Redemption of a Born Demon

Chapter 93: Genuinely Convinced, One Palm Settles the Score

Night fell. Within a desolate forest in the city’s eastern suburbs.

Yi Beidou and Yue Ming stood facing each other.

Not long ago, Yi Beidou had run into Tao Zihong of Maoshan. They had exchanged greetings and parted ways, agreeing to visit each other’s research institutes in Kyoto when they had the time. They hadn’t sparred.

After all, they had fought several times back on Cloud Prison Mountain. Yi Beidou was already familiar with Tao Zihong’s Array techniques, so there was no need for them to fight again.

Besides, Tao Zihong’s focus wasn’t solely on the Martial Arts Dao.

However, after parting with Tao Zihong, he encountered Yue Ming, who challenged him to a rematch.

Apparently, Yue Ming was not convinced of his defeat back at the Yunhai Province border, where Yi Beidou had forced him to retreat with a single move.

He believed he had only lost due to carelessness and hadn’t used his true techniques.

Coming from a military background, he had an unyielding spirit and a need to determine a clear winner and loser in everything. Naturally, he wouldn’t pass up this chance.

Since Yue Ming was so eager, Yi Beidou was more than happy to oblige.

"Our last fight was cut short. Today, we settle this for good!"

An immense will to fight surged in Yue Ming’s eyes.

BAM! BAM!

His body suddenly swelled. His gaze burned like a torch, and his expression was majestic and fierce, like a Celestial King Giant Spirit. As his pores opened and closed, sweat evaporated, swirling around him like a misty cloud.

It resembled a jade sash, a silk streamer, a feathered robe.

The Celestial Robe Body.

However, this was not the full extent of his power.

During their previous battle, Yue Ming had believed Yi Beidou to be just a newly ascended Saint Expert. His goal hadn’t been to defeat or kill him, so he had held back his true trump card.

Things were different now. After their last encounter, he understood that Yi Beidou was no novice Saint, but a powerful opponent truly on his level.

Against such an opponent, there was no reason to hold back.

CLAP!

He slammed his palms together in front of him, and his body underwent a drastic transformation.

THUMP-THUMP!

His heart pounded like a war drum, his organs roared, and his blood surged. His entire body swelled once more. Veins bulged on his skin, which turned a faint red from his soaring body temperature.

Simultaneously, as his pores opened and closed, they no longer released a white mist, but a faint red, bloody vapor. It made his skin look as though it were covered in a blood-red celestial robe.

"The Commander is using the Blood Slaughter Celestial Robe right from the start?"

On the other side of the forest, the men who had accompanied Yue Ming whispered among themselves. Despite being in civilian clothes, their backs were ramrod straight, radiating a distinct military aura.

Not all of them had witnessed the previous battle between Yi Beidou and Yue Ming, so they couldn’t comprehend why their commander regarded this opponent so highly.

The Blood Slaughter Celestial Robe was the strongest state of Yue Ming’s Celestial Robe Body.

By stimulating his blood flow to its absolute maximum, he could fully leverage the advantage of his "body breathing." A massive supply of oxygenated blood rushed through his system, pushing his Physical Ability to a new peak.

However, the technique also caused physical damage. It increased the strain on his blood vessels and caused continuous bleeding, which was the source of the blood mist on his skin.

Seeing this, an interested look appeared in Yi Beidou’s eyes.

"After our battle that day, I also had a bit of an epiphany. I’ve come up with a new move or two. Please, give me your critique."

Yue Ming’s voice boomed like thunder, shaking the very Void.

"Then let me see it."

A sharp glint flashed in Yi Beidou’s eyes.

BOOM!

The next moment, Yi Beidou’s blood surged. He unleashed his Demon Nature, and a monstrous Evil Qi erupted from him.

Yue Ming may not have used his full strength that day, but the Yi Beidou of today was a far cry from who he used to be!

Back then, he had only just entered the world and begun learning martial arts. He had only comprehended two major Techniques: the Celestial Demon Inquiry Dao and the Destruction Killing Tribulation.

But now, after all he had experienced and the many Saint Experts he had witnessed, his Martial Arts Dao had advanced even further.

BAM!

He took a single, diagonal step. In that instant, one of the faintly visible Beidou Seven Stars in the sky flared with brilliant light in the eyes of all present.

