Chapter 979: The Same Type (1/2, seeking monthly votes)

【Time Reversal!!】

Time, at this moment, seemed to freeze.

Then, it flowed backward!

The shattered internal organs within Fang Yue's body, accompanied by the frantic burning of his lifespan, rapidly flowed back, repairing themselves to their original state.

The blood that had flowed from his seven orifices flowed back, returning into his body.

"You?!"

The Fifth Prince immediately discovered the anomaly in the person beneath its feet and was just about to exert force to stomp Fang Yue to death...

Boom!!

Violent black Qi suddenly erupted from within Fang Yue's body, knocking the Fifth Prince flying on the spot.

When the Fifth Prince landed and looked toward Fang Yue, it saw that Fang Yue, who should have been dead, was actually standing up slowly from the ground with his eyes closed, his entire body wrapped in black Qi, with a single, over ten-meter-long black wing raised behind his back.

And the Black Rain Tribe mark on his chest was also disappearing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if time were flowing backward and erasing its existence.

When all of this was complete, Fang Yue slowly opened his eyes, which were streaming with black blood, and looked at the Fifth Prince in the distance.

"Now, let's begin the second round!"

Hum!!

Almost the instant Fang Yue's voice fell, an unknown, illusory character suddenly appeared before him.

【Speed!!】

"That is... the power of Ancient Words?!"

The Fifth Prince's expression changed.

This was the strongest reaction it had shown since it began fighting Fang Yue!

Almost the moment the Ancient Word vanished into the air, Fang Yue disappeared.

The Fifth Prince's pupils contracted violently on the spot.

Where?!

Where!!

With its spirit highly focused, the strange power within its body erupted, circulating through its entire being.

The flow of time around it suddenly became slow.

Then, it saw it.

It saw a black line, a straight black line.

Under its own ability, under that slow flow of time, it was still moving at an inhuman speed, rushing over from Fang Yue's previous position as the origin point!

It seemed to have sensed something; accompanied by the illusory Ancient Word appearing once more, the black line actually performed a second acceleration in that state!!

Impossible! What kind of speed is that!!

Under the blessing of absolute speed, that was no longer a black line, but a stream of light, a black stream of light moving against the flow of time!

At the very moment the Fifth Prince exhausted all its strength to condense its strange power, gathering it onto its arms to parry.

Clang!!

The black sword blade, like a divine weapon that could cut through iron like mud, slashed precisely across its arm armor!

【Force!】

A momentary pause.

The black sword blade cut through the black bone arm armor like tofu, cut through the Fifth Prince's arms, severed its arm bones, silkily disconnected its forelimbs, and slashed into its chest with one strike!

But the Fifth Prince was already retreating, a desperate retreat like a lizard shedding its tail to save its life!

Black blood splashed high into the air, accompanied by the severed limbs of its left and right arms flying off. The Fifth Prince had already retreated over a hundred meters away, staring fixedly and shaken at the human in front of it who was shrouded in black Qi, whose specific appearance was almost impossible to make out.

On its chest was a horizontal sword wound, a shocking injury deep enough to see bone, which had almost cut it in two, and it was dripping with black blood.

But the Fifth Prince had no time to focus on its own injuries, because it... had miscalculated the strength of the human before it!

"This child has the ability to slay me!"

Ancient Words are a very special discipline; not to mention that there are currently no channels to acquire the path of cultivation, the difficulty of cultivation alone means no one can reach the Rain-level tier!

And that dense black Qi that one could not ignore was actually very similar to their own strange power, as if friend and foe shared the same source.

Under the Fifth Prince's gaze, unexpectedly, that human made no move, but simply watched it from afar as well.

"Lord Fifth Prince?!"

"Protect Lord Fifth Prince!!"

"A mere human, daring to injure the holy body of Lord Fifth Prince!!"

The Black Insect Stranges on the ground that had been struck down by Captain Wu and were still alive saw this scene, all exclaiming in succession and running toward their side.

Only one one-eyed Black Insect Strange, its eyeball rolling, quietly retreated.

As the Black Insect Stranges surrounded them, a piercing Phoenix Cry suddenly came from above them!

Accompanied by a golden radiance as dazzling as the scorching sun, the scattered body fragments of Captain Wu finally completed their fusion and resurrection in mid-air!

Opening its eyes and scanning downward, Captain Wu immediately roared: "Captain Ye, I have come to assist you!"

With a phantom of a Golden Phoenix floating behind its back, Captain Wu charged into the Black Insect Stranges, and accompanied by the rising golden light, they immediately fell into a chaotic battle.

And Fang Yue, at this moment, had just regained control of his body.

【Whew... barely suppressed it. Don't keep making cute Zhi Zhi do this kind of thing. I have to lend you power and help you suppress the side effects; Zhi Zhi is very tired! Tired, tired!】

"Just a little longer... with the next move, I will destroy it!"

Fang Yue said in his heart.

Just now, Fang Yue had used the power of the Parchment, and after pausing here, he immediately discovered that his body had stiffened.

As if some kind of qualitative change were occurring in his body, his limbs actually had a tendency to turn into the paper-like substance of the Parchment.

If not for the black mist obscuring him, he suspected he would have been discovered by the Fifth Prince, who would have attacked immediately.

Looking at his somewhat atrophied hands, where the muscles on his arms presented a strange paper-like color, Fang Yue's heart sank.

The Parchment was becoming increasingly powerful, and the side effects of using it were becoming increasingly obvious.

The Parchment's original claim was wrong; it was not that one could control it without side effects upon reaching the Rain rank, but rather... one must surpass it to truly use it!

Otherwise, the closer one got to its limit, and the more one borrowed its power, the closer one's own self would be to the edge of an abyss, ready to fall at any moment!

This is... playing with fire!

But, he had no choice but to play!

Against an ordinary Rain rank, he might still be able to rely on the Empty Ice Sword Canon and the power of his Spirit Root to suppress and entangle them.

But the anomaly before him was clearly not an ordinary Rain rank anomaly; if divided by strength, it was at least at a middle-tier level among the Rain rank!

Just as Fang Yue thought of this, he noticed that foam-like things suddenly emerged from the Fifth Prince's severed-limb wounds, squirming strangely and slowly condensing into the shape of hands.

"Able to regenerate severed limbs... as expected!"

Narrowing his eyes and just about to make a move, the Fifth Prince in front of him suddenly vanished.

The Fifth Prince had already performed this move many times, but this time, it was somewhat different.

"Static World!!"

The falling raindrops of the Night Rain gradually slowed in speed until... they came to a standstill!

The surrounding scenery, moving people, and objects all gradually changed at a sluggish pace.

Yet in this nearly static world, a figure moving at high speed was charging straight toward Fang Yue, but a look of astonishment and shock appeared on his face.

That was, shockingly, the Fifth Prince who had used his ability.

The corners of Fang Yue's mouth curled up into a cold sneer.

"As expected, we are... the same type of anomaly ability!"

(End of chapter)