Heavenly Asura Path 27

Road to Hell (2)

Letting out an angry shriek, the dark golden three-headed bat shook itself while producing a sound that would make eardrums burst. Percy's ears bled, but he ignored the pain completely. He was so used to pain that something like this didn't even make him blink, but it would be one more disadvantage.

The smaller bats, seeing the difficulty the older brother was in, charged hard, slamming their bodies into Percy.

"Get out!" Screaming and releasing all of his horrifying intent from his body, he caused the small vermin to fall into the lake of boiling blood. When he saw this, Percy didn't delay and stabbed his saber into the bat king's back, right near his neck before he moved his hands, causing the beast to plummet in pain.

But, as if they were being controlled, the smaller bats stopped falling and flew towards Percy immediately.

 "Tch... this thing seems to have the ability to control them," Percy growled before punching out with his fists, causing them to crash into the wall on one side of the massive place. Now that the lake of blood seemed to illuminate the place more brightly, he realized that the entire place looked like the inside of a volcano. It wasn't one, but it resembled one. And at the bottom, boiling blood exploded into large and small hot bubbles.

Rocks broke loose from the bat king's sudden movements and fell into the lake of blood. His shrieks sent barrages of scarlet waves everywhere, trying to knock Percy off his back.

Holding Anaklusmos with his left hand, Percy punched again and again with his right hand. His plan wasn't to avoid falling into the lake, after all, he would have to descend to complete the second test of the Asura god. What he wanted to do was hit the bat king as much as he could and then cut off the heads when they were inside the lake of blood.

BOOM!

 A loud explosion echoed in the place as Percy caused the beast to crash once more into the rock wall.

"Kiiieeegh!" the shrieks continued to ring out as the massive wings flapped up and down. Percy's eyes flashed and he spread his arms out to the sides, holding the wings with all his might as he pulled back.

When the dark golden three-headed bat king realized that it couldn't fly properly, it was too late. The enormous strength of Percy's arms caused the beast's downward motion to be commanded by him to a certain extent as he pulled harder.

BOOM!

BANG!

Suddenly, from the lake of blood, a scarlet pillar with countless ancient characters exploded. Afterwards, stairs rose up next to a platform, where the pillar was located.

"Asura God," Percy muttered. He had realized that this should be done by the Asura God for his test. After all, even if he was a Title Douluo, he couldn't go too far down into the lake. This platform, stairs, and pillar should be part of the test to be able to descend.

"Raargh!" Roaring and exerting all his strength, Percy made the bat move towards that spot and when he was a good distance away, he tore off both of its wings.

"KIIIEEEEGGHH!" A horrible, pain-filled screech echoed through the road of hell as blood exploded out from both sides and its wings were forcefully torn off.

Percy jumped up as he pulled back his saber and landed. At the same time, a loud sound was created as the body of the dark golden three-headed bat king collided with the platform. The ten-meter-long body, now filled with its own blood, thrashed around as the three heads opened and closed their mouths, releasing waves that made the walls rumble.

Placing one arm in front of his face, Percy used all his strength to hold himself up. The beast's physical power didn't seem to be that strong compared to its wave power. Each wave sent powerful winds in all directions, causing even the boiling blood to rise a little and the walls to tremble with rocks falling.

When the humming and shaking stopped, Percy did not hesitate and jumped several meters onto the body of the dark golden three-headed bat king. No matter what winged animal it was, they would all suffer a great amount of damage and pain if their wings were torn off by the roots the way Percy did. And right now, the huge bat was having a hard time getting up.

At such a moment, Percy cut off all three heads in one go. Blood splattered and the heads separated from the main body. But even so, the body of the huge bat was twitching and the eyes of the three heads were moving back and forth. The vitality of this bat king was enormous. It definitely could not continue living, but even at death's door, it kept moving trying not to perish.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Percy watched in surprise as a black spirit ring rose from the body of the bat king.

However, he soon frowned.

 "This bat's age should be over fifteen thousand years old," Percy was unsure of attempting to absorb this spirit ring. While it could give him an excellent spirit ability due to the nature of the spirit beast, his sixth spirit ring was already over 60,000 years old. He didn't want to ruin the path he had worked on by absorbing a spirit ring of a lower age. There was even a chance that the spirit ability he would obtain, wouldn't be as good as he thought!

"Also… absorbing a spirit ring in this place might be dangerous due to the suppression of spirit abilities."

