Chapter 216: Bing Xue’s Adaptability
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If all of Bing Xue’s enemies and rivals had to admit something about her, and something that they would all agree was one of Bing Xue’s most problematic abilities…
Of course, it would be her Adaptability.
Bing Xue observes her opponent; she inspects and analyzes every single move they unleash; she calculates her own movements; and she always usually keeps her distance when needed.
She also is always brewing some plan in the background, which would always catch her foes off-guard.
After analyzing her foe, she would quickly and forcefully transform her own techniques to adapt to their fighting style and even go as far as becoming a bad match for them.
Bing Xue's unusual growth made this possible! Through her life in Murim, she never stayed true to her techniques and would always change them or merge them together.
Ultimately, this created a Martial Artist that these people would only call a "chimera." Bing Xue copied techniques from her foes and merged them into her own personal Martial Arts, constantly evolving and transforming it to adapt to her foes.
Divine Photon Essence was an ultimate form of such technique, an energy, a powerful essence that can both harm, heal, restrain, seal, protect, and transform, even being capable of transforming into its opposite, Umbral Essence.
As Bing Xue fought against an opponent vastly stronger than her, she carefully analyzed him and tried many techniques against him while constantly improving herself and evolving even further beyond.
Her energies converged, rapidly being refined within her soul, and she started to tap into a power beyond what she had even achieved back in the world of Murim.
Although it wasn’t complete, the Dark Storm Dragon had confirmed it; Cosmic Power was rapidly being produced by her Soul!
Born from the convergence of all the energies she had accumulated, even Primal Power, this incredibly strong energy was but a speck of its true power.
However, it was enough to scare the Dark Storm Dragon, enough to make him grow desperate and throw most of his trump cards at her in quick succession.
Like this, Bing Xue pushed her foe to his limits and was able to accurately calculate most of his powers!
As this happened, down below, her family rushed towards her after they were done with the Dark Draconified Immortals, as they were called by her own Doppelgangers.
However, they stood on standby until the perfect moment.
The moment when the Dark Storm Dragon was sure to have won, sealing Bing Xue with his Cosmic Darkness Chains, and nullifying most of her powers this way!
Thanks to Bing Xue’s Doppelgangers unifying and strengthening their power, Mursha, Kalana, Fiery Hair, Rainbow Eyes, and Urbosa and Merkite were able to attack the Dark Storm Dragon with all their power once he was sure to have won, tearing through his body!
His two heads were completely gone, and then even his long, powerful tail was punched and shattered into countless pieces, all while he burned, covered by Divine Primal Flames produced by Fiery Hair and her son, Rainbow Eyes.
But what about her?
What about Bing Xue?
As she found herself deep within the void that the Darkness Energy had engulfed her into, her mind slowly began to comprehend the true nature of the Darkness the Dark Storm Dragon wielded.
It was indeed an alien power from another world, which defied the laws of Physics, and was capable of materializing physical matter at will to a level never seen before.
It was also capable of giving tremendous power to those that became its vessels… But this Darkness also had its own weakness.
Born from Malice, Evilness, Frustration, Suffering, Agony, and Pain, the Darkness was a power that manifested across all of the Universe where the Dark Storm Dragon came from.
This Darkness was the accumulation of this Negative Energy across eons of life’s suffering through the universe, gathering into a single black star that then hatched, like an egg, to give birth to this Cosmic Being, a Calamity that embodies the Suffering of the Universe.
The Dark Storm Dragon!
Bing Xue learned these things as she scanned the dragon’s soul while being chained by the Darkness born from his very being, realizing his origins.
And how to counter his powers.
It was actually quite simple once she figured it out.
If Darkness was the embodiment of the Universe’s Suffering, she simply had to infuse it with the Embodiment of Happiness, Love, and Hope.
By gathering the Positive Emotions of within her own Psyche and refining them into her Venerable Ki and Divine Photon Essence…
Just like how Demonic Immortals can gain power through their suffering, Bing Xue gained power through her love and hope.
And through the Divine Photon Essence’s powers, she injected it into the Darkness, destroying it from the inside out!
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
She forced her way out of the chains, as her Aura had already evolved once more, overflowing with white and golden flames, merging with her own Mind and her Emotions.
“I think I’ve figured out a new way to grow stronger. I will call this {Emotional Spectrum Arts},” Bing Xue smiled to herself. “Your Darkness has become rather easy to handle now, Dark Storm Dragon.”
“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 antagonistic to Bing Xue… Was now being controlled by her hands!
The Cosmic Power combined with it lost its weight after she nullified the Darkness, helping her overpower the cosmic chains and break them with her sheer brute physical force.
“Pretty good power you’ve got here… I’ll make good use of it!”
Bing Xue laughed. The Darkness she had destroyed gathered around her hands, rapidly being purified into pure white and gold energies.
Without her daughter not even telling her how to do it, Bing Xue already figured out a way to reverse the Darkness into the Power of the Symbols.
“GIVE IT BACK!”
With a furious scream, the Dark Storm Dragon rushed towards Bing Xue, using his Cosmic Shockwaves to send her family away as far as possible.
The beams he had fired into the surface were also intercepted by Hekita, Merneith, and the Divine Beast God Machines, who were on standby, saving the planet from a prompt death.
“Sure.”
Bing Xue smiled. The moment the Dark Storm Dragon got closer, she swung her fist forward as her Aura wrapped around it, her Emotional Spectrum Arts manifesting, the power of Hope and Love manifesting from within the reversed Darkness.
BOOOMMM!!!
