Chapter 1330: KILLING TWO WORLD TRANSCENDENTS!

Phei heard the pain in it.

He vanished.

True Void Steps caught the narrowest surviving hollow beneath the collapsing pressure and swallowed him.

The humanoid monster sensed him too late before something struck its flank.

Phei bashed into it and hit it with his entire body.

There was nothing elegant about the attack. He simply arrived wrapped in Blood Fiend, Primordial Blood and as much brutal physical strength as his newly tempered body could produce, shoulder buried against the World Transcendent’s ribs while Infinity Control seized every fragment of ice behind him and hurled it forward as well.

The collision nearly destroyed Phei’s shoulder.

Bone cracked beneath the Blood Fiend.

but still; the World Transcendent moved one meter.

Only one.

That meter was all Phei wanted.

He kept pushing in that little instant before it turned to attack him.

Blood Fiend muscles swelled over his body. Primordial Blood erupted behind him in a great crimson tide while Void-Ice hammered into the monster’s back, every impact driving through Phei as well because he was wedged between his own assault and a creature several stages above him.

The World Transcendent elbowed him.

The strike landed across Phei’s back.

The Blood Fiend caved inward and this several ribs snapped.

Blood burst from Phei’s mouth across the creature’s side.

He still grinned: "Wrong direction."

They were all pushed right into the Dragon Lady’s breathe torrent it had dodged but Phei’s barbaric bashing pushed them all into it hurling them into the flames holding tight onto it by legs and—

—both of them fell into it.

The monster’s eyes widened.

The flame swallowed Phei first.

And the pain was instantaneous.

The Blood Fiend started dissolving blood around his body as white fire ate through its outer flesh-like shell. Phei’s clothes vanished beneath it. Skin along one arm blackened and peeled beneath cold fierce enough to behave like flame, and even his newly tempered Dragon body began giving way where he had entered closest to the center.

The burning cold reached muscle and bones before Dragon Regeneration exploded through him.

Fresh flesh began crawling over the damage at the same moment the white flame continued destroying it, forcing Phei’s body into the deeply unpleasant experience of healing and burning alive simultaneously<anno data-annotation-id="c5735831-4993-a2c1-9dfa-c6fb3b1318d0" data-title=".">.¹</anno>

He refused to stay long enough to develop an opinion.

True Void Steps opened and Phei disappeared.

The humanoid World Transcendent he’d dragged into her breathe could not just as instantaneous despite’s insane speed before the white flame engulfed its entire body at point-blank range.

For the first time during that endless hour, its roar contained fear and unimaginable pain.

Frozen flesh vanished beneath the breath even before the fire properly engulfed deeply on it; its cyan veins burst, the jagged ice covering its shoulders vaporized instantly, and the World Transcendent disappeared inside a white inferno so complete that only the enormous dark shape of its body remained visible for several heartbeats before even that outline began breaking apart.

Phei emerged elsewhere with half his Blood Fiend gone and Dragon Regeneration already crawling furiously across burned flesh. One shoulder remained raw enough that muscle showed beneath newly forming skin, and his ribs had barely begun pulling themselves back into place.

He barely looked at himself.

The second beast was attacking his little sister for the third time.

Its colossal paw swept next toward the Dragon Lady’s wounded flank, claws carrying enough force to tear apart mountains of ancient ice. The Dragon Lady tried turning, but the earlier blow had left her neck slow and one foreleg still shook beneath her weight.

Phei whispered beneath his breath, "Got you."

True Void Steps opened beside the monster’s head.

Phei appeared close enough to touch it.

The World Transcendent’s skull alone was almost the size of a car.

Phei wrapped both arms around it.

The beast’s eyes widened.

Its neck jerked with enough force to nearly tear both of Phei’s arms from their sockets. The Blood Fiend crawled desperately across his shoulders and arms, binding him tighter to the creature while Primordial Blood wrapped around its head like additional restraints.

The beast slammed him into the ground.

Phei’s back hit first.

The ice beneath him exploded.

Pain tore through his spine, blood filling his mouth so quickly he nearly choked on it, but his grip never opened.

The World Transcendent lifted its head again with Phei still attached.

Phei coughed blood against its face and managed, "Yeah, me again."

Then they vanished together.

The bestial World Transcendent reappeared inside the Dragon Lady’s jaws.

