Chapter 593 - 352: The Sinner

Chapter 593: Chapter 352: The Sinner

Power clashed against power!

Until now, he had never known the true strength of Iz and Chi Cheng!

As their two Combat Skills collided, Lu Cang felt an impossibly terrifying force bearing down on him!

BOOM!

The ground fractured, spiderwebbing with cracks!

Chi Cheng pressed down on his Heavy Sword with one hand, his tone arrogant. "Your strength... not bad!"

BUZZ!

All around him, tiny, dense points of light flickered.

PUFF!

Minute, needle-like Magic had already pierced his body, puncturing all his vitals!

This was Kernoya. Lu Cang could clearly feel Iz holding back; he had no intention of causing too much destruction here.

So instead, he was using smaller-scale Magic.

Immediately after, he felt the surrounding Elements get drained away in an instant!

The area transformed into a chaotic space.

Casting Magic would be exceedingly difficult in this space. It wasn’t just a space devoid of Elements; it was also filled with a great deal of chaos.

An ordinary Mage would already be unable to recover Magic Power from the air.

They wouldn’t even know how to use Magic in such an environment.

WHOOSH!

At the same time, the pressure from above suddenly eased!

It was immediately followed by a relentless storm of strikes from the Heavy Sword!

"Invincible Stream—Seventh Form: Illusion Double Kill·Overlapping Shadows!"

Seeing Chi Cheng change his Form, Lu Cang immediately altered his own!

"Azure Sky Stream—Third Form: Illusion Strike·Rapid String!"

BANG!

The first blow collided!

A heavy shockwave erupted in that instant!

It rippled out in all directions!

The aftershock spread with devastating force, leveling the houses on the surrounding streets in a mere moment!

However, the ground remained perfectly intact.

The shockwave didn’t spread too far, either.

Lu Cang could feel that the aftershock from their clash had spread without harming a single civilian.

Lu Cang’s Perception saw that behind him, Obades’s feet had taken root in the earth, as if the land itself had become a part of his body.

To shatter the ground would be tantamount to shattering Obades’s body.

And the mere aftershock of their battle could never cause him any harm.

Obades was still protecting Kernoya, shielding the common people alongside Kumironi.

A chaotic flurry of Sword Shadows rained down like mountains!

Even in the enemy’s domain, Lu Cang couldn’t help but feel a thrill of excitement.

’I’ve always wanted to have a real fight with them!’

’I never thought I’d get the chance in their territory.’

BOOM!

The Sword Shadows from all directions were rapidly blasted away by Lu Cang!

Puffs of blood mist burst from his arms, one after another!

Every time he blocked one of Chi Cheng’s attacks, his flesh would tear and his bones would break!

’Chi Cheng’s strength... it’s actually no less than my own... ’

Although in this situation, his Heaven-Ascending Realm of Perfection hadn’t been stacked for very long.

But... even his normal physical body was far superior to that of an ordinary Level 7 Reincarnator. And after stacking the Heaven-Ascending Realm of Perfection for a minute, Chi Cheng could still injure him.

’Doesn’t that mean...’

’...that Chi Cheng’s physical strength was, long ago, a thousand times greater than my own now?’

’How in the world did he train his body?’

Chi Cheng layered his Sword Shadows, charging like an enraged dragon.

But Lu Cang was sent flying backward by the assault!

The two of them tore through an entire street!

They carved a long trench through the buildings of Kernoya—

After blocking thousands of Chi Cheng’s heavy cleaving strikes, Chi Cheng suddenly changed his Form.

"Invincible Stream—Seventh Form: Illusion Double Kill·Fury Overlapping Waves!"

BOOM!

The War Spear blocking Chi Cheng’s Heavy Sword shattered instantly!

The force passed through the War Spear and straight into Lu Cang’s body.

BOOM—

Like a streak of light, he was blasted straight through Kernoya’s city wall!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—

He flew out into the wilderness.

He smashed through dozens of mountaintops in succession!

Finally, he crashed to a halt against a cliff face, buried deep inside the mountain.

Lu Cang pulled himself from the rock wall and flew out of the mountain.

He saw that the mountain was covered in a massive, spiderweb-like crater. Before him was a series of holes, each one punched through by his own body.

’He sent me flying tens of thousands of kilometers... Is this really the power of a Level 5 Warrior?’

’Though I was also holding back. I let him knock me away on purpose.’

’I couldn’t fight freely in Kernoya.’

Still, this was a bit more than Lu Cang had expected.

"Kid, you really are arrogant... You had the advantageous terrain, but you insisted on giving your opponent an opening."

An Su spoke in his mind.

"Just shut up, An Su."

BOOM!

The red figure charged straight toward him from the distance!

But appearing behind him even faster was a figure holding onto his Magic Hat. The moment he appeared, a kaleidoscope of Magic covered the entire sky!

Tens of thousands of Tier Five spells lit up the sky like a colorful daylight!

Lu Cang turned around, a thought flashing through his mind.

Neither of them went through any Chanting process.

"Divine Level·Multiple Spellcasting."

SWISH!

The entire land instantly bloomed with hundreds of thousands of different Magic Arrays!

Lu Cang condensed every single spell he had ever learned!

The earth began to boil like a furnace!

