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  “You damn brats, prepare yourselves! You will no longer disrespect the power of a Venerable such as myself!”

  Fang Gu Lan attacked Bing Xue’s children, Orion and Athena, as he pushed them away so he could fight Bing Xue on his own without their intervention.

  He thought that the reason she was winning was because of their intervention and strength bined with their mother.

  Therefore, he pushed them away as much as he could, creating dozens of Doppelgangers with his powerful Seven Paths Art to distrad kill them without their mother’s prote, as he was fighting her directly.

  “Who do you think you are to say that?!” Orion barked angrily, his aura shaping as a gigantic white werewolf growing stronger, swinging its cws against the thirteen Doppelgangers around him.

  “{Divine White Wolf’s Heavenly Cw}!”

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  He unleashed a barrage of sshing attacks; the cws of his Aura were as sharp as Bdes, allowing the boy to unleash an imitation of Bing Xue’s Soul Bde which he had ied and which he was rapidly iing into his own fighting style.

  “My Doppelgangers might be weaker than my true body, but I have specifically learned ueiques with them!”

  “{Seven Heavenly Paths}: {Seven-Colored Heaven Aegis}”

  Fang Gu Lan smiled through all his es as they unleashed the power of the Seven Paths of Heaven together, f a swirl of colorful clouds that rapidly fed into a huge rainbow shield.

  CLAAANK!

  The attacks ing from Orion were barely resisted, as scratches and cracks spread through the shield, the Venerable quickly realized that although it worked, more attacks would break the shield instantly.

  “This kid’s to! What did Bing Xue do to make her children cultivate to this point?!”

  Fang Gu Lan was more than anything, incredibly jealous of their power and how easy they got it pared to him, even though he himself had an unfair advantage, a System capable of Stealing people’s Fate.

  “Brother is not alone, you know?!”

  “Hm?!”

  The es of Fang Gu Lan noticed Athena appearing above them, her hands geing two massive “magic circles,” which were actually her own ueique and power: the ability to create Formations, ize them, bihem, and adapt to her foes’ powers.

  “{Divine White Heaven Formation Arts}: {Heavenly Repulsion Formation}!”

  The two formations in the girl’s hand activated as massive beams of pure light desded from the skies above, shog the Venerable.

  “What?! That’s not a Formation!”

  As he screamed in disbelief at this "magic,” which was quite revolting even for a being such as himself, the beams hit his es with immense explosions.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  As the beams exploded and engulfed his es, they began to weaken as their Heavenly Ki was burning away, being used to increase the damage they took from these beams.

  “Heavenly Repulsion is a Formation,” Athena said. “It simply uses the sky itself as part of it! By activating the Formation, the Skies absorb my Ki and then release it back towards my foes!”

  “T-That’s just magic, isn’t it?” Orion wondered, gring at her sister with surprise.

  “I-It’s not magic!” Athe a bit embarrassed; it really looked like that. “Orion, trate on the fight!”

  “Right!”

  Orion nodded, rushing towards the es that were being weakened and taking great damage. His Aura howled mightily as he aimed at those that were weak and with several cracks on their bodies.

  “{Divine White Wolf’s Mighty Howl}!”

  “AWOOOOOO!”

  As the wolf from his Aura howled furiously, a gigantic shockwave of heavenly energies and photon essence reached the es of Fang Gu Lan, redug the weakened oo pieces.

  Three out of thirteen died in that sed; the remaining ten quickly fought Orion head-on without letting the boy recover from that attack at all.

  “I’ll teach you how it’s done in Murim, you damned child!”

  “I will enjoy tearing Bing Xue’s son to shreds!”

  “Die!”

  They began pung, kig, and unleashing beams of light from their fiips against Orion, while their Seven Heavenly Paths Arts activated, geing infernal storms of fmes through the Red Heaven Path, destructive slig winds through the Green Heaven Path, and downpours of freezing heavenly waters through the Blue Heaven Path.

  “Nnnggh…!”

  Orion pced his arms around his face as he took all the hits head-on, Fang Gu Lan stantly ughing as he distracted Athena with four other es, making them six against the boy and fainst the girl.

  “Hahahahaa! You ’t use your fshy teiques if I overwhelm you from every angle, ’t you?!”

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  “Grrrghhh…!”

  The boy gritted his teeth as his skin was stantly covered by bruises; his Aura gained a red tinge, growing rger and stronger as his eyes turned red.

