The first attack was just over but as he group looked upward, their expression changed. The sigh of relief they were just about to breathe got stuck into their throat as horror filled their faces.
Thousands of weapons like before were suspended in mid air like before. However it wasnot over. All the remnant death essence energy from the previous attack were being sucked in towards the weapons further strengthening them as if they weren't already sturdy enough before.
"We are doomed. Doomed". Dacre said with a forlorn expression while looking at the weapons. "My worst fear has come true. We cannot break this formation from inside furthermore, it powers itself by sucking the death essence energy. With the amount of death essence energy present in this place, it could probably run continuously for a year without break. This is not the end of it, the attacks gets stronger everytime while we get tired and run out of essence energy".
"Fuck! This is truly killing without giving any chance to survive. Fuck the bastard who created this formation". Sam cursed loudly as he got ready for another round. Meanwhile, Marvyn was silent and filled with guilt towards his brothers.
'If not for my silly mistake'..
As the weapons were about to descend again, Sam said while stroking his chin, "Let's repeat the attack we did last time. We will gauge the strength of this attack and use the most suitable counter measure next time".
Dacre nodded as several golden glitters started to appear in the air. "We will do as brother Sam says. For the next attack, we will try attacks which uses the mininum amount of essence energy that covers greater area".
Boom.. Boom.. Boom..
The sky turned bright again as the grey world became colourful, for a single moment. The second round began again.
Weapons and powerful techniques collided in midair as waves of destructive essence energies ran rampant in the air.
But, more and more weapons escaped their barrage and rained down on them. Sam and Dacre moved like lightning, their sword as fast as them as they cut down the escaping weapon. Dare was fast and meticulous as he swept through all the escaped weapon easily destroying them.
Sam however was having a hard time did to his low cultivation base. He used his movement technique as arrived before the mass of weapons, his swords moving as swift as flowing river. He destroyed the incoming weapons easily but..
A shuriken flashed past his sword creating a wound on his shoulders, blood trickling down his shoulders but Sam paid no mind to it. He was in a frenzy as he deflected one weapon after another.
Finally, it was over. Sam suffered a Wound. The demonic peacock was filled with black holes all over it's body while others werenot injured.
'It could not hold out for a longtime'.
Sam thought as he looked up at the demonic peacock. He easily healed the wound on his shoulder by channelling his life essence energy.
'Life essence energy sure can come in handy during battles. Now, I don't have to care about such wounds while fighting'. He thought as a crooked smile crept up his face.
"Brother Sam, take a rest and heal your.. ". Dacre concerned voice was halted midway when he saw his shoulders covered by a green light and being healed instantly. Dacre as a intelligent lesson understood instantly. "Life essence energy. You can cultivate life essence energy too? " He asked.
Sam chuckled awkwardly. He hadn't told them about if before. Now it looked like he was purposefully trying to be secretive. He scratched his head as he said, "I cultivated it after entering the swordridge valley. I amnot proficient in using it but I can heal small wounds like that. Right, just tell me if you are injured. I can help you".
"Right". Dare nodded. As he looked at the thousands of the weapons which were suspended again in the air, he felt a headache coming on. The death essence energy were being sucked again to strengthen the weapons. While looking at the remnant death essence energies, he said to Sam, "Brother Sam, you have cultivated the death essence energy too right? Why don't you try using death essence energy this time. It could be useful since death essence energy is the most supereme essence energy here".
"You can easily replenish it by absorbing the remnant essence energies. That will solve two of our problems at the same time. Further, I have a feeling that our essence energies will be useless against the death essence energy if it gets strengthened further".
"I want to do it too". Sam had a tense expression while looking at the weapons that were ready to descend any moment. "But I don't have good control over it and no suitable martial skill to utilize the power of the death essence energies. We are in a life and death situation, a single missed weapon could deal a fatal blow to us. I don't want to take such risk".
"That is perfect". Dacre's smile deepened as he looked at Sam and said, "A good breakthrough often occurs at the most perilous situation. Try using any martial skill with the death essence energy. Remember that there can be no mistake, as a single mistake could kill us. Meanwhile, a success would make us last longer".
Sam let out a self deprecating laugh. "It can only make us last longer. All of our power, all of our trump card can only make is last longer. Sigh.. I might as well give it a try". Sam made up his mind. This time he wouldnot use his sword but his bare fist as he already a good technique in his mind.
Marvyn was silent throughout the whole conversation. Other time, he would be the most excited talking about techniques but he was silent this time. The Duo noticed that he was filled with guilt but they said nothing. Consoling him would only worsen the situation, he had to let go of his guilt, which obviously wasn't even necessary in the first place.
