Blue Phoenix

by Tinalynge

  "I fail to believe that you can keep your energy within my world of darkness!" He said arrogantly before he once more slashed out his whip again and again.

  Hui Yue was surprised as he sensed that this young man was not using one dao, but was using two which had been merged. He could feel how the energy within his body was slowly being drained and he could instantly guess that one of the daos that this young man had comprehended was the dao of devouring.

  Reaching this far, Hui Yue could not help but laugh. So this youth wanted to compete with him in the dao of devouring?

  Although he had merged the dao of devouring with the dao of shadows to create his dark world, which one would naturally think made it countless times more powerful than Hui Yue’s understanding of the dao, but this would be underestimating the power of Hui Yue’s past lives. One cannot forget that every life of Hui Yue's, apart from the Celestial Wings, had some understanding of the dao of devouring and when combining it all their countless experiences in using and controlling the dao passed to Hui Yue. His understanding of this dao was as deep and profound as a deep lake and matched if not exceeded the understanding the Nightcrawler Sect’s youth had of his merged dao.

  It had been the main dao for both the blue monk and the red wolf, and even the green gem was walking down the path of devouring. His understanding about the dao of devouring was so outstanding that he could control a devouring force field that he had inherited from the blue monk.

  And this force field was exactly what Hui Yue released. He understood that he had less Ancestral Worldpower than this youth and if he kept being drained then he would lose. He had to break the world of darkness!

  The blue cloud erupted from Hui Yue's body and stayed like a blanket around him, protecting him against the devouring force. This made it impossible to keep absorbing his energy, yet it was also impossible for Hui Yue to devour the energy within this world of darkness.

  While they were fighting and Hui Yue was activating the forcefield, he constantly had to dodge the black whip that kept coming at him. Finally, Hui Yue had no other choice than to activate the Celestial wings and fly into the air.

  He found that he was soon out of range from the whip and the higher up he flew he found that it was possible for him to devour a tiny amount of energy from the surrounding world. It seemed that the world of darkness became weaker and weaker the further away from the youth it was.

  "I haven't used this attack in a long time, but it should be able to do something to this world of darkness," Hui Yue mumbled to himself as he slowly landed on the stage once more.

  He raised the sword high above his head and found the attack he had decided to use. This attack was one he had only used once before, but when he used it he was able to summon the divine tribulation lightning, and now lightning was exactly what he needed!

  Lightning was the nemesis of shadows, and after a few moments, the sky above the stage started turning black. A low rumbling was heard by everyone present, and anyone nearby as it echoed into the distance.

  While Hui Yue was busy summoning the Nine Heavens Tribulation lightning, he had activated the red gem making himself as hard to injure as a mountain. Together with this, he also had a layer of the blue cloud around his body which kept on being dissipated by the constant attacks that came his way.

  The Nightcrawler Sect's youth could feel that something was wrong with the attack that Hui Yue was unleashing. This was not a dao of lightning or anything similar, it was clearly an Ancestral Worldpower skill, yet what kind of skills were this strong?

  Noticing that the rumbling was increasing, he tried his best to interrupt Hui Yue, but nothing happened. No matter how his whip landed on Hui Yue's body only a few superficial wounds appeared, and they were so light that they did not even rupture the skin. They just left marks all over his body and ripped his clothes to shreds.

  The pain Hui Yue felt was minimal, and he continued to summon the black clouds. Soon the rumble escalated and one pure white lightning bolt descended from the sky landing straight on the stage. This bolt of lightning ripped a hole in the world of darkness before it continued to descend and almost landed on the body of the Nightcrawler Sect's youth.

  He managed to just barely avoid it like Hui Yue had avoided his whip, but the lightning was many times more dangerous than a single whip. Though after that strike the rumbling did not decrease, but instead it increased. A second lightning bolt descended roaring like a dragon made of lightning as it too ripped a hole in the fabric of the world of darkness creating more and more holes where light and colors returned to the stage.

  It was not only color which returned to the stage but also the Ancestral Worldpower, making it possible for Hui Yue to once more absorb it and replenish the energy he had already used.

  The fight had just started, but Hui Yue and the Nightcrawler Sect's youth were not backing down. The lightning bolts in the heavens continued to gather in strength while the world of darkness slowly tried to mend itself. This had turned into a fight of attrition. The one who managed to last the longest would get the upper hand, and the other would fall behind, maybe making it impossible to rise once more and claim victory!

  To Hui Yue, this was unacceptable, and therefore the nine lightning bolts he had at his disposal had to break the world of darkness completely!

  Chapter 587 - Nine Tribulation Lightning

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  Chapter 587: Nine Tribulation Lightning

  Nine heaven’s tribulations lightning was an attack which Hui Yue had learned from the blue monk. It was a skill which he had gained more comprehension over after witnessing the Demon Lord use it in the Vermilion Bird’s memory.

