Though speaking of that fla Buddha..."Suddenly, a thunderous voice rolled out from within Sunscorch Valley.That line, "If you behold the Tathagata, then why do you not bow," sounded as though it had exploded right beside the spectators' ears, despite the great distance.And then...the cultivators with weaker cultivation and weaker hearts all instinctively dropped to their knees and bowed."This...""I... I just...""What a terrifying divine ability. My mind went completely blank just now. My knees went weak, and I knelt before I even knew what happened.""Who would've thought Xia Li was also skilled in Buddhist divine abilities? Could he be the reincarnated Buddha of so hidden ancient monastery from Wild Continent?"These eager spectators rapidly spread both what they had seen and what they guessed.North of Manzhou, in the deep territory of demonkind,a flood dragon rose into the sky and raced toward Manzhou carrying world-shaking killing intent.The demon race had taken action too.They wanted Xia Li dead as well.And at the sa ti,another ssage spread with terrifying speed:the Vajra Monastery of Wild Continent had announced it to the world.The Asura Hand had broken free of its seal and was charging toward Manzhou.The cultivators were struck dumb.One major event after another.The age, once seemingly still and unchanging, was beginning to boil because of so unknown factor.And the speed of the strong was always imnse.If they were willing to burn spiritual energy, they could stride through the void and cross entire continents.From the north of Manzhou ca a black flood dragon trailing dark clouds.And then, suddenly, from the south of Manzhou, a streak of black light shot upward and struck it head-on."Damn those bald monks! What are they doing?!"The black flood dragon roared.It had been struck directly by that fleeting black light.Spiritual blood spilled across the earth,and it imdiately fled in utter embarrassnt.To the south of Manzhou,a gigantic arm the size of a mountain floated in the sky.At the center of its palm, a slit opened like an eye.Through the blood rain, that eye gazed directly into Sunscorch Valley and saw everything happening inside.But the palm-eye only looked once.Its gaze lingered longer on the bone pagodas and the blood-asura projection than it did on the great fla Buddha.In the way it looked at the pagodas there was appreciation.In the way it looked at the fla Buddha there was anger.And yet, in the end, the palm-eye showed only helplessness before flying away.Inside Sunscorch Valley, above the sea of blood,both Mo Ye and Xia Li naturally noticed that Asura arm, which had arrived quickly and departed just as fast.Sothing stirred in Mo Ye's heart..."Even if you've abandoned it, in this age only the Asura Path can save it!"Even though the ten thousand ghosts had bowed and, like moths rushing into fla, were coming close to Xia Li willingly to be purified and released by fire...even though the blood sea was already being rapidly boiled away and the bone pagodas had begun to crack apart...Mo Ye still had no intention of giving up.He poured every last remaining bit of his strength into the five bone pagodas.They exploded at once,and all the flesh and bone fragnts flew into the blood-asura, rging into it."Then in that case...""I shall beco the asura myself!"Mo Ye's final thodwas to transform his own body into an asura.The blood sea receded.The blood-asura, fed by bone and flesh, gained a true physical body and stood upon the earth.Its appearance was hideous and terrifying like a demon of hell.Its flesh was exposed without skin, scarlet muscle writhing openly and radiating monstrous evil force.At this mont, Mo Ye had truly entered Soul Transformation.Just as the na of the realm implied, he could at last reveal divine might through a human body."Killkillkillkillkillkillkill!"Mo Ye roared the word "kill" seven tis in a row.Each one thundered louder than the last.By the final roar, even Xia Li nearly lost his grip on his own heart.Seeing this, Xia Li recalled the Virtual Spirit Avatar.There was no longer any point in preserving it.The Virtual Spirit Avatar was no match for the current Mo Ye.
Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author's consent. Report any sightings.
