Corrupt Creations

Swish! 

Fifth Shadow suddenly vanished, executing the Shadow Walk so quickly that no one was able to accompany him with their eyes. 

In just a single second, he was already standing beside Seth. His entire body was bathing in darkness turning it into a weapon. His hand moved like a shadow, bringing darkness to where it passed through. 

Seth didn't have the chance to defend himself, before suffering the strongest punch he had taken in his life, right at his face. 

Clap! 

As if a thunder had clapped, the loud sound of that hit echoed, before Seth's body hurtled through the air with a lot of force. 

While Seth was still flying mid-air, Fifth Shadow had already vanished, appearing beside him once again. As he was about to strike once more, but Seth's energy exploded outward, creating Crimson Corrupted Flames around himself. 

Fifth Shadow received those flames head on, but this time, the black aura involving his whole body, resisted them, creating sizzling sounds as both energies were trying to destroy one another. 

Even though Fifth Shadow had the overwhelming advantage of power, he still felt a sharp pain, followed by the notion that his darkness was slowly losing the battle, what instantly made him mad. He had just attained the highest degree of quality in darkness, yet it still lost for Seth's energy. Still, it lost in quality and not in power. 

He ignored everything, kicking Seth towards the other side. He vanished once again, doing the same attack and making Seth's body fly towards where he wanted. 

Seth had a tremendously strong body and endurance, but being hit continuously like that, made his injuries worsen and blood rushed to his mouth. Instead of trying to escape, he used his tyrannical energy to forceful stop his body in the air, with the help of his wind element. 

Fifth Shadow was chasing after him when he noticed Seth using another type of power. 

'Another element?! Snort!' He saw a green light shining around Seth and instantly considered it as a wind attribute skill. Even though he found it impressive Seth had knowledge regarding how to use three elements, it didn't matter for him at the moment. 

Seth had indeed used wind at first, when he forcefully stopped his body in the air, but now, that green light was his Evergreen Poison coming into play. Suddenly, a green mist started to spread around him, creating a toxic environment. 

Fifth Shadow ignored everything and rushed forwards, entering that area and inhaling that toxic poison. But since he was being powered by a super powerful darkness, he just felt a tiny itch feeling at first. 

In less than a seconds, he was already before Seth, striking once more with his bare hands. 

Seth tried to protect his body with his arms, using his Mana Control peak-stage cultivation as a shield, but it served for nothing. 

Fifth Shadow strength was on another level now. 

Bang! 

Crack! 

"Argh!" 

Seth took a heavy hit, a hit that released a massive darkness shockwave right at the point of the impact. 

That attack was too powerful for him to resist. The Mana contained in it and the quality of that darkness element was something he couldn't handle. 

His body was pushed backwards as a cracking noise of his right arm bones breaking resounded. He felt a sharp pain on his entire right arm, losing the ability to move that limb. 

To break one of his bones, the attack must release a huge quantity of energy. His body was enhanced by the Seed of Tyranny after all. 

Fifth Shadow smiled after realizing Seth had suffered a huge blow now. He didn't plan to let him any room for breathing, so he vanished once again, appearing like a ghost on Seth's left side. 

All this while, he was using the Second Stance of the Shadow Walk consecutively. Something that used a lot of Mana to accomplish. Not even Seth could do it like this. However, since he was being buffed, he was able to do it. 

Fifth Shadow kicked Seth's abdomen, sending his body flying once again towards the distance. This time though, his body flew all the way towards the fire barrier separating Yuyin from all this mess. At least he was a bit far from where Huo Shihong's body was. 

Bang! 

His back heavily collided against the barrier, but before he could slide down, Fifth Shadow appeared before him once again. He was holding an orb of darkness inside his hand, but this orb seemed a bit different. 

It was darker than the darkest night and there was a huge quantity of bloodline energy infused on it. 

"Heh! Take this." 

Fifth Shadow pushed that orb forward, impacting it against Seth's chest area. 

BANG! 

