Chapter 45 - Absolute Superiority 2

Lu Fan and the old man adjacently stood as they gazed at the tens of cultivators. The cultivators had stern faces as they gazed at the duo. They all had different activated skills and abilities as they anticipated their next moves. Some had injuries from the previous fight with the old man.

The battle previously didn't involve every cultivator present; the twins who wore brown robes barely killed any puppets before the Space Sword Immortal killed them with a slice. They stood among the crowded cultivators as they gazed at Thalia. While everyone was looking at Lu Fan and the old man next to him, they were gazing at Thalia, inattentive to Lu Fan or his lackey.

They had witnessed and personally experienced Alex's capabilities, one of which was making the will of the broken world obey his command as it unleashed suppression upon every living being in the hall; even the Space sword immortal couldn't escape it.

And now, an unknown woman who seems to be part of his group has appeared whose presence was undetectable all along. And the terrifying thing was she was able to send the annoying puppet master Lu Fan hundreds of miles, even breaking the Jade turtle immortal sealing formation, which is almost a saint grade sealing formation. These thoughts created turmoil in their brains as they tried not to assess this woman, especially her unavoidable beauty.

"Brother, do you think we should intervene?" A twin asked as they switched their attentions to Lu Fan's group.

"No, the fact that even Ju Shu, who is a half-immortal, has been seriously injured, explains how powerful the dark energy they cultivate is. And besides, that girl has initiated a battle with Lu Fan, and he surely wouldn't ignore his revenge. More importantly, that girl's strength is uncertain; even we can't guestimate her base cultivation realm." The twins spoke to each other as they evaluated the situation.

Lu Fan had a frowning yet calm expression; he ignored the stand-by cultivators and focused on Thalia. This unknown girl used a mere finger to attack him, and he wasn't even aware of her presence, and her speed was simply unfathomable. As he thought of these factors, Lu Fan began feeling anger swell inside him; he inhaled as he spoke loudly.

"Little girl, are you challenging me or not?"

Everyone heard Lu Fan's question to the girl standing before Alex. Although ready to fight, they still wanted to see this girl's strength and capabilities. They looked at Thalia as they also awaited her response to Lu Fan.

With every gaze on her, Thalia, standing facing Patrick, didn't react to Lu Fan's words as she kept looking into Patrick's eyes; after a few seconds, Patrick spoke with a smiley expression as he kept his gaze on Thalia.

"Does my wife wishes to finish what she started?"

"I am not your-, never mind; I will be back for you," Thalia spoke as she turned and began walking towards Lu Fan's group at a steady pace.

"Who or what gave you the audacity to call me little girl?"

As Thalia spoke with a calm expression, her hood began dissipating into energy, revealing her full body to the public. Thalia had double D's breast size, slim waist, and thick thighs covered with stockings; she stood in her magical white dress, covering her entire body with accessories on both ears with crescent shapes.

"You are nothing but a little girl; I don't know what treasure you used back then, but consider that sneak attack as your lucky chance of hitting me."

Lu Fan spoke with spread arms as dark energy swirled intensely around him; the old man stood next to Lu Fan with folded arms as he listened to his master. He didn't have any sense of danger even when surrounded by multiple cultivators with high cultivation realms.

"System, return my human base power."

Thalia spoke to her system, the system answered.

"Goddess, you evolved to an Omnivastant being after the Absolute Godmaster creator evolved. As you are now an omnivastance being, you exist out of all dependencies. Do you still wish to return your human base magic powers?"

"Nevermind, it's pointless anyway; let's end this annoyance." Thalia had wanted to use her human base powers to show Lu Fan what Absolute superiority was, but after hearing the words of the system, she canceled the idea.

What is the point of a Goddess like her proving how weak and insignificant Lu Fan is? Even if she returned to her base powers, Lu Fan or any cultivators around wouldn't know about it as she is incomprehensible. And even if her previous strength as a fourth-class saint magician was enough to kill Lu Fan or his lackeys many times, she will then face the problem of mana shortage as this world only possesses energy called Qi. These were Thalia's thoughts. Although she was a predominant warrior, she was still intelligent to analyze the situation.

Thalia still hadn't replied to Lu Fan's calling her 'nothing but a little girl.' She continued walking as she stopped next to the dying Ju Shu while Ju Fan tried suppressing the dark energy with his Qi. She looked as the system spoke.

"He is affected by the dark energy from the lower domains of the vast Universe of Toa; the dark energy can devourer the emotional energy of any living organism while becoming stronger in the process." Thalia nodded to the system's analysis as she activated a skill in the process.

