Chapter 2083: Battle of Martial Souls
Chapter 2083: Chapter 2083: Battle of Martial Souls
Everything around happened too quickly.
The terrifying suction appeared extremely suddenly.
Outside the Forbidden Spirit Sacred Mountain, among the martial artists, Mu Li and Ran Feng were the strongest and reacted swiftly, instantly retreating ten thousand miles away.
The two were not caught in the vortex of suction, nor were their Martial Souls affected.
But it was clear, their faces showed fear and lingering trepidation.
Luckily, they moved away quickly, otherwise their Martial Souls would have been forcibly drawn out of their bodies by now.
...
At this moment, centered around the Forbidden Spirit Sacred Mountain, the spiritual energy within ten thousand miles was already rampaging.
The massive colorless vortex spanned the sky and earth.
The Devouring Sky Emperor Whale opened its gigantic mouth.
Inside, a huge Gang Wind Tornado was gathering.
In an instant, it formed the momentum of swallowing the world, consuming everything.
One by one, Martial Souls were completely drawn into the massive vortex, meandering through, flowing along into the Gang Wind Tornado, finally entering the giant mouth of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale.
In mid-air, Xiao Yi’s figure had already flown away.
However, the Martial Souls inside him were instantly sucked out.
Xiao Yi was shocked, and upon introspection, indeed, the fragmented Small World within him, his two major Martial Souls had vanished.
He could leave, but with his two major Martial Souls taken, how could he leave?
Martial Souls are vital to a martial artist.
If damaged or lost unexpectedly, the lightest consequence would be losing all cultivation, and the heaviest could be death.
"Damn it." Xiao Yi’s figure promptly turned back.
"Come back."
Xiao Yi flashed to the center of the vortex, shouting.
But the two major Martial Souls were completely beyond control.
"Hahahaha." In the distance, Little Evil Lord laughed sinisterly.
"Xiao Xun, it’s useless."
"This is the absolute suppression of Martial Souls. Your souls were targeted by my Devouring Sky Emperor Whale and have been completely absorbed."
"You can’t retrieve them."
The Devouring Sky Emperor Whale is known to absorb everything, even the heavens and earth.
In ancient times, when demon beasts raged across the continent, dominating it, it’s said to have truly shaken the heavens.
Not only was it the Demon Clan Emperor, but also the strongest demon beast.
As a Martial Soul, such a soul is almost equivalent to invincible.
Xiao Yi gritted his teeth, his face under the mask looking extremely grim.
"Ice Phoenix Sword, get back here." Xiao Yi shouted violently.
Clang...
As if responding to Xiao Yi’s angry call, the Ice Phoenix Sword at the center of the giant vortex suddenly shone brightly.
A crisp clang echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
The sharp sword cry pierced through the layers of vortex.
"If you don’t come back now, then when?" Xiao Yi shouted again.
Clang...
In the center of the vortex, the entire Ice Phoenix Sword suddenly trembled incessantly.
In that instant, the sword body ceased retreating due to the suction, instead lunging forward.
Off in the distance.
"Hmm?" Little Evil Lord squinted, "What a peculiar sword-type soul, able to resist the suction of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale?"
"Impressive, seems like an extremely strong sword-type soul too."
"No wonder it could withstand the Sand Devouring Pearl yesterday."
"But, this soul belongs to me now."
Roar...
The Devouring Sky Emperor Whale’s giant mouth opened wider.
The swallowing vortex intensified.
The speed at which the Ice Phoenix Sword lunged forward slightly slowed, but, only just.
The Ice Phoenix Sword, has always been indomitable.
Even amidst the layers of the terrifying suction vortex, it couldn’t stop the blade’s sharpness.
The Ice Phoenix Sword forged its path forward, cleaving a fissure through the vortex.
As it flew onward, it left a straight line trace, akin to piercing through high-altitude clouds.
Yet, it was clear that the speed of the Ice Phoenix Sword’s flight was not too fast.
The Devouring Sky Emperor Whale, as the most fearsome demon beast type Martial Soul, its power was equally shocking.
Xiao Yi watched as the Ice Phoenix Sword slowly flew back, his heart eased, but the next second, seeing the Fire Control Beast wandering aimlessly inside the vortex, he was suddenly panicked.
At this moment, the Fire Control Beast, within the vortex, was utterly unresistant, instead smacking its lips as if unaware of its impending doom of being swallowed and dissipating.
"Idiot." Xiao Yi cursed inwardly, but what followed was even more urgency.
The Fire Control Beast, having grown from the lowest echelon of red to now, is an indispensable Martial Soul for Xiao Yi, equally cannot suffer any mishaps.
"You bastard, bring the Fire Control Beast back too." Xiao Yi shouted violently, watching the Ice Phoenix Sword focused solely on ’escaping’ without regard for the Fire Control Beast, his heart filled with irritation.
Clang...
The Ice Phoenix Sword emitted a burst of sound from the sword body, and in the next second, it turned back.
Moments later, the icy sword body appeared near the Fire Control Beast.
The Fire Control Beast’s body leaned against the sword body of the Ice Phoenix Sword.
In that instant, the Ice Phoenix Sword, originally able to slowly fly back, suddenly began to be pulled rapidly back under the retreating body of the Fire Control Beast.
Xiao Yi saw this, and his heart was filled with anxiety once again.
Clearly, the Ice Phoenix Sword could resist the suction power of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale alone.
But to also offset that terrifying suction and bring the Fire Control Beast back, was immensely challenging.
The two major Martial Souls were visibly being drawn closer to the Gang Wind Tornado.
Then, increasingly closer to the colorless giant mouth of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale.