White flame was still raging there.

Phei arrived with it.

The pain returned before existence properly settled around him.

The remaining Blood Fiend burned away across his back and shoulders; his skin vanished beneath the seething white flame, and Dragon Regeneration immediately began growing flesh into places where the fire was still destroying it. Phei felt himself being burned, frozen and healed inside the same horrific heartbeat.

The World Transcendent suffered worse.

It thrashed inside the Dragon Lady’s breathe while its cultivation erupted desperately.

The release struck Phei from almost point-blank range.

His entire body compressed beneath it.

Blood sprayed from his nose, mouth and ears. The Dragon Lady’s jaws were forced wider by the eruption, one damaged fang cracking under the strain while blood poured from wounds along her gums and tongue.

Phei held on.

The Dragon Lady understood.

Her jaws closed.

Great white fangs drove through the burning head.

CRUUUUNNNCCCHHH!!!!

The crunch ALMOST tore through Phei’s hands.

The World Transcendent convulsed.

Its claws tore at the inside of the Dragon Lady’s mouth, opening deep wounds as it fought to escape, yet she bit harder despite the pain and locked the monster between her jaws.

At the same moment, Phei’s free hand filled with blood.

Primordial Blood condensed into a long black-crimson sword, its surface throbbing once as Void crawled along the edge.

Phei drove it downward.

The sword entered the beast’s chest.

Its hide resisted; the impact drove back through Phei’s wrist hard enough to crack bone, but he shoved again. Void corroded whatever Essence gathered to stop him while Primordial Blood bored through frozen flesh and muscle.

The weapon sank deeper.

An inch.

Then another.

The World Transcendent thrashed hard enough to throw Phei against one of the Dragon Lady’s fangs. Something broke near his hip. White flame washed across his back again and burned away another layer of newly formed flesh.

Phei refused to release the sword.

He pushed:

squeeeenccchhhh!!!!

—the blade finally pierced the World Transcendent’s heart and continued deeper until Phei felt something beyond flesh resist his Void!.

Its soul.

His amethyst eyes brightened.

"There."

Void-Blood entered.

The beast’s entire body seized.

The sword punched through the heart and sank directly into the wounded soul beneath it, Primordial Blood spreading through that spiritual wound while corrosive Void followed behind. The World Transcendent’s roar became a mangled sound inside the Dragon Lady’s jaws, its enormous body spasming while its claws tore trenches through the ice below.

"Blame the heavens for putting your soul in your heart fucccckkkkerrr!!"

Phei twisted his sword.

The creature’s soul ruptured; the most powerful and appalling aspect of the Void was the ability to touch the soul itself and combined with the Primordial Blood, Phei didn’t the limits at all!

The Dragon Lady bit down.

Its head came away.

BAAMM!

The decapitated body fell from her jaws and crashed into the ruined abyss below with enough weight to collapse another section of ground. The impact rolled outward beneath them and struck what little remained standing, sending broken cliffs tumbling into deeper darkness.

Phei remained hanging beside the Dragon Lady’s mouth for several breaths, half his body still raw from her white flame while Dragon Regeneration raced over him in rippling waves. New skin crawled across his shoulder. Burned flesh tightened over his ribs; strands of white hair regrew where the flame had eaten through them, while the broken bones beneath his chest slowly dragged themselves back toward where bones generally preferred to live.

The Dragon Lady was trembling.

Blood ran from the wounds beneath her wing and poured between cracked scales along her neck. One side of her mouth was dark with her own blood. The three World Transcendent cores still burned within her, but the brilliance had dimmed enough that Phei could finally see just how brutally the battle had treated her enormous body.

Her great eye slowly turned toward him.

Phei looked at the severed head caught between her teeth.

Then he looked at her.

His mouth curved despite the blood covering it.

"That was fucking cool; you just killed a freakin’ World fucking Transcendent!"

The Dragon Lady answered with an exhausted growl that shook him where he hung.

Phei laughed.

His broken ribs immediately punished the decision.

The laugh became a cough halfway through, and he pressed one hand against his chest while Dragon Regeneration dealt with the consequences. "Okay. Fine. We celebrate after my organs stop the complaints."

The Dragon Lady’s eye narrowed at him.

Behind them, her white breath still consumed the place where the first World Transcendent had stood.