Chapter 207: Fang Gu Lan’s Darkness
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Bing Xue glanced at what Fang Gu Lan had transformed into while squinting her eyes; this was both ridiculous and insane. She could have never expected Fang Gu Lan to suddenly start wearing a weird suit!
The suit itself was of black color with dark purple armor on top; the black suit was skin-tight and seemed to be of a material similar to highly reinforced metallic fiber; meanwhile, the purple armor was metallic, although of strange metal capable of manifesting itself out of thin air.
The purple armor was decorated with red jewels resembling rubies that seemed to hold some kind of evil power within them. The helmet was shaped like a furious black dragon, and the head had a black visor to allow the one wearing it to see through it.
Indeed, it was beyond bizarre, but Fang Gu Lan embraced such a power.
“Hahaha… HAHAHAHAH!”
The youngest Venerable in the history of Murim couldn’t help but laugh! He felt completely refreshed; the immense power he gained from this suit itself was enough to refill his energy completely.
And fuel him with a brand new, corrupt power he could make good use of! A powerful that wasn’t even from Murim or any world from the Tower either.
The symbols he had stolen from those brightly colored heroes had become corrupted because of his own emotions and powers forcefully turning them into their “dark versions”.
These 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… Something that by itself also didn’t make any sense either.
“What kind of ridiculous outfit is this?” Bing Xue twitched her eyebrow in confusion. “Are you serious right now, Fang Gu Lan?! You sure have no shame or pride, relying on such a ridiculous outfit to survive against me. Why not accept death a second time instead?”
Even someone like Bing Xue who had been using Skills and other bizarre powers for a while was shocked to see something as ridiculous. This power just went beyond mere Skills, it was something from another world entirely, a world without a System.
“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…! Did he steal them with his System? So he still has it after being fully Reincarnated by the Heavenly Will. Does this mean the Heavenly Will can replicate things such as Systems? If it was able to give it back to him, it means it can create it for itself too…”
Bing Xue was thinking more things than Fang Gu Lan had thought, as she was beginning to consider what other powers this monster could have inherited from the Venerables she killed.
The Fate Stealing Villain System was a tremendously strong tool that even made an idiot like Fang Gu Lan into a monster. If it were to fall into the hands of the Heavenly Will, now not only capable of controlling Fate within its own world but also using the System to do the same with other worlds, it could influence… Then things would only get worse!
Indeed, she thought the Heavenly Will was a much greater threat anyway. Despite the surprising transformation, Fang Gu Lan didn’t scare her or make her worried one bit.
“Call it whatever you want!” Fang Gu Lan laughed, summoning a black spear from his suit’s strange, alien powers. It was as if black fog, shadows, and tiny nanomachines born from nowhere unified into an incredibly tough, molecularly dense mechanical artifact. “But this is the power that’ll kill you, Bing Xue!”
While laughing maliciously, Fang Gu Lan unleashed more of his corrupted Powers, as a storm of black clouds and lightning surged from his body, surrounding him! Wherever he moved, the heavens distorted and warped, and the earth beneath trembled.
He encompassed his weapon with the black lightning coming from the storm surging from his body, moving with like a black blur towards her, and then thrusting his black spear against Bing Xue!
CLAAASH!
Bing Xue responded with her Yin and Yang Sword, swinging it upwards and then pushing forward with her physical strength alone, pushing Fang Gu Lan back while glancing at his eyes with indifference.
“You’re using a new, fancy power, so what? If anything, this has only made you more stupidly overconfident, Fang Gu Lan.”
“Tch! Still pretending that you’re not afraid?! Face my power and show me your face of despair, Bing Xue!”
RUMBLE!
The young Venerable roared; his black storm grew even stronger, manifesting into dozens of titanic metallic arms, which rapidly materialized, rushing towards Bing Xue.
“Huh, not bad, I guess.”
Her eyes glowed brightly with rainbow colors as her movements suddenly became incredibly precise. The power of her Nine-Colored Heavenly Eyes activated to their fullest power.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
She read through the movements of Fang Gu Lan’s manifestations and used her sword and her bare hands to cleave and crush them all.
CRASH!
She sliced one that came from above.
BOOOM!
She kicked two more that rushed from beneath.
BAAM! BAAM!
And she punched two more that came from her left and right.
This time Bing Xue was releasing more and more of her power, to the point her energies were infused into the targets she attacked.
The result?
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
Utter devastation!
All things she attacked or punched were infused with her energy, generating internal shockwaves that dealt tremendous damage.
This wasn’t something she had come out with just recently, but that she had been perfecting through this entire time after her battle with Orion.
After realizing that she might eventually fight beings as strong as her, or stronger, she had to learn new ways to target weaknesses.
And most of the time, releasing internal attacks would get a foe one way or another, dealing massive internal damage!
“I-Impossible…!”
Fang Gu Lan grew desperate, quickly rushing further away from her as he controlled his powers, conjuring more and more weapons.
This time countless massive cannons were manifested, gathering electromagnetic energies and firing titanic black beams of darkness and void against her!
TRUUUM! TRUUUM! TRUUUM!
“Hm.”
Bing Xue rushed as countless black beams reached her from every angle; she didn’t stop moving through, continuously rushing towards her foe. Skipping through space became hard, however, as the void beams distorted space.
But that didn’t matter anyway.
“{Aeternitas’ Martial Arts}”
Her sword disappeared as she remained bare-fisted, infusing her fists with her Venerable Aura and her Time Essence.
FLUOSH!
