Free Web NovelChapter 234: Chapter 223: The War Begins 5
The remnants of Tianzhan Cliff.
Lin Hui and Su Yaping stood less than a few meters apart. A fierce wind howled, stirring the white mist that streamed past them like tassels.
"Blood Ancestors? Elders? The Taixu Origin Disk?" Lin Hui narrowed his eyes, his hand gripping the Ruyi tightening slightly.
"Correct. This is no small matter. I know you’re exceptionally powerful, but please be careful. Blood Ancestors are completely different from other beings. After obtaining a Blood Heart, they generally go through two stages." Su Yaping had clearly done her homework before coming.
"The first is the power accumulation stage. During this stage, they devour a large number of talented experts to gain enough power and potential. Yes, they can even convert the potential of these geniuses into their own strength to a certain extent. That’s what makes them so terrifying."
"And the second?" Lin Hui narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice.
"The second stage. After reaching their accumulation limit, their bodies can no longer contain more or stronger power. At this point, the Blood Ancestors will begin to consume a massive amount of power to solidify a Divine Decision!"
"What does that mean?" Lin Hui knew of Divine Decisions; his elder brother’s Jiuhua Divine Skill, a top-tier Divine Decision from the Rain Palace, was one such example. These martial arts were the most supreme cultivation techniques, capable of briefly altering an enemy’s perception of reality. Extremely dangerous.
"Solidifying a Divine Decision. I learned this from an Original Blood Elder as well. It’s the manifestation of cultivating a Divine Decision to its absolute limit. Take the Time Sense Divine Decision, for example. A Blood Ancestor will typically choose to permanently enhance their own sense of time to an extreme degree. This way, any enemy attack will seem infinitely slower in their eyes."
Su Yaping paused, then continued.
"Of course, that’s just a simple, basic example. The specific method of solidifying it depends on each Blood Ancestor’s own ingenuity and application."
"Besides that, what other abilities do the Blood Ancestors have? What makes them stronger than a Palace Master or Mingji?" Lin Hui asked again.
"Everything about a Blood Ancestor comes from the Blood Heart. The most dangerous aspect of the Blood Heart is devouring. And there’s something even more dangerous..." Su Yaping said with a grave expression. "After a Blood Ancestor devours someone, they gain that person’s cultivation and strength. If that person also cultivated a Divine Decision, and it’s different from the Blood Ancestor’s own... then..."
"Don’t tell me... they can gain the abilities of another Divine Decision!?" Lin Hui was appalled.
"Correct!" Su Yaping nodded.
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「Inside the Time Domain.」
Colorful flames surrounded them.
Han Xiaoyue was dressed in a white gown, her face hidden behind a white veil. Her black hair cascaded to her waist, with faint silver threads woven within.
She didn’t know how long she had been there. Her calm eyes were fixed on Han Sanmian, whose arm had been severed.
"Interesting... Truly interesting." Han Sanmian was finding this more and more amusing.
He had originally just been on a routine hunt for a worthy snack to devour, ensuring a steady growth rate for his power. As a Blood Ancestor, after all, it felt terribly uncomfortable not to improve when everyone else was advancing year after year.
He just hadn’t expected that some random young genius he’d picked up in the Outer City would end up drawing out so many interesting people.
"Han Xiaoyue... You people are destined to have no future, yet you’re meddling in this?" Han Sanmian’s attention wavered for a moment, allowing Master Yunxia to break free and flash away.
He didn’t seem to care. His severed arm grew back in an instant, the bloody gash on his neck vanished, and his attention fixed solely on Han Xiaoyue.
"I am merely a passerby, and my stay is temporary. Shouldn’t you locals grant me some leeway?" Han Xiaoyue’s eyes were serene, yet a flicker of inexplicable sorrow passed through them.
"You shouldn’t be saying that to me. I’m not a Tuyue local either," Han Sanmian laughed.
"Are we going to fight?" Han Xiaoyue asked.
