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  Another Primordial Immemorial Venerable.

  Could it truly be possible?

  He made me bleed from that punch after all.

  Even though I’ve also survived being split into two before, so it wasn’t that big of a deal.

  The big deal itself was that his attack pierced through my defenses and barriers, whiot even gods could harm.

  At most, they could destroy a yer, or something leave only cracks.

  But he instantly bypassed all defenses and immediately hit my body directly.

  He didn’t o put any energy into that attack either.

  He’s… strong.

  Incredibly strong.

  Why?

  Just why is this man here?

  Where did he e from?

  And why does he remind me so muurim?

  Is he truly from Murim?

  He reminds me of Murim, but I have never seen his face before, and he also came from a gray portal.

  It means he arrived from a Parallel Timeline World.

  From Earth…

  No, this ’t be possible. Just what…

  What am I thinking?

  Could this young man be…

  “YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! DON’T YOU KNOW HOW MANY DIED BECAUSE OF YOU?!”

  His hands became like gigantic beastly cws as he attempted to tear my body into shreds.

  I tried to stop him, but he wouldn’t listen to my words.

  He charged against me with tremendous power, shaking the heavens and the ground below.

  I strengthened my body and quickly imbued it with several yers of defenses, yet eae of his attacks tore through my defenses anyway.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  Several sshing wounds covered my skin… this sensation.

  It ain!

  “Your defenses are weak!” he screamed angrily. “Makes sense why you lost against him, why you ended up ruining everything!”

  “Just what in the world are you talking about?! ’t you expin to me?!” I asked.

  I quickly decided to terattack, this time without holding baymore.

  RUMBLE!

  The sky trembled as the clouds gathered into a titanic spear.

  {Primordial Nirvana’s Spear}!

  He intercepted the ining spear, capable of splitting the heavens with his bare cws.

  CLAAASH!

  BOOOMMM!!!

  A huge explosion in the shape of the spear reached him, a teique at full power I only used against the Primal King in this world and against Venerables before.

  “Don’t make me ugh…”

  However, his body seemed almost unscathed, although I noticed his hands had gained a lot of bruises.

  I see, he’s truly… at my own Realm.

  “That teique would have definitely disied you… I’ve just firmed what you are.”

  “Oh? And what is that?”

  He smiled defiantly, his eyes suddenly glowing bright red as his aura started growing stronger and stronger and stronger.

  “ROOOAARRR!”

  “AWOOOOO!”

  “GRAAARRH!”

  Until it shaped into a twelve-headed wolf-like monstrosity, surging from his Aura and abs the heavens themselves to realize its form.

  TRUUUM!

  And with that came a tremendously strong presence, a powerful shockwave that pushed me away with immense force.

  This was without a doubt his Venerable Authority.

  “I despise you.” He said. “I ’t believe I even got the e to the past, but… I’ll make it worthwhile and do it right now. Now that I am here… I’ll stop it all from happening. You’re no longer needed; you never were.”

  “So you e from a future in this world? One where I ruined everything?” I asked him; I couldn’t even read his soul. “Tell me more. There’s no point in fighting! We could discuss this peacefully. You possess… no mali your heart.”

  I couldn’t help but feel no true malice from him; if anything, he seemed wounded and despairing, hollow.

  Yet all these ive emotions, when he faced me, became hatred…

  “Hah?” He smiled maniacally. “You don’t know a sihing about me!!!”

  With a furious scream he charged.

  I waved my hands, using my Spatial Manipution to tear apart the space where the two of us were, and telep this space away from the city.

  FLASH!

  “Telep away from the city… Were you afraid I would destroy it?! I would never do such a thing!” he roared angrily.

  His Aura enpassed his body, taking the shape of golden and white fur, while his hands gained enormous cws and so did his feet; he gained a long tail—no, several of them.

  He was wearing his Aura like Armor or Equipment, a teique not even I had done before! And above all, his Aura… its very nature was very different than mine.

