"Here you go!" Lin Wuyue handed the bracelet to Lu Ning, saying anxiously, "Hurry up, my master can't hold on much longer!"

Lu Ning put the bracelet on his wrist, and then touched it, and the scarlet sword appeared.

Lu Ning touched it again, and the Crown of Pain appeared.

Lu Ning put the crown of agony, woven from black thorns, on his head, and immediately, a sharp pain appeared.

Lu Ning discovered that the pain felt directly by the spiritual body was much stronger than the pain experienced through the physical body. In addition, the pain amplified by the Crown of Pain itself made the pain extremely intense.

Lu Ning's lips gradually curved into a smile: "Ouch, that really hurts..."

The next moment, Lu Ning gripped the Crimson Sword tightly.

A faint voice came from the crimson sword: "Great master...where is your flesh and blood?"

Perhaps because it has been some time since it was promoted to the high-risk level, the self-awareness within the Crimson Sword has become stronger and stronger, and it can even communicate smoothly now.

Upon hearing the words of the Crimson Sword, Lu Ning replied, "Absorb my spiritual body."

The Crimson Sword fell silent, then a voice echoed in Lu Ning's mind: "Great Master... This is not true flesh and blood... I cannot absorb it..."

Lu Ning frowned as he glanced at the Crimson Sword, then sacrificed his spiritual body, surging towards the Crimson Sword.

"No... Great Master... No..."

"What's the difference between a spiritual body and a physical body? I think since you can absorb flesh and blood, it's normal for you to absorb a spiritual body as well."

Ignoring the Scarlet Sword's objections, Lu Ning forcibly poured the sacrificial spirit into the Scarlet Sword.

The crimson sword trembled slightly, and then twisted silver patterns appeared on its crimson blade.

The silver patterns are incredibly fine, extending from the hilt to the blade.

The Crimson Sword remained silent for a long time before finally speaking, "Yes, great master... I can absorb spiritual flesh and blood..."

The next moment, tendrils that seemed to be formed from spiritual energy wrapped around Lu Ning's arm.

Lu Ning felt a powerful force surging forth.

The pain from sacrificing his spiritual body was amplified tenfold by the Crown of Pain, and the intense pain made Lu Ning's smile grow wider and wider.

"Hehehe... Ouch... It really hurts... It hurts so much!"

The black thorns shimmered with an eerie black light, and another powerful force surged forth.

Lu Ning's mental fluctuations at this moment were more than ten times stronger than before.

The terrifying mental fluctuations made even the weaker Awakened Ones, like Colin, feel suffocated.

They retreated repeatedly, and even Lin Wuyue's expression changed as she looked at Lu Ning with some shock.

At this moment, Lu Ning's mental fluctuations were even stronger than hers.

You should know that she's an eighth-tier cultivator!

Lu Ning's destructive power was strong because he used the power of the Soul-Shaking Fist; his own mental fluctuations were far inferior to hers.

Even so, Lu Ning's previous energy blasts were not much less destructive than hers.

Lu Ning's mental fluctuations have now surpassed Lin Wuyue's, so how strong must his combat power be?

However, looking at Lu Ning's somewhat distorted smile, Lin Wuyue felt a chill in her heart for no apparent reason.

She didn't understand what Lu Ning was laughing at.

As his aura intensified, Lu Ning slightly bent his knees and stomped his foot hard on the ground.

The next moment, the surrounding space seemed to explode.

The violent shockwave spread in all directions, causing Lin Wuyue to catch her breath, and Colin and the others around her were blown back several steps.

Lu Ning appeared behind the Shadow of Dreams in an instant.

The crimson sword burned with white flames, and its violent power slightly distorted the dimensional space.

The crimson sword traced a pale path as it slashed towards the Shadow of Dreams.

This time, Lu Ning's attack speed far exceeded that of before.

The Shadow of Dreams sensed the commotion and dodged to the side, but it was not able to completely avoid the attack.

The edge of the Crimson Sword sliced ​​through the arm of the Dream Eater.

The arm and shoulder of the Dream Eater were immediately severed, and silver slime sprayed out.

The Shadow of Dreams' expression changed, and its figure suddenly disappeared, reappearing a hundred meters away.

The semi-transparent figure looked at Lu Ning, who wore a black thorn crown and held a blood-red silver greatsword, with a look of surprise and uncertainty.

The Shadow of Dreams clearly sensed that although the fluctuations of the spiritual entity before it were the same as before, its essence had undergone a tremendous change.

Anlocks, who was standing to the side, was also taken aback.

He looked at Lu Ning, who had severed the arm of the Dream Eater with a single sword strike, and was somewhat shocked.

His gaze swept over the Crimson Sword and the Crown of Pain: "Two high-risk soul artifacts? Can you withstand the side effects?"

Lu Ning grinned broadly: "Hehehe... If you can't take it, you die, it doesn't matter! It really hurts! Damn it!"

Anlocks opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but Lu Ning had already disappeared from the spot again.

The next moment, Anlocks was completely stunned.

...Did Lu Ning just curse?

Lu Ning, who hasn't reacted much?

Then, as if struck by a thought, he examined the black thorn crown on Lu Ning's head, his expression changing: "Crown of Pain? Holy crap?! And it's used with a spiritual body??? How did you do that?"

The Crown of Pain, a high-risk Horcrux, is quite famous throughout the entire Bureau.

After all, the enhancement brought by this high-risk soul weapon is indeed significant, but the side effects are too obvious.

However, Anrox never intended to use this Horcrux.

Because... the pain suffered by a pure spiritual being directly affects the soul and is not weakened by the physical body, making it several times more intense than the pain in reality.

The Crown of Pain can increase the pain tenfold, which is equivalent to directly increasing the pain level by tens of times, or even close to a hundredfold.

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