Chapter 888: Rearbow’s Second Form (1/2)

“Asura!” Lu Yun’s expression tightened when he heard the name. Asura’s reputation was too infamous—he would become the ultimate nightmare in one of the ages to come, the demon of dreams. Who would’ve thought he’d suddenly appear here!

“Legend has it that Asura was born of the Blood Sea, and that the greatest of his lineage can turn wherever he stands into a Blood Sea!” [1]

Based on his knowledge from Zhaoqing, Lu Yun knew Asura as one of the most frightening beings before Emperors Fall. He was most likely the entity that Ge Long had quartered and buried inside the four evil coffins.

“Luo Houluo is the greatest demon of the great wilderness and Darkriver is the master of the Blood Sea… No wonder, no wonder!” Lu Yun murmured to himself as he watched the newly born Asura exult in his might.

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“Asura has emerged in the world!” At the foot of Mount Buzhou, Wahuang stood up and looked to the East Sea. “His birth means the doomsday of connate demon gods. Everything is in readiness, now we lack only Fuxi.”

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Asura raged over the East Sea, lit with flames the color of blood that morphed into bloody shadows to dive at Lu Yun. His killing intent was pure and domineering—there was no other thought in his mind other than to kill, kill, kill!

His conviction was a faith that Lie Shan would die at his hands.

With Asura as the center, the great ocean beneath his feet turned into a Blood Sea that contained his great dao. Bloody rain also drifted from the skies, collecting and shifting direction toward Lu Yun as sheets of keen razor-blades.

In response, the shadowy image of the Sal Tree of Life and Death appeared in the void, marking an explosion of hellfire that clashed with the bloody ocean. As the two terrifying seas rammed each other on the ground and in the air, so did Lu Yun and Asura throw themselves at each other.

Lu Yun hadn’t really summoned the Sea of Hellfire. Though hellfire blazed furiously around him, it was just external leakage from the real Sea of Hellfire that the Sal Tree had summoned to the East Sea.

At the same time, Asura hadn’t really created a Blood Sea either. His great dao had just taken the form of the Blood Sea and carried its will within.

Trembling from the ferocious impact between the two combatants, the East Sea agitated and frothed into tempestuous waves. Everything that lived in its waters fled in all directions, not daring to come within five hundred thousand kilometers of the epicenter of doom.

In the Mu nation, Goumang’s expression darkened ominously and he approached the Builder Tree, calling upon it to protect his kingdom and everything within fifty thousand kilometers of it.

“I couldn’t let loose last time because Nuanzi didn’t dare fight to the death and Dijiang ambushed me instead. But since you’re here today, let me see just how my battle strength measures up to the true peak experts of the great wilderness!” Lu Yun roared.

Whoooosh.

A long streak of black flame burst from his body and surged into the bow in his hands. What had been a jade-green longbow suddenly blackened from the ignition of hellfire on it. And then… it transformed in a streak of light into a set of black armor on Lu Yun’s body!

“Rearbow is one of the great peerless-grade connate treasures in the world, one that can kill suncrow spirits corrupted by realm monsters. What it’s displayed thus far can’t be all that it can do, but I never thought it possessed a second form!” When the armor settled down on him, Lu Yun felt a terrifying strength surge into his body. Combined with the support of hellfire, he suddenly felt that he could punch straight through the heavens.

“Hahaha—c’mon Asura, let’s fight!” Lu Yun roared, charging toward his opponent in a long tail of flame.

Asura’s replicas now dotted in the sky as a hundred million bloody shadows. No one could discern where his true self was. However, that didn’t concern Lu Yun at all; he covered all of the shadows with the span of a single blow.

Boooooom.

One punch blasted all shadowy forms apart and reduced them to a bloody mist in the sky. His second punch drew hellfire into his body and projected it as a huge fist, blasting savagely into the Blood Sea. That punch possessed the strength to destroy the world!

Lu Yun punched straight through the Blood Sea from that one move. The skies darkened and the sun dimmed; the center of the world seemed to be wherever he stood.

“Hahahaha—Asura, stop playing dead. Come out and fight!” Black flames replacing his eyes, the black armor on Lu Yun’s body sharpened into focus and became one with his skin.

In this moment, he finally understood what an ultimate peerless-grade connate treasure meant to a chasm realm expert. Such power, such dominance! No wonder Dijiang had set aside all concerns for face and gone after the Bell of Chaos!

Rumble.

The Blood Sea gushed back to life as a pillar of ghastly-white flame erupted out of it and made for the horizon. A giant skeletal beast with three pairs of wings on its back, two horns on its head, and wielding a black bident stormed out of the stark-white fire.[2]

A body of Hadal Bones, the trump card of the Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign!

However, this version was plainly a hundred million times stronger than the demon sovereign. Hadal Bonefire blazed on it in a crazed inferno; even the Blood Sea and hellfire in the air showed signs of freezing over.

“Lie Shan!” Asura roared, flinging his bident through the air to nail down Lu Yun. At the same time, his ponderous body lifted off in a spray of fiery sparks and shot at Lu Yun from another direction.

Despite the murderous glints of the two points bearing down on him, Lu Yun stared calmly back at the weapon and answered back with a fiery punch.