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Title: Monoshiki's Capabilities
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In the area of the Burial Gorge, the battle here was extremely chaotic, causing devilish might to cloak the entire area as bits of flesh and blood spewed about, with many people dying.
The number of participants were dwindling at a rapid rate.
There were some intelligent people who were still evading battles, hiding at certain locations. Hence, they didn't head to the Burial Gorge to engage in that battle with the other participants.
However, they were too clever for their own good. Evading battles to such an extent could only mean that they didn't dare to fight at all. How would such people ever gain the recognition of the devil emperor?
"This Old Charl is too ruthless." The spectators outside silently mused. The number of deaths on his hands were definitely the most. This fellow was too dangerous, launching sneak attacks while others were battling.
"Ruthless, and he doesn't care about the methods used to obtain victory. Will Old Charl be able to gain the devil emperor's favor by acting like this?" Somebody asked.
This already wasn't the first time Old Charl participated in this event. His age was too old, and his cultivation base was at this level already many years ago.
"Devil exeprts should be like this. He is much more ruthless compared to the past, and killing people like that makes it extremely easy to offend some major powers. However, Old Charl seems to be giving his all, he clearly wants to attract the attention of his Majesty." A devil king, who was spectating, spoke.
Old Charl seems that he really wanted to gain the devil emperor's favor, he spared no expense and staked everything. Most probably, he has been stuck in this realm for far too long and he could feel death slowly approaching him. He needed the devil emperor's approval.
Even if it's just fame, it was able to preserve his reputation for a long time. It would naturally be for the best if he could break through. A break through now was the most important thing to Old Charl.
The devil emperor also knew of Old Charl's intentions. Both of them were old monsters who had cultivated for countless years. How could he not understand Old Charl's feelings?
"What do you feel about Old Charl?" The devil emperor asked Kan.
"Ruthless enough, but he is lacking a little in talent. All other aspects are perfect for a devil expert. If he can break through to the devil king realm, he will become a truly dangerous character and at that time, you can recruit him as your personal subordinate." Old Kan spoke.
"Seems like you have a very high evaluation with regards to him. Other than him, there is another very intelligent man, evading battles for the sake of the last fight. But why did you don't think well of the young man named Shun?" The devil emperor asked again.
"He is different from Old Charl. Old Charl is very old, and it's extremely rare for him to have such courage. That man is still so young, and by rights, he should have the tyranny and domineeringness of devil experts."
"In that case if you were to select the top three, you would rather choose Old Charl instead of Shun?" The devil emperor spoke.
"That's right." Old Kan nodded. The devil emperor smiled but he didn't say anything.
At this moment, everyone could clearly see that there was a grudge between Shun and Monoshiki. This old friend of his favored Monoshiki, he would naturally dislike Shun.
Old Kan also knew that the devil emperor knew what he was thinking. However, he didn't mind it. Given their relationship, there's no need to care about such methods.
The Blackstone Devil King who was sitting behind, frowned even more severely. This battle hasn't even started and the Old man was already supporting Monoshiki so fervently.
This was clearly extremely disadvantageous for Shun as after all, the Old Man was someone who could influence the decisions of the devil emperor.
"Merl, guess who would be the victor if both of them fought." The devil emperor spoke to Merl who was in his embrace.
"No idea, but from the looks of things, old senior Kan's recommended young man seemed to be stronger in comparison." Merl smiled lightly.
The Old man smiled. This Merl was able to discern his thoughts just from his actions and knew what to say.
"In fact, I think that Shun might only have a slight chance." Merl laughed as she stared at the battle platform.
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More and more experts died in the Burial Gorge. There were also some who sighed helplessly, choosing to leave the battlefield instead, returning to their seats and becoming spectators.
Old Charl's heart was still filled with reluctance. Right now, he lifted his saber and walked towards Shun with a smiling face.
Shun glanced at Old Charl. It seems like Old Charl wasn't very pleased that the limelight was snatched by both he and Monoshiki. He wanted to fight against him.
Everyone was very clear of Monoshiki's strength, but he only treated Shun as his only opponent. Hence, even if Shun's battle achievements weren't very outstanding, as long as he performed dazzlingly enough in his battle against Monoshiki, even if he was defeated, there was still a very high chance for him to gain the devil emperor's favor.
