Chapter 212: A New (Temporary) Solution To The Infestation?

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Xue Xenxue watched in awe as Rainbow Eyes punched down the Dark Draconified Immortal, the immortal’s entire body exploding into pieces, falling from the skies into the ground once more.

“T-That’s amazing; just how strong are you, boy?” Asked Xue Xenxue in disbelief, readjusting his glasses.

“I don’t know… But pretty strong!” Said Rainbow Eyes. “And- Uh?”

“Oh no!” Xue Xenxue glanced at the scene in disbelief.

The two looked down, realizing a cloud of darkness regenerated the body from its countless pieces, remaking it entirely and reviving the once dead into an even more monstrous being.

“T-This is incredible! Is this what this alien energy can do? This darkness! It can revive the beings it possesses indefinitely?! It’s incredible if that’s the case!” Xue said.

“Indefinitely? That cannot be possible…” Rainbow Eyes said, looking grumpy. “I bet there’s a way to… Huh?”

As he glanced at the Dark Draconified immortal rushing from the ground below, he noticed dozens more of these monsters surrounding them.

“There you are! Shyaaah!”

“Dangerously strong…! Shaah!”

“Eliminate the child! Gyaaah!”

“Destroy the threat! Now!”

They started whispering between one another, their Auras of Darkness growing stronger as they rushed towards Rainbow Eyes at the same time.

Their claws, fangs, and tails overflowed with black flames as they attacked using fast and precise movements, fueled by the Ki of their original selves.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

“Ah! Rainbow Eyes!”

Xue panicked as he saw the boy being overwhelmed; the monsters didn’t seem to pay him any attention, deeming him a non-threat that they didn’t have to waste time and efforts prioritizing.

“Hmph!”

However, Rainbow Eyes didn’t falter; from his body, a gigantic aura surged, as his entire body was encompassed in silver flames, his clear brown skin was covered in these flames as well, and his long, fiery hair quite literally turned into silver flames too!

FLUOOOSH!

As he transformed, a powerful shockwave of silver flames engulfed his foes, burning their bodies and consuming their souls and lives; the darkness encompassing them seeped to fight back quite strongly though, trying to regenerate them or help them move through the endless inferno.

“Maybe if I disintegrate them completely or turn them into ash, they won’t be able to revive!” The boy said.

“{Heavenly Silver Nova Body}: {Astral Flare}!”

FLAAAASH!

The boy shone incredibly brightly, making even the Dark Storm Dragon above the skies squint his eyes lightly; the Apothecary was blinded though.

“Uuaagh! My Eyes!”

As he screamed, the Dark Draconified Immortals were instantly burned to ashes, disappearing one after another, as nothing of them was left behind.

“Uooh! These ashes! What are they?!”

Xue, however, recovered instantly as his special regenerative body helped him recover his sight almost a second after. He quickly took a special Immortal Flask, composed of several spiritual materials, and grabbed some of the ash left behind, which he saw had glittering darkness inside.

“Interesting, the darkness remains in the ashes!” He said. “And- Uagh?!”

He suddenly saw the ashes grow tendrils of black flesh and metal, rapidly trying to recover and become something again.

“Is it regenerating from ashes themselves? Is this some kind of Phoenix Species? No wait, this comes from another world entirely…! {Suppression Seal}!” The man roared as the flask suddenly glowed with several Feng Shui “Runes”, suppressing the living being inside and turning it back to ashes, although only as long as the Seal remained active.

“Oh, old man, you can seal them?” Wondered Rainbow Eyes. “I might’ve been rude to you, but I think I might… I might need some of that here.”

Rainbow Eyes watched the remains of his victims quickly combine back together into even more monstrous creatures; the more they revived, the less human they looked.

“Gruooohhh!”

“Gryaaaarrgh!”

“Shaaaahh!”

“You mean the Suppression Seal?!” Xue asked. “Yes, I can conjure it more; I’ve got a whole lot of those flasks!”

The Apothecary quickly summoned hundreds of flasks of all shapes and sizes, which floated around his own Immortal Aura. He had almost no raw power, as his Cultivation and even the Dao Path he walked through were completely unconventional to any Cultivator of Murim.

“Woah, you can control those things easily? And they came from your Aura?!” Rainbow Eyes was surprised, battling dozens of the same monsters again; he didn’t seem to be struggling yet.

