The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 167: A Battle Of Venerables Above The Surface Of Mars

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Through the power of [Primordial Heavenly Yin Yang Aegis], a new Divinity Authority that Bing Xue created on the go while trying to overcome the powerful foe in front of her, she was able to send back his powerful beams capable of shattering continents if they were to hit the Earth.

The counterattack from the shield, concentrating the power of Yin and Yang and the disruption they create when hostility combined, which Bing Xue calls “Chaos Disruption Arts,” allowed her to overcome his defenses and regeneration, blowing him farther away from the Moon or the Planet.

Despite how reckless their fight seemed, she was constantly trying to protect the planet and the moon, fully knowing that if anything were to happen even to the moon itself, the planet might be in danger due to the change of ocean tides and gravity; perhaps even giant moon fragments could fall as meteors, creating great disasters.

“He’s rapidly regenerating already?!”

However, Bing Xue gritted her teeth with slight frustration as she saw her opponent already regenerating while he flew away from the Earth and the Moon into the farther cosmos.

“I don’t want to kill him, but I need to teach him a good lesson…”

She quickly imbued her Ki, Mana, Primal Power, and Spirit Energy into her foot, releasing it while in her giant form made of light, and rushing towards him.

FLASH!

As she did, he quickly reacted, twisting his body and suddenly gaining dozens of snake-like heads, similar to the technique she had used before against the Spider Primal Goddess.

“{Calamity Snake’s Void Venom Fangs}!”

Dozens of snake heads reached Bing Xue’s gigantic body, opening their jaws and rapidly biting through her defenses and her body.

Each bite injected a venom that was made of diluted Void Essence, consuming her from the inside with each bite!

“Ugh!”

Bing Xue quickly cut off the poisoned parts and rapidly regenerated them within a split second, rushing towards her opponent while summoning a huge black and golden sword.

Her Yin Yang Sword, made by refining the Body and Venerable Authority of a powerful Venerable that had Dual Cultivated both the Yin and Yang Daos together.

One of her mightiest opponents, but that was nothing but a blade after his death.

“{Yin And Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Endless Cycle Of Harmony}”

Her Aura erupted, transforming into the Yin and Yang symbol and spinning rapidly as she attacked this mysterious man, cutting through his countless heads while releasing explosions that destroyed everything.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“TCH!”

The man clicked his tongue as he quickly materialized a titanic, muscular arm by fusing countless snakes together into one.

“{Calamity Snake Demon God Arm}!”

“Wha…?!”

Bing Xue was once more shocked as she felt Demonic Energy similar to what her own demons could give to her, fused with the powers he had imitated from her as well!

BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!

A single arm was all it took for Bing Xue’s swordsmanship to be completely stopped, her slashing attacks were immediately destroyed, and her Aura of Harmony broken.

“{Nemean Lion’s Berserk Rampage}!”

His head suddenly transformed into a crimson lion, roaring furiously, and so did the rest of his body, turning into a werelion-like entity, charging against Bing Xue while his entire body was covered in Flames of Wrath.

CRAAASH!

“UGH?!”

Bing Xue vomited blood again as her opponent rushed towards her, headbutted her chest, and then smashed her stomach with his massive lion paws, throwing her away into the cosmos.

“I told you.”

As Bing Xue flew away, the man moved at lightning speed the same way she could, by turning completely into pure electricity—no, light—and reaching her in an instant.

“I am much, much better than you.”

Bing Xue sighed, smiling a bit as she gathered her Divine Powers, suddenly conjuring two spinning blades made out of her Divinity.

“Is that so?”

The spinning blades continued growing larger and larger…

“And I already told you so; I’ve always beaten many foes stronger than me!”

{Dual Rings of Radiant and Umbral Harmony}!

FLASH! FLASH!

The two spinning blade rings rushed towards the man, who didn’t even bother evading, gathering his powers into his arms and forming two muscular arms made out of dozens of gigantic snakes.

“Did you think that would make any difference?!”

He smashed the two rings with his gigantic arms!

CRAAASH!

“Hah, they’re- Ah!”

However!

The moment he impacted the rings, they didn’t falter nor shattered, continuing to rush through his arms, cutting them apart as they reached the rest of his body!

SLAAASH!

“W-Wha…?!”

He was shocked; the rings were much tougher than he imagined. He was pretty sure that even her Divinity Tree Abilities couldn’t compare to his!

But he was wrong; Bing Xue had accumulated so much Faith she simply decided to strengthen her first ever Divinity Ability to the maximum level possible.

Ding!

[You have exchanged 11.100.000 Faith Points!]

[The [Dual Rings of Radiant and Umbral Harmony (Demi Deity Rank): Tier 0/3] Divine Ability has Ranked Up to Tier 3!]

