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Fang Gu Lan had his Venerable Heart shattered, destabilizing his energy fluctuations and weakening him severely. The reason was simple: Bing Xue’s ability, Divine Photon Essence, ecifically made tet ethereal ans within the bodies of Immortals and Primordials, especially the tter.
After her assion into a Primordial Immemorial Venerable, its power had been multiplied several times, givihe ability to grasp the heart and instantly crush it with her bare hands. No other Venerable so far has been capable of doing this so openly and easily.
The reason was simple… Bing Xue had designed most of her arsenal around killing Venerables; her growth, her everything—it has all been shaped by her endless desire to kill them.
Why? The answer was rather simple as well.
It was because she found them to be a mehat must be elimihey were corrupt all-powerful kings; they brought the demise of millions and were selfish, self-tered men that hought about the future or the wellbeing of others surrounding them.
Their crimes were endless, and their atrocities were never-ending. In the world of Murim, she was the very first Venerable to actually prioritize and care about mortals and the wellbeing of people in general.
She was the first to actually worry about their future and pity them…
The perspective of a hard-w woman in a moderh Society had made her mind pletely different.
Despite Fang Gu Lan inating from Earth as well, his past life was full rets, self-hatred, and frustrations of the things he couldn’t aplish, while never having the energy or the drive to move and do something to improve his life either.
“We might have ins; we both inated from this world, didn’t we, Fang Gu Lan?!”
Bing Xue cshed against the monstrosity before her, who expanded into a massive eldritch aberration over a kilometer big.
The clouds in the sky began te with his body as his energy fluctuations were disrupted, leaking everywhere and f his body to take upon its “true form”.
“BING XUEEEEAAAGGHH!” With an aberrant scream that reverberated across the skies, Fang Gu Lan spoke. “YOU ARE NOTHINGGGG PARED TO MEEEE…! I HATE THIS WORLD! I’LL DESTROY IT…! I’LL SHATTER IT APART AFTER I’M DOH YOUUUUU!”
“A part of me pities your past life for having made you into the hateful monster you’ve bee…” Bing Xue sighed. “But despite all the things that society might have made you gh before, it doesn’t mean the world o be destroyed! It doesn’t mean that you must abandon your humanity! Why… just why did you bee like this?!”
“BECAUSE I HATE…! I HATE IT ALL!!! I HATE HUMANS… I HATE PEOPLE! I HATE THOSE THAT LOVE! I HATE THOSE THAT HAVE EVERYTHING I DIDN’T HAVE! I HATE THEM… I EVEN HATE THEM UNFORTUHEY’RE ALL SO PATHETIC, DISGUSTING! ALL OF YOU DESERVE TO DIE!”
With hatred and fury, Fang Gu Lan maed his powers, as his body grew seven gigantic arms shaped as dragons, rushing towards Bing Xue at once.
“AND I DESPISE WOMEN LIKE YOU! WOMEN THAT THINK THEY’RE BETTER THAN MEN! WOMEN THAT THINK THEY BE MORE THAN JUST WHORES AND BITCHES THAT SUCK COD TAKE DICK! YOUR ONLY PURPOSE IS TO GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN AND BE MEN’S SLAVES!”
Bing Xue sighed. As she waved her hands, gigantic bdes made of light and darkness verged together, slig through the serpentine draic heads as they came rushing down, cutting them into pieces.
“I’ve never hated men; I’ve hought I am better than men, and I have also never said any of such things,” she said. “I only and simply think that everyone deserves a ce, even… even I deserve one. My gender simply does not matter, Fang Gu Lan! Why do you bme me for things I hought?! Based on all the atrocities you’ve itted… You should’ve expected that one day someone would kill you!”
“SILENCE, WOMAN!”
All of Fang Gu Lan’s sliced draic arms exploded as hundreds of explosions engulfed Bing Xue, b her from every dire.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
She resisted the explosions, hardening her body and gng at the monstrosity; his gigantic body began to grow smaller; the Venerable Heart was already halfway regeed.
“It’s useless! You love to talk as if you knew everything, as if you were intellectual, but the moment someone else fronts your ideals and thoughts, ye and bee insufferable,” Bing Xue said. “I remember that back then I tried to reason with you; I tried to appeal to our simir ins… I had even sidered not killing you but making you an ally, tive you for everything you’ve done before… But you only aimed for my body; it was the only thing you ever wahe only thing you ever thought when looking at me. Evee being as strong as I am, you simply don’t see me as a person, don’t you?”
“HEHEHE… HAHAHAHA! YEAH, BECAUSE WOME PEOPLE, STUPID BITCH! THEY’RE SAEAT!”
