parentshiftbook Chapter 2022 Arrogance
Chapter 2022 Arrogance
Chapter 2022: Arrogant
Lian Guanlin gripped the battle halberd tightly with both hands, pouring all the demonic energy within his body, along with the power of the Devouring Demon God dharma image behind him, into the halberd.
The halberd hummed, and the nine phantom dragons wrapped around its body instantly solidified as if they were alive, emitting deafening dragon roars as they coiled and swirled, eventually merging with the halberd blade.
The halberd cleaved the heavens!
Lian Guanlin's arms were bulging with muscles and veins, and with all his might, he slashed the halberd in his hand, which seemed to bear the weight of an entire world, at the oncoming golden rainbow of annihilation.
A dark red halberd light, seemingly capable of cleaving the entire celestial arena and even splitting the heavens and the earth, burst forth from the halberd's blade.
Within the halberd's light, nine demonic dragons bared their fangs and claws, emitting silent roars, carrying a terrifying Daoist aura that could devour all things and destroy everything, as they slammed fiercely into that annihilating golden rainbow.
"boom!"
An indescribable roar exploded in the center of the Sky Arena.
A terrifying void, hundreds of miles in diameter, with chaotic, colored liquid flowing along its edges and nothingness and darkness inside, was instantly created.
What followed was a tangible, all-destroying shockwave.
It instantly engulfed the entire Sky Martial Arts Arena, and even through the barrier of rules, it illuminated the sky of the Demon Lotus Realm outside, turning it a ghastly white.
Within the Demon Lotus Realm, all was silent.
Whether they were cultivators or demonic cultivators, they all stopped moving at that instant.
They looked up at the sky.
"Can you win?"
One of the monks clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms, his eyes filled with an indescribable tension and hope.
The other cultivators also held their breath, staring intently at the sky as if trying to see through the destructive light.
With Chen Feisheng's victory, the morale of the demonic cultivators will inevitably collapse, and the cultivators will completely seize the initiative.
Chen Fei's defeat was almost inevitable; the formation was broken, and he died.
At that time, Lian Guanlin will become the nightmare of all cultivators.
"Crack!"
A crisp, clear sound, like shattered glass or the collapse of the Great Dao, abruptly pierced through the aftershocks of the destructive roar and clearly reached the ears of every focused living being.
At the center of the destructive light, the golden rainbow of annihilation that seemed to pierce through everything and the dark red halberd light that seemed to cleave the sky were still frantically clashing and annihilating each other.
But at this moment, at the tip of the golden rainbow spear, where all laws converge and all forces unite, a tiny crack appeared as if by lightning.
"Crack!"
The crack spread rapidly, instantly covering the entire tip of the gun and then the shaft.
The dark gold spear, formed from countless array patterns, puppet essence, and the Dao of Annihilation, let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain, and began to shatter and disintegrate inch by inch, starting from the tip of the spear.
The golden flames burning in the eyes of the golden-armored divine weapon suddenly dimmed. Its towering, mountain-like body trembled violently, and the shimmering array patterns on its surface rapidly faded and vanished.
"boom!"
Within the crimson halberd's light, the nine ferocious demonic dragons roared with silent excitement, their devouring power surging.
Following the trajectory of the shattered spear, they surged upstream, frantically tearing and devouring the remaining array power and puppet essence on the arms and torso of the golden-armored divine soldier.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The golden-armored warrior's right arm, wielding the spear, was the first to succumb, exploding into countless golden specks of light. Next came his chest, left arm, and legs…
The imposing golden-armored divine weapon, which seemed like a god descending to earth, rapidly collapsed and disintegrated under the overwhelming power of Lian Guanlin's halberd and the tearing of the demonic dragon.
In the blink of an eye, it completely exploded and dissipated into the raging energy turbulence.
The earth-shattering shot that brought all laws to their convergence has failed!
"Hahahahaha!"
As the destructive storm subsided slightly, before the swirling light and energy turbulence had completely dissipated, a wild and unrestrained thunderous laugh erupted like a thunderclap, piercing through layers of energy aftershocks and echoing throughout the entire Sky Arena, even reaching beyond the barrier and reverberating in the sky above the Demon Lotus Realm.
Amidst the long laughter, a figure wreathed in dark red demonic flames, resembling a demon god emerging from purgatory, slowly walked out from the gradually dissipating center of destruction, step by step, through the shattered void.
