Chapter 298: Viperstirke

Chapter 298: Chapter 298: Viperstirke

Chapter 298: Viperstirke

"BEGIN!"

As soon as the voice fell.

"Domain of Miasmic Decay!"

WHOOSH—!!!

A sickly, putrid green mist exploded outward from Viperstrike’s slender body, expanding to engulf the entire arena floor.

Rhain’s dark grey eyes instantly sharpened behind the Asura mask.

The Domain of Miasmic Decay was not a simple poison domain.

Every breath taken within this sickly green space would allow microscopic particles of the miasmic law to infiltrate the lungs, seep into the bloodstream, and begin the decay of the victim’s essence, and body from the inside out.

’Dangerous,’ Rhain assessed in a fraction of a second.

He immediately held his breath, forcefully sealing his respiratory system with a layer of pitch-black essence.

"Origin Domain of Darkness."

WHOOSH—!!!

The light-devouring darkness slammed head-on against the sickly green mist of the Domain of Miasmic Decay.

HISSSSS—!

An ear-splitting sound, like a thousand serpents simultaneously striking, echoed across the crater as darkness and decay clashed against each other.

Up in the stands, the crowd gasped as the arena was split perfectly in half—one side a swirling vortex of putrid green, the other an abyss of absolute, impenetrable black.

Fifty-two percent comprehension of the Law of Darkness against a middle-stage Domain Master’s established territory!

Although Rhain possessed an overwhelming advantage in the purity and comprehension of his Law, Viperstrike’s essence reserves as a Level 4 Domain Master were astronomically larger.

The putrid green mist aggressively pushed back against the darkness, worming their way through the boundary of the darkness.

"Hahaha! Your Domain is strong, boy, but your cultivation is garbage!" Viperstrike shrieked.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Without any warning, thousands of hair-thin, venom-coated needles erupted from the putrid green mist, shooting directly into Rhain’s Origin Domain of Darkness.

Because Viperstrike was blinded by the dark space, he didn’t aim.

He simply saturated the entire space

Rhain immediately noticed the thin needles with his Eyes of Truth that would have been otherwise invisible for a normal cultivator.

Boundless Sky Wind!

Rhain’s body moved, shifting at an impossible speed to evade the lethal projectiles.

But Viperstrike was a veteran assassin of the Crucible Core.

He didn’t need to see Rhain clearly.

The moment Rhain’s rapid movements displaced the sickly green mist, Viperstrike’s combat instincts locked onto his exact location.

"FOUND YOU!"

Viperstrike materialized directly before Rhain.

His body twisted at an impossible, snake-like angle.

His spine seemed to completely lack bones as he bent backward, evading Rhain’s defensive stance entirely, and thrust his venomous dagger straight up toward Rhain’s jaw.

It was a completely bizarre, unorthodox fighting style that defied all logic of human anatomy!

Rhain was forced to forcefully twist his head back.

SLASH!

The venomous dagger grazed his cheek, tearing a deep gash.

"SSSSS—!"

A sizzling sound immediately echoed as the hyper-corrosive poison sank, trying to drill through his essence and flesh.

"DIE!" Viperstrike shrieked triumphantly, fully expecting Rhain’s head to dissolve into a puddle of green sludge.

No Core Formation Realm can survive this attack. Even an early stage Domain Master would be severely injured.

But his triumphant roar instantly stopped in Viperstirke’s throat.

Fwoosh—!

A blood-red fire erupted from Rhain’s skin.

The apocalyptic heat of the Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame ruthlessly incinerating the invasive, putrid venom into nothingness before it could even reach his bone.

At the exact same time, the dark void within his dantian spun fiercely.

The Abyssal Sovereign Physique forced the torn muscle fibers to knit back together, completely closing the deep gash on his cheek in a fraction of a millisecond.

"W-What?!" Viperstrike’s eyes widened in horror behind his serpent mask. "You took my Rotting Soul Venom directly to the face and survived?"

Rhain didn’t waste a single breath on words.

"Phantom Reaver Quintet!"

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Five pitch-black daggers tore through the dark void, forming a five-point lethal array that converged on Viperstrike’s vital organs.

Clang! Clang! BANG!

Viperstrike’s bone-bending agility was pushed to the limit.

He contorted his limbs, parrying two daggers with his own blades while bending his torso in a sickening arc to dodge the other three.

But the moment he evaded the daggers, Rhain was already there.

Rhain threw a devastating, dark-essence-coated punch directly at the assassin’s chest.

"Don’t underestimate me, you little bug!" Viperstrike roared.

Instead of blocking, Viperstrike opened his mouth.

"Pfft—!"

He violently spat a mouthful of highly concentrated, boiling green acid directly into Rhain’s face!

No one would imagine that a dignified middle stage Domain Master would make a shameless, and unpredictable move like this in the middle of a high-speed clash.

Rhain was forced to abruptly pull his punch and cross his arms to shield his face.

HISSSSS—!!!

The boiling acid splattered against Rhain’s forearms.

The corrosive force was so overwhelmingly dense that it instantly melted through his pitch-black protective essence, searing straight down to the bone.

The agonizing, excruciating pain of his flesh dissolving threatened to tear his consciousness apart.

If he hadn’t raised his arms, his entire face would have been melted off!

