With arge ng, the Ame-No-Sakahoko and the Ink-ck de collided.


    The collision was so strong n was sent flying downwards, although n was able to make his fall stable.


    "Damn."


    n cursed, his hand was in pain from that collision.


    "Still doable."


    He thought, and gazed at the Heavenly demon, standing in the sky. The Heavenly Demon used a strange technique that allowed him to stand in the sky.


    "Hmmm…"


    n pondered for a while. How should he approach him? n needed to be cautious but also attack with his full strength.


    "What happened? Lost your vigor already?"


    The voice of the Heavenly demon resonated throughout the Heavenly demonic mountain, carrying an archaic aura.


    It reverberated in n''s ears.


    "No."


    He said and flew up with great speed.


    "Haha! That''s it!"


    The heavenly demon was overjoyed, although his face betrayed such an emotion.


    Even though his voice was energetic, the man''s face was still as apathetic as always.


    n flew at a great speed, soaring through the skies, his wings cut the sharp winds of the Heavenly demonic mountain and approached the Heavenly demon at a rapid speed.


    The heavenly demon raised his hand, holding the ink-ck de.


    He swung down.


    n, feeling a chill run down his spine immediately moved out of the way. Barely dodging…nothing?


    "...What?"


    n was confused, but he did not lower his guard lest he repeat his mistakes.


    He made sure to always observe the heavenly demon''s movements.


    He stopped trying to attack the heavenly demon, and flew at a height equal to his, and then began a staredown.


    "My apologies…I had thought you would be a daredevil."


    "..."


    n ignored the heavenly demon''s taunts, and activated dragon eyes, trying to find any weakness.


    But to his surprise.


    [Dragon eyes cannot be used during this trial.]


    "...shit."


    Cursed n, he cursed the tower. Not being able to use one of his strongest skills was a severe disadvantage. Although using the skill hurt, the benefits outweighed the recoil by a lot.


    "Surprised?"


    The Heavenly demon asked, n red at him.


    "In Murim…only skill matters."


    Arge amount of energy burst forth from the body of the Heavenly demon, and n responded with his mana. He made a dome around him to protect himself.


    "Ugh."


    He groaned, the pressure exerted by the sea of demonic ki was immense.


    [HEAVENLY SKY SPEAR.]


    ////FOURTH MOVEMENT\\\\


    –||Heavenly Armament||--


    n used the fourth movement of the heavenly sky spear to form armor around himself. He then coalesced his mana outside the armor, creating another, sturdyyer of defense. This would be enough to withstand the sea of demonic Ki.


    "Impress-"


    The Heavenly demon''s words were interrupted by n teleporting behind him. He smiled and responded by swinging his arm back, the ink-ck de effortlessly blocked the Ame-no-sakahoko.


    The spear vibrated, annoyed.


    Not, It could be said that it was exciting. After so long, it had met a weapon equal to it….it was bound to get excited!


    Finally…it will enjoy a fight


    n could feel the emotions of the Spear and chuckled.


    ''You too huh?''


    He grinned, and fired a beam of the frost at the Heavenly demon!


    The heavenly demon cut it apart with the ink-ck de, and the dragon breath was cut apart effortlessly.


    "Tch."


    n clicked his tongue and flew back, creating some distance from the heavenly demon.


    But that proved to be useless.


    "Why run?"


    The heavenly demon''s bone-chilling voice resounded in his ears. n, out of instinct, teleported away.


    "An interesting art…But is it useful?"


    The heavenly demonmented. n felt strange all of a sudden.


    What?


    What did he mean by those words?


    The meaning wasid out in front of n in an instant.


    The sea of demonic qi coalesced and formed a thousand swords, each asrge as an adult human.


    "Now…evade this."


    The heavenly demon guided the swords with his mind. He had reached such a skill level that even the task of creating a thousand swords and controlling them with his mind was easy.


    "Holy shit!"


    n cursed and evaded the swords, but when one was dodged a dozen more came from another angle.


    n created dozens of portals around him, the location of these portals was somewhere on the 20th floor, which had turned into a wastnd. He didn''t think the heavenly demon could support the swords through such a distance.


