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  The Symbols maed the Emotions that the Dekai Gaers drew power from; they inated from their own world and were powers that maed from them through their owinies reted to and ected with Deus Ex Maa and their Deus Ex Beasts.

  These supernatural powers represehe Bonds they had with one another, strengthening their resolve and being stronger as their own friendship progressed and they became better friends and allies, panions, and even family.

  Red of Ce.

  Blue of Friendship.

  Pink of Love.

  Yellow of Hope.

  Green of Siy.

  And Bck of Reliability.

  Right now, Fang Gu Lan had stolees of five of them, obtaining their Symbols, maions of these powers that he had mao take away from them.

  However, he was not patible with such powers and would’ve beeed by them… If it wasn’t because he had enough power to simply force them to obey him.

  Therefore, the Symbols were corrupted!

  As his new armor maed, the Symbols bright colors ged, being dark red, purple, or bck. They ended up abs his darkness, being wicked versions of themselves.

  Friendship became Loneliness.

  Love transformed into Hate.

  Hope was corrupted into Despair.

  Siy mutated into Immorality.

  And Reliability became Corruption.

  The dark Symbols merged into his flesh as tattoos, as their power, bined, maed into a massive storm of bck clouds.

  And his new armor was made—a suit of bck color with dark purple armor and red jewels of evilness imbued within them.

  The helmet was shaped like a furious, evil bck dragon, and the head had a bck visor to allow the one wearing it to see through it.

  “Hahaha… HAHAHAHAH!”

  He couldn’t help but ugh!

  He felt pletely refreshed; the immense power he gained from this suit itself was enough to refresh his energy pletely.

  And fuel him with a brand-new, corrupt power he could make good use of!

  The corrupted symbol’s powers resohe most with his rotten, evil mind, making them unleash tremendous quantities of energy everywhere.

  It was as if they could gee energy endlessly, with no limit.

  “What kind of ridiculous outfit is this?” Bing Xue twitched her eyebrow in fusion. “Are you seriht now, Fang Gu Lan?!”

  Even someone like her that had been using Skills and such for a while was shocked to see something as ridiculous; this power just went beyond mere Skills; it was something from another world entirely.

  “Where did he evehis power? Were there some sort of power ranger people that came from another world while I wasn’t looking?!” she thought. “If he has their powers, it means they must be dead…!”

  As Bing Xue rapidly calcuted the in of Fang Gu Lan powers but was pletely blown away by the immense pressure emerging from his body after he put on the suit, Fang Gu Lan g her.

  “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!”

  While ughing maliciously, the bcks storm surrounding his body rumbled with destructive lightning. He swung his bck spear against Bing Xue, and as she responded with her sword, an explosion of light and darkness covered the skies.

  CLAAASH!

  As this happened, a fierce war broke out beh the two Venerables; the Immortals and Primordials that Fang Gu Lan brought couldn’t be ignored, and Bing Xue trusted her family to take care of them.

  “Hahahaha! Our Lord Venerable is here! He shall sweep this world from all its riches, and we shall achieve what we weren’t able to do before! A New Empire that will quer all of Murim and these endless worlds shall arise!”

  An old, fat man with a long bck mustache and a bald head ughed, wearing red robes and holding a massive crimson axe. He swung his axe, hitting the pagoda nearby.

  “And we shall begin by destroying this damn pagoda! Heavenly Empress of Light, yn will end today!”

  CRASH!

  A loud tremor spread through the entire building as the old fat man ughed, his Primordial Aura exuding an immensely powerful force equal, if not superior, to Gods of the Tower.

  “This damn pagoda will fall today!”

  CRASH!

  He kept hitting, releasing tless shockwaves, f his way through the building, an invisible barrier proteg it, but for how long?

  “Hey, stop that!”

  “Hm?”

  He immediately realized a small presence emerged behind him—a clear, green-skinned girl with long red and white hair and rainbow eyes.

  She didn’t look quite like a human, as her body size was rger than her age would show, and even her muscles were beginning to develop.

  Above all, the two adorable little tusks on her lower jaw were also there, alongside her slightly pointy ears.

