Chapter 354: Chapter 352: Soul Possession (Congratulations to the Silver Alliance)_1
Boom!
Two colossal figures collided with each other, creating massive shockwaves like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami surging, making the entire Yanmo Domain unstable.
The ghastly demon with a green face and fangs opened its blood basin-sized mouth and ferociously bit down on Yama’s waist, but was staunchly blocked by the armor transformed from the ’Seven Emotions and Desires Extinction Pill.’
Fang Xi was well aware of its potency; in the hands of Master Golden Core, it could dissolve many attacks.
Now transformed into armor, it even had a hint of the ’All Laws Immunity’ flavor.
No matter how fierce and sharp the claws and fangs of the massive demon were, they couldn’t breach Yama’s defense in the slightest!
"Damn it... you all should die..."
The Junior Master’s voice was accompanied by panting, as he laboriously recited another incantation.
Crack!
In the sky, a blood-colored thunderbolt struck down onto one of Yama’s palms, transforming into a blood-color spear.
Puff!
With a backhand thrust, Yama impaled the massive demon with the gigantic blood-color spear!
Countless blood-colored thunderbolts burst forth from the spear, intermingled with pitch-black runes.
The massive demon exploded in an instant, turning into countless yin souls.
Among them, three of the Ghost Kings were struck by the blood-colored thunderbolt, and the Yin Yang Ghost King even let out two screams before being turned to ashes!
Only the Core Formation stage Ghost King howled in agony, its body shrinking by half, and was dragged into a somewhat broken Ten Thousand Souls Banner!
"After this battle... tens of thousands of yin souls, at least half are again decimated!"
Fang Xi retracted the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and murmured.
"I think now is not the time to be discussing this..."
The Externalization looked at Yama with an extremely grave expression, "It’s about to form the sixth seal... although I don’t know its effect, it’s obviously not going to be anything good for us."
"Since that’s the case!"
Fang Xi took out the Mountain Sea Pearl, about to interrupt the ’Treasure Planting Jue’, and took out the Life-Death Seal.
"Roar!"
The massive Yama suddenly erupted with a heaven-shattering roar.
On its body, the layer of blood-skin became illusory, and after a moment of instability, it completely disappeared without a trace...
A large mass of flesh and blood instantly turned to dust, leaving only a chilling skeleton with five viscera, clad in armor.
Countless black mists emerged from Yama’s body, causing it to continually shrink.
The Yanmo Domain trembled and then even began to disintegrate.
A gentle breeze blew across the land, bringing with it an abundance of spiritual energy.
Fang Xi took a deep breath and quickly restored the magic power he had consumed.
"It’s the ’Boundless Blood Sea Pill’!"
The Externalization’s eyes lit up: "This pill is essentially a false pill, and though it has been made complete by his techniques, the massive consumption from battling with us... caused it to disperse prematurely, leaving it unable to sustain Yama any longer."
"That’s exactly right."
Fang Xi turned into blue light, moving to the front of Yama’s final skeletal head.
Several streaks of light flew out, inside were golden cores led by a Sky Demon Relic, flying towards the pale Junior Master.
At this moment, the Junior Master, with his torn Taoist robe and pale face, resembled a dried corpse, as he took out a blackish-red pill the size of a longan and swallowed it.
"I underestimated you all..."
He looked at Fang Xi, his expression suddenly turned icy: "One day..."
As he spoke, he formed hand seals, and again employed the Seven Star Pill Spell, releasing a dream-like golden pill.
Although Fang Xi did not know its effects, he guessed it must have an astonishing escape speed, or perhaps it bore some powerful life-saving divine skill!
"Go!"
He threw out his hand, and another ’Prohibition Space Talisman’ flew out.
Fang Xi also noticed that although this jade talisman was useless when deployed normally, because it contained a high level of Void Force, it was very convenient and handy for disrupting other teleportations.
After one Prohibition Space Talisman was released, the Externalization appeared from hiding, suddenly behind the Junior Master, and threw a punch!
Bang!
A barrier of spiritual power on the Junior Master turned to ashes, and even that golden core was destabilized.
Seeing this, Fang Xi immediately fell upon the helpless foe.
Swoosh, swoosh!
Streaks of Yi Wood Divine Light flew out, transforming into a huge emerald array that trapped the Junior Master within.
Then Yi Wood Divine Thunder and Yi Wood True Fire incessantly rained down.
The man had retracted the Sky Demon Relic and still thought to resist.
At that moment, a flash of emerald radiance appeared.
An emerald-colored small knife suddenly materialized, piercing through his dantian.
The Junior Master’s expression immediately showed signs of defeat, and as he looked towards the approaching Fang Xi, he had no time to react before his head was violently plucked off.
"This person’s Sky Demon Relic is located in the Sea of Consciousness; what use is it to pierce the dantian?"
The Externalization said coldly.
As he spoke, he spat out his own Sky Demon Relic, also unleashing a demonic light, suppressing the Sky Demon Relic ejected from the Junior Master’s head.
"Damn... I initially wanted to capture him alive, to extract his memories!"
Fang Xi cursed, and could only quickly throw out a Demonic Beast Tree seed, trying his best to salvage the situation.
However.
Just as he placed his palm on the head of the Junior Master, who had a feminine but ferocious expression, an unexpected change occurred!
Buzzing!
The previously motionless ’Sky Demon Relic’ suddenly self-destructed!
Boom!
The terrifying demonic light forced Fang Xi’s externalization to retract its own Sky Demon Relic and exert full effort to suppress it, shielding his true body!
