Chapter 215: The Overwhelming Power Of Family
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“{Dual Rings of Radiant and Umbral Harmony}!”
Bing Xue’s serpentine eyes glowed brightly as she swung all four of her arms forward, unleashing eight gigantic rings made of golden and black light, spinning around in midair.
These rings seemed simple, but they encompassed her entire Divinity compressed and combined together! The moment they impacted the Dark Storm Dragon’s body, explosions of light and darkness engulfed him.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The rings spun around his gigantic mechanical body, rapidly beginning to deal great damage, constantly slicing and destroying his internal body and biomechanical circuits.
“Uuugghh?! S-Such techniques…! WON’T WORK ME!”
With a furious roar, the Dark Storm Dragon opened his jaws, firing three beams of pure darkness that impacted Bing Xue with tremendous force!
TRUUUM! TRUUUM! TRUUUM!
Bing Xue gritted her teeth as her Venerable Aura shattered into pieces the moment it was hit by those three beams.
She realized that this thing had a power comparable to her, if not beyond with that sole showcase of power.
And yet…
She simply couldn’t back down like she would’ve done on Murim.
She cannot just run away and cultivate and then go back against him.
The whole world depends on her right now!
“{Primordial Heavenly Yin Yang Aegis}”
FLAAASH!
Her Divinity Authority manifested, as all the Divinities she had devoured and converged together materialized into a beautiful black and gold shield in front of her.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As countless explosions engulfed her completely, Bing Xue held her ground, unable to escape, as teleportation became incredibly complicated with a being like this in front of her, who was distorting space with his very presence.
“RAAAAHHH!”
With a mighty roar, Bing Xue released all the absorbed damage into her shield as she unleashed it as a gigantic black and white beam against her attacker.
TRUUUM!
The beam rushed through the skies as the Dark Storm Dragon quickly fired his triple darkness breath once more, both beam cannons impacting one another!
BOOOMMM!!!
Their impact generated a massive explosion across the skies, splitting the heavens into two and distorting space. Bing Xue didn’t let go of this beam though, turning this into a battle of attrition.
The Dark Storm Dragon continued firing his triple beam, while Bing Xue gathered the power into her four hands, constantly releasing her combination of Venerable Ki, Mana, Spirit Energy, and Divinities to strengthen the counterattack from her shield.
RUMBLE!
The skies continued distorting and trembling, the two powerful beams constantly hitting each other. The Dark Storm Dragon had grown weaker, but that didn’t mean he would easily lose anyway.
“RAAAHHHH! I AM UNPARALLELED ACROSS THE UNIVERSE!!!”
The Dragon roared furiously; his powerful triple beam continued consuming Bing Xue’s counter beam, constantly making it weaker and smaller!
“I AM THE EMBODIMENT OF DARKNESS! I AM THE LIVING CALAMITY!”
His body suddenly started to transform, several propulsors appearing through his mechanical form, releasing purple flames to propel him forward and overpower Bing Xue’s attack.
“I WILL DEVOUR THIS WORLD, JUST AS THE MANY I HAVE EATEN BEFORE!”
TRUUUM!
Bing Xue felt weaker and weaker; the Darkness seemed to be devouring her entire power, making her mind fall into a void more and more!
“Haaahh… Haaahhh…!”
While bleeding and looking all tattered, however, Bing Xue didn’t give up; her body continued growing larger, her muscles became swollen, and her power was released completely.
“AND I AM… EARTH’S GUARDIAN!!!”
TRUUUMMM!!!
“UNGH?!”
The Dark Storm Dragon gasped in disbelief as he saw an innate power surging from within Bing Xue, her energies merging and mixing together, rapidly giving birth to something else.
Something beyond these energies, a power that only the stars themselves produced...
“T-THAT’S…! ARGH!”
The Dark Storm Dragon grew frustrated and shocked; his triple beam was being overpowered as Bing Xue kept moving forward, her monstrous half-snake form powering her up to her limits!
“I AM… THE SOUL… OF MY BLADE…!”
Bing Xue roared, her eyes glowing brightly, as the beam she unleashed began to transform to the flabbergasted eyes of the Dark Storm Dragon.
“THROUGH THE PATH OF LIGHT… I WALK TOWARDS… THE HARMONY I SEEK!”
The dragon’s eyes widened as Bing Xue’s power started to rapidly increase; her energy seemed endless as it poured out of her.
“AND THROUGH THE HARMONY I’VE FOUND…!”
She vomited blood, yet she continued pushing further and further, her beam rapidly shaping into a blade!
“I OPEN THE HEAVENS…! TO ACHIEVE… THE IMPOSSIBLE!!!”
