Chapter 561 The Power of the True Spirit
"Is that really all there is to it?" I countered. "Isn't it because...you're afraid you'll actually be killed?"
Huang Quan's expression did not change visibly, yet I seemed to be able to grasp the turbulent emotions swirling within him at that moment.
Perhaps he wasn't lying; he truly is the kind of person who only fights battles he's guaranteed to win. But the factors that prompted him to flee now were clearly not just because the situation was unfavorable to him, but also because of the transformative power of the fragments of the divine seal that had shaped me.
He will surely understand that the power I am using now can break his immortality and truly kill him.
The surrounding scenery changed rapidly, and soon the Great Demon of Calamity and the Great Demon Xuanwu disappeared from sight. I chased Huang Quan all the way, moving from one area to another, not knowing how far I had run.
And the distance between us is getting shorter and shorter.
For two equally powerful beings, if one tries to escape while the other tries to kill them, it's an almost impossible task. However, our situation is not normal at this moment.
This is the afterlife, a chaotic world of time and space. Huang Quan, a god and mortal who has been immersed in this place for countless years, has a profound understanding of this chaotic spacetime. With Xiao Wan's past help, I have also become highly adapted to this chaotic spacetime. On top of that, I also have Xiao Wan's blessing, which sets me far apart from him.
We're like two soldiers who've fallen into a lake. We're both good swimmers, but Huang Quan is just an average swimmer, while I'm a swimming champion who can win top prizes in sports competitions. If something else were to interfere, that would be one thing, but for Huang Quan to think he can escape from me right now is pure fantasy.
In no time, I caught up to Huang Quan not far behind. A fireball the size of a house burst forth from my hand and shot toward Huang Quan with a roar.
Perhaps the timing of this fatal blow was too predictable, as Huang Quan was prepared and spun around in mid-air to avoid the path of the fireball.
And I didn't launch the attack without a plan. Huang Quan may have forgotten one thing: the flames I summoned and manipulated could actually be considered as myself. And my act of shooting the fireball was tantamount to shooting myself out of the fire.
I reformed my third form of light within the fireball, then shot out of it as if bursting from a shell. Huang Quan turned around in astonishment, simultaneously retreating backward. However, it was too late for him to escape.
A high-energy vortex of yellow-black magical power appeared in his palm. Since there was no way to escape, he had no choice but to gamble everything and confront me head-on. Although it was different from his usual style, he was facing certain death, and if he couldn't even muster this level of ruthlessness, he would be unworthy of being called a god.
However, as it turns out, I underestimated Huang Quan's will to survive.
Or perhaps I was unconsciously projecting my own feelings onto him. If I were in Huang Quan's shoes, I would have been risking my life at this critical juncture. But Huang Quan is not me, and he had absolutely no intention of confronting me head-on and risking his life. He immediately did something that was beyond my expectations.
He smeared the yellow-black high-energy vortex onto his face with his other hand.
With an incredibly violent explosion, Huang Quan's head shattered, and his soul vanished in an instant, like a candle flame in a storm. I was thrown back by the shockwave, unable to believe what I was seeing.
Huang Quan committed suicide!
I immediately realized what was going on.
Huang Quan is immortal; even if he commits suicide, he won't truly die. However, if he dies at my hands, he might truly be dead. Therefore, he would rather commit suicide than be killed by me.
If it were the one committing suicide here, it would be pointless to do this. Since the one who commits suicide will revive on the spot, I could simply wait beside their "body" and deliver the final blow. However, Huang Quan will be reborn in another unknown location after committing suicide, which can be considered the ultimate escape method.
In a sense, this might be an imitation of my previous self-disclosure. What goes around comes around. Is this a case of "an eye for an eye"?
I exited my third form, landed on the ground, and waved my hand. A fierce wind arose, and the massive mushroom cloud that had enveloped the area vanished in an instant. Huang Quan, however, was left without a trace, only a barren wasteland.
A few seconds later, two figures appeared beside me—Number Seven, carrying a small bowl, teleported to my side, exhausted.
"You actually drove Huang Quan to commit suicide..."
Number Seven seemed to have somehow observed the battle situation on my side. She looked at the field in shock, panting heavily, and then looked at me.
“You’ve come out too early; the battle isn’t completely over yet,” I said.
Number Seven's expression changed, and he asked, "Has Huang Quan not left yet?"
"No, what Brother Zhuangcheng is talking about should be the Great Demon of Calamity..." Xiaowan turned her head to look into the distance.
The Great Demon of Calamity seems to still be entangled with the Great Demon Xuanwu and has not yet caught up, but it should arrive soon.
At first, I thought that the Great Demon of Calamity could only serve as a temporary buffer against the Great Demon Xuanwu. Who would have thought that the relationship of restraint between the two would be reversed?
