NOVPUBChapter 590: Chapter 590: The Azure Dragon Shows Its Might_1 Chapter 590: Chapter 590: The Azure Dragon Shows Its Might_1 The Four Symbols Creation Flag absorbed the remnant souls and immediately began to transform.
On its surface, the pattern that had come together to form the shape of the Azure Dragon now shimmered with golden light and quickly took on the shape of Orochi.
Within the flag, the soul of the Orochi was still struggling and howling, trying to break free from its restraints.
But sadly, no matter how hard it tried, it was all in vain.
The mysteries of this flag are so profound that even Xu Fan has yet to understand them fully; perhaps when it was undamaged, it really did devour the Four Symbols sacred beasts and imprisoned them within.
Although the small flag was now damaged, the target it was suppressing was just a Jiaolong spirit that had not yet successfully transformed into a dragon, which was still no easy feat.
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As the remnant soul struggled time and again and the flag suppressed it over and over.
Eventually, the remnant soul of Orochi gave in to this meaningless resistance and resigned itself to staying inside.
Even though they were both inside the flag, the battle soul of Ghost King Tiger and the remnant soul of Orochi were actually confined in two separate spaces, never to meet.
Xu Fan had been closely monitoring the changes in the Four Symbols Creation Flag, and he knew that the absorption process was completed only now, activating the Azure Dragon Creation Formation.
He couldn’t help but eagerly anticipate what was to come.
Suddenly, a piece of information emerged in his mind; it was the successful activation of the Azure Dragon Creation Formation, which contained a detailed description of the formation.
His eyes bright and ecstatic, he read on.
Afterward, he couldn’t help but be amazed by the profound mysteries of the Four Symbols Creation Flag.
He also couldn’t help but think that, if not for his accidental acquisition of this flag, such a treasure might have gone undiscovered for who knows how long.
A pearl covered in dust, truly a pity.
Fortunately, in his hands, it saw the light of day once more, found its purpose, and thereby underwent two successive evolutions.
Now, with two of the four creation formations activated, if he could continue in this manner and devour the souls of beasts similar to the Black Tortoise and the Vermilion Bird, that would be when its power would be at its greatest.
The might, no doubt, would be formidable indeed.
In the midst of Xu Fan’s thoughts flashing like lightning, Shuten-doji had barely managed to suppress the surging turmoil of his blood energy caused by the backlash.
After spitting out a few mouthfuls of clotted blood, his face was so swollen and red it seemed as though it might drip blood, his eyes full of vengeful poison as he glared at Xu Fan with a murderous look and bitterly said, “You damn brat, you actually swallowed the Orochi’s remnant soul, how despicable, despicable, despicable!
I will definitely kill you.”
Having said that, he flipped his hand, and the Tachi Kiri-ma, which he had put away earlier, was once again in his grip.
The blade’s edge emitted an unceasing black flame, releasing an overwhelming murderous aura.
In an instant, he moved, charging towards Xu Fan with the Demon-Slaying Blade in hand.
Wherever the Demon-Slaying Blade passed, the night sky glittered, visible rifts in space appearing, only to quickly close again.
With that movement, a towering killing intent swept towards Xu Fan.
No matter who was in Shuten-doji’s place, there would be an inferno of rage.
This was his treasured possession, nurtured for a full three hundred years, and just a few days more of devouring and refining this inner core on the cusp of becoming a dragon would have allowed him to ascend to the Demon Ancestor realm in one fell swoop.
But at this most crucial final juncture, this opportunity was snatched away and ruined by Xu Fan, to the extent that it filled him with hatred too.
“Hmph, still want to fight in this state?”
Seeing the other enveloped in ferocious rage coming towards him, Xu Fan let a cold smile play upon his lips, also filled with the excitement of battle, as he quickly formed hand seals and injected the handprint into the small flag.
The sound of flowing water echoed loudly, and then the flag flooded out a great burst of radiance, forming a spherical light barrier that enveloped the surrounding space of Shuten-doji.
Within the spherical light barrier, energy flowed incessantly, and with an intense tremor, numerous streams of energy burst forth, gathering in the center to rapidly shape and condense.
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“Ao” came a high-pitched cry that traveled far and wide.
At last, it coalesced, and within the spherical shape emerged the head of an Azure Dragon: both ferocious and majestic.
Xu Fan announced sternly, “Four Symbols Creation Formation: Azure Dragon’s Heaven Mourning and Earth Agony Formation.”
No sooner had he spoken than the dragon’s head, along with its colossal body, burst forth from the center of energy, circling the night sky at lightning speed.
Wherever it passed, the very void shook violently, once again triggering thunder and fierce winds.
Xu Fan’s energy flowed continuously into the Four Symbols Creation Flag, continually increasing the Azure Dragon’s formidable power.
“Hmph, all flash and no substance.”
Shuten-doji glanced at it dismissively.
In his view, although Xu Fan was strong, he clearly couldn’t beat him, and since Xu Fan’s cultivation was lower, he had far less energy inside him.
What he least feared was an energy consumption battle with his opponent.
To him, Xu Fan’s action was tantamount to digging his own grave.
He closed in to a hundred meters, and when he was only a few meters away from Xu Fan, the Demon-Slaying Blade in his hand was already raised high to strike.
“World Splitting Frenzied Chop!”
With a roar, the Blade actually swelled in size, in the blink of an eye growing to over ten meters in length, its edge still belching black flames, its power ferociously unrivaled.
Shuten-doji knew full well the power of this strike; not to say it would truly Destroy Heaven and Earth, but it was still enough to cleave Qiankun and obliterate all in the path of the blade.
A cruel and savage cold smile emerged on his face, a flicker of joy in his eyes, as if in his mind, Xu Fan was about to become a corpse split in two by the blade in an instant.
Faced with this peerless power of the destroy world strike, Xu Fan couldn’t help but suddenly widen his eyes, revealing a hint of astonishment.
This blade truly had an unrivaled edge, capable of annihilating all things, and even he, facing it, felt fear, knowing that if he were to take it head-on, he would sustain no light injuries.
However, he had no need to clash with this blade at all.
A smile touched Xu Fan’s lips, and his right hand suddenly pointed towards his opponent.
“Kill!”
At his single-word command, the Energy Qinglong roared mightily, its form already rushing towards Shuten-doji’s back even as its roar sounded.
Shuten-doji seemed oblivious to this, driven by a rush for quick success and victory, clouded by rage, which affected his judgment.
Confident in his own body as sturdy as a shield and as hard as steel, he completely ignored the attack of the Azure Dragon, maintaining that terrifyingly powerful world-ending strike towards Xu Fan.
What he didn’t expect was that, the moment the Blade fell, the form of the Energy Qinglong was already pressing in on him from behind, and that dragon roar, inexplicably, pierced through the void and entered Shuten-doji’s mind first.
His mind, struck by the dragon’s roar, immediately reverberated with a booming sound and a moment of disorientation.
Xu Fan seized the opportunity to swiftly sidestep, moving seven or eight meters to the left side of the descending blade, successfully avoiding it.
The result of the world-ending blade was that the blade qi cut into the ground, creating a huge fissure that was thirty feet long and nearly two feet deep—truly a sight to behold.
When Shuten-doji came to his senses and saw the scene on the ground, his face turned sour, but before he could make another move, the form of the Energy Qinglong let out another dragon chant, continuing to affect his mind.
His mind was again momentarily disoriented.
This level of vulnerability was potentially fatal.
And it was this moment of disorientation that Xu Fan seized the opportunity…
