Chapter 2111: s.p.a.cetime Jumble
“Since you are so eager to die, how can I not fulfill your wish?”
Boundless Dark power rose unceasingly from Son of Darkness, surging at Zhang Ruochen like a tide.
Son of Darkness did not only target Zhang Ruochen; he was also aiming at Moyin that was devouring the souls of the Nether Snakes. It was not easy to create a Nether Snake formation. Son of Darkness had spent ma.s.sive effort on it. Therefore, he could not afford to watch Moyin destroy it.
Zhang Ruochen stood still in the face of the surging dark tide. He mobilized the hundreds of thousands of Precepts of Dimension in his body and released powerful dimensional force that seeped into the s.p.a.ce around him.
BOOM!
The s.p.a.ce over 3000 meters exploded and then completely disappeared, revealing a large pitch-black void.
The power of Darkness emerging from Son of Darkness’s body went out of control and disappeared in the pitch-black void. The void devoured everything in its absolute darkness.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current attainments in Path of Dimension, his cultivation had surpa.s.sed the great completion for the first level of Dimensional Annihilation. He had reached its true perfection. Therefore, even a top Thousand-Inscription Sacred Artifact would also be turned into dust if he used all his strength.
The Path of Dimension was a Path of the Ancients, so very few cultivators had the talent to practice. However, there were still few from each macroworld. Adding them all up gave a total of more than tens of thousands. Almost all of them practiced their cultivation under the Fane of Dimension. And, of course, some even became Masters of Dimension. One of them was Gong Ziyan, the former young-gen leader in the Fane of Dimension.
Unfortunately, although the Fane of Dimension had specially nurtured these talents, none could compare to Zhang Ruochen. It was undoubtedly ironic.
The Maiden of a Thousand Stars said softly, “Perhaps, it is due to the fact that Zhang Ruochen has never practiced in the Fane of Dimension that he can achieve high attainments in his Path of Dimension. Having full control of his cultivation direction instead of rigidly following conventional practice has enabled him to advance further.”
After being on the same boat with Zhang Ruochen in the underground, the Maiden of a Thousand Stars had developed great insights on many things. It was her biggest gain in True Dragon Island trip. These insights would have a far-reaching impact on her future cultivation practice.
Son of Darkness’ eyes narrowed. As he retreated, he quickly formed nine profound seals.
Swoos.h.!.+
Nine dark lights flew out behind Son of Darkness and turned into nine sharp demonic sabers. They gave off a monstrous, murderous aura.
The demonic sabers were not the actual sacred artifacts. They were formed using Saint Technique. However, their attack power was almost comparable to a regal weapon.
When the spectators sensed the murderous aura from the demonic sabers, their blood froze. They felt that their physical bodies and Saint Souls were about to break.
They were certain that if they got implicated by the force of the nine demonic sabers, they would lose half their vitality even if they didn’t end up dead.
Whoosh.
The nine demonic sabers were unstoppable. Even Zhang Ruochen’s Spatial Domain could not stop them.
Zhang Ruochen let go of Abyss Ancient Sword and clenched his fists. He mobilized the Precepts of Water and Precepts of Fist he had cultivated and condensed a huge amount of Saint Qi. It became an illusory Celestial River descending from the sky.
Before he came to True Dragon Island, Zhang Ruochen had refined a top-tier aquatic divine item. Not only had he made his Five-element Chaotic Body stronger, but he had also developed deeper insights on the Path of Water and Luoshui Fist Technique.
Although it was the same move from the eleventh level of Luoshui Fist technique he had performed before, the current attack power he displayed was much stronger than before.
The Celestial River of Saint Qi turned upside down and swept toward the nine demonic sabers released by Son of Darkness. As a result, it drowned all their murderous aura.
There was a Chinese saying, “water flows faster when one tries to cut it with a sword”. It literally described the current situation. No matter how sharp the Saber Qi released by the nine demonic sabers was, they failed to cut the Celestial River of Saint Qi. On top of that, their energy was gradually drained by the river.