"It's a pity…" Percy let out a slightly annoyed sigh. "Even if it's less than I expected, it's still a ten thousand year old spirit ring."

Yes, it was true.

No matter the age, even the spirit abilities granted by a spirit ring of exactly 10,000 years old, were powerful compared to others that came from purple rings, yellow rings, and not to even mention the white rings. Only ignorant or overly hasty people would integrate a white ring (10-99 years).

And even if this wasn't the case, leaving a black ring floating there, it was a huge waste!

Percy was about to leave, but a strange glow that came from the corner of his eye stopped him completely. Percy looked at the spirit ring and noticed a strange glow in it, he had never seen it before.

It was as if the spirit ring was saying: Come, look at me! If you absorb me, you might get a surprise!

Percy couldn't help but get closer and look more closely, but he didn't notice anything abnormal.

"Huh?" Percy let out a breath of air before sitting down and starting the absorption. Anyway, maybe he can increase the age of the spirit ring with testing.

However, when the absorption began, after two hours, a mental shock caused him to spit out blood. Not only that, but the suppression of the place made his body tremble, it hurt but it didn't matter to Percy.

After three hours, blood beads began to be expelled from Percy's body. By the time five hours had passed, the blood beads had turned into a bloody mist and the heat of the lake of blood made Percy's body even redder.

Ten hours... fifteen hours...

After twenty hours, the spirit ring finally began to descend from Percy's head, enveloping his entire body. But suddenly, the back of Percy's clothes exploded as two protuberances appeared.

When twenty-four hours had passed, those protuberances exploded and formed two dark golden wings that emitted a faint bloody glow.

"That's it!" Percy exclaimed as he opened his eyes with a satisfied smile.

 "It's an external spirit bone," looking at his two wings with a smile, Percy retracted them and left his back intact before he once again made the two meter long wings appear from his back.

Spirit bones were rare. They came in six types: right hand spirit bone, left hand spirit bone, right leg spirit bone, left leg spirit bone, torso spirit bone, and head spirit bone. Spirit beasts could have one spirit bone in them, but it could be one in ten thousand of them. And sometimes, some people didn't even notice if a spirit beast had one of them.

But among the spirit bones, there was an existence that was as special as a 100,000 year spirit ring. These were the external spirit bones! These bones could be any part of the body that wasn't part of the normal six spirit bones. Some examples could be claws on the hands or feet, tails, horns, or even wings, like in the case of Percy.

What made these external spirit bones so special was their power and ability to evolve alongside the user. Some even had more than one ability, like in the case of Percy's wings. Furthermore, the absorption was more special than normal spirit bones which occurred by taking out the beast bone and then absorbing it. In fact, normal ones could be absorbed by anyone, even if that person didn't kill the beast.

Instead, an external spirit bone had to be absorbed along with the spirit ring, so only the person who killed the beast could obtain it.

Percy's spirit bone was called: Wings of the Blood King. And it had two abilities: Flying and Life Absorption. The first ability was obvious and clear. The second ability, on the other hand, was more complicated. In addition to being able to be used as weapons and being able to hit the enemy, the wings could absorb the blood that the enemy drops and heal the user.

For example, if Percy cut someone, the blood that was expelled could be absorbed by the wings of the blood king and heal some wounds on their body. And as an external spirit bone, this life absorption ability could grow or even evolve in the future.

"Heh... heh... Hahaha!" Percy laughed happily at the opportunity he almost missed.

 "Also, with the spirit ability I just obtained, the life absorption is even better!" Percy shook his head: "Even the spirit ring is too good for my martial spirit."

It is said that the seventh spirit ring was a bit special. No matter what, the spirit ability would be the 'true body of the martial spirit'. This spirit ability was an avatar of the martial spirit fused with the spirit master. Generally, people with beast-type martial spirits would merge, leaving behind a huge powerful beast. People with tool spirits like swords would merge and leave behind a huge weapon; at other times, the spirit would only increase in power and size without the need for fusion.

Percy's seventh ring caused his God-Slaying Sabre (Anaklusmos) to fuse with it, forming a huge blood-red sabre. At that moment, the penetrating power, sharpness, and so on would increase by 100%. At the same time, it would leave behind a bleeding effect that could never be cured. Unless he decided to heal the wound himself.

That's not all, the form of the God-Slaying Saber's true body would leave nothing behind its cuts. It was because Anaklusmos had finally awakened the attribute that could be the doom of the gods! Annihilation!

Facing Anaklusmos' annihilation, even space could be destroyed in its true form.

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