Chapter 149: Seven-Aperture Exquisite Jade, It's on You!

Hellfire—could it be that Shadow possesses Hellfire, or perhaps information about Hellfire?

Ye Bai intended to see if he could coax information out of Shadow to see if the Hellfire was on him or somewhere else.

If he could find the Hellfire, Little Charcoal Dog would have a chance to evolve once its strength reached the required level.

Ye Bai revealed a look of contempt.

"You have Hellfire on you?"

"You don't even draft your lies before speaking."

"You, a mere Tier 3 nobody, could you stop making such jokes?"

"This makes me look down on you."

Sure enough, Shadow was provoked by Ye Bai's attitude and accidentally revealed some intelligence: "Hmph, I don't have it on me, but I know where it is; it's just that there is a certain amount of danger involved."

"As long as I can break through to Tier 5, I will have a way to obtain the Hellfire."

"Enough nonsense, I am going to completely harvest your Soul."

"Yingzi Baozhuang!"

Exotic Beasts composed of countless shadows shot out from the Shadow, densely filling the entire sky.

Ye Bai discovered that these shadows seemed to be phantom images of Boxing Shrimp, Hammer Crab, and One-Eyed Lamprey.

"You find them familiar, don't you? I harvested their shadows, so naturally, I harvested their lives."

"Now, they have all been made into shadow puppets by me."

"I was caught off guard just now, but now that I am prepared, I naturally won't be ambushed by your Pet Beast again."

"My shadow warrior is the king among shadow beasts."

"Although it was defeated by Hellfire and its origin was damaged, I can still use its exclusive skill."

"This is the shadow army I have summoned."

"Prepare to die."

"I will make you feel the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing your heart."

"Your shadow will be torn to shreds by these puppets."

Shadow laughed wildly, as if he saw the scene of Ye Bai being devoured by the endless shadow puppets.

Dark clouds pressed down on the city, and the dense shadow puppets surged over like a tide.

The Guangming Nüshen Die Clone rushed up, its wings emitting a dazzling light, and a scorching white ball of light suddenly rose into the air.

The scorching white ball of light cleared away a large area of shadows.

But more shadow puppets rushed over; they seemed to know neither fatigue nor life or death.

Every time a patch was cleared by the Holy Light, the missing space was quickly filled.

The shadow puppets surrounded the Guangming Nüshen Die Clone; the Myriad-Changing Silkworm manipulated the clone to try and break out, but it was blocked back by the shadow puppets.

These shadow puppets also spat out a rain of black arrows from their mouths, and the dense rain of arrows rushed toward the Guangming Nüshen Die Clone.

The Guangming Nüshen Die was not careful enough; its right wing was hit by the rain of arrows, and the rain of arrows quickly corroded a large hole in its wing.

It fell from the high sky like a kite with a broken string.

In mid-air, the Guangming Nüshen Die Clone was torn to pieces by the shadow Exotic Beasts.

The Myriad-Changing Silkworm had two clones destroyed in succession, and its spirit was also listless.

"Ye Bai, this day next year will be the anniversary of your death. When the grass on your grave is two meters high, I will go to pay my respects to you."

"Die, Yingzi Baozhuang."

Endless shadow puppets fell from the sky; they had only one goal: to kill Ye Bai, seize Ye Bai's shadow, and transform it into a shadow puppet.

Ye Bai's dark, deep eyes looked at the dense mass of shadow puppets, and a confident smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

From just a moment ago, the Sunflowers had surrounded this small area.

While Shadow was indeed powerful, his weakness was his shortcoming.

As long as he could trap Shadow, Ye Bai had absolute certainty that he could keep Shadow there.

"That's enough, Sunflower Emperor, it's time for you to make your move."

Ye Bai said lazily, before Shadow could react.

The sky around them seemed to suddenly clear up, emitting a blinding, intense light.

Just at this moment, a school bus was driving shakily along the mountain road.

The mountain road was also known as the eighteen bends of the mountain path, and the probability of car accidents here was very high.

At this time, the blinding, intense light made the driver slam on the brakes.

The continuous rain over the past few days had made the soil quality of Panyang Shan soft, and waves of torrents slid down from the mountain.

Only a heaven-shaking boom was heard as the mountain collapsed, brushing past the school bus.

The speed at which the mudslide occurred was extremely fast; by the time one reacted, it was often already too late.

There was a jolt inside the school bus, and all the students sitting inside watched helplessly as the landslide occurred, with large chunks of rock sliding down from the mountaintop.

That was close; if the brakes hadn't been slammed just now, the whole bus full of people would likely have been finished.

At this moment, a large amount of white smoke rose from Shadow's body.

Shadow stumbled, clutching his head, and walked forward a few steps; he felt a burning sensation coming from his entire body.

"How is this possible, how is this possible, how could you have so many light-attribute Pet Beasts?"

Shadow questioned loudly; if it were just the Holy Light cast by one light-type Pet Beast, at most a wisp of white smoke would rise from Shadow's body.

But if a group of Pet Beasts all cast Holy Light, that would be a catastrophe for Shadow.

He forcibly summoned a mass of black fog to shroud himself.

