Returning to the Mysterious Era-Chapter 672 - Unbeaten Across the Land, Invincible Wherever He Went

Chapter 672 - Unbeaten Across the Land, Invincible Wherever He Went

Thud, thud, thud!

Qi surged with enough power to move mountains and enough speed to leave afterimages. The Golem's twin fists soared into the sky, each strike like a high-speed missile exploding against the scaled giant palm. Bands of gold-crimson sparks turned into a rain of fire.

Within the terrifying, swelling blaze, the Golem's explosive Will shot to the heavens, imbued in the fists that lashed out.

"You're merely a projection of Xiadu's true body!!!"

Boom! Bang!

The one fist thrust into the sky caused the entire dark boundary of mountains and rivers to shudder. Some fragile areas gave way under the recoil, forming bottomless black pits. In response, an even more dreadful, terrifying energy howled up.

That black, giant scaled hand that had reached out from the intersection of the double blood moons suddenly jolted. The veins of the vast palm that were as thick as rivers were sliced open as the entire palm was forced upward a hundred meters. On the earth below, the Golem's formidable body heaved like it was bearing a cauldron on its shoulders.

Every contour of the body veiled by the blood moons radiated an ineffable sense of power on the verge of bursting forth.

Screee!!!

A savage cry of a raptor rang out from behind Cassius. Blood Vulture Dominator Fist seized the moment to shoot skyward in a red stream of light. Thousands of impact points appeared simultaneously across the giant palm formed by the projection of Xiadu's true body.

Densely packed vicious claw prints tore through the air. The red stream of light that Blood Vulture Dominator Fist had become accelerated madly, weaving ring after ring of red lines around the projection. Wherever the red lines passed, destruction followed.

Crackle...

Layer upon layer of blood-red Death's Fang Force covered the surface of the projection. The Southern Dipper power collided with calamity, annihilating each other.

"My strength has indeed not recovered to perfection. However, it is still not something your projection alone can easily suppress... Not to mention, I have strong allies!"

Blood Vulture Dominator Fist shot through the gaps between the giant palm's fingers and toward Xiadu hovering in the sky. A blazing killing intent shone in his scarlet eyes. Frankly, if he had been fighting alone, it would have been a brutal siege from over a dozen freely moving Ultimate Dark Forms plus Xiadu's projection. Even if he didn’t die from such a luxurious treatment by his enemies, he would have lost a few limbs.

However, with Cassius's aid, the situation was now entirely different! This heir of the Southern Dipper line had a heritage so deep and strength so fierce that it defied belief. His Southern Dipper fist arts had clearly reached the late stage of the Holy Fist realm, and unprecedentedly, he cultivated three Southern Dipper fist arts simultaneously! His ambition was boundless!

Moreover, he possessed the eerie, nearly incomprehensible Golem Covert Martial Arts. so even when Xiadu's projection slapped a palm down, he could take it head-on with his body that was maxed out in both offense and defense! With a companion like that fighting at his side, Blood Vulture Dominator Fist could cut loose and slaughter to his heart's content!

Whoosh!

A streak of blood light carved a straight line across the sky.

"Do it!"

Hovering above the clouds, Xiadu's Will vibrated.

All the Ultimate Dark Forms charged madly into the fray. Their immense bodies smashed mountains and sent waves rippling outward. Calamity so thick it was almost suffocating surrounded Cassius. This time, it truly was one against a horde!

Kak-kak-kak...

Beneath the steel helmet, scarlet eyes swept the surroundings. Cassius turned slightly, unhurried, then spread his hands. Blazing light burst from the seams of his steel arms. His palms slowly clenched into fists, and two luminous gauntlets gradually manifested.

The air and even the omnipresent red moonlight was cut and devoured by the aura emanating from the Thorn Sonic Death Armament. The Golem's twin fists were as terrifying as two black holes.

Thud, thud, thud!

Three Ultimate Dark Forms charged toward him, leaving cracks in the ground. To the left, an eerie dense forest of white bones spread with deathly stillness. Several Ultimate Dark Forms' gazes peeped out from within it as if watching a corpse. Driven by the same calamity energy, a giant bony jaw howled toward Cassius.

There were similar scenes to his right and rear. Even before the attacks arrived, the area where the Golem stood had already begun to crack. The gray mist of calamity was so thick it visibly liquefied!

"Oh? The Heart of the Dominator Fist is actually beating in my chest again! Heheh, thank you... all of you!!!"

Calamity fell into the very center of the crater as Cassius laughed unrestrainedly. His arms rose and suddenly pressed together before his chest. As his fingers overlapped, calamity’s aura started to wither. Just as the attacks arrived, he suddenly raised his head, branding the whole battlefield into his mind. The image of all the strikes were absorbed into the dominating Will within Cassius.

"Unbeaten across the land, invincible wherever I go! I am a Dominator Fist!"

Ding!

The Golem erupted with scarlet Qi. It geysered into the sky, forming a vast roaring image of Cassius's own countenance!

"Roar!"

More than a dozen Ultimate Dark Forms closed in as one, and a terrifying collision erupted.

***

In the sky, Blood Vulture Dominator Fist and Xiadu's projection were already engaged in a brawl. A humanoid black shadow stretched and snapped through the heights at extreme speed, its whole body exuding hazy smoke. Another blood-colored meteor streaked after it, entangling the humanoid shadow in constant collisions. One could see the two figures frantically trading strikes through the smoke.

Every move was unadorned and lethal! They carried a special cadence, as if they were the very rules of heaven and earth. They were the law. Every strike was infused with an absolutely overbearing ideal and steadfast Will. This was a clash of Will. Until that Will yielded, the battle would not stop!

