Chapter 2102: Shadow

Chapter 2102: Shadow



The screams and roars of Old Wan slowly faded until there was nothing left but a black husk. Ryu was quite surprised by the result as well. He had only tweaked the method so that it would work on Old Wan's Fate Blackhole. But it had turned him into... something that was once again only vaguely humanoid.

This time, it wasn't because there were cancerous growths or anything of the sort, but rather because Old Wan just looked like a three-dimensional shadow. And yet, it ironically felt as though he had no depth to him at all, as though he was just a representation of nothingness pinned directly into the middle of the world.

Ryu removed his chains from around Old Wan's body, but the shadowy figure instantly thrust a palm that turned into an ax mid-air right at him.

Ryu raised an eyebrow before casually flicking the ax away with a finger. There was a clash that resonated through the air as though two blades had collided, and then Old Wan stumbled a step backward.

'Oh?'

Looking down at his finger, Ryu was a bit surprised. There was a nick there. But with Old Wan's current strength, there was no way that he should be able to injure him at all. This was a bit of a shock for Ryu.

What was also interesting was that this shadow should be his Corpse Puppet right now. It was refined by Ryu, and it should have his soul imprint on it. In fact, after double-checking, Ryu was certain that his soul imprint was indeed there.

But his own Corpse Puppet still wanted to attack him?n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

'Fascinating.'

After failing the first attack, the shadow actually got down to one knee and bowed to Ryu respectfully.

'So this is the opposite of Embryonic Qi...'

Ryu circulated a droplet of Embryonic Qi to his figure to counter the Corpse Poison.

However, he was far more interested in this Old Wan shadow's reaction. First it attacks him, then it professes its loyalty?

Ryu chuckled. "You want to devour me? I guess that makes sense. You're nothing but a bundle of instinct. I see... I've stumbled into a new form of Corpse Refinement..."

And also just how much stronger Ryu himself had become.

In front of him, even this level of strength was nothing more than a joke.

Soon, all the Heavenly Warriors were wiped out.

"Let them fight the Aspirants. I want to see how they do." Ryu said with a smile.

The shadow flickered and vanished, returning to Ryu's side and then vanishing into Ryu's own shadow.

'Oh?' Ryu raised an eyebrow but he didn't say much.

It hadn't literally vanished into his shadow, it had instead just made it seem like that. But what it had done was slip between the layers of space and time, nestling itself in there.

Ryu felt amused by the antics of the shadow. It seemed to have a personality of its own, which

was...

Odd.

The more curious Ryu became, the more he wondered if he should make an enemy out of this organization just so that he could experiment some more with the Corpse Puppets he could form out of them.

As he was lost in thought, the battle between the Chaotic Space and Black Worm Sky Gods against the Aspirants erupted.

The third Aspirant, formed from Old Wan's legion, was easily caught by Ryu so as not to interfere with their battle.

"Can't you see they're doing their best? Don't interrupt them."

Though Ryu was joking around, he really was evaluating their performance.

After all, he had to decide whether they were worthy of being his Corpse Puppets or not.