novelraw Chapter 141 - 140: Fingertip’s Golden Light, Mutual Gains
Chapter 141 - 140: Fingertip’s Golden Light, Mutual Gains
A battle of flesh and blood, a raw explosion of True Intent and Physical Ability that seemed to shake the very heavens and earth.
To the side, Elena had at some point risen from the ruins, her expression flickering as she watched the terrifying clash between the two.
She knew the Blasphemer had stolen the power of Deities, but she never imagined his strength had reached such a level.
His divine light shone everywhere, his Holy Flame burned fiercely, and his body was deified—he was like a living incarnation of a Deity.
’Compared to him, my own abilities are laughable.’
’Could it be that his path is the correct one?’
’Serving Deities isn’t about becoming their servant, but their master?’
A crazed thought rose in her mind and began to spread uncontrollably.
But soon, a bitter smile touched her lips.
Right now, Moncalis was like a Divine Lord walking the earth, yet he could only fight the man who defeated her to a standstill. In fact, it even seemed like he was gradually being suppressed.
’That man doesn’t need to borrow the power of Deities; he himself is like a God.’
’How can such a person exist in this world?’
Her mind drifted back through the millennia of human history.
The transcendent sages and saints of ancient times... today, she felt as if she were seeing the prototype of one in the flesh.
’What kind of future will this man have?’
Two to three hundred years ago, her homeland held the world’s center stage.
From a hundred years ago until today, the land across the ocean has taken center stage.
Perhaps in the next century, this land in the Far East will take its place on the world’s center stage.
No one would be able to stop it.
Meanwhile, Yi Beidou and Moncalis had exchanged no fewer than twenty techniques, yet they remained evenly matched, locked in a stalemate.
Moreover, as they clashed, the twin-colored flames burned even more fiercely.
Within a twenty-meter radius, the magnetic field was in chaos, with temperatures fluctuating between hot and cold. Ordinary people felt the world shake and sway, moving as if they were drunk, and dared not linger anywhere nearby.
Even Martial Arts Dao experts like Zhou Baiwei and Yang Mutong felt dizzy and nauseated. It was as if hot and cold were constantly alternating inside them, an unbearable sensation that made them want to vomit blood.
There was surprise in their eyes as well. This was the first time they had seen anyone, aside from a Corpse Dissolving Immortal, who could fight Yi Beidou head-on to this degree—and a new-generation Saint Realm expert, at that.
The world was vast, the Great Trend rolled on, and stars were scattered across the lands.
There were experts abroad who defied imagination.
However, they weren’t worried about Yi Beidou losing. They knew very well that he still hadn’t used his full power.
The Celestial Slaughter Seven Stars... so far, only six had appeared.
"You are worthy of my final step!"
Yi Beidou’s gaze was like lightning, his voice a rolling thunder.
As his power grew, the amplification from the Celestial Slaughter Seven Stars became more and more terrifying.
Currently, six of the Celestial Fiend stars were within his near-perfect control. If the Seven Stars Appeared Together, his body would inevitably be damaged.
When the seven stars shone in the sky, although it was only one more star, it was a qualitative transformation.
A difference of one star meant it could not be called "Beidou."
Yi Beidou was still unable to perfectly control it.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he would not unleash the complete Celestial Slaughter Seven Stars. Doing so would mean the rest of his day would be wasted.
He had originally hoped to meet more experts.
But now, this opponent before him was enough to make him willingly squander the rest of his day.
This was a form of respect.
BOOM!!
Yi Beidou’s muscles bulged and coiled. His hair stood on end like roaring flames. The Celestial Demon Blood surged through him, and his face took on a completely demonic appearance.
The Seven Stars flickered in the sky, and not even Moncalis’s Holy Flame Divine Light could stop the world from dimming.
Yi Beidou’s figure was now a full head taller than Moncalis. And it wasn’t just his height; even the Demon Flame on his body began to suppress Moncalis’s Holy Flame.
’My unshakeable Holy Flame is actually being... disintegrated?!’
BOOM!!
Yi Beidou threw a palm strike. The Destruction Killing Tribulation surged forward, its immense power washing through space. Moncalis was abruptly forced back three steps.
And this was not a single attack; a relentless tide awaited him.
BOOM! BOOM!
After two more palm strikes, Moncalis was sent flying backward in an instant, hurtling across the road and crashing into a statue in the middle of a musical fountain in the commercial plaza.
The statue was in the style of Ancient Greece: an Angel with wings on its back, holding a vase from which water gurgled.
TSSSSSS!!
The terrifying impact of Moncalis’s flight instantly shattered the entire statue. The intensely hot Holy Flame magnetic field around him, like a microwave oven, touched the fountain’s water, immediately vaporizing it into a hazy mist that shrouded everything within the fountain.
Sunlight shone down from the sky, and the mist refracted it, unexpectedly creating a clearly visible rainbow.
’Is it over?’
’Is this that man’s strongest state?’
Elena took a deep breath.
’If I had been hit by him in that state just now, I probably wouldn’t still be standing here.’
’Even the strongest Blasphemer of Western Europe’s new generation couldn’t take an attack like that?’
’Perhaps only the strongest of the Western World’s new generation—the trio known as Sea, Land, and Air—could possibly withstand an attack of that magnitude.’
"Thank you."
However, just then, a voice suddenly came from within the mist, making Elena’s body jolt.
A figure was seen striding out of the mist.
The blazing Holy Flame around Moncalis was gone, but the blood-red, flame-shaped Sacred Marks on his skin had undergone a dramatic change.
