Chapter 606: Ch 606 - I will tear you to pieces!

"A true phoenix?" Her pupils shrank sharply.

Another mutation occurred in his body just as she uttered the keyword. Countless dense black curse seals took his heart as a totem. They rapidly crawled across his face and limbs with every heartbeat.

Half of a pitch-black phoenix wing materialized behind his shoulder. His Divine Transformation stage elevated into Emptiness Refining stage.

"Didn’t you always want to peek at my true form?" Yino said opening his eyes within the pitch-black demonic abyss.

He raised a hand to summon his sword. Two sword spirits of different attributes, one black and one silver, scrambled to act as Soul Phantoms protectors by their master’s side.

That wasn’t all. Six manifestations appeared behind him as he liberated his ancient true phoenix blood.

A double-pupil wielder like her could naturally identify the origins of these manifestations in order. From left to right, they were the life manifestation of the Blood Moon Mother Goddess, the Sword Saint manifestation of the Innate Sword Dao Holy Body, the Cangyuan manifestation of the Eternal Tree Monster, the Nine-Color manifestation of the Nine-Color Divine Deer, and even an illusion butterfly manifestation from the origin.

The five lower manifestations already displayed their divine might. Floating above them was naturally the apex predator manifestation symbolizing the pure blood of the ancient true phoenix!

"Do you see clearly now?" Yino smiled faintly.

Black fire burned through his shirt, revealing robust chest muscles covered in black curse seals. Paired with the six terrifying ancient manifestations surrounding him, he looked exactly like an ancient evil supreme straight out of Hell in her eyes.

He had stayed in the Great Dragon Dynasty’s territory all year round. Wary of the righteous Immortal Sects and the Dragon race, he had not displayed his true form this brazenly in a long time.

Thanks to this isolated double-pupil world, he could finally lay down his long-held burdens and seals.

"However, since you’ve seen my true face, don’t think you can easily leave with my secret today, Miss Ruzhi!"

He flashed a malicious smile upon saying this. He grabbed the demonic sword with both hands and descended from the sky, plunging the blade into the earth to inject endless demonic power into the ground.

Rumble!

Pitch-black abyssal power surged underground, splitting open in all directions with him at the center.

"This is bad." Feeling something amiss, she leapt into the air, tried to widen the distance between them, only to turn around and realize that the sky in all directions had long been surrounded by his demonic abyss barrier.

"Did you think you could retreat unscathed after seeing my true form? Do you think you get to have all the good things?"

He stood up, carrying the six manifestations on his back, and formed a hand seal with two fingers in front of him. The black sword remained stabbed into the ground to maintain the barrier, while the silver-white sword spirit shot out as a killing weapon.

"So what if it’s an ancient phoenix? It’s still just the suppression of the Emptiness Refining stage!"

Seeing that escape was impossible, she had no choice but to turn back and face the phoenix boy bearing six black wings.

She formed hand seals with both hands, exuding bright divine might, materialized an abyssal dragon emerging from the sea as a manifestation behind her back, roaring toward him.

"I have never tasted defeat in the same realm!"

The dragon clashed with the silver sword. Behind them, two abyssal bloodlines collided, one from the East, one from the West.

Wen Ruzhi’s abyss burned black-purple. Yino’s was pure black.

In reality, both were divine transformation stage cultivators. Now, with their true forms unleashed, both had risen to Emptiness Refining stage.

BOOM...!!!!

The two ancient Soul Phantoms slammed together, shaking the entire dual-pupil world to its foundations.

Seconds ticked by.

Wen Ruzhi gritted her teeth, straining with everything she had. Beads of sweat rolled down her cheeks. She burned through spiritual energy and cultivation without restraint. Her dual pupils even began weeping blood, and the scene before her blurred with crimson tears...

Even so, she refused to yield.

"This bit of suffering means nothing compared to the millions of bones piled in my world!"

Memories of countless agonizing moments from childhood flooded her mind, every one of them endured to awaken her dual pupils. Her fighting spirit burned wilder, sacrificing itself like fuel on a pyre.

"Ruzhi, kill it. It’s just livestock..."

"No... Big Orange... Big Orange is my friend..."

"Ruzhi, kill her. She’s just an old servant..."

"No... no, no!"

"Ruzhi, cut her down. She’s just a blood relative. This is the path you must walk to awaken the dual pupils!"

"No, don’t... let go of Mother!!"

"That woman merely carried you in her womb, nothing more! You are the spirit-child of the dragon lord! Do you have any idea what our clan wagered over centuries to obtain these ancient dual pupils? You cannot let them go to waste!"

"Ruzhi, you bear the mission of reviving the Eastern Sea dragon clan! Your destiny is to stand at the pinnacle of the three thousand great Daos! You are different from these ordinary mortal creatures. They are nothing but fodder for your cultivation!"

A lifetime of memories flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern. Her heart shuddered violently, and at the final moment, she detonated one last surge of abyssal dragon authority.

Her dual pupils blazed with an eerie sheen. The Soul Phantom behind her broke through Emptiness Refining stage in an instant.

BOOM BOOM BOOM...!!!

Thunder rolled. The abyssal dragon above her head unleashed a torrent of black-purple breath.

The dragon breath was apocalyptic, annihilating everything in its path. It shattered the phoenix manifestation and drove the black-feathered boy from sky to ground.

"I am the ancient dual pupil, sent from the heavens, never once defeated!"

She screamed, pushing both hands forward with everything she had. Her dual pupils were already overflowing with blood, but nothing could smother her will to never retreat.

The dragon breath swept across the battlefield and blasted straight through Yino’s form.

Rumble...

The shockwaves echoed for a long time.

But just as Wen Ruzhi was gasping for air, about to let herself smirk in triumph, the black-feathered boy who should have been obliterated by the dragon breath twisted in a bizarre spatial distortion. His form folded and shifted like a kaleidoscope, spinning through layers of black rotational curse marks.

"...?!!"

Wen Ruzhi stared in shock. She activated her dual pupils to trace the anomaly, and at the far end of the spatial distortion, she glimpsed a single eye. Jet-black, etched with curse marks, its patterns as dazzling as a kaleidoscope. A peach-blossom eye of the deepest black.

The moment her dual pupils locked gazes with that kaleidoscope eye, she felt something she had never felt before: a crushing pressure that bound her very soul in reverse.

Her entire life, it had always been the other way around. Her eye techniques were the sharpest. Everyone feared meeting her gaze.

But today, in this clash of stares, it was Wen Ruzhi who was being suppressed through her own line of sight.

"What is th...?!"

"Looks like the ancient dual-pupil wielder is nothing special after all. You still fell for my illusion technique!"

A girl’s voice, wicked and bell-clear, rang out from behind her. A wave of abyssal pressure rolled in, completely different from Yino’s phoenix bloodline.