Space crackled and quaked, the air around the black sphere twisting and bending.
In that moment, qi that should have been flying toward the two little nephews was suddenly stripped away. They felt as though the pull their Immortal Rings had had lessened considerably.
The qi flying toward Ryu grew so thick that even those without his Pupils seemed to be able to see them.
A pale golden typhoon of qi surged toward the black sphere in an endless torrent, being quickly grinded into the purest flow of qi right before all of their eyes.
In an instant, the two little nephews felt that their Immortal Rings had fallen to become less than 20% effective. Their expressions couldn't help but warp. Just what kind of technique was that? How did it have such great pull toward qi? How did it manage to make their Immortal Rings almost completely useless?
The two little nephews flexed their bodies, their fists tightening to the point their every motion felt like the swing of a sledgehammer.
Their qi surged, their Immortal Rings pulsing as they struggled to fight against the pull of Ryu's [Divine Chaotic Annihilation].
Ryu's steps faltered slightly. If it wasn't for the crimson veins running across his face and the scale covering his body, the paling of his expression would have become that much more obvious. At this point, the Focus Qi he needed to manifest this blackhole into reality was beyond any drain he had ever experienced before. If it wasn't for his will power, he felt that he would have already collapsed.
Without a choice, Ryu had to step through the threshold of the Divine Chaotic Pestle stage and enter the fourth Chaotic Birth Stage. If Flora knew that her technique was being used to the fourth stage by a brat not even in the Soul Birth Realm, she might go insane.
But Ryu was keenly aware that using this in the real world was impossible. In fact, he had sacrificed his ability to evoke the [Divine Chaotic Annihilation] in the real world entirely.
Now that he had crossed the Chaotic Birth Stage, the stamina that was needed to support it was far beyond him. This was the same reason he hadn't crossed the threshold of his [Immortal Sakura] technique either even though he had already comprehended it.
If Ryu tried to activate [Divine Chaotic Annihiliation] with his real body now, his soul would be sapped of energy instantaneously, leading him toward an instant death. The only reason his soul hadn't dissipated now was because of the stone lodged in his heart right now…
Ryu was truly giving this his everything.
Yet, even at this moment, he felt his blood pumping. He felt an excitement the likes of which he had never felt before.
An arrogance deep within his bones bubbled forth, the crackling black lightning around him reaching a level of violence that seemed willing to level the whole world into ash.
BANG!
Ryu shot forward, the energies of the world screaming as they bent to his will.
A massive dome of qi formed around him, fueling his Small Realm to a level that existed beyond what the two little nephews could comprehend.
'Monarch?!' The two felt their hearts shudder, but Ryu was already upon them, his blades swinging down with the weight of the world.
Ryu [Ephemeral Tapestry] filled his mind with the images of a psychedelic dream. His blades whistles and whined, all sorts of wonderous colors wrapping around them.
It looked as though someone had colored the air in vibrant pinks and warm blues. And in that instant, Ryu was cutting through the smokey winds.
The more vibrant the colors became, the greater Ryu's understanding of them seemed to become and more they seemed to speak to him.
Ryu's Ice Jade Crystal Body pulsed, shimmering. Even from outside of Ryu's skin, one could see a soft, dazzling light, one that contrasted with the crackling black lightning like two sides of the same coins.
Ryu's body 'breathed' in the qi taken in so violently by this spinning black sphere, his body bursting with energy as he bore down.
BANG!
The two little nephews were sent flying into the ground below, their body puncturing holes so deep that it looked as though they wanted to travel to the other side of the world in a single bound.
Ryu felt his heartbeat again, the stone within puncturing through more of its soft walls. The pain was extruciating, as though someone was slowly twisting a knife through his chest, slowly peeling through the layers of his most precious inner organ one after another.
He rose his head roaring into the skies.
A black sphere appeared before Ryu's widened lips, the qi of the world surging toward it. Yet, instead of allowing the black sphere to devour the qi, Ryu bypassed it, swallowing it all directly.
His chest expanded, his bones creaking and snapping in protest.
Ryu's shoulder blades touched, his chest widening to almost twice its original size.
And then, in one swift motion, he unleashed it all. His roar sent shock waves through the land as a beam of energy shot downward.
The beam of Ice Flames and Rage Flames wrapped around each other, crackling black lightning spiraling around them both as they tore a path toward the ground where the two little nephews lay.
The whole world seemed to lose its color. It felt as though everything had been snatched away by a single beam that could be see from hundreds of kilometers in any direction.
The skies were awashed in black and white, a singular beam of violet crackling with black lightning snatching its shine.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The whole of the small world quaked and rumbled. Cities thousands of miles away felt as though everything they had built would come crumbling down at this very moment.
Ryu's roar shook the lands, his heated breath splintering space apart as it tore through the ground.
There was a small pause before the land below erupted, massive tsunamis of earth rising in tidal waves.