Old Charl wanted to seize this chance to obtain the devil emperor's attention and the only choice remaining, was for him to fight against Shun and gain victory. If he did so, all the glory which belonged to Shun would shift to him instead.
However, Ria actually appeared right before Old Charl now. A green-colored sword could be seen in her hand as he stood there quietly.
"Can't you give me a chance to fight him?" Old Charl asked.
"Defeat me first if you can." Ria calmly replied.
"Sure." Old Charl smiled, "But I won't take pity on you because you're girl." His saber cleaved down as black lightning manifested.
Ria's silhouette flashed as several shadows appeared in different directions, enveloping Old Charl as her clones said. "You'd do well to not do that"
"Careful, Old Charl is extremely dangerous." Shun transmitted his voice to Ria.
Several experts then started moving towards Shun, wanting to surround him. These people were all his enemies.
Shun's aura erupted forth, his body covered with layers of light. The aura around him right now made him look unexcelled.
At the very same instant, Monoshiki who was sitting there, suddenly opened his eyes. His gaze was incomparably sharp, penetrating through space, directly staring at Shun. "Do you want to battle?"
"Let's battle." Shun replied seriously.
But in that moment, layers of devilish light enveloped Shun protectively, taking the form of a cocoon, and from the cocoon a terrifying aura burst forth.
The cocoon gradually unfolded to show the form an immensely huge silhouette standing at roughly 4-5 meters in height, two protruding horns from the sides his head with feathered wings of massive size at his back, one coloured white, the other black.
This was Shun's Fiend God body final release. The wings were formed from his chakra and devil energy.
In front of Shun, Monoshiki naturally could sense the increase of Shun's strength. He clearly understood that he has underestimated this young man.
Although he was sent here by a rival faction, he held a slight contempt towards him for only being at the seventh level of chakra sea.
At this moment, from the feeling of Shun's aura, there would be no one other than him who would be able to block Shun from killing.
His eyes were cold as he stared at the several experts around who had stopped fighting after having felt the pressure being emitted from Shun
At this instant, Monoshiki erupted forth with the full power of his aura, holding nothing back. He was akin to an emperor and the emperor might covered his entire surroundings.
The expression on the faces of everyone became even more unsightly. These two were still at the chakra sea and they were this monstrous, what would their aura be like when the entered the king realm?
At this moment, another terrifying aura burst forth from Ria's little frame that made even space to crack around her.
Monoshiki raised his head to see Ria looking at him impassively as her aura thickened becoming even more ethereal than his, creating a space barrier around him to obstruct him and increase the gravity on him.
However, the pressure created couldn't stop him at all. He simply ripped his way into the barrier with brute force and directly walked towards Shun who was behind them.
"Ria, stop it." Shun said "This is my fight,"
From the side, another thunderous boom rang out. Da stepped forth and the divine ape behind him unleashed it's aura, slamming out towards Monoshiki.
He had no way to break through the boundless spatial energy surrounding Monoshiki, he wanted to attempt to collapse the surrounding space directly to see if there was anyway he would be able to influence Monoshiki's control.
Monoshiki's body shone with a supreme spatial light and when that gigantic divine ape palm slammed into the golden energy, the palm was torn to shreds. Monoshiki disregarded everything and continued on his way.
Shun seeing this sighed at how loyal Da seemed to be even when facing Monoshiki's unsurmountable pressure.
Turning his head back, Monoshiki stared at Shun who was also walking over. Shun's demonic red eyes grew even redder, his palm grabbed out and a random Otsustsuki was grabbed.
"A Sneak attack? How stupid." Shun said in an eerie voice
The powerful ninth-level chakra sea Otsustsuki was easily captured by Shun, with his life in Shun's control. With a slight application of force, said Otsustsuki neck was broken
Despite the combat which erupted, the spectators in the surroundings didn't dare to shift their attention away from these two for fear of missing something.
Regardless of Shun or Monoshiki, they were both so strong that it would caused shock to others.
Shun admitted that the him right now might be very strong but it was clear that he was still a distance from Monoshiki. From their aura, he could tell, Monoshiki was an elite amongst elites.
The only way to fully surpass him was to fuse with the core of his inner world, but that would be a last resort.
Although he was also proficient in space techniques, he wouldn't want to gamble against someone who made it his main point of strength.
Shun then released the corpse, and he did so with no change in expression.