Such a ghost king could not be ferried across.Only the most direct ans of suppression and destruction remained.Xia Li's figure began to blur.His human features vanished completely until he seed little more than a mass of light.He did not move.He simply stood where he was,doing nothing but release the overwhelming heat generated by the stellar golden core forward.Mo Ye, anwhile, continued advancing toward him,while gathering power into his palm.At this mont, the distance between them was only a hundred paces.【Now entering Supercritical state.】The Heaven Chip inford Xia Li that he had entered the final stage of Overheat.At this stage, the stellar golden core was already moving irreversibly toward supernova transformation.The world-shaking supernova burst was close.The asura-demon moved to within ninety paces of Xia Li.The blood in its body began to evaporate.Its figure shrank and dried.Eighty paces.The asura-demon's muscles began to rot away and fall off in blood-mud.Seventy paces.Sixty...It had already lost all muscle,leaving only a savage skeleton of blood-stained bone continuing forward.Fifty.Forty...The blood-bone fra began to sizzle.It was close to collapsing where it stood.Thirty.Twenty...The lower half of the blood-bone body could no longer endure the heat.It shattered into slag with a crash.Ten paces...The asura-demon was now crawling over the ground,dragging itself forward with its hands across a surface that had been burned back into molten lava.Five paces...It stretched one hand toward Xia Li's body of light.Three paces...Its fingertips were almost touching him.One pace!Only a final step remained.At last, the asura-demon's fingertips touched Xia Li.But by then, it had no strength left at all."I win..."What the asura-demon did not know was that it had reached Xia Li only through the force of a single remaining obsession.Even Xia Li had not expected that, beneath such extre heat, it would truly manage to touch him.That obsession seed to resonate with so kind of great principle.Blood-bone began regenerating.Muscle once more gathered.At this final mont,it had comprehended the true aning of the asura:so long as unwillingness remained, one would never fall.Quite a character after all.That was what Xia Li thought to himself."Then I'll count it as your victory. Against almost any other genius of this world, you probably would have laughed last.""Too bad.""Though you touched all the way here, to you were never more than my preheating phase.""Go in peace. I'll send you off with starlight alone, genius Mo Ye.""Helium flash."The next mont.No sound.No light.No thing.Only a vast blank whiteness filling all of heaven and earth.Nothing could exist for even an instant beneath that white radiance.No matter how profound the Dao Mo Ye had grasped,even if he truly could regenerate from a drop of blood,it would all beco a joke if not even a single speck of ash remained in the first instant.The light vanished in a flash.Before Xia Li, there was nothing.Nothing left behind.Nothing ever would be."Demon too, human too. Though he could not be saved, why did it ever have to co to killing?"Xia Li let out a quiet sigh.Then his body suddenly lost all strength.He failed to remain standing and dropped to one knee.The golden core fell silent.His realm dropped.In an instant, his cultivation plumted all the way back to the peak of Foundation Establishnt,not even pseudo-Core anymore.Worse still, his own body had suffered severe damage from the flas.Xia Li hastily activated Everbright Sacred Fla, the divine ability built into the prosthetic right arm Hestia, and only then regained enough strength in his ravaged body to stand again.Qiu Fu, who had been hiding in the Blackstone Ancient Hall the whole ti, saw that the battle had ended and ca running out to support him.Even now, touching Xia Li would burn her.The mont her hand brushed his arm, it sizzled,and the flesh was instantly scorched.Yet Xia Li did not let her support him as he walked.Instead, trembling, he raised a hand and pointed into the distance.There, not far away, lay a great bird barely clinging to life."Go, Qiu Fu. Finish it..."But just as Xia Li's words fell, the great bird slowly raised its head and looked around.It did not even look at Xia Li or Qiu Fu.When it realized it could no longer find Mo Ye,it simply threw back its head and let out a shrill cry,as if mourning.And then...it died.The xiao demon still had the strength for one last battle.It could perhaps even have killed Xia Li at the cost of its own life.Whether Qiu Fu's fire talisman could protect Xia Li from such a strike remained an open question.And yet this cruel, heartless xiaohad chosen to kill itself.The demon who had devoted himself to his ideals died as a martyr to his path.And the xiao demon, notorious for ruthlessness and treachery, likewise chose to die following his friend.Xia Li suddenly felt an empty hollowness inside.The entire battle now seed to have no aning,save for that final mournful cry of the xiao demon still echoing through heaven and earth.【Residual thought detected. Reconstruct mory?】【Yes.】Xia Li nodded.At once, an illusion unfolded before his eyes.It felt as though he had beco the xiao himself:a dying young xiao,being carried in the arms of a not-yet-grown boy who ran in desperate flight."Don't be afraid. Those damned Human-Subjugation and Demon-Hunting armies won't catch . But you... why are both armies hunting you together?"The boy lowered his head and looked at the xiao.His face was unmistakably Mo Ye's.But the xiao, in this mory, could not speak.Even so, Mo Ye seed able to read his eyes."I see. So you too did nothing at all, and yet all the bla in the world was pinned on you?""Then don't be confused. If they insist on branding us with evil nas, then we'll beco evil for real. We'll commit the greatest evil and make them completely satisfied!""What? You want to know why I dared save you? Just because you're a xiao?""I'm a demon too! We have to live. We have to turn this damned age upside down and burn them all to ash!"The boy smiled with full confidence.The young xiao gave a soft cry in answer.The sky was about to rain.Heavy thunder rolled through it,again and again,forty-eight tis in all.And the wind howled in wave after wave,forty-nine gusts in total.
Reviews
All reviews (0)