Above Destiny

Chapter 643 True Happiness

boom!
Just as the Blood Moon Arrow was launched, a large hole exploded in the chest of the Cave Wolf. The flying light struck, pierced through, but whistled past without crushing his soul and consciousness.

After passing through his body, the faint light suddenly rose from the ground and blocked the blood moon flying towards Ji Jue.

The bitter daylight of spring vanished in a flash.

The crucial finishing move failed to achieve its intended effect, instead resulting in mutual destruction with the Blood Moon.

As Tong Shan drew his sword to offer assistance, the mountain wolf pounced again. Right beneath his feet, viscous black water gushed forth, and pale hands emerged from the water, reaching for Tong Shan's body.

The severely wounded wolf in the cave grinned silently as it charged toward An Ning, dropping its longbow and tucking three arrows between the fingers of its other hand, which, like claws, aimed for An Ning's face.

An Ning waved her hand, a short knife slashing upwards, while her other hand grabbed the piercing arrow. The short knife pierced the wolf in the corner of the cave's face and came out from the back of its head, while her other hand was also mangled and torn to pieces.

After a brief stalemate, the wolf in the cave opened its mouth and spat out an arrow from under its tongue, but the same arrow also flew out from An Ning's hand. The two collided and annihilated.

At that moment, the wolfsbane finally took effect.

An Ning's movements faltered for a moment.

Faced with a wolf with both claws, she lowered her head without hesitation. Behind her, the Longshan armored vehicle roared and threw a punch!

boom!
The head-on collision was no less powerful than Longshan's, but its speed was even greater!

Given An Ning's reaction, in this endlessly dragging time, she could almost see the severely wounded wolf silently grinning, its sharp claws inching closer and closer to her heart...

And in that infinitely slow passage of time, she also saw—

A scarlet sword descended from the sky, piercing the wolf's skull with incredible lightness, and then descending down along its bisected cervical vertebrae into its chest.

A crisp snap.

Pan Ying!!!

When the wolf realized the pain, it tried to escape and dodge, but it was too late. An Ning grabbed its outstretched paws.

To give it my all.

Even if it's just a fleeting moment.

Everything was already destined.

Pan Ying trembled, and a blood-red siphon swallowed all life!

Before they could even use their skills and strength, the hunters who had fallen into wolfhood met their deaths!
Even at the very last moment, his rapidly withering, stiff face was still filled with bewilderment and confusion, unable to comprehend.

Why so fast?

Why is a craftsman so fast!

Unfortunately, no one responded.

"I'm sorry to have troubled everyone for so long."

A smile appeared on Ji Jue's metallic face as he slowly turned his head to look at the terrified mountain wolf: "Now, are you ready to die?"

Suddenly, an uproar broke out within the territory.

The crimson steel shadow has already broken through the air!

Within the limits of perception and reaction, even in time slowed down to its limit, the mountain wolf couldn't see the other's movements clearly. It was as if the frame was being skipped, losing sight of the target hundreds of times in less than a second...

Like a spatial leap, each flash took us a step further, and each moment of losing our target brought an even more bone-chilling cold.

Right in Ji Jue's hands, the blazing red Pan Ying trembled excitedly and let out a high-pitched cry!
On the spine of the sword, the incomplete emblem of the third inheritance sacrifice has been repaired to four-fifths, radiating a blazing light!

—The Six-Day Ghost: Bloodstained Wrist!
After being in Ji Jue's hands for so long, the priest, who was almost dying of thirst, finally had his meal today!

From the moment the battle began, from the moment he handed over all control to Isis, Ji Jue awakened the Pan Ying that had been buried within his body.

While Isis was using her infinitely powerful manipulation to fight Tao Chen head-on, Ji Jue was continuously pouring offerings into Pan Ying to activate the Inherited Burning Sacrifice!
Consuming one's own blood and spiritual essence, consuming one's own life force and soul, multiplies one's power!

The scorching red body was not overheating due to the consumption of a massive amount of spiritual energy, but rather because it was gradually becoming unable to withstand the amplification brought by the blood arm.

As for where the offerings actually came from...

Thanks to the gifts from the Kingdom of the Forest, the offerings that kept pouring in were simply too numerous to count!

Why is Ji Jue keeping this thing that the wolf gave him?! Is he just leaving himself a potential source of contamination after the third wolf is born?!
Without any hesitation, he poured all the spiritual energy and life force he had gained since entering the forest kingdom into it in one breath.

How many people does that equate to?
Ji Jue couldn't count them all; he only felt his power multiplying, multiplying, and multiplying again throughout the entire process.

Two times, four times, eight times, sixteen times, thirty-two, sixty-four, one hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and fifty-six, five hundred and twelve...

Until the very end, with the enhancement of Earth's Burden and the Three-Phase Alchemy, Ji Jue was on the verge of collapse, and finally crossed the final threshold.

—One thousand and twenty-four!
Thus, the reborn form, which Ye Xian originally regarded as a blank slate, was given an amplification of 1,024 times that of ordinary craftsmen!

At this moment, the roles were reversed again, and Isis began to operate at her own scale, constantly repairing and maintaining Ji Jue's steel body that was on the verge of collapse!

