Ch 378: I Know Everything About You
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Kong Yunzi, his three bodies fused together, lunged at Liu Ke in an extremely bizarre posture.
However, facing this sudden attack, Liu Ke remained exceptionally calm. He slowly struck a Blue Mark into the ground.
With his shout, “Four Nuo Seal, open!”
An immense Mark suddenly appeared, as if bursting from the earth.
Kong Yunzi, caught off guard, stepped on the Mark. In an instant, he felt as if his feet had lost their support, and his entire being felt like it was falling into a bottomless abyss.
While Kong Yunzi was astonished, Liu Ke quickly recombined the spear, now reduced to bloody water, into a complete long spear. Holding the spear, his eyes sharp as an eagle’s, he coldly looked at Kong Yunzi and said, “Now, it’s my turn.”
Before the words had left his mouth, Liu Ke swiftly sheathed his blade and then stabbed out with the spear like lightning. However, this thrust wasn’t aimed at Kong Yunzi’s vital points, but at his toes. Kong Yunzi clearly hadn’t anticipated such a move from Liu Ke, and was startled, quickly retreating.
Seeing this, Liu Ke forcefully broke the blood-red spear.
Without hesitation, he plunged the spearhead into his own arm. Instantly, a large amount of blood gushed out like a spring.
But surprisingly, this blood didn’t flow everywhere, instead continuously filling the missing part of the spear.
In the blink of an eye, the broken spear was whole again on Liu Ke’s arm, and even sharper than before.
Liu Ke, wielding two spears, charged at Kong Yunzi like a frenzied lion.
Seeing this, Kong Yunzi didn’t dare to be negligent. He quickly threw his fly whisk, adorned with prayer beads. The fly whisk spun rapidly in the air, like a ferocious dragon, directly at Liu Ke.
Simultaneously, the bald and long-haired bodies chanted Buddhist Sutras and Classic Texts. For a time, the chanting and incantations intertwined, creating a strange atmosphere.
“Boy, you’re going to die!” Kong Yunzi roared, his voice particularly jarring in the bizarre atmosphere.
Liu Ke was not the least bit afraid of the spinning fly whisk. He wielded his two spears, their shadows like lightning, clashing fiercely with the whisk, sparks flying.
At that moment, the chanting and incantations transformed into an Invisible Force, pressing down on him, slightly hindering his movements.
Kong Yunzi seized the opportunity to split his three bodies, attacking from different directions. Liu Ke’s eyes narrowed, several Marks around him emitted a faint blue light, stubbornly resisting the invisible force.
He flickered, evading Kong Yunzi’s attack, while simultaneously thrusting his two spears like vipers, aiming for Kong Yunzi’s chest.
Kong Yunzi hastily dodged sideways, but Liu Ke seized the opening.
Liu Ke shouted, crossing his two spears, and slammed them down on Kong Yunzi.
Kong Yunzi was sent flying by this blow, and the other two bodies also showed abnormalities, immediately merging back together.
Liu Ke didn’t give his opponent a chance to breathe, and charged forward again, ready to defeat Kong Yunzi in one fell swoop.
But at this moment, the three bodies shouted simultaneously: “Three Lives Transformation!”
“Three Lives Transformation!”
The three words exploded like a thunderclap, and Kong Yunzi’s three bodies suddenly erupted in a blinding Golden Light.
The bald figure swelled, his skin hardening like iron, every muscle bulging and knotting, transforming into a Guardian Vajra like an iron tower; the long-haired figure’s robes billowed, a bluish-grey mist swirling around him, his figure becoming ethereal and indistinct, as if about to merge into the void; while the central body’s eyes were bloodshot, a vertical slit opening in his forehead, revealing a Blood-Red Vertical Pupil.
The three bodies stood apart, forming a character resembling the character “pǐn”, surrounding Liu Ke in the center.
The bald figure, like a Guardian Vajra, was the first to attack, his fist the size of a sand pot, carrying a strong wind, causing the air to crackle. Liu Ke blocked with his spears, feeling an Immense Force, his arms tingling slightly.
