Chapter 87: Total Annihilation (2)
Luo Xuanyi operated the mechanism and watched the figure of "Qimingzhe" become dimmer as she disappeared. After barely throwing Lu Kewei and Qimingzhe on the ground, she suddenly dispersed.
Lu Kewei slammed to the ground, letting out a muffled groan. A surge of resentment welled up in his throat, and he nearly spat out a mouthful of blood, only to swallow it back. The situation was unclear, and he couldn't afford to make any moves that might anger the other party. Therefore, he didn't overtly struggle. Instead, he secretly channeled his spiritual energy in an attempt to break through the sealed acupoints around him, while quickly observing his surroundings to gather intelligence.
Needless to say, the situation along the way was quite impressive. What puzzled Lu Kewei was that in this room, which was arranged like a study, he could only sense the aura of a cultivator in the Qi training stage. It was impossible for such a low-level cultivator to exist. He raised his head from the ground and finally saw a pair of boots.
They were a simple pair of black cloth boots, devoid of any extraneous decoration. They were clearly the attire of a Zang Yao Sect disciple. But the embroidery on the hem of the robe made Lu Kewei mutter in disbelief, "A herbal pattern... Junior Sister Yi?"
The girl, her black hair haphazardly pinned back with two long mahogany hairpins, seemed taller than before, her face more mature, though two familiar soft lumps of flesh hung beneath her round, vertical, light gray pupils. She lowered her head with a melancholic air, brushing against the delicate floral patterns embroidered on her gray robe, her mind drifting for a moment.
It seems that the first thing to do after escaping is to change clothes.
Lu Kewei had no idea what Luo Xuanyi was thinking. His mind was racing. As long as he could delay time, what was there to fear from a mere Qi training disciple? Just as he was about to sort out his thoughts, he saw Luo Xuanyi suddenly do something strange.
The girl placed a chained stone slab on the ground between Qi Ming and him. The heavy stone slab fell, sending up a cloud of dust. A sense of unease crossed Lu Kewei's heart.
Luo Xuanyi ignored him. She fiddled intently with the slate, seemingly checking its direction. Then she took out a dull-looking small flag and, without hesitation, stabbed it into Lu Kewei's side.
"Ugh!" Lu Kewei felt that all the blood in his body was being rapidly drained away. The drained blood vessels began to spasm involuntarily, and a cold premonition filled his empty body - he was going to die.
This is too absurd. He just killed Qi Mingzhe, but he is going to die at the hands of a young kid?
"Wait! Wait, Junior Sister Yi, you..." Lu Kewei saw that she showed no signs of stopping, and his blood was being guided by some invisible object to flow towards the stone slab. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, "Don't you want to leave Zang Yao Sect?!"
The cold gripped his lips, and his teeth chattered, but he still quickly squeezed out the last bit of hope: "I promise you can get a good body! Regardless of your qualifications and potential, you can live a long time! You only have a few years left after the initiation!"
Blood swirled around the stone slab and the body of the Qiming Man, forming intricate patterns. Luo Xuanyi seized the opportunity, quickly ripped out Qiming Man's heart, and dropped it onto the chain of the stone slab. She was so focused that Lu Kewei's words didn't faze her in the slightest.
The heart began to burn, emitting countless sparks, cracking and breaking the dim chains, revealing the shiny black chain underneath.
The stone tablet was activated, and Luo Xuanyi quickly stamped his mark on the inscription on the stone tablet.
Cold, so cold. His body unconsciously began to curl up, and Lu Kewei didn't notice his body rapidly deflated. He was already half-conscious. He didn't know that along with the blood, his soul was also flowing out.
Following the soul, the Chess-piercing Beast emerged from Lu Kewei, where only a human skin remained, and slowly crawled to the top of the stone slab. A faint light slowly filtered through the thick sides of the stone slab. Luo Xuanyi grasped both ends of the stone slab and pushed upward, completely exposing the hollow inner layer. The Chess-piercing Beast seemed to finally react and try to escape, but was mercilessly sucked into the stone slab's inner layer. With a "puff", it transformed into a piece of gold-painted paper and slowly floated down.
After Luo Xuanyi collected the bodies of Lu Kewei and Qi Mingzhe, she threw them into the stone slab. The two bodies also turned into palm-sized pieces of gold-painted paper, which were carefully collected by Luo Xuanyi.
Luo Xuanyi perfectly digested the knowledge she had gained from the Pagoda Spirit. Her earlier assumptions were correct; the stone slab was indeed connected to the ghost door behind Long Tian. It was a piece of stone that Yu Lu had brought back when she had snatched the Pagoda Spirit away. This stone had spent countless years in the true ghost realm, imbued with ghostly energy and transformed into a rare magical weapon known as Rong Gui.
Rong Gui could transform spiritual energy into ghost energy for ghost cultivation. He could also, as Luo Xuanyi was currently doing, forcibly transform killed cultivators into ghosts, collect them, and use them as thugs. While his uses were limited, his power was as strong as it was in life. The only drawback was that it required a ghost cultivator or soul cultivator to use it. If a cultivator forced a contract, their physical body would die within four hours.