"Do you dare to fight?" Han Sanmian retorted.
"I’m different. I won’t lose control." Han Xiaoyue reached up and brushed a stray lock of hair from her face.
"The Federation made you what you are, but not for you to be so belligerent," Han Sanmian continued.
"You’re mistaken." Han Xiaoyue narrowed her eyes. "Let me correct you on one thing. This power is mine, earned through my own agony. It has nothing to do with anyone else, and it certainly has nothing to do with the Federation."
"Ridiculous!" At her words, the smile vanished from Han Sanmian’s face. His voice suddenly rose, booming like thunder.
"If the Federation hadn’t gathered the resources, pooled its strength, and researched this very form, how could a group of lowly mortals like you obtain such power!? It’s one thing to be ungrateful, but to make such outrageous claims! To pass off the nation’s strength as your own hard work? Absurd!"
"Heh..." Han Xiaoyue laughed. "I said it. So what?"
"You’re courting death!" Han Sanmian’s eyes blazed with fury. "Today, I will set things right!"
The next moment.
In his three-headed, six-armed form, each of his hands simultaneously condensed a black orb of light.
"Six Heroes Divine Decision! Binding Stream!"
SHIIING!
In an instant, a new grayish-black domain centered on him spread out, layering itself over the Time Domain.
Master Yunxia’s Time Domain had already been completely shattered, leaving only Han Sanmian’s.
The combination of the Time Domain, which controlled the sense of time, and the domain of the Six Heroes Divine Decision immediately put Master Yunxia and Han Xiaoyue in a perilous situation.
Their movements became incredibly slow.
Their bodies began to feel increasingly heavy.
The former was likely the effect of the Time Domain, while the latter was probably the effect of the Six Heroes Divine Decision.
"I’ll go first, you follow!" Han Xiaoyue’s expression was calm as she leaped forward, pouncing at Han Sanmian.
In the next second, her dress tore to shreds as her body rapidly swelled. Like an inflating balloon, she transformed in an instant into a pale monster over ten meters tall, with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a giant serpent.
With a sickening tear, dozens of new arms sprouted from her back, piercing through the skin.
The arms, like an insect’s limbs, were made of pure white bone and clawed at Han Sanmian from all directions.
But it was still too slow. The Time Domain had slowed her movements by more than half.
Han Sanmian easily avoided them; not a single attack hit him.
"Pathetic attacks." Han Sanmian freed two of his hands, condensing his True Power into long spears. He instantly appeared behind Han Xiaoyue and swept out with them.
SPLURT!!
Two dark red bloody gashes, more than a meter deep, appeared on Han Xiaoyue’s massive back.
But the next moment, the bloody gashes healed at extreme speed, and a thick layer of grayish-white bone grew over the wound.
The whole process, from injury to healing, took less than half a second.
ROAR!
Han Xiaoyue threw her head back and roared wildly, her dozens of arms grabbing backwards at him, but Han Sanmian easily dodged them.
Her speed was restricted, her body suppressed by weight, slowing her down even more. At this point, she couldn’t even catch Han Sanmian’s shadow.
As time passed, the number of wounds on Han Xiaoyue’s body continued to increase.
Bizarrely, however, every wound she sustained healed instantly, and the repaired area would become even tougher than before.
"So this is the legendary Super Adaptable?!" Han Sanmian’s brow furrowed. ’I’ll have to end this in one blow. If I let her keep adapting, even I will find it troublesome...’
His figure flashed, dodging a thrusting sword from Master Yunxia behind him. Under the suppression of the two Divine Decision domains, a clear gap in speed had opened up between him and his two opponents.
Master Yunxia, who cultivated the incredibly fast Gale Swordsmanship, was only barely able to keep her movements just a fraction slower than his.
Han Xiaoyue, on the other hand, was so suppressed she couldn’t even track his position.
Of course, perhaps she didn’t care if she could land a blow.
