Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 553 - 519 VS Great Demon Xuanwu 2

Chapter 553: 519 VS Great Demon Xuanwu 2

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Whether it’s a battle I’m sure to win or a battle I’m sure to lose, I’m not interested in fights without suspense. Although the Great Demon Xuanwu before me is an extremely rare and powerful enemy that has left me feeling helpless, it doesn’t excite or thrill me.

However, it’s not my style to give up after just two or three setbacks, at least to persist a dozen more times to see if I can observe clues to solve the problem.

The only consolation right now might be that this Great Demon Xuanwu is different from the Water Navy Xuanwu, as it seems not to have the "Golden Core" to further strengthen its power. Although, given its current restraint on me, having a Golden Core probably wouldn’t change much.

With each clash and move, the location we’re in keeps changing, and the surrounding time-space scenarios are frequently altering. Sometimes it’s a wasteland, sometimes a desert, and now across a forest canopy. The wandering souls and Tan Xiang have disappeared somewhere, and it’s unknown how much time it will take to reunite with them.

Fortunately, both the wandering souls and I hold a blessing lantern, and according to the cartographer, the two blessings should attract each other. As long as we intend to regroup, we should be able to come together again. In the past, it was by this method that the cartographer led Tan Xiang and me back to the safe house.

My body and soul were shattered three more times, and then re-condensed.

Continuous resurrections seem to have made the Great Demon Xuanwu aware of something unusual about me, it slightly slowed its offensive, as though scanning me with its Perception, trying to uncover the secret behind my infinite resurrection.

It’s apparent that even Xuanwu’s absolute restraint over Vermilion Bird cannot help it unconditionally harm my True Spirit.

Maybe this is because even Shan Liangyi, the source of Xuanwu’s power, didn’t comprehend the Manifestation Realm; in the Four Symbols and Five Elements system framework he established, "True Spirit" doesn’t exist; and being the Vermilion Bird Inheritor who’s an Innate Manifestor, I’ve exceeded the framework of the Four Symbols and Five Elements. Only this part wasn’t subjected to specific restraint.

I can’t afford to think I can maintain this advantage throughout the fight. During this "safe time" which will not return once lost, I must find a way to injure the Great Demon Xuanwu.

On my own strength might be impossible, relying on external means then.

What comes to mind first is the Divine Seal Fragment.

With a thought, the power of the Divine Seal Fragment infused into the flames, causing them to alter slightly.

The power of the Divine Seal Fragment too transcends the framework of the Four Symbols and Five Elements. Sadly, my current use of its power can at best change the frequency of mana fluctuations in my flames, and cannot bring about a true transformation. Right now, there aren’t more ways, all I can do is use dead horses as live horses, to see if the change in mana frequency can help my flames deceive the restraint relationship of the Four Symbols and Five Elements.

The light of destruction emerged in my palm.

"How about this move?" I looked at my target.

Flames condensed to the extreme, transformed into a dazzling giant beam, blasting at the head of the Great Demon Xuanwu.

Its head of black water shattered and exploded on the spot.

The effect of this attack seemed far superior to previous times, yet I found it hard to be optimistic.

In the next moment, the head of the Great Demon Xuanwu re-condensed, restored to its original state.

Its current form resembles that of an elemental life; though it shouldn’t compare to my Innate Manifestation Realm, where even annihilation of soul and body poses no threat, merely destroying its physical vessel is pointless. My attack did not reach its soul, just like the Divine Seal Fragment power only changed mana fluctuations as "superficial effort"; the destruction I caused now is merely "superficial effort".

Can’t say it’s entirely ineffective, but halfway successful. Using the power of the Divine Seal Fragment to make my flames escape Xuanwu’s restraint over Vermilion Bird is the right direction, but the compatibility between me and the Divine Seal Fragment is too poor, unable to draw more of its power.

The Great Demon Xuanwu seemed to be enraged, roaring as it manipulated black water to crush my body and soul again.

Meanwhile, it seemed to devote another part of its attention, scanning the deep variations of time-space.

I understand what the Great Demon Xuanwu is scanning. The target isn’t my True Spirit, its search of time-space isn’t in the right direction to locate the True Spirit. Odd though it might sound, the mysterious female remains, hovering around our battlefield. The Great Demon Xuanwu is trying to extract her.