[Skill Activated: Absolute Dark Energy Manipulation; Absolute control of all concepts of dark]

Everyone watched as they witnessed the dark energy that affected Ju Shu slowly gathering from his body and pores as it combined to the ball of energy it once was before exploding.

"WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE, How?.... how? how are you able to control the dark energy from Toa."

This time, the old man was the one who lost all composure as his shocked expression revealed his bewilderment. Even Lu Fan couldn't maintain his temperament when he witnessed this girl remove the dark energy from Ju Shu's body. This dark energy is only available in the Toa universe; only he and the old man have access and can manipulate it from any location.

But, seeing that this girl can also manipulate dark energy caused shock and fright in their hearts. He took hundreds of years before mastering merely ten percent of the dark energy. It requires extreme pain and suffering before one considers manipulating dark energy.

The one advantage is that anyone who controls this dark energy can use it anywhere in the cultivation universe as every world has the concept of dark existing in it. Lu Fan thought as he began assessing this woman in a different light. It would mean trouble if she could manipulate dark energy like them, as dark energy is an annoying ability to possess.

Ju Shu felt the raging dark energy within his body slowly retract as if drawn by something; he had a blurry view and couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but he could still decern it was a woman. Ju Fan saw Thalia manipulating the dark energy from Ju Shu's body as his instincts instantly told him to respect this woman as part of Alex's group.

Ju Shu's eyesight cleared; he slowly opened his eye and saw a woman standing over him while looking towards Lu Fan's group; Ju Shu heard a sound of flesh moving and noticed his chest healing; he was astonished as he looked at Thalia.

Ju Fan was no different; he was the most astonished as he witnessed everything closely than the other cultivators. He raised his cupped fist and knelt as he spoke.

"We thank young miss for showing your benevolence; the Ju empire will be eternally grateful."

Ju Shu, hearing Ju Fan, quickly knelt and cupped his fist towards Thalia, showing respect and appreciation. Both the Ju ancestors kept their postures until Thalia spoke.

"No need for thanks; I was only clearing some pests." Thalia's words were full of arrogance and dominance as she walked towards Lu Fan's group.

The powerful cultivators in the surroundings all had faces of bewilderment. Some looked at Thalia with fearful expressions, while some had complicated expressions, especially Jiang Shi from the Heavenly Rain Sect and Elder Mo from the Devil Sect. They have witnessed everything, and it only got more complicated as the events progressed.

Elder Mo sent a Qi message to Jiang Shi. 'Brother Shi, I don't think we can handle this Alex by ourselves, and if we call that person, it will only expose our sects and possibly get us killed here. I suggest we postpone the plan for now and make better preparations in the future.'

'I agree, calling that 'MAN' to assist us would only expose us, and if this girl happens to be with Alex's group, then it would lead to more trouble as I can't decern her cultivation realm of origin even as a sage realm cultivator.'

Jiang Shi and elder Mo finished their cognitive messaging as they watched Thalia walk majestically to Lu Fan and the old man. The dark energy she absorbed from Ju Shu in her hands.

"Now, show me what you got; I hope you don't disappoint me."

Thalia spoke as she stood facing the duo not far away; she had the ball of dark energy in her hands as she gazed at Lu Fan and the old man.

"Very well, I won't disappoint you; old man, leave the girl to me, finish the others."

Lu Fan spoke, energy began pouring from his palms as it coated his body; moments later, Lu Fan was covered in dark armor made of dark energy. A dark energy staff materialized as it fell into Lu Fan's right hand. The staff had a circle on top with two rings hanging.

Hearing Lu Fan's orders, the old man didn't hesitate as he flashed at the surrounding cultivators, dark energy in his left hand as he spoke. "Elemental body, flame fist."

The old man said as flames burst out from his right hand; he had a maniacal expression as he barged into the group of cultivators. Moments later, sounds of booms could be heard from the distance as cultivators could be seen flying in different directions.

"To be honest, seeing you control dark energy surprised me; I always thought I was the only dark energy user in the different universe. But now I know my thoughts were wrong. So, who are you?"

Lu Fan spoke to Thalia as he finished with a question.

"Are you going to fight or blab about useless stuff?"

"Quite the challenging attitude; I hope your previous attack wasn't your full strength as that will disappoint me instead."

Lu Fan spoke as he launched at Thalia, his staff in his hand as dark energy gathered at the tip of the circle as it flew at Thalia.

"Dark energy explosion."

BOOM!

