Reaper of the Martial World

Chapter Book 11: 57: Ashes (2)

Book 11: Chapter 57: Ashes (2)

In another world across space and time, there was a place inexplicable beauty. Every inch was covered in lush grace that glowed with a gentle green aura. The trees were tall and full, swaying softly in the wind with rustling leaves that sounded like a sooth whistle. Even the air was filled with a heavenly fragrance, one that could make the soul feel incomparably comfortable.

In the skies, fairies, pixies, and dragons of legends soared. Gnomes and giants graced the ground, but even they who were normally ugly creatures actually walked around with happy smiles on their faces.

At the center of it all, there stood a tree with a canopy that loomed over all. It trunk wrapped around for thousands of kilometers, it stretched into the skies and even above the clouds and stars above, and it wafted a soft green light as its leaves gently fell to the ground from time to time, blessing the worlds below.

However, at that moment, the scenery suddenly changed.

The white clouds above began to quake, turning grey, then black.

Below, the earth began to tremble. The happy lifeforms who had just been frolicking without a care in the world suddenly began to scream out in horror as fissures coursed through their land.

The sparkling waters overturned, massive waves shooting into the skies and flooding the once lush areas.

Crackling lightning began to form as booming thunder loomed over head. The sounds were so fierce that many ear drums burst, causing the first injuries this world had seen in countless epochs.

“TO DARE PLACE YOUR HANDS ON MY WIFE… I’LL BURN YOU TO ASHES!”

A streak of lightning tore through the skies. Its length was over thousands of miles, its thickness several tens of miles.

It crashed into the trunk of the looming tree, a rage the likes of which wanted to tear the heavens themselves apart descending upon the world.

However, that was all…

The skies slowly cleared, the earth slowly healed, the waters slowly rescinded… All that was left of the enraged roar was a small black mark on the bark on an otherwise blemishless existence. And after a few more moments… There was a sigh.

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Pent up rage within Dyon’s body billowed outward. His aura became incomparably dark, the depths of his eye flickering with a familiar dark flame. Except this time, it was far darker than it had been in the past.

However, he was still incomparably focused. That so-called attack on the World Tree wasn’t his doing. Rather, it was a manifestation of his will and rage. It was a concept that even immortals couldn’t grasp, but it was as natural as breathing to Dyon.

He wouldn’t do something as foolish as waste this short burst of strength for an attack he knew would be ineffective. The only reason his will even leaked a tiny portion of itself into the world was because he had to sever the connection to the world by necessity. Regardless, he was already connected to it.

If not for this, the World Tree wouldn’t have heard him at all.

It was then Dyon did something he had refused to do all those years ago. With a second palm strike, he forced a Fate Breaking Pill into Ri’s mouth, she had still not reacted by the time it was lodged in her throat.

Back then, Dyon refused to feed the Fate Breaking Pill to Ri because doing so would essentially reset her bloodline, wiping out her elven lineage. Dyon had always felt that this wouldn’t be a worth it.

One had to remember that relying of Faith Seeds cut off one’s path. To make matters worse, if Ri ignored both her elven lineage and her Faith Seed, just the talent of her Snow Clan kitsune body likely wasn’t enough to follow Dyon to the Immortal Plane.

This sort of reality was unacceptable to Dyon. Plus, back then, he hadn’t seen anything wrong with the existence of the World Tree at all.

However, the Dyon of now wasn’t the Dyon of back then.

Before, Dyon could only refine to Fate Breaking Pill to 70% purity. But now, refining it to several times strengthened levels was as easy as breathing.

On top of that, Dyon had comprehensions of his master’s unique path. Before, he could only use a drop of blood and allow the base formula to do the work for him. He had no ability to cleverly and efficient incorporate the blood himself, much like other alchemists had no ability to. However, now, things were far different.

Dyon didn’t have to first forge a Barrier Breaking Pill, then use a drop of blood to evolve it into a Fate Breaking Pill any longer. Instead, he could directly refine the Fate Breaking Pill using the blood of a Celestial Fox in the base formula. This would cause a qualitative change in the pill that would make it levels above a normal Fate Breaking Pill in efficacy.

However, Dyon didn’t just stop at this alone. He would make it clear to that World Tree that his wife had no need for its assistance. He, Dyon Sacharro, could bring up his wife to an untouchable level without the help of anyone else.

This why Dyon not only brought out several of the purest drops of celestial fox blood… But he also ripped Kukan’s Faith Seed out from Ri’s mind’s eye!