Chapter 817 A Trick (1/2)

There was a boom as a dark gold torrent burst into the still air.

It was headed straight toward Finley.

Not a second later Darren was moving, positioning himself before Finley.

He gathered the power of Shura Force until his body was suffused with a red glow.

'Huh!' thought Finley. 'It seems like Darren thinks I'm somebody else. He's more hostile to me than he'd be to the Fire Kylin or the monkey! Well, this is the only way I can test the real limits of my strength.'

With his mind made up, Finley smiled, knowing he would get what he was after. He felt his opponent's brutality and strong fiendish nature. He made a move which was identical to the one he'd made before.

Its result, however, was different.

A ripple of golden light, formed by many rings of energy, flew toward Darren.

The dark gold internal force was surging inside the ripples, but it was unable to penetrate them.

Frustrated, Darren had his scarlet blade and sword slice through the air toward Finley.

Finley extended one open palm. Simultaneously, a massive, glowing golden shadow of the same shape flew out at Darren.

A thunderous sound came with it, like a voice from the heavens chanting in Sanskrit.

When the palm shadow closed in on Darren, Finley bent his fingers inward. The shadow mimicked his movement, its fingers closing around his victim.

Then, Finley murmured a few words, perhaps an incantation.

A giant hieroglyph, meaning ”suppress,” ejected from his mouth and landed on Darren's immobilized form.

Pain surged into Darren.

He thrashed and strained against the uncanny grip, screaming uncontrollably.

Blood flecked and splattered from his mouth.

But as he continued to struggle, the agony only increased.

When he was certain it was about to become unbearable, it began to ebb.

The ”suppress” glyph and the palm shadow gradually faded away.

”Whew!”

Darren shuddered and gasped in relief.

”What a strange force!” he murmured. ”The more violent I am and the harder I struggle, the more powerful it is.

The pain is almost equal to the soul attack.”

”You are right. My cultivation method aims at creatures with strong fiendish nature.