The storm sands beca denser and more penetrating with each passing second. At a short distance, the reflection observed the whale, completely red and focused, plotting sothing mysterious.
Amidst the tumultuous environnt, his heightened instincts, copied from the original, surfaced. In response, the reflection seed to engulf itself in black fla, displaying three dark wings on its back, indicating its decision to act. However, even before taking a step forward, it distinctly sensed the dissipation of the QI emanated by the whale.
At that mont, all the sand under its control infiltrated deeply into the rounded and robust body. Soon, the whale began to spit a lot of blood, and its condition beca extrely serious. A strange sensation sprouted in the rudintary mind of the reflection, but the perception that sothing was unfolding prevailed, and it then advanced with a dark determination.
On the whale’s side, the Yin and Yang tattoos shimred, pouring their QI into crucial points of the body, avoiding instant death. Ancient internal injuries seed to burst bloodily, while the sands, like deadly blades, invaded, slowly piercing viscera and muscles.
In an instant, the infernal laws were triggered nearby, making death tangible. It was at that mont that Bruno shouted, "We don’t have ti! Remove the defenses, let the sand invade everything!"
Alm’s eyes widened; it seed like suicidal madness, but there was no less insane alternative. Thus, he accepted that he had already mounted the tiger and surrendered to insanity. In the next second, all the QI within the whale froze, turning them into fragile mortals. Imdiately, the sand explosively invaded every inch inside the body.
In a second, every muscle and fat of the whale beca as solid as stone. The skin’s texture now resembled the roughness of ancient rocks. All the blood was compressed and turned into particles as if it were fine sand. The heart was now completely obstructed, its rhythm ceasing altogether.
The ridians, lungs, and every internal organ were relentlessly invaded and crushed by the intrusive sand. It was at this critical mont that the reflection, shrouded in dancing black flas, swiftly arrived a ter from the whale. However, the only noticeable movents by the reflection were the eyes of the whale, which seed to devour all light like a deep abyss.
BOOM!
A violent burst of energy erged without any warning, and a sonic wave sent the reflection spinning in the air, along with all the sand. He stopped after a few seconds, with his runic body slightly damaged, before turning attentively forward.
The reflection imdiately tried to sense the location of the whale, but a strange feeling passed through his mind. Then, on pure instinct, he jumped to the side.
Slash!!!
A crisp cut through the air passed through the reflection, and the runic right arm of the reflection was severed, exploding into particles.
He landed on the ground without understanding where the cut ca from before activating his bloodline to the maximum as a ans of defense. Soon, the entire storm ceased, and the QI spread through all the sand on the ground, creating an inescapable web. It was then that he felt movent several ters away, but at the sa instant, it vanished. Without warning, a brutal explosion hit his runic chest, sending him flying like a balloon.
CRACK!
The sound of runes breaking and turning to dust echoed with the wind. Then, the bloodied whale stopped, breathing heavily, its eyes empty as if it were about to fall dead at any mont.
"It was a success... we finally completed the Viscera Training of body cultivation. And we finished the first level entirely," Bruno comnted without the great excitent expected.
The Viscera Training literally involved refining every internal organ of a cultivator’s body, and everything had to be done precisely in a specific path and thod. At tis, they had attempted it in the past, but the absurd amount of QI required, and the slowness of the process demanded a lot of free ti they never had available.
Bruno, sensing the QI within the sand, ca up with the idea of letting it do the hard work; when the sand invaded every key point, they exploded all the QI and bloodline power at the sa ti, mastering this sand within their bodies and using it to refine them. They could only explode once, and in that single second full of power, they had to internally refine everything simultaneously. If they failed, everything would be over, but with two ancestral consciousnesses working together, everything was completed without error.
"We gained a weapon that the reflection doesn’t have, but the internal damages are severe. Maybe we have two more moves," Alm said seriously.
Bruno sighed, looking forward attentively. "We’ve already hurt him enough with the surprise effect. Now, he’ll co at us with everything, but we have the advantage of superior physique and speed... WHAT!"
In that second, Bruno and Alm were stunned to see the reflection floating in front of them. Around him, the earth runes vibrated, then suddenly, the earth energy in the runes seed to transform... The air beca tense, and electric currents began to run through the giant and round body of the reflection.
"WHAT THE HELL! He... He can convert earth energy into electricity!" Alm exclaid, unable to believe it.
Bruno stamred as he spoke. "He doesn’t have much control... but... could we do that?"
Suddenly, the sand on the ground rose, and the reflection disappeared at an impossible speed.
"He’s faster! We have to counterattack!" It wasn’t clear who spoke those words, in this critical and desperate mont, Alm and Bruno seed to synchronize imdiately, and all their thoughts beca one. They returned to being a single entity.
They didn’t have QI or bloodline power to use; the only weapon was their body. And this weapon was cracked, threatening to explode with any abrupt movent. But the thousands of years cultivated in the midst of blood and desperate struggles gave them instinctive expertise and inexplicable reflexes. Their eyes and senses couldn’t keep up, but their souls seed to mystically foresee where the strike was coming from, and an inexplicable punch was delivered to the left, using everything they had.
BOOM!
Both sides collided and were pushed five ters apart. But neither of them fell, and both maintained a penetrating and attentive gaze on each other.
Electric currents ran slowly through the real whale’s body, trying to invade the body. With their enhanced body, this should have been impossible to succeed. However, due to the number of wounds on the whale, the electric currents found an opening and attacked violently. Quickly, the whale’s vision began to darken, a call of imminent death.
"We only have... one move..." Alm and Bruno slowly spat out in unison.
The reflection seed to hear that and smiled sinisterly. Its state was lantable, with hundreds of holes in its runic body. However, slowly, two points on the runic body lit up. They were the palms of its two fists... they were the Yin and Yang tattoos.
"Shit..." They murmured, and the reflection’s eyes lit up.
Three dense and pure energies violently intertwined; it was their new full move, and they would experience it directly against themselves. But it didn’t stop there... gravity and magnetic power erged between the three powers. Then, they connected and resonated as if life, death, and the mundane earth had beco tangible.
"This... this will... it refuses to bow." The legends about the Behemoth they read in the Divinestone clan library ca to mind.
It has three horns representing life, death, and the mundane earth. It refuses to bow even to the heavens, and the roar it emits is so powerful that it terrifies all enemies of the earth, bringing peace to all places. Therefore, Behemoth is considered a guardian of life that helps weaker creatures survive. (CHAPTER 5)
"We are the Yin of death, the Yang of life, and, at the sa ti, the mundane earth." Alm and Bruno murmured, understanding. This was the desire of Heaven’s Will from the beginning, and they were directed towards it. Unconsciously, they trod this path, solidifying this union.
Their minds trembled with this revelation. Encountering Denil and mastering his body was not a coincidence. Purchasing the Yin and Yang Supre Qi Collector was also not a coincidence. And now... seeing before their eyes, the union of all this also seed not to be a coincidence. Heaven’s Will couldn’t speak, but its words were written before their eyes. Simply put, that reflection was showing them all the power they themselves have in their hands now. The power they needed to take revenge on the queen!
"But, we still have to survive!" The whale murmured, clenching its fists tightly. Then, in its mind, sothing began to condense, and subtly, the presence of a crown of luminous Qi took shape.
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