  Yet he somehow mao also attain the Primordial Immemorial Venerable Realm?!

  It took me all that Murim had to offer; I even had to absorb the A Human to attain this level of power.

  But he took a much different approach, a much different path altogether!

  Divinities.

  I could sehem all through his entire Aura.

  The Divinities of tless Gods he fought, killed, and devoured.

  Hundreds.

  “RAAAHHH!”

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  His attacks came rushing down as I intercepted them with my bare hands, his Soul Bde, cutting through the aura of prote he enpassed himself through.

  SLAAASH!

  “Hmph!”

  However, he twisted his body and kicked me several times in a row, pushing me away as he created endless shockwaves that twisted aroyed the skies.

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  “Hah!”

  I kicked the skies and rushed towards him like a meteor, uhing my bde and swinging it vertically and horizontally, unleashing hundreds of sshes within a split sed.

  “{Heavenly Soul Bde Storm}!”

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  “I do the same thing!”

  He roared bad quickly intercepted the attacks, his body rapidly rec from the hundreds of small bruises he received, which turned inte wounds.

  “{Heavenly Wolf’s Hell-Tearing Cws}!”

  So he had teiques!

  SLAAASH! SLAAASH!

  Two sshes from his hands were all it took from my entire barrage of sword sshes to explode and dissipate.

  BOOOM!

  “{Heavenly Wolf’s Earth-Shattering Charge}!”

  He rushed down, fusing with his Aura, until he resembled something close to a werewolf, a gigantic silvery-white furred werewolf with golden cws and three heads.

  CRAAASH!

  The force he used to push me down was so immense I felt my insides stantly twisting and breaking. I gritted my teeth, resisting the intense pain, rapidly juring several elements in a row.

  Void, Soul Bde, and Time!

  trate their power.

  Void and Soul became my sword.

  And Time, became its sharpness.

  Against such a powerful foe, I must improvise as I fight.

  Just like I once did back then, many times, through many battles.

  Have a huge repertoire and then adapt to their abilities!

  “{Time-Sshing Tenebrous Soul Void Bde}!”

  My Soul absorbed the Void Essend temporarily became pitch bck.

  At the same time, I wielded it pletely as a bde, juring a titanic sword.

  Even his eyes widened for a moment.

  “Y-You…?!”

  SLAAASH!

  A massive sshing attack reached him; he was uo evade as I twisted space around us a it tightly together.

  “Augh!”

  BOOOM!

  The attack exploded as he was sent away, reag the skies above and then outer space.

  A huge sshing wound crossed through his chest all the way down his thigh; his blood was bright red, so he’s still a human.

  “Let’s talk now.”

  I rushed towards him, and as he gritted his teeth, his hands were enpassed with blue light, which quickly froze his wound and slowly regeed it back to normal.

  “Despite having reached your level, you were able to hurt me this muo, I am fairly sure I even surpassed you!” he said angrily.

  “Yhting style is impressive,” I said. “You’re strong, indeed… If we fought stantly day and night, there’s rge ces of you winning.”

  “Tch!” he clicked his tongue like an unruly brat. “This isn’t even the beginning; I’ll show you my-”

  “But you’re fetting something,” I said. “Ba Murim, I fought tless foes many times; they were always strohan me. Sometimes one realm, two realms… even three realms above. I’ve survived by adapting, running away, and ing back stronger. I learned and mastered the art of fighting foes strohan me. I was the first Mortal to kill an Immortal too, did you know? I lost both of my legs, one arm, my face was burned, my eyes exploded, my internal awisted… but he died, and I lived.”

  “…”

  “What makes you think I suddenly have not a single ce against you when I’ve always fought beings strohan me and won?” I asked. “Tell me why.”

  “Hmph,” he muttered, his Aura suddenly growing rger. “So what? You talk so grandiose about all these things you achieved… But when it was time to protect your world—when it was time to protect your family—you died anyway! You’re just full of yourself!”

  FLASH!

  “{Demonic Lion King’s Jaws}!”

