Chapter 2025: Desecration
Arcadius Skycloud was about to make a move when he saw Davis flick his sleeves and raise his hands, slowly backing up. His eyes turned into two tiny slits, wondering what the Emperor of Death was doing before a hint of derision appeared on his face.
"Are you perhaps surrendering?"
Davis didn't nod nor deny. He continued retreating slowly with an indifferent expression on his face.
"Ahahaha!"
Arcadius Skycloud burst into a fit of laughter before he sneered.
"It's too late to surrender. Perhaps, if you kowtow and beg for your life, I might consider it."
Arcadius Skycloud grinned when his brows suddenly furrowed, his lips pursing. Suddenly, he felt like something had latched onto him at this moment, sinister and vile.
*Rumble!~*
However, his expression abruptly changed as he glanced above, looking at the clouds gathering in droves. However, they were…
"The arrival of the crimson clouds signifies a sinner's tribulation that even the heavens loathe..."
Arcadius Skycloud mindlessly uttered a passage from the records of the heavenly tribulation in his Vast Sky Emperor Palace's Library. Somewhere along the lines, his lips began to quiver as he stopped reciting it, slowly moving back before he lowered his head and found a devilish smile looking his way.
"You… it's you..."
Arcadius Skycloud took a step forward, pointing at Davis as he muttered, "You did something..."
"Oh my. Don't blame me for the sins you have committed." Davis chuckled with an amused expression on his face, "Who knew you had incurred so much karmic sin on yourself to invite these crimson clouds of sinners? Tell me exactly what method you used to conceal those abhorrent sins on you, but oh well, it doesn't matter since you can't hide something from the heavens. The fair and just heavens will punish you for your-"
"Bastard! I will kill you!"
Arcadius Skycloud shuddered as he cut short Davis's sanctimonious monologue and rushed towards him, his expression full of despair and wrath as he vaguely understood what was going on. The crimson clouds didn't wait and even followed after him. Inside the eye of the swirling crimson clouds, a burst of bright red flames appeared before it shot towards Arcadius Skycloud at this moment, plunging diagonally towards him.
"Wrah! Ah! Ahhh!!!"
Arcadius Skycloud's speed was extremely fast. However, the descending heavenly flames were faster, quickly lighting him up into a human torch, causing him to roll on the ground miserably and crash into a bedrock.
"Ahhhh!!! Help! Help me!!! Fuck! It burns!!! Ahhh!!! Die, you vile monster!!! I curse you to eternal damnation!!!"
Davis saw Arcadius Skycloud burning six kilometers away from him, dancing as he flailed around as he tried to rush in his direction, except there were bright red flames that were turning him into cinders, causing him to scream miserably.
Davis's eyes were wide as he sensed the prowess of the heavenly flames. They were two levels above Peak-Level Ninth Stage. Rather than those dark crimson heavenly flames that attacked Nightveil, the ones attacking Arcadius Skycloud were bright red, brimming with a terrifying purging aura.
It was as though it wanted to get rid of the tribulation undergoer with all its might, constantly burning and hushing with a terrifying intensity.
Arcadius Skycloud neared Davis as he closed a distance of four kilometers, having to cross only two more kilometers in order to reach him. However, he plopped to the ground at this moment, having come to a stop as he rolled on the ground, his body visibly crumbling into ashes.
Looking at this scene, Davis just sneered in disdain.
That trash tried to involve him instead of defending against the heavenly tribulation, but it was too bad he made that decision at the last moment. Otherwise, even Davis felt that he might be caught up in the heavenly tribulation, although he could just disappear and play hide and seek with Arcadius Skycloud.
Arcadius Skycloud felt his vision fading, the senses of his body plummeting as though they had gone numb.
In reality, having his flesh from neck to toe burned to cinders, only his head was left with the skull and burned flesh. That stubborn skull of his was lit by bright red flames, making him appear like a devil. His eyeballs were also charred, but its pupils could still be seen, emitting a faint glow of disbelief as they flickered.
To ensure karmic luck was on his side, he even gave it his all to help people in their human race for the last few days. His karmic virtue increased from twenty-seven meters to thirty-two meters, almost reaching the limit. However, he didn't know that, only knowing that he had reached a bottleneck of some kind in terms of karmic virtue.