“Heheh! Of course, boy,” nodded Xue Xenxue. “I am not just any Apothecary, Scientist, and Alchemist, but the best of Murim! …I think.”

“Okay then, synchronize to me; I’m going to start roasting them once more!” Rainbow Eyes roared, his muscles bulging even more as his flames gathered into his body.

“RAAAAHHH!”

With a mighty caveman roar, Rainbow Eyes unleashed a storm of silver flames, consuming his surroundings. The monsters were rapidly roasted alive; their hard metal, darkness, or whatever simply couldn’t go against them.

Explosions erupted one after another as the monstrous immortals exploded like balloons, turning into ashes. The flames dissipated, and Xue moved.

“I got them!”

He controlled all the flasks with his Immortal Aura, letting them capture every single grain of ashes he found around, and then he placed powerful Seals on them.

“{Suppression Seal}!”

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

The flasks glowed brightly as the ashes within them and the darkness inside of them were fully suppressed! And so the group of thirteen monsters stopped temporarily.

“It worked!” Rainbow Eyes smiled. “I guess you weren’t as useless as I imagined!”

“Hahah, your praise is overwhelming, young lord,” Xue said while giggling humbly, already bootlicking the kid as much as possible, a survival tactic in Murim that has kept him alive all this time. “It is merely a small showcase of my abilities and also my gratitude towards you for having saved my life. I know this isn’t the time, but I’ve been considering joining your mother’s sect; has she been recruiting lately?”

“What? Stop using complicated words…” Rainbow Eyes groaned, scratching his head. “You want to join my mom’s sect? You have to ask her that yourself!”

Despite all, the boy was still quite like a caveman; they were rough and didn’t like talking complicated words if possible. Although he seemed more eloquent than Fiery Hair, he wasn’t that different to her.

“B-But aren’t you her son? I-I thought that…!” Xue muttered; he seemed afraid of introducing himself to Bing Xue directly.

“Whatever, I’ll try to tell her,” Rainbow Eyes shrugged. “Oh! Mama’s fighting over there! She seems to be helping those losers over there… Auntie Mursha and sis are with them too.”

“Your mother, auntie, and sister?” wondered Xue, glancing towards that direction, realizing it was right where the other Immortals had kicked him out.

Half of them had already turned into infected monsters that were constantly reviving after Fiery Hair roasted them into ashes; the other half was cowering in fear behind Mursha and Fiery Hair, while Kalana was rushing from monster to monster, blowing them up into pieces with her powerful punches. The Primordials that were there had already escaped, without even being grateful for their help.

“Looks like the Primordials that were close by already escaped… or died?” wondered Xue Xenxue. “Whatever the case, please let me assist you! My Seal can temporarily seal these monsters; it could give us enough time until I can find some way to counter or deactivate their Darkness.”

“You can do that, old man?” Rainbow Eyes wondered.

“I don’t know, but I’ve been able to figure out many things through investigating and analyzing many substances and the laws of physics of my world, young lord,” said Xue Xenxue. “I believe anything can be solved as long as you apply science to it!”

“Science…? That’s another buzzword I don’t understand.” Rainbow Eyes looked bored. “Come!”

The boy rushed towards the dangerous area, and Xue Xenxue caught up to him, although he was much slower.

“Geez, why are you so damn slow?!”

His Blazing Aura turned into a giant hand, grabbing Xue Xenxue, who screamed, thinking he would get burned alive, only to realize the flames weren’t burning him.

“Huh? They don’t burn?”

“I can choose who they hurt; they’re an extension of my Soul and my Body after all!” Rainbow Eyes said. “Don’t you think it was weird you didn’t get burned when I fought those monsters? Stupid old man...”

“A-Ah, hahaha, of course!” laughed Xue Xenxue, realizing just how ridiculously powerful were Bing Xue’s children. “It seems the young lord is already at… the Primordial Level! How many years did it take you to reach that level?”

“Years? Mom said I was born a Venerable!” Rainbow Eyes giggled cockily, showing his sharp teeth.

“S-Since birth?!” Xue screamed. “And Venerable?! I-Impossible! Isn’t that… Ah! But could it be? The laws of this world are simply different, I suppose! How fascinating!”

“Whatever you say! Now come help out! Use your thingies to catch the ashes and seal them, got it?” Rainbow Eyes asked.

“Yes, I’m creating more as we speak!” Xue Xenxue nodded.