  His Aura exploded as it transformed into hundreds of horned bck, red, and golden colored lions, biting through my Aura and tearing it apart.

  CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

  “{Abyssal Bck Spiderweb Domain}!”

  FLUOSH!

  And right after that, within that split sed I was about to respond, he unleashed a domain of spiderwebs, trapping me inside!

  “Wait, isn’t this…?!”

  "Familiar, isn’t it?”

  BAAAM!

  He punched my stomach with tremendous force, sending me flying across the domain of spiderwebs as I saw his refles emerge oer another.

  “This is the only power I could learn from her before… Before she died,” he said through all his refles. “But it’s good enough, isn’t it?!”

  RUMBLE!

  The Domain twisted as all his refles attacked me from every a the same time.

  BAAM!

  A punch to the face.

  CLASH!

  A kiy right elbow.

  CRASH!

  A palm strike to my left shoulder.

  BOOM!

  A massive hammer blow to the bay head.

  CLASH!

  And a pierg spear-like attay left leg.

  He was stantly aiming for every pressure point of my body, aiming to pletely paralyze me.

  The amount of pain and damage I was receiving was no ughable matter.

  I had to quickly release it all at once!

  “{Divine Soul Bde Spirit Summon}!”

  Suddenly, through my immense quantities of energy, I summoens of thousands of gigantic bdes made of spirit energy, ki, and mana.

  And then I fused them into my teique, bining them with Demoniergies from the Demons and the power to twist and skip time from a certain Skill.

  FLUOOOSH!

  A Domain of gray and bck fmes was jured, enpassing all of his refles at once.

  “{Primordial Heaven Soul Bde}: {Timeless Void Heaven Inferno}”

  Each Bde Spirit unleashed the same teique over and ain, as thousands upon thousands of sshing attacks covered everything with Timeless Void Fmes, capable of dev Time and the Void at the same time.

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  Each of his refleet their end as they were split apart into tless pieces, all while the fmes expahrough the entire domain, beginning to rapidly shatter it apart.

  Crack, crack…!

  CRASH!

  As the Domain shattered into pieces, he was already behind me, juring dozens of Nirvana Spears—the exact same teique I had used before, but multiplied by dozens of times!

  “{Starlight Nirvana Spear Barrage}!”

  By abs the surroundings’ starlight, I saw something I had yet to achieve.

  “ic… Power?!”

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  A barrage of pierg spears reached me, made of starlight and heavenly light energies; they impacted my entire body at the same time.

  Once more, he aimed at my pressure points!

  My entire body was being riddled with rge wounds, although not yet holes that pierced through all; he was still trying to pierce through my flesh and boirely.

  “I Am… Light!”

  As he attacked me a little for me to terattack, absorbed all of my Authority and Elemental Powers, fusing with my Photonic Esse once.

  FLAAASH!

  “Ungh?!”

  The light was sht and strong it burned his eyes, making him step baentarily. I spread out my body and made it rger, grabbing all of his spears aroying them with my bare hands.

  A sed ter, I unleashed a barrage of dozens of Buddha’s Palms of Tranquility, a powerful Martial Monk Art that targeted the very soul together with the body, sending calming waves to the brains to stop anger from a target.

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  “Unnggh?! Aaarrggh!”

  He grabbed his head in pain as he received the attacks, but quickly gred at me with even more anger!

  So it didn’t work.

  “I Am… Light!”

  FLAAASH!

  Suddenly, his entire body exploded with a bright white and silver light, enpassing everything and illuminatih below us.

  And his body ged; he became…

  A being made of silver and white light, like me.

  “You have the same teiques as I have… Even Photonic Essence?!”

  “No, they’re not like yours… they’re better.”

  His gigantiade of light gained a werewolf-like appearance again as his aura transformed into the shape of many different animal body parts, attag me all at once.

  I couldn’t escape at this point, so I decided to fight to the end, eling the power of my Unique Martial Arts once more.

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

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  Pach