    Well, even if he could, n would just teleport them further.


    The heavenly demon realized his tricks and maneuvered the des around the portals, only a dozen or so swords had been teleported away.


    [Skill: Frost des has been used.]


    n responded with a simr skill, only this time, he created twice the number of swords, each the same size as the swords of the Heavenly demon.


    ''Keuk! My mana.''


    Creating such a great number of swords had consumed arge amount of his mana. n clenched his teeth and controlled arge number of swords even more skillfully than the heavenly demon.


    He had conjured arger number of swords…and was still this skilled.


    "Ho."


    The heavenly demon''s instinct was piqued.


    He watched n''s actions with great interest. His eyes contained a hint of excitement even!


    n used half the swords to attack, and half to form a barrier around him. In the form of a ball with hardly an opening.


    The swords of the heavenly demons and the swords of frost shed, the des were equal to one another. In fact, the frost swords were slightly stronger.


    The heavenly demon chuckled and exploded his demon''s qi.


    The frost swords shing with them were also destroyed in therge explosion. The Heavenly demon stared at the bright explosion with expectant eyes.


    ''Now…what will he do?''


    He thought his curiosity had peaked.


    A hundred frost swords emerged from the mist caused by the destruction of the frost swords.


    "That''s it?!"


    The heavenly demon was a little disappointed. He twisted his body to dodge a few frost swords and cut most of them with his de.


    But then…somethingpletely unexpected happened.


    He sensed a weird energy behind him. He had thought that n had used the same space-traveling technique to attack him from behind. And it seems that was the case.


    He sighed, a little disappointed. He wanted originality!


    He cut n''s head off in an instant…but something was strange.


    The head he cut off was the same…yet it possessed no flesh. The feeling of cutting through skin, muscles, and veins was not there.


    "Ah."


    The heavenly demon understood now. He had been tricked. The ''n'' he had cut down was not real. But rather a copy made from Ice.


    What was shocking was…that the copy was perfect. Except for the insides the outside was perfect, and it had a simr aura to the original as well.


    ''Where is the original?''


    The heavenly demon wondered, he could not sense n''s presence…no.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    He could do it…but it was so faint that it was barely noticeable. The sheer amount of frost des still existing didn''t help him.


    "Where will you appear from now…"


    He looked around, and with a single swing of his arm, he expelled the mist that had covered the area. And a shocked look appeared on his face.


    He would have rubbed his eyes to see if whatever he was seeing was real or not, but sadly he did not have the time.


    n had controlled the des of frost around him to go forward, rotating about him.


    He had literally be a spiked boulder of frost, and the speed at which he charged at the heavenly demon was immense!


    The massive boulder of frost swords made contact with the Heavenly Demon''s de.


    "Impressive…but not enough."


    The heavenly demon jumped back, easily crossing a few hundred meters and creating quite arge distance between the ball of frost swords and him.


    Although the speed of the ball was fast, it was still not fast enough to deter the heavenly demon. This was why when sensing the heavenly demon''s move. n opted for something else.


    He used his spatial mana to create arge portal in front of the ball of frost swords.


    The heavenly demon was confused.


    ''Why does he think this would work?''


    He thought…Confused. With that size, it would be hard to catch the heavenly demon off-guard now. The mist that had been created was the perfect distraction, but now that he was aware of it.


    It was literally useless to keep going with that move.


    Does he have a screw loose?


    Thought the Heavenly demon, even if he teleported it. The portal alone would be enough to garner enough attention.


    So…why?


    Why was he so insistent on still using the same move?


    Just as the heavenly demon had expected, a portal had appeared to the side, He sighed and prepared to sh it in half before the ball of frost coulde…


    And then.


    A chill ran down his spine and his instincts screamed, his body moved of its own volition, raising his sword to dodge somethinging from up front.


    Sparks shed as ''something'' collided with his sword.


    And then, he heard something else.


    "