The absolute suppression of the Soul Binding Technique had not yet been removed, but immediately followed by a dark gray barrier descending upon them.
"You have your clever strategies, and I have my own ways to get over the wall!"
Jiang Yuan waved his hand, and the Soul Refining Pot appeared from it. He had been keeping a secret when he started refining the death energy of the undead for the Tomb Maiden, and that was to brand it with the mark of the Soul Refining Pot. Now was the time for the Soul Refining Pot to come in handy.
Inside the Netherworld Barrier, the Tomb Woman enjoyed double the attack, double the defense, and double the recovery bonuses, making her attacks exceptionally powerful. Her scepter attacks could pierce through the soul energy layer protecting Jiang Yuan's body in just a few strikes.
“General, although you absorbed the same amount of death energy as the Tomb Maiden, your utilization rate of death energy is far less than that of the Tomb Maiden, so you don’t need to waste your time!” The Tomb Maiden was very confident, as if she had Jiang Yuan figured out.
“Sometimes, once you’ve chosen the wrong side, there’s no going back!” Jiang Yuan opened the Soul Refining Pot, inside which were the complete Soul Suppressing Stele pieces he had collected.
Suddenly, the Soul Refining Pot turned upside down and hung directly above the tomb woman's head. The pot was covered with bloodstains, which were Jiang Yuan's own blood.
The Soul Refining Pot is an ancient magical artifact of the human race. It is a treasure that requires the pure bloodline of the human race to activate. Jiang Yuan himself only fused with the attribute bloodline, so he preserved the human bloodline to the greatest extent. In addition, with the blessing of human fortune, it can be said that his blood can perfectly activate the Soul Refining Pot.
"General, so you've been wary of the Tomb Maiden all along!" The Tomb Maiden's emotions showed a rare fluctuation.
Jiang Yuan did not answer; he simply continued to activate the Soul Refining Pot.
He wasn't overly wary of the Tomb Woman, because he could tell she had no murderous intent, which made her stand out from the other spirits in the underground palace. That's why he believed she was a harmless, wandering ghost! As for the mark left on the Tomb Woman by the Soul Refining Pot, that was just a coincidence.
"General, I'm so sorry!"
The Soul Refining Pot began to suppress the Tomb Woman, forcing her to take action. The Netherworld Barrier continuously released powerful soul energy, striking Jiang Yuan and invading his soul consciousness.
The most powerful aspect of soul power is its influence on the soul. Once soul power reaches a high level, the means it possesses are definitely more numerous than those of physical or spiritual power. For example, Jiang Yuan was directly trapped in the soul world constructed by the Tomb Maiden after being attacked.
He saw the battlefield strewn with corpses, he smelled the pungent, stench of blood, and he even felt the pain of swords striking his body—everything felt so real.
"Is this the battle that made Bai Qi famous?" Jiang Yuan subconsciously recognized the battlefield.
On the battlefield where blood flowed like rivers, countless vibrant lives perished; the slaughter brought carnage to the battlefield, but it also took away the dreams of the young, the families of the middle-aged, and the twilight years of the elderly.
A figure clad in armor and wielding a spear fell, followed by a group of numb and demoralized Zhao soldiers. Despite their large numbers, they could not withstand the slash of the butcher's knife. It was a massacre with little resistance.
"This bronze spear is his!" Jiang Yuan suddenly realized that the spear he found outside the burial pit was the weapon of the Zhao general who was buried alive. Now, this weapon has become the spiritual sustenance of all the Zhao soldiers who died in battle. It was because of this that the bronze spear was able to open the underground palace.
"kill!"
Jiang Yuan had just learned the origin of the bronze spear, but the next second he was suddenly surrounded by thousands of troops, and everyone surrounding him thrust their halberds and spears at him.
The tomb maiden's eyes were filled with complex emotions. She murmured, "Ending in a dream is the least painful thing. This can be considered the tomb maiden's way of repaying the general's mercy!"
As countless spears thrust at him, Jiang Yuan tried to resist, but his body seemed to belong to no one else; he was completely frozen in place, unable to fight back.
With each attack, a piece of his soul was torn apart, and with thousands upon thousands of such attacks, his soul was riddled with holes in the blink of an eye.
The underground palace remained silent for a full ten minutes. Just when the tomb maiden thought everything had settled down, a faint voice echoed from the eighteenth floor.
"You think you can kill me like this!"
Jiang Yuan opened his eyes. He had exited the soul world constructed by the Tomb Maiden, but not by force. Rather, it was because his soul was already damaged, and the soul world released him automatically.
The Soul-Stabilizing Pill worked its magic at that moment, truly making his soul, like a centipede that has died but not yet stiffened.
"General!" The tomb maiden looked somewhat surprised. She knew best what her abilities were like in the underground palace, and she hadn't expected that the other party hadn't fallen even after all that.
"Do you still recognize this bronze spear?"
Jiang Yuan was leaning on his two-meter-long spear, and there was a vague, inexplicable connection between him and the underground palace.
"This is..." The tomb maiden was surprised and doubtful. Although her consciousness was completely new, her soul was still parasitizing Zhao Lian's body.
No one knew that Princess Zhao Lian of Zhao and the general of Zhao were lovers who had vowed to stay together forever, but all their happiness came to a halt during the Battle of Changping.
"Demon Slash! Reload Life Points - Fifty!"
Jiang Yuan dragged his battered body to charge the bronze spear, and this time he was charging the only mythical skill - Ghost Slash. Fifty points of life force are equivalent to five thousand marks of the dead, which shows how much Jiang Yuan was willing to spend to kill the Tomb Maiden.
The tomb maiden recognized the bronze spear and sensed the powerful force within it. This force seemed to be designed to subdue undead creatures, mysterious and awe-inspiring.
"Fight the undead with my life!" Jiang Yuan grinned, and the next second, he charged towards the tomb maiden.
When the Demon Slash descended, its immense energy directly locked onto the Tomb Woman's aura, leaving her with no way to escape.
"Netherworld Barrier! Soul Binding Seal!"
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