[All of its Power has been strengthened greatly!]

[You have exchanged 40.000.000 Faith Points!]

[The [Dual Rings of Radiant and Umbral Harmony (Demi Deity Rank): Tier 3/3] Divine Ability has Evolved to True Deity Rank 3/3!]

[All of its Power has been strengthened massively!]

Not only she leveled it to the max level, but she even further evolved it to the next Realm, giving her the new ability of 10% Absolute Damage.

Meaning that no matter what, her weapon would deal damage, even if her foe was infinitely stronger than her.

It was directly connected to her Authority and Divinities, the Concept of her Dao Comprehension and her Enlightenment.

Although this young man in front of her had tremendous raw power that surpassed her, he lacked comprehension beyond hers.

Meaning the Absolute Damage went through with no issues!

“AAGH!”

Her opponent screamed in agony as he was cut down into countless pieces by her rings, which he foolishly allowed to clash into his fists and run through his body initially believing they were weak enough for him to destroy.

Bing Xue didn’t waste any time, rushing towards him and quickly enhancing her sword, making it grow as big as a hundred meters, capable of splitting a continent or even a planet with ease!

“I’ll teach you a good lesson about never underestimating your opponents, even if they’re much weaker than you are, young man!”

Her Aura erupted, transforming into countless golden and white-scaled snakes! It was her Yamata-no-Orochi Technique.

“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Heavenly Demonic Nine-Headed Serpent Blade: Yamata-No-Orochi Echo}”

Yet it had changed, now gaining red and black colors as she imbued them with the power of her Red Heaven’s Domain and her Void Essence.

Ultimately, all the snake heads coiled against one another, forming a massive red and black serpentine dragon instead.

FLUOSH!

And then she swung her blade vertically, the dragon following her slashing attack!

“{Star-Eating Dark Red False Dragon God of Destruction: Yasomagatsuchi}!”

“ROOOAAARRRR!”

Bing Xue summoned a false god with a swing of her blade, combining her powers and reaching a level beyond her own.

“This is what I’ve gained when I returned. I am much stronger than when I was in Murim!”

SLAAASH!

The dragon roared, and her blade slashed through space and time, cutting through everything instantly and reaching her foe, who was rapidly regenerating.

“Dammit! You’re strong?! After you abandoned everything and everyone, after you died so miserably… and pathetically! You’re telling me you’re strong?! Bullshit! YOU’RE FULL OF YOURSELF!”

Then the man unsheathed a weapon for the first time…

And it was…

“What?!”

Bing Xue gasped in that split second that her attack reached him.

The weapon this young man held was the very same she wielded.

The Heavenly Yin and Yang Blade!

It was an exact copy of hers.

No, it was, in fact, the very same blade.

“How did he get his hands into—ah, so it is how I feared?”

Bing Xue gripped her fists tightly, gritting her teeth.

How could this even be real?

Someone like him who inherited her powers…

Even a bit of her appearance.

And even her sword.

Wasn’t it already clear?

Yes, she probably guessed from the very beginning.

But deep down, she didn’t want to believe it.

“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Heaven-Devouring Three-Headed False Wolf God of Vengeance: Fenrir}!”

He unleashed his own technique, although he used the very same Blade Arts she did!

As he swung his massive sword, a titanic three-headed wolf made out of his aura materialized, made of black flames, blood, silver light, and thunder.

“AWOOOOO!”

It howled loudly as it charged against Bing Xue’s Draconic Slash.

Both massive attacks, which were embodied as godly monsters, clashed against one another.

And upon impact, a massive explosion erupted.

BOOOMMM!!!

Countless cracks spread through space and time, creating several miniature black holes that then rapidly closed.

At the same time, Bing Xue reached him, swinging her blade against him.

In response, he swiftly intercepted her attacks with his own.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

The two swords, the very same blades from different timelines…

CLAAANK!

Every time they hit against one another, they would release a loud bell-like sound, as if the two harmonious blades couldn’t simply exist at the same time.

“You have my sword…!” Bing Xue said. “I would never give my sword to anybody else other than… than my…!” Bing Xue’s face was full of emotions.

“SHUT UP!!!” Yet the young man she battled wasn’t full of the same emotions she had; he was only full of hatred.

With even more fury, he unleashed a barrage of slashing attacks, his Fenrir Technique materializing with each blow as the titanic three-headed wolf attacked the dark red-scaled dragon.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Each time the two blades intercepted and clashed, the monstrous beings, embodiments of the power of these swords, would bite one another and tear their fur, scales, and flesh apart.

