Chapter 165: Shadow Brides vs Dullahan (1)
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Hong Guan faced Dullahan with a calm look on her face. She appeared to be fearless, assessing the headless Death Knight silently.
To her surprise, Dullahan doesn't bring just his steed but also numerous headless creatures.
The difference in number is too massive.
'Thankfully, we have Lily on our side.' Hong Guan thought.
When it comes to fighting with numbers, Lily will never lose.
"My soldiers, today we shall erase the thief that deceived us!" Meanwhile, Dullahan raised his sword and yelled a battle cry.
BOOM!
Headless creatures began pouring out of the portal. They are like a tsunami that engulfed the whole mountain range.
Freya witnessed this, and her blood turned cold. She waved her hand and controlled every plant in the Heavenly Sword Mountain Range, turning them into an army of nature.
She gritted her teeth and tried to push Dullahan's army back. She cursed herself for stealing this mad Death Knight's treasure.
Lily watched this amusedly and commented, "You shouldn't have pushed yourself when I'm here, you know?"
"Even though you say so, Dullahan's army is still strong. The majority of them are mid-stage Divine Origin Realms. That's one whole realm higher than you."
"I'm not even talking about his headless commanders yet. They are peak-state Divine Origin Realm or even early-stage Divine Soul Realm."
Lily blinked and giggled, "Don't look down on us. Our cultivation realm might be lower, but that doesn't mean our strength is."
"Young Master defeated you while he's only a peak monarch, no?"
"But that's different." Freya hasn't fully grasped the cultivation path Yu Long developed, so she is ignorant about its 'true' effect. "Master is the king! He's the God of Kaiju!"
Lily shook her head and didn't even bother to utter more words.
Action speaks louder than empty words.
BOOM!
Lily's eyes and hair lit up with a yellowish hue. She summoned a three-meter-long blade of grass, stroking its middle white line.
[Grass Dragon Manual - Endless Vitality]
As if responding to Lily's call, the surrounding flora detached their leaves, petals, and roots into a massive storm. Weirdly, those flora kept growing new parts of their bodies, thus allowing the storm to accumulate more mass and force.
"What the..." Freya was speechless because her control over plants got overtaken by Lily.
[Grass Dragon Manual - Metamorphosis]
Lily flicked her blade of grass, causing the storm to scatter into three million copies of herself, each with an emotionless face and matching clothes.
"Attack!" Lily commanded like a conductor.
Soon, a bizarre sight of Dullahan's army getting pushed back filled Freya's vision.
"..." Freya.
Even Dullahan, who hadn't moved an inch because he was assessing Hong Guan's power, was shocked.
"This is..." Dullahan has never seen such a sight before in the Primal Chaos. "Cloning, such an annoyance."
"However, those clones couldn't possibly be strong."
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
When Lily's clones hit Dullahan's army, they explode into vicious web-shaped grass. These web-shaped grasses absorb enemies' energy like parasitic plants.
Although there was no sun in the night sky, Lily seemingly entered a photosynthesis state as her whole body released intense energy.
The energy is vibrant green. And for each second this photosynthesis-like state happens, Lily gains a draconic feature such as slitted eyes and faint emerald scales.
Dullahan frowned inwardly. He could feel Lily fed upon his army's energy.
He slashed his sword without further ado and sent a jet-black energy blast to Lily.
Hong Guan appeared and covered Lily, rendering the jet-black energy fade with her dragon's flame.
"Your opponent is me." Hong Guan said calmly.
Dullahan finally realized he shouldn't underestimate Hong Guan and Lily, though their cultivation bases are lower than his. Yet their profound energy is not inferior in quality and surprisingly denser than him.
It's like comparing distilled water and pure water.
Their physical strength is also monstrous for someone at the peak of the Sovereign Profound Realm.
Dullahan sighed, "What a mistake."
"Have I grown too arrogant to look down on my enemy?"
"I, Dullahan, shall punish myself by fighting with my full power!"
BOOM!
Thunderclouds over a 42-kilometer radius unnaturally gathered above Dullahan and struck him with red intensity.
"No, this can't be." Freya trembled. "H-He really entered the Divine Tribulation Realm."
However, Freya's despair just gets begun because Dullahan is 'actually' struck by seven more lightning bolts.
Divine Tribulation Realm. In this realm, only profound energy would experience an increase in growth, and no other change would happen.
However, the word 'tribulation' in this realm is the nightmare of countless profound practitioners, meaning that a mortal cultivating to become a god will meet the wrath of heaven.
