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Dual Sword God Box Set

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by Shadows Finger


  As it said this, it raised its other arm and conjured an even more powerful attack to follow up the chains that were assaulting the clan. While all of this took time to describe, all these actions only occurred within a few moments separated from each other.

  Endless amount of ghostly energies flowed towards its second hand, as the sky started to shake violent seeming as if space was about to break to pieces.

  As the strange blazing light from the storage ring on Feng Yunlong’s finger was struggling to resist the attack from the chains trying to capture the clan members, Feng Junling frowned as he noticed the Ghost Master’s second movement.

  “Damnit! Not good!” He said as he pushed more power towards Feng Yunlong to try and fully unseal the ring.

  Seeing this the Ghost Master sneered as he spoke, “It is futile! Now die!” as it said this, the powers that it had gathered congealed into a massive purple skull whose eyes gleamed with a terrifying light, as soon as it appeared it roared as it soared towards Feng Clan members.

  Feng Yu, Feng Xingyu, Elder Duan, Elder Chen and other clan members could only await their impending dooms as they saw the sudden change. However, as they were about to accept their grim fates a change once again occurred within the world.

  “Hmph! Ghost fiend, do you think this is your Cloudy Ghost World? Break!” A solemn voice said, as tarrying power soon after shrouded all practitioners and souls within the area.

  The purple skull that was about to collide with the Feng Clan members was restrained by an unknown force, soon after exploding due to the pressure caused by the unknown variable.

  Boom! A loud booming was heard for many kilometers in the distances, as a mushroom cloud could be seen from a range of a few dozen kilometers.

  As if they had woken from a nightmare, the practitioners and influences who had regained control of their bodies looked at the scene before them in shock.

  “What the hell?”

  “Why are we floating? What happened to the Chosen Battle Arena?”

  A few practitioners exclaimed as they saw the scene of a wasteland before their eyes, stretching for many kilometers into the distance as they floated at the summits of the sky. The ancient golden door continued to emit its bright white light as it stood at its original position unaffected by the destruction of the world around it.

  Oddly enough, the woman in white could no longer be seen standing at the front of the door.

  The Feng Clan was also shocked when they saw the scene before their eyes and felt an unusual power shrouding their forms, Feng Yunlong looked around the spoke to Feng Junling.

  “Junling, it seems we have truly underestimated the world we live in…” as he said this, he couldn’t help but sigh as he tapped the ring on his finger, within moments the ring returned to its normal state.

  Feng Junling also frowned as he responded. “Hmm, it seems that ‘those’ powers are still active…”

  Feng Yu was also stunned by the scene before his eyes, he looked around and thought to himself, “Such destruction how we are still alive?”

  Xun Yanshan was shocked as he saw the wide-scale destruction, but soon he recovered his bearings as he looked around and spoke, “This senior, might I ask what’s going on?”

  Nei Sinian, Ye Shuye, Tang Fei, Old Zhu and other major characters also looked around in silence as they heard Xun Yanshan’s words. However, they didn’t have to wait long as figure soon appeared before the eyes of everyone.

  It was an old man dressed in common an unusual style of clothing, with a jug that carried the fragrance of strong wine in his left hand. This old man gave off an unusual aura as if he existed but did not exist at the same time. A fleeting feeling, if one carefully looked into his eyes, one would see a sea of vicissitudes as if he had been through the winds and rains from ancient times.

  The major influences and rogue practitioners who saw this old man was puzzled as they had no idea who this man was nor why, he helped them.

  However, the instant the Feng Clan saw this old man they were shocked once again. Feng Junling lost his expert demure and shouted. “The E-Eh… Ethereal Exault!”

  As the crowd heard his words, they became stunned as while they do not know this old man, the name of ‘Ethereal Exault’ was known to all…

  “What?! Thee... Ethereal Exault? How is that possible?” Nei Sinian exclaimed.

  “This ancient figure is still alive…” Ye Shuye said as he looked at the old man in shock.

