Chapter 32: Special Awakening (Part Two)

"Vanished?"
"No... it didn't vanish!"
"It's inside my body!"
"Inside the Golem Space!"

Bathed in the eerie purple light of the Asura's Eye, the spacetime storm, which possessed the might to almost devastate all things, suddenly vanished. Naturally, this immediately drew Chu Yi's attention.

But very soon, Chu Yi discovered a crucial fact: the spacetime storm had not completely disappeared. Rather, under the illumination of the eerie purple light from the Asura's Eye, it had been instantly sucked into the Golem Space!

Immediately following...

"Boom!"

The spacetime storm versus the Asura Golem!

An epic battle, visible only to Chu Yi, had abruptly erupted within the Golem Space!

It was a silent conflict...
And an immensely perilous one at that—a terrifying battle where even if Chu Yi were to participate, he would be instantly vaporized into nothingness!

In an instant, as the spacetime storm was pulled into the Golem Space, the ferocious tempest "sliced" across the body of the Asura Golem. The Asura Golem, which had just condensed three realms of the Samsara within its Asura's Eye, suffered a web of cracks under that "slicing" force. The Asura Golem, which Chu Yi had just repaired through his ninth awakening, was once again reduced to a heavily battered state.

Yet, wasn't it mentioned just moments ago?
Even after the ninth awakening, the transformation of the Asura Golem was still far from complete; it was ongoing!

Therefore, just as the spacetime storm unleashed its might and battered the Asura Golem to the verge of severe destruction...

"Kill!"

The Asura Golem suddenly snapped open its eyes, and with cold, merciless indifference, it spat out a single word: "Kill!"

Instantly, as a towering wave of killing intent surged outward, the spacetime storm—which previously seemed formidable enough that even the Asura Golem struggled to cope with it—unexpectedly...
Unexpectedly, under that overwhelming sky-filling killing intent, was forcefully driven by the Asura Golem into a corner, where it was slowly compressed into a spherical shape!

At the same time...

"Hum!"

The miraculous transformation of the Asura Golem began once again!

If the transformation of the Asura's Eye at the center of the Asura Golem's brow—namely, the condensation of the three realms of Samsara—was an ability that came with Chu Yi's third awakening, forming the might of the Deva Path, combined with the Cat-Cat Fruit Leopard Form material and the Phoenix Fruit material to form the Animal Path might, alongside the Human Path might inadvertently reactivated during his battle with Kaido...
Then at this very moment...

The Asura Wings, acquired by Chu Yi during his very first awakening, abruptly materialized behind the Asura Golem!

However, those Asura Wings, resembling bloody flames, did not linger for long before they transformed into a light curtain akin to crimson fire, gracefully settling behind the head of the Asura Golem.

The feeling it imparted...
Was remarkably similar to the halo of divine light behind the head of a true Buddha!

Next, the ability of the Multiple Shadow Clone material manifested within the Golem Space!

The very instant the Asura Wings condensed into the blood-red flame light curtain, with a few "swish" and "whoosh" sounds, the single Asura Golem resting in the Golem Space multiplied out of thin air into three!

Yet, within Chu Yi's field of vision, the appearance of the three Asura Golems lasted for merely a single instant.

The next second...

"Bang!"

The three Asura Golems collided directly with one another. Following this urgent transition, the three merged into a single entity, transforming the Asura Golem into a towering figure with three heads and six arms!

"This..."
"It seems... apart from the Ice-Ice Fruit material used for the fifth awakening and the Diamond Fruit material used for the eighth awakening, every single fruit material I used for my awakenings has... has been completely fused into the Asura Golem?"

That was correct.
When the Multiple Shadow Clone material successfully transformed the Asura Golem into a three-headed, six-armed manifestation, Chu Yi keenly grasped a pivotal point.

The miraculous mutations currently occurring in the Asura Golem were entirely related to the various materials he had used for his awakenings!

Aside from the Vision Fruit material used for the second awakening and the Susanoo material used for the seventh awakening—which had long since fused into the Primordial Fruit and thus caused no external anomalies in the Asura Golem—wasn't every other change currently taking place in the Asura Golem directly tied to the materials Chu Yi had utilized for his awakenings?

Therefore, once the Multiple Shadow Clone material smoothly integrated into the Asura Golem and morphed it into a three-headed, six-armed deity, Chu Yi could practically conclude with certainty that the abilities of the Ice-Ice Fruit material and the Diamond Fruit material would soon manifest upon the Asura Golem as well.

Sure enough...
Chu Yi's guess was entirely correct!

Very soon, the Ice-Ice Fruit material and the Diamond Fruit material brought a fresh wave of transformations to the Asura Golem!

First was the Ice-Ice Fruit.
As the Ice-Ice Fruit material successfully merged into the Asura Golem, Chu Yi watched as a wisp of frost suddenly drifted onto one of the six arms of the Asura Golem, held gently in the void of its palm.

Then, once the Diamond Fruit successfully integrated into the Asura Golem...

"Crack!"
"Crack!"

Accompanied by a series of crisp shattering sounds, crystal-clear diamond armor abruptly condensed across the body of the Asura Golem, imbuing the entity within the Golem Space with an additional layer of sharp, ferocious battle intent out of thin air!

Yet, what Chu Yi never expected was...
When all the materials he had ever used for his awakenings had finally integrated into the Asura Golem, helping it complete transformation after transformation...

Abruptly!

"Swish!"

The dual pupils of the Asura Golem locked directly and unwaveringly onto the spacetime storm that had been compressed into a sphere!

"What is the Asura Golem trying to do?"
"Is it not..."
"Is it actually planning to absorb the spacetime storm into its body?"

Chu Yi's mouth twitched violently. Although he understood that the Asura Golem knew no fear, the notion of absorbing something as terrifying as a spacetime storm directly into one's body still made Chu Yi feel that the Golem's plan was borderline insane.

Unfortunately, Chu Yi could not dictate the thoughts of the Asura Golem.

Thus, even as Chu Yi's mouth twitched in hopes that the Golem wasn't planning what he thought it was—namely, devouring the spacetime storm—the Asura Golem slowly opened its mouth and swallowed the spacetime storm whole.

Then...
There was nothing more.

Almost the exact moment the Asura Golem swallowed the spacetime storm, Chu Yi felt a wave of intense throbbing pain erupt in his head—a torment so agonizing that even Chu Yi, having undergone nine awakenings, found it utterly impossible to resist.

Immediately afterward, Chu Yi's vision went completely black, and he collapsed into unconsciousness within the collapsing spatial rift.

Yet, wondrously enough, the moment Chu Yi lost consciousness, the spatial rift that had been on the verge of collapsing suddenly and bizarrely stabilized.

As if a newly born force had emerged to prop up the spatial rift once more, the rift gradually grew calm. Inside the stabilized spatial rift, Chu Yi was now entirely out of danger.

Just like that, an unknown amount of time passed...

"Mhm?"

Awakening slowly from his hazy state, Chu Yi first sat cross-legged. Ignoring the mystery of how the spatial rift had managed to stabilize, he immediately focused his mind and slipped into the Golem Space.

And the very instant he entered the Golem Space...

Well!
Aside from a bitter smile, Chu Yi truly had no words left to say.

For right at the moment Chu Yi stepped into the Golem Space, what met his eyes was, once again, a battered and broken Asura Golem!

"How is it that in the end, I've..."
"Returned to the very beginning?"