The weapons were ready and we're about to descend again.
Dacre, Marvyn, little Titi and Demonic peacock used their technique they had used previously. However, Sam was going to try out a new technique.
He had already formed an idea when he had cultivated death essence energy for the first time. However, he didn't have time to try it before. Now, he was ready to execute it.
Sam took a deep breath. He channelled the death essence energy inside his body as it even started to leak around him. The veins it's his arm turned dark as the death essence energy started to flow through them. Black outline started to appear in his blue eyes giving him a demonic feel like he was a demonic overlord.
Sam went through a transformation as death essence energy started to gather in him arms. Death essence energy started to be jammed in his arm as it bulged like a balloon.
Clenching his plans into fists, he roared loudly. He jumped up in the air and punched upwards with his both hands.
First his right punch.
Then his left punch.
Bang.. Bang..
Two huge fist shadow was blasted upwards blotting out the sky. The sky turned dark as all the weapons in its path directly destructed and turned into remnant death essence energy. It destroyed everything in its path and even collided with the formation barrier shaking it.
'What the fuck!'
Sam himself was surprised looking at his own fist attack. He never thought that it would pack such power. He had simply channeled his essence energy like the basic fist technique of his heavenly martial sect: Meteor fist but he had used almost all of his death essence energy.
Two fist attack had exhausted almost all of his death essence energy, which was equal to the amount of essence energy a cultivator at the mid level of core formation realm would have.
Sam was confident looking at his own attack that it could easily kill a mid-level core formation cultivator and severely injure peak level core formation cultivators. His fist was already destructive enough furthermore, death essence energy itself was like poison to low level cultivators.
Sam however did not rest or let down his guards. Unsheating his immortal slaying sword from his back, he sprayed into motion. They still had to deal with the escapee.
He supported Marvyn while blocking weapon out of his reach. One of the reason, they had to deal with all the weapon was that the Myriad weapon killing formatjon had a tracking ability. All the weapon would target Marvyn who was locked by the formation putting him in much danger.
Finally they were done with the weapons attacked. Sam however did not rest. He jumped on the back of the Little titi as he rose in the air. He took a long deep breathe in the air instantly devouring more than half of the death essence energy.
Absorbing energy in such manner would cause his cultivation base to be unstable but Sam wasn't going to cultivate with those energy. He was going to use them to execute more techniques to defend themselves.
"Brother Sam, what was that? You said you didn't have a good martial skill but it turns out you were lying". Dacre said while looking at Sam inquiringly. He was awed by his fist technique, thinking back to that attack, he shivered a bit. He was sure that even he wouldn't be able to escape safely from that technique if he didn't use a tramp card of his own. Furthermore, Sam was only at the essence core realm, this monster.
"Death fist". Sam said while clenching his fist."Combing simple fist technique of our sect with death essence energy surprisingly produced a good result. I am going to name it death fist because we would all be dead if it didn't work. Get it? Hahahahah.. "
Sam and Dacre both laughed. Even Marvyn chuckled a bit. He was grateful inside for having such good brothers who could laugh with him even in death. If he was in this situation with others, they would have probably abandoned him after putting all the blame on him.
However, the group didn't even get time to laugh properly as more weapons started to descend.
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Meanwhile, at the far outskirts of the city,
A youth was sitting in a lotus position in front a large dark whole the end of which could not be seen. This was the abyss from which the whole place was named after, ruins of abyss.
Death essence energy were emitted out from the abyss below which were all absorbed by the youth like a black hole. The purity of the essence energy was several time higher than the death essence energy in the city.
The youth finally opened his eyes. His eyeballs were dark like the abyss itself. The whole area turned few shades darker after he opened his eyes. Even the berserk and destructive death essence energy turned softer like a barking dog changing into cute puppy.
He turned his head towards the destroyed city as he mumbled, "How interesting. They could survive the tenth assault of the myriad weapons killing formation. There is even a person among them who could cultivate death essence energy. That's rare. Perhaps, he could be useful to me. I should go and take a take a look".
He stood up from a ground. After casting a Stubborn gaze at the deep abyss, he vanished from the spot as his body itself turned into death essence energy.
After he was gone a sinister laughter rang out from the deep abyss which could chill the bones and freeze the blood of any living person.
"kekekekeke.... Greedy little fellow, lusting after this venerable's treasure.. Kekeke... Take good care of this venerable's new body after all it is about time for this world to witness the strength of this venerable.... Kekekekek...".
The world turned silent again.