In each stage of tribulation, lightning doubles the number of lightning strikes. The first stage of tribulation lightning is one strike of tribulation lightning; the second stage has two strikes; the third stage has four strikes.
Dullahan got struck eight times, which means his realm is the 4th stage of the Divine Tribulation Realm!
Before Freya could warn Hong Guan and Lily, Dullahan suddenly appeared before the money-loving maid.
'Fu-!' Lily couldn't even curse in her mind before getting hacked by Dullahan's sword.
BAM!
Lily crashed onto a mountain, which blew into smithereens.
"He's basically light..." Hong Guan watched the whole ordeal in seriousness.
She glanced at the destroyed mountain and asked, "Are you okay?"
"To hell with okay! I'm fucking dying!" Lily's painful groan echoed in the ruin.
"Good, you're still alive." Hong Guan smiled a little.
Dullahan turned around awkwardly, "She didn't die? How is that even possible? I slashed her into two with my sword."
"Sometimes things don't appear as they should be." Hong Guan replied indifferently. "And you're in my range."
A half-dome domain surrounded Hong Guan and Dullahan as fire erupted like a volcano. The cracked sounds come from Dullahan's shadowy armor because it couldn't handle the weird coldness.
ROAR!
A dragon's roar overwhelmed the atmosphere.
Dullahan looked up and saw a massive pair of dragon's eyes. Those vicious eyes looked at him like a juicy piece of meat.
"Come!" Dullahan brandished his sword.
Jaws filled with rows of sharp teeth appeared and wanted to bite Dullahan whole.
BAM!
Dullahan swung his sword skillfully and parried the lower jaw, closing the mouth. He instinctively dodged an attack, which breezed through his shadowy armor.
But then, a purple flame ignited on his armor.
[Yin Dragon Record - Igniting Cold]
Hong Guan appeared like a ghost before Dullahan and pressed her palm gently to his armor. Like one-in-punch, she transformed her momentum into one point and blew the headless Death Knight away.
Crack!
Dullahan's armor gained yet another crack.
"How could a peak mortal level crack my armor?" He was in pure disbelief.
At first, it was Lily. But now, Hong Guan pressured him more.
Hong Guan's profound strength is like molting lava right now. Her skin flushed with redness because of it.
On top of that, Hong Guan felt the barrier to entering level 21's mastery was becoming thinner. Yet this same irksome barrier prevented her many times. Yes, this is something she should have achieved a long time ago.
Dullahan summoned a spear this time and stabbed the air, "Destroy all evil, Sky Reaper."
Hong Guan retreated and squinted her eyes because Dullahan's spear tore her domain open. Simultaneously, the Heavenly Sword Mountain Range cleaved into two parts and left behind a long, deep ravine.
As expected of a Divine Tribulation Realm Expert, his strength is earth-destroying.
BOOM!
Meanwhile, the half-dome domain scattered like a bunch of sparks.
Dullahan huffed and stared at Hong Guan silently, "You're worthy."
"To die..."
A fast and swift thrust was 'instantly' unleashed, exceeding the speed Dullahan had to attack Lily earlier.
Hong Guan felt a suffocating sensation all over her body. She watched a black dot approaching her forehead and sucked a cold breath.
Her eyes became misty, losing their focus.
ROAR!
A spark lit up inside Hong Guan. An enormous dragon swam inside her profound veins, absorbing the energy scattered in all entrances.
If Yu Long is here, he would notice the sign of Desperado's awakening.
As for how much Hong Guan could awaken, it depended on her.
Seeing Hong Guan enter a trance state, Dullahan felt a threatening feeling and decided to finish her with his ultimate move.
"Erase all evils, Sky Splitter." Dullahan swept his spear horizontally.
A bright green flame appeared and shielded Hong Guan from the sky-splitting attack. The green flame redirects Dullahan's attack to destroy another part of Heavenly Sword Mountain Range.
"Fuck, you're really wanted to kill her!" Lily appeared again. This time, she transformed into a humanoid dragon with butterfly-like wings on her back, a barbed leaves-covered tail, and a sun halo above her head.
She looks like a fairy.
"Oy, discount fireplace!" Lily said with a mocking smile. "I won't let you mess me like that again."
"Look at your army. They are gone now."
"Hehehe."
Dullahan looked down and saw his headless army being dragged into the soil by countless vines. Their energy was 'literally' sucked dry, and it was clear who got all that energy.
"Yeah! Take that, you headless bitch!" Lily flipped her finger at Dullahan.
Yup, Lily's a devious fairy.
"You foul-mouthed witch!" Dullahan responded with deep anger.
BOOM!
Dark and golden-green energy clashed like two colliding waves.
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