Chapter 234: Fighting Half Step Domain Master
Chapter 234: Fighting Half Step Domain Master
Swoosh—!
Without any unnecessary delay, Rhain initiated the battle with an explosive burst, pushing the Heaven-Grade Boundless Sky Wind and his Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame to their limits.
His body transformed into a blood-red meteor, bridging the distance between the two in less than a thousandth of a second, carrying a devastating wave of blood-red fire, his fist aimed straight at the face of the founder!
Faced with the raging flame that could instantly vaporize an ordinary core formation cultivator, the founder’s lips curled into an extremely calm smile.
With a slight lift of his right hand, he suddenly unleashed a Mystic grade martial skill of Stormveil Academy.
Mystic-Grade Martial Art: Sacred Cloud Repulsion!
BOOM!
An invisible wall of highly condensed essence materialized before the Founder.
Rhain’s cataclysmic fiery assault crashed into the barrier, and to Rhain’s surprise, the blood-red flames were effortlessly dispersed, neutralizing the overwhelming force of his strike completely.
’As expected of a Half-Step Domain Master,’ Rhain thought, his dark grey eyes narrowing sharply.
But Rhain refused to yield the initiative.
Since brute elemental force had been blocked, he immediately shifted his tactics.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
With a flash of spatial light, five streaks of dark light shot into the air.
Phantom Reaver Quintet!
Rhain unleashed his vast, ocean-like Soul Power, connecting directly with the five Epic-Grade daggers.
Simultaneously, a primal pressure rolled out from his body.
Overlord’s Tyranny!
The terror of the Abyssal Sovereign Physique was funneled directly into his Soul Power, coating the five daggers in an aura of mind-shattering dread.
But Rhain didn’t stop there.
He manipulated the Boundless Sky Wind, forcing the air currents around the arena to violently shift and warp.
The surrounding air instantly transformed into a deadly killing formation.
The wind howled, and the short blades blended perfectly with the wind, almost completely invisible.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The five lethal blades formed an autonomous, five-point lethal array, striking from different blind spots simultaneously.
Founder’s previously composed gaze suddenly sharpened.
In that instant, he felt a tremor as if he were being stared at by some primordial beast.
"What is this suppression? And such flawless control over Soul weapons?’ the Founder’s was astounded.
Even a thousand years ago, during his prime, he had rarely encountered a Spirit Manifestation youth capable of executing such a complex, multi-layered lethal assault.
But the Founder was not an ordinary opponent.
Although this manifestation possessed only the raw strength of a Half-Step Domain Master, it still retained the combat instincts and the unfathomable consciousness of the True Domain Master who had ruled Stormveil City a millennium ago.
His body twisted and folded at impossible angles.
CLANG! CLANG! TING!
The Founder deflected two daggers with his bare, essence-coated fingers, narrowly evaded the third, and parried the remaining two with a swift kick, his True Domain Master instincts saving him from what should have been a fatal, invisible strike.
But Rhain did not give him a single millisecond to recover.
His body arrived right behind the daggers.
BANG! BANG! CLANG! BOOM!
The two exchanged hundreds of blows in mere seconds.
Rhain’s fists, knees, and elbows rained down like a meteor shower, while the Phantom Reaver Quintet continuously harassed the Founder from every conceivable blind spot.
The Founder countered with elegant, devastating palm strikes and kicks, his movements flowing like water yet hitting like collapsing mountains.
The entire white jade arena trembled under the shockwaves of their grueling, high-speed battle.
Blood-red fire, invisible wind blades, and profound white essence collided repeatedly, their high-speed battle pushing both combatants to the limit.
"No wonder you could reach this level," the Founder breathed, his eyes shining with profound admiration as he deflected another invisible dagger. "To push me this far... you have earned my utmost respect."
After another explosive exchange, the Founder deliberately slid backward, putting some distance between them.
The Founder raised his right hand.
A magnificent longsword forged from pure white light coalesced in his grasp.
The Founder’s aura sharpened into an impossibly lethal edge.
Astral Piercing Sword Style
He executed the Academy’s ultimate Mystic-Grade sword art!
A colossal white sword shadow materialized above the Founder, radiating a destructive intent that threatened to split the very space they stood in.
Rhain looked at the descending sword shadow and simply smirked.
He raised his own hand, forming his fingers into the exact same sword seal.
Astral Piercing Sword Style
Mystic-Grade Martial Art!
He executed the exact same technique!
A second colossal sword shadow, identical in structure but pitch-black in color, erupted from Rhain’s body and slashed upward.
BOOM—!!!
The two ultimate Mystic-Grade sword arts, one white, and another black collided in mid-air.
A cataclysmic shockwave erupted, tearing through the serene environment.
Crack!
The once indestructible white jade ground beneath their feet cracked wildly like a spider web under this destructive force.
The Founder was pushed back a half-step, staring at Rhain with incredulous eyes.
"You perfectly mirrored my ultimate art in an instant..." the Founder murmured, his scholarly face turning incredibly solemn. "It seems mere martial arts are entirely useless against you."
The Founder slowly lowered his hands.
