Inside the Realm of Kingship.
Under the watchful eyes of Lin and Shuzen Akua, Miyabi Fujisaki's body, wreathed in black energy, began to change rapidly.
His body swelled, growing larger.
His human form vanished in an instant.
Three seconds later, he had transformed into a terrifying figure standing about three meters tall.
His body maintained a humanoid shape.
His head resembled that of a locust.
The top was a pointed, oval-shaped protrusion, and on this bulging part of his head grew eye-like organs.
His mouth was filled with sharp fangs.
Tattered wings grew from his back, along with pitch-black tentacles that sprouted from his spine and writhed behind him.
His skin was a bluish-black color all over.
The lines of his muscles, which held immense power, were incredibly well-defined.
Wisps of black energy, visible to the naked eye, coiled around his body.
An evil, negative aura permeated the air.
"Go, Golden General."
Seeing Miyabi Fujisaki complete his transformation, Lin said softly with a faint smile.
"Final round. Time to fight."
The greatsword on its back appeared in its hand, and the Golden General took a step forward.
It appeared before Miyabi Fujisaki in an instant.
It raised the greatsword high and brought it cleaving down upon him, an incredibly terrifying amount of compressed golden Aura clinging to the blade.
There was no time to dodge, so he didn't.
A savage glint appeared in Miyabi Fujisaki's eyes. Without dodging or evading, he lunged at the Golden General with hands that had become sharp claws.
The next moment, a flash of golden light from the sword passed by.
Miyabi Fujisaki was sliced in two.
After cleaving him in half from top to bottom, the golden blade of energy flew onward, growing larger until it struck the domain's spatial barrier.
A thunderous boom echoed.
It was like the rolling of thunder.
The space of the Realm of Kingship seemed to tremble slightly.
Miyabi Fujisaki's claws had also dug into the Golden General, and black energy swarmed out, beginning to corrode its body.
A continuous hissing sound could be heard.
The golden Aura within the Golden General erupted, constantly clashing with and annihilating the black energy clinging to it.
Paying little mind to the black energy,
the Golden General swung its greatsword, and with flashes of sword light, it diced Miyabi Fujisaki's body into hundreds of pieces.
However, tendrils of reddish-black power extended from the fragments of flesh, rapidly connecting with the other pieces of his body.
The flesh and blood zipped back together with a series of whooshes.
Two seconds later, he was completely restored.
Lin raised an eyebrow slightly and sent a sliver of his consciousness to control the Golden General directly.
The greatsword in the Golden General's hand dissolved into a multitude of golden light motes, which then coated the surface of its massive body.
At that moment, every inch of its body was imbued with the sharp edge of the greatsword.
It clenched its right fist, crushing the very air.
It threw a punch at the newly restored Miyabi Fujisaki.
Terrifying power was unleashed.
Like a volcanic eruption.
Miyabi Fujisaki swung his right arm to counter.
The two fists, equal in size, collided like Mars crashing into Earth, sending ripples through the surrounding space.
With a crisp crack,
blackish-red bloody mist splattered everywhere.
The right half of Miyabi Fujisaki's body was directly blown apart by the terrifying force.
Now under Lin's control, the Golden General didn't stop.
It lifted its right leg and kicked the left half of Miyabi Fujisaki's body.
Another explosive crack.
The remaining left half was also instantly blasted into a bloody mist.
Yet even so, Miyabi Fujisaki was still not completely dead.
The scattered bloody mist squirmed.
It began to reassemble at a visible rate.
A small part of the blasted-apart right side had already regenerated.
The Golden General continued its barrage of heavy blows.
A continuous series of deafening booms followed.
Miyabi Fujisaki's barely regenerated body was blown apart again and again.
Even so, he remained tenacious.
"!!!"
Witnessing all this from Lin's side, Shuzen Akua's eyes flickered, a look of fervent longing appearing within them.
This is the life force of a True Ancestor!
Truly worthy of the name 'immortal.'
After all, the second True Ancestor, Akasha Bloodriver, leader of the Three Dark Lords, was known as the Undying Swordsman.
"A True Ancestor really is hard to kill..."
Seeing this, Lin's eyes shifted slightly as he fell into thought.
If he couldn't annihilate the True Ancestor power within his opponent's body, killing Miyabi Fujisaki this way was nearly impossible.
The power of the King's Vanguard wasn't enough.
With a thought, the Golden General, its armor now pitted and scarred from the corrosive black energy, vanished, reverting to the Sword of Damocles.
The blade itself was completely unscathed.
The black energy had only corroded the external body of energy, unable to harm its essence.
After Lin stopped his attack,
Miyabi Fujisaki, who had been reduced to a bloody mist scattered here and there, once again began to regenerate at a visible rate.
Lin just watched quietly.
The curve of his lips revealed a composure that showed he had everything under control.
Shuzen Akua blinked at this, glancing from Lin to the regenerating Miyabi Fujisaki.
Although she didn't know what Lin was planning,
she didn't say anything to disturb him.
About a minute later,
Miyabi Fujisaki was finally whole again.
"It's time for this performance to end."
Lin suddenly spoke.
His voice reached Miyabi Fujisaki's ears.
Just as he was feeling a bit scornful, Miyabi Fujisaki suddenly sensed something, and his expression changed.
The surrounding space locked him in place.
Then, countless invisible spatial blades swept over his body, instantly dicing him into fragments once more.
The space on all sides began to compress,
crushing these fragments into a bloody pulp.
Finally, with a loud rumble, the space collapsed, creating a terrifying spatial storm.
It began to break down the bloody pulp of Miyabi Fujisaki into molecules and atoms.
He was receiving the same treatment as his false body.
This continued for about a minute.
Only then did Lin sense that Miyabi Fujisaki was well and truly dead.
His false body had only lasted three seconds.
"So hard to kill."
Lin couldn't help but marvel at this as he quelled the spatial storm.
"Is it over?"
Shuzen Akua looked at Lin upon hearing his words.
Lin smiled and nodded.
A look of adoration and affection appeared in Shuzen Akua's eyes.
As expected of her man. So strong.
He could even kill a legendary True Ancestor, who was supposedly 'immortal.'
"Hm?"
Just then, a thought occurred to Lin, and a look of confusion appeared in his eyes.
If Miyabi Fujisaki was dead, why hadn't the Codex of All Things sent a notification that his entry was unlocked?
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Lin's suddenly puzzled expression, Shuzen Akua grew curious.
"Wait a moment."
Lin replied, and with a thought, he opened the Codex of All Things.
The codex automatically turned to the page that had recorded Miyabi Fujisaki.
On it was a black silhouette.
This meant the conditions to unlock the entry had not been met.
"Could it be that Miyabi Fujisaki isn't dead?"
The thought surfaced in his mind, and Lin couldn't help but frown.
But he had clearly sensed that the man was as dead as could be.
He was disintegrated into molecules and atoms.
It's not as if Miyabi Fujisaki was the type of being who could return from having his soul scattered, just as long as a trace of his existence remained.
How could he possibly survive that?
Or was it the case of 'a sly rabbit has three burrows,' and he had backed up his memories and personality, hiding them away in some secret corner?
So that once this body died, his backup would automatically activate?
Lin was completely baffled.
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