ccnovels #264 - Taoists kill 'God'
#264 - Taoists kill 'God'
Wang Ji Xuan manipulated the battle puppet and rushed into the spire, only to see Number Four fighting Number Five.
Number Five wasn't a pushover loli spirit cultivator either;
It was purely because Number Four was indeed in an extremely powerful state at the moment.
Old Sophie's muscles all over his body bulged, transforming from a shriveled old man into a strong old man, with two withered blood wings spreading left and right from his back. Old Sophie's back and blood wings were covered with eyes of various shapes, constantly emitting miserable wails and eerie laughter.
Just this appearance could increase his combat power by a few points.
What's more, the aura, spirit energy, and beams of light that Old Sophie was currently emitting were all imbued with the power of resentment. This was a certain degree of extraction from demonic energy, leaving Number Five restrained.
Number Five didn't have any means to resolve demonic energy at the moment;
She was flustered by the power of resentment, afraid that she would become like Old Sophie if she were contaminated, so she gradually evolved into mostly defense, suppressed by Old Sophie.
Wang Daochang wasn't in a hurry to move forward.
He had the battle puppet hide its aura, swallowed pills, and absorbed spirit energy to recover his magic power. By the way, he stood in the corner and carefully observed, analyzing the spirit cultivators' fighting methods.
Their fighting methods were divided into three types:
First, conventional hand-to-hand combat, with various spirit energy circuits strengthening themselves;
Second, ability confrontation, somewhat similar to spellcasting. Although the spirit energy abilities had fewer changes and a simpler routine, each spirit cultivator possessed hundreds of spirit energy circuits. At this moment, when they fought, the abilities of both sides emerged endlessly, and they obviously had their own attributes.
Old Sophie's spirit energy circuits generally leaned towards fire;
Number Five's spirit energy circuits leaned towards darkness;
This should be related to their core circuits.
Third, circuit collision.
This fighting method was amazing. It was almost like taking out one's own spirit energy circuit and smashing it out. If it hit, it would explode, and after the explosion, it could return, and it could also trigger the power of the law to a certain extent.
The spirit energy circuit wouldn't be damaged after being thrown out, but it couldn't be used again for a certain period of time.
When two spirit cultivators fought, circuit collisions occurred constantly, and various phenomena appeared with each collision.
Wang Ji Xuan was also quite afraid of this.
The spirit energy circuit could actually be taken out and used as a recyclable bomb…
The spirit cultivator civilization really had something.
At this moment, because Old Sophie was 'enchanted' in various senses, he could suppress Number Five in terms of hand-to-hand combat;
However, Number Five's control and application of her own abilities far exceeded Old Sophie's. Various dark night abilities were readily available, but they were also completely disfigured by the impact of demonic energy and resentment.
And in the circuit collision state, Number Five also had a slight advantage.
Whenever she was completely suppressed by Old Sophie's demonic energy and resentment, Number Five would take the initiative to release the spirit energy circuit. Old Sophie could only take the circuit and collide with her, and then Number Five could take advantage of the aftermath of the circuit collision to retreat.
In reality, the two sides were essentially evenly matched.
Number Five's temper also rose;
Especially seeing Wang Ji Xuan's battle puppet entering the edge of the arena, representing that the group of 'powerful enemies' outside had been dealt with or repelled by the battle puppet, but she couldn't open the situation at all…
It was impossible to ask for help;
It was impossible to ask for help even if she was beaten to death!
She, Weil Aimina Tuke, the Star of Dark Night who was determined to subvert the fundamental order of the spirit cultivator civilization, could she be defeated by this old bastard she had always looked down upon because of this bit of demonic energy!
"Hmph!"
Number Five gritted her teeth, disregarding her own injuries, and showed a bit of her true ability.
She suddenly lowered her head and slapped the ground, and Old Sophie, who was pouncing forward, was pushed away by a black-gray shock wave.
Number Five's less than 1.5-meter-tall and very hot figure, almost only covered by a layer of tulle, flickered with a bright white light in the dim space.
Wang Ji Xuan couldn't help but tilt his head.
This… charm technique?
Just as he wanted to avoid looking, Number Five's ear-length short hair fluttered backward, and deep blue strands of hair were drawn out from it. Her figure actually increased by half a foot out of thin air, her waist was slender, her calves were slender, and a shallow gray light bloomed on her forehead. A dark black long dress similar to a palace dress condensed from top to bottom;
The deep V-neck contained breathtaking beauty;
Number Five's eyes were full of indifference and coldness, and a round moon appeared behind her. This round moon was mostly covered, leaving only a ring, but it was still extremely dazzling.