If he had more time, perhaps, he could've ensured his karmic luck to be more powerful and successfully escaped.
However, Davis ruined his plans halfway, forcing him to ascend. Now, not only did he ruin his ascension, but he also fooled the heavens into believing that he was a sinner.
How could that ever be possible!? Even if it was, just who under the heavens had he offended to be able to fool the heavens like this!?
However, he would never know the answer because the light in his eyes disappeared as they were burned while his skull finally disintegrated, unable to hold the intensity of the flames. His soul was also burned alive, except it didn't even last a second due to its weak cultivation that hadn't reached the level of the heavenly flames.
*Rumble!~*
The scorched ashes scattered in the wind as the heavenly tribulation rumbled and began retreating. The crimson clouds subsided along with the dark bluish lightning clouds, ending up dissipating into nothingness.
"Tsk, tsk. He didn't even survive the cleansing of a single heavenly flame. What a disappointment..."
Although Davis said that with a faint hint of derision, his expression was full of joy as not only had he caused Arcadius Skycloud to die miserably, the experiment he thought of was also a success.
To inflict Arcadius Skycloud with karmic sin, he needed an equal amount of karmic virtue, and that was where the two Emperors displayed their usefulness.
Just before coming here, he stole karmic virtue from the Mandate Emperor and the Karmic Guardian Emperor, increasing his karmic virtue to a new level that it could even match the bright red aura of the karmic sin. Moreover, when he stole karmic virtue from them with a flick of his hand while rushing past them, they didn't even notice, but by now, they might have.
Nonetheless, he didn't check how much karmic virtue he had and arrived here, carving a hole in the spatial defensive formation and unceremoniously sent a two-meter tall karmic sin aura towards Arcadius Skycloud when he flicked his sleeves and raised his hands, making it look like though he had surrendered in reality, used Karmicseizer to curse Arcadius Skycloud with the karmic sin he had gathered.
The moment the two-meter tall karmic sin fell on Arcadius Skycloud even from such a distance, the heavenly tribulation identified him as a sinner and sent the heavenly flames first to destroy him!
That was how he managed to fool the heavens into thinking that Arcadius Skycloud was a sinner, causing it to unleash heavenly flames upon him that burned him to death.
However, it was not like he sent the karmic sin flying towards Arcadius Skycloud, allowing it to defy the relative laws of physics or earthly gravity for about twenty-seven kilometers. For one, he didn't even forcefully wave it, and for the other, it was just a type of aura. Instead, there was a vague black thread connecting him and Arcadius Skycloud, a karmic thread of negative emotions. He could only see it after activating the karmic tendril of Fallen Heaven.
Using that black thread, he sent the karmic sin trailing towards Arcadius Skycloud, and it was like a rope that had caught fire, heading straight towards Arcadius Skycloud and inflicting him with a humongous aura of karmic sin!
Davis's eyes were full of amazement at that moment. It was no wonder karmic techniques were said to be capable of attacking from almost anywhere! They trailed through these invisible threads that cultivators, even cultivators who train in Karma Laws, are unable to see!
At this moment, he felt proud of Fallen Heaven. He thoughts its karmic prowess was just so and so, but now, he had to revamp his view on it. To be able to inflict curses and woes from anywhere like death, now he fully understood why Fallen Heaven could not only cause deaths by destroying their soul imprints but also manipulate them into their deaths while controlling their actions.
Such a terrifying treasure was in his hands. Heck, it fused with him, but It was no wonder Myria said that it caused its users to die an ironic death, ironic because they all thought that they could become peerless and indomitable only to die a dog's death in the end.
Was that the backlash of using the treasure wrongly? Or…
Davis shook his head and arrived before Arcadius Skycloud's remnant ashes. He absorbed his drifting soul essence for no other reason than to check if he possessed some insights into Space Laws in his soul. Other than that, there was an unharmed spatial ring lying on the ground like it was abandoned.
'So heavenly flames only incinerates its target?'
Davis wondered before he took it and bound. At the same time, he turned his head to look at the main descendants of the Vast Sky Emperor, who were shuddering like cattle as they held each other, standing densely together in fright over his presence.
He had literally locked and cornered them down as the entrance, or at this point, the exit was just behind him.