Chapter 200: Kalana’s Heavenly Strength
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The Symbols manifested the Emotions that the Dekai Gaorangers drew power from; they originated from their own world and were powers that manifested from them through their own Destinies related to and connected with Deus Ex Machina and their Deus Ex Beasts.
These supernatural powers represented the Bonds they had with one another, strengthening their resolve and becoming stronger as their own friendship progressed and they became better friends and allies, companions, and even family.
Red of Courage.
Blue of Friendship.
Pink of Love.
Yellow of Hope.
Green of Sincerity.
And Black of Reliability.
Right now, Fang Gu Lan had stolen the Fates of five of them, obtaining their Symbols, manifestations of these powers that he had managed to take away from them.
However, he was not compatible with such powers and would’ve been rejected by them… If it wasn’t because he had enough power to simply force them to obey him.
Therefore, the Symbols were corrupted!
As his new armor manifested, the Symbols bright colors changed, becoming dark red, purple, or black. They ended up absorbing his darkness, becoming wicked versions of themselves.
Friendship became Loneliness.
Love transformed into Hate.
Hope was corrupted into Despair.
Sincerity mutated into Immorality.
And Reliability became Corruption.
The dark Symbols merged into his flesh as tattoos, as their power, combined, manifested into a massive storm of black clouds.
And his new armor was made—a suit of black color with dark purple armor and red jewels of evilness imbued within them.
The helmet was shaped like a furious, evil black dragon, and the head had a black visor to allow the one wearing it to see through it.
“Hahaha… HAHAHAHAH!”
He couldn’t help but laugh!
He felt completely refreshed; the immense power he gained from this suit itself was enough to refresh his energy completely.
And fuel him with a brand-new, corrupt power he could make good use of!
The corrupted symbol’s powers resonated the most with his rotten, evil mind, making them unleash tremendous quantities of energy everywhere.
It was as if they could generate energy endlessly, with no limit.
“What kind of ridiculous outfit is this?” Bing Xue twitched her eyebrow in confusion. “Are you serious right now, Fang Gu Lan?!”
Even someone like her that had been using Skills and such for a while was shocked to see something as ridiculous; this power just went beyond mere Skills; it was something from another world entirely.
“Where did he even get this power? Were there some sort of power ranger people that came from another world while I wasn’t looking?!” she thought. “If he has their powers, it means they must be dead…!”
As Bing Xue rapidly calculated the origin of Fang Gu Lan powers but was completely blown away by the immense pressure emerging from his body after he put on the suit, Fang Gu Lan glanced at her.
“Call it whatever you want!” Fang Gu Lan laughed, summoning a black spear from his suit’s strange, alien powers. “But this is the power that’ll kill you, Bing Xue!”
While laughing maliciously, the blacks storm surrounding his body rumbled with destructive lightning. He swung his black spear against Bing Xue, and as she responded with her sword, an explosion of light and darkness covered the skies.
CLAAASH!
As this happened, a fierce war broke out beneath the two Venerables; the Immortals and Primordials that Fang Gu Lan brought couldn’t be ignored, and Bing Xue trusted her family to take care of them.
“Hahahaha! Our Lord Venerable is here! He shall sweep this world from all its riches, and we shall achieve what we weren’t able to do before! A New Empire that will conquer all of Murim and these endless worlds shall arise!”
An old, fat man with a long black mustache and a bald head laughed, wearing red robes and holding a massive crimson axe. He swung his axe, hitting the pagoda nearby.
“And we shall begin by destroying this damn pagoda! Heavenly Empress of Light, your reign will end today!”
CRASH!
A loud tremor spread through the entire building as the old fat man laughed, his Primordial Aura exuding an immensely powerful force equal, if not superior, to Gods of the Tower.
“This damn pagoda will fall today!”
CRASH!
He kept hitting, releasing countless shockwaves, forcing his way through the building, an invisible barrier protecting it, but for how long?
“Hey, stop that!”
“Hm?”
He immediately realized a small presence emerged behind him—a clear, green-skinned girl with long red and white hair and rainbow eyes.