Just as the externalization was puzzled by the seemingly weak power of the Golden Core’s self-explosion.
In the core of the explosion, a pitch-black demonic light materialized, followed by the appearance of a tiny infant.
It was completely black, shaped like an infant but only the size of a palm with a small horn on its forehead, its limbs were withered and frail, appearing somewhat illusory!
This Nascent Soul bore the appearance of the old man, completely different from the feminine features of the Junior Master, its pitch-black pupils staring straight at Fang Xi, with a cruel smile. Suddenly, it flickered and appeared right in front of Fang Xi’s true body, using what was the exclusive ’instantaneous movement’ technique of the Nascent Soul!
He formed a hand seal with a serious expression, carrying a trace of a strange smile, and then flew into the Sea of Consciousness of Fang Xi!
Nascent Soul Possession!
Within Fang Xi’s Sea of Consciousness, his core consciousness tensed, realizing he was facing the greatest crisis of his life!
In the Sea of Consciousness, a pitch-black Nascent Soul emerged, carrying a sense of illusion.
But the next moment.
Before the pitch-black Nascent Soul could act, the phantom of a Bronze Treasure Mirror appeared in the Sea of Consciousness!
This was Fang Xi’s understanding that he absolutely could not match a Nascent Soul in terms of Divine Soul and foundation, thus he summoned the phantom of the ’Treasures of All Heavens’.
After reaching Core Formation, he already had the ability to summon the phantom of the ’Treasures of All Heavens’.
Now in the Sea of Consciousness trying it out, he indeed summoned the phantom of the ’Treasures of All Heavens’!
"What... what is this?"
The pitch-black Nascent Soul let out a thin, piercing scream, looking ready to flee.
But it was already too late!
A flash of light from the Treasures of All Heavens echoed faintly with the main body deep within the Sea of Consciousness, and then a silver light fell down.
The pitch-black Nascent Soul didn’t even have time to let out a scream before it disappeared without a trace in the Sea of Consciousness.
...
Fang Xi opened his eyes, feeling a splitting headache.
The externalization stood to one side, on guard.
Only when it met his gaze did it relax considerably, "That Nascent Soul just now..."
"He has already reaped what he sowed..."
Fang Xi rubbed his temples, feeling that his Sea of Consciousness was still extremely swollen.
Although the demonic path Nascent Soul was already dead, fragments of memory would occasionally bubble up in his Sea of Consciousness, as if his soul was being searched intermittently.
Moreover, he felt his Divine Consciousness was expanding, apparently gaining quite a few benefits from the extinguishing of the Nascent Soul.
However, the side effect was an excruciating headache and occasional lapses into parcels of memory.
"Let’s go, lead me out first."
Fang Xi beckoned, and the Yi Wood Divine Light Formation instantly dissipated.
The externalization quickly cleaned up the battlefield and then, harnessing a streak of demonic light, carried Fang Xi away.
...
Several months later.
In a cave developed by the externalization.
The externalization kept watch outside.
Fang Xi sat cross-legged, exhaling a long breath, "It took such a long time, but I’ve finally digested the memories of that Yanmo Taoist Master..."
The opponent died in his Sea of Consciousness, with many memory fragments scattered, equivalent to him conducting an extended soul search on this Nascent Soul cultivator.
Only now did he reluctantly complete the digestion of the opponent’s experiences spanning over a thousand years.
Fang Xi tapped his brow, beginning to recall slowly.
"Yanmo Taoist Master... originally a cultivator from the Yanmo Realm, when he was still at Core Formation, he encountered an accident during a ride on a long-distance teleportation array... he ran into a ’Higher Realm’!"
In the Yanmo Realm, research on ’Higher Realm’ encounters was very profound.
According to their theory, below the Earth Immortal Realm, all of the three thousand minor worlds lay in the Void, like giant ships upon the ocean.
The Void is boundless, and so is the ocean, thus for ordinary cultivators, crossing between realms is nearly an impossible matter.
But occasionally there were exceptions, which were when two worlds met like giant ships in the ocean, passing by each other!
At such times, by coordinating with various Void arrays, descending into another world was not an impossibility.
Even when the ’ships’ brushed past one another, they might directly open a Void Passage between the two worlds, allowing cultivators to traverse directly!
Of course, ’Higher Realm’ encounters are extremely rare accidents and the duration varies greatly, from as short as a few years to as long as hundreds or even thousands of years!
The two small worlds would ultimately drift apart again!
This Yanmo Taoist Master was caught in a spatial storm by accident when Red Sun World was passing by Yanmo Realm.
When he woke up after the transmission, he found himself in Red Sun World.
This ’Higher Realm’ encounter did not cause a collision to form a passage between the two worlds, and the duration was extremely short, it seems only the Yanmo Taoist Master was unlucky enough to be transported there. Even after many years in this realm, he never found any of his fellows.
He struggled hard to study but never found a way back. He had to accept his fate and began to build his forces, which was the Yanmo Taoist Palace.
After a hundred years, he successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul Cultivator!
Many things happened in between, but all can be overlooked.
A hundred years ago, with his lifespan drawing to a close, he risked practicing the ’Sacrificial Ritual of Underworld Ruler’, which failed, turning his body into a Taoist Sin. He had to risk using a secret art to disperse most of the Nascent Soul into his body to suppress the Taoist Sin, allowing him to move only within the Yanmo Taoist Palace. A small part of the Nascent Soul split off, secretly lurking in the Divine Soul and thoughts of the Junior Master!
He planned to directly possess this person after the Junior Master cultivated the ’Yama Path’!