Chapter 1099 Kirin-God Extinction
Several days ago...
Boom!
John flew backwards within the private training room, crashing against the ground a moment later and skidding over it like a stone on a pond. He came to a halt a short while later, groaning from the pain wracking his body.
"John, are you alright?" Zuri asked, racing over to him and kneeling next to him.
"I'm...I'm fine," John replied slowly while shaking off the pain and getting to his feet. Blood leaked from his nose and mouth, as well as from wounds on his body, which looked as if something had exploded from within, ripping open his skin. He shook his head and activated his healing limiters, restoring his body to good condition a short while later.
"Maybe this Mage-Art is too much for you to handle right now," Zuri said warmly. "Mage-Arts are already incredibly dangerous, and you're trying to create a brand new one on top of that. I think this might be a little too reckless, even for you."
"Nonsense," another voice said as a figure appeared next to John. John and Zuri looked at Kirii, who stood next to them with a look of smug disappointment on his face. "The problem isn't the art, it's John! He's too weak to handle the power of a Kirin!" You can trace the roots of this content at n0v@lbin
"Let's fight right now, and see who's the weak one," John growled, taking a step towards Kirii. Kirii moved backwards like a flash of lightning, stopping only when he saw John wasn't following. He coughed in veiled embarrassment, then returned next to them as if nothing had happened.
John gave Kirii a firm look, then looked back at Zuri. "Kirii and I have already spent well over a month developing this Mage-Art, and I think we've finally created something that will work," he said to Zuri while brushing off dried blood from his robes. "I just need to be better at following the proper meridian pathways, as well as timing the meridian cycles to sync up perfectly."
He turned to Kirii, who eyed John cautiously, ready to retreat at a moment's notice should John lunge at him for his earlier comment. John reached out towards Kirii, who flinched, ready to retreat.
"Relax," John said begrudgingly. "I'm not going to attack you. I just want to watch your meridian pathways once more."
Kirii eyed him warily, but eventually obliged. He allowed John to place his hand on his head, at which point John sent his divine sense into Kirii's body. With Kirii allowing this to happen, John was able to see everything within Kirii's body. His blood vessels, his bones, his muscles, and most importantly, his meridians and Qi.
The Qi surging through Kirii's meridians was as clear as day to John. They looked like thousands of rivers of Qi snaking throughout Kirii's body, forming a complex maze of power only the Heavens truly understood.
"Activate your innate art," John instructed, at which point Kirii happily obliged.
Power surged from Kirii's Dantian, sending Qi coursing through his meridians like raging rivers. John watched the entire process unfold, as Kirii's Qi snaked through his meridians in patterns now-familiar to him. Qi coursed through Kirii's stomach, chest and head in profound ways, the Qi within forming runic patterns, the meridians the paper, the Qi the ink.
Thousands of complicated meridian pathways were used in almost an instant, as unleashing this art was almost second nature to Kirii at this point. The Qi cycled countless times within his body, all eventually converging on the bright blue crystal embedded on Kirii's forehead.
"Kirii," John called out, waking the sleeping Kirin from his slumber. Kirii opened his eyes, their spiritual gazes meeting.
"It's time to reveal to this world the power of a Kirin!"
Kirii let out a whoop of excitement, instantly rousing from his slumber. He stood tall within John's soul space, using the link between their souls to look out from John's eyes, seeing what John saw.
"You better not mess up, or I'll beat you up!" Kirii replied with obvious excitement in his voice. John smiled, then nodded his head as he began to muster the full power of his twenty-times compressed essence Dantian. "I won't!"
Boom!
John's aura suddenly, and without warning, flared from him with incredible power. His aura surged upwards towards the clouds, slamming against them a moment later. His aura continued to climb with ceaseless intensity, like an endless well of power. Every inch of his being was poured into his Dantian, while his mind raced with the profundities of his self-created art. Already surprised by his seemingly endless Qi, the crowd went wide eyed as they spotted a figure materialize behind John.
The figure flashed into existence in a moment, formed from pure lightning. The figure was almost nondescript at first, hazy and unclear to the point that no one could tell what it was. As John continued to pour his Qi into his Mage-Art, the figure started to become more and more corporeal, eventually turning into something that many in the crowd recognized.
"A Kirin!"
A lightning avatar in the shape of a Kirin, some thirty yards tall and forty yards long appeared behind John, like a guardian coming to his protection. While its form was still slightly blurry, there was enough detail to make out the nature of the avatar.
Bang!
A loud thunderclap sounded out as John's forehead burst alight, a dazzling blue hue emanating from it. The blue hue faded away after a time, revealing a bright blue crystal on his forehead, embedded into his skin. The crystal glowed with a hundred hues of blue and emanated a thousand profundities, so awe-inspiring and eye-catching that many couldn't peel their gazes away from it.
Hovering in the sky, Araxus looked at the lightning Kirin and crystal on John's forehead with absolute shock. He couldn't tell exactly what was happening, but as a genius lightning cultivator, he could tell one thing; the art John was unleashing was horrifyingly dangerous.
Reaching his absolute maximum point of power he could contain, Araxus burst alight with power as he pointed his lance down at John.
"Yin-Yang Chaos Lightning Tribulation!" he roared as twin bolts of devastatingly powerful lightning blasted towards John, its power eclipsing the previous attack Araxus had unleashed.
Feeling its awe-inspiring power, John grinned, then roared loudly, his voice like a primordial beast announcing its arrival as both the avatar behind him and the crystal on his forehead began to glow with surging power, preparing to unleash a Mage-Art to replace his Dragontail Decimation.
"Kirin-God Extinction!"
BOOM!