Fang Gu Lan roared as dozens of draic heads opehrough his entire body, firing dozens of beams of tremendous power, ing and rippling through space as they reached Bing Xue.
“I see that once more, there’s just no point in reasoning with you again…” Bing Xue nodded. “If anything, I admire your resolve and your heart to keep up with your wicked ideals until the very end. It’s admirable… if anything.”
“DON’T YOU DARE PITY MEEEEE!”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The beams reached Bing Xue, and Fang Gu Lan made sure to accumute them all within a single point, trying to pletely melt Bing Xue out of existence.
At the same time, several fragments of himself appeared around her, f a rge Heavenly Formation glowing with seven different colors.
His aim had bee rather clear, as Bing Xue felt several shockwaves of power trying to weaken her and drain her energy.
“I see, so you’re trying to drain my power before you kill me…” Bing Xue nodded.
“IT’S OVER, BING XUEEEEEERRRGGHH!”
As the monstrous Venerable roared, tless rainbow s maed, ing Bing Xue’s entire body until not even her hair could be seen; her power was immediately suppressed.
“Heheh… HAHAHAHA!”
The Venerable felt a new surge of power through his body; his form was almost already baanoid form, although half of it was still monstrous and eldritch.
Bing Xue’s energies reached his body, rapidly refilling him with new Venerable Ki!
“It’s amazing…! This power…! Why did a woman have it?! It doesn’t make sense!” he ughed. “It’s all mine anyway! At the end, that’s all you could do, Bing Xue. You were destio bee nothing but the resources for my assion!”
The young-looking venerable rejoiced as he ughed like a maniac; the Divine Photon Essence of Bing Xue was now his, alongside her Dark Abyss Essend even the Void itself!
“With this power, I do anything; I will even…!”
FLUOSH!
“Ugh?!”
However, he quickly realized there was something seriously wrong with this energy as it ed around his body, and it began to extract his own energy instead.
“Uuuaaarrgh! W-What is the meaning of this?! Uggh…! S-Stop!”
Fang Gu Lan realized too te that the energy ruly became his; within that energy there was also Primal Power, a power with its own mind, which Bing Xue had learo trol.
By copying how it existed and worked, she was able to bee the energy itself and trol it with her will, no matter where it was.
FLASH!
Suddenly, ahereal Bing Xue maed from behind Fang Gu Lan, his energies being drained and f her entire body, as he realized the s he crated colpsed, revealing...
Nothing!
There was no Bing Xue corpse or something; she had pletely disappeared.
“S-She let me absorb her to do this—UGH?!”
CRASH!
Before Fang Gu Lan could respond to this, he felt his heart shattering again. Bing Xue used this moment to infiltrate the inside of his body to destroy it.
“Uuuaaarrggh!”
His entire body exploded again, being a swirling mess of various colored clouds, tentacles, eyes, and mouths. He kept trying to keep himself together and refihe ey of Bing Xue’s energy form.
But it was utterly impossible!
“You’re trying to refine a Venerable? Don’t be a fool.”
Bing Xue filled Fang Gu Laire body with her own energies stantly exploding, his body beginning to also explode, falling apart into pieces and fragments apart.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“S-Stop…! STOOOP!”
He quickly expelled Bing Xue from his body as her form materialized instantly, summoning her sword and swinging it against his dozens of tentacles and arms.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
She sshed through his entire being, which stantly rejoined and merged back together. In his anger, Fang Gu Lan attacked, maing hundreds of fists and pung Bing Xue with all of them.
He activated several Martial Arts reted to punches, explosions of Immortal Venerable Ki erupting everywhere, yet Bing Xue kept it up with her sword alone even as she battled a behemoth.
“GRRRHHHH…! GRAAAHHH!”
Despite being stantly sliced and shattered apart, Fang Gu Lan had incredible durability and stamina, rapidly ref once more, his monstrous body uo accept his defeat.
“{Seven Heavenly Paths}: {Primordial Chaos Catastrophe}!!!”
With a furious scream, Bing Xue realized that the seven swirling colors within the core of Fang Gu Lan merged into pure Primordial Chaos like before, and then he unleashed it at once, destroying spad time in his wake.
TRUUUMMM!!!
Bing Xue readied herself to fight that almighty attack, bining the Void Essence, her Soul Bde Arts, and her Diviogether with her Divine Photon Essend her Demoniergies.
While holding the sword with both of her hands, her rainbow eyes glowed brightly.
“{Divine Yin And Yang Harmonious Soul Bde Arts}”
Her sword maed darkness and light, bining together and swirling against each other, rapidly f a massive bde.
