Reaper of the Martial World

Book 9: Chapter 86: Tenth Rank (3)

Dyon’s eyes narrowed. ‘As expected. It’s impossible to gain such benefits from Chaos Universe without giving back something in return, even if you’re a Dragon or a wielder of Eternity’s Balance.’

The roars seemed without consciousness. They weren’t roaring out of rage or purpose. Instead, they were roaring simply because they couldn’t control their impulses. They had given in their bodies to swaths of festering infernal qi. Their minds were no longer their own.

Dyon’s javelins, still piercing their massive bodies into the ground, shattered into raining black embers and minor golden sparks.

Chenglei’s body, still hanging in the air, suddenly rapidly shrunk. In an instant, a massive several kilometer-long dragon became a stout humanoid of three meters tall.

His eyes were no longer a reflective yellow. Instead, they were like two rubies, swimming with blood. His body was covered with black-red scales. To his back, a long and thick five-meter tail whipped violently, sending a blade of wind into the ground below that split the battlefield in half.

A massive chasm appeared. But, just when it seemed the black jade dragons would fall within, their bodies expanded, following the exact opposite direction of Chenglei.

Their scales reddened as their snake-like forms extended from a single kilometer to nearly five.

At the same time, Lionel’s body quivered from head to toe. His hair became a blazing water of red, following the hue of his eyes.

His robes tore from his torso, unable to withstand the masculine bulging of his physique.

Everything was fully within Dyon’s expectations. With his Wings of Blessings and [Cleanse], the next step was simple to him. Beat them down until they couldn’t fight back then purge the infernal qi from their bodies. By then, controlling them would be easy.

But… Dyon could only smile bitterly. Even when his plans seemed perfect, they would go awry. No one could blame Dyon… What happened next was truly too inconceivable. Even for him, predicting it was impossible.

No matter how prepared he was, he could have never expected that the greatest danger wouldn’t be Chenglei, or even the weaker Lionel, but rather the only one of them he had never fought before… Eve.

The words of the old man rang in his head again. Never piss of a woman, indeed…

Eve’s shrill shriek shook the skies. Despite a pillar of infernal qi erupting into the skies for her as well, hers was decidedly larger. Not only was it larger… But unlike the others, her mental state wasn’t affected in the least.

Her white hair danced. Though its color didn’t change, its length grew to obscene levels, reaching out longer than even Chenglei’s tail. That said, the color of her skin did change, or rather, it seemed to.

The temperature around her skyrocketed followed by the slight reddening of her fair skin. In the next moment, her white gown burned to ashes, only to reveal a skintight grey battle suit.

Still, what shook Dyon the most were her eyes…

Opaque pearls of white… There was no separation between her iris and what remained. Dyon knew immediately, even without the shimmering manifestation of the blind folded lady in white to her back, the kind of world she saw now.

Eve had seemingly barely changed, but in Dyon’s eyes, everything had changed. Somehow, Eve had managed to reach the state of a true Infernal beast, using infernal qi as she pleased without losing her mind.

One had to remember that the beasts within Chaos Universe weren’t true Infernal Beasts, they were Embryonic Infernal Beast with hopes of one day breaking through to that next layer. The only true Infernal beasts left in the cosmos were within the Devil Quadrants, but even they paled in comparison to the height the Infernal Beasts of the past once reached…

In the eyes of those in these current times, the Celestial Beasts were still a lofty species, untouchable even after their fall to the transcendent ranks. But who then were their lifelong mortal enemies? Was it not the Infernal Beast?

Dyon didn’t need to think much to understand how Eve had accomplished this. With Eternity’s Balance, all qi in existence was bound to be in perfect equilibrium with yourself. This was the truth, the essence of Eternity’s Balance.

There was no question that her command of her constitution far outweighed Dyon’s comprehension of it. Despite having stacked the constitution twice over, Dyon had hardly spent any time reflecting upon it. In addition, it wasn’t his original constitution… His body reacted far more favorably to his Titan Diamond Body.

For the same reasons, Lionel was no match for his wife in this regard despite having her Primordial Yin.

Eve’s gaze fell upon Dyon. Her eyes were so calm that Dyon’s own couldn’t help but narrow. This expression… It was many times more fear inducing than the enraged Chenglei standing in the skies not far from her.

Even if Dyon explained he had goaded them purposely, it wouldn’t help a single thing. In the end, Eve would always want him dead.

‘Tsk.’ Dyon shook his head. ‘Who’s the idiot who ranked Eternity’s Balance tenth among eleven God Constitutions. I’d like to have a word for him.’

Dyon’s thought had hardly finished when Eve, who had just been several kilometers away, suddenly appeared before him.

There was no warning, no piercing wind, Dyon hadn’t even seen her muscles twitch.

‘[Titan Emperor’s Will. First Act. Third Stage]!’

Dyon’s body instantly went through a marvelous change as his strength multiplied 80 times over.

But… It hardly mattered.

His body was sent careening, enlarging the crack Chenglei’s tail had created. Somehow, the first person to force the battlefield into silence wasn’t Dyon, but Eve.