Dual Cultivation: I Summon Villainesses of Mythic Era-Chapter 20: I am the one who devours the Dao himself
*Night Cloudy Mountain*
The air at the summit of Night Cloudy Mountain was saturated with a smell of blood and ozone, The wind, usually icy at this altitude, now seemed to carry a fetid heat, a heavy emanation that did not come from nature, but from a much darker source.
At the center of the improvised battlefield, Lin Feng panted, his torn clothes revealing skin marked by the first brutal exchanges. Blood flowed from a cut on his forehead, tracing a red furrow on his cheek before dripping onto the calcined rock.
Facing him, Xuan BaiShe stood in an incredibly calm manner, his hands joined behind his back, his monocle reflecting the glow of twilight. Not a scratch, not a wrinkle on his immaculate tunic.
" Now we get down to serious business, my little son of luck ~"
BaiShe’s voice was soft but it carried an authority that made his opponent’s bones shiver. Suddenly, the atmosphere changed radically.
" Demonic Qi? No it is more than that.. It is as if.... "
It was no longer just Qi, but a Khaotic and corrosive energy proper to the Rakshasas and to beings who had sold their soul to these vile creatures.
The Khaotic Qi surged, twisting reality itself.
Lin Feng, whose senses were sharpened by his lineage, felt the ground tremble under his feet even before the tremor became visible. The stone debris began to float around them, defying the laws of gravity, then they were instantly pulverized by the spiritual pressure.
’ Khao!? `
"I think I understand now !" shouted Lin Feng, his red eyes shining with rage mixed with betrayal. "It is you who manipulated everything from the beginning !"
He thought back to Ming Bai’s death, and to the way BaiShe had "defended" him in front of the other disciples with an eloquence so perfect that it became suspicious.
’ Everything was just a theater play, and I had played his role without even realizing it.... Shit! I must calm down, he will not break my dao so easily ! ’
" Young Lin Feng... You took time to understand... I suppose you are not the sharpest knife in the Heavenly Dao’s drawer ~, I am a bit disappointed~"
A slight smile spread across BaiShe’s face.
Suddenly, the space around them literally tore apart.
Thousands of twisted and frail hands appeared from all sides, emerging from tears in the very fabric of reality like worms swarming from a wound.
These grayish and emaciated limbs were of a sickly thinness, with eyeballs that looked erratically and in their palms opened grotesque mouths with sharp teeth, a wet snapping that evoked jaws closing on tender flesh.
BaiShe opened his arms while he levitated in the sky.
<Primordial Art of Devouring>
His sclera turned to deep black, an ink black that seemed to absorb the light itself. His pupils became purple, an intense and luminous purple that contrasted terribly with the black of his eyes, and an Omega sign, shining with a sinister glow, appeared on his forehead.
" This monster... he is not human..."
Lin Feng murmured these words to himself, feeling his own Qi being stifled by the mere presence of his enemy.
’ It was as if an invisible hand was squeezing his heart and his meridians, slowly but inexorably compressing his source of power. How can his qi be so dominating when we are almost at the same level ! ’
Yet he clenched his teeth with fierce determination, refusing to yield to the terror that threatened to overwhelm him.
" The Heavenly Dao rewards the just! And even more the brave facing evil !" Lin Feng shouted.
< Sovereignty of the Golden Dragon >
His hair began to shine with a golden glow. An intense heat emanated from his body, a sacred heat that instantly burned the monstrous hands rushing toward him.
BaiShe narrowed his eyes :" It is becoming even illogical, always at the last moment, he becomes more powerful ? "
Golden scales appeared on Lin Feng’s torso and arms. His aura transformed into a protective flame, a halo of golden light that repelled the creeping darkness of Khao.
Lin Feng propelled himself forward, leaving behind a trail of gold that split the darkness of Khao.
He thought he would reach BaiShe in a fraction of a second, his right hand charged with a solar Qi capable of piercing mountains, of reducing any enemy to ashes.
But BaiShe did not move a millimeter.
He simply raised his open palm with nonchalance.
The shock was so violent that the shock wave that followed razed the surrounding forest for hundreds of meters.
Before Lin Feng could understand, a hand seized his face. Its thin fingers pierced his flesh.
" Pathetic son of luck..."
BaiShe violently threw him.
Lin Feng’s body became a supersonic projectile, crossing several mountain ridges and tumbling for kilometers in a crash of broken rocks.
"*Cough* He... He is too powerful ! "
The son of luck, his face covered in blood, desperately tried to stabilize himself in mid-air.
But BaiShe suddenly appeared above him and crushed his foot on his face.
The impact sent him crashing to the ground with the force of a meteorite.
The explosion that followed was so gigantic that a mushroom of dust and energy rose into the sky, a thunderous noise heard for kilometers around.
BaiShe slowly descended from the sky, his hands still joined behind his back in a posture of perfect serenity. He observed the son of luck with contempt.
" You know," he began. " you may be blessed by the Dao, Lin Feng. But...
Around him, the frail hands with toothed palms began to salivate.
" I am the one who devours the Dao itself."
" You are the fucking Devourer, " he articulated while he wiped the blood on his face with the back of his trembling hand.
He stood up in the middle of this great crater whose walls were still smoking from the heat. His body was dotted with gaping wounds, some so deep that they revealed his bones.
BaiShe, for his part, did not seem in any difficulty at all. His long hair floated gently in the nocturnal breeze, and his monocle shone under the light of the moons. Despite the apparent intensity of the duel, not a single strand of his hair was disturbed.
Even though Lin Feng had awakened the golden dragon lineage, his lineage was not so pure.
’ With his luck points so weak compared to Ling’er, my golden goose... I mean this adoptive sister I cherished so much, he was not really exceptional in the eyes of the system.’
In BaiShe’s eyes, he was only a basic resource, a simple reservoir of luck points that patiently waited to be harvested.
The dust had not yet settled after the titanic impact when already the shadow of Xuan BaiShe slowly covered Lin Feng’s broken body.
Lin Feng tried to follow his movements, but his vision was blurry. Blood flowed along his forehead, seeping into his eyes.
Before he could even adjust his posture, BaiShe was already in front of him.
The fist struck Lin Feng’s face with a dull sound. His head snapped violently backward. A sharp crack was heard when the bridge of his nose gave way under the impact. His body wavered, but BaiShe did not give him time to fall.
A fist sank into his abdomen.
The oppressive Qi that enveloped the attack penetrated directly into his dantian.
"KUH—!!! "
He doubled over, the air brutally leaving his chest.
BaiShe observed the reaction with icy calm.
He had no intention of ending this fight quickly.
Lin Feng nevertheless tried to retaliate. In a desperate reflex, his hands began to form seals to use a protection talisman.
" You are a coward too ? "
He slowly seized the young man’s right hand.
" Wait BaiShe ! You cannot kill me, I am a disciple-AHHHHHHHH!!! "
The crack of the index finger was followed by a tearing scream that echoed against the walls of the crater, while the white bone pierced the flesh to appear in the open air.
" The sect ? I don’t give a fuck ~"
