Free Web NovelChapter 367: Chapter 360: Usurping the Fate of the Ten Thousand Forms Kun
The invasion of the Ten Thousand Forms Kun was so successful that even it was surprised. ’How can a Holy Hall Tier human offer no resistance at all?’
’Is he really a rookie?’
The blue butterflies it had transformed into surged forward, wave after wave, like a spindle of fate piercing straight toward Shi Ming’s core consciousness.
’Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary, usurp!’
Shi Ming opened his eyes.
Within his pupils, the wheel of cycles and the River of Destiny seemed to swirl.
At the same time, the Right Arm Red Pattern on Shi Ming’s arm lit up. The Eye of the Divine, long since integrated into his body and having truly become a part of his own power, was unquestionably an unshakable and inviolable entity.
A mere Holy Hall-tier being,
’thinks it can usurp the destiny of a god?’
A Spiritual Power far stronger than the Ten Thousand Forms Kun’s formed a cage. It leveraged the power of the Eye of Destiny and the Destiny Pyramid to counter the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary. At the same time, three types of Holy Hall Power burst forth, causing Shi Ming’s aura to skyrocket.
ROAR!
The Ten Thousand Forms Kun, having already invaded Shi Ming’s spiritual ocean, witnessed a scene that made its entire body recoil in shock:
Within the serene and beautiful dreamscape, green mountains and clear waters twisted into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. In the emerald wheat fields, a tragically beautiful Other Shore Flower Sea bloomed. The harmless human suddenly transformed into a three-headed, six-armed giant, regarding it with the cold, detached posture of a predator sizing up its prey.
Six eyes stared intently at it.
Malice radiated from those eyes, their inky black pupils splitting into tiny, writhing tentacles.
’This is...? Such a familiar feeling!’
’He was hiding his strength!’
’But I’ve already come this far! There’s no turning back now!’
’My opponent is strong, but my own blade is sharp!’
The butterflies reformed into a Kun. A long, soaring cry from the beast echoed in Shi Ming’s spiritual ocean. This was its full-powered Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary, an ability that gave it a fighting chance even against the other Holy Hall-tier Sea Beasts of this world.
’At the very least, it can trap them in a dreamscape for fifteen minutes! That’s more than enough time for me to retreat! By then, I’ll be long gone!’
But an unconcealed sneer graced each of Shi Ming’s three faces.
Now, he wasn’t the fish,
nor the bait.
He was a cunning and ferocious tiger, fangs bared! How could he possibly let prey that had delivered itself to his doorstep escape?
’I was just waiting for you to give it your all!’
He lifted one of his arms, the one with the scalding hot red pattern.
The Arm of Judgment, and also the Arm of Conquest.
Conquest!
The arm that commanded all things, the conqueror of all power! The Arm of Conquest, the second evolution of the Arm of Power, allowed him to forcibly "conquer" a skill another creature aimed at him, whether in daily life or battle. He could then unleash that same skill within three minutes, amplified by a tenfold bonus!
When Shi Ming was just S-rank, he could already use it to conquer Holy Hall Tier skills.
Now, against the Ten Thousand Forms Kun, whose power was already beneath his own, it was child’s play.
The Ten Thousand Forms Kun was stunned as its full-powered strike inexplicably vanished into thin air. The Other Shore Flowers continued to bloom and sway as if nothing had happened. For the first time, this sea beast that controlled the destinies of others discovered that the skill granted by its Destiny Origin had... failed?
The man’s six eyes bored into it.
The red pattern on one of his arms began to burn.
A power achingly familiar to the Ten Thousand Forms Kun materialized in Shi Ming’s palm and began to expand... A violent, surging torrent of destiny.
Shi Ming thrust his right arm forward.
Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary!
Amplified tenfold, the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary caused the plants, flowers, and even the seawater of the dreamscape to burst into flames. Before this overwhelming power, the Other Shore Flowers turned to ash, crumbling to dust.
The dreamscape became a crimson world.
And the tenfold Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary, carrying with it the raging torrent of the River of Destiny, reduced the enormous Kun to a tiny boat, tossed about on the waves.
The Ten Thousand Forms Kun had never imagined the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary could be this powerful.
Trapped in another’s dreamscape, it was completely unable to use its Southern Netherworld Illusion. The condensed form of the Kun scattered back into countless butterflies, a desperate attempt to mitigate the damage. But in the face of the torrent, they were like dead leaves in a gale. The tenfold Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary furiously eroded its Spiritual Power, turning its own methods against it.
’This three-headed, six-armed human... He’s actually trying to use my own skill to steal my destiny!’
’How dare he!?’
’How could he!?’
’I am the master of destiny, its arbiter and manipulator!’
Seeing that scattering was useless, the butterflies tried to reform, to once again become the mighty Kun that could part the seas and face the torrent of destiny, to build a defense. But in the midst of the raging deluge, they were utterly helpless.
Worst of all, it could feel the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary truly disintegrating its spirit.
The possessor was about to become the possessed.
Butterfly after butterfly was brutally torn to shreds. The Ten Thousand Forms Kun’s perception rapidly blurred and shattered, like a crushed Pure Dome Crystal dissolving into the sea. In the final moments before its consciousness crumbled completely under the assault of the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary, it received a revelation from destiny.
A creature that plays with destiny...
...is also played by destiny.
In the last moment of its awareness, it saw a single, immense eye looking down upon it.
BANG.
The countless, still-struggling butterflies exploded.
The torrent of destiny burst from the dreamscape into reality. It enveloped the Ten Thousand Forms Kun’s physical body, usurping the destiny of the defenseless creature and completing the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary.
Shi Ming had obtained a brand new body.
He split off a wisp of his consciousness.
It entered and took control of the pale blue, translucent, dream-like body of the Kun.
’What a wondrous experience.’
The new body moved. The six-hundred-meter-long sea beast swam through the deep, shrinking until it became a 2.5-inch fish that swam into the palm of Shi Ming’s hand.
Killing it would have been too difficult.
Suffering a backlash was a matter of luck.
So, it was better to turn its own methods against it.
The creature that toys with destiny is, in the end, toyed with by destiny.
In that moment, destiny formed a perfect, closed loop.
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"Destiny" had changed hands.
The countless beings whose destinies had been usurped by the Ten Thousand Forms Kun were now "liberated."
The sea beasts and Awakened who had been deeply possessed and turned into avatars of the Ten Thousand Forms Kun lost their lives, their consciousnesses disintegrating along with the Kun’s. This even included some dignitaries and VIPs aboard King-level Wandering Ships.
For thousands of years, this Kun, which could not bear solitude, had always delighted in experiencing all walks of life.
The sea beasts and Awakened who had been lightly parasitized, their destinies merely influenced, were also set completely free.
A light fog drifted at the edge of the Earth’s Lung.
An ordinary Silver-level Wandering Ship cut through the waves. Its crew had just purchased a piece of High-Level Sea Crystal Stone production equipment and were preparing to venture a little deeper into the Earth’s Lung to "mine" for Fog Island Crystals.
’If we can just find one,’
’our fortunes will be reversed.’
"Captain, it looks like there’s a child on that plank over there."
"Hm?"
The crew launched a lifeboat. The three-meter-long craft was self-propelled and quickly reached the wooden plank.
The young boy’s eyes were shut tight, and his breathing was steady. He appeared to be merely unconscious.
His hands were gripping the plank tightly,
and on the back of his right hand was a diamond-shaped scar.
"These waters aren’t exactly safe..."
"Tsk, tsk. This kid sure is lucky."
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