novelraw Chapter 318: Flame of Destruction
Chapter 318: Flame of Destruction
Han Xiao's face paled in shock. He hurriedly withdrew his spear and retreated, circulating his Spiritual Energy to barely extinguish the flames clinging to the weapon's shaft.
However, the spiritual nature of the Blazing Plains Blood Spear was already damaged.
Ling Shuang's Thousand Feathers Ice Kill had already arrived.
Countless icy blue feathers, like a torrential downpour, shot toward Su Zhan carrying the power of extreme cold.
Su Zhan snorted coldly. The aura around his body suddenly erupted, and a dark energy shockwave mixed with Mist Energy and an aura of destruction violently expanded outward.
"Boom!"
The ice feathers, upon contacting this shockwave, shattered one after another as if glass hitting an iron plate.
They couldn't even get close.
The absolute suppression of strength was displayed without any concealment!
"My turn."Su Zhan's figure moved, instantly disappearing from his original spot. The next moment, he appeared in front of Ling Shuang and threw a punch.
Dark red flames blazed fiercely on his fist.
Wherever it passed, even the air was ignited, leaving behind a distorted vacuum trail.
Ling Shuang's pupils contracted sharply. She channeled all her power, driving her crystal ice wings to layer overlapping shields of ice crystals before her.
"Crack! Crack! Crack—!"
The ice crystal shields shattered one after another as if made of paper.
The fist's momentum did not diminish in the slightest.
It landed squarely on Ling Shuang's crossed arms, which were braced in a block.
"Pfft—!"
Ling Shuang was struck as if by lightning. Blood sprayed wildly from her mouth as her entire body was sent flying backward. She crashed heavily into the rock wall. The crystal ice wings on her back instantly flickered, becoming unstable and almost dispersing.
Her arms were bent, clearly fractured.
Moreover, they were covered with a strange dark red hue, continuously being scorched by the flames.
"Ling Shuang!"
Han Xiao's eyes nearly burst with fury. Ignoring his own injuries, he charged forward with his spear once more. His spear technique became even more ferocious, a completely suicidal, fight-to-the-death style.
Su Zhan waved his hand, and a dark red wall of fire materialized out of thin air, blocking Han Xiao's path.
Han Xiao thrust his spear at the fire wall, but it felt like stabbing into viscous magma. The spear's momentum was instantly halted, and the flames even surged back along the spear shaft. The scorching heat and aura of destruction nearly suffocated him.
"Thud!"
Su Zhan kicked out, his foot landing squarely on Han Xiao's chest.
The clear sound of shattering bones came from Han Xiao's ribcage. His entire body was sent flying even more miserably than Ling Shuang, crashing to the ground. He struggled a few times but was momentarily unable to get up.
Overwhelming!
A complete and utter overwhelming!
In just a few exchanges, two Abyss Realm first-stage geniuses were so thoroughly and pitifully defeated before Su Zhan, who had just broken through to the Special-risk first stage!
Su Zhan walked step by step toward the two, who had lost the ability to resist.
The Flame of Destruction danced in his palm.
He no longer held back in the slightest, his killing intent palpable.
Han Xiao and Ling Shuang, severely wounded and lying on the ground, exchanged a glance. Both saw determination in the other's eyes.
"Dammit, let's fight him with everything we've got!"
Han Xiao roared angrily. He suddenly struck his own chest, spurting out a mouthful of his vital essence heart's blood, which splattered entirely onto the Blazing Plains Blood Spear.
The spear shaft erupted with a golden-red radiance far exceeding anything before.
His aura was also forcibly elevated a notch, but his complexion visibly turned ashen at a rapid pace, and his hair began to show streaks of gray.
An aura of extreme cold, far more intense than before, erupted from Ling Shuang's body. The crystal ice wings on her back transformed into icy blue flames condensed from burning soul power.
Both simultaneously used a secret technique that burned their life force and vital essence, forcibly elevating their combat power to a level close to the Abyss Realm second stage for a brief period.
This was a true life-or-death gamble.
Even if they could win, they would inevitably suffer severe damage to their foundations afterward, and most likely even fall in cultivation level!