Just then, several strands of hair suddenly shot out from the bluish-grey mist, like Steel Needles, aiming for Liu Ke’s back.
He tapped his feet, shifting his body half a foot, the hair narrowly missing his shoulders, yet leaving several black holes in his robe—the mist possessed a bone-eating corrosive nature.
Before Liu Ke could steady himself, the Blood-Red Vertical Pupil of the central body suddenly shot out a Red Light.
Wherever the Red Light passed, Space rippled. Liu Ke’s pupils contracted, quickly crossing his two spears to protect himself.
The Red Light struck the spears, emitting a piercing shriek, the blood-red Patterns on the spears were scorched and dimmed.
“Three Lives Return to Source, Three Realms Become Silent!”
The three bodies spoke in unison, the Guardian Vajra’s fist, the strands of hair from the void mist, and the Blood-Red Vertical Pupil of the central body attacking simultaneously, their Offensive overwhelming.
Liu Ke felt the air around him solidify, the speed of his spear movements slowing. The wounds on his arms reopened from the strain, blood flowing down the spears, turning into tiny Blazing Flames upon contact with the air.
“Since you want three lives, then I will break your three lives!”
A resolute glint flashed in Liu Ke’s eyes, and he forcefully plunged his two spears into the ground.
In an instant, the faint blue Marks around him swelled, the light of the Four Nuo Seal piercing the ground, forming a giant Mark beneath his feet, and four strange Things appeared.
“Sacrifice Ritual, I’ve made this Trade, Eight Nuo Seal, open!”
The blood spurting from the wounds on Liu Ke’s arms all flowed into the array, the Four Symbols phantoms becoming solid. The Azure Dragon swung its tail, raising a monstrous wave; the White Tiger pounced, tearing through the void; the Vermillion Bird spread its wings, igniting a Blazing Flame that consumed the heavens; and the Black Tortoise withdrew into its shell, becoming an indestructible barrier.
The Offensive of the three bodies slammed into the Four Symbols phantoms, emitting a deafening roar. The Guardian Vajra’s fist was torn open by the White Tiger’s claw marks, the void mist was scorched by the Vermillion Bird’s Blazing Flame, emitting cries of pain, and the Blood-Red Vertical Pupil was dimmed by the Azure Dragon’s monstrous wave.
The three bodies of Kong Yunzi simultaneously spat out blood, their separate figures shaking violently.
Liu Ke seized this fleeting opening, drew his spears, his figure turning into a blood-red lightning bolt, piercing through the Four Symbols phantoms, directly at Kong Yunzi’s central body’s vertical pupil: “Your three lives, end here!”
The blood-red spear tip was only an inch from the vertical pupil, when Kong Yunzi’s three bodies suddenly revealed strange smiles simultaneously. Their bodies began to melt, transforming into three streams of different colored air—golden, blue, and blood-red—intertwining in mid-air to form a rotating Vortex.
“Three Lives Transformation, it wasn’t a change of tactics, but a sacrifice!” Kong Yunzi’s maniacal laughter echoed from the vortex, “Let’s go to hell together!”
The vortex emitted a Suction that consumed everything. Liu Ke felt his body being torn apart. He looked at the approaching vortex, suddenly throwing his two spears, using the recoil to retreat rapidly.
The two spears pierced the vortex, and were instantly shredded. But at the moment the spears shattered, the remaining Blazing Flames on them suddenly erupted, violently colliding with the three-colored air currents in the vortex.
After an Explosion louder than any before, the vortex and the Blazing Flames simultaneously vanished, leaving only a bottomless chasm.
Liu Ke landed in the distance, looking at the empty Battlefield, slowly wiping the Bloodstains from his mouth.
He looked down at the healed wound on his arm, where a burning pain still lingered.
“It’s over?” he murmured to himself, but then saw a Faint Light flash from the depths of the chasm.
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