If a cultivator lacks the skills and techniques of a ghost cultivator, the chances of becoming a soul cultivator after death are slim, let alone a ghost cultivator. Therefore, Yu Lu was unable to use the Rong Gui and gave it to the Pagoda Spirit for safekeeping. The Pagoda Spirit used this powerful magical weapon, transcending the concepts of this world, as the foundation for temporarily transporting Luo Xuanyi back to the past. Thus, the Rong Gui naturally fell into Luo Xuanyi's hands.
Luo Xuanyi had always intended to cultivate as a ghost, so she naturally didn't worry about her own physical body dying. She wasn't actively dying to cultivate as a ghost yet, firstly to activate Rong Gui and use it to transform spiritual energy for cultivation, and secondly to try to preserve her body with the Advent Technique and lock other souls into her with the Soul-Locking Curse, deceiving the Heavenly Dao and making it believe she was still alive.
If successful, Luo Xuanyi could even control her own body and fight from behind. She wouldn't be afraid of any injuries. Furthermore, Luo Xuanyi's body had already mastered the art of alchemy, making her a walking human furnace. She could even disguise herself as an alchemist and sell pills to make a living.
This was a decision Luo Xuanyi made after careful consideration.
Indeed, the Soul-Locking Curse combined with puppetry could potentially grant Luo Xuanyi immortality. However, she feared she wouldn't have the time to develop a Soul-Locking Curse, and she feared True Monarch Bei Lian's new puppetry could only be acquired after returning to the sect. Luo Xuanyi harbored the thought of escaping, at least for now, to stay as far away from Taoist Hua Shen as possible.
This way, he wouldn't have to use his own soul to try to lock it, which would greatly reduce Luo Xuanyi's concerns. He could also use the people in the underground palace below for experiments, killing two birds with one stone.
Under Luo Xuanyi's expectant gaze, only two figures remained in the mirror reflecting the battle scene in the underground palace.
The two, once identical, copies of each other, were now easily distinguishable. Shen Edai's wristband had vanished, and the corners of her pale yellow Taoist robe had been ripped to shreds by the wind blades, leaving streaks of blood. But she remained upright, breathing steadily as she gazed at the other person.
Shen E Dai, the mirror image, had lost half of her body, her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and intestines hanging out, blood soaking through her fine clothes. But Shen E Dai knew that it would soon return to its original form, smiling and waving her whip as if she were carefree.
The place they stood in now was completely different from before. Shen Edai hadn't been forced into a corner, but remained calm and in control of the situation. Her movements were graceful, and she repeatedly used the whip swung from the other side to sweep through the room, but she still couldn't find the mechanism.
Prolonged depletion was fatal. Although Shen Edai had killed nearly every disciple around her to replenish her spiritual energy, she was still no match for the underground palace's phantom's constant supply of spiritual energy. If they were not in the underground palace, but in a place without restrictions, Shen Edai would have won long ago.
Her calmness was merely a mask for the weakness of her grip on the whip. She was at her wit's end, with only one strike left to her, but what could that single blow do against a phantom that was immune to curses and capable of near-infinite regeneration?
Time restored the lively girl, her flesh and blood regenerated, and her gorgeous clothes remained the same. "Shen Edai" nervously touched the tufts of hair on both sides of her head. After confirming that they were all tidy, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and pulled out the whip again.
Both sides were using whips, but for a moment they fell silent and stared at each other.
"Can you speak?" Shen Edai suddenly asked. Surprisingly, even at this moment, her voice was still sweet and lively, without a trace of gloom. "Why are you collecting our bodies?"
As expected of a Guizang Temple deacon, she was indeed perceptive. Through the mirror, Luo Xuanyi's heart skipped a beat. She hadn't controlled "Shen E Dai" to respond, so "Shen E Dai" simply tilted her head and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"You're not going to answer? Never mind. I can probably guess even without you digging into it."
Luo Xuanyi realized something and immediately ordered "Shen Edai" to take action, sweeping the whip across to cut her in half!
"Zombies are too ugly, I don't want them." Facing the murderous intent, Shen Edai just smiled sweetly, stabbed her own chest with her backhand, grabbed her Nascent Soul and crushed it!
Self-destruct!
"boom--"
The force of the Nascent Soul's self-detonation nearly flattened the entire underground palace. Fortunately, the outermost layer was protected by a barrier and remained undamaged. However, when Luo Xuanyi looked at the mirror again after the blinding light had passed, she discovered a crack in the center.
Shen Edai's final strength nearly broke through the Nascent Soul stage, slightly shaking the ancient restriction. She herself turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared into thin air.
Shen E Dai transformed for the last time. Still nervously arranging its appearance, it slowly dissipated, losing the support of its own will.
There were more than eighty people in the underground palace and those who were fighting together, and they were all killed.
Shin E-dae makes a perfect exit~scatter flowers~
Next chapter is done and I will start to become a ghost and practice Taoism~
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