In a moment, the nine demonic sabers were completely obliterated, leaving nothing behind.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes turned grimmer, “Well, it would be rude to not reciprocate. Taste my sword too,” he shouted.
However, he did not use Ancient Abyssal Blade. Instead, he continued to perform Luoshui Fist Technique. The vast Celestial River of Saint Qi shook ceaselessly. Suddenly, a potent aura emerged and turned into a giant sword, charging at Son of Darkness.
Son of Darkness’ expression was indifferent. He extended a hand and formed a three-thousand-meter long, profound immortal light beam to counter Celestial River sword.
Although Son of Darkness had yet to build a true Neverwither Supreme Saint’s physical body, he was stronger than any ordinary Neverwither Supreme Saints. After all, he had refined the most powerful divine item.
BOOM!
Son of Darkness blocked Celestial River sword with his big hand and grabbed it, wanting to crush it.
When Zhang Ruochen saw that, his lips curled up slightly. With no delay, he mobilized the Precepts of Truth in his body and infused profound energy into Celestial River sword.
Immediately, the Celestial River sword shook and released an even more terrifying power. It was as if the actual Celestial River had fallen to the mortal world and were about to crush the universe.
“Eh?”
Son of Darkness’ expression changed faintly; his body shook violently.
Rumble.
With Son of Darkness as the center, the ground within a radius of several hundreds of miles collapsed instantly and then sank.
In the blink of an eye, a giant crater with a diameter of more than three hundred miles appeared, as if a meteorite had hit it. The central area was a thousand and five hundred meters deep, and Son of Darkness was standing within it.
He could resist the powerful attack with his strong body. However, his palm—one of his body parts in Neverwither state—was cut by an invisible sword edge. Dark red blood was flowing down his arm.
Upon this sight, many spectators could not help but widen their eyes. They were stunned.
They were now on True Dragon Island. Its environment was not ordinary, that it could withstand the war of G.o.ds. Hence, it was difficult to cause great damage to its environment. An ordinary Saint-King elite might not even be able to break a small mountain here.
But now, Zhang Ruochen had used a Saint Technique. Although Son of Darkness blocked the attack, it could still cause such great damage. Its power was too terrifying.
“Zhang Ruochen has increased his Saint Technique’s attack power by ninefold. This…” Fairy Linglong was shocked. She stared at Zhang Ruochen.
The maximum increment of an attack power when applying Path of Truth was tenfold. However, it was almost a legend since no one could achieve that in tens of thousands of years.
In fact, even the scions of G.o.ds trained by the Fane of Truth could only increase their attack power by six or seven times. Those who could increase their attack power by eightfold were rare.
As for the ninefold increment in attack power, among the ten scions of the Fane of Truth, there might be none who could pull that off.
The next moment, a glint of light flashed in Ao Xukong’s eyes. He thought to himself, ‘Zhang Ruochen must have obtained a portion of Canon of Truth.’
There was a small chance for those crossing Sea of truth to obtain a portion of the Canon of Truth successfully. It was not a secret. It was just that those who succeed would not let others know.
As the Scion of Time and s.p.a.ce, it was not surprising that Zhang Ruochen’s attainments in Time and Dimensional techniques were outstanding. What drew speculations was his profound achievement in the Path of Truth.
Fairy Linglong pondered about it and said, “This may be the reason why Father asked us to observe Zhang Ruochen. He has great potential and is likely to become the next Saint Monk Xumi in the future.”
On the battlefield, Zhang Ruochen appeared very calm. He did not show the slightest hint of complacency. Thanks to the hards.h.i.+ps he had experienced in the monster king’s body, he had pa.s.sed an important obstacle and achieved a big breakthrough in his cultivation in the Path of Truth.
There were more than 560,000 Precepts of Truth in Zhang Ruochen’s body. The number was beyond the imagination of a cultivator practicing the Path of Truth.
In order to reach the legendary tenfold increment in attack power, one must meet two conditions—succeed in condensing a Realm-frame of Truth and cultivating 880,000 Precepts of Truth.
