Heaven's Eye - 219
If the mysterious man was able to tell that Tian Ren couldn't do the same thing again, then Tian Ren naturally knew the same.
Tian Ren was trying to get a feel for his opponent before fully going all out with the intention to kill.
With less than a second passing, Tian Ren and the mysterious man moved again. They appeared in front of each other and the mysterious man sliced horizontally with his hand as if he was holding an invisible fan. At the same time, Tian Ren sliced straight down with his sword.
The mysterious man's Darkness Qi and Tian Ren's lightning Qi clashed, pushing both of them back.
Once again, they moved speedily, clashed, got knocked back, and repeated.
Slash, slice, upward thrust, downward slice, over and over again as they moved around the mountain. The mountain was hard and resilient, but the constant clashes of the two men had made it seem more similar to the moon with its many craters than a flat area.
After many clashes, both men were ready to fight to the death. They had understood their opponent as much as possible.
Both backed up farther away than before and moved their hands. Tian Ren was up in the sky and raised his hand high, using an immense amount of lightning Qi. In just a moment, Tian Ren had formed a lightning dragon that shot down towards the mysterious man on the ground.
At the same time, the mysterious man raised his hand from a lower position and a dragon of darkness Qi shot out of the ground.
The two dragons clashed with each other, sending a horizontal burst of energy that shot into the distance. In the moment that the dragons were forcing each other back, Tian Ren and the mysterious man didn't wait.
Tian Ren collapsed his lightning sword into pure lightning Qi that covered his fist as he flew down towards the mysterious man. The mysterious man covered his fist in darkness Qi and struck out at Tian Ren's descending fist.
In the instant their fist clashed, ten thousand lightning strikes flew from behind Tian Ren, each of them aimed at the mysterious man's body.
Meeting those lightning strikes was ten thousand birds of darkness Qi flying at Tian Ren's body. Both the fists and the secondary attacks met at the same time.
A giant curtain of dust from the extremely sorry mountain blocked the outcome of the collision. In just a moment, the dust cleared as the two dragons dissipated at the same time and caused a wind to move the dust away.
Flying opposite to each other, Tian Ren had an injury on his arm that trailed from his pinky fingers knuckle to his inner elbow. It wasn't quite bone deep, but the injury seemed severe.
The mysterious man stood on the other side, completely unharmed. If he had a face, Tian Ren supposed it would be one full of mockery.
"The victor is clear. Just this once, I'll allow you to live if you leave." The mysterious man stated.
A staring match ensued.
"Did you think that that was everything?" Tian Ren suddenly said, a hint of arrogance reaching his face, slightly shocking the mysterious man.
"I am the creation of heaven! From the moment I was born, his words echoed in my ear! My power is his! My life is his! Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the son of heaven!" Tian Ren shouted.
In an instant, he appeared high in the sky, his arms spread out.
"HEAVEN!" He shouted once again.
In a second, the lightning bolt imprint on his forehead snapped open, revealing an eye. The moment it opened, a giant eye formed in the sky, giving a horrid pressure to the mysterious man. He was nearly forced to his knees in an instant.
While it seemed like heaven had made an appearance, he hadn't. The giant eye was formed from a special power that heaven had given Tian Ren the moment the lightning bolt struck him.
It seemed unfair, but the power was not without drawbacks. Firstly, the Qi consumption of Tian Ren would shoot through the roof. If he fought with his full power, his Qi would last thirty minutes maximum.
Secondly, even if he won the battle unscathed, he would be severely injured for a period of time. Among the injuries he would receive was temporary blindness. The blindness would not only blind his eyes, but even his divine sense would no longer work until the injuries healed.
As the mysterious man struggled not to kneel on the ground, Tian Ren formed another lightning sword in his hand. It was clearly much more powerful than before. Increasing Tian Ren's strength was another power of the heaven eye.
Deciding not to waste any time in order to limit his injuries, Tian Ren shot forward at his top speed and sliced down upon the mysterious man's head.
Suddenly, the mysterious man, who was almost kneeling, moved slightly to the side, causing the sword to miss his head and lodge itself deep into his shoulder, reaching even his upper stomach. Tian Ren tried to move the sword out in an instant, but it seemed stuck in something.
"Damn you! Heaven!" The mysterious man shouted as he punched up at the side of Tian Ren's head with his arm that still functioned.
Tian Ren was caught off guard by the sudden attack and was directly hit in the temple. With his increased strength, it should have simply made him stumble backwards, but he went flying to the side, leaving his lightning sword to dissipate in the man's injured body.
With a single look, one could tell why the mysterious man's attack was so powerful. Raging off of his fist like a flame was a reddish, flame-like power with thousands of stretched out faces.
Only two black eyes and a black, screaming mouth could be seen on each of the thousands of faces as they flowed by.
This was one of the mysterious man's trump cards, the hundred thousand soul flame. In order to create the power, he had to kill a hundred thousand beings and entrap their suffering souls.
Tian Ren recovered from the ground and looked at the power. His face turned into a frown. The screeching screams and the power that the power gave off was horrifying.
Even with the heaven eye above him, the mysterious man was able to stand up and move.
As Tian Ren was about to move forward to attack, something fell out of the mysterious man's cloth body.