Ryu seed to toy with Yeger Sun. The Fiend tried his best to keep up, using his two sabers to block and attack, looking for openings.
But it was useless.
Yeger had already escaped Ryu once before during the Godblade Title Battle, knowing that he would be at a disadvantage because Ryu already understood his battle style.
He thought that outside of that Title Battle, he would be able to make a great difference, using his other abilities to bridge the gap. At least back then, he hadn't truly gone all out with things—it hadn't been ti yet.
But even when he brought out his full host of abilities, it was like it didn't matter. Ryu saw through them and countered them as though he had already seen it all before.
Recalling the battle he had just seen against the Dragons, Yeger realized that Ryu had sohow transitioned to an even higher state of comprehension.
It was then his eyes widened.
He had been so focused on the things happening around him that he couldn't see the bigger picture. What was this overwhelming, suffocating aura? Why was it that he felt like there was an enormous umbrella above their heads?
He couldn't figure it out, but Ryu could surely tell him.
That umbrella was his Breath of Quintessence State of ditation. Since the very start, he had never dismissed it.
But that was the real reason for his boost in comprehension… the real reason was thanks to Solara. Who asked her to give him pieces of her Sovereign Tribulation so that he could improve his third eye once again?
He wasn't just seeing comprehension through the present anymore. He was seeing it through prisms of the past and the future. His mind was on a level they couldn't even begin to fathom, and against opponents like these…
He could practically see the future.
Seven more moves. In seven more moves he would take Yeger Sun's head.
The premonition seed to Yeger as well. It wasn't that he could see the future; instead, it was the echoes of a warrior's intuition. He could feel his loss coming, his imminent death.
He had never felt like this before in his life, even when his three elents were rampaging in his body. Everyone assud that he would die back then, but he had always survived, had always found a way to make it through, to strive forward in ways others couldn't fathom and accomplish what they thought he couldn't.
But this ti… it was like an unsurmountable mountain, a powerful pressure that descended from above like a God rewriting the laws of the world.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Three fists landed on Yeger's chest in quick succession, slipping through his twin sabers as though they didn't exist at all.
The wind pressure of two of them seamlessly combined their own peaks and troughs, parrying one of his blades just enough that its edge only barely nicked the edge of Ryu's neck.
It was a level of combat and calculation that Yeger couldn't even fathom. It didn't feel like Ryu was battling against opponents of his own level at all. It was more like a martial arts instructor playing around with children.
How was it even possible to use wind pressure alone to do such a thing unless he knew exactly what trajectory his blade would take?
But he had attacked first. That was the only reason he could land three blows before his one… and that one missed miserably.
These thoughts flashed through Yeger's head, his mind spinning as he realized just how inferior he was. There was no catching up to his sort of monster; there was no way that he could bridge this sort of gap, no way that he could hope to beat him.
The echoes of a Dragon's Roar filled his ears again and his Dao Heart almost shattered.
Almost.
"No."
His voice was almost too soft given the occasion. But for Yeger, it might as well have been a roar of his own.
There was a shuddering, and his voice clapped like his own personal thunder.
"You've all rembered what he said!" Yeger roared. "If you don't work together now, you can forget about getting your Titles today. We will all die one by one. If you do not overwhelm his ability to calculate with numbers and variations, it doesn't matter how weak his body becos!"
Yeger called out, his senses having already picked up on the enraged Young Master Bright. The young man hadn't said anything, but Ryu stomping on his face again and again was like a kernel firing in his gut right now.
He had been chasing after them the whole ti, but Ryu kept bending and twisting space, disorienting him and not allowing him to get close.
So after yelling out to everyone else, pretending as though he wanted to rely on them to save him, Yeger changed his tactics.
He attacked again. But this ti, he aid for a shift in the spatial nodes.
Young Master Bright finally broke through with his hold, and things almost flipped on their heads.
It felt like down was up and up was down for a mont. Yeger was confused, and Young Master Bright, who had only just gotten close, almost went in the completely wrong direction before he stopped and realized that sothing must be wrong.
Yeger reacted on instinct, swinging out his blades to his back.
BANG!
A fist ca from his front. He hadn't even noticed that he accidentally attacked from the front instead of where he thought he was going.
Another slap rang across his face and he was stomped down from above. His chest caved in and he coughed up mouthfuls of blood.
What was happening? Where was Young Master Bright? Wasn't he supposed to be helping?
Yeger couldn't understand.
BANG! BANG!
His ears rang as two fists slamd against the sides of his head. The world overturned and the shattering of his inner ear made him feel like he was trapped in a tunnel of howling wind.
Thunder clapped and a punch ran into his gut. His body curled and he almost let go of his sabers—the power he was experiencing now was worse than he had in his entire life. It wasn't the strength that was the problem; it was the gap in understanding.
But as the seventh and final blow descended from above, he seed to finally understand.
'What a… monster…'
BANG!
The energies in Yeger's body reversed and a scene that he had avoided all his life unfolded.
They said that Fiends were supposed to be free and clear after they reached the Lord Realm, that even if they were born with more than one elent, things would be too stable to go wrong after the fact.
And that was true.
Unless there was outside interference.
Much like the Dragons before him, Yeger was too powerful for Ryu to kill with the current state of his body. Instead, he used Yeger's own body to kill him.
He died just as pitifully as the Dragon Prince and Princess.
Ryu landed on the ground, Young Master Bright's face beneath his feet again. He pushed down, squishing his cheek and grinding his heel in.
Yeger Sun was right about just how much Ryu understood his techniques, but he had underestimated him by the sheer amount.
Ryu didn't just understand his attack patterns; he understood his entire chain and ridian system.
The spatial nodes that Ryu was creating weren't just so powerful because of randomness—they quite literally followed the patterns of Yeger's ridians.
When Yeger attacked to help Young Master Bright make it through to attack Ryu in unison, the result was his qi pouring into what was effectively his own ridian chain system.
Normally this would be fine, except for the fact Ryu took control of the qi after the fact, forcing it to flow in reverse.
What were ridians if not formations? They contained the secrets of the universe, and it was through ridians that many techniques, formations, and cultivation thods were birthed.
This was an inescapable fact.
Yeger poured his own qi into a ridian system identical to his own, yet not under his control. And the worst part was that it was Spatial Qi as well, making the process seamless and hard to detect.
By the ti Yeger understood what was happening, it was too late.
The ridians in his body had synced with the formation in the outside world. He had spent so long learning how to control his three elents so that they didn't crash and burn against one another…
Only for Ryu to force exactly that to happen.
The Fiend could only smile bitterly before his body exploded. He combusted from the inside out, his chest expanding and then imploding.
Before he could affect Ryu, though, he was sucked away by a mysterious force, vanishing.
Ryu only observed this for a while before he disappeared.
BOOM!
The formation of spatial nodes Young Master Bright was trapped within exploded as well.
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