“We don’t need to fight!” Bing Xue roared angrily, growing furious that this young man would simply not listen to anybody. “Stop being so unruly! I am sorry if I was absent; I’m sorry if I died in the timeline you came from, but you have to understand that this time its different! I am here, alive!”

“No…! NOOOO!” he angrily roared. “You died! The you that… mattered to me!!! You’re nothing but a fake… a fake I’ll surpass!”

“I’m not a fake!” Bing Xue cried.

As they moved through space while slashing and cutting one another’s bodies constantly through deadly swordsmanship, they reached Planet Mars and then…

“I’ve told you already I’ll surpass you!!!”

“AWOOOOO!”

Fenrir howled loudly, rushing towards Bing Xue and clashing against her, pushing her down through Mars atmosphere and then slamming her into the planet’s surface.

BOOOMMM!!!

“Aarrgh…!”

Bing Xue felt half of her body gone as she saw her liquified primordial energies bleeding out from her massive wounds.

Yet even then, they rapidly regenerated, as she infused the wounds with Photonic Essence of the highest divine grade, filling up her body already made of such energy.

“We’re already on Mars…!” she muttered, noticing the huge crater beneath her. “If this continues, we might end up stranding too far from the planet’s orbit…”

“RAAAHHHH!!!”

However, despite that, he rushed towards her, his body rapidly transforming, growing dozens of mantis scythes and imbuing them with Blade Ki Auras.

“I’ll have to use Formations and target his soul next,” Bing Xue thought. “As long as I got enough resources and more Faith Points, there should be a possibility.”

She quickly stood back up, rapidly growing larger and gaining metallic armor over her body, activating the many Skills she had, gaining draconic scales, metallic mechanical armor, larger muscles, and unifying it all to become a huge metallic, golden giantess with many arms.

“By materializing my Divine Photon Energy and fusing its effects with many skills, I can harden it to the point it becomes an incredibly dense metal,” she thought. “With this, it shouldn’t be too hard to take on a few more hits as I set up the Formation!”

“Another transformation? It was all useless at the end!” the young man screamed. “IT WAS ALL USELESS! USELESS! USELESS!!!”

With madness overtaking his common sense, he screamed with pure insanity as his powers erupted from his body endlessly, dozens of massive multi-headed wolves rushed towards Bing Xue as she swung her blade, cutting through them one after another across the red surface of Mars.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

As she did this, he rushed towards her, about to slash her apart with his dozens of mantis-like scythes, tearing through space itself!

At the same time, Bing Xue was spreading her Mini Doppelgangers around Mars to set up her gigantic Soul Formation.

She had to buy time!

“{Star-Eating Dark Red False Dragon God of Destruction: Yasomagatsuchi}!”

She unleashed Yasomagatsuchi once more, summoning not one but three dark red-scaled false dragon gods against him, who rushed towards her opponent from right, left, and above.

CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAASH!

Their massive jaws pressed into his body only for him to unleash Fenrir through his blade, cutting through the dragon’s heads one after another!

“You need to calm down! You’re going insane!”

Bing Xue clashed against him as their swords once more met.

CLAAANK!

Shockwaves after shockwaves of divine energies and Ki were released, shattering Mars’ surface and opening up huge cracks through it all.

“Calm down?! I will never calm down!”

As he screamed furiously, he manifested dozens of beastly claws from his body, attacking Bing Xue from every angle, leaving several cracks through her golden armor.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Crack, crack…!

“Don’t worry… I’ll take your place and save Earth—save everyone instead of you!” he screamed. “I’m much better than what you ever were…!”

Bing Xue noticed within his beastly madness, as the young man was shedding tears constantly.

“Please, that’s enough.”

Suddenly, a third voice echoed from above the skies.

“Huh?”

“Hah?”

The two stopped fighting instantly; the voice resonated with such power and strength that it caught their attention.

And there they saw him.

A man wearing a skintight suit of blue and red color, with a long cape made of miniature stars and nebulas.

In front of his suit, in his chest, there was a galaxy-shaped logo and a big G.

His face was handsome and manly, with a big chin, small blue eyes, and short black hair.

“Who is that?!” Bing Xue wondered.

“Who are you!” the young man screamed.

“I am Galaxy Man, Guardian of this Galaxy. Please, cease your fighting,” the man sighed. “I’ve seen enough; you two don’t even mean to kill each other. All of this is but a misunderstanding. Let us stop, sit down, and talk.”

He looked into their eyes with great resolve.

“Please.”

Bing Xue and her opponent only glanced into one another’s eyes for a second before.

FLASH!

They appeared in front of the man and, with their fists, sent him flying away at light speed.

CLAAASH!

“UGH?!”

He flew so fast his body turned into nothing but a small start that became smaller the farther he reached…

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