The Invincible Corruption Manual

"Ho ho ho, you mean this right." Joey showed his bloody right palm with a deep wound left from the sword. He then cleaned up the blood and the wound began to heal and quickly closed up,  leaving not even a scar.

"It means he is so fast enough to do all that even my eye could catch it. Hmm, so this brat fort is speed. This will be a hard job for me. " The assassin pondered everything and finally realized how Joey played with him.

Joey stretched his body and swung the sword in the air, warming himself up. He then said with a smile, "I have already spotted your presence a long time ago. So you are a swordmaster? Perfect timing. I have been thinking of trying out my newly learned sword skills."

Joey chanted a spell and infused his yogic yang energy into the longsword. The longsword began to glow crimson red. "Tier-2 fusion intents of fire and sword, go! " He slashed his sword toward the black silhouette assassin, sending a crimson red streak line at him.

"Fusion intent!" The assassin exclaimed on seeing the two; sword intent and fire intent inside the incoming crimson red streak line. But the moment he was about to hit, he shouted, "Darkness law, activate!" His sword suddenly turned into pitch-black. He made a swift slicing motion sending out a darkness essence qi filled with tier-10 sword intent.

Bang! Boom! Boom!....

The black energy and the crimson red line met in the air and exploded, making loud booming sounds.

The residual energy from the explosion sent the assassin flying back far away in the air. He retained his balance in the air and looked at Joey wearily. The sleeves of his black cloaks were burnt out, showing the black soot-tainted hands all the way up to the arms. He raised his longsword and saw that the whole blade was sizzling red, steams kept coming out of it.

"Humph," He snorted and dropped it down as its magical inscriptions on the sword was all broken and rendered useless. "Brat, you are really great. Then let's see if you can block my next attack." He took out another longsword with a green handle.

The assassin then began chanting a spell, along with making a series of hand seals in synchronous to his chant and he finally shouted, "Level inhibitor seal, released!" In the next instance, the air pressure around him increased sharply, making a giant whirlpool of essence qi concentrated from around the surrounding with him at the center. The temperature around him also repeatedly spiked up, boiling even those water vapor present inside the air. The next moment, his cultivation base began to increase rapidly and finally stopped at the early lvl-1 of the Semi-Boundless realm. He waved down his sword once and the strong whirlpool around him disappeared and the silence prevailed again.

"Hmm, a Level 1 of Semi-Boundless realm!" Joey frowned slightly as he could feel the energy within the assassin's body. "Fine, I have to be a bit more serious then," he hushed under his breath.

Then the next instance he began chanting a mantra in Sanskrit in a sonorous tone and he finally shouted, "Heavenly lotus seal, unleashed!" After that, the lotus tattoo on his forehead began to fade gradually, leaf by leaf. He finally stopped unsealing the seal when five lotus leaves vanished from the lotus tattoo. Along with the fading of the lotus leaves, three different types of energies overflooded his body.

The assassin finally saw through Joey's cultivation base after releasing one-fifth of the lotus seal. "Hah, so he is just a punny ant in lvl 7 of Demi-God realm. But, why do I feel that he was not simple at all, and the moment he released whatever technique he was using, his body was suddenly filled up with some kind of strange energy I have never heard of or seen before. I must never underestimate this brat. " He reminded himself and began to think about his next course of attack.

"Alright, I haven't really fought an expert in the Semi- Boundless realm before. You should go all-out this time or you shall never have another chance. Let me see how strong a Semi- Boundless realm could be." Joey warned him, as his body began to tremble with the anticipation of a big fight.

"Humph, arrogant brat, I shall go out then," The assassin began to infuse two types of his essence qi; one with darkness elemental and the another with greenish poison essence qi into his longsword. Just after that, half of the blade turned black, and the other half with green from near the handle all the way up to the tip. He then raised his sword in the air and began chanting a spell in a very strange language, which looked like the groaning of thousands of evil souls. As soon as he began chanting, the mixture of the black and green essence qi was injected out from the tip of the long sword and gradually a colossus greenish-black sword began to materialize in the air just above the tip of his sword. He then shouted, "Giant sword of poison and darkness, go!" He then pointed the tip of the longsword in his hand to the direction of Joey, henceforth, the giant colossus sword formed from the essence qi of darkness and poison dashed toward Joey.

Joey observed the power within the giant incoming sword and felt a sense of impending doom from it. "Ahh, what is it?! I have never felt this sense from anyone before." he wondered as he shivered his body uncontrollably. But the next instance, the lotus tattoo on his forehead began to rotate rapidly and he regained his early firm composer again.

Seeing that, the assassin exclaimed instead, "What the hell?!" he was more shocked by it as no one even those experts in Semi- Boundless realm could easily escape the soul enchantment from the darkness law contained inside the sword skill. This was the first time he witnessed someone regaining their consciousness within a few seconds after being entrapped successfully.