They had turned from blood-red to gold.
Moncalis’s clothes were tattered, revealing a powerful, statuesque body. Golden Sacred Marks flickered across him, with the hazy mist behind him and a rainbow directly over his head.
This made him look even more like a Celestial God descended to earth.
Under the constant devouring and searing of Yi Beidou’s Demon Flame, Moncalis’s mastery of the Holy Flame had achieved another breakthrough.
He had completely gathered the Holy Flame within his body. The light of the magnetic field manifested inside him, causing the golden patterns to appear on his skin.
"I only have a single technique left," Moncalis said to Yi Beidou.
He hadn’t been unscathed by Yi Beidou’s earlier attacks; he had just been forcibly suppressing the damage.
Furthermore, he had only just mastered this state, which was equivalent to a Secret Technique.
Condensing the Holy Flame within his body could indeed ’ignite’ his Life Magnetic Field to the maximum and push his Physical Ability to its limit, but the slightest mistake would turn him to cinders.
If he lost control, the consequences would be unimaginable.
It would take a long time to consolidate this state.
Being able to stably unleash a single technique was already quite an achievement.
"Interesting. Bring it on."
A smile curled Yi Beidou’s lips, looking utterly ferocious and terrifying in his current state.
TAP!!
Moncalis took a step, his figure instantly crossing twenty to thirty meters. The moment he struck, the vanished golden Holy Flame erupted to its absolute limit.
Before he had comprehended the golden Sacred Marks, an eruption of this magnitude would have been enough for the Holy Flame to destroy his own Life Magnetic Field.
In that instant, the golden Holy Flame seemed to form a pair of unfurled wings around him.
BOOM!!
Then, the sky-filling Holy Flame was pushed out by Moncalis’s palm, surging toward Yi Beidou.
His aura, True Intent, and Physical Ability were all raised to their absolute peak.
A sharp light burst from Yi Beidou’s eyes.
He took a step, his upper body surging forward.
The power of his entire body gathered at his palm, where the surging Demon Flame and Evil Qi converged.
In his palm, seven stars that seemed to be wreathed in flames appeared.
Destruction Killing Tribulation: Master of the Seven Stars.
The Demon Flame rolled forth, engulfing everything.
BOOM!!
With a tremendous roar, Moncalis’s body was sent tumbling like a sandbag, crashing into a newsstand on the side of the road before finally coming to a stop. He coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The golden color of the Sacred Marks on his body rapidly faded, and bright red blood seeped from every pore.
A look of intense astonishment filled Moncalis’s eyes. He had originally thought that with the power of the golden Sacred Marks, this one technique would be able to inflict massive damage on Yi Beidou.
However, his estimation had been wrong.
’The boost from this man’s Seventh Step has reached an incomprehensibly terrifying level.’
’His previous attacks... none of them were his full power.’
’Was this final strike his limit?’
Even now, Moncalis asked himself, but he couldn’t be sure.
This man was like a bottomless abyss.
"Not bad, not bad at all."
Yi Beidou looked at his own palm. A trace of black charring had appeared on it, and waves of stinging pain emanated from it. His blood flow was obstructed, making it difficult to exert his strength normally.
Moncalis’s Holy Flame had invaded his palm, damaging the Life Magnetic Field in his hand.
FWOOSH!!
The next moment, Demon Flame ignited on Yi Beidou’s palm, suppressing the Holy Flame’s influence. However, completely repairing the damage would likely still take some effort.
"Holy Flame..."
Yi Beidou muttered to himself.
The next moment, Moncalis’s pupils contracted to pinpricks.
He saw Yi Beidou extend a finger, and a glint of golden light became visible to the naked eye at its tip.
’This feeling...’
Moncalis’s heart reeled in shock.
He had gained something from his clash with Yi Beidou, but wasn’t the same true for Yi Beidou?
Just before, he had sensed the power of the Blood Ancestor through Elena as a medium, but he had no interest in using that power.
During the clash with Moncalis, their Heart Intents had become entangled, so naturally, he had also gained some perception of that mysterious magnetic field.
There seemed to be a certain complementary aspect between the Holy Flame and the Demon Flame, something worth his effort to study.
Moncalis watched as the golden light on Yi Beidou’s fingertip grew brighter and brighter, seemingly starting to twist and tremble into the shape of a flame.
However, just at that moment...
POP!!
The glint of golden light suddenly burst. Demon Flame flared on Yi Beidou’s hand, suppressing the eruption of golden light.
Even so, burn marks still appeared on his finger, and the skin began to fester.
"Truly a domineering power."
Yi Beidou shook his head slightly. A Taoist Skill that could contend with his Demon Flame was indeed not something that could be mastered so easily.
If he didn’t possess the ability to use his Demon Flame for Refinement of magnetic fields, the explosion of golden light just now would have cost even a Saint Expert a heavy price.
One had to remember, he was still in the state of Seven Stars Appear Together. In his normal state, his Demon Flame wouldn’t be this powerful. The burst of golden light would have likely severely injured several of his fingers, requiring at least a few days, or even longer, to recover.
However, now that he had found the right direction, with enough practice, truly summoning the Holy Flame would probably not be a problem.
Meanwhile, Moncalis was staring, his eyes wide with disbelief.
He, of all people, knew best just how dangerous it was to rashly come into contact with the Holy Flame without the corresponding Cultivation to support it.
"Once your technique is perfected, you can come find me for another battle. Today wasn’t satisfying enough."
Yi Beidou retracted his finger and looked at Moncalis as he spoke.