Her beam turned into a golden, glistening sword as it began to slice through the Dark Storm Dragon’s triple combined beam, capable of ending all of the planet if it were to hit its surface!
SLAAASH!
It continued slicing, reaching his body and beginning to rapidly slice through his scales-shaped metallic armor, distorting space as it did.
CLAAANK!
“UURGH?!”
The Dark Storm Dragon noticed something: as he began fighting back, using his claws to resist the blade, his breath was no longer working anymore.
Yes, he noticed something—a light that went beyond the divine realm within Bing Xue…
It was sparkling, like stars themselves, glowing brightly and beautifully, and gathering like a cloud of star dust, a nebula, around her body.
As she put her life on the line for the first time in thousands of years, Bing Xue was beginning to finally…
Surpass her limits.
This power was barely faint enough for him to notice, but it made him incredibly frustrated and jealous.
As a Cosmic Being himself, to think that a being from a damned planet would dare develop powers like him simply made him find it ridiculous.
It was preposterous!
“YOU DARE…! YOU DARE THINK YOU CAN OBTAIN COSMIC POWER?!” He roared furiously. “THIS IS… TRUE… COSMIC POWER!!!”
RUMBLE!
Out of nowhere, the core of the Dark Storm Dragon was revealed, as Bing Xue gasped, noticing an enormous pressure rushing towards her and hitting her with the force of ten thousand mountains.
BAAAMMM!!
“UGH…!”
Her sword instantly shattered into pieces as she fell to the ground from the skies; her transformation was also beginning to revert.
The pressure alone was so strong it seemed to completely cancel her techniques and even destabilize her Venerable Ki!
“That power was…! Yes, I remember it…”
She quickly stabilizes in midair, her Divinity surging behind her, resembling a gigantic rainbow tree constantly overflowing with rainbow-colored light.
She noticed the core of the Dark Storm Dragon, which he had made visible for her to be directly impacted by his almighty power.
“Cosmic Power…”
The mysterious Darkness Energy that the Dark Storm Dragon wielded wasn’t the only power he held; within his Core, his very Heart, he possessed Cosmic Power, an energy born from beings that travel the cosmos for eons, absorbing the universe’s radiation and accumulating it within them, refining it into a new type of power, one capable of distorting other lesser energies and even warping the laws of physics.
“CAN YOU GO AGAINST THIS POWER, SELF-PROCLAIMED GUARDIAN OF EARTH?!”
“I have to try, at the very least…”
Bing Xue’s transformation fully ended as she went back to her normal appearance.
But then…
“I am Light.”
BOOOM!
Her entire body exploded.
Her skin, bones, flesh, and blood transformed into pure, blinding light.
The Dark Storm Dragon gasped as he saw Bing Xue’s truest power and her truest form as well!
No bullshit, just her.
“This is my truest form, Dark Storm Dragon!”
She rushed towards him like a blinding golden star. The Dark Storm Dragon smiled as he saw her body grow larger to match his massive size.
Both beings, the embodiments of light and darkness, clashed against one another with immense force, their strength unparalleled.
Bing Xue swung her sword against him while also using her entire body as a Blade, unleashing dozens of swordsmanship techniques and cutting more of his metallic body.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The Dark Storm Dragon retaliated by swinging his gigantic claws, tearing apart one of her arms, and leaving the wounded area infected with Darkness, Bing Xue was unable to recover it.
CRAAASH!
She attacked back by firing dozens of her powerful Rings, which engulfed the Dark Storm Dragon on countless slicing attacks; they spun around his gigantic body, large chunks of metal falling constantly out of him.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Dark Storm Dragon responded with his mighty Darkness Breath, firing several beams against Bing Xue; two of them evaded, and a third hit her directly, burning her body and making her scream in agony.
Her shield manifested a second too late, but it quickly shielded her from the barrage of blows coming right after, as the claws of the dragon constantly attempted to tear her to shreds.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“THAT SHIELD AGAIN… IT WON’T WORK LIKE YOU WANT IT TO WORK!”
The Dark Storm Dragon released a shockwave of his Cosmic Power, distorting the structure of the Shield and trying to destroy it with his overwhelming pressure.
TRUUUM!
And yet, Bing Xue didn’t let him!
She swung her arms upwards, growing six of them out of her body made completely out of light, and punching his entire body constantly.
Each punch was also like a holy blade stabbing his body, circuits, and metal exploding and splattering everywhere!
“NGRAAARRGGHH!”
The Dark Storm Dragon opened countless cannons through his body, firing world-destroying beams against her and the planet beneath!
“I’LL KILL YOU AND THIS DESTROY THIS DAMN PLANET!”