"Tier Six Fire Magic—Hell’s Furnace!"

"Tier Six Thunder Magic—Sea of Boiling Thunder Juice!"

"Tier Six Wind-Dark Fusion Magic—Black Muddy Dark Wind!"

...

WHOOSH!

Iz’s Magic and Lu Cang’s Magic erupted simultaneously!

The world plunged into darkness!

The entire continent began to disintegrate.

In an instant, roiling lava submerged mountains and rivers!

Every strand of the rampaging gale was like a sharp blade. Demons moving on the ground were splattered with blood just by being in the wind, then diced into mincemeat by the invisible gusts.

Thunder juice, glaciers, and thick layers of earth and rock surged into the sky, condensing into the bodies of elemental Summoned Creatures!

The elements rose up like giants propping up the heavens!

It was an apocalyptic scene!

The Ruelun Continent simply couldn’t withstand it!

Soon, the entire Ruelun Continent disintegrated, rising as countless fragments of rock!

Iz controlled his Magic with a serious and solemn expression.

He had been constantly controlling the Power of his Magic.

Lu Cang, however, fought without restraint.

Changing the battlefield didn’t make much of a difference to this fight.

Lu Cang’s current combat power had long since surpassed what an ordinary continent could contain!

Meanwhile, Iz was bathed in Lu Cang’s Magic.

Lu Cang could feel his Magic being scanned by Iz’s Perception.

When a bolt of Thunder detonated beside Iz, it directly dissolved into basic Elements and vanished. After disappearing, these same Elements were then brought under Iz’s Control, forming a new kind of Magic.

It wasn’t just Thunder.

Ice, water, Flame... all magical attacks were deconstructed the moment before they could touch Iz.

The seemingly immense and powerful Magic, when it finally landed on Iz, was like a gentle ripple, causing no disturbance at all.

His body seemed to be completely immune to all magical attacks.

’He completely deciphered and became immune to so many spells?’

’Then... what about this?’

A myriad of spells swept across the world!

Six differently colored "Cores"

materialized around Iz, emitting a faint glow.

"Void Nether (Tier Six) (Soul Sacrifice: 10 Billion)."

A pure light shone from six different directions around Iz.

A Soul Sacrifice of 10 billion.

Now, when Lu Cang used souls,

the destructive power was long past what his old "Spirit Burst" could achieve.

BOOM!

The next instant.

The world was filled with nothing but a pure, white light!

The shockwave spread!

Mountains and rivers were annihilated by the light of the dissipating aftershock—

But in the next moment,

from the very center of the explosion, a familiar voice could still be heard.

Lu Cang directed his Perception toward it.

He saw the figure of Izparut, standing at the core of the destruction. His body was illusory, as if he and Lu Cang were not on the same plane of existence.

"Root Magic—The Duality of Void and Reality."

He was in the Void Realm.

The matter of the Physical Realm could not affect the Void Realm in the slightest, and vice versa.

This was Iz’s own Root Magic.

But when he taught it to Lu Cang, he didn’t know how to shift things other than Magic into the Void Realm’s state.

But now, in the instant between life and death,

Iz had an epiphany.

At the same time, the aura around Iz was constantly changing. Lu Cang saw a Special Magic Array materialize behind him... Faintly, he could recognize that the Magic Array seemed to be forming a type of Ritual.

An Ascension Ritual.

"You seem to have mastered more than one Root Magic."

"Your Magic Power also seems to share the same Source as mine."

"Some of your Magic also bears the shadow of my own ideas. How very strange."

"If you could sit down and have a proper discussion with me, that would have been a wonderful thing."

Iz looked at the continent that had been destroyed by the "Void Nether" attack.

The Ruelun Continent was no more.

This one attack from Lu Cang.

He held absolutely nothing back, as if destroying a continent was a matter of complete indifference to him.

Tyrannical and utterly inhumane.

"But... what you’ve done is simply too much. Perhaps you can no longer be called a person."

"I believe great power is not meant to be used for such things."

Iz’s tone remained calm.

It seemed the destruction of the Ruelun Continent brought him no sadness.

Lu Cang, however, looked in another direction.

He saw Obades holding steady in the air, and behind him stood Kumironi and Chi Cheng.

Thanks to Obades’s protection, the two of them were unharmed by Lu Cang’s Soul Sacrifice attack.

Iz glanced past Obades, his expression filled with deep regret.

It was a pity that a Level 5 Obades ultimately couldn’t protect the entire Ruelun Continent.

In a battle of this level,

he couldn’t possibly protect everything and everyone.

Iz showed no anger, only a grim sort of calm.

But someone else was furious beyond measure!

"It’s come to this! There’s no need to hold back anymore, is there, Iz?!"

Chi Cheng appeared before Lu Cang in a gust of crimson, like a bloody wind!

Kumironi raised their emerald staff high, and Izparut, still in the Void Realm, also raised his Magic Staff.

"Yes. No need to hold back anymore."

"Invincible Stream—Twelfth Form: Infinite!"

"Tier Five Root Magic—Source Material Annihilation!"

SWOOSH—

Lu Cang saw the afterimage of a slash, as if it were being dragged from the far-off horizon!

And at the same time, all of reality around him began to peel away in an instant!