The blood-colored torrent came without warning, seething with rage and killing intent!
Its fury shattered several restraints and seals in the void. The beings once suppressed within broke free, only to be seized by terror!
The one who had struck was none other than the Ancestor of Blood Sea, born from the first drop of blood in heaven and earth!
Yet when Chen Cuo swept the area with his Divine Sense, he discovered that "three" Blood Venerables had struck at once!
These three were, in truth, one person occupying different points in time and space. But under the influence of their turmoil, even Chen Cuo, who had mastered part of the Heavenly Dao's power, could not tell which three points they were. He could only faintly sense three utterly different states of mind!
One brimmed with anger; one was filled with indifference; and the last radiated an intense urgency. That one meant to seize the moment when Merit Qi suppressed Chen Cuo and his momentum and Fortune waned, then take his place and usurp the Way of Rise and Fall!
As their wills collided, distorted faces and ghostly visages burst forth, baring fangs and brandishing claws as they ravaged the void!
I can make sense of this chaos. When I first "awoke" at Prince of Nankang's Residence, several versions of me existed at the same point in time. It's only natural that they drew different attacks from the same enemy! But the power of those versions comes from the same source. When it merges, the force it unleashes is beyond imagination!
With that thought, Chen Cuo turned the Heavenly Dao's power into a blade, formed the Sword of Rise and Decline, and delivered a weightless slash!
Sever!
The seemingly invincible torrent swiftly withered and broke in two!
Crash!
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