For a scion of the Fane of Truth, condensing a Realm-frame of Truth was not too difficult. The Fane of Truth would pa.s.s them a special secret technique for it.
Zhang Ruochen, on the other hand, was not even a scion of the Fane of Truth. Given that he could only rely on himself to explore, he faced ten times harder than others.
BANG!
Under the pressure of the powerful force, the Celestial River sword shattered with a bang.
Son of Darkness licked a drop of his own blood with madness in his eyes. “Ninefold increment in attack power. Only a few cultivators in entire Celestial Court could cultivate the Path of Truth to such an extent. Very well, you are truly worthy to be my opponent.”
Before he finished his words, Son of Darkness had already turned into a ray of light and rushed out of the crater, heading straight for Zhang Ruochen.
“Good timing.”
Zhang Ruochen had no intention of dodging. He held Ancient Abyssal Blade in one hand and went straight to meet Son of Darkness.
The fierce battle broke out in an instant. Both sides attacked without holding back and used all kinds of powerful Saint Techniques.
In the blink of an eye, Zhang Ruochen and Son of Darkness had fought for thousands of rounds. The battle was inextricable. The land within a nearly three-thousand-meter radius sank for almost 10,000 feet.
The successive battles had fueled the fighting spirit of Zhang Ruochen and Son of Darkness. There was only one thought in their minds—kill their opponent.
BANG!
After another hard strike, Zhang Ruochen and Son of Darkness were separated.
Zhang Ruochen’s arm holding the sword was trembling. Bright red blood sighted dripping down the sword. The Qi and blood in his body surged violently and could not cool down.
Son of Darkness was no better. Although his body was almost completely in Neverwither state, Ancient Abyssal Blade managed to harm him, inflicting many wounds on his body, especially his neck where blood was still flowing.
He had the physical advantage, but he couldn’t gain the upper hand in a head-on fight with Zhang Ruochen. This made Son of Darkness distraught.
‘He is even with Son of Darkness. What a terrifying speed of improvement.’ Immortal Minghu thought to himself; he was stunned.
It seemed that he had made the right choice not to fight with Zhang Ruochen. Otherwise, he might have suffered a great loss from Zhang Ruochen’s unpredictable moves.
Jinyang Twin Kings were foolish for wanting to settle a score with Zhang Ruochen.
Son of Darkness’ glabella glowed. A bell engraved with countless inscriptions of Darkness flew out, making a deafening sound.
“It’s time to end this,” Son of Darkness whispered, with a fierce look in his eyes.
The power of Darkness activated the inscriptions of Darkness on the surface of the black sacred bell. The inscriptions became clear and kept changing their shapes and forms as though they were living beings.
A vast amount of Dark divine power was released. It turned into ripples of divine force surging toward Zhang Ruochen.
Wherever the divine-force ripples pa.s.sed, the s.p.a.ce collapsed. They were unstoppable.
Rumble.
The ground within hundreds of miles shattered completely and sank further.
Zhang Ruochen was prepared. With a wave of his hand, Zangshan Demonic Mirror flew out of the collapsed Nether Snake formation and released a monstrous Demonic Qi. It evolved into an endless demonic mountain. The demonic mountain suppressed and blocked the divine-force ripples.
At this moment, the Nether Snake formation had been fully destroyed. Moyin unleashed countless vines. They weaved into a net that caught all the souls of Nether Snakes, so Moyin could slowly refine them to evolve.
At the same time, Son of Darkness quickly formed complex and profound hand seals with both hands. A mutated power of Darkness rose within him unceasingly.
The mutated Dark force surged and instantly turned into a huge illusory dark abyss behind Son of Darkness.
“The Abyss of Darkness.”
Elites from Infernal Court could not help to exclaim in shock.
The illusory abyss that Son of Darkness created was exactly the same as Infernal Court’s forbidden place—the Abyss of Darkness.
Moreover, as it was evolved by Son of Darkness using the mutated dark power, it exuded the exact same aura.
The illusory abyss became more and more solid. It was as if Son of Darkness had summoned the actual Abyss of Darkness, wanting it to descend in Kunlun.