"A projection is still a projection! If you think a single projection can settle everything, you overestimate yourself, Xiadu!"

The blood-colored meteor's speed suddenly surged, flashing to Xiadu's side in an instant. A fist blasted out with the roar of a vulture.

Bam!

Xiadu's figure was hurled away, leaving afterimages through the air. When it slowed, it was clear that the humanoid shadow was injured. There was a hole torn into its left shoulder from a raptor's high-speed bite and a gash running across half its side. Calamity energy spurted from the wounds, blackening half the clouds.

Indeed, as Blood Vulture Dominator Fist said, a projection was a projection. A descent of Will was not the true body. Though Xiadu had broken free and could influence the World of Calamity with Will, it was ultimately weaker. A projection alone could not threaten Blood Vulture.

Whoosh!

High above, one black and one red figure fought each other, one pursuing the other. Xiadu was flying backward, gradually slowing with every exchange. Blood Vulture pursued with unrelenting aggression. Moments later, crimson light flashed in Blood Vulture's eyes, and he lunged in to kill.

However, Xiadu watched and smiled strangely.

Boom!

An energy-laden fist tore straight through Xiadu. Xiadu twisted and collapsed, as if it was a clump of ash. Blood Vulture Dominator Fist's unleashed energy passed through the body without resistance, howling on to blast away all the clouds behind them.

Swoosh...

In the distance, at the spot where Xiadu had been punched away by Blood Vulture Dominator Fist, a black afterimage gradually solidified and finally became Xiadu anew. It was seemingly unharmed.

"It's useless. I am absolutely invincible in this land..."

He watched the blood-colored meteor wheel around and spread his arms with a smile. A terrifying aura descended as the calamity mist above gathered to form a huge vortex like a demon's eye.

"Kill me hundreds or thousands of times if you like... But I only need to kill you once."

Xiadu's palm swept down, and a colossal fist crashed down from within the vortex.

Thump!

Blood Vulture instantly swelled into a giant vulture beating its wings in flight. The giant vulture slammed into the fist without the least thought of retreat.

The vortex shattered and the misty giant fist collapsed as a vulture with its sheen slightly dimmed flew out, its scarlet eyes locked onto Xiadu. The giant beak swallowed him whole.

A shockwave blasted outward as black smoke leaked from between its beak. It turned to glare at a point in the sky where Xiadu's smoky black figure manifested again. Xiadu hovered quietly in the air like a statue. The corner of his mouth curled slightly, carrying a trace of unruffled disdain.

"You see? It's useless, heheheh..."

"Heheh, hahahahaha..." Blood Vulture Dominator Fist suddenly laughed even louder, drowning the other out.

Xiadu's face changed abruptly, as if realizing something.

Boom! Roar!

On the ground, a massive explosion erupted along with a ferocious roar. One could hear the brute dominance and unyielding ferocity in the Golem’s voice. It bore the grandeur of one against many, along with the intent to make every assailant tremble! Despair bred fear and the Golem trampled through hell!

Thump.

A huge crimson face rose into the sky. The visage of Will condensed from Qi looked utterly dominant. Its scarlet eyes were level with Xiadu, and the two faced off across the air.

"Hahahaha!" The colossal face of Qi burst into laughter. Its mouth split open, reverberating with a muffled thunder-like rumble.

"Power! Power! Power!"

In the battlefield below, massive figures were being hurled willy-nilly. Some slammed into the ground, leaving deep craters. Others ploughed deep trenches as they were thrown into the distance. The worst-off had a limb torn away as they shed a rain of blood. In the vault of heaven, Xiadu, facing Blood Vulture Dominator Fist from afar, remained silent. The mountain-sized severed arm swept past him, spattering blood. It left the sky reeking of blood.

Its eyes narrowed slightly as the blood rain evaporated in midair, as if a transparent membrane of power blocked it.

"This one's strength... actually..."

Boom!

A huge silver hand suddenly shot up to the sky from beneath Xiadu as if to yank down the two hanging blood moons. The wind howled and the air trembled. Five enormous steel fingers clenched, and then...

Crush!

The hand seized Xiadu and crushed him. Its terrifying force sent rippling shockwaves from the gaps between its fingers.

Swoosh...

A wisp of black smoke restored itself at the previous imprint point. Xiadu looked at Cassius with newly calculating eyes. Xiadu had already rated him highly, but it seemed that rating was still insufficient. This man could repel more than a dozen Ultimate Dark Forms and still have the strength to strike at Xiadu.

Cassius was already extremely close to the top ten Ultimate Dark Forms, and only a single step from beings like the Totem King. Even those Ultimate Dark Forms said to approach the top ten had never been as close as Cassius.

Cassius had perfected the three Southern Dipper fist arts and was first under the peak Totem King and True Progenitor of Blood! It was even uncertain whether a peak Totem King could kill Cassius as he was now, for he too possessed the body of an Ultimate Dark Form, with astonishingly strong defense and regeneration.

It was precisely because of this mutated Golem body that Cassius could face over a dozen Ultimate Dark Forms and even fight with far greater ease than Blood Vulture Dominator Fist.

Whoosh!

A black figure wreathed in demonic flames flew up from the ground. His whole body radiated an overwhelming sense of strength, just like the steel hand that had shot up and crushed Xiadu moments ago!

"It seems I must return empty-handed today..." Xiadu hovered, looking solemnly first at Cassius soaring up from below, then at the nearby Blood Vulture Dominator Fist.

"Return empty-handed?" The black demonic figure streaked upward like a meteor, revealing Cassius's face. His gaze was locked on Xiadu, flames burning in his pupils.

"No, you will suffer devastating loss!!!"