And the gifts from the Forest Kingdom continue to arrive from afar, without any consumption whatsoever, and may even increase...

Enveloped in blood-red flames, a smile appeared on the cold, metallic face.

For a fleeting moment, Ji Jue suddenly felt that it was no longer himself who was about to shatter, but the entire world!
"It's so beautiful, don't you think?"

He turned around, looked at the stunned mountain wolf, and sighed softly, "So the world of numbers actually has so many possibilities..." Boom!
The mountain wolf exploded with a deafening roar.

Countless blood mists writhed and gathered on the surface of Pan Ying, while the sword blades hummed and howled with hunger.

The mere sound caused the realm created by the usurper's divine craftsmanship to tremble violently.

The moment Ji Jue turned around, the water ape howled and roared in terror, trying to sink back into the black water, but compared to Ji Jue's speed at that moment, it was as slow as a tortoise crawling.

The wolf's neural reflexes, its heightened perception beyond its immediate surroundings, combined with its invincible pure numerical values, instantly caused a surge of joy to rise from the hearts of the entire pack.

So happy.

Numbers! Numbers! Numbers!
Ji Jue had never experienced such exaggerated numbers, such exaggerated power, and such exaggerated...destructive efficiency in his entire life!
In a flash, blood-red light streaked across the sky, and Ji Jue had already arrived in front of the water ape. He reached out and casually grasped her hand, then thrust out the Pan Ying sword—and thereafter, the human face wailed and shattered into pieces!

A crack suddenly appeared on the scepter in Tao Chen's hand.

Then, the Guhuoniao was reduced to ashes!
As endless clouds gathered, the ancient mirror reappeared from the void. The dragon-like calamity beast opened its eyes and saw Ji Jue standing close at hand.

By the time I wanted to close my eyes, it was too late.

Ji Jue grabbed his face, his five fingers suddenly contracted, his head exploded, the ancient mirror shattered, and he turned to ashes under the destruction of the disintegration technique.

Now, when Ji Jue raised his head and looked at Tao Chen, who was deathly pale in the sky, he suddenly grinned.

"Wait--"

Tao Chen only had time to raise his hand before he heard the crackling sound of all the alchemical creations around him shattering. One after another, rays of light emerged from the defenses, only to disintegrate in front of the steel hand.

Only now have I heard Ji Jue's words.

"late!"

The piercing force tore apart the body formed by the ghostly light. Immediately afterward, the Disintegration Technique was placed on the Tyrant Heavenly Craftsman in his hand. The Heavenly Craftsman's instinctive rage, however, bowed down before the deeper darkness.

The rampant plundering and plundering, along with the shattering of the scepter, caused endless shadows to fall into the hole and disappear.

"You're really, really weak."

When that steel hand, as hard as a branding iron, covered his face, Tao Chen heard his last soft sigh.

Such contempt, such regret.

And then...

—Dissociation Technique: Jing Zhen!!!

The spiritual essence of Zhanlu, Chunjun, and Panying, three of the nine types, merged between the five fingers, rushing into the soul of the transcendent level, rampaging and spreading, completely engulfing everything.

The black flames, originating from the reflection of the soul, easily dissolved everything, causing the soul, consciousness, and even blessings—everything—to return to chaos.

Disappear!

To bring everything to an end...

In that final moment, Tao Chen didn't even have time to speak. His expression changed as the unstoppable annihilation approached step by step, twisting, madness, resentment, and fear mingling into a chaotic mess. In the end, what was revealed was a trace of... bewilderment.
It was as if I had just woken up from a dream, and the nightmare was over.

When he finally remembered when and where he was and what he had done, he found it hard to understand why he could not control his anger and resentment, which he had suppressed for so long, when he heard that Ye Xian’s students had arrived.

Finally, what came to mind was a scarred, expressionless face.

She looked at him indifferently, without sorrow or joy.

It's like watching a piece of raw material being thrown into a furnace...

Old man, is this all you've been waiting for?!

I was left to—

click!
That terrified face suddenly cracked open, and behind that crack, the soul, gradually eroded by anger and resentment, silently vanished.

Instead, there was a cold eye.

It was as if the parasitic embryo within it had been awakened, casting a cold and disdainful glance at the ants outside the host.

—The wolf within!
The thought planted casually by the wolf in his heart in the past, upon awakening, drained all the craftsman's remnants, and grew and strengthened at a terrifying speed invisible to the naked eye, revealing its true form.

In this fleeting moment, beyond the reach of thought, it gazed disdainfully at everything within its territory, and finally, looked at its opponent before it.

Ah, a craftsman...

Such a sweet aroma, such a pure determination, and an almost split self!

She was a mother and host that far surpassed Tao Chen, that good-for-nothing.

"Truly excellent material..."

Snapped!
The wolf's empty face was suddenly grabbed and squeezed by a metal hand that reached out. Then, the Pan Ying in Ji Jue's hand pierced into its face, all the way to the hilt!
Panying erupts!

The terrifying power gained from the massive sacrifices was unleashed, and a blood-red rainbow descended from the sky, seemingly rising from the ground and piercing through heaven and earth.

Amidst the wolf's pitiful howls.

(End of this chapter)