Chapter 164 - One Hundred and Sixty-Four: Is That You, Mother?

Chapter 164: Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Four: Is That You, Mother?

Volume One: The Devil’s Nature Never Changes

Arc: Ascension to the Second Dimension

The trio stood before Long Wei.

Long Wei smiled broadly, revealing his teeth.

"Today, either I die... or all of you do."

Scarlet King did not wait.

He moved toward Long Wei and threw a punch.

Long Wei tried to raise his fist to block it, but black chains suddenly emerged from beneath the ground and bound him.

Scarlet King’s strike landed directly against his neck.

Long Wei’s head tilted slightly from the impact as he was violently launched backward.

Blood ran from his lip down to his chin.

But his smile never disappeared.

Instead, he wiped the blood away and looked at his palm, where a streak of warm red blood remained.

Then he clenched his fist tightly and looked toward the trio.

"Very good move."

"But it won’t work against me."

He violently swung his arm and tore the chains apart.

Then he rushed toward Scarlet King.

But before he could reach him, a blue beam shot toward Long Wei and blasted him backward.

Lin Yuan had fired the laser.

Scarlet King immediately appeared at Long Wei’s side and struck him, disrupting his movement.

Lin Yuan appeared from the opposite side and struck him as well.

Meanwhile, Ikalat restrained him with chains.

The two began pummeling Long Wei with blow after blow.

Yet the attacks caused no major damage.

They only disoriented him and delayed his reactions.

After several strikes, Long Wei’s voice suddenly rose.

"That’s enough."

A crushing aura erupted from his body.

Scarlet King and Lin Yuan were blasted backward beside Ikalat.

The chains surrounding Long Wei shattered.

His aura was crimson, draconic, and overwhelmingly powerful.

Ikalat and Scarlet King spoke at the same time.

"Activation of the Tyrant Path?"

Long Wei moved.

He appeared directly before the three.

He kicked Ikalat in the stomach.

Then he grabbed both Lin Yuan and Scarlet King by the throat.

He instantly snapped Scarlet King’s neck.

Long Wei moved his hand to break Lin Yuan’s neck as well—

but a chain tipped with a spiked ball suddenly shot toward him.

Long Wei noticed it and immediately dodged backward.

Lin Yuan dropped to one knee, gasping in relief.

He had been on the verge of death.

Scarlet King, meanwhile, simply raised both hands and twisted his neck back into place.

Immediately afterward, both Ikalat and Scarlet King activated their respective Paths.

"Path of Perseverance!"

And from Ikalat—

"Path of Chaos!"

The Path of Chaos was responsible for making everything within a certain range around Ikalat chaotic in an ordered manner.

The Path of Perseverance, meanwhile, caused everything related to Scarlet King to reach its current maximum limit.

Scarlet King appeared before Long Wei, grabbed him by the throat, and lifted him into the air.

Then he slammed him violently into the ground.

Scarlet King immediately accelerated and began dragging Long Wei across the earth.

Ikalat waited for the right moment to establish the appropriate form of ordered chaos.

Lin Yuan had not yet chosen his Dao Path, so he remained behind them as support, intervening whenever the situation became dangerous.

Long Wei moved his hand and grabbed Scarlet King’s arm, twisting it violently.

Scarlet King immediately swung his other hand and punched Long Wei in the face.

At that moment, Ikalat found the chaos he needed.

He launched a black sphere.

It moved rapidly and enveloped both Scarlet King and Long Wei.

Scarlet King quickly escaped the black sphere.

He possessed strong resistance to illusions and, through experience, could recognize them for what they were.

Long Wei, however, became completely lost.

Every second he turned his head, what he saw changed.

Even when he moved, the sphere itself moved with him from the outside, keeping him trapped in a constant state of disorientation.

It was similar to the Four Regions Formation, an illusion-type formation.

At the same time, mist appeared around Scarlet King.

He disappeared.

Then he reappeared from behind a mountain in his Titan King Transformation, enhanced by the Path of Perseverance.

He opened a gateway to the Sealed World and pulled out an enormous hammer proportionate to the Titan King’s size.

Its head was black.

Its handle was black.

And powerful thrusters had been installed along the back of the hammer, making its impact vastly stronger than the force of a normal swing.

The Titan King raised the hammer high above his head.

Ikalat immediately withdrew the black sphere just as it was about to completely drain his energy.

Before Long Wei could even understand what was happening—

Scarlet King brought the hammer down upon him.