Until it seemed as if her fists had been covered with silver and golden flames, distorting and warping space and even time around her.
“I’ll show you the power I’ve gained here, just as you’ve shown me yours.”
“SHUT UP AND DIE!”
The beams reached Bing Xue, exploding one after another, engulfing her in pure Void that could absorb and disintegrate all matter.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
It was over.
Silence.
There was only silence as only smoke was left behind.
“Hah… Fucking bitch, talking out of her ass—Ugh?!”
“{Primordial Divine Sentinel Of the Dark Past}”
TRUUUM!
Before he could even realize what had happened, Fang Gu Lan vomited blood, feeling like he was hit on his chest.
“H-Huh?”
He realized the beams had yet to hit Bing Xue at all.
“What?!”
And that Bing Xue had disappeared from where she was.
In fact, she was right in front of him now.
And her fist had pierced through his chest, reaching all the way to his back.
Leaving a hole through his chest.
The suit’s durability? Immense.
But against Bing Xue?
Not really that tough.
“W-What…?! What happened?!” Fang Gu Lan gritted his teeth, trying to understand what had just occurred to him in this very moment; his lips trembled as he glanced at Bing Xue. “You…! WHAT DID YOU DO?!”
He swung his spear against her, releasing a powerful shockwave of pure void that hit her with tremendous force; however, a gold and black shield manifested in front of her, taking the blow instead.
CRAAASH!
However, she was still pushed back, enough to give the desperate young Venerable enough time to recover his wound. Darkness filled his flesh as the suit began growing inside of him.
“Ugh…! W-What’s going on? The suit can do this?!” Fang Gu Lan gasped. “Ugh…! B-Bing Xue! What…! What did you do to me earlier?!”
“It seems you barely even know what your own power can do, Fang,” said Bing Xue. “You seemed so confident. That suicidal overconfidence is what makes you someone very immature, like a child that cannot believe he’s losing in a game.”
“Silence! I am not a child!” He screamed angrily. “I am an almighty venerable! And you’re nothing but a-”
TRUUUM!
“Huh?!”
“{Primordial Divine Sentinel of the Bright Future}”
Time was skipped by a second forward, as Fang Gu Lan felt Bing Xue’s punch pierce through half his head.
“Uuuaaaarrgghh?!”
As he screamed in utter horror, his suit went insane, a black storm hitting Bing Xue with tremendous force, shaping into a massive black dragon!
CRAAASH!
“It feels more like it’s your suit, the one I’m fighting, and not you, Fang Gu Lan.”
Bing Xue smiled, leaving Fang Gu Lan with half his brain missing and all.
Through the power of Aeternitas Martial Arts, she was able to both skip time or reverse it a second or two into the future or past, respectively.
While doing this, she would unleash a devastating attack, giving her a tremendous advantage against her foes.
“ROOOAARRR!”
The black dragon-like storm coming from Fang Gu Lan roared in response to its master’s agony; Fang Gu Lan’s powers were rapidly distorted as well, as the suit continued fusing with his flesh the more wounds he took.
“Uuurrggh…! Hahaha… I-I can get used to this!”
Fang Gu Lan laughed despite his agony, his Seven Paths of Heaven emerging from his body, resembling several gigantic black dragon heads from the storm surrounding him.
“I think I’ve got something good cooking up here!” he laughed. “Prepare yourself, Bing Xue! {Corrupted Seven Paths of Heaven Domain}: {Abyssal Black Heaven Dragon Purgatory}!”
TRUUUM!
Out of nowhere, Bing Xue saw space around her twist and turn, transforming and warping, trapping her within a Domain made by Fang Gu Lan!
The domain was much different than real life, as it was made of black clouds, and there were endless storms emerging everywhere, black and purple thunder reverberating, crackling across these dark skies.
And then not only was Fang Gu Lan’s Dark Dragon Storm attacking her, but also the entire Domain trembled and distorted, gigantic dragon heads and necks made out of these clouds emerging from every angle.
“Yes, this is quite like it!” laughed the young venerable. “I like this power much more! I am getting used to it, hahahahaha!”
As he laughed, Bing Xue swung her Yin and Yang Blade after facing hundreds of draconic heads and their thunderous breaths.
“You’re not the only one with a Domain, you know?”
Bing Xue smiled, her sword resonating with her Soul and her Aura.
“{Harmonious Soul Blade of Yin and Yang Domain}!”
RUMBLE!
Her sword cut through space as the dragons attacking here were instantly sliced into countless pieces, while a Domain of her own expanded, clashing against Fang Gu Lan’s Domain!
CRAAASH!
“A Domain Clash?!” Fang Gu Lan panicked. “B-But how?! I already made my Domain! Her own should be much weaker!”
TRUUUM!
Space began to twist and turn as Fang Gu Lan’s Domain lost a lot of its internal space, being overtaken by Bing Xue’s own Domain.
“This is an evolution of my own swordsmanship! Face me, Fang Gu Lan! And show me that you’re at least a warrior!”
As Bing Xue roared, her Domain twisted around her, manifesting thousands of swords in a mere second, being fired at Fang Gu Lan and his domain!
Her swords made of darkness and light sliced and cleaved through the dragons as Fang Gu Lan reinforced his purple armor, encompassing his entire body and becoming more monstrous.
CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!
As he defended against the swords, he manifested a sword of his own with his powers, a gigantic blade embodying the Black Storm Dragon Deus Ex Beast that was born from the Corruption of the Symbols.
“I’ll show you!”
CRAAASH!
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