"Let me show you the true power of Half Step Domain Master."
"Law of Darkness."
WHOOSH—!!!
In an instant, the serene white jade arena, the illusionary sky, and the drifting clouds were entirely swallowed.
The space around them fell into darkness.
A nine percent comprehension of the incredibly rare Law of Darkness!
It wasn’t yet a Domain, but it was not far from forming one.
Rhain immediately felt the crushing weight of the Law.
The blood-red Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame coating his body flickered and dimmed slightly, suppressed by the devouring nature of the true Darkness.
His destructive output and mobility were severely crippled.
"In the dark, all things return to nothing," the Founder’s voice echoed from everywhere at once.
Swoosh!
The Founder attacked from the pitch-black void.
With his speed and perception heavily suppressed by the Law of Darkness, Rhain could barely track the incoming strikes.
SLASH! SLASH!
The Founder’s attacks, amplified by the Law and his superior Half-Step Domain Master cultivation, tore right through Rhain’s pitch-black protective essence.
Swoosh!
A streak of dark essence materialized from the spot behind Rhain.
Rhain tried to dodge, but the oppressive weight of the darkness slowed his movements by a lethal fraction of a second
SLASH!
A deep, bone-deep gash was torn across Rhain’s back.
Blood sprayed into the dark void.
"Gah!" Rhain gritted his teeth, spinning around to counter, but the Founder had already vanished into the absolute darkness.
SLASH! SLASH! BANG!
Attacks rained down on Rhain from every conceivable angle.
Despite his monstrous foundation and raw physical power, Rhain began to take heavy damage.
In the darkness, the founder appeared like a ghost, easily slicing through Rhain’s defenses and leaving several deep, bone-revealing wounds.
Deep, bloody wounds opened across his arms, his chest, and his legs.
In less than ten seconds, Rhain was entirely drenched in his own blood.
Hidden within the void, the Founder looked at the heavily injured youth with a trace of pity.
"It is over, young man," the Founder’s voice echoed from everywhere at once. "Surrend—"
But before the founder could complete his sentence, his expression suddenly froze.
Because he could clearly feel that Rhain’s deep, bone-revealing wounds were healing at a visible speed during the fierce battle, with new flesh and skin rapidly growing back!
The Abyssal Sovereign Physique’s almost monstrous passive recovery ability was on full display at this moment.
"Such recovery power... how is that possible!" The founder’s heart was filled with shock.
Rhain, firmly suppressed by the darkness, frowned.
He knew that a protracted battle with the laws of darkness would be at his disadvantage.
Since conventional methods were ineffective, he would reveal his trump card completely!
Rhain slowly raised his right fist.
He had acquired the Second Form of the Void Fist from the City Lord’s Pavilion of Mirravele City, but he had never found an opponent worthy enough to use it against.
Until now.
Rhain’s Eyes of Truth instantly activated, locking onto the faint, shifting essence signature of the Founder hidden within the oppressive space of darkness.
"Void Fist. Second Form."
He simply threw a devastating punch directly into the empty, pitch-black space in front of him.
Spatial Transmission!
The highly compressed dark essence of his punch completely bypassed the physical distance.
Hidden thirty feet away in the void, the Founder suddenly froze.
’How could he see me in the darkness...?’
But the Founder had not time to think as he sensed the gathering danger and immediately converged the Law of Darkness into a massive, impenetrable barrier of condensed void between himself and the youth.
No physical attack could possibly breach a defense forged from the very laws of the world.
But he was wrong.
it ignored the many barriers of the Dark Law, crossed space, and exploded precisely and ruthlessly inside his essence constructed body.
"Ugh!"
The founder staggered backward, the power of essence around his body visibly weakening.
But the horror of the Second Form of Void Fist did not end with mere physical destruction.
Essence Devouring!
The detonated pitch-black essence immediately turned into a ravenous vortex inside the Founder’s body.
It violently devoured the surrounding Law of Darkness and viciously drained the Founder’s massive Half-Step Domain Master essence reserves, siphoning the stolen energy directly back into Rhain’s Abyssal Sovereign Physique.
The oppressive, pitch-black void surrounding the arena violently trembled, then shattered like broken glass as the Founder lost control of the Law!
The serene white jade arena returned.
With his opponent’s power momentarily crippled and his inner organs devastated, the Founder’s absolute advantage was completely neutralized.
’Now.’
Rhain’s golden eyes shone with a dangerous light.
He channeled every single remaining drop of his vast essence, combining it with the stolen energy from the Founder.
He merged the devastating power of the Void Fist Second Form perfectly with the apocalyptic heat of the Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame.
Rhain stepped directly in front of the staggering Founder.
Void Fist. Second Form.
A point-blank execution strike.
Rhain drove his blazing, pitch-black and blood-red fist squarely into the center of the Founder’s chest.
BANG—!!!
A blinding explosion of dark essence and heavenly fire erupted outward.
The Founder didn’t even have the chance to utter a single word of praise.
His manifestation, forged from the soul of a true Domain Master, shattered into a million specks of brilliant spiritual light.