Inside of his small Inner Realm, there was a huge Formation he had created using thousands of different types of materials combined together and aligned into a massive Factory-type Formation, which created special Martial Flasks that he used to contain dangerous elements and ingredients.

They were originally made to contain souls inside, but they had continuously evolved to become even stronger, and now he was improving them to become better at sealing these Darkness-powered monster remains so they wouldn’t be able to revive so easily.

“Hyahyahyahyaaaah!”

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

Little Kalana unleashed a barrage of punches infused with her blood red aura, bursting through her foes and blowing giant holes through their bodies, ultimately reducing them to smithereens!

“And now…!”

Her fists blazed with crimson flames made out of her own Blood Fang Aura, her eyes shone bright red for a moment, changing from their rainbow color.

“{Crimson Burst}!”

BOOOMMM!!!

By swinging both of her fists forward with all her power, an explosion of crimson energies engulfed the Dark Draconified Immortals, as their bodies exploded, rapidly disintegrating even more, turning into just ashes, or tiny fragments.

“Haaah… Haaah… Did that do it?!” She wondered, squinting her eyes.

However, she quickly noticed the Darkness rapidly wrapped around the ashes again, and the bodies began to rapidly regenerate.

“Dammit! Kalana complained. “Stop it already!”

She swung her fists forward, punching the empty air and unleashing massive shockwaves that blew up the regenerating bodies into pieces over and over again.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As she did that, the Immortals that were being protected by her were shocked by what they were seeing; the little girl was single-handedly stopping those undying monsters with her mere punches.

“T-That girl’s… incredible!”

“Despite the weird skin tone, she looks human, no?”

“She’s Bing Xue’s daughter! One of them…”

“So that hair and eyes of hers… weren’t just a coincidence, huh?”

“But didn’t she already have twins? There’s a third?!”

“I’ve heard there’s also a fourth! And they’re all Primordial Level or higher!”

“P-Primordial level or higher at such a young age?”

“Yeah, we never stood a chance…”

“If only those bastard Primordials hadn't run away the moment they saw Fang Gu Lan being defeated, we might’ve still stood a chance!”

“Stop talking delusions; once Bing Xue were to face us, we would all be reduced to ashes by her divine light! Haven’t you heard at all about what happened to the Demonic Sects that rejected her offers of turning into a new leaf? They were all gone in a single day! Thousands of cultivators gone with a single flash of light from the skies! The survivors, all mortals, said that the blinding light felt like a punishment from heaven!”

It seemed the Immortals of Murim were greatly traumatized by Bing Xue and her ruthlessness, more than her family would’ve liked to hear.

“Hey bastards! Stop complaining or talking bad about my wife, or I’m going to chop you all into pieces!” Mursha roared; the barbarian orc quickly made the men all paralyzed, even more when she was so huge compared to the average man of Murim.

“Hyeeeh!”

“D-Don’t kill us!”

“W-We apologizeeee!”

“You’re sure pathetic once cornered, aren’t you?” Mursha sighed. “I am only letting you live because you stopped fighting. And my daughter… insisted a lot. But remember that if it were up to me, you would’ve died even if you begged for mercy or surrendered.”

As the orc warrioress’ crimson eyes intimidated them, Rainbow Eyes rushed back to the group, as Fiery Hair greeted the boy while turning dozens of monsters into ashes.

“Son! You’re back with the screaming, cowardly man!” Said Fiery Hair.

“Yeah mom! He’s unexpectedly useful! He can seal the bad guys!” Rainbow Eyes said.

“Seal? Truly?! No trick?” Fiery Hair glared at Xue Xenxue with intimidating eyes.

“I-I assure you it isn’t a trick, your majesty!” Xue Xenxue muttered with a pathetic voice.

“Your majesty? I am not a queen. Ah, whatever, show me then!” Said Mursha.

“Y-yes!” Xue Xenxue manipulated the flasks, as they quickly captured the ashes of the monsters that Kalana had destroyed.

The darkness surged from the flasks, but Xue Xenxue quickly sealed them back, stopping them from awakening and reviving!

“Like this!” He said, feeling tired.

“It worked?!” Mursha wondered. “Hmmm, okay, you’re useful then. Do the same for everyone here.”

“E-Everyone?” Xue Xenxue noticed the entire group had been fighting over fifty monsters like this. “Hahaha…”

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