  The memory was rather brief, but it had left a lasting impression on Hui Yue's mind. Not only did he realize that this Demon Lord had hunted and killed everyone connected to the blue monk to gain his ability, but he also understood that this was an Ancestral Worldpower Skill which was many times more powerful than any other he had ever seen. It was even more powerful than the Phoenix Descent.

  Having gained extra insight into the nine tribulations lightning, Hui Yue was no longer an easy target.

  After the third tribulation lightning bolt had descended, the black skies above the stage turned purple. Shortly after, purple lightning descended which ruptured the world of darkness into thousands of pieces.

  Soon the world of darkness collapsed, and when it did the Nightcrawler Sect's youth was incapable of remaining calm. He doubled over and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood from the backlash of having his technique forcefully dispelled before he finally regained his composure.

  He never thought that someone of his generation could break his world of darkness so easily. It was a domain he had created after merging two daos under the dao of darkness, but even so, it was easily scattered by the lightning that Hui Yue commanded. Just what kind of lightning was this?!

  Hui Yue did not pause after having summoned the first three lightning bolts. Although the world of darkness had been defeated, he had invested an enormous of Ancestral Worldpower to summon these nine tribulations lightning bolts and to stop now would be stupid.

  Instead, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the youth in front of him. As soon as he did, a purple lightning bolt descended from the sky straight at the young man. The Nightcrawler Sect's youth narrowly escaped the first lightning bolt by activating some sort of dao which allowed for him to merge with the shadows and move from the location of one shadow to another.

  It was very similar to the dao of the wind. Everywhere that there was wind, Hui Yue would be able to appear as if teleporting, but he still had not fully comprehended this dao.

  It was similar to how this young man was capable of moving everywhere shadow were. It was clearly the dao of shadows that he had merged with the dao of devouring previously.

  "I do not believe that it is impossible to hit you with lightning!" Hui Yue muttered to himself as he once more pointed towards the shadows on stage. This summoned two purple
lightning bolts at the same time.

  Once again the lightning bolts struck down faster than the eye could see, but even so, it was still possible for the Nightcrawler Sect's youth to avoid them right in the last second. One could see how close a call it really was as some of his clothes had disintegrated from the lightning, and burns were present on his body.

  Neither Hui Yue nor the Nightcrawler Sect's youth were in great condition. Hui Yue had taken plenty of attacks from the whip while summoning the lightning bolts, and his clothes were shredded to pieces. But on the other hand, the Nightcrawler Sect's youth's clothes and skin had been burnt, putting him in just as sorry a state as Hui Yue.

  Although the battle had begun rather recently, both were fighting with all their strength.

  Having escaped the three purple lightning bolts, the sky changed color once more. It was no longer purple but a golden yellow! Lightning bolts at the most dangerous stage were gathering strength within the golden clouds. The air itself was filled with electricity making the hairs on everyone's arms stand up, and even Yanluo's eyes turned serious. Watching these golden clouds condense, he stood up and lifted his hands. Ancestral Worldpower gathered from his hands and encasing the stage with only an entry and exit at the top.

  This way It was possible for the lightning bolts to enter into the barrier, but they would not be able to arc outside and wound the audience by accident.

  The first golden lightning bolt descended from the heavens with an eerie silence, no boom of thunder could be heard, it all felt as if time stood still when the lightning bolt descended. It was many times bigger than the purple lightning bolt, and the power behind it made everyone feel as if their souls were forcefully being dragged from their bodies.

  The Nightcrawler Sect's youth understood that he was no longer able to passively wait and see if Hui Yue could continue to fight when these lightning bolts finished raining down. He had to take action now! Realizing this, he threw the black whip on the stage after which he made various hand seals. After the hand seals were formed, the black whip started twisting on its own.

  It was no longer a whip but a large black snake with red eyes and sharp teeth. This snake emitted a mist of black energy that surrounded it. It then quickly concealed itself in the shadows on the stage, vanishing from view.

  Many started questioning if what they had seen was correct, or just their imagination running wild, but they were all cultivators, and their cultivation was not low. There was no way that their eyes were tricked when they were so focused on the fight in front of them.

  The snake had just managed to escape as the terrifying golden lightning boomed outwards and an explosion erupted on stage. The explosion was so strong that it caused the entire stage to shatter and it flung rocks everywhere. Even Hui Yue, who had summoned the lightning, had to avoid the stones.

  Just as he avoided one stone, he was unattentive for a short while and came close to the shadow. He lowered his body to avoid a massive boulder, but the moment he did he felt how two sharp teeth sunk deep into the flesh on his legs. Even the red gem was incapable of protecting him against these teeth.

  As soon as the teeth entered his leg, Hui Yue felt that some sort of darkness entered his body, and soon he was filled with black energy.