He could sense the arrogance of Monoshiki and he also knew that if he couldn't defeat him, there would be no one here who can.
With a flash of his wings, Shun soared up into the sky.
Monoshiki inclined his head and stared at Shun. Evidently, right now he knew that Shun already had the qualifications to be his opponent and make him fight full power.
The experts from the two factions, Otsustsukis and devil experts, all soared up into the sky as well to watch the incomimg battle.
The hearts of the spectators trembled when they saw this scene. Right now, the gazes of everyone were focused on the two of them.
"Both of them are similarly prideful." The experts in the surroundings stared at the two silhouettes in the air.
Shun and Monoshiki stared at each other. Monoshiki with his supreme emperor aura and Shun with his fiend god aura.
Standing there, he seemed like a descendant of a true demon god, able to slaughter all gods and demons, let alone emperors.
No other words were spoken. boundless spatial pressure bore down from the sky, pressing down on Shun, locking the area he was in.
Monoshiki wanted to impose his domain in Shun's surroundings.
However, given how strong Shun's physique was in this state, Monoshiki's actions seemed to be without merit. The energy circulating around the fiend god was also a supreme domain energy that was even higher than his so it didn't lose out in power.
Streams of light shot from Monoshiki, each and every stream of the light was like a supremely sharp sword. His attack contained extreme sharpness, slashing out towards Shun.
A phantom of a demon God similar to his current fiend god body erupted protecting Shun.
This attack of his actually managed to pierced right into the demon god phantom, breaking the surface layer.
Shun's expression turned grim. The phantom manifested once more, surrounding him, further reinforcing his defenses.
Monoshiki advanced forward, directly appearing outside the boundary of the demon god phantom. Lifting his feet, he confidently walked forward as the power of his domain surrounded his body.
His body radiated power of such might that it broke apart the demon god protection as he continued walking towards Qin Wentian step by step.
The demonic gleam in Shun's eyes grew more and more intense. The power of his body was incomparably vast.
Monoshiki directly domineeringly walked through the suppressive pressure generated by his domain.
"BOOM!"
Shun punched out directly. As this fist erupted, a thunderous roar could actually be heard, with the roar, a gigantic demonic dragon manifested, the sound of its roar shaking the mountains around the gorge as it rushed over to Monoshiki.
That incomparably gigantic body wanted nothing more than to tear Monoshiki into shreds.
Monoshiki continued walking forward casually, with his hands clasped behind his back. It felt like the gigantic demonic dragon rushing at him was nothing at all.
"ROAR!" An earth-shattering attack slammed into Monoshiki. However, around his body, there seemed to be a layer of space that was completely under his control.
The terrifying demonic dragon could only inch forward bit by bit and was lacerated by the void inch by inch.
Monoshiki continued moving forward. He was walking on a pathway created by a golden-colored spatial energy. That attack by Shun which would have made short work of any ninth-level chakra sea, wasn't even able to delay him for an instant.
"Is it this spatial light screen behind you?" Shun could sense the immense might. Monoshiki stood as he arrogantly spoke,
"FIGHT!"
As the sound of his voice faded, the light from his laws enveloped this entire space. Shun also felt himself being trapped inside his's domain.
In just an instant, Shun felt as though he was wading in mud, sinking into a swamp. The twisting strands of space made him unable to move about freely.
Numerous sharp divine weapons were facing him. Shun furrowed his brows, Monoshiki was clearly much more powerful than his current self. Just this attack alone, how many in this current battlefield would be able to stand up to it?
Monoshiki quietly stood there, he then called out in a cold voice, "Die."
This single word was the impetus. In just an instant, millions of killing weapons shot towards Shun. This strike had the power to break the entire small world, causing the people in this area to perspire cold sweat.
However, Monoshiki's countenance was as calm as ever. He knew this was merely the beginning of the battle. If Shun could be killed so easily by something like this, he wouldn't qualify to be his opponent at all.
"BOOM!"
A violent surge of demonic might gushed forth as Shun's body shimmered. The terrifying demon god phantom enveloped him, forming an armor over his fiend god body.
His body itself, was his domain.
Millions of killing weapons shot over, yet all of them smashed into that ultimate defense. The thunderous rumbling sound of the impact caused the eardrums of everyone to tremble. Despite their vaunted power, the killing weapons were unable to break through that defense!