"Junior!"
Lian Guanlin dragged his halberd, the blade scraping against the shattered ground with a screeching sound and a string of sparks. His scarlet pupils were fixed on the figure in green robes at the core of the formation ahead.
"This is your confidence? This is your strongest hidden weapon? Hahaha, nothing special, nothing special at all!"
With each sentence Lian Guanlin spoke, he took a step forward. With each step, the void beneath his feet exploded with a dull thud, as if stepping on the hearts of all the cultivators watching the battle.
His extremely violent aura, like a tangible mountain, mixed with overwhelming killing intent and demonic power, pressed down on Chen Fei without reservation.
"I'd like to see what tricks you have up your sleeve now. How many of my spear strikes can your tortoise shell formation withstand?"
Faced with Lian Guanlin's overwhelming demonic power and his undisguised mockery and ridicule, the figure in the green robe at the center of the formation remained as still as a mountain.
The wind howled, whipping Chen Fei's robes.
"You actually burned a portion of your own essence in the previous battle?" Chen Fei said calmly.
"so what?"
Lian Guanlin paused, a cold and disdainful sneer reappearing on his face. "Even if I burn a bit of my own essence, crushing an ant like you will still be a piece of cake!"
Chen Fei gently shook his head. "I just think you shouldn't have accepted this life-or-death battle."
"What did you say?"
Lian Guanlin's expression froze for a moment, then he laughed in extreme anger. The demonic flames around him suddenly surged by three points, and the destructive light gathered at the tip of his halberd pulsed violently, clearly indicating that his heart was turbulent to the extreme.
"Even on the verge of death, he still dares to spout nonsense. How laughable..."
"laugh!"
A sound, almost inaudible, as if space itself had been sliced open by the sharpest thing, suddenly rang out.
Lian Guanlin's impending roar abruptly ceased. His fighting instincts, the extreme perception of danger bestowed upon him by his Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation, caused him to almost reflexively raise his head in that instant.
Above his head, in the void no more than a hundred feet away, a dark crack, no thicker than the rim of a bowl, had quietly appeared.
At that moment, from that absolutely void rift, a gray beam of light, only as thick as an arm, shot out.
It showed no signs of energy fluctuation, nor even any sense of existence; it was as if it were merely an illusion, a shadow. Yet, wherever it passed, space vanished without a trace.
When Lian Guanlin saw it, the gray beam of light was already less than a zhang away from his protective magical aura.
"clang!"
A muffled, strange, and soul-shattering roar suddenly erupted.
The gray beam of light slammed solidly into the shaft of the halberd, which was as solid as blood jade and entwined with the phantoms of nine demonic dragons.
There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected, no dazzling burst of energy, only an indescribable annihilation.
The moment the gray beam of light touched the halberd shaft, the dark red demonic energy on it melted and vanished silently, like snow meeting the blazing sun.
Lian Guanlin was struck as if by a heavy blow, his body trembling violently.
A cold, deathly, eerie power, seemingly capable of freezing the soul and obliterating existence, surged along the halberd, ignoring his protective demonic aura and demonic armor, and crashed violently into his body.
"Ugh!"
Lian Guanlin groaned, his face turning deathly pale instantly.
"Kick! Kick! Kick!"
Lian Guanlin couldn't help but take three steps back.
His internal energy surged violently, his demonic energy fluctuated wildly, and even his incredibly stable Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation emitted a slight hum. A sweet, metallic taste rose in his throat, which he forcibly suppressed.
In the Demon Lotus Realm, all was silent.
All the beings who witnessed that scene, whether they were cultivators engaged in fierce combat or demonic cultivators hiding in various places and secretly observing, couldn't help but widen their eyes upon seeing it.
"Lian Guanlin was defeated?"
"Even the protective demonic energy of the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation couldn't withstand it?"
"That golden-armored divine soldier wasn't the strongest attack? This pillar of light... is the real killing move?"
"The tide has turned! The battle is about to turn!"
After a brief silence, the cultivators erupted in a huge wave of jubilation and shouts.
The cultivators, who were just moments before immersed in despair at the inevitable defeat of Chen Fei, now grasped at a straw.
The demonic cultivators, on the other hand, were horrified.
They couldn't understand why, when Lian Guanlin had clearly displayed overwhelming strength, shattering the opponent's strongest golden-armored divine weapon and on the verge of tearing that hateful array cultivator to shreds, such a bizarre reversal had suddenly occurred.