  The crowd of practitioners and influences went into commotion as they heard his title.

  Feng Yu looked at the commotion and pondered to himself, “Odd, I don’t have any recollection of this figure…”

  “Hmm, to think that there would be individuals who could identify me from once glance,” Said the Ethereal Exault as looked towards the Feng Clan with a curious gaze finally resting his vision on Feng Yu.

  Instantly, Feng Yu felt as if all his secrets were known as powerful spiritual sense swept over his body. However, as they sense was about to travel to his sea of consciousness the light in Feng Yu’s souls shone brightly soon after shrouding his sea of thoughts.

  “What just happened?” Thought Feng Yu as beads of sweat trickled down his forehead.

  As he felt his spiritual sense impeded, a bright light shone at the depths of the Ethereal Exault’s eyes as he spoke once more as he looked at Feng Yu. “Interesting…” However, he soon moved his vision towards Zang Xu for a bit with a similar curiosity before focusing on the gathered practitioners.

  “As for what is truly going on... you babies need not know of the details. Now then, fiendish ghost are you going to keep hiding?” Ethereal Exault said as he looked towards the void in front of him.

  Swoosh! The large figure of Ghost Master quickly appeared once more in front of the eyes of everyone. A dense killing intent soon shrouded the world as he looked towards the figure of the old man before it while thinking to itself.

  “Damnit! I didn’t think the members of ‘Order’ would react so soon, to think they would send out such a strong one at that…” Thought Gui Shifu as he looked at the Ethereal Exault, he then moved his vision to Feng Yu and gripped its fists tightly.

  “If it wasssn’t for this damn small human and his clan, I would have already sssstolen the token to the central dragon palace as well as disrupted the doors seal releassssing the hordes of ancient fiend races trapped within… damn!”

  “What’s wrong? Feeling sad that it’s me who came?” The Ethereal Exault mocked as he looked towards Gui Shifu, as Gui Shifu heard his words he grew even angrier as he responded.

  “Damn human! Do not think that you have won, while my main goalssss have not been achieved I can still desssstroy this door and sent this region into a spiralling chaos of doom!” As it said this, a tarrying ghostly energy formed around its body as the ghostly essences of the world congealed around its form creating many spectral shades that swirled around his entire being.

  The qi being released from this ghostly being instantly shrouded this section of the world, as he felt the Ghost Master’s change the Ethereal Exault’s expression became solemn as his energies also started to rise, his robes started to flutter due to energies that were gathering around his form.

  He then looked towards the practitioners gathered around him and spoke, “All of you should use the tokens to enter the Mystic Realm immediately, staying here any longer will be the end of you kids…”

  As they heard this, the surrounding practitioners and influences became restless as they hurriedly gathered together once more, no longer paying attention to them the Ethereal Exalt’s looked towards the Ghost Master once more and spoke lightly.

  “It seems this battle cannot be avoided, well then, my old bones haven’t been in action for many years, shall we test our limits…”

  Chapter 76

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  The Land of Fallen Geniuses

  The sky was blanketed by a two immense type of energies, an ominous purple light, and an ethereal
blue light, they wrapped around each other creating a cyclone of energies that spanned across a wide area reaching dozens of kilometers in the distance.

  Swoosh! Bang! As if they had contested enough, the energies in the cyclone shot towards the limits of the sky ripping a hole through the void reaching the very depths of space. Soon after, a small but bright light could be viewed at depths of the endless void, as if a new star had been born in the universe.

  Shocked by what just occurred many of the influences remained stunned as they had absolutely no idea how they had survived that scene. The Feng Clan members were a little slow, but soon, they came to their senses.

  Feng Junling looked towards Feng Yu and spoke in a hurried tone, "Yu child quickly activate the token! We have to leave this area immediately, or I am afraid we won't live long enough for this senior to give us another chance to escape."

  "Understood!" Feng Yu replied as he quickly grabbed his True Chosen Token and channelled his essence power inside to activate it.