  “A damn brat? I guess you’re so weak I didn’t eve you…” The Murim Cultivathed. “What do you want? Don’t tell me that Heavenly Empress uses children to fight for her now? What sort of stupid bitch is she? Seriously…”

  As Kana saw the man about to swing his axe, she acted.

  “I said stop!”

  She rapidly appeared above him, surprising him as she kicked his arm and made him drop his axe all the way down.

  BAAM!

  “What?!”

  He gasped in disbelief. A child moved so quickly and kicked him, and she even mao make him drop his on?!

  A Primordial, capable of ftteniire mountains easily with just the pressure of his Aura, was kicked effectively by a child?!

  “What sort of nonsense is this?”

  He gred at Kana, quickly unleashing his Aura.

  “Die!”

  He didn’t even want to hear her answer or anything of the sort, his fiery red Primordial Aura, which was the purest of fmes this old man, Feng g, had refined for ohousand years.

  “I child, know the might of my fmes and burn to ashes!”

  As he roared, he aimed at Kana, trying to burn her until nothing remained of her.

  FLUOOOSH!

  “Ugh! It’s really hot! Wow!”

  However, Kana enpassed herself in her own Aura, as the man’s eyes widened by the bright radiance he noticed ing from it.

  Her own Aura cshed against his own; space tinued gaining ripples, which were then regeed instantly.

  TRUUUM!

  “S-She has an Immortal Aura too?! Impossible!” Feng g muttered. “Who the hell are you, child?! Some kind of alien from this world, I already tell! But how e children like you achieve this level of—wait, perhaps your appearance is deceiving me! You’re not a child; you’re actually some old granny, aren’t you?!”

  “Eeeh? No, I am like four years old… Maybe five!” said Kana. “Mama said I should protect our home, so please stop or I’ll have to beat you down really good! And I am not as merciful as my big sister Athena could be!”

  “Tch, threatening me as if you didn’t know your pce…” the old, bald cultivator smiled maliciously. “I’ll show you the differeween your barely noticeable aura and the true strength of a Primordial Cultivator!”

  “{Phoenix Dark Fire Arts}: {Bzing Inferno Storm}!”

  RUMBLE!

  Suddenly, the man’s presence was unleashed pletely, as an endless storm of fmes maed around the entire Pagoda, geing hundreds of explosions at once.

  Kana was also caught by the storm of fmes, being pletely trapped within endless explosions oer another!

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  “Nnnggh…! He’s a bit strong, I guess! But not as much as mama!”

  Kana quickly held off the fmes, her entire body unleashing her own aura ier and greater quantities.

  Until eventually, a massive, four-armed, muscur, red-skinned demonic giant materialized out of her aura, swinging its fists, and then…

  BOOOMMM!!!

  Destroying the eorm with it!

  “You tried to kill me! You really did! Don’t bme me for what’s ing for ya!”

  FLASH!

  Kana rushed down, attag Feng g with tremendous force. Each of her punches came with a massive fist from her aura, unleashing a barrage of endless, unavoidable blows!

  “W-Whaaat?!”

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  The old cultivator was left speechless, as his entire body was being battered, his muscles were torn apart, and his boarted crag and breaking oer another.

  “P-Prote…! {Phoenix Fme Prote}!!!”

  Because he looked down on Kana, he had not set up a protective formation around his body, and when he finally did, Kana just attacked him harder anyway.

  “Hah! Face the power of my divine prote!” ughed the old man, the aura proteg him shaping into a glorious red ese armor with phoenix feathers decorating his appearance. “Now you’ll-”

  “I remember big brother did this…!”

  Kana didn’t even pay attention to what he said, as her aura transformed, ing around her and being something simir to armor as well!

  However, her armor was stranger, resembling tless muscur fibers ed around her body, glowing with red civing her an additional pair of arms made of this.

  “{Four-Armed Asura King’s Armor}! Yeah!”

  In that moment, the Cultivator khere was something weird about this brat!

  “She immediately turned her Immortal Aura into an Armor at her age?! Something that took me tens of years to aplish?!”