She looked at Old Sophie in front of her like a god, and gently pointed forward with one finger.
The phantom of the spirit energy circuit behind Old Sophie directly retreated into his body.
Circuit ban!
Number Five shook her pointed finger lightly, and her slender white jade hand opened her five fingers.
A black spear flew out rapidly;
Dozens or hundreds of black spears appeared strangely around Old Sophie, bombarding Old Sophie wildly!
Old Sophie had a wide-bladed long sword in his hand, burning with rolling flames, with a gray-black aura attached to the periphery of the flames, slashing quickly around, cutting out paths of sword light.
The aftermath of the explosion was raging, and gray light covered the entire area;
Old Sophie's long sword was quickly knocked away and shattered, and Old Sophie himself was continuously pierced by several spears, with transparent holes in his body.
The dark night retreated.
Number Five's figure returned to her usual loli appearance, and she fell rapidly from mid-air, slightly staggering when she landed.
The corners of her mouth drooped slightly, and she snorted disdainfully, turning around to call Wang Ji Xuan's battle puppet to move forward and seize the core circuit.
Just at this moment;
Old Sophie's crumbling body suddenly stood firm!
Old Sophie suddenly raised his head, with blood-colored light surging in his eyes. The penetrating wounds on his body were suddenly filled with vertical pupils. He opened his mouth and spat out a blood-colored beam of light.
Number Five couldn't dodge in time and could only activate the spirit energy circuit as a shield.
But the several spirit energy circuits she threw out extinguished the moment they touched the blood-colored beam of light;
The beam of light arrived in front of Number Five in an instant, about to hit the center of Number Five's eyebrows. Number Five's face turned pale in an instant, because she felt the real existence of that resentment, and subconsciously closed her eyes…
Ding!
A crisp sound fell into Number Five's ears.
She opened her eyes and saw a broken sword, and the hilt of the broken sword emitted a cyan light, directly blocking and offsetting the red beam of light.
The light of the broken sword retreated and turned into dust, dissipating with the wind.
Number Five turned her head to look aside. Although she wanted to thank him, the pride in her bones made her curl her lips and mutter: "Why didn't you take action earlier? Did you have to watch me make a fool of myself?"
"Let me do it," Wang Ji Xuan's battle puppet said in a deep voice, staring at the front.
Before he took action, he had already issued an order to Mudan.
Now he could go all out.
Wang Daochang said slowly: "You seem to have sealed his spirit energy circuit. Now, his consciousness has been completely occupied by resentment. This is my area of expertise."
As he spoke, the battle puppet held a long spear and walked to the front of Number Five.
Old Sophie's body sometimes swayed, sometimes murmured constantly. The vertical pupils on his body were constantly trembling, and strands of demonic energy gathered from all directions.
Wang Daochang's response method was also very simple.
Snatch the demonic energy!
The phantom of a dark black flood dragon appeared behind the battle puppet. The flood dragon spread its wings and rapidly absorbed the rolling demonic energy from all directions.
The demonic energy of the snow mountain began to pour frantically towards the top floor of the spire.
Two demonic energy vortexes formed here.
Wang Ji Xuan reminded through voice transmission: "Keep an eye on those dried corpse spirit slaves. They may show up."
"Okay," Number Five nodded in agreement. Just as she was about to speak, the battle puppet quietly threw two pills over.
Number Five's eyebrows relaxed, she lowered her head, opened her mouth, and chewed a few times with satisfaction.
Suddenly, the two vortexes exploded almost simultaneously, and two figures moved at the same time!
Looking at Old Sophie, irregular swelling appeared all over his body, his body suddenly expanded three circles, and he had two wide-bladed long swords in his hands, so fast that only afterimages remained;
In contrast, Wang Ji Xuan's battle puppet stepped on the Star River Formation, carrying rolling demonic energy, and the shadow of the spear thrown out gathered into a river, sweeping towards Old Sophie!
Demonic energy confrontation!
Wang Ji Xuan's battle puppet surpassed him by several levels in skill, and almost all of its power could be tilted onto the demonic body in front of him;
The injuries on Old Sophie's body increased rapidly, but these injuries were restored in an instant. His slashing was powerful and extremely rapid, and paths of black-red light shot randomly.
The entire spire trembled constantly because of the aftermath of the fight between the two.
The bodies of the sleeping spirit slaves were constantly shattered under the erosion of demonic energy.