  Phew! As if it had been waiting for this moment for a while, the token immediately lit up brightly, and a female-like voice that only Feng Yu could hear echoed within his mind:

  "Transference Token is activated..." Voice prompt.

  "Verifying Quota requirements..." Voice prompt.

  As the voice said this, a formless power quickly scanned everyone that floated beside Feng Yu as it smartly identified those in this section to be part of the group.

  When it studied Feng Yunlong, the orb within his storage ring remained silent as if there was nothing unusual about it.

  "100 group quota confirmed, would you like to begin your transference to the interior battle zone?" Voice prompt.

  "Yes, transfer us immediately!" With no time to be stunned by the strange voice, Feng Yu promptly replied hurriedly.

  A bright black and white light soon after shrouded all members of the Feng Clan, where after it formed a black and white spheroid that shot towards the opening of the door like a beam of light instantly vanishing within the door.

  The surrounding influences which had now recovered from their dazed state quickly followed through, Xun Yanshan, Nei Dongyuan, and the other forces had their True Chosen, and Pseudo Chosen activate their tokens which shrouded only the key figures of the leading groups, leaving behind the less essential members and rogue practitioners.

  As if the door finally realized that all chosen with tokens had been transferred it released a bright wave of light that covered all the remaining rogue practitioners and influence members.

  Each transformed into a ball of light that was swept away by an invisible wind that shot to the depths of the door, as this was completed, the door then started to close...

  Creak! Bang! Following a loud creaking noise, and the sound of the door finally closing. The door then became transparent as it slowly faded away into nothingness, leaving behind only the ethereal old man and the ghostly entity.

  This all happened in a flash as the Ghost Master who was about to unleash a second wave of attack could only watch helplessly as the door vanished before his eyes with a frown, hidden beneath his hooded robe.

  He then looked towards the Ethereal Exalt with a sneer on his face as he noticed his current condition.

  Poof! The ethereal old man coughed out a mouthful of blood, as he looked at the area the door vanished with a slight frown on his face, "Quite a slow bunch..." He thought to himself as he recalled the previous scene.

  "Jie Jie Jie! What's wrong? Feeling a little weak? Hmph! Thisss is what you get for branching off a fraction of your sssstrength to deter my energies from desssstroying those ants. I wonder, will you sssstill be able to fight me in your current condition..." Gui Shifu said in a mocking tone as his purple eyes glowed brighter.

  "Pheweh!" The ethereal old man spits towards the void as he wiped the blood from the corner of his lips and spoke, "You Fiends are truly the same, given a little advantage, and you will always believe yourself to be in control. Do you know of the result of that frost demon from about two months ago?" He asked in a sarcastic tone of voice.

  "Only a foolish Frost Kin that provoked the remnant 'will' of that guardian of this lessssser world. No matter who he is I refusssse to believe that he can protect your kind at all times!" Ghost Master Gui Shifu replied in a fierce tone.

  As the ethereal old man heard this, he smiled and mocked Gui Shifu, "Haha! What do you as an outsider know of this world's great ancestor? Cough! It's not that he can't protect us at all times, but rather we have no need for him to do so, regarding the case of the frost demon's invasion, it simply an accidental convenience that he had to act to remove the threat..."

  "Enough of your pointless attempt to stall time to recover, for it is time for you to accept your doom!" As Gui Shifu said this, his ghostly energies started to rise again once more calling up the forces of heaven and earth. A green star at the depths of the universe began to glow brightly, as a small stream of energies began to flow towards his ghostly form.

  Seeing this scene, the Ethereal Exalt frowned as he spoke, "You dare to use the powers of your Natal Star in this planar are you mad!"

  "Ha ha ha! What does this have to do with me? You filthy humans dared to ruin my plans, you all deserve to die!" As Gui Shifu said this, the sky started to shake violently as the rules governing this section of the world began to grow unstable.

  "Damnit! I have to lore it away from here..." Thought the ethereal old man, however, before he could finish his thoughts there was a change.