"Kill!"
The two, burning with their lives, transformed into one golden-red and one icy-blue streak of light, fearlessly charging at Su Zhan.
Wherever the spear's radiance passed, space distorted!
Wherever the ice flame reached, all things fell into silence and perished!
Su Zhan's eyes became extremely grave.
Future Vision, activate!
Countless possible futures within the next five seconds flashed through his mind like streams of data.
He was no longer hiding anything now. Since he was going to kill the opponents anyway, there was no difference between exposing a lot or exposing a little.
From the perspective of the Time Abyss Pupil, the trajectories of Han Xiao and Ling Shuang's desperate attack were clearly presented before his eyes.
Su Zhan's figure swayed, avoiding Han Xiao's spear thrust aimed directly at his heart by a hair's breadth. His left palm, sharp as a blade, struck a minuscule point where the energy of Ling Shuang's ice flame wings was circulating.
"Rip!"
The ice flame wing was torn open with a sound, and its energy instantly became chaotic.
And in that very instant.
Relying on the acute perception of Abyss Realm powerhouses, both Han Xiao and Ling Shuang clearly captured the fleeting fluctuation of Spiritual Energy that flashed across Su Zhan's body.
"Spiritual Energy? How can you have Spiritual Energy on you!"
Han Xiao was horrified to the extreme, almost thinking he was hallucinating: "How can an Aberrant possibly possess Spiritual Energy!"
Could it be... the other party had a dual identity!
He was both an Aberrant and an Awakened individual!
How was that possible!?
The power systems of Aberrants and Awakened individuals were fundamentally incompatible, like fire and water.
There had never been a precedent of both coexisting within one body.
This completely violated the ironclad laws of this world!
This earth-shattering discovery caused their minds to lose focus for an instant.
Su Zhan had activated Future Vision, and this momentary opening was already enough.
"Die!"
Su Zhan seized this fleeting opportunity. His right fist, shrouded in a destructive aura, smashed fiercely into Han Xiao's chest.
"Pfft—!"
Han Xiao's protective Spiritual Energy shattered like a bubble. His chest completely caved in, his heart and the vitality within utterly destroyed.
The burning flame of his life abruptly ceased. His corpse was sent flying powerlessly.
Su Zhan raised his left palm upward, where the dark red Flame of Destruction ignited.
He aimed at Ling Shuang and made a grasping motion from a distance.
Ling Shuang wanted to struggle.
But a single spark of dark red flame bloomed out of thin air on her chest.
That spark violently swelled, instantly crawling all over her body, engulfing her entire person.
This flame was no ordinary fire. It wasn't scorching hot;
instead, it carried a soul-freezing coldness.
But wherever it passed, everything was being destroyed!
Ling Shuang's ice-blue combat attire turned to ash.
Her fair skin rapidly turned charred black within the flames.
She resisted with her remaining ice-type power, but that faint icy blue light was completely dissolved before the dark red flame.
"Ah—!!!"
Her flesh was slowly incinerated bit by bit.
Her tendons and bones were burned and melted inch by inch.
Even her soul was scorched by the extreme pain brought by the Flame of Destruction.
Ling Shuang rolled frantically on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on her body.
But it was all in vain.
The dark red flame clung to her like a bone-deep affliction, firmly attached to her body, devouring every bit of her existence.
The stench of burning flesh filled the air.
Han Xiao's corpse lay not far away, but he could no longer witness this tragic scene.
Su Zhan stood expressionless in place, coldly watching Ling Shuang struggle within the flames.
Finally, her sounds grew weaker and weaker, her movements slower and slower.
The entire process lasted over a dozen breaths.
For Ling Shuang, however, it felt as long as several centuries.
The last faint struggle stopped, and the dark red flame also receded.
On the spot, there was no corpse, no ashes, no trace left of anything that had ever existed.
Ling Shuang, this ice-type Abyss Realm genius, had been completely... erased by that Flame of Destruction, from her physical body to her soul.
Su Zhan slowly let out a turbid breath. Once again, he flicked his finger, and a slender wisp of flame landed on Han Xiao's corpse, similarly incinerating it completely, leaving not a single trace behind.