She didn’t look quite like a human, as her body size was larger than her age would show, and even her muscles were beginning to develop.
Above all, the two adorable little tusks on her lower jaw were also there, alongside her slightly pointy ears.
“A damn brat? I guess you’re so weak I didn’t even detect you…” The Murim Cultivator laughed. “What do you want? Don’t tell me that Heavenly Empress uses children to fight for her now? What sort of stupid bitch is she? Seriously…”
As Kalana saw the man about to swing his axe, she acted.
“I said stop!”
She rapidly appeared above him, surprising him as she kicked his arm and made him drop his axe all the way down.
BAAM!
“What?!”
He gasped in disbelief. A child moved so quickly and kicked him, and she even managed to make him drop his weapon?!
A Primordial, capable of flattening entire mountains easily with just the pressure of his Aura, was kicked effectively by a child?!
“What sort of nonsense is this?”
He glared at Kalana, quickly unleashing his Aura.
“Die!”
He didn’t even want to hear her answer or anything of the sort, his fiery red Primordial Aura, which was the purest of flames this old man, Feng Chueng, had refined for one thousand years.
“Insolent child, know the might of my flames and burn to ashes!”
As he roared, he aimed at Kalana, trying to burn her until nothing remained of her.
FLUOOOSH!
“Ugh! It’s really hot! Wow!”
However, Kalana encompassed herself in her own Aura, as the man’s eyes widened by the bright radiance he noticed coming from it.
Her own Aura clashed against his own; space continued gaining ripples, which were then regenerated instantly.
TRUUUM!
“S-She has an Immortal Aura too?! Impossible!” Feng Chueng muttered. “Who the hell are you, child?! Some kind of alien from this world, I can already tell! But how come children like you achieve this level of—wait, perhaps your appearance is deceiving me! You’re not a child; you’re actually some old granny, aren’t you?!”
“Eeeh? No, I am like four years old… Maybe five!” said Kalana. “Mama said I should protect our home, so please stop or I’ll have to beat you down really good! And I am not as merciful as my big sister Athena could be!”
“Tch, threatening me as if you didn’t know your place…” the old, bald cultivator smiled maliciously. “I’ll show you the difference between your barely noticeable aura and the true strength of a Primordial Cultivator!”
“{Phoenix Dark Fire Arts}: {Blazing Inferno Storm}!”
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, the man’s presence was unleashed completely, as an endless storm of flames manifested around the entire Pagoda, generating hundreds of explosions at once.
Kalana was also caught by the storm of flames, being completely trapped within endless explosions one after another!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“Nnnggh…! He’s a bit strong, I guess! But not as much as mama!”
Kalana quickly held off the flames, her entire body unleashing her own aura in greater and greater quantities.
Until eventually, a massive, four-armed, muscular, red-skinned demonic giant materialized out of her aura, swinging its fists, and then…
BOOOMMM!!!
Destroying the entire storm with it!
“You tried to kill me! You really did! Don’t blame me for what’s coming for ya!”
FLASH!
Kalana rushed down, attacking Feng Chueng with tremendous force. Each of her punches came with a massive fist from her aura, unleashing a barrage of endless, unavoidable blows!
“W-Whaaat?!”
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
The old cultivator was left speechless, as his entire body was being battered, his muscles were torn apart, and his bones started cracking and breaking one after another.
“P-Protection…! {Phoenix Flame Protection}!!!”
Because he looked down on Kalana, he had not set up a protective formation around his body, and when he finally did, Kalana just attacked him harder anyway.
“Hah! Face the power of my divine protection!” laughed the old man, the aura protecting him shaping into a glorious red Chinese armor with phoenix feathers decorating his appearance. “Now you’ll-”
“I remember big brother did this…!”
Kalana didn’t even pay attention to what he said, as her aura transformed, wrapping around her and becoming something similar to armor as well!
However, her armor was stranger, resembling countless muscular fibers wrapped around her body, glowing with red color, giving her an additional pair of arms made of this.
“{Four-Armed Asura King’s Armor}! Yeah!”
In that moment, the Cultivator knew there was something weird about this brat!