  "Where there is, fortune! There is, disaster!" A profound voice filled with wisdom said, as an old man dressed in strange robes with glowing runic markings appeared, his eyes glowed with a complex light as if they were constantly deducing all things.

  His voice carried with it an unknown energy that prevented the energies of the green star from reaching the Ghost Master, causing him to suffer a slight injure his brightly shining purple eyes dimmed by a small section.

  "Bastard! How dare you interfere?!" The Ghost Master, as it looked at the new old man before its eyes.

  "Ho ho ho! Quite a fierce temper we have don't we, but I'm sorry you destroyed my peaceful vacation when your kin eradicated the town that once existed below this sky," The old man with said a severe but playful tone.

  As he saw this man, the ethereal old man's face revealed surprise as he spoke, "Lang Shang, why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be playing the role of an imperial diviner for this Zang Imperial Clan?"

  "Now-now! Chu Kongling, playing house with these kids is never entertaining. I simply came out for a stroll, but who would have thought that by coming to this small town, I would bear witness so many interesting things..." Lang Shang said with a smile on his face, his eyes glowed with complex runes that danced excitedly.

  "I saw the one whose fire shrouded the sky, I saw the one who pierced the heavens and glimpsed the birth of a traveler who walks the unparalleled forgotten path, unknown by all including time..." He said passionately as his words travelled across the void.

  As if he didn't pay attention to Lang Shang's pointless ramblings, Chu Kongling quickly treated his internal wounds with his qi as he pondered, "With his diviner art methods, we should be able to battle this pure-bred Soul Eater Ghostfiend on much better terms, for if I were to continue fighting it alone in my current state, I'm afraid I wouldn't last very long."

  The Ghost Master Gui Shifu grew very angry, as his rich murderous desire shrouded everything within the radius of 100 kilometers. It looked towards both Lang Shang and Chu Kongling as it spoke, "Good! Good! Very good! Since it is you wisssh to protect this lesssser world, then to the ssstars we shall do battle. I will let you weak humans know the difference between high-class beings and you low humans!"

  As it said this, his body shot towards the sky instantly ripping through the limits of the sky as he soared towards the endless void. Seeing this, the talkative Lang Shang's eyes gleamed in a solemn light as he looked towards Chu Kongling and nodded his head.r />
  Swish! Swish! Not wasting any time, both of their figures turn into beams of light that tore through the limits of the sky soon after colliding with the Ghost Master.

  Flash! As no sound could be heard from this distance, a myriad of bright flashing lights colored the depths of the dark endless void, as three beams of light collided repeatedly creating mighty ripples that scattered across this section of the void.

  ∞ ∞ ∞

  Swooooosssssh!

  A desolate wind blew softly, as dust clouds flowed across the destroyed lands that were once a prosperous small town filled with life.

  The endless hills and mountain ranges that had no end were nowhere to be seen, as only a vast barren earth spanned across the horizon for many kilometers.

  The air was filled with a rich death qi as if countless souls had been lost both inside and outside of the region.

  Slide. Slide. A silhouette could be seen crawling in the distance as if nothing would stop it from following along its path. The silhouette could not walk, could not channel any energy, but only continued to crawl with its two hands. If one carefully looked into its eyes, they would see eyes filled with firm determination, a will unlike no other...

  After a very long time, the silhouette vanished into the distance, where did it go? Will it ever be seen again? No one knows, for the next appearance of this silhouette was neither in the current or a distant time, but rather outside of time itself...

  Speaking of time, there was an unusual character walking in this barren land, a familiar character, as he walked each step seemed to have taken him further and further away from the present time. He eventually arrived at the central area of the barren land and glanced around in a manner that seemed to show him watching all of the previous occurrences.

  Soon, he sighed and spoke to void as if he was talking to something and nothing at the same time, "The wheel of fate has shifted; the burning flames became shrouded by thunder, and the traveler of the lone star has found his path..." The man said, he then chuckled as if everything was still in control and started to walk away.

 

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