"Damn it, come back to me." Xiao Yi extended both hands, intending to retrieve the two major Martial Souls.
But he was horrified to find that now his control over the two major Martial Souls was almost negligible.
"It’s useless." From afar, Little Evil Lord sneered, "Your Sword Martial Soul, if it escaped just now, it should escape."
"Now, already at the mouth of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale, there’s no escape anymore."
"When your Martial Soul is absorbed, you will lose all your Cultivation. I, then, will take your life."
"You..." Xiao Yi gritted his teeth.
This situation was almost the most helpless yet perilous one he had ever encountered in these years.
He was utterly at a loss.
With the two major Martial Souls no longer within him, his power had drastically diminished.
In contrast, Little Evil Lord, with the enhancement of the Martial Soul Illusion, was more powerful than before.
Yet, here was the Forbidden Holy Mountain, where none of his trump cards were usable.
In just a few seconds.
All the radiant Martial Souls in the world were completely absorbed by the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale.
Even the two major Martial Souls, the Ice Phoenix Sword and Fire Control Beast, which had lasted the longest within the Gang Wind Tornado, were also absorbed and disappeared together.
"It’s over." Xiao Yi was greatly shocked. He felt that his ability to control and perceive the two major Martial Souls had vanished completely.
In other words, his two major Martial Souls were gone.
He couldn’t even perceive the existence of his two major Martial Souls anymore.
Xiao Yi’s heart was filled with hopelessness.
But, in just a few seconds.
A strange sense of longing suddenly welled up in his heart.
This sense of longing did not come from him, but rather...
In the distance, high in the sky, Little Evil Lord looked down at Xiao Yi with a sneering satisfaction.
"Xiao Xun, you are now nothing but a useless person."
"I once gave you a chance, but you didn’t cherish it."
"When you are dead, the Sand Devouring Pearl will return to my possession..."
Little Evil Lord did not finish his words.
In the sky, suddenly came a series of cracking sounds...
It sounded very much like the violent roar of Lei Ting.
Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh...
In the air, a cold wind suddenly began to howl.
Within a hundred miles, chills abruptly fell.
This cold arrived so unexpectedly, yet it instantly felt like falling into an icy cavern.
"Hmm?" Little Evil Lord’s face changed suddenly, looking at the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale Soul.
He saw that, within its originally colorless massive body, streaks of lightning flashed suddenly.
Clang... a sharp and radiant sword soared into the sky, piercing straight through the body of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale.
On the sword body, a Fire Control Beast with long horns bared its teeth, full of inexplicable anger.
On its pair of horns, lightning surged.
"Wow." The Fire Control Beast let out an angry roar.
However, no matter how one listened, this roar was very ’childish’, seemingly devoid of intimidation and completely unalarming.
If such a roar were from any other Fire Control Beast, it would likely be kicked away already.
But the rampaging lightning on the horns of this long-horned Fire Control Beast was terrifying.
Boom...
Before Xiao Yi and Little Evil Lord could react.
Bolts of lightning descended with a thunderous clamor.
Clang... a burst of icy cold frost also erupted instantly from the Ice Phoenix Sword.
At the same time, a fearsome flame snaked forth, resembling a hurricane of fire.
"Dragon Flame? How could it be." Little Evil Lord’s face changed dramatically in an instant.
But the ensuing scene plunged his heart directly into an abyss.
On top of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale, electric flashes, thunder rolled, Ten Thousand Thunders surged.
The ferocious snowstorm and the raging Fire Sea cascaded down jointly.
In that instant, within a hundred miles radius, it became a region ravaged by lightning, a terrifying area of extreme ice and fire.
The Devouring Sky Emperor Whale was directly engulfed by this lightning, Fire Sea, and endless ice and snow.
Xiao Yi watched in surprise, suddenly, his heart stirred, and he squinted his eyes.
Those lightning, Fire Sea, and ice and snow were, indeed, Heaven and Earth Power, the true Heaven and Earth Power.
Martial Souls were inherently transformations of Heaven and Earth Rules.
And now, between the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale and the Ice Phoenix Sword and Fire Control Beast, it was a collision of Martial Souls.
But at the same time, in essence, it was a clash of the Power of Heaven and Earth Rules.
Xiao Yi watched these two clashing forces, as if he was in profound thought, seemed to realize something.
For some time.
Before he could finish contemplating, the massive body of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale was in constant annihilation under the weight of the Ten Thousand Thunders.
The enormous body was completely submerged in the raging Fire Sea and the extreme ice and snow.
"How... could it be possible..." Little Evil Lord stood there, stunned, watching the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale dissipating incessantly.
In just a few seconds, the last trace of the Devouring Sky Emperor Whale was entirely annihilated under the lightning, never to exist again.
High in the sky, two streaks of flowing light rapidly returned.
"Wow." The Fire Control Beast landed steadily in Xiao Yi’s palm, bouncing around.
In its eyes, there was an incredibly human-like joy, and also... attachment.
Clang...
The Ice Phoenix Sword then plunged to the ground in front of Xiao Yi.
Its crisp sword cry was like the sound of ultimate coldness.
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Ninth update. (revised)
Today’s updates are complete.
I thought I could finish writing late at night, but it ended up coding until dawn.
Fortunately, finally completed.
Yesterday, two Chapters were supplemented; today, six Chapters were supplemented, for a total of eight Chapters, all supplemented.
Whew... A sigh of relief.
As for today’s update, it will definitely be very late.
Little Eight is sleeping now, and it’ll be at least until evening before waking up to start coding.
However, simply for the regular update, it should be able to be completed before midnight, I’ll do my best.