The whole area descended into darkness, since that orb, released a great quantity of it right in the middle of Seth's chest. An energy much stronger than what he could handle, exploded on him, pushing Seth against the flame barrier. 

Seth felt the skin of his chest being ripped apart, followed by the muscles, creating a very bloody scene in front of Fifth Shadow's eyes. The huge quantity of dark energy directed towards him, impacted the flame barrier right behind, creating thousands of thin cracks, generating a web like structure that started to quickly spread towards everywhere. 

The structure of that flame barrier was made of energy in the form of fire, but when something tried to pass through it, it wouldn't let, solidifying in a red screen of flame energy. That's why none of the members of the Twelve Shadow were able to go through. However, it seemed that Fifth Shadow was finally able to damage it now. 

At this moment Seth wasn't even feeling pain anymore and his eyes started to get lax, as if he was going to lose consciousness. His body has been so badly wounded that even his tyrant constitution couldn't handle all that damage. 

Huo Yuyin was standing on the other side of that flame barrier, witnessing the things that were happening with Seth. After seeing him getting beaten to a bloody mess, her heart bled for the second time that day.  Her father had just been killed and now her big brother Seth, was going to suffer the same destiny.

Yuyin ran to the where Seth was in, standing just at the opposite side of that barrier. She wanted to desperately reach him, so she started to punch the flame barrier, trying to break it. She disregarded the fact that on the other side, there was one of the men responsible for doing all of this. He could kill her any time he wanted if she were to get to the other side. 

"Seth! Seth!" None of her yells were able to reach his ears. 

Seth's body fell on the ground, not showing any more signals. If he wasn't unconscious yet, it was just a matter of time till he collapsed. However, Fifth Shadow suddenly saw the figure of Huo Yuyin, trying to destroy the wall in order to reach her big brother. 

"Oh? What is this?! You were so thoroughly crushed, that there is a female human child trying to save you? Ahahaha! Cough! Cough! Cough!" 

Fifth Shadow suddenly felt dizzy. The Evergreen Poison finally started to take effect inside of his body, but it was already too late now. However, this feeling of sickness made him get mad, annoyed by the fact he was poisoned and didn't even know how. 

Fifth Shadow looked towards Yuyin and decided to so something. He raised his hand and started to gather his Mana there. A huge flux of darkness started to accumulate in that area, creating a whirlpool of dark energy. 

"Cough! Cough! You're lucky that you are one of the pieces of Master Velgor's puzzle, if not for that, I would have already killed you, just like what happened with that useless Sect Master... However, there is something you won't have to worry anymore..." 

As he said, he kept increasing the amount of Mana he was infusing in that dark whirlpool. 

"You don't need to worry with that girl over there anymore, since she will be joining her father soon." 

Fifth Shadow finally felt his skill was ready. He was about to release that black whirlpool of energy and blast the flame barrier to pieces, when suddenly he heard a thumping sound. 

Thump! 

When he heard that sound, he suddenly stopped everything he was doing. It was a very weak sound, but it seemed so real that it was just like his heart that was beating. 

Thump! Thump! 

At the moment, Seth didn't know what was right or wrong, what was light or dark. Actually, he was unconscious. But somehow, he had heard Fifth Shadow words. 

He couldn't understand what he was talking at all, but he felt rage, he felt hatred, he felt like he wanted to destroy him. 

Swoosh! 

Boom! 

An ancient aura left his body, bathing the whole Fire Labyrinth in its unholiness. 

Fifth Shadow's dark whirlpool vanished without a trace. He didn't understand how it had happened, but his energy wasn't responding to him anymore, just like it was cowering in fear, shrinking down deep inside his energy veins. 

Seth's body suddenly started to exude a crimson glow. 

When Fifth Shadow looked towards that light, he felt as if his soul had been punctured, ripped apart. Just a single look, made him feel dread that came from the depths of his heart. 

Fwoosh! 

The crimson glow descended to the ground, quickly expanding forward. In a single second it made the whole ground get covered in a dark red matter, creating a scenery very similar to the one Seth had once seen when the second seal of his Seed of Tyranny was undone.