  His white fur began growing longer across his body, and his tail, wolf ears, and sharp cws also became rger; the more fur grew across his body the more furious he became.

  “RAAAAHHHH!”

  As he roared furiously while being punched in the face six times in a row, his Aura exploded, sending a gigantic shockwave everywhere.

  TRUUUUM!

  “Ungh?!”

  “Argh!”

  “What the…?!”

  The es of the Venerable gasped as they g Orion in disbelief; the boy’s body had ged, being slightly taller, more mature out of nowhere, as if he had aged a couple of years, looking more like a teehan a child.

  “GRRRHHH…! GRAAARRR! LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE!”

  With a furious roar, he opened his jaws, firing a massive beam of pure white energy towards the es, who geed the same shield as before.

  Yet…!

  BOOOMMM!!!

  The shield was instantly pierced, three more es disiing before the boy’s wrath as the boy rushed towards Athena, who was stantly being attacked.

  “I-Impossible! Three es died instantly?!”

  Fang Gu Lan sciousness spread through his many es; they couldn’t believe the situatiht now! However, as a Venerable, he had quick thinking and adaptation abilities.

  “{Seven Heavenly Paths}: {Divine Heavenly on F}!”

  Using the remaining fragments of the es that were destroyed, he fed three powerful ons: a rainbow sword, a bck spear, and a golden axe.

  With these three powerful ons being wielded by the three es fighting Orion, he quickly pushed the boy back where he came from, as he roared angrily that his sister was being attacked too unfairly!

  The powerful ons created ripples in space as they attacked the boy, breaking his defenses and stantly slig through his fur and body, leaving behind scratches and small wounds.

  SLAAASH! CRAAASH! BAAAM!

  “COWARD!”

  Orion roared angrily, gring at the es as they ughed maliciously, without letting him even fight back as the ons began to burn through his own Ki, making it harder for the boy to unleash it like a beam.

  “Cowards? Why, that’s such a harsh word!”

  “I am not a coward; I simply adapt.”

  “What’s wrong with this? You were doing the same befainst me with your mother!”

  “IT’S NOT THE SAME!”

  The boy furiously roared, opening his jaws and catg a sword ssh, g with all his ford shattering the sword instantly.

  “RAAARRRGH!”

  Crack, crack…! CRAAASH!

  Fang Gu Lan was once more surprised by what the boy did. He used his teeth to shatter a treasure of the level of a Venerable; that was simply too ridiculous!

  “I have to kill these brats before they bee too big of a problem!” he thought. “I’ll sughter them right now, before they grow and surpass me!”

  The merciless Venerable threw the shattered sword towards the boy as it exploded into hundreds of sharp khat pierced through the boy’s skin, leaving them c his body.

  “Die.”

  “Ugh?!”

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  “ORION!”

  Athena screamed as she saw her brother being engulfed in tless explosions from ons pierg his body!

  “I don’t think you’ve got the time to be w about your brother, little bitch!”

  “Aaarrgh!”

  Fang Gu Lan grabbed Athena’s long hair and swung her around like a ragdoll, sending her flying down as the two other es intercepted her, unleashing powerful teiques of their own.

  “{Seven Heavenly Paths}: {Green Heaven’s Storm}”

  “{Seven Heavenly Paths}: {Bck Heaven’s Void}!”

  The Green Heaven Storm and the Bck Heaven Void merged together, rapidly f a giganti of bck void, engulfing her pletely.

  FLUOOOSH!

  “Uuggh…!”

  Athena was trapped inside as void stantly attempted to e her very being. She g her brhting, struggling.

  At first it seemed like their victory was assured, but the more they fought, the more resilient and trickier Fang Gu Lan became.

  This was the Venerable’s way of fighting; he would let his oppos get the better of him first, studying their movements, teiques, and powers.

  And then, when they least expect it, catch them off-guard with a powerful attad adapt to their fighting styles.

  This is how this monster had won against so many foes strohan him before.

  However, it was when Bing Xue used the same tactic against him that he lost.

  “The Void is ing Mama’s Prote…!” Athena thought, grittieeth. “I have to fight more… Better, stronger… I o adapt; I o overe this on my own or else…!”

  Her eyes began glowing with white and silver light, and as the girl’s entire Aura started to fluctuate, her body also started to transform like her brother did, temporarily maturing as her fur, ears, and tail became longer.