  He gritted his teeth with frustration, attag Kana with a rain of phoenix feathers and projectiles with immensely strong fmes that reached Kana instantly, b her with even more fiery explosions.

  However, Kana puhem away, the explosions not even harming her as she reached the old man and then punched him harder.

  “{Crimson Burst}!”

  BOOOM!

  “Uuargh!”

  Crack, crack…!

  CRACK!

  A single punch from Kana instantly spread cracks through the old cultivator’s armor, his arrogant faow full of disbelief.

  “W-What?! A single punch- Ungh!”

  He materialized a gigantic spear, a part of his armor’s maion.

  “{Phoenix Spear of Judgement Fmes}!”

  He thrust his spear rapidly, hundreds of times at once, aiming to impale Kana’s entire body and leave her like Swiss cheese.

  Yet…!

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  Kana’s eyes focused, her powerful Rainbow Eyes activating their incredible ability ied from her mama, the power to see through enemy movements dexterously.

  She moved all four of her arms as she analyzed the thrusting blows, making her way towards the cultivator while parrying and blog his attacks.

  The fmes stantly exploding in front of her were of no issue either!

  “W-What in the nine heavens is this?!”

  He grew desperate, attag Kana with even more fury; a massive phoenix emerged from his aura, rushing towards her as a kamikaze attack.

  “{Dark Phoenix’s Dest}!”

  Kana readied her fists at once, infusing them with enormous quantities of energy, and then…

  “{Crimson Burst Echo}…!”

  She released it all!

  “{Crimson Explosion}!”

  Four of her fists cshed against the desding phoenix, blowing it away and unleashing four massive explosions that quickly engulfed the old cultivator behind.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  “Uuuaarrgh?!”

  The ma all his innards exploding and his bones breaking; this time parts of his whole body were blown away instantly, leaving him with barely a left arm and several missing ks of meat.

  “A-Arrgh…! W-What… what was that?! She…!” He started sweating a lot as he was falling from the skies. “She’s not even at the Primordial Realm, that monster is…!”

  His own body quickly activated its innate ability, an infused Formation into his own flesh, blood, and skin; fmes enpassed him entirely as his beed instantly.

  This hoenix Revival!

  Once a day, he could revive from certaih.

  It was one of the trump cards that made him such a hard-to-kill bastard, and also someone feared aurim.

  “She’s not someone I beat! I have to get out of here before…!”

  As he tried to escape and pletely ditched his loyalty to Fang Gu Lan, prioritizing his own life like any Murim Cultivator would usually do…

  “Where do you think yoing?”

  Kana’s mama showed up.

  A giant, muscur, and intimidating orc warrioress, looking down at them, man.

  “W-What is that monster of a woman?!”

  He almost pissed himself before Mursha’s massive and intimidating physique.

  However, he noticed she wasn’t as strong as the daughter!

  “Get out of my way!”

  As he roared angrily and attacked Mursha…

  TRUUUM!

  A massive pressure pushed him down into the ground, making him hit the floor beh and leave a massive crater.

  “G-Gaaaggh?! W-What was that?!”

  He gnced upwards, notig Mursha and Kana looking down at him.

  “But mama, I was going to beat him!” the girl said. “Let me! Let me!”

  “You’ve already beat him; this cheater revived himself with some teique,” Mursha said. “Let Mama take care of this; you’re too young to take lives yet, Kana.”

  “Okay,” sighed the girl.

  “W-Wait a moment! I’ll switch sides! I’ll bee your ally and help you! I have got lots of intel I tell you!” The man screamed, preparing a powerful teique to ter and escape.

  However…

  Mursha doesn’t take baits.

  “The Blood Fang Tribe teags say that we must ake hostages,” Mursha said, suddenly feeling more ruthless and barbaric than most Cultivators in Murim. “We kill our enemy, end of the story.”

  “Hyeeeehh!”

  CRASH!

  The man screamed loudly as a massive axe cleaved him in half, burning him with fmes even more potent than his own, flesh, bones, and soul, destroyed.

  BOOOM!

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  Pach