An explosion occurred as Lu Fan's silhouette could be seen from the explosion appearing behind Thalia. He swept the ground under Thalia with his left foot, turned; energy instantly balled on his left palm as he impaled it on Thalia's back.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

More loud booms echoed as the ground within the imperial residence formed cracks larger than the previous buildings.

Lu Fan attacked Thalia; he watched her figure sent away due to the large dark energy he impaled on her back.

"I know you are weak, but this result is too much of a disappointment. I thought you would make a worthy opponent, but it seems I was wrong-"

"Please tell me that attack was just a warm-up; if it weren't, then fighting you would be nothing but a waste of time."

Before Lu Fan could finish his boasting sentence, he heard a woman's voice coming from above him; he looked up only to see Thalia standing on his staff on the tiptoes while looking at him like an insignificant, boring peasant.

'What, when? How?'. Lu Fan's thoughts went into turmoil; his brain couldn't process all the situation at once, so he instinctively stamped his foot on the ground as his body vanished from the spot.

A huge crater formed where Lu Fan stamped his foot.

Distances away, the old man was battling with the tens of cultivators as the number of cultivators decreased slowly; it was sixty when the meeting began, but now it was forty.

Some cultivators held their grounds as they pushed the old man back a little. Still, they couldn't completely dominate the old man.

"Is this all the Eastern continent has to offer? I know there are more, but you guys are simply pathetic."

The old man spoke as dark energy and flame resonated on his hands.

Some cultivators stood distances from the old man as they slowly developed fear towards him; this man, although old, could still fight over fifty cultivators, with the lowest being a spirit king realm.

They couldn't even scratch his already torn robes; every attack sent at him only gave him more zeal to attack unrestrained by Qi shortage.

Ju Fan, noticing that the family powerhouses and other cultivators were exhausted and had run out of Qi, began walking towards the old man as he spoke to the surrounding cultivators.

"You guys have tried your best; leave the rest to me."

The stand-by cultivators heard the imperial guardian speak as he walked towards the old man with a clenched fist.

"Finally, you made your move-"

Boom! Boom!

The old man couldn't finish his words as a kick on his face sent him flying into the ruins of the imperial residences.

"Now, let me show you what bullying truly means."

Ju Fan spoke as his body enlarged, tearing his majestic robes as his massive figure stood ten feet.

His arms bulged and muscles neatly outlined as he portrayed the dominance of an imperial immortal.

The old man crashed into the ruins; seconds later, he raised his head and saw the bulged Ju Fan standing with a domineering gaze. The old man instantly launched himself at Ju Fan as his arms contained the dark and flame energies without saying anything.

"Dark energy explo-"

Boom!

Again, the old man couldn't finish his words as a fist appeared from his left, heavily smashing his jaw as he was thrown to the right. His body smashed into the ruins until it reached the outer residencies of the Ju capital. As he inhaled, this action angered the old man; opening his mouth, he spoke.

"Elemental body, lightning body-"

Boom!

Another boom echoed as the old man was slammed by Ju Fan into the ground this time. Ju Fan stood over the man as he spoke.

"If you think I would allow you to use any ability, then you must be dreaming."

The old man flipped as he stood on his feet; bruises could be seen on his body as black liquid dripped from his mouth; he wiped the liquid as he spoke to Ju Fan.

"I had always thought of fighting the strongest imperial guardian, but it seems your strength was undervalued; now I get to fight you, don't expect to leave here alive."

The old man spoke as he dashed at Ju Fan; moments later, the two engaged in hand-to-hand combat as their movements could barely be seen from afar.

While the old man was busy throwing punches with dark explosions and flames, Ju Fan simply diverted them left and right with his right hand. He stretched his hand and held the old man by the throat.

"Dark energy-"

"Don't make me more annoyed than I already am."

Ju Fan spoke as he held the old man's left arm where the dark energy was; he pulled with force, ripping the arm from his body.

Distances away, Lu Fan stood as he examined his left arm, closing and opening it as he tried to see where he went wrong. This girl was able to invade his personal space twice without him noticing. If she were an assassin, then he would be dead in a heartbeat.

"It seems speed is your forte; even I can't catch up to such speed; if you were a smart girl, I would be dead by now."

Lu Fan spoke as the rings hanging from his staff began multiplying as it increased to ten rings.

"Stop wasting my patience. I know that's not even half your strength, so use it now before I get impatient with your blabbering."

"Since you think you are worthy of fighting me at my full strength, then this broken world would have to suffer in the process."

Lu Fan spoke as he shouted.

"Old man, as the Demon god puppet, you are allowed to use your full power."