Chapter 602 - 249: Scorched Earth Spreads, Incinerating Everything
Chapter 602: Chapter 249: Scorched Earth Spreads, Incinerating Everything
Dong Dongchen’s voice was hoarse from utter shock.
His eyes were glued to the horrifying transformation unfolding on screen—a change that defied the understanding of most Martial Artists. Forcing himself to remain calm, he began to explain in a rapid-fire pace to the millions of viewers who had fallen into a dead silence.
"Spiritual loss of control... It’s when the Spiritual Factors inside a Martial Artist’s body go completely berserk under some form of extreme stimulation. This disrupts the originally stable Spiritual Sequence, and the visible result is an uncontrollable mutation of their spiritual abilities!"
"In most cases, this loss of control is detrimental. It can cause a Martial Artist’s power to plummet, or even lead to a total collapse of their spirit, leaving them crippled!"
"But for certain special spiritual types, especially those of the atavistic variety... loss of control often means unleashing an even more terrifying power!"
"Loss of control means the Martial Artist’s own consciousness is completely suppressed and devoured by the primitive, chaotic will in their bloodline! They trade conscious control for the unrestrained release of their bloodline’s power! He’s no longer Kujō Akiyoshi, but a monster that knows only slaughter and destruction!"
"Of course, the price is immense. After the battle, in a mild case, their martial foundation will be damaged and their cultivation level will regress. In a severe case... the Martial Artist’s own consciousness is erased, and they can never awaken from the monstrous shell again, becoming something that is neither human nor ghost!"
The moment he finished speaking, the grotesque transformation on the battlefield finally reached its conclusion.
The creature could no longer be called human.
It was a colossal monster coiled upon the earth, rearing seven or eight meters high, its body stretching over twenty meters long!
Its lower half was a massive, pitch-black serpentine tail. But from that tail, there wasn’t a single torso. Instead, it had violently split into four hideous, terrifying, and distinctly different giant serpent heads!
The first serpent head was a murky, dark green, its serpentine eyes burning with malevolence. It constantly exhaled a sickening black, toxic fog, and wherever the fog drifted, space itself seemed to ripple with corrosion.
The second serpent head had scales as crimson as a branding iron. It breathed out a scorching, sulfuric stench, and every exhalation seemed ready to ignite the very air.
The third serpent head was covered in azure scales, a spiral horn sprouting from its crown. Every roar it let out was accompanied by the violent, ear-splitting shriek of wind.
And the final head, one of those that had just burst forth, was covered in translucent, pale bone scales. Its mere, silent presence was enough to condense countless ice crystals in the surrounding air, and its grim, cold aura seemed intense enough to freeze the very light!
Poison, fire, wind, and ice!
Four completely distinct attributes, stitched together in a wildly discordant fashion onto a single, hideous body!
Evil, twisted, chaotic. The mere sight of it sent a shudder through the depths of the viewers’ souls and made them physically ill.
Just when everyone thought the monster would attack immediately, something bizarre happened.
The lead serpent head, the one with the poison attribute, suddenly showed a flash of shockingly human, mocking light in its scarlet eyes. It opened its massive maw, but what came out was an ancient, gravelly voice.
"Heh heh heh... I have you to thank, Dragon Descendant of Great Xia. If you hadn’t pushed this boy’s spirit to its absolute limit, who knows how much longer we would have been trapped by this seal before we could emerge... to see this new era."
The words had barely faded when the adjacent Flaming Serpent Head let out an irate roar, its voice sharp and youthful. "Shut up, you old fossil! To hell with the Great Xia Dragon Descendant! His bloodline reeks! Kill him! Devour him!"
The third head, the Wind Attribute one, cackled sinisterly, its voice seeming to come from everywhere and nowhere, like a phantom. "Kill him! Tear him to shreds! His flesh and blood must be exquisite!"
No one could have possibly imagined that the four heads each possessed its own independent consciousness!
As for the final, ice-attribute serpent head, it had remained silent from the very beginning.
It simply snapped its mouth open.
In the next instant, a massive blast of arctic breath, seemingly powerful enough to freeze the heavens and the earth, erupted without warning, shooting straight toward Lin Ye in mid-air!
’So fast!’
Lin Ye’s pupils contracted. He instantly shot a hundred meters to the side, dodging the blast by a hair’s breadth.
However, the arctic breath didn’t dissipate. Instead, it detonated violently, transforming into a mist of ice that filled the sky!
The bone-piercing chill spread like a plague, expanding with terrifying speed!
The earth, the ruins, the very air... everything in the area was being covered by a layer of pale, hard ice at a rate visible to the naked eye.
This was no ordinary ice. It contained a sinister law of cold that seemed to emanate from the Nine Hells. The chill was so intense that even Lin Ye’s powerful body, enhanced by his [Dragon Descendant Incarnation], felt a hint of sluggishness in his movements!
He understood now. The ice-attribute head’s goal was to create an arctic home-field advantage, an environment where they could best exert their power!
’I have to end this quickly!’
Lin Ye no longer hesitated. Activating [Frenzy], his body left a shattering sonic boom in its wake, transforming into a golden stream of light that shot straight toward the massive, four-headed serpent!
His target was the ice-attribute head, the one continuously spewing the frigid mist!
"Courting death!"
The Flaming Serpent Head roared, blasting out an equally massive stream of molten Dragon Breath.
The Wind Attribute head, meanwhile, spat out a terrifying tornado composed of Wind Blades.
The toxic fog from the poison-attribute head billowed out to block the sky, cutting off all of Lin Ye’s routes of attack!
However, with the combined boost from [Frenzy] and [Instant Body], Lin Ye’s speed had reached an absurd level!