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Chapter 212 Saying the 'harshest' words

[Within the quantum space of the steam furnace]

Before the aftershocks of the Black Cang explosion had even subsided, a disheveled figure staggered out of the charred smoke and dust.

Bai Kong clutched his right shoulder, which had been blown to pieces, grinned, revealing his blood-stained teeth. His arrogant demeanor remained undiminished despite his injuries.

"Tsk tsk, as expected of the Heavenly Dao Master of Fate, that power is indeed formidable, but..."

As he spoke, a surge of black energy enveloped Bai Kong's injured shoulder, rapidly repairing his wounds.

Throughout this process, Bai Kong continued to arrogantly provoke the Heavenly Dao.

"Is that all you're capable of? I don't think you're any good."

Heaven simply glanced at him calmly.

"If your ability is limited to just talking big, then I might have to retract my previous assessment of you."

"After all, you are not much different from the ants I have encountered before."

"Pooh!"

Bai Kong spat a mouthful of blood onto the ground. The black mist on his shoulder had completely healed his injuries, leaving only his tattered sleeves swaying, highlighting his recent disheveled state.

He looked at the Heavenly Dao and said fiercely, "Heavenly Dao, the God of Fate, I've heard others say that before, but they all ended up as nourishment for my body."

Bai Kong's eyes were still full of arrogance and swagger, as if he was born unable to learn to bow his head.

As they were talking, Bai Kong glanced quickly at the squinty-eyed figure not far away, who was quietly making his way towards the steam furnace, and suddenly laughed.

"But since you want me to be serious, then so be it."

He shook his arm, which had recently healed, and slowly put away his arrogant expression, becoming serious and earnest.

"After all, it's a bit restrictive to fight you using this useless body."

Looking at Bai Kong on the screen, who had been spouting threats but had already been slapped twice across the face by the Heavenly Dao.

The anime/manga audience couldn't help but complain.

"Hey, maybe we should just say less. Even I think you're asking for it."

"You want to say the harshest things? Then get ready for the worst beating!"

'Lao Bai, you'd better shut up! Your prediction is as straight as a telephone pole!'

'Something's not right. I feel like I've seen this scene somewhere before. Let me take another look (funny face).'

Just as the barrage of comments on the dimensional screen was scrolling wildly, Bai Kong's left half of his body was suddenly swallowed up by a thick black mist.

A skeletal 'armor' began to grow wildly along the left side of Bai Kong's skin, eventually covering half of his chest.

On his forehead, a curved, broken horn pierced his skin, gleaming with a cold, hard light.

However, compared to the changes in Bai Kong's appearance, what was truly shocking was the enormous, sky-covering phantom that quietly appeared behind him.

Although the appearance of that phantom was very brief, the fleeting glimpse of its enormous vertical pupil still caused viewers in the dimensional world to feel a strange tremor through the screen.

Just one eye is this big. I can't imagine how big this thing will be in its complete form. Could it be bigger than a planet?

The camera then switched to Tiandao in the anime.

Faced with Bai Kong's obvious 'form change' and 'strength increase'.

The Heavenly Dao not only reacted calmly, but also directly revealed the mystery behind it all. "Half-star skeletonization? Things are finally getting interesting."

Although Bai Kong and the Heavenly Dao's memory projection from six years ago had briefly clashed within Chen Kong's soul space.

But this has no meaning whatsoever for the laws of nature in reality.

According to the script produced by the Stellar Productions team, this should be the first time Tiandao has met Bai Kong and witnessed his 'half-star skeletonization'.

His behavior is exactly the kind of reaction one should have upon first meeting someone.

Through the process of becoming a half-star, Bai Kong's basic star energy instantly surged, and his other attributes also experienced an explosive increase.

It can be said that Bai Kong still has a considerable gap with the Heavenly Dao in the six basic attributes.

However, these gaps are not as large as they were at the beginning.

Without any further words, Bai Kong gripped the Void Weaver, which glowed with an eerie light, in his left hand, while his right hand hummed as the Black Star Longsword gathered momentum, and he immediately launched an attack on the Heavenly Dao.

His figure blurred, and while he was still in mid-air, his left hand had already pulled the trigger on the Void Weaver.

Bang bang bang!
Before the soldiers arrived, gunshots rang out.

Three ethereal, white bullets with the pattern of emptiness tore through the air, accompanied by a distorted and ear-piercing whistle, heading straight for the face of the Heavenly Dao.

Strangely, although Bai Kong fired three Sky Pattern bullets, two of them suddenly disappeared!
In response, Tiandao surprisingly drew out the Shattered Star from his waist.

Ding!
With a crisp metallic clang, Heavenly Dao cleaved through the first Void Pattern bullet fired by White Sky.

Then, Tiandao lightly turned his wrist, and the Shattered Star in his hand drew a strange arc, casually swinging it towards an empty direction.

The next second, a second crisp metallic clang rang out behind Tiandao.

A Void Pattern bullet, whose whereabouts had been concealed by the Void Pattern, was instantly cleaved by the Heavenly Dao, its star energy dissipating and turning into countless points of light that vanished before everyone's eyes.

Then, after slashing this blade, the Heavenly Dao slightly tilted its head.

An invisible stream of air grazed his cheek and landed on the ground behind him with a 'boom'.

And this was the last Sky Pattern bullet fired by Bai Kong.

Throughout this process, Tiandao's entire set of movements flowed smoothly, even carrying a kind of nonchalant elegance.

It was as if, to him, the so-called 'elimination of his presence' was nothing more than a ridiculous joke.

However, Bai Kong never thought that he could harm the Heavenly Dao with just this little trick.

While Tiandao was dealing with the Sky Pattern Bullet, Bai Kong had already arrived in front of Tiandao and launched a fierce attack on him.

"interesting."

Faced with Bai Kong's fierce and relentless offensive, Tian Dao remained remarkably relaxed.

His sword-wielding movements were slow and infrequent, but each swing of Shattered Star precisely struck the weakest point of Black Star's blade.

While fending off the attacks from Bai Kong, he also offered him some praise.

"Using the Void Pattern to conceal the bullet's trajectory, Bai Kong, you are indeed much better than that kid Chen Kong in terms of controlling star energy."

Bai Kong seemed completely oblivious to Tian Dao's praise. His attacks grew increasingly frantic, with the Void Weaver in his left hand continuously firing out white Void Pattern bullets in an attempt to tear apart the barely perceptible vector barrier surrounding Tian Dao—'Myriad Phenomena Repulsion'.

(End of this chapter)