Reaper of the Martial World

Book 8: Chapter 28: Underestimation (1)

Dyon’s eyes contracted as he watched his arrow tear through the fabric of space itself. He was absolutely stunned.

Usually, Dyon was quite confident that he could withstand his own attacks. This wasn’t due to blind arrogance, but rather because Dyon had purposely chosen to structure his martial path in a defensive structure. Two of his three constitutions were among the top 3 defense constitutions, after all.

As a result of this, Dyon’s attack potency had always lagged behind his defense. It was for this reason he often had to fuse several wills together at once before doing damage to a truly powerful opponent like Drathal, for example.

But… This arrow… Even if answering no would save Dyon’s life, he would never say that it couldn’t threaten the life of a lower dao expert. Suddenly, he felt like he had overdone it… Just a tad…

‘[Soul Aid] is actually so heaven defying…’ Dyon sucked in a cold breath. If the fifth and sixth degrees of freedom were so powerful, what of the seventh? How about the eighteenth? Dyon couldn’t imagine…

The lower tier was thrown into complete disarray, but Dyon could only scratch the back of his head awkwardly. He really hadn’t expected to cause such a large commotion.

Luckily, the arrow’s [Spatial Jump] ability activated a moment later. Who but Dyon could afford to use supreme grade arrows as though he had an unlimited supply of them?

Normally, archers might only have two or three arrows of this caliber and would only use them in life or death situations. However, for Dyon, as long as he had soul strength remaining, he could make as many as he wanted!

The arrow blinked out of existence, flashing forward several dozen thousand miles in an instant.

Titus’ red hair was matted with sweat, causing it to stick to his savage features. He had been running like mad for several minutes, but the technique he used to disappear had a price to pay. If it didn’t, why would Titus have stopped after killing God Goldeen back then? He would have directly contended with Dyon for Orcus’ Legacy. Unfortunately, he couldn’t.

Even with his celestial cultivation, after running for over ten minutes, he had only managed to cross a few thousand miles.

Despair overwhelmed him. Just how large could one person’s divine sense be? It wasn’t fair. He wasn’t human, he was a monster reincarnated!

Suddenly, the temperature skyrocketed. Titus’ heart tightened as the snowy hills around him melted into an ocean of water in what seemed like an instant.

In the next moment, that ocean became a scorching hot, steamy vapour, erupting into the skies and boiling Titus’ skin.

Still, Titus was a True God. He wouldn’t just wait for death. Although it was true that unlike other Dragons, he did in fact have a Life Saving Jade, he had gone through a lot of trouble to get it because his elders refused to make one for him. The worst part was that the Life Saving Jade’s mechanism forced its wielder to experience death. It would then do a minor reversal of time to save the individual. This was why they were so taxing to form! This was also why Dyon’s hadn’t disappeared after Evangeline appeared once.

One might wonder why Life Saving Jades had such a function. Why not save the individual before they died? And the answer to that was that this method was the only perfect way to save a person.

If a life saving treasure was structured to activate when that person’s life was in danger, there was always a chance it could fail to respond in time. However, Life Saving Jades were the absolute pinnacle of perfection. They would never fail because they would only activate after their owner had truly died!

Back in the Valley of Geniuses, Gin, the silver tailed kitsune of the Jikan Clan, had to give up one of his tails and fall into a coma for several years just to stop Dyon’s flow of time for a small, split second. One could imagine the price required to actually reverse this time!

Titus roared, scales of red sprouting over his body. He directly skipped over his beast form and jumped directly to his hybrid form. Why would he fear heat? He was a mighty Fire Dragon!

His body shot up to over ten meters in height before it continuously condensed.

9 meters… 8 meters… 4 meters…. 2 meters!

All of the power of his several hundred-meter-long beast form became condensed to a singular humanoid form.

His roar made space tremble, his clothes bursting from his back as his beautiful ruby scales pulsed with a red hue.

However, none of it mattered… When the blinking arrow appeared in his view, his whole world seemed to come to an end. It was so fast that, even in his hybrid form, he couldn’t react.

Titus was much too far away for the [Spatial Lock] abilities of Dyon’s bow to come into effect. But, Titus seemed frozen in place anyway. Not out of some special ability, but out of inevitability…

He could only sigh as the black arrow flickering with a chaotic flame flashed into his vision.

Blinking continuously into and out of existence, the arrow left sutures of torn space in its wake. And then… It pierced through Titus’ body.

The might of Titus’ body wasn’t enough to stop the arrow. Even as the True God’s body incinerated to nothingness, the arrow continued tearing through the lower tier’s earth.

In the end, it would have torn through almost everything had the old man not sighed and stopped it. This really was too exaggerated.