What exactly was that gray pillar of light? Why couldn't even a Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation withstand it and was forced to retreat?
Panic, doubt, and unease spread through the demonic cultivators' hearts. Lian Guanlin's three steps back shattered their previous confidence.
Inside the Sky Arena, the turbulent energy flow had not yet completely subsided, and the spatial rifts remained menacing.
Lian Guanlin staggered to regain his balance, leaving three deep, dark footprints in the air beneath his feet. His chest heaved violently, and he swallowed back the blood that had risen to his throat, but a trickle of dark red blood still seeped uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth.
That wasn't purely internal injury; it was more of a backlash from the rules caused by the impact and shock of that strange, annihilating power on the Dao foundation.
If he hadn't burned his own essence before, such an annihilating impact wouldn't have been able to harm his Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation at all. But he did burn it, and even if it was only a part of it, it still made his Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation incomplete.
This power of annihilation force forcefully shook his Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation through the gap.
Lian Guanlin raised his head, and the arrogance, mockery, and condescending composure he had shown before vanished from his crimson pupils. In their place was an unprecedented solemnity, a hint of disbelief and horror, and an overwhelming sense of shame, anger, and murderous intent at being hurt by an ant.
He stared intently at the figure in the green robe who still stood silently at the center of the formation, his voice hoarse like a broken gong, filled with suppressed rage:
"Young man... what kind of power is this?"
Chen Fei did not answer, but slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers long and slender, and it seemed as if countless miniature stars were flowing under his skin.
"Om..."
A soft hum, as if from the very beginning of the universe, emanated from his palm. It was not an energy fluctuation, but a resonance of rules.
The next moment, endless gray currents, as if born from nothingness, seeped out from all directions and even into the void.
"Boom!"
It was like a deafening roar that shook the heavens and the earth, exploding at the level of rules.
The gray sphere of light suddenly erupted with an indescribable suction force, not only devouring the surrounding energy turbulence, but also absorbing all the essence of the formations, puppet fragments, and even the Nine Netherworld Demonic Qi, the remnants of the Five Elements, and the Yin-Yang Daoist rhymes that had permeated the area after the golden armored divine weapon had shattered...
All tangible and intangible remnants of power were forcibly plundered and extracted.
In the blink of an eye, a gigantic figure, enveloped in gray light, rapidly condensed and took shape.
It was still the same armor covering his entire body, engraved with countless mysterious array patterns, but its color had been completely changed.
It is no longer a dark gold, but a deep dark gray.
Like bronze covered in dust for millennia, or like a chaotic, stubborn rock that has endured countless eons without being destroyed.
The power of the Myriad Things Return to Nothingness Array is used as its soul, the broken golden armor divine weapon and the essence of the array are used as its bones, and the remnants of the Nine Netherworld Demon and other forces are used as fuel to reforge the Golden Armor Divine Weapon of Nothingness.
"war!"
The newly born divine weapon of annihilation let out a low, hoarse roar. A gray spear, its entire body a deathly gray, covered with spiraling Dao patterns, appeared in its hand.
It raised its spear, the tip pointing directly at Lian Guanlin, whose face was extremely pale.
There was no earth-shattering roar, no piercing scream that tore through the void. The gray spear simply thrust out silently.
It was faster than the limits of thought; it was as if the gun had barely been fired before it was already in front of Lian Guanlin.
Its trajectory doesn't tear space apart, but leaves behind a straight, pitch-black trail.
The same thrust, the same move, but the level of power and the essence of the Dao contained in this spear were worlds apart from the spear of the golden-armored divine soldier before.
If the previous attack was a power that destroyed planes, then this shot is a law that completely obliterates the very concept of the plane's "existence."
Lian Guanlin's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, and an unprecedented, deadly warning came from the depths of his soul.
Devouring the heavens and earth, demons descend upon the world!
Lian Guanlin let out a heart-wrenching roar, no longer caring about the consumption of energy, and his Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation began to operate at an unprecedented speed.
Demonic flames surged from his body, and the battle halberd in his hand, which was already slightly damaged, burst forth with the most dazzling dark red demonic light.
Nine phantom dragons coiled around the halberd, emitting resolute dragon roars, and fiercely met the gray spear light head-on.
"clang!!!"
This time, the sound of the collision was eerie and muffled.