An explosion erupted from her punch, blowing through the metallic skull of the Dark Storm Dragon and blowing away his biomechanical brains into smithereens; his massive mechanical body trembled, gaining countless cracks.
“UUAARRGH…!”
Still barely alive, with more than half his head blown up, a melting eye, and a dislocated lower jaw, he roared fearlessly. The Dark Storm Dragon controlled his storm and shaped it as thousands of spears, firing them at everyone.
“I WILL NOT REST… UNTIL YOU’RE ALL DEAD!”
“It’s over for you!”
“Mama already told you!”
However, interrupting his words filled with dread and monstrous despair, two young Venerables showed up out of nowhere, punching his chin and blowing it up into pieces.
BOOOMM!!
As his chin blew up and barely anything of his head remained, the Dark Storm Dragon glanced at the two little warriors that hit him. Their voices were obviously those of Athena and Orion, and their clothes were completely different.
In fact, they resembled the detestable attire those hateful Gaorangers wore when they fought against the threats of Earth while wielding his Sealed Powers!
“G-GAAARRH…! I-IMPOSSIBLE! GAORANGERS?!”
Bing Xue smiled proudly as she heard the voice of despair of the Dark Storm Dragon, crossing her arms and nodding.
“That’s right, my genius children figured out a way to Seal your Power as well! And they even gained the power of the Symbols within you,” laughed Bing Xue. “It looks like you weren’t in complete control of your power as you said you were! The Seals weren’t completely undone by Fang Gu Lan. And it seems the Symbols, born from your Sealed Darkness, don’t want you back either; color me surprised.”
“DON’T ACT COCKY JUST BECAUSE YOU FREED YOURSELF! I AM A COSMIC CALAMITY!”
The furious Dark Storm Dragon roared as his entire body started overflowing with even more Darkness, attacking all nearby foes with his Black Heaven Storm, as he manifested Primordial Chaos Spears born from Fan Gu Lan’s techniques.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
However, Bing Xue and her family held them off on their own; through combining her Doppelganger’s powers with her wives and children, while Orion and Athena fought with their new “Gaoranger Armor”, they began to rapidly nullify the Primordial Chaos Spears, destabilizing their chaotic structure and making them explode ahead of time.
“Now! Gang on him!”
Bing Xue roared as her entire family started hitting the gigantic metallic dragon while he was struggling to keep up! Mursha swung her axe, cleaving through his body with the added raw power of her daughter. Fiery Hair and Rainbow Eyes punched holes through him, which exploded into Primal Flames spreading through his body. Merkite and Urbosa unleashed powerful spear techniques encompassed by lightning and windy storms, decimating his armored plates.
And lastly, Bing Xue, Athena, and Orion punched the monster’s body; the twins, empowered with their Auras, released all their latent power as their Venerable Auras transformed into humanoid wolf-like beasts, resembling giant werewolves behind them.
“{Divine White Wolf’s Heavenly Claws}!”
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
“{Divine White Heaven Formation Arts}: {Seven Heavenly Stakes}!”
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
While Orion used brute force, Athena manifested seven giant white stakes to pierce through the body of the Dark Storm Dragon! The Dark Storm Dragon had never experienced such agony before, screaming as he saw his entire body gaining cracks, rapidly beginning to fall into pieces.
“UUAARRRGHHH…!”
Meanwhile, their mother manifested a gigantic sword using all the purified Darkness she had drained, combining it with her Divine Photonite Metal, her Cursed & Blessed Blazing Starlight Relic Creation, her Umbral Essence, Demonic Energy, Divinities, and her Soul Blade, all into one.
“{Primordial Yin and Yang Essence Soul Blade}: {Eternal Blade of Harmony}!”
SLAAAASH!!!
And that single, gigantic sword of over a hundred meters of height split him into two halves, slicing and cleaving right through his Soul and Body, space and time, and even purifying the Darkness within him.
The Symbols began to regain their power as the darkness was being rapidly vanquished! The Dark Storm Dragon screamed in agony.
“NO! THIS CAN’T… BE HAPPENING! NOT AGAIN! I DON’T WANT TO BE SEALED AGAIN!”
As he screamed, the light of Bing Xue’s blade consumed more and more of his existence; it was futile; this was his end.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
His fragments fell apart, revealing his true body; within the mechanical body, there was a spectral dragon made entirely out of pure Darkness.
Without a physical vessel, the Darkness began to escape everywhere, making his entire being dissipate.
“Now, while he’s-”
As Bing Xue called for Athena’s help to seal him back into the pure power of the Symbols…
FLAAASH!
A bright red light suddenly emerged, coming from the distance and moving at a speed that not even Bing Xue was able to properly detect in time.
The giant bright red light came from some sort of flying object, her eyes barely identifying it as some kind of spaceship-like machine with the head of a mechanical lion…
It barely evaded the Dark Storm Dragon’s “Soul” as it drove down into the ground, crashing into the wasteland below.
BOOOMM!!
But right after that, another figure appeared: a group of people within an emerald construct made out of psionic energy, unable to evade in time, they ended up hitting the Dark Storm Dragon instead.
And a huge explosion released a massive shockwave. Bing Xue and her family were pushed back by the shockwave as they saw the Dark Storm Dragon screaming furiously in both agony and anger.
“WHAT THE…?! UGH! WHAT IS THIS?!”
The four people that crashed into his Soul… Bing Xue instantly recognized a few of them, her eyes widening, especially at that one particularly strong man.
“Galaxy Man and the Heroes?! They got here already?!”
She tried to catch them before something worse would happen, but it seemed to be too late.
The worst possible scenario was about to happen.
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