  Looking at Hui Yue, who now was standing completely still with vacant eyes, the Nightcrawler Sect's youth wiped the sweat off his brow and heaved a heavy sigh before he sat down on the stage. He closed his eyes as the black energy surrounded him.

  The entire stage, which was broken into thousand of pieces, lapsed into silence. No one said a thing, but both experts were deep in a trance. Black mist radiated outwards from both experts at the same time, but where one was standing the other was sitting. It was clear that these two experts were fighting a different kind of battle.

  In a black dimension, Hui Yue looked around. "It seems as if I got the worst out of our exchange of pointers so far," Hui Yue muttered to himself as he looked around. Although his mind had been transferred to this black world, it was not only his mind which had been transferred, his lives and Lan Feng had been transferred together with him.

  Seeing that he was walking in a wasteland of black energy, Hui Yue finally came to the conclusion that instead of walking he would much rather stand still and prepare himself for the time when the youth found him.

  Time flowed strangely within this black realm. As for whether one minute had passed or days, Hui Yue had simply no way to tell, but after some time, he understood that this other world had another kind of time ratio. It was clear that time flowed much slower within this world than it did outside.

  "This darkness is annoying, but I do have some light," Hui Yue mumbled to himself as he considered what to do. With a flick of his hand, a flame appeared which lit up some of the desolate darkness.

  He found that he was within a big black box that no light could penetrate. As the light shone from the flame, Hui Yue moved to the corners of the box and tried tapping it to see what materials it was made from; however, no matter how he looked at it, it was impossible to tell its composition.

  It was smooth and hard like jade but pitch black like the darkest night. It was not possible to break it with force alone. Hui Yue had tried punching and kicking it with all his power, yet no matter how much he tried, he was unable to even leave a scratch.

  Hui Yue quickly understood that he was just wasting time and that there was a possibility that he would be declared the loser if he did not do something soon. Therefore he reached inside himself. There was only one expert he could imagine who would be able to break out of something like this, but to do so, he needed to convince him.

  Making a tear in the fabric of this reality would be as simple as scratching his head for the black figure, but he was not very friendly towards Hui Yue.

  "Give up," the Nightcrawler Sect's youth's voice suddenly rang in the chamber.

  "This is the result of merging three daos together. Escaping is near impossible, especially for younger experts like us," he continued with some pride in his voice.

  Hui Yue did not answer. Instead, he focused on nothing more than conversing with the black figure.

  "I know you are not likely to assist me without Huli being present, but I promise to tell Huli that you were the deciding factor in this battle," Hui Yue tried to tempt him, but nothing happened.

  "It'll make Huli very happy if you assist me. She cannot help me in this tournament, but she did not mind because she knew that I had you by my side. She believes that you will assist me, you do not want to let her down do you?" Hui Yue continued, and the black figure finally started moving slightly. It seemed that Hui Yue's last words, the ones about disappointing Huli had quite the effect.

  The black figure seemed to struggle for some time, clearly uncertain whether or not it should help, but in the end, Hui Yue could almost feel him sighing. He felt the black figure reach out to take over Hui Yue's body.

  Although it was impossible to contact and converse with this black figure, it was clear that it was helping once and only once.

  The moment Hui Yue merged with it, he felt how strength filled his body and with the Sword of Icy Tempest in his hand, he slashed at the air in front of him. A super fine line appeared as the entire world was sliced in half.

  Hui Yue quickly returned to his own body as the black mist completely evaporated from him. Instantly, his vacant eyes once more turned lively.

  Hui Yue did not waste any time. He felt that as soon as he had exited the domain made by the Nightcrawler Sect's youth, the black figure once more vanished back into Hui Yue’s core and that he was not willing to assist him any longer.

  As he regained control over his body, Hui Yue charged forward towards the youth in front of him, and he swung down the sword in his hand.

  The Nightcrawler Sect's youth opened his eyes in disbelief. He managed to nimbly avoid the sword, but his arm was slashed in the process, and the sword dug its way into his arm.

  This wound was the mos
t serious wound that had been inflicted so far in the battle, but it was far from enough to end the fight. Hui Yue was on high alert as he constantly guarded against the shadows and the young man in front of him. The battle was becoming increasingly desperate.

  Chapter 588 - Phoenix Descent

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  Chapter 588: Phoenix Descent

  The two experts were both extremely exhausted. Hui Yue had used a large quantity of energy to summon the nine tribulation’s lightning, but the Nightcrawler Sect's youth was not in a much better position. Having used the world of darkness and then the cage of darkness, two attacks that relied on two and three daos merged together, he had expended a great amount of Ancestral Worldpower.

  Both men were standing on the stage. The world of darkness had crumbled, and the cage of darkness had been sliced in half, but because Hui Yue had been entangled in the cage of darkness, the nine tribulation’s lightning had dissipated into the air without releasing its utterly terrifying last two golden lightning bolts.