Right now, Kai was incredibly happy! After so many years, he had finally defeated and completely absorbed one of the Kings!
At this moment, Kai began to check his body to see what changes had taken place. Each time he absorbed energy, Kai strengthened one of his aspects. Emotion control, flesh enhancement, experience in fighting with different weapons, reaction and instincts, as well as mental acuity and perception.
When he had completely consumed the Queen of Lust, Kai felt as if his heart was about to burst. But after a minute, it was gone.
- Hmm... So what changed? I don't feel anything... - Kai said to himself.
He decided to test his body with energy. Directing his perception to his heart, he began to examine it. It was a very strange feeling... In his mind, it was as if Kai could see it from the outside.
"This... What is it?" - He mentally questioned himself.
Kai watched the strange changes on his heart....
"Doesn't look like anything dangerous to me. But what it's for I won't understand..." - Kai continued to speculate.
Observing his heart, he saw how it was covered in strange black lines. It was as if his heart was painted with distinct black lines.
Kai examined these lines from all sides, trying to see if they were dangerous or not. But failing to interact with them, Kai opened his eyes, coming back to reality.
- Okay, fuck it. I don't think the Invisible Kings Torture Technique would have harmed me after absorbing the Queen of Lust. No matter what, everything that happens is provided for in the cultivation method.'' - Said Kai, shaking his head indifferently.
After inspecting his body a bit more and not noticing anything strange, Kai sat down in the lotus posture again and began to enter cultivation.
- I'm not really exhausted yet. Let's continue... - Kai let out to himself.
Slowly, he began to rotate his cultivation technique again. After a few minutes, Kai opened his eyes and found himself back in Asura's Hell.
But the moment he opened his eyes, he was very much surprised....
- What the fuck?! Where am I?! - Kai shouted to himself.
The sandy grey earth was now beneath his feet. The sky was still the same as in Asura's Hell, but the surroundings were different. There were no rivers of blood and mountains of corpses to be seen... There were only single dried skeletons around! They were literally lying everywhere!
When Kai took a closer look at the ground beneath his feet, he realised that it wasn't made up of sand, but bone dust! It seemed that some of the skeletons had been here for so long that they had managed to grind themselves into powder!
- Hmm... I'm definitely in Asura's Hell, but the atmosphere is a bit tense... - Kai said cautiously.
Just as he thought this, there was a strong wind kicked up, raising waves of bone dust into the air. It was like a sandstorm of bones!
Seeing this, Kai instantly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve. He wasn't squeamish, it was just better not to breathe it. The atmosphere was very strange, one had to stay on guard!
But the events didn't take long to guess what was going on. The entire storm began to rush towards one point, forming a silhouette covered in bone spikes!
- The King of Envy! So that's what it is! Hehe. - Laughing said Kai.
At this moment, he relaxed a bit as he began to realise what exactly was going on here.....
"It seems that each of the kings has their own domain in Asura's Hell. Except that previously, I wasn't worthy of coming into them. I only had the right to fight outside. But since absorbing the Lust Queen, everything has changed!" - With a smile, Kai realised.
It seemed that previously, Kai had only fought in the common grounds of Asura's Hell, where countless different creatures and opponents resided. It was there that he was constantly exhausted and fought to the death. The stronger he became, the more interested the Kings became.
At one point, they even started visiting him to fight. It was then that Kai realised that by injuring them, you could absorb some of their power! Throughout this time, he absorbed them a little at a time, while weakening them. In turn, Kai himself became stronger.
With the victory over the Queen of Lust marked the moment when Kai became a worthy and equal opponent! It seemed that this was the moment when the real fighting would begin!
"No need to wait! Let's go!" - Kai thought, and instantly rushed forward.
With a Shadow Mark, Kai appeared from below behind the Envy King's back. He delivered a sharp strike to the spine area of the enemy. A critical damage had to be inflicted, making it difficult for the enemy for the entire subsequent fight.
As soon as the blade was about to touch the spine, bones instantly grew on King Envy's back! They formed second ribs, protecting the spine.
- Fuck you! - Shouted Kai.
At that moment, he grabbed one of the ribs with his hand. And with a strong jerk of his hand, he ripped it right out of the King's body! Without stopping, he stabbed it like a second dagger into the enemy's neck!
But King Envy's reaction was lightning fast, he quickly grabbed the rib halfway through. At this moment, it only managed to enter the King's neck by a centimetre, which was just a scratch.
Seeing this, Kai instantly used the Shadow Seal and retreated!
Finding himself ten metres away from his opponent, Kai looked at him and smiled evilly. Right now, Kai was standing in mild anticipation. But after a few seconds, his expression began to change....
- Hmm... Why isn't anything happening? - Puzzled, Kai asked to himself.
The thing was, he didn't feel the reinforcement. All the past battles, Kai had developed his body when he dealt damage to the Kings. After being wounded, some of their energy would go to Kai.
But now... Nothing happened!
- So that's how it is... Hehehe. - Smilingly said Kai.
At the command of his thoughts, his daggers reappeared in his hands and he rushed into the next attack!
A second ago, Kai realised what was going on. The rules of the game had changed! Now, for the Kings, he was an equal opponent. It won't work to outwork them a little bit at a time, you have to win fair and square!
Previously, the Kings had helped Kai evolve a little at a time by lending him their energy. In this way, they encouraged his progress. But here, if he wanted to completely absorb them, he had to earn it!
There was only one way to do that. Namely... Defeat them in an equal fight! And that would most likely be very difficult!
Realising this, Kai decided that there was no point in being sly anymore. Only a fierce fight! He'll give it his all!
- Take the blow! - Kai shouted angrily, almost flying towards the Envy King!
A black and purple fire suddenly flashed on his hands! It was the Astral Fire of Sacrifice!
At this moment, King Envy instantly spread his hands apart. And from the bone sand lying beneath his feet, two very long spears lightning fast formed, and flew into his palms by themselves! As soon as the King grabbed them, he lunged forward with both hands at once!
Seeing the two incredibly sharp spears flying into his chest, Kai summoned his fire to the maximum, striking back!
Bam! - There was an incredible explosion and Kai flew backwards.
After flying across the ground and doing a few somersaults, Kai finally stopped and began to slowly get up...
King Envy also backed up a bit... He was now holding two, half burnt bone spears. Although the power of the Astral Sacrificial Fire was limited to Cai's cultivation and comprehension. But still, it was Heavenly Fire!
It seemed that this was no surprise to the Envy King. Seeing the fire, he instantly thought of a way to increase the distance. His body was not injured at all.
Before he could recover, Kai heard a whistling sound!
- Shit!" Kai cursed, instantly jumping aside.
Ba-bang! - There was a loud and deafening explosion that immediately kicked up a cloud of dust into the air.
Raising his eyes to the Envy King, Kai saw the second rounded spear being recovered lightning fast. The bone dust from under King Envy's feet rose into the air, joining the spear.
As soon as he recovered the weapon, he picked it up and threw it at Kai with devastating force!
Bang!" a new explosion sounded!
Simultaneously, two new spears were already forming in King Envy's hands.....
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- Kgah! Gaaah! - Coughing, Kai came back to reality.
After that, he immediately collapsed on his back breathing heavily. It was obvious that he didn't have any energy left now. It seemed that he had recently fought a very difficult and prolonged battle.
- This time I didn't succeed... To be honest with myself, I wasn't even close... - Kai said to himself with an ironic smile.
- Well nothing, I have many more attempts ahead of me! In these half a year, I will devour each and every one of you! Hehehe. - Kai said angrily, with full confidence in his voice.