At this moment, Han Xiaoyue’s body began to deform once more. A dense mass of black tentacles began to sprout from her lower body, and the arms on her back grew longer and more numerous.
"Trying to seal off the space with sheer volume?" Han Sanmian said with a frown.
For the first time in nearly a hundred years, he was starting to feel a headache coming on.
If you can’t kill a Super Adaptable in one hit, you can only watch as they rapidly absorb and adapt to your attacks, continuing to evolve.
This kind of obnoxious opponent was, you could say, the ultimate meat shield.
They take every hit you can dish out. They get grievously wounded. They can’t beat you. They can’t dodge you. They’re not as fast as you, and they can’t catch you.
But after you’ve unleashed your entire arsenal, they’re still standing there, good as new.
’This is just infuriating...’
The colorful crystal on Han Sanmian’s forehead flared with brilliant light.
’In that case, it’s time I got a little serious...’
His six arms blurred into afterimages as he brought them together in front of his chest.
"Third Divine Decision, Jiuhua! Activate!"
The next instant, Master Yunxia appeared behind him, thrusting her sword at his heart, but the attack seemed to have its distance distorted. It flew forward rapidly, yet it could not get any closer to Han Sanmian.
The tip of the Mingde Sword was only centimeters from Han Sanmian’s skin, but that tiny gap, though it seemed to be closing, was a gulf that could not be crossed.
’This is the distance control of the Jiuhua Divine Decision!?’ Master Yunxia was shaken to her core. ’This is the third Divine Decision Han Sanmian has used!’
It wasn’t that she had never seen a Blood Ancestor fight before; she had always felt they weren’t much stronger than she was at her full power.
But now it seemed they simply hadn’t been serious.
’Three Divine Decisions! Three perfected domains! How are we supposed to fight this!?’
The next moment, caught off guard, she was struck in the chest by a palm.
THUMP!
Her chest caved in, leaving a deep indentation.
"Hm? The power of an Evil Soldier? You’ve strengthened your body?" The impact felt wrong to Han Sanmian, and he immediately identified Master Yunxia’s condition.
Normally, that one palm strike should have been enough to instantly kill any expert at the Palace Master level. Even a small town would be instantly annihilated by such a blow.
He had once, in this state, created a small lake a hundred meters in diameter and tens of meters deep with a single palm strike.
Yet on Master Yunxia, it had only left a shallow indentation.
"It’s useless, even with the power of an Evil Soldier."
He was getting a little impatient.
"Let me show you what lies beyond Divine Decisions... the true ultimate killing move."
The colorful crystal on his forehead suddenly blazed with light.
"Nine-Fold Divine Decision Fusion...!"
"Divine Will: Heart Rend!"
CRACK!
A spherical blast of colorful electrical energy erupted from him, expanding several hundred meters in an instant.
The arc was as fast as light, impossible to dodge. In fact, the moment they saw it, Master Yunxia and Han Xiaoyue had already been hit.
The two of them froze in place, like statues, completely motionless.
The Time Domain dissipated, and the surroundings returned to the original Fog Area environment.
At this point, the Fog Area had been destroyed by their battle and turned into a sandy wasteland.
Gray-black sand and dust were swept up by the wind, mixing with the fog, turning the surroundings dim and dreary.
Pulling someone into a Time Domain doesn’t mean they’ve entered a separate dimension. It simply draws a living being’s consciousness and perception to another level, without physically leaving the space.
It’s just that in an ultra-high-speed duel, outsiders can’t see their figures, so they assume they have really entered another space.
But in reality, everything was still happening in the real world.
THUD! THUD!
The bodies of Master Yunxia and Han Xiaoyue slammed heavily into the sandy ground, sinking into it.
Han Sanmian flashed into the air between the two, hovering there.
"It’s over." He raised his right hand, two fingers held together. The immense True Power mixed with Void Power at his fingertips condensed into a shimmering platinum halo.
To completely kill a Super Adaptable in one blow required an enormous amount of power.
