prynovel Chapter 52 : Chapter 52
Chapter 52 : Chapter 52
Chapter 52: The Prince of the Dark Race! The Bloodthirsty Demonic Art Blazes to Life Once More!!!
Deep within the magma-filled crater, Xiao Xuan’s entire body had been corroded away.
There was almost nothing left of him but a shattered skeleton and a few internal organs.
Fortunately, the silver Healing-Type Trait had kept Xiao Xuan from dying outright.
But the dark corrosive power clinging to his body prevented his injuries from recovering quickly.
“Tian Ji, so you really didn’t die!!”
A low roar, carried by Telekinesis, burst from Xiao Xuan’s skeletal frame.
Reduced to bare bones, he struggled up into the air.
“You worthless trash didn’t die, so how could I possibly die?”
In the next instant, however, an icy voice came from within the clouds.
A hunched old man descended from the sky, dark power surging all over his body. He was so gaunt he was little more than skin and bones.
At that moment, Xiao Xuan’s eyes gradually regenerated as well.
The moment he saw the man’s corpse-like appearance, Xiao Xuan’s pupils contracted.
“You actually fell into darkness!!”
His voice, again carried by Telekinesis, rang out once more.
Xiao Xuan was inwardly shocked. His opponent was actually a Martial God-level existence.
Then again, it made sense. Even Gu Xuan had become a Martial God. Tian Ji’s talent back then had not been much weaker than Gu Xuan’s after Gu Xuan awakened his talent.
And now, Tian Ji had truly fallen into darkness.
Once, an extraordinarily powerful race had appeared on Earth, known as the Dark Race.
That race could absorb dark matter and cast itself completely into darkness. Once they did, their strength would undergo a qualitative leap.
By now, he was probably already at the late stage of the Martial God Realm, perhaps even its peak.
“I belonged to darkness from the beginning. How could this be called falling into it?”
Tian Ji looked at Xiao Xuan with icy disdain.
At those words, Xiao Xuan’s pupils shrank.
“You’re from the Other Races!?”
As Xiao Xuan spoke, flesh began to regrow on his body.
Tian Ji, however, paid no attention to that at all.
“That’s right. I am the prince of the Dark Race!”
When I came to Earth back then, it was only to kill more of humanity’s prodigies.
If Mu Xiying hadn’t saved you in the first round of the Genius Tournament, you would have died long ago. How could you possibly have lived until now?
What I never expected was that a piece of trash like you would cultivate so quickly and actually surpass me!
“And five thousand years later, you’re still alive. It seems you’ve become one of humanity’s strongest experts too, haven’t you?”
Tian Ji stared at Xiao Xuan with a sinister gaze as he spoke.
“Wait. Then does that mean the top twenty geniuses on the Heaven Ranking who all died almost overnight back then were all killed by you? And your disappearance back then wasn’t because you died, or because you withdrew from the world after being defeated by me?”
Xiao Xuan’s brows furrowed instantly.
Before Tian Ji disappeared, a major incident had shaken humanity: nearly all the top-ranked geniuses of Imperial Capital University had died.
Some people had even suspected Xiao Xuan.
After all, Xiao Xuan’s talent had not been especially strong, yet his cultivation speed had been absurdly fast. Naturally, people suspected that he had cultivated some evil art.
Fortunately, after being subjected to all kinds of surveillance and investigation, he was finally cleared of suspicion.
Even so, some of those geniuses’ families still secretly sent people to assassinate Xiao Xuan.
Although none of them succeeded, Xiao Xuan had nearly died several times.
“That’s right. Back then, I only lacked one final blood sacrifice to push my talent one step further, and Mu Xiying had originally been my target!”
Who could have guessed that woman’s talent would be so terrifying? Several of the Dark Race’s top experts were killed by her instead!
In the end, I could only settle for second best and turn my sights on those other pieces of trash!
For five thousand years, in order to keep humanity’s powerhouses from discovering me, I sealed the entrance to the Subterranean Cavern!
And by relying on the royal bloodline of the Dark Race, I successfully refined every last member of my race!
I finally took that last step!
Next, I will slaughter every one of humanity’s powerhouses!
“And a peak Martial Saint like you must surely stand at the very top among the human race. You are indeed qualified to become the first person I kill after my power has fully matured!!”
Tian Ji looked at Xiao Xuan with undisguised arrogance.
But after hearing that, Xiao Xuan was a little bewildered.
He was one of the very strongest?
“Don’t tell me you’ve been in seclusion for five thousand years?”
Xiao Xuan asked curiously.
“That’s right. For five thousand years, I remained in seclusion in order to absorb all the power of the Dark Race.”
The first thing I did after emerging was use the Blood Curse I planted on you back then to find you!
For these five thousand years, the only thing that kept me alive through endless cruel cultivation was the thought of torturing you to death!
“And now that I have surpassed the Martial God Realm, I will not only kill you, I will exterminate your entire human race!”
By the time Tian Ji finished speaking, his voice had turned especially cold.
At that, the corner of Xiao Xuan’s mouth twitched.
This man had clearly been in seclusion for far too long. He did not even know that humanity now had more than a dozen experts in the Supreme Realm.
And with a terrifying powerhouse like Mu Xiying, who stood at the absolute limit of the Supreme Realm, even if Tian Ji had also reached the First Layer of the Supreme Realm, he still would not be a match for humanity.
“No. I just have to stall him a little longer. Once Mu Xiying gets here, I’ll survive!”
With that thought in mind, Xiao Xuan remembered that he had already notified Mu Xiying.
At her speed, she should arrive before long.
BOOM!!!
At that very moment, Tian Ji, still ignorant of the truth, instantly erupted with a terrifying surge of dark magic, deep and abyssal beyond measure.
At that moment, he seemed to transform into a black hole.
That terrifying aura spread out in all directions.
The sheer might of it made Xiao Xuan’s pupils contract. Tian Ji had truly reached the legendary Supreme Realm.
And that powerful Supreme might spread outward without the slightest concealment, almost enveloping the entire Earth.
“So it really is the Supreme Realm! This is bad!”
Xiao Xuan’s expression turned grave. A peak tenth-tier saber appeared in his hand, and at the same time, a powerful lightning-and-fire battle armor materialized over his broken body.
His previous Nanotech Battle Armor had long since been obsolete. After all, even with the ability to upgrade, a Nanotech Battle Armor whose ceiling was only peak eighth tier had very little potential.
Even so, he still had no chance of winning.
Tian Ji looked at Xiao Xuan as though he were no more than an ant.
“All right. The fact that I’ve said this much to you is already a blessing for you. Next, I will rip your soul out of your body. What awaits you will be endless punishment!”
Tian Ji’s gaze turned incomparably cold.
HUM!!
He pressed a hand down directly toward Xiao Xuan.
In an instant, endless dark power transformed into a terrifying palm seal that blotted out the sky and covered the moon. It was hundreds of thousands of kilometers wide.
It came crushing down on Xiao Xuan with a force that could destroy heaven and earth.
BOOM!!!!
At that moment, Xiao Xuan no longer held back. He unleashed all of his power at once.
The Bloodthirsty Demonic Art, dormant for five thousand years, erupted once more.
The Essence-Blood within his body began to vaporize frantically.
A violent crimson aura shot straight into the heavens.
“Thunder-Punishment Absolute Flame Slash!!”