“She immediately turned her Immortal Aura into an Armor at her age?! Something that took me tens of years to accomplish?!”
He gritted his teeth with frustration, attacking Kalana with a rain of phoenix feathers and projectiles with immensely strong flames that reached Kalana instantly, bombarding her with even more fiery explosions.
However, Kalana punched them away, the explosions not even harming her as she reached the old man and then punched him harder.
“{Crimson Burst}!”
BOOOM!
“Uuargh!”
Crack, crack…!
CRACK!
A single punch from Kalana instantly spread cracks through the old cultivator’s armor, his arrogant face now full of disbelief.
“W-What?! A single punch- Ungh!”
He materialized a gigantic spear, a part of his armor’s manifestation.
“{Phoenix Spear of Judgement Flames}!”
He thrust his spear rapidly, hundreds of times at once, aiming to impale Kalana’s entire body and leave her like Swiss cheese.
Yet…!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Kalana’s eyes focused, her powerful Rainbow Eyes activating their incredible ability inherited from her mama, the power to see through enemy movements dexterously.
She moved all four of her arms as she analyzed the thrusting blows, making her way towards the cultivator while parrying and blocking his attacks.
The flames constantly exploding in front of her were of no issue either!
“W-What in the nine heavens is this?!”
He grew desperate, attacking Kalana with even more fury; a massive phoenix emerged from his aura, rushing towards her as a kamikaze attack.
“{Dark Phoenix’s Descent}!”
Kalana readied her fists at once, infusing them with enormous quantities of energy, and then…
“{Crimson Burst Echo}…!”
She released it all!
“{Crimson Explosion}!”
Four of her fists clashed against the descending phoenix, blowing it away and unleashing four massive explosions that quickly engulfed the old cultivator behind.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
“Uuuaarrgh?!”
The man felt all his innards exploding and his bones breaking; this time parts of his whole body were blown away instantly, leaving him with barely a left arm and several missing chunks of meat.
“A-Arrgh…! W-What… what was that?! She…!” He started sweating a lot as he was falling from the skies. “She’s not even at the Primordial Realm, that monster is…!”
His own body quickly activated its innate ability, an infused Formation into his own flesh, blood, and skin; flames encompassed him entirely as his body regenerated instantly.
This was Phoenix Revival!
Once a day, he could revive from certain death.
It was one of the trump cards that made him such a hard-to-kill bastard, and also someone feared across Murim.
“She’s not someone I can beat! I have to get out of here before…!”
As he tried to escape and completely ditched his loyalty to Fang Gu Lan, prioritizing his own life like any Murim Cultivator would usually do…
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Kalana’s mama showed up.
A giant, muscular, and intimidating orc warrioress, looking down at them, man.
“W-What is that monster of a woman?!”
He almost pissed himself before Mursha’s massive and intimidating physique.
However, he noticed she wasn’t as strong as the daughter!
“Get out of my way!”
As he roared angrily and attacked Mursha…
TRUUUM!
A massive pressure pushed him down into the ground, making him hit the floor beneath and leave a massive crater.
“G-Gaaaggh?! W-What was that?!”
He glanced upwards, noticing Mursha and Kalana looking down at him.
“But mama, I was going to beat him!” the girl said. “Let me! Let me!”
“You’ve already beat him; this cheater revived himself with some technique,” Mursha said. “Let Mama take care of this; you’re too young to take lives yet, Kalana.”
“Okay,” sighed the girl.
“W-Wait a moment! I’ll switch sides! I’ll become your ally and help you! I have got lots of intel I can tell you!” The man screamed, preparing a powerful technique to counter and escape.
However…
Mursha doesn’t take baits.
“The Blood Fang Tribe teachings say that we must never take hostages,” Mursha said, suddenly feeling more ruthless and barbaric than most Cultivators in Murim. “We kill our enemy, end of the story.”
“Hyeeeehh!”
CRASH!
The man screamed loudly as a massive axe cleaved him in half, burning him with flames even more potent than his own, flesh, bones, and soul, destroyed.
BOOOM!
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