The impact crushed Long Wei into the earth with such force that the ground shook as though struck by a devastating earthquake.

Long Wei’s body tore deep into the earth beneath the force of the blow.

But after several seconds of silence—

Scarlet King felt something strike the hammer from below.

The hammer was violently knocked from his hand.

Before Scarlet King could even see where it had gone, Long Wei appeared directly in front of him.

His entire body was covered in blood.

His eyes burned with an aura of pure rage.

He threw a punch at Scarlet King.

But to save himself, Scarlet King released a sonic wave that disrupted Long Wei’s mind, which was already disoriented.

Scarlet King immediately thrust his right hand forward and manifested the cannon.

He fired an energy shot.

It exploded directly against Long Wei and blasted him away, sending him crashing to the ground.

Scarlet King returned to his normal form.

He looked around for several seconds toward the place where Long Wei had fallen.

Lin Yuan and Ikalat looked as well.

But in a state of insane fury—

Long Wei suddenly appeared in front of Scarlet King.

He punched him in the head.

The blow fractured Scarlet King’s skull.

Yet no sound of breaking bone could be heard.

Immediately afterward, Long Wei moved toward Lin Yuan.

He grabbed him and shattered one of his arms with a blow aimed directly at the shoulder.

Lin Yuan’s mouth opened.

"Arrrgh!!"

He collapsed to the ground, clutching his arm tightly.

Long Wei then moved toward Ikalat.

Ikalat was still shocked by how easily Long Wei had defeated the two physically strongest members of their alliance.

Long Wei grabbed him and drove him into the earth with a downward strike to the top of his head.

Then Long Wei walked toward Scarlet King, who lay motionless on the ground.

He placed one foot on Scarlet King’s chest.

"Today, you die by my hand."

"Saving me in that courtroom was the wrong decision."

Lin Yuan moved and fired his laser toward him.

But this time, Long Wei blocked it with ease.

Then—

Scarlet King’s mist appeared behind Long Wei.

Two arms emerged from within it, grabbed Long Wei, and restrained him.

"What the hell are you babbling about!?"

Scarlet King raised his voice.

"Lin Yuan! Destroy Long Wei’s dantian, now!"

Lin Yuan was almost detached from reality from the sheer pain.

It felt as though someone had twisted his entire arm completely backward.

But he quickly forced himself to focus.

Despite the pain, he raised his uninjured arm and struck Long Wei in the stomach.

Long Wei screamed:

"No, no, no, no!!!!"

But Lin Yuan succeeded.

A wave of energy erupted from his hand.

It pierced Long Wei’s abdomen—

entered his dantian—

and destroyed it.

But the energy also passed completely through Long Wei’s body.

And entered Scarlet King’s body behind him.

Both of them spat out blood.

For an ordinary cultivator, having one’s dantian destroyed felt like watching the entire history of one’s life disappear at the moment of death.

For Long Wei—

it was even worse.

The last thing Long Wei saw was the sky turning completely white, like a radiant light that soothed the eyes.

He lay on the ground, staring upward without moving.

Then a strange woman approached him.

The moment Long Wei looked at her, he recognized her immediately.

"Is that you... Mother?"

Tears began falling involuntarily from Long Wei’s eyes when he saw her.

Although her face was blurred, she appeared to be a young woman.

She spoke in a gentle voice.

"You troublesome little boy..."

"You still insist on making your mother worry about you."

Long Wei had once been an ordinary child.

But the person dearest to him—

the only member of his family he had left—

his mother—

had been slaughtered during the massacre of a city in one of the universes by the Food Sect.

That filled Long Wei’s heart with rage.

He swore to take revenge at any cost.

That was the reason behind his endless perseverance.

His madness.

His fury.

And his incomplete judgment.

Revenge had blinded his true sight.

He secretly entered the Food Sect with the intention of taking control of it.

Afterward, he planned to destroy it.

Then he intended to search for the Rebirth Devil and force him, at any cost, to resurrect his mother.

But in the end—

he was defeated by the Rebirth Devil himself.

Without even knowing it.

The destruction of his dantian completely destroyed Long Wei’s dream of bringing his mother back to life.

Repairing a dantian was extremely difficult within the Mortal Dimensions.

Within the Eternal Dimensions, it was difficult as well—

but nowhere near as impossible.

Long Wei simply gave up.

He allowed his body to collapse onto the ground.

Meanwhile, Scarlet King stood and placed a hand over his abdomen.

Long Wei had not been the only one whose dantian had been destroyed.