He was borrowing the Celestial Fiend to bolster the Human Fiend!

BOOM!

The Evil Qi surging from Yi Beidou grew even more violent.

And that was only the beginning.

The second step!

A second star of the Beidou constellation lit up in the sky, its brilliance nearly eclipsing the moonlight in the onlookers’ eyes. The Evil Qi emanating from Yi Beidou swelled even larger.

’Is this a method for accumulating Great Trend? He has a Dharma Gate like this? Don’t tell me he was holding back in our last fight, too?’

’I can’t let him continue to build his Great Trend!’

Yue Ming’s pupils contracted, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

"Hah!"

With a great shout, he lunged forward to attack.

WHOOSH!

As his pores opened and closed, the blood mist billowed. He blasted a palm strike at Yi Beidou. The moment he struck, the magnetic field stirred by his surging True Intent began to compress into his palm.

This was a method of aura control he had learned after carefully studying and comprehending Yi Beidou’s Destruction Killing Tribulation, which had forced his retreat that day.

To have achieved Ascension at such a young age, he was clearly a man of extraordinary perception.

The magnetic field surged, gathering the vapor. The blood mist surrounding him was condensed around his palm by the magnetic field of his True Intent. From a distance, it looked like a gigantic, bloody Hand Seal—an incomparably wondrous sight.

Blood Evil Great Luo Hand!

BAM!

And just then, Yi Beidou took his third step!

The Celestial Slaughter Seven Stars technique altered one’s own Life Magnetic Field. Taking all seven steps would inevitably cause self-injury. Yi Beidou had not yet mastered it completely, but three steps were still within his range of control.

And three steps were more than enough!

Empowered by the Great Trend of three steps, Yi Beidou’s Evil Qi was as vast as the sea as he struck out with his palm.

Destruction Killing Tribulation!

The Evil Qi washed over Yue Ming’s body in an instant, like a tidal wave, immediately dispersing the magnetic field of his condensed, bloody Big Hand Seal.

BOOM!

Their palms collided. The resulting shockwave howled as the air itself seemed to rupture. The onlookers could even see a fan-shaped spray of air blasting out from the center of Yi Beidou’s palm.

The attack was absurdly ferocious.

The blood mist around Yue Ming was blown away, and he found himself in a situation similar to their last encounter.

The intense Evil Qi stimulated his pores, causing them to contract and creating a flaw in his Celestial Robe Body.

And this time, under the terrifying Physical Ability boosted by Yi Beidou’s three steps of Great Trend, Yue Ming didn’t get off as easily as just taking two steps back.

Under the tremendous impact, Yue Ming’s body was thrown uncontrollably into the air. He flew several meters before landing back on the ground, where he was forced back another three steps. Only then did he manage to use his Thousand-Pound Toppling technique, stomping down hard to stabilize himself.

At that moment, his entire hand felt numb. The force of the shockwave had penetrated deep into his marrow. His blood ran wild, and it felt as if his internal organs were about to be turned inside out.

He, who had achieved Ascension through a Horizontal Cultivation Technique, was encountering someone with such a terrifying physical attack for the first time.

With the enhancement from the Celestial Slaughter Seven Stars, the killing power of Yi Beidou’s attacks had improved dramatically.

Forget Yue Ming; even Huang Tianhu, who had been his equal just a short while ago, would have had to temporarily retreat from the brunt of the attack had Yi Beidou taken those three steps.

Yue Ming was now certain of one thing: during their last fight, Yi Beidou definitely hadn’t possessed this level of power.

Otherwise, there was no way their fight would have dragged on for so long.

’In other words, his strength had increased this dramatically in just over a month?!’

"Not bad. You took my palm strike without being injured. Do you wish to continue?"

Just then, Yi Beidou’s voice cut through Yue Ming’s thoughts.

THUD!

With a dull thud that shook the very earth, Yi Beidou took his fourth step.

The Evil Qi swept forth, his aura even more imposing. Four stars now blazed in the sky, casting a cold, chilling light.

Seeing this, Yue Ming opened his mouth, but then just shook his head and sighed. He admitted frankly, "There’s no need. I’ve lost this time as well."

And this time, he had lost utterly and completely, with no excuses.