"Gah!" Rhain gritted his teeth, his eyes turning bloodshot.

The Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame surged wildly once again, fiercely burning the acid away while his tyrannical physique rapidly forced new flesh to grow over his exposed bones.

The essence consumption required to heal such deadly poison-laced wounds was extremely huge.

Even with two pitch-black cores, Rhain felt his reserves rapidly draining under the relentless, life-and-death onslaught.

"HAHAHA! Let’s see how long your demonic healing lasts!" Viperstrike laughed maniacally.

He didn’t give Rhain a single second to recover.

He lunged forward, his twin daggers glowing with an even deadlier shade of purple.

BANG! CLANG! BOOM—!!!

A brutal clash erupted between the two domains.

To the thousands of spectators in the stands, the arena was split between a swirling vortex of putrid green miasma and an impenetrable sphere of pitch-black darkness.

They couldn’t see the gruesome, bloody struggle happening inside.

They could only hear the deafening explosions and the frightening hissing of corrosive acids.

Inside the darkness, Rhain was pushed to his limits.

Viperstrike’s weird, serpentine fighting style and endless arsenal of hidden, and unpredictable attacks were incredibly lethal.

Rhain was forced to use every single card he had.

BANG!

A hidden poison bomb detonated against his shoulder, blowing a chunk of his flesh away.

He was severely wounded multiple times, hovering on the very brink of death.

If it weren’t for the supreme recovery of his Abyssal Sovereign Physique, he would have been killed ten times over by now.

He needed to end this immediately.

Rhain abruptly stopped his relentless assault.

He took a half-step back, his dark grey eyes sharpening with a lethal, icy glint beneath the Asura mask.

’If I continue to drag this out, my essence will run dry before his,’ Rhain calculated coldly. ’It is time to burn this entire domain to the ground.’

With a flash of spatial light, the massive, pitch-black heavy broadsword materialized in his grasp.

Rhain took a deep breath.

The twin pitch-black cores within his dantian spun with an unprecedented ferocity.

He did not hold back a single ounce of his strength.

Every single drop of his vast, ocean-like essence surged into his arms, violently fusing with the apocalyptic heat of the Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame.

"Empyrean Purgatory Bloom. Second Form."

BOOM—!!!

A majestic, blood-red fire erupted, instantly engulfing the heavy broadsword until the dark steel glowed like a brand of divine punishment.

Hiss... Hiss... Hiss...

A sharp sound emanated from his blade.

More than a hundred blood-red serpents of concentrated Heavenly Flame materialized along the length of the weapon.

Their translucent bodies coiled and writhed around the dark metal like living creatures.

Although the second form of the Empyrean Purgatory Bloom was only an Epic-Grade art, its true, overbearing power did not come from the art itself.

It came from the endless reserves of his Abyssal Sovereign essence, and primarily, the catastrophic might of the Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame!

With the addition of his newly formed twin cores, the power output was on a completely different dimension.

It was an attack whose sheer destructive force was only second to his Emperor-Grade technique.

Rhain gripped the broadsword with both hands, drawing it back behind his shoulder.

Then, he swung the broadsword upward in a devastating arc.

The moment the blade tore through the darkness, the hundred blood-red snakes detached.

In a fraction of a microsecond, they exponentially expanded.

What were once small flame serpents transformed into massive, roaring Flame Pythons, each one easily fifty feet long and as thick as ancient trees.

Over a hundred of these colossal beasts surged forward, forming an inescapable, rising tidal wave of blood-red fire that indiscriminately bombarded the entire putrid green miasma domain where Viperstrike was hiding.

Hidden within his toxic mist, Viperstrike felt the temperature skyrocket to an apocalyptic degree.

The blood-red fire illuminated his horrified eyes behind his serpent mask.

There was absolutely no place to hide. The blazing pythons covered every conceivable inch of the arena!

"YOU LUNATIC! WHAT KIND OF METHOD IS THIS?" Viperstrike shrieked, his voice filled with dread.

Driven to desperation, Viperstrike bit the tip of his tongue, burning his blood essence and forcefully channeling every last drop of his Level 4 Domain Master power.

"Mystic-Grade Martial Art: Venomous Hydra’s Devouring Maw!"

The putrid green miasma condensed, forming a colossal, multi-headed serpent of highly corrosive poison that roared and lunged at the incoming blood-red tide.

BOOM—!!!

The two apocalyptic forces collided in mid-air.

But it wasn’t even a contest.

The Red Tribulations Heavenly Flame was a primal force of destruction that sat at the apex of all elements to defeat the negative elements like Viperstrike’s poision.

Rhain’s hundreds of massive fire pythons effortlessly tore through the putrid green serpent, incinerating the highly corrosive poison into nothingness before it could even hiss.

"NO! IMPOSSIBLE—GAAAAH!"

Viperstrike’s ultimate Mystic-Grade art was completely crushed.

The relentless tide of blood-red fire swallowed him whole, obliterating his Domain of Miasmic Decay in a split second.

BANG—!!!

The colossal impact sent Viperstrike’s slender body hurtling backward like a broken ragdoll.

He crashed mercilessly against the heavily reinforced edge of the arena wall.

The impact was so devastatingly powerful that the solid stone of the arena cratered around his body, and a sickening sound of shattering bones echoed across the silent colosseum.