“{Bance Disruption Arts}”
Then, the energies began g against each other, too unstable to maintain themselves together for long, geing a massive amount of destructive repulsion force.
“{Bde in: Primordial Camity}”
RUMBLE!
Bing Xue swung her bde down, slig through the Primordial Chaos attad pletely splitting it apart, as space shattered once meing massive ripples across the skies.
SLAAASH!
Her attack didn’t stop there as it tinued slig through Fang Gu Lan’s massive body, the bde beginning to rapidly destroy his entire existence.
“Uuuaarrgghh! W-What is this attack?! Is this even swordsmanship?!”
He quickly broke himself down to pieces and then merged back together away from the bde, only for a massive explosion to erupt behind him, sending him flying right towards Bing Xue.
“What’s wrong? I thought you were stronger?”
Bing Xue’s Aura maed, resembling her half-snake form as six massive fists puhrough Fang Gu Laire body, her energies stantly f band then making it colpse to gee even more damage aru.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“Nnnggghhhh!”
Fang Gu Lan’s soul was taking too much damage despite all his efforts; his body and energy were unstable after his heart had beeroyed twice too.
At the end, uhe great masters of Murim, he was someone who relied on his System to gain all his power, making his own teiques and fighting style very sloppy, as he relied on overwhelming his foes and bringing massive misfortuo them.
However, through his etle against Bing Xue, he had been uo even touch her Fate! His System had worked just fih the other Cultivators of Murim, whom unknowingly ended up having their Fates stolen by his System, greatly emp him.
And even those otherworldly heroes he found, whose Fate and Powers were now his…
Bing Xue’s Fate was simply too big, too powerful, and tht for him to even touch, and it was a fate that wasn’t a destiny given to her since birth.
“I-I’ve never seen a Fate like this before…!”
It wasn’t grao her; it was a Fate built by her own efforts and even her suffering. Through all these years, she survived, evolved, and tinued battling.
A Fate that was based pletely on her own strength, the power she built!
It could be said that Bing Xue’s inal Fate was so unremarkable that she should have never been able to aplish anything at all.
Yet… even then, she did?
“This is ridiculous! It’s unfair…! Why?! Why is she so damn special when she had nothing?! She was destio die like any ! Why is she here to begin with?! This damn woman! She’s the root of all my misfortune! Of all my suffering!”
Rage fueled his entire being his teiques, martial arts, and fighting style were terrible, and Bing Xue’s mastery over her abilities showed how massive of a gap there was betweewo eveheir cultivation levels were almost close to one another.
“She embodies everything I hate,” he thought, his anger fueling his powers. “She’s all I hate! Everything… I must kill her; I have to kill her!”
Bing Xue battled against him as he was being torn to shreds, Fang Gu Lan barely alive while trying to fight back, but it seemed that their gap tio increase as she revealed her true powers.
“I need more power…! I NEED MORE!”
He screamed, as Bing Xue gred at him with disbelief.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Suddenly, several floating runes emerged around him, all shaped as different symbols that embodied… Emotions.
“The Power of these Otherworldly Bastards…! I’ll use it to defeat you!”
The Symbols of five different erged with his body, rapidly beginning to stabilize it as his new heart was crystalized instantly.
And then…
RUMBLE!
A bck storm maed around his body, transf his entire being.
“What are y to do?!”
Bing Xue rushed to stop him, swinging her sword and unleashitacks with her Venerable Aura.
However…!
BAAAM!
A powerful shockwave stopped the attacks, as massive pressure pushed Bing Xue away.
“T-This is…?! This is not his power! Where did he get this?!”
“Hahaha… HAHAHAHAH!”
Fang Gu Lan emerged from amidst the dark storm; his entire bressed to his human form, but it was now pletely covered from head to toe with a skin-tight bck suit.
It seemed semi-modern, meical in some areas, pitch bck with purple colors here and there, and the symbols he absorbed were infused into the suit, now corrupted, looking dark red, like cursed runes.
His helmet resembled a furious bck dragon, with a bck visor made of some sort of transparent material, his entire design resembling some sort of hero from a Saturday m show, but corrupt and dark.
“What kind of ridiculous outfit is this?” Bing Xue twitched her eyebrows in fusion.
“Call it whatever you want!” Fang Gu Lan ughed, summoning a bck spear from his suit’s strange, alien powers. “But this is the power that’ll kill you, Bing Xue!”
CLAAASH!
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Author’s Note: Yes, Fang Gu Lan became a Dark Power Ranger after stealing the power of the others.
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