However, compared to the Great Demon Xuanwu, the Great Demon of Calamity seems to be more interested in me.
Each Great Demon has its own hunting tendencies. Just as Xiaowan said before, the Great Demon of Calamity prefers to attack the powerful and those capable of escaping its grasp. In other words, it's probably like me, enjoying challenges and adventures. Whether the battle is guaranteed to be won or lost, it has little interest.
Even a Great Demon of the same level as himself, Xuanwu, would likely be of no interest to the Great Demon of Calamity. And Huang Quan, who can remain invisible to Great Demons, probably never even entered the Great Demon of Calamity's field of vision from the beginning. From the moment he discovered me on that battlefield, the Great Demon of Calamity locked his consciousness onto me.
It may have already forgotten that it initially came to the scene to hunt down Xiaowan.
Even now, I can still feel a deep, burning killing intent clinging to me like a shadow. Perhaps this is what Xiaowan experienced during that time. No matter where she fled to, the other party would inevitably catch up.
"I need to recover my strength first, and I'll be leaving with the small bowl soon."
As Number Seven spoke, he followed my and Xiao Wan's gaze into the distance, then asked in a complicated tone, "By the way... do you have some kind of connection with the Great Demon of Calamity? Why are you able to summon it during battle?"
Xiao Wan gave a simple explanation, and Number Seven immediately understood. I then asked, "Do you have a grudge against the Great Demon of Disaster?"
"I guess you could say we have a grudge." Number Seven glanced at me.
Xiao Wan glanced at Number Seven silently, then turned her gaze back to the field, and said in confusion, "Why did Huang Quan suddenly commit suicide just now? Even if he couldn't beat Brother Zhuang Cheng, there was no need for him to do something like that... Could it be related to the change in the power of the Divine Seal Fragment used by Brother Zhuang Cheng?"
“No need for ‘perhaps,’ it’s related to the power of Zhuang Cheng’s divine seal fragment.” Number Seven seemed to understand the details of this new power. “I didn’t expect such a result… perhaps this is a kind of ‘blessing in disguise’.”
"Ms. Seven, do you know what Zhuang Cheng's new power is? Can you tell us?" Xiao Wan asked solemnly.
“There’s no need to put on this pleading tone. Even if you didn’t ask, I would have told you. After all, we’re now in a battlefield partnership, and this new power will directly affect whether we can truly kill that old codger Huang Quan.” Number Seven looked at me. “Zhuang Cheng, if nothing unexpected happens, the new power you’ve displayed after receiving Xiao Wan’s blessing should be the ‘True Spirit Power’.”
"—True Spirit Power?" I asked in surprise.
As the name suggests, the so-called power of the true spirit is the "power of the true spirit".
Based on the records in the Luoshan database and the Great True Spirit hypothesis, the source of all life and souls in the world is the Great True Spirit. In other words, the power of the True Spirit can be regarded as the "most primordial spiritual power." Therefore, theoretically, as long as one can thoroughly understand and freely manipulate the power of the True Spirit, one can reproduce the power of all souls in the world.
Whether it's the flames of me and Xuanming, the death magic of Mingzhuo and Huangquan, or the power of any other gods and demons, or even all phenomena in the universe... anything that humans can think of or cannot think of can be easily realized, making it truly an omnipotent power.
However, theory is one thing, in reality, someone who can fully comprehend the power of the true spirit is essentially equivalent to someone who "proves their own true spirit." Such a person does not exist in this world. Even if they did, they would cease to exist.
One characteristic of the power of the true spirit is that this power can produce "real results".
What constitutes a "real result" is not well documented in Luo Shan's materials, and I cannot say I am entirely clear on the matter. Here, I can only offer some simple examples to attempt to describe its nature indirectly. For instance, wounds inflicted on others using True Spirit power become "real damage" that cannot be healed by any means; similarly, if a person is killed by True Spirit power, that is "true death," and they cannot be resurrected by any means.
Is this the reason why this power can restrain Huang Quan's unknown immortal body?
That seems plausible. If the world we live in is a dream of the Great Spirit, then everything except the Great Spirit itself is an illusion. Whether it's magic to heal wounds or immortality, it's all ultimately just a mirage. Once it collides with "real power," it can only be met with rejection.
Xiao Wan didn't seem to understand what "True Spirit Power" meant, so I explained it to her. She nodded in understanding, then looked at Number Seven and asked with a serious attitude, "Ms. Number Seven, why were you able to identify that Brother Zhuang Cheng's new power was the so-called True Spirit Power? Is there any basis for that?"
Number Seven paused slightly, then replied, "It's very simple... because the power of the Divine Seal is the power of the True Spirit."
(End of this chapter)
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