It wasn't like metal clashing; rather, it was as if two incredibly heavy worlds had collided, producing a muffled thud that seemed to shatter one's very soul.
The moment the gray spear light and the dark red halberd light came into contact, there was no stalemate where the forces were evenly matched.
The supreme halberd strike, which embodied the fundamental essence of Lian Guanlin's Heavenly Origin Dao, silently began to dissolve and annihilate the moment it touched the gray spear light.
The Devouring Dao and Destructive Demonic Energy contained within the halberd's light were rapidly heading towards their end under the annihilating power of the spear.
"Crack!"
A slight cracking sound came from the point where the halberd came into contact with the gray spear tip.
Lian Guanlin's eyes widened involuntarily. He briefly lost his connection with the halberd in his hand. An indescribable backlash, mixed with that cold, deathly, all-annihilating gray power, rushed into his body like a flood bursting its banks.
"puff!"
Lian Guanlin could no longer suppress it, and a mouthful of dark red demonic blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed out like a fountain.
The solid protective demonic aura and demonic armor around him shattered like paper. He felt as if he had been struck by an invisible giant hammer, his sternum cracking with a teeth-grinding sound, and his body was sent flying uncontrollably off the ground.
"boom!"
Lian Guanlin crashed into the ground of the training ground in the distance like a meteorite, making a deafening noise that shook the entire Sky Arena.
Blood seeped from every pore of Lian Guanlin's body, instantly turning him into a blood-soaked figure.
His breath plummeted, and his face turned ashen.
One shot!
Lian Guanlin, who was once arrogant and seemed like a demon god descended to earth, had his weapon shattered, was severely injured and sent flying backward, his blood splattering across the sky!
"I can't lose! I can't!!"
On the ground, Lian Guanlin muttered to himself, his voice like sandpaper scraping, the last shred of reason in his eyes completely swallowed up by crimson madness.
"I, who have condensed the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation, how could I be defeated by an ant like you!"
"boom!!!"
A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Lian Guanlin's battered body!
The Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation within his body, which he regarded as the foundation of his path, was now burning wildly. It was not a partial loss of his original essence, but a complete and utter destruction.
"Uh ah ah!"
Lian Guanlin let out an inhuman scream, his body twisting violently in the demonic flames. His originally severely injured aura instantly broke through his own peak.
Countless dense, dark red demonic patterns, resembling shattered porcelain, appeared on his body surface, and his eyes were completely transformed into two bottomless blood holes.
Lian Guanlin raised his arm and grabbed at the void. The shattered fragments of the battle halberd, mixed with raging demonic flames, rapidly condensed in his hand.
A more ferocious, blood-red halberd, seemingly forged from solidified demonic blood, suddenly appeared. Countless vengeful ghostly phantoms writhed and clung to its blade, emanating a brutal aura that seemed to make the heavens and earth weep with blood.
Behind Lian Guanlin, the originally blurry, ten-thousand-foot-tall demonic figure let out a silent roar that shook the universe, and like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, it all surged into Lian Guanlin's burning body.
"Crack, click, click!"
Lian Guanlin's body swelled up again, and the magical patterns on his skin writhed like living things.
"die!"
Lian Guanlin stared at Chen Fei, slowly raising the blood-red halberd in his hand before swinging it forward with a thunderous roar.
In the ashen eyes of the Annihilation Warrior, two dark red embers flickered slightly. It slowly raised the gray spear in its hand and thrust it straight forward without any fancy moves.
"Om..."
The crimson halberd's edge and the gray spear tip met at a certain point in the void.
There was no earth-shattering explosion as I had imagined, no deafening roar.
All sounds were swallowed up the moment they came into contact.
It felt like only a moment had passed, yet it also felt like a thousand years had gone by.
The gray spear in the hands of the Annihilation Warrior seemed unable to fully withstand the backlash from the final collision of the power of burning and the power of annihilation. Cracks first appeared at the tip of the spear, and then spread to the entire shaft.
The crimson halberd in Lian Guanlin's hand could no longer withstand the pressure, letting out a mournful cry before shattering into pieces, scattering blood mist in all directions.
Lian Guanlin stared straight at the Annihilation Warrior, then looked past the warrior and at Chen Fei, his eyes filled with resentment and incomprehension.
As the wind raged, Lian Guanlin's swollen demonic body, like a statue that had been dried up for ten thousand years, gradually turned into ashes from the edges.