Bing Xue gritted her teeth, rushing towards the Dark Storm Dragon and unleashing her strongest technique by fusing her own Divine Photon Essence Metallic Form, Divine Photonite, with her Umbral Essence, and then further synthesizing it with her Rings and her Shield, alongside her Sword.
“{Primordial Yin and Yang Essence Soul Blade}: {Aura of Eternal Harmony}!”
FLAAASH!
Her blade grew to a ridiculous size of over a hundred meters as she swung it against the monster in front of her with all she had, destroying several cannons and stopping the laser beams from reaching the surface of the planet!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
As she cut through her foe’s body and provoked his body to continue exploding and crumbling, his claws reached her, easily shattering through her Nine Heaven Protection and grabbing her body tightly, while using his long tail to stop her sword from being swung!
CLAAASH!
“Ugh! Aagh!”
The Darkness Energy and the Cosmic Power of the Dark Storm Dragon wrapped Bing Xue’s entire body, constantly nullifying her powers and distorting them, canceling them each time she activated them.
“IT’S FUTILE!”
His gigantic head glared down at her face, his red eyes glaring into her own, as he was trying to intimidate her as much as possible.
“YOU CANNOT WIN! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!”
This was a being that could have easily trampled over Murim’s Primordials, someone that might have even been able to go toe to toe against Venerables, all of them at once!
And yet, the Symbols couldn’t manifest his true power completely; one of them was still Sealed, and two others were halfway through being Sealed again…
At the same time, because of the Darkness he had propagated to his Pawns, which he had done so to spread his powers and gain more through Fear and Chaos, were all being sealed, further weakening him instead.
Bing Xue had a good shot to defeat him, but…
At the end, was this it?
“AND YOUR PLANET…! WILL FACE ITS END!”
His beams reached the surface, and as he fired even more, Bing Xue screamed, her powers constantly cancelled, nullified.
She felt…
Hopeless!
“…”
“HMM? YOU STOPPED FIGHTING?”
“…”
“IT SEEMS YOU’VE GIVEN UP COMPLETELY, HUH? GOOD.”
The Dark Storm Dragon smiled with all three of his heads as he opened his middle jaw, aiming to devour Bing Xue and absorb her powers to recover.
“THE PEOPLE FROM YOUR WORLD ARE GOOD SNACKS… AT THE VERY LEAST, I’LL EAT YOU UP!”
“No, I don’t think you will.”
CRAAASH!
“Hm?!”
Out of nowhere, the Dark Storm Dragon gasped in disbelief as he saw his left head being cleaved off by a massive blazing axe, which fell from the skies.
CLAAANK!
It fell to the ground, its light slowly dissipating, even though it was still reeking of Darkness Energy everywhere.
“Wha…?! Who!”
He gasped, noticing a figure, a giant woman made of golden and silver light, appearing behind him. Within her spiritual body, there was a green-skinned orc woman and her daughter.
Their powers converged as one within this woman made of light, which looked…
A lot like Bing Xue!
“W-What’s happening?! It’s you?!”
The Dark Storm Dragon had no idea of the concept of “Doppelgangers” at all.
“Yes, it’s me!”
Bing Xue’s voice echoed from above; out of nowhere, a spiraling spear pierced his right head, drilling through it while releasing divine winds and lightning, electrocuting his interior.
“UUAAAGGH!”
As he screamed in agony and saw another head blowing up into pieces. He glanced at yet another of Bing Xue’s Doppelgangers, merged with a powerful-looking, multi-armed, and multi-eyed wolf woman.
“YOU MERE INSECTS SHOULDN’T EVEN HAVE THE POWER TO TOUCH ME! BEGONEEEE!”
The Dark Storm Dragon grew frustrated, quickly releasing a powerful shockwave of cosmic power and sending everyone flying!
TRUUUM!
And yet…
CRAAASH!
“AAGH?!”
He screamed in agony as he saw his tail being punched so powerfully it exploded into pieces by yet another of Bing Xue’s Doppelgangers.
This time merged with a woman made of red flames and a boy made of silver flames.
“UUUAAARRGH!”
The explosive blow spread their flames across his body, causing extreme agony!
At the same time, chains made of darkness began to slowly break apart.
Crack, crack…!
Bing Xue, who had been trapped within the immense power of the Dark Storm Dragon, was already freeing herself.
CRASH!
“WHAT?! YOU FREED YOURSELF FROM MY COSMIC DARKNESS CHAINS?!”
“Did you think you could contain me for long? A couple of seconds is all it takes me to adapt. A minute at most!”
The Darkness Energy that had been completely antagonist to Bing Xue…
Was now being controlled by her hands.
“Pretty good power you’ve got here… I’ll make good use of it!”
“GIVE IT BACK!”
“Sure.”
Bing Xue smiled, punching his last remaining head with all her power.
BOOOMMM!!!
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