  Her Aura became a giant, ferocious white wolf, although it rapidly became more majestic, resembling a fox rather than a wolf.

  “GRRHHH…!”

  She grabbed the formations in her hands and then ihem into her body.

  “{Divine White Heaven Formation Arts}: {Heavenly Armor Formation}!”

  FLAAASH!

  The Heavenly Beams rushed from the skies, hitting the tornado made of void aroying it. Fang Gu Lan’s es gred at the girl, as her entire body was covered with massive meical armor of white and silver color.

  From watg her mother and her sister Hekita stantly iing, analyzing, and improving the Meical Gods, Athena slowly began to also gain a great i in them.

  Her formations, her chosen path and teiques, could sometimes potentially feel limiting, but the more she learhese things, the more her teique expa the same time as her imagination.

  “Full body armor?”

  “That won’t work either way!”

  “Your Divine Prote easily shatters before my might!”

  Fang Gu Lan’s three es reached Athena instantly; the girl moved alongside the meical armor c most of her body, and propulsors unleashed explosions of white and blue fmes, helping the girl immediately reach him.

  “HYAAAH!”

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  And then she cshed against him; gigantic metallic cws infused with her heavenly powers moved alongside her own, intercepting her foe’s attacks from every angle.

  “Tail!”

  A long meical tail appeared behind the meical armor, ected to her own; it moves dexterously, stopping the bastard from sneaking behind her.

  CRAAASH!

  And pierg right through one of the Venerable’s es as her tail transformed into a spiraling drill made of pure Ki.

  In fact, the entire Armor was a Formation that used her Aura, Ki, and the Sky arouo crystalize; therefore, it was an evolved form of her own Aura, in a way.

  “Guuaargh?!”

  As the e was quickly destroyed and exploded into pieces, the other two es rushed to gather the fragments and create a neon.

  But the girl stopped them, instantly grabbing the fragments herself and using her Formation again.

  “Don’t think I’ll let you!” she said angrily. “{Divine White Heaven Formation Arts}: {Heavenly on Formation}!”

  The fragments of Fang Gu Lan’s e, which were rainbow-colored crystal-like materials, were rapidly merged together through a cube-shaped formation, fusing with it into a giant golden and rainbow-colored spear, covered with White Heaven Thunder stantly zapping.

  “HYAAAH!”

  With an angry roar, the girl swung the spear forward, pierg through the Heavenly Shields and Barriers of her foes and pushing them back stantly.

  CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

  “She’s using the e’s leftover fragments as her on?!”

  “Dammit! What’s the meaning of this?!”

  The two es couldn’t believe Athena’s ingness. It only took her a moment to see them doing that for her to copy their teique almost fwlessly and even improve upon it.

  Since she began her path trowing strohe girl has always been fasated with Formations themselves and the endless possibilities they do.

  Withihe Path of Formations had bee clearer as she fought and almost reached her limits.

  “Just stay away from her range!”

  “She sacrificed her special teiques for stronger physical strength; she should be easy to take down from a distanow.”

  The two es kept their distance while using Bck Heaven Void stantly, pushing her bad beginning to break her armor; however, the girl wasn’t going to just hopelessly chase them around.

  Her Aura ged colors, from white…

  To bck.

  “Like two sides of the same , Light also give birth to Darkness, Athena,” Bing Xue oold her. “Never fet this. Although your strength is definitely within the White Heaven Formation Arts, you also unleash its opposite force. Practice, you’ll get it eventually.”

  “{Divine Bck Heaven Formation Arts}: {Bck Void Gravity Formation}!”

  TRUUUM!

  Darkness engulfed the two es as they felt an immense gravitational force towards the girl; gravity itself twisted before the power of the Bck Heaven Void teique.

  Which she not only copied but improved, fusing it into her own teiques!

  “W-What is the meaning of this?!”

  “Uuaarrghh!”

  The two es panicked, attag Athena with everything they had!

  However, she rushed through the fmes and winds with her armor as it was beiroyed, swinging the massive spear and impaling both of them at the same time.

  CRAAASH!

  “Urrgh?!”

  “Arrgh!”

  Crack, crack…!

  BOOOM!

  The es screamed in agony, their bodies instantly exploding into pieces, fragments that the girl wasn’t going to let go to waste.

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  Pach