Old Sophie's spirit energy circuit was sealed by Number Five, but at this moment he seemed even more ferocious. His own consciousness was completely turbid, and there was only the instinct to destroy, fight, and impact.
The fight became more and more intense.
Wang Ji Xuan now used all the means he could use, using spells to trigger thunder, stir up ice and fire, using strange souls to trigger evil magic, stepping on the array positions, the spear walking like a dragon python, talismans to set up arrays, the array foundation refined before…
Etc. etc. etc.
His methods were dazzling, making Number Five overwhelmed.
In addition to Taoist magic, Wang Ji Xuan also used high-performance miniature bombs, powerful anesthetics, and other 'technology enchantment' methods.
This was really going all out.
Even;
Strands of demonic energy poured into his dragon python strange soul. The crisis of the strange soul being too strong, whether the battle puppet could withstand this demonic energy, and other issues were directly thrown to the back of his mind.
The battle puppet's combat power had steadily surpassed that of the battle when he first obtained it, and it was still constantly improving.
Wang Ji Xuan's Great Ascension remnant soul had not been damaged in the slightest;
But at this moment, the Great Ascension remnant soul in his body had become his most important reliance to stabilize this demonic energy.
Spirit cultivators had remnant bodies, and Daoists had remnant souls. To a certain extent, the two had reached a balance.
Number Five rested slightly and swallowed the pills. At this time, her strength had recovered to 70% or 80%. She raised her hand and aimed at Old Sophie. When Old Sophie's spirit energy circuit tried to resume operation, a dark black hexagram would bloom in Number Five's palm.
Continuous sealing.
Fierce battle, fierce battle, fierce battle.
Old Sophie was gradually suppressed, and cracks appeared all over his body.
Wang Ji Xuan saw a dark red flame in Old Sophie's skull.
That was… the core circuit?
He wasn't anxious, focusing all his attention on the enemy. His figure left countless afterimages around Old Sophie, and each afterimage seemed to be casting spells, using different methods.
Wang Jixuan seemed to truly return to the Golden Core realm, the Heavenly Bridge realm, the Nascent Soul realm;
That kind of joy;
That kind of unrestrained, unburdened delight;
That kind of exhilarating feeling of standing between heaven and earth, laughing and riding the wind;
A satisfied smile appeared on his lips, immersed in this moment, unwilling to let Old Sophie die too early, and more and more demonic energy began to surge towards him.
On Old Sophie's side… the flow of demonic energy gradually ceased.
After a moment of intense fighting;
Wang Jixuan swept his spear across, and Old Sophie's head flew backward, her body seemingly frozen in place.
Number Five slumped to the ground, continuously activating her core circuit abilities to seal Old Sophie's various circuits, completely draining her.
Wang Jixuan was still not satisfied and remained vigilant. His spear condensed its strongest attack, aiming directly at Old Sophie's head.
Just then!
Old Sophie's head suddenly exploded, and a blood-red shockwave forced Wang Jixuan back.
A 'coral tree' covered in vertical pupils eerily unfolded, and the demonic energy within the Snow Mountain Base surged towards the coral tree once again. Old Sophie, now only a soul, sat beneath the coral tree, tightly holding a ball of dark red flame.
Old Sophie slowly raised her head, a grim smile on her lips, staring at Wang Jixuan.
Her voice was intermittent…
"You released me… freed me from the prison of cowardice and incompetence… gave me such great power…"
"I will use this power to kill you, and then use this power to kill everyone… to return all souls to me… to make this planet the starting point for my conquest of everything…"
"Blade Beasts will no longer be my threat… my civilization will submit at my feet… and you, Black Storm, I will always remember your gift. I will make a monument, sealing your head inside… Hehehe, hahahaha!"
Suddenly, many phantoms appeared in front of the coral tree, each phantom possessing an almost S-class spiritual energy reaction.
Those were…
…the souls of the spirit slaves in Old Sophie's spire…
Only now did Wang Jixuan realize.
The one truly orchestrating all of Old Sophie's decisions was actually that ball of dark red flame, and this flame had now learned how to initially utilize demonic energy.
Therefore, after Old Sophie's physical form perished, her soul completely became the 'shell' of this flame.
Very strange;
But to dare to boast like this, saying she would use demonic energy to destroy the planet and conquer the starfield, was simply… too arrogant.
Wang Jixuan's main body and battle puppet chuckled simultaneously, emitting bursts of chanting.
Did she really think he was risking the self-destruction of his battle puppet to fight Old Sophie?
