Near a small river, a male figure was sitting in a lotus posture. His face was as calm as possible, but it could be seen that the muscles all over his body were slightly rattling.
Right now, he was in a critical situation in Asura's Ada. Another month of time had passed since he had decided to change his battle strategy with the Fury King. Kai had already spent almost half of his planned time in the Tomb of Time.
Suddenly, his eyes opened and he took a deep breath!
- Haaah! Haah... - Kai greedily gulped in air.
There was no trace of his calm face now, he was very tired.
- Almost there! Just a little more and I'll devour you! - Kai shouted angrily.
But at the same time, his eyes glittered with joy. Over the past three weeks, he had fought the Fury King a lot.
The time of their fights had shortened, as Kai was rushing into a frontal attack and losing much faster as a result. But at the cost of that, he had learnt better how to use his perception in the dynamic. Doing it in motion was much more difficult than standing still.
Kai was now masterfully using his Spiritual Sea and Astral Sacrifice Fire advantages. At one point, he began to feel like he was calmly assessing his entire surroundings. It was as if, his senses of perception weren't turned off at all.
Recently, he had even practised it outside of Asura's Hell on occasion. He would walk around the Tomb of Time with his eyes closed. And his hearing and sense of smell were sealed with energy.
When Kai did this, he already realised that such a skill could provide many benefits in the future. Therefore, he began to practice it outside of the Fury King's domain as well.
- Alright, there's no time to wait. Let's recover and go back! - Kai said to himself and activated the Eyes of Essence.
The greedy absorption of energy began again. Kai's Energy Vortex was getting smaller and smaller, accelerating and thickening around its centre.
- It's a little stressful, but hopefully I won't explode because I created an overabundance of energy. That would be really dumb, to die from not having fundamental knowledge..." Kai muttered self-deprecatingly, watching the process.
He was a little apprehensive about the whole situation. But after thinking it over, Kai came to certain conclusions....
Someone had to be the first to come up with a way to cultivate energy, and he could hardly know what lay ahead. It wasn't like there were rumours that masters died en masse when they passed into the Cloud Sphere. Which meant that whatever was happening to Kai's Energy Vortex was quite natural. If he just continued on, he would smoothly pass to the next stage. He will simply imitate the first energy learner. Want that one existed only in Kai's fantasies.....
Of course, all of these thoughts were just to appease him....
.......
- Okay, that's enough. A new attempt. - Said Kai and started spinning the Invisible Kings Torture Technique.
After a few minutes, he felt his surroundings change. Opening his eyes, all he saw was darkness. This meant that he was back in Asura's Hell!
Kai instantly extended his perception of the Spiritual Sea to the maximum. The Astral Sacrificial Fire also ignited. But it burned within a limited radius. It spread out to about three metres around Kai.
This was enough because, initially, Kai had picked up the changes in his perception area. The area of the Astral Sacrificial Fire was only making final adjustments to Kai's movements.
"There you are!" - Shouted Kai in his head.
As soon as he sensed the Fury King's aura, he instantly rushed forward to attack.
Kai could feel the blades flying towards him. Now he could even vaguely sense the difference between them. What shape they were, and how fast they flew. Kai's perception had become a full-fledged sense organ.
Kai quickly dodged or repelled the blades, advancing lightning fast towards the Fury King. If one were to watch this fight from the outside, things would be a bit strange. Since every movement of the opponents, or the clash of weapons didn't make any sound. Absolutely none! This, in a way, was even funny.....
Until two months ago, Kai was completely unable to navigate in such an environment. But now he was running and dodging the blades flying at him.
After a few seconds, Kai finally found himself three metres away from the Fury King. As soon as the opponent touched his fire, Kai immediately began to sense the Fury King more clearly. He even felt the figure of his opponent.
However, as soon as the opponent entered the range of the Astral Sacrifice Fire, he began to retreat. Although the fire couldn't deal instant and critical damage to Kai's opponent, it would be a mistake to fight within it.
"Damn! It's like this every time!" - Cussed Kai, and quickly limited the range of his fire.
This situation had happened more than once before. Therefore, Kai didn't hesitate to do what he did. He had already tried to pull the Fury King into the area of fire. But all such attempts ended in an endless chase after the enemy. In an instant, Kai would be exhausted and lose. This was a proven fact more than once.
Kai understood that the Fury King wanted to fight in close combat, but without restrictions. In the last few attempts, when Kai restricted the area of effect of the Astral Sacrifice Fire, the true confrontation really began.
As soon as, the fire was gone, the Fury King instantly rushed into a counter attack. A fierce exchange of blows began!
Both Kai and Fury King were using paired daggers. Therefore, it was a very intense fight. When masters who specialise in the same weapon fight, the skill of using it plays a very important role.
In this strange domain, a fight began that was no different in intensity from what was happening on the surface! Kai was so accustomed to such harsh conditions that he was already catching and anticipating the Fury King's attacks by his first movement. As well as the King himself....
Minute after minute passed, but the intensity of the battle did not change in the slightest. More and more wounds began to appear on the bodies of both of them. But no one, not even thinking of stopping.
"Fuck you! I don't believe that Kessia's bloodline will lose in endurance!" - Cai cursed in his head, focusing on the fight.
Right now, his eyes weren't even open, as there was absolutely no point.
Kai continued to trade blows, taking more and more wounds. But a similar thing was happening to the Fury King....
......
In pitch darkness and silence, two figures stood opposite each other. Although neither of them could see their opponent, they could clearly sense it.
"Shit... Last... Last push..." - Breathing heavily, Kai thought.
He felt a warm and viscous liquid flowing down his body, and his whole body ached. He was completely covered in wounds. A similar thing had befallen the Fury King.
Kai was so exhausted that his thoughts were already starting to get confused. He gathered all his strength and threw himself into one last attack!
He had almost no energy anymore, so he just raised his daggers and ran towards his opponent.
Kai felt a counter punch heading towards him. Just at this moment, Kai purposely relaxed one of his palms, dropping the dagger from his palm. With his own hand, he instantly intercepted the Fury King's strike and deftly threw the latter to the ground.
It was surprising that he felled his opponent with a completely ordinary mortal's technique. It was just that right now, everyone involved in the fight was on their last breath. The energy for more refined moves was already gone. Even such a move required incredible effort!
Gathering the last drops of will, trying not to pass out, Kai clenched his other hand with his dagger and delivered a sharp blow to the Fury King's throat.
After the violent impact of the throw against the ground, the Fury King could no longer move....
At this moment, the darkness began to slowly dissipate.... And Kai's hearing and vision began to return. He watched as a huge amount of dark blood flowed out from the Fury King's neck.