Upon this sight, Zhang Ruocheng’s expression was even grimmer. He immediately reached out with both hands. He gathered the Precepts of Time using his left hand while gathering the Precepts of Dimension using his right hand. The Saint Qi in his body flowed endlessly into his hands.
The Precepts of Time gave rise to countless Marks of Time. They formed a River of Time that surrounded him.
At the same time, a majestic force of Dimension surged out of Zhang Ruochen’s right hand. It condensed into streaks of sharp silver light, which could shatter the surrounding s.p.a.ce with a slight motion.
BOOM!
As the force of Darkness surged, an extremely tall illusory figure emerged with half of its body came out from the Abyss of Darkness. The sky above its head released a terrifying pressure.
Although it was just half of its body, the size was tens of thousands of feet tall. On top of that, it had tens of thousands of arms.
The most peculiar attribute was that it had a human body but a huge snake head. It looked ferocious.
Son of Darkness’ eyes turned blood-red as if he was under the influence of the illusory figure’s murderous aura. His body emitted a strong murderous intent.
“Die!”
Son of Darkness let out an angry roar. The illusory figure behind him immediately stretched out its arms, shattering the void and trying to grab Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes became sharp suddenly when he saw it. He clenched his right hand and executed the first level of Dimensional Annihilation to its perfection.
KABOOM!
The arms of the illusory snake-headed monster were all destroyed.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen shot out streaks of silver light from the River of Time at Son of Darkness.
The illusory Abyss of Darkness behind Son of Darkness shook, releasing a terrifying suction force, wanting to forcefully suck both the River of Time and the silver light.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen refused to let Son of Darkness get what he wanted. With a thought, Zhang Ruochen disintegrated the River of Time and turned it into countless Marks of Time, trying to drown Son of Darkness with them.
The streaks of silver light also unleashed an invincible power. The Abyss of Darkness was slashed by one after another streak of silver light. It was torn apart with a crack formed on it.
In this situation, even though the illusory Abyss of Darkness had swallowed most of the Marks of Time, a small part got their ways into Son of Darkness.
Swoosh.
The huge monster stretched out its snake head and opened its b.l.o.o.d.y mouth, wanting to bite Zhang Ruochen.
A mysterious force appeared. It ignored Zhang Ruochen’s various defensive mechanisms and directly seeped into his Saint Soul in attempt to forcefully extract Saint Soul from him.
With a determined look on his face, Zhang Ruochen suddenly joined his palms together, making the Precepts of Time and Precepts of Dimension interweave.
Perhaps it was because the collision was too intense. Zhang Ruochen couldn’t help but grunt, blood trickling down the corner of his mouth.
Buzz.
The forces of Time and Dimension miraculously merged together and turned into a mysterious and unparalleled power of s.p.a.cetime.
“s.p.a.cetime Jumble.”
As soon as the force of s.p.a.cetime was unleashed, the time and s.p.a.ce within a radius of three hundred meters immediately jumbled. It was as if different times and s.p.a.ces were overlapping.
BANG!
The impact of s.p.a.cetime Jumble shattered the huge illusory snake head.
Although the power of s.p.a.cetime had weakened, it was still charging at Son of Darkness. It disregarded the barriers of s.p.a.ce and drowned Son of Darkness in an instant.
The result of the battle between two young-gen elites from Kunlun and Infernal Court was about to be unveiled. All the cultivators could not turn their eyes away; they almost held their breath.
Judging from the dangerous situation, if Son of Darkness didn’t have any other trump cards, he could only resist Zhang Ruochen’s attack when he broke through to Supreme Sainthood.
However, if he broke through to the realm, it would also mean he admitted his defeat to Zhang Ruochen in the fight within the same realm.
All cultivators of Celestial Court, including Ao Xukong, the Maiden of a Thousand Stars, Fairy Linglong, were nervous. They were thinking about how they should deal with Son of Darkness once he was forced to break through to the next realm.
After all, True Dragon Island was no ordinary place—it was not under the radar of Emissaries Vigilants.