This was just a prelude for him to completely purify the demonic energy here and end his connection with the Snow Mountain Base.
The demonic energy of this realm came because of him;
It should also dissipate because of him.
The chanting grew louder and louder, and the demonic energy around Wang Jixuan's battle puppet suddenly surged, the demonic energy that had originally flowed towards Old Sophie now surging towards Wang Jixuan instead.
A dark cloud appeared above the head of the black dragon, and it lowered its head and flew into it.
Wang Jixuan's battle puppet slowly ascended into the air, sitting cross-legged, the alloy mask on his face cracking open on its own, revealing Xing Dian's old face, a face now filled with compassion.
The Dao follows nature, without constraints; Buddha and demon are both born from the human heart.
What is good;
What is evil;
What is Buddha;
What is demon.
All are the Dao, unchanging in their essence.
The battle puppet's right hand seemed to be holding a flower, as if enlightened in a single morning, a satisfied smile appearing on his lips.
Ding.
Golden light suddenly appeared.
Golden halos appeared behind Wang Jixuan's main body and battle puppet simultaneously. The chanting grew louder and louder, and the phantoms of seated Buddhas appeared everywhere, strands of demonic energy being drawn away by the seated Buddha phantoms, then transforming into golden light in the Buddhas' embrace.
Number Five couldn't help but murmur: "What is this…"
Old Sophie also couldn't help but exclaim: "What is this!"
Wang Jixuan's battle puppet smiled lightly as it held the flower, and the 'coral tree' surrounding Old Sophie's soul began to shrink at a visible rate, black and gray auras flying out of it, instantly swallowed by the Buddhist light.
What is this?
This is mutual generation and restraint, this is the Dao governing Buddha and demon, this is a Buddhist secret technique, a single thought of the Buddha's heart.
Of course, Wang Jixuan was also paying a price. His dragon-python aberrant soul now had a bit of gold, and his own power was rapidly being drained by the Buddhist Dharma.
He didn't know what the dragon-python aberrant soul would become;
But now, Old Sophie was doomed.
The chanting suddenly intensified;
More than a dozen figures broke into the top floor.
Wu Man, Ji Xiao, Ji Yale, Zheng Shiduo, and others appeared beside Wang Jixuan's battle puppet, sitting cross-legged and chanting Buddhist scriptures.
Those seated Buddhas became more and more solid, and the demonic shadows that Old Sophie had created by destroying her spirit slave army had now become extremely faint.
Wang Jixuan's dragon-python aberrant soul weakened in sync with Old Sophie's soul;
The demonic energy was quickly being cleansed;
The entire top floor seemed to only have dozens of seated Buddha phantoms left;
Finally, the coral tree completely disappeared, and Wang Jixuan's dragon-python aberrant soul weakly fell back into the battle puppet's body, the battle puppet slowly lowering its head, falling into a deep sleep because the aberrant soul was too weak.
This didn't matter, even if the aberrant soul had to be rebuilt;
Old Sophie's soul tightly held the ball of dark red flame, staring ahead with wide eyes.
The Buddhist Hall squad continued to sit and chant scriptures, purifying the continuously surging demonic energy;
The Peak Maid Corps and Mudan, who had arrived at some unknown time, stood behind the Buddhist Hall squad, watching the figure who walked past the Buddhist Hall squad and towards Old Sophie's remnant soul.
Mudan stared at the back of her superior. In a trance, she actually saw a figure almost overlapping with her superior, wearing a green robe, with long hair, and walking with his hands behind his back.
Old Sophie's remnant soul blankly raised its head, looking at the figure who had walked up to him.
He raised his head and saw Wang Jixuan's smiling face.
"You… who exactly… who exactly are you… Are you a god? Has a god come to punish us spirit cultivators?"
"No."
Wang Jixuan's voice echoed in Old Sophie's remnant soul:
"This poor Daoist is Wang Zheng, Daoist name Jixuan."
"Why… why did I lose to you… why… Our spirit cultivator civilization is the strongest, how could I possibly lose to you! You! Give it back to me!"
Wang Jixuan stretched out his right hand, as if plucking a lotus flower, pinching and pulling back the ball of dark red flame, gently raising his eyebrows, and wrapping it with magic power.
He looked at Old Sophie's remnant soul, raised his hand, and gently pointed out a finger. Old Sophie's remnant soul instantly stiffened, shattering inch by inch like broken glass.
Why?
Heh.
The Daoist turned and left, his voice leisurely transmitting to Old Sophie's about-to-disappear remnant soul:
"My civilization is above yours."