Birth of the Demonic Sword

Noah had to transform Isaac's law, but he didn't want to remove the reason that made it interesting. At the same time, he had to give it a different purpose, something that matched his existence.

The kills were a feature that Noah wanted to keep. They matched his existence perfectly, but he couldn't make that requirement too general. The ability would lose power otherwise.

Noah didn't have something as specific as Isaac. He didn't have a specific enemy to target when rebuilding the ability. However, he could pick something that he had done often and respected his ambition.

Noah had spent his entire life fighting and defeating opponents that had a higher cultivation level. The potential of his ambition depended on his logic-defying achievements, so he could do something similar for his new ability.

The building of the ability became far easier after deciding its new foundation. Noah only had to call upon his memories and review all the times when he had defeated stronger opponents to complete the transformation. The process had taken longer than he expected, but that was a good thing due to the obvious connections with the final result.

Noah's hair fluttered as the power generated by his figure gave birth to raging winds. His cultivation level had fallen, but he appeared stronger than ever. Even Isaac with his new law didn't feel to have many chances against him.

"It's hilarious!" Noah roared as he passed his hands through his hair while he experienced the wave of power that was filling his existence. "One of the most devoted followers of Heaven and Earth has given me the most fitting ability for my existence."

"Don't you dare insult the rulers!" Isaac shouted. "I will defeat you with the new power that they have given me!"

"Shut up," Noah laughed before waving his hand toward the expert.

A single black slash came out of his fingers. The curved attack covered the distance that separated the two experts in an instant, but the debris and boulders that made the surface disappeared during that short period.

The energy contained on the shattered plain had flowed inside the slash in an instant, and peculiar marks had appeared on its structure before it could clash with the expert. Isaac's eyes widened when he saw that the attack now featured countless faces.

The faces didn't only belong to humans. Many magical beasts' heads also appeared on the slash before the impact. Roars and cries came out of them and spread their nefarious noise through the entire battlefield. Isaac almost lost his concentration when those sounds reached his ears.

Still, Isaac was an experienced warrior. He could sense that there was something off with Noah's slash, but its power remained at the peak of the liquid stage. After all, Noah had deactivated his ambition and was using his base power to fight.

Isaac's hand created afterimages as he waved his stick and hit the slash in multiple spots in the span of an instant. The attack seemed to slow down, but the faces suddenly screamed again and pushed it forward.

The expert could only let his stick endure the power of the blow and run away. Lightning bolts came out of his feet as he shot backward, but the explosion that followed the clash took him by surprise.

The stick shattered when the slash hit it, but it managed to serve its purpose and made the entirety of the attack's power converge on its structure.

Noah's attack discharged its power on that spot, but an explosion followed that event. Countless smaller slashes flew everywhere through the plain, and all of them carried faces that released a disturbing noise.

Some of the experts on the battlefield above ended up clashing with the slashes, and the result was quite gruesome. Those attacks pierced them from side to side and absorbed their energy to continue flying through the area. A few stronger existences even had to join their forces to stop that reckless destruction.

Most of the slashes still tried to converge toward Isaac, but his new movement technique made him too fast. The lightning bolts that he released were even the perfect bait for Noah's abilities since they carried Heaven and Earth's power. He could free himself from that chase after a few leaps, but his expression remained grim.

The attack of a liquid stage hybrid had forced Isaac to escape. That event led to unbelievable conclusions. It seemed that Noah's base power could actually match solid stage cultivators now.

"What have you done to my law?!" Isaac couldn't help to ask when he saw Noah charging ahead.

"You took pride in killing those who defied Heaven and Earth," Noah explained. "I gain power by defeating those stronger than me. Your technique has given me the chance to express it without relying on my law."

Isaac's eyes widened in disbelief. The entire world knew about Noah's abilities, his most iconic ones at least. Everyone was aware that the empowerment given by the ambition led to drawbacks, but the situation seemed to have changed now.

Noah could feel the drawbacks of his ambition trying to tear his body apart, but the black hole was doing an excellent job at keeping his centers of power in one piece.

Meanwhile, he could feel the power generated by Isaac's law filling his body with the same might that his ambition would provide. The technique had taken the shape of a blue orb floating among his mental sea. It had become a spell that could activate his memories and draw energy from them.

"I must destroy you," Isaac whispered as a terrible realization dawned upon his mind. "You might actually…."

Isaac went silent and materialized another stick before stretching his arms forward. He joined his hands and kept his weapon among them as he pointed at the incoming Noah.

Sparks ran through his arms, and an array of lightning bolts soon covered his whole figure. That raging energy took the form of human faces that howled their pain as they flowed toward his hands and converged in his stick.

Noah didn't stop. He was ecstatic. He wanted to feel everything that his new ability was capable of offering, and the Demonic Sword roared when it understood his desire.

The Demonic Sword and the cursed sword quickly appeared in his hands while Noah raised his arms above his head. He would face the incoming attack head-on, but his face didn't show the slightest trace of worry.

Darkness gathered around the two joined swords. Dark matter also gathered around the weapon and created a churning pillar that expanded toward the sky. Multiple human and animal faces appeared on the structure, and the wicked noises resounded on in the area again.

Isaac's discharged his attack when Noah was about to reach him. A lightning bolt that took the shape of a massive human face shot forward and tried to envelop Noah with its raging energy.

On the other hand, Noah slashed downward, and his black pillar fell. Energy from the plain flowed toward his attack and increased its power right before the clash with the face, and an explosion happened once the two techniques met.

A large chunk of the battlefield changed color. White and dark shades fought against each other for the control of the area, but both of them vanished after battling for a while.

Heaven and Earth's light tried to fill that area after the explosion, but a black membrane suddenly appeared and prevented it from expanding.

Many experts noticed that scene and inspected the dispersion of the last strand of energy to see the outcome of the clash. The area eventually became clear, and everyone could see an injured Noah standing above Isaac's lifeless body.