Chapter 386

The instant Lin Cheng's voice rang out, Jellal almost turned his head at the very same moment.

In the instant he turned, he saw the white silver gleam on the blade in Lin Cheng's hand, shining in the dim world shrouded by dark clouds, like a bright moon hanging in the sky—the dazzling white light illuminating this entire world.

Tens of thousands of meters of earth were instantly lit up.

Boom—!

Although there were several hundred meters of distance between them, for Lin Cheng, who had mastered the Body Flicker and the Instant Body Technique, it was nothing more than the distance of a blink in his eyes.

With a single step, Lin Cheng's figure appeared before Jellal the next second.

Under an attack at such close range, Jellal had no room to dodge at all. The magic power gathered atop Long Jian erupted in an instant, accompanied by a dragon roar that shook the heavens, and the white light surged forward, slashing down toward Jellal.

Without a doubt, as long as this terrifying strike bore a name, no matter how strong Jellal's power was, he could not escape the fate of being cleaved in two.

However, if one were to think the battle had ended just like that, it would still be too early.

Even though Jellal longed for death, the curse within his body would not allow him to give up his life so easily.

This was the curse of the god who controlled life and death—Ankhseram!

The white slash descended, and in the instant it seemed about to cleave Jellal in two with a single sword, Jellal, who had yet to react ahead of him, suddenly saw death hunting erupt from his body once more, resisting Lin Cheng's power.

And along with the emergence of this power, at this moment, Jellal's power actually climbed to a new layer!!

A dark-black pillar of light suddenly rose from his body, in an instant shooting straight into the sky, stirring up the winds and clouds above the horizon.

Then all of it gathered in Jellal's hand, and at an astonishing speed, struck toward Lin Cheng.

Boom—!

The dark power, strong and far surpassing what came before, was almost within arm's reach—but just in the instant Jellal thought Lin Cheng would choose to dodge.

He discovered that the expression on Lin Cheng's face had not changed in the slightest!

Boom—!

Jellal's attack struck directly, the powerful dark force instantly surging forth, transforming into a massive black sphere, washing over the entire world layer upon layer.

"What's going on, why isn't he dodging?"

Staring at the scene before him, Jellal froze on the spot, his eyes blank, what lay before him utterly exceeded his understanding!

But just as Jellal was shocked by Lin Cheng's actions, suddenly several beams of white light appeared from within the darkness, and were still continuously expanding!

The next second, several white slashes pierced through the darkness, plunging straight down toward Jellal with fierce resolve.

Their speed was so fast that Jellal fundamentally could not react in time.

In the instant Jellal could not react in time, suddenly, with a boom, several enormous dark vortex storms appeared in an instant, crashing head-on into the incoming white light!

Boom—!

The white slashes and the black storm collided together, powerful winds surged forth once more, and as this gust arrived, the darkness in the air dispersed along with it.

And as the darkness vanished, Lin Cheng's figure appeared once more along with it.

Seeing this, gazing at the figure in the sky, a trace of shock surfaced in Jellal's eyes.

Especially upon seeing that Lin Cheng did not have the slightest injury, an unprecedented, intense shock rose within his gaze.

"How is it possible, his speed!"

One must know that the strike just now had not held back in the slightest, yet under his wide-range attack and with magic power locking onto the target, it was virtually impossible to evade, let alone suffer no damage at all.

This speed, this defense.

It had to be said, the world Lin Cheng displayed once again exceeded his imagination.

"The curse of contradiction? Truly an invulnerable power. Worthy of being hailed as the ancestor of black mages—such power indeed befits that title."

As Jellal was shocked by Lin Cheng's strength, on the other side, even Lin Cheng could not help but let out a sigh of admiration at the power Jellal had displayed.

Not to mention his formidable strength, he himself also possessed Death Hunting, which was nearly offense and defense in one.

Once Jellal's life was in peril, Death Hunting would activate automatically, in an extremely rapid, almost instantaneous manner, to resist his attacks.

This point was somewhat similar to the sand that Gaara in the Naruto World could use to protect himself.

But the difference was that, compared to Gaara's ability, the Death Hunting Jellal possessed was clearly far more advanced.

Whether in speed or in power, the two were simply not on the same level.

Perhaps in Jellal's eyes, Lin Cheng had not suffered the slightest injury, but in fact, in the instant he had been struck by Jellal's attack just now, Lin Cheng had already activated every protective power he had, and only just barely managed to block that strike.

Jellal was the first to make Lin Cheng unleash his full strength, and precisely because of this, Lin Cheng would utter such a sigh of admiration.

Combined with Jellal's own extremely powerful strength, one could say it was an almost completely unsolvable ability,

However, while gaining power, one must also pay an equivalent price.

On this point, both Gaara and Jellal were the same, because this power had sacrificed the dearest of kin.

Such a power, given to Lin Cheng, he would not want it even if it were free.

However, although the power was strong, it was not an entirely unsolvable power.

Just as brother-in-law Lin Cheng had discovered, Ankhseram's curse did indeed grant Jellal a power close to immortality, but Jellal was not merely a cursed being.

Once the curse's power was exhausted, Jellal himself could not escape death either.

And Lin Cheng had a way to resolve this curse.

Apart from the power of Reinhardt, he also possessed the power of puppets from various worlds, including the power of the Shinigami, and even the power of the Hollow!

Rumble rumble—!

With a shift of his mind, accompanied by the hum of a sword, another power, shared from Aizen, surpassing that of the Shinigami and the Hollow, erupted from within Lin Cheng's body.

And as the two powers fused, layers of the earth across several thousand meters crumbled, countless fissures spreading out from beneath Lin Cheng's feet, covering the ground like a spider's web.

"This is… death!"

With Lin Cheng's transformation, Jellal, standing on the other side, also felt this pressure, his entire mind trembling at once.

Its power was so strong that it directly exceeded the pressure Lin Cheng had brought him before by dozens of times!

He even discovered that, beneath this power, the curse force within his own body was trembling unceasingly, as if encountering a natural enemy—trembling, afraid!

And in such a situation, it was the first time Jelfu felt fear toward the curse.

"It's death! True death!"

Boom—!

Defying Jelfu's will, the curse instantly activated its resistance.

Under this pressure, power surged out without reserve, standing evenly matched against Lin Cheng's power!

However!

Just as both of them pushed their power to the absolute limit at the same time, suddenly a dragon's roar came from the distant sky!