Below, both sides waited for the aftermath of the first clash. Depending on how their top powers compared to each other, the people below would have different objectives.
After the explosion occurred, a shadow flew out of the large cloud it created and smashed into a distant mountain. Everyone's faces were tense, and they quickly zoomed in through their spatial sense.
"Yasenia Dravory, you are dead!"
A shout came from the mountain as a warping aura blew apart the dust cloud, revealing the Abyssal Human. Mo Yun and the others smiled while their 10 opponents gained ugly looks. With the result of the first clash showing advantage towards their side, the five Star Immortal Sect cultivators waited not a single second more and charged forward, attacking the 10 enemy cultivators. Even if their numbers were lower, their overall realm was higher, giving them an advantage.
When both sides below collided, the cloud in the sky was blown apart, revealing Yasenia's figure surrounded by hundreds of thousands of stars. She looked like a sovereign overlooking the world as she controlled the cosmos around her. Then, she pointed at the Abyssal Human and spoke indifferently. "[Empyrean Galaxy Domain: Sky Collapse]."
Her charming and mellow voice echoed with the majesty of an immortal cultivator, suppressing all mortal lives in the nearby surroundings. Then, hundreds of thousands of stars painted white streaks in the blue sky, illuminating the sky.
Seeing the barrage of attacks coming his way, the Abyssal Human's aura sharpened, and his sword created afterimages as he attacked with ridiculous speed and defended against the attack.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions echoed in his surroundings, but with the help of his detection methods, he was more than able to counterattack the barrage of stars. However, when the sky collapsed, the stars weren't the only thing that would fall from the firmament.
Terrifying heat and frost covered the land, prompting the Abyssal Human to look upward. "What is that?"
The clouds above him parted, revealing two colossal celestial bodies. One of them was a magma fireball emitting tsunamis of heat, while the other was a silver rocky sphere freezing the air around it to the point that it started solidifying.
The Abyssal Human's face changed as the 100-kilometer-wide spheres descended from the sky. Their sheer size was enough to cover most of the sky above him. "[Twisting Abyss Sword]!"
Energy flowed out of his body toward the sword as it gained incredible sharpness. Then, he slashed toward the sky several times in a fraction of a second.
Purplish sword energy covered the sky, slicing both massive celestial bodies into pieces and exploding them into a mixed explosion of heat and cold. "Gah!" A grunt escaped the Abyssal Human's throat as the attacks affected his soul because of the [Celestial Tyrant Soul Unshackled] skill.
Yasenia was not idle during this time. Her hand gently covered Draheart from the start of the blade to the tip. Once her energy spread evenly all across, her soul surged and poured Soul Energy into Draheart. "[Firmament Soul Sword]."
Draheart's sword energy surged to the sky in happiness, slashing the air around Yasenia just from the energy release. The sword was feeling extremely comfortable as Yasenia's Soul Energy penetrated deeply into her body and core.
While the skill needed some time to activate, the result was a terrifying combination of a physical and ethereal weapon. Yasenia smiled coldly when she saw the Abyssal Human rushing towards her. "Now, we can kill him and prevent many of his annoying tricks."
Abyssal Humans were feared for three reasons. The first and most obvious was that they had intelligence comparable to that of humans. Only the uncontrollable impulse to corrupt everything kept them away from reaching the same level of cunning as humans.
The second reason was their strength. Even the weakest Abyssal Human had Transcendence Realm strength and was born with a deep understanding of the Corrupt Domain, the Abyss' version of the Intent Domain.
However, compared to the previous two, the third reason was what gave people headaches. The Abyssal Human was able to survive fatal injuries through a myriad of strange methods. Completely killing an Abyssal Human was extremely hard without erasing body, soul, and Abyssal energy.
"Yasenia!"
The dragoness's indifferent expression gained a faint frown for a second. "Can you stop calling my name? You are tainting it with your ugly voice."
"DIE! [Twisting Abyss Sword]!"
The dragoness's eyes flashed with a thoughtful look. 'Again, the same skill?'
Draheart's body burst with celestial radiance as Yasenia's energy concentrated into it. "[Shattering The Heavens]."
The sky rumbled as Yasenia's sword cleaved the sky in two, swallowing the Abyssal Human.
BOOM!!!
Seeing her own strength, even Yasenia was slightly surprised. She had not had any chance to just go all out in the past, so she was somewhat uncertain of the limits of her strength. Even more so when her understanding of the strength between Transcendence Realm levels was still somewhat shallow.
Sensing how the Abyssal Human was sent flying once again by her attack, Yasenia gave chase. Two illusory white feather wings made of starlight seemed to merge with her own dragon wings as her speed increased explosively.
The Abyssal Human was honestly confused. 'How has her strength increased so much after just a few years?'
The first time they fought, both sides were equally matched and exchanged blows for a long time. At that time, he had his figure hidden with the help of his robe and the Abyss Energy.
During that confrontation, Yasenia had used some of the skills she was using now. Nevertheless, the strength back then and now was like comparing a child's strength with that of an adult.
Sensing the dragoness catching up to his figure, the Abyssal Human's mind spun. 'Do I need to go all out just to deal with a first-level Transcendence Realm Cultivator?'
