Looking from Hei Qi's eyes, the world was full of lines that converged in death nodes signaling the path to kill all, even himself wasn't an exemption to the rule. It was a sight that would cause a headache to most people, but Hei Qi was already used. Object, beast, or person, it didn't matter what his rival was, Hei was was sure that he could kill anything. He was Death impersonnated and nothing could escape death.
Hei Qi's eyes glinted observing Bai in front of him. Hei Qi's sword started following the line that would bring Bai's death. Bai shuddered as cold air surrounded him, he couldn't even sense where the attack would come, but he could sense its lethality. Bai barely lifted his swords, crossing them and unleashing his aura to put a defense, changing the lines around him.
Bai's actions only gained Hei Qi's scoff. It didn't matter any defense, the game had finished. Hei Qi's sword followed the new lines, the Death intent around his sword increasing as it reached his objective, Bai's Death Node where countless lines of death interlaced between. Hei Qi's sword slicing in half the Death Node.
"Agh!" Bai gapped seemingly making his last breath, closing his eyes.
Hei Qi closed his eyes, Bai's death was sure, there wasn't any need to check as he never failed.
"Ahhh!" To Hei Qi's surprise, Bai breathed loudly. Hei Qi opened his eyes again completely shocked "H-how could it be?"
Hei Qi's mind worked at full speed, he reviewed his sword cutting across Bai's lines. He was sure that he had cut Bai's Death Nodes, how could it be alive?
Hei Qi shook his head, calming himself "It might have been an error, a miscalculation" He lifted his sword, slicing again towards Bai, following his death lines. This time, he completely focused on them, he wouldn't permit another error like the one before.
"Swing!" Hei Qi sword sliced over, cutting Bai's Death Node over his forehead, just as the black sword was about to cut the node, Hei Qi could see a gray glint. Nevertheless, the sword sliced the node apart, the lines around it crumbling.
"Hahahahahaha!" Bai laughed madly, completely ignoring Hei Qi's attack. Bai slowly stood up, his eyes glinting madly.
Seeing Bai standing up unscathed, Hei Qi unconsciously flinched back, fright written over his face. He was Death, how could Death fail to kill?!
"So it was this" Bai realized while smiling. Sensing the incoming death, Bai tried the last struggle in the last moment, fusing all his sword intents. There wasn't time or strength to calmly try it, so he simply made them collided, letting each comprehension made his own. Even if he died, he would try at least to take Hei Qi with him.
All his intents collided randomly fighting each other. In this brief moment of complete exhaustion and uncontrol, in the last moment before breaking apart and dying, he had found it. Chaos!
"If two elements can't fuse neatly, it's as simple to make them join chaotically" Bai laughed at the fact. Of course, it was simple at all. The great mental progress and comprehension needed to comprehend it and try to control not letting himself be consumed by it were immensurable. It required great strength and even greater luck.
That instant, created chaos all over his body making his own Death Node chaotic, Hei Qi cutting them being negligible.
Bai lifted both his swords pointing at the sky.
"Bastard!" Hei Qi recovered his shock. He jumped towards Bai thrusting his sword. He could let Bai continue!
"Clank!" Bai's swords collided with each other. From them, a strong gray light surged swallowing all the space around, blinding everyone.
{Congratulation} The voices of the Sword God could be heard over the space by Bai and Hei Qi {The Sword way is about making the impossible possible. You fuse Death and Life, breaking a taboo, creating a new intent. We will consider this as your 8th trial. Your reward is Time}
Bai grinned. The time all around him seemed to have stopped. Hei Qi was all frozen in time, his sword only inches before Bai's heart. It wouldn't be a good reward for another time. But now, it was perfect.
Bai's Life and Death cores started revolving at full speed "Burgh!" Bai vomited blood while grinning. Bai's Life core changed its turning sense, making both cored running counter-clockwise.
Like when he was trying to break through titled douluo both torrent, Life and Death, crashing between each other. If this were before, they would explode and kill Bai in the process. However, Bai now had touched chaos comprehension. Both torrents crashed each other, all the elements behind fighting chaotically over Bai's dantian.
"Boom!" A flash of gray light surged over, revealing Bai's dantian. It wasn't like the other two. There wasn't a stable round condensation of energy. Instead, there was a gray concentrated cloud where elements were chaotically and eternally fighting between each other, creating a chaotic order that was an opposition itself. Raging powers always in movement, making it seem like an asteroid belt.
This was Bai's third core, the Chaos Core. With it, Bai's spirit energy quickly increased reaching rank 99 limit douluo. His comprehension pushing him, reaching the state of quasi-god.
"Clank!" The time started again, Hei Qi being pushed over 100 meters away by a strange force. Hei Qi looked confused and furiously in front of him. The death lines twisted each other, slicing in the middle to appear far away, doing such a chaotic puzzle that it was impossible to follow them.
Where the twisting originated, Bai stood there. He still had his rugged robes and bloody body that seemed to be near death, his eyes closed hiding the black holes where the eyes stood before. However, the aura around him had completely changed, making it difficult to recognize him as the same as before. Not only it was much stronger, but the foundation of him had also changed. Hei Qi couldn't control himself to shudder before his presence.
Held with both of his hands stood a single sword. Different colors twisted in each other, always in movement, making it similar to Bai's core. A thin but thick gray chaotic aura exuded from around the sword.
Bai pointed the sword to Hei Qi "I will negate your Death! Then, I will bring chaos to even destiny!"