Why the mysterious female hasn’t fled the battlefield of human god and Great Demon clashing perhaps involves her own considerations, but mainly she might simply be unable to escape.

The battlefield between the Great Demon Xuanwu and I looks distanced from the original location by miles, yet the mysterious woman, from the fight’s onset, had escaped with her superpower to a deep layer outside of physical space. This allows her to move ignoring physical distance, and conversely, she cannot enjoy the benefits of physical space’s distance.

By dragging the battlefield away from wandering souls and Tan Xiang, I can spare them from war’s embers; however, the mysterious female isn’t that conveniently spared. Meanwhile, the Great Demon Xuanwu crudely locked onto her and keeps searching for her deeply in time-space with its mana. Like a Monarch sending its army to carpet-search for an assassin, while the assassin, encircled, cannot truly escape and must wade through the shrinking loop.

Although I can’t see the specific state and actions of the mysterious female, I faintly sense through intuition that she seems intent on doing something. Only, the Great Demon Xuanwu, through its vague spiritual lock, can pressure her into stagnation. If my gaze can ignite enemies, the gaze of the Great Demon Xuanwu can create oppression as though the pressure of the deep sea.

Luckily, it’s Great Success Rank, otherwise, any ordinary demon hunter would likely be crushed into pulp by the Great Demon Xuanwu’s gaze.

Now, the Great Demon Xuanwu’s primary attention remains on its battle with me. Nonetheless, the time left for the mysterious female dwindles fast. This situation, however, confuses me. In the view of monsters at Great Demon Xuanwu’s level, even Great Success Rank is no more than a slightly larger bug, other times irrelevant, but now there’s me, the legitimate enemy before it, and still it spread its attention elsewhere?

Is it because I don’t warrant true regard in its view? Or does the mysterious female actually possess some power worthy of its exception?

Perhaps my encounter with the Great Demon Xuanwu here was due to lingering effects of unfortunate people’s power on me, however, initially, the Great Demon Xuanwu’s prey likely wasn’t me, but the mysterious female possibly closely linked to remnants of Tai Sui, suspected as Void Realm No. 7.

"Zhuang Cheng, you aren’t its match, flee." The mysterious female’s voice transmitted into my consciousness.

Utilizing telepathy skills, I responded to her: "Are you serious? At this pace, in less than a minute, it will extract you from the deep realm, then kill you.

"If I escape, the situation for you worsens, all its attention would focus on finding you. Within five seconds, you’d die."

"I have a way to evade the Great Demon Xuanwu’s pursuit." The mysterious female surprisingly said.

"Really? Curious what tricks you have to escape under the demon’s nose, but I won’t flee with my tail between my legs now." I said.

"Based on what I know, you’re supposedly the Liangyi Inheritor, whereas the Great Demon Xuanwu is originally a Xuanwu Inheritor among Liangyi Inheritors. The reason why you’re troubled this much, isn’t it because it’s your nemesis?" The mysterious female said, "This battle churns overwhelming disadvantages for you everywhere, I don’t see hope for your reversal."

As if validating her words, the Great Demon Xuanwu unleashed another strike, pulverizing my body and soul anew.

This time, unlike before, I felt like my consciousness was fiercely struck on the back of my head with a club, turning dizzily dazed. This strike effectively damaged my True Spirit.

Different from characters like Xu Gou lacking mysticism experience, the predecessor to the Great Demon Xuanwu was deeply adept in mana, as Water Master Xuanwu. Even now falling into this irrational frenzied state, it carries significant spiritual intuition and mana manipulation ability.

In fact, the density of mana it presented also far exceeds my normal performance, unsure whether its former self as Water Master Xuanwu attained profound cultivation after becoming Impermanence, or it’s the subtle build-up over centuries of being an Impermanence qualifier that allowed mastery of power manipulation upon becoming a Divine Demon. Either way, it finding a way to harm my True Spirit was entirely predictable.

Yet, I haven’t played all my cards. Amidst engagements, I’ve again found new directions to unlock restraint relations, attempting to apply them.

Upon reconsolidating my body, I immediately spread an immense Fire Sea, naturally burning the land, as swathes of Flame Power rapidly reflow compressing to my hands, distorting spacetime gravitational forces also generating in tandem.

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