Yasenia was clearly a strong opponent, but he knew that there were much stronger cultivators in this area. If he couldn't even deal with one Yasenia Dravory without needing to use all his resources, he didn't have any chances to continue his plans.
The dragoness appeared in front of him, moving at a speed that was hard to follow with his eyes. A sense of danger chilled his heart as he hastily raised his sword and enveloped himself with a defensive technique.
"[Soul Dividing Tyrannical Cleave]!"
Time seemed to slow down as the sense of danger only increased in the Abyssal Human's heart. The sword in Yasenia's hand was packed with so much energy that it looked about to blow up with a single touch. Moreover, when the dragoness swung her arms, the physical strength behind the sword swing honestly scared him. It felt as if his body would explode if he received one punch from the dragoness.
Knowing that whatever this attack was was enough to heavily injure him, the Abyssal Human made a decision during that split moment between the start of the attack and contact with his body. "[Abyss Body Warp]!"
Yasenia's facial expression changed when she sensed danger. 'He can counterattack from this position? I need to dodge.'
Her sword struck the target first, phasing through the other side's defenses as she cleaved through his body. Her sword's energy and all other buffs exploded inside the Abyssal Human, making him scream sharply in pain. However, as he screamed, his body crumpled as if he were a sheet of paper being crushed into a ball.
Yasenia didn't understand what was happening, but she quickly made the decision to flee as fast as she could. Pegasus Gallop activated, and her wings flapped with all their strength.
As soon as she left, the area around the man suddenly collapsed as part of the Abyssal Dimension descended around him. His body exploded within that Abyss Dimension, filling everything with an extremely damaging explosion.
Thankfully, Yasenia managed to outrun the shockwave, barely escaping from whatever that was.
When the explosion stopped, the Abyss dimension that descended collapsed inwards and reformed into the Abyssal Human's body. From the outside, he looked pristine, as if nothing had happened.
'What a bizarre skill.' Yasenia understood that Abyssal Humans were the little darlings of the Abyss, but she didn't expect that they could do something like explode and reform their body through a brief summoning of the Abyss dimension.
The Abyssal Human grinned twistedly. "I am unkillable, Yasenia! There is nothing you can do about it!"
The dragoness didn't answer as he looked at the seemingly unscathed man. "[Celestial Dragon Roar]."
ROAR!
She opened her mouth, and her energy burst from her mouth together with a deep and sonorous dragon cry. The waves of Celestial Energy struck the Abyssal Human's soul once more, and his body burst with blood right across the path her sword slashed through before.
Yasenia's lips arched coldly. "You can recover your body, but not your soul."
She had made a bit of a change in the [Celestial Dragon Roar] skill. Before, it was useful as a means of stunning the enemy or dealing with large groups of low-level people. However, Yasenia felt that kind of thing was unnecessary.
Now, [Celestial Dragon Roar] would resonate with the enemy's soul and open the soul's wounds on the physical body. So, if Yasenia sliced someone's hand in the Soul Body, and then she roared, the other person's physical hand would explode and disappear.
As the Abyssal Human vomited liters of blood, he glared at Yasenia with both bewilderment and anger. "W-What did you do!?"
Yasenia chuckled. "I am not here to explain anything." Draheart melted away as it slowly wrapped around her arms, creating two elegant and agile-looking clawed gauntlets. The colors of the sword shone on the gauntlets' surface, while two large, celestial-blue spherical gems protruded from the back of Yasenia's hands.
The Abyssal Human's expression was already twisted when Yasenia's figure vanished and she appeared right in front of the man. "[Grand Cosmos Martial Art, Third Form: Comet Descent]."
BOOM!
Her fist landed on the man's face, her figure leaving a blazing trail of scorching stellar fire behind her. The strike sent the man flying, and Yasenia pursued quickly, arriving at his side. "[Grand Cosmos Martial Art, Second Form: Galaxy Flow]."
Her breath changed from tyrannical to one of ethereal flow. Then, her attacks fell on the man with seemingly not a single instant of pause between them.
As Yasenia pummeled him with a mix of punches, kicks, and tail strikes, her breath condensed and gathered in her right fist. "[Grand Cosmic Martial Art, First Form: Stellar Burst]."
The Abyssal Human felt Yasenia's fist land on his chest, time stopping for a moment as he looked at Yasenia's pair of cold, golden slit eyes. Then, everything blurred as his consciousness was almost blown away with his flying body.
After he cratered on the side of a mountain, his body and soul felt as if they had been struck with countless hammers, making him want to scream in anger and agony. Seeing Yasenia descend toward him, rage finally rushed to his brain, and his aura changed.
Yasenia's facial expression became somewhat solemn as she rushed toward the Abyssal Human. She could clearly feel the intense energies surging from the bottom of the man's body. 'I can't reach him!'
"[Abyss Corrupt Domain…]!"
His voice echoed with the twisting of space around him.
"[...Level Two]!"
Surprise flashed in her heart, and Yasenia quickly changed from offense to defense. "[Celestial Aegis]! [Grand Cosmos Martial Art: Nebula Ripple]!"
All her energy was focused in front of her as she punched the expanding aura around the man and created a protective nebula in front of her.
BOOOM!!!
The dragoness's body trembled as the shockwaves harmed her durable muscles and a bit of her internal organs.