In the blinding, intense light, Shadow finally saw the strangeness in Ye Bai's eyes.

"There are patterns in your eyes; that is the Insight Eye."

"And it is even a deeply developed Insight Eye."

Shadow revealed an excited expression, pacing back and forth in the black mist.

"So, that piece of Seven-Orifice Exquisite Jade from the Pet Beast Guild's secret vault fell into your hands."

"I have investigated your past resume, Ye Bai."

"My conclusion is that you are a boy who is very afraid of trouble, with a sharp tongue but a soft heart."

"I felt one thing was strange while I was investigating you."

"You were clearly still a student, so why did you rush forward first when the Li Weiyang shooting incident occurred?"

"Now that I think back on it, it must have been because you wanted to copy Li Weiyang's talent."

"So you had already obtained the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Jade from that time."

Shadow was reverse-calculating that shooting incident, and Ye Bai had not expected his secret to be so easily seen through by Shadow.

He secretly swore to himself that he must wear colored contact lenses when going out in the future, so that he could keep the secret of the Insight Eye.

Ye Bai did not want to be like Li Weiyang, acting as a tool and losing his personal freedom for the rest of his life.

No matter where he went, someone would be monitoring him; he would have no privacy at all.

"What is lost in the east is gained in the west."

"Ye Bai, you hid it too well."

"As long as I cut open your heart and take out the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart inside,"

"I will possess a second talent like the Insight Eye, and at the same time, I will be able to perform a Deep Awakening of the Shadow Curse talent and summon an even more powerful Shadow Legion."

Ye Bai also wanted to obtain the secret of the Insight Eye from Shadow's mouth, so he let Shadow continue speaking.

"According to the intelligence I queried from the Gospel Society, the Insight Eye is also called the True Sight Eye."

"A deeply developed Insight Eye can see hidden advanced evolution routes."

"But every time the Insight Eye is used, it consumes a portion of mental power and has extremely strong side effects."

"And the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Jade can eliminate this side effect."

"It seems that Heaven still favors me, letting me meet you."

"I will take good care of your Seven-Orifice Exquisite Jade."

Black energy surged from Shadow's body.

More and more white smoke emerged from Shadow's body, and his body grew thin at a speed visible to the naked eye; it seemed that resisting the intense light had already consumed most of Shadow's strength.

"Hmph, things have come to this, I can only forcibly awaken you."

"Shadow Warrior from Hell, I use my lifespan as the price to awaken you from your slumber."

"These shadow puppets are the sacrifices for your resurrection; revive, Shadow Puppets."

Endless shadow puppets burrowed into the center of Shadow's brows.

In Shadow's Pet Beast Space, something like a giant cocoon absorbed a large number of shadow puppets, and the giant cocoon began to undergo Expansion.

"Come out, Shadow Warrior."

A massive surge of black energy erupted from the ground, and the immense pressure almost made the Sunflower Emperor unable to lift its head.

The Clones of the sunflower shattered one after another, and the surrounding light instantly dimmed.

A Pet Beast covered in various large and small eyes appeared.

Every one of its pupils was blood-red, like a fine pigeon-blood ruby.

This was Shadow's final trump card.

Using his own lifespan as the price, he forcibly summoned the Shadow Warrior once again.

At this moment, Shadow was panting heavily; in order to summon the Shadow Warrior, Shadow had overdrawn his lifespan.

"Hand it over, Ye Bai, I want your heart."

"Only by obtaining your heart can I offset the cost of overdrawing my life."

Ye Bai had already developed the intent to kill the moment Shadow guessed that he possessed the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Jade.

He secretly released Dahui.

"Dahui, destroy the Shadow Warrior."

Ye Bai felt that for an Exotic Beast of the Shadow element, besides fearing light-attribute attacks, probably only the lightning attribute, which had the strongest attack power, would restrain them.

Dahui was wrapped in black and white lightning; it strode forward, waving its Lijua covered in thunder, and struck heavily forward.

The Shadow Warrior turned into countless black shadows and disappeared on the spot, burrowing into Dahui's shadow.

Shadow had his hands in his pockets, his eyes full of mockery: "As long as my Shadow Warrior burrows into a shadow, it is an invincible existence."

Ye Bai smiled: "I let your Shadow Warrior burrow into the shadow on purpose."

"Sunflower Emperor, Holy Light shine."

The light that had originally dimmed became bright once again, and Shadow's Shadow Warrior was bound within the shadow space.

No matter how the Shadow Warrior moved, it could not break out of the shadow's restraint.

And at this moment, Shadow could no longer summon any Pet Beast.

"Oh no, the Substitute Doll was already used up last time."

"It's over."

Watching Dahui get closer and closer, Shadow's eyes were filled with despair.

A giant Zhua struck toward Shadow's direction.

"No!!!"

The sound stopped abruptly.

Under the intense light of the Sunflower Emperor, the Shadow's strength was less than one in ten, and after being struck by Dahui's lightning Zhua, it turned into a charred corpse on the spot.

A large quantity of items gradually emerged, which made Ye Bai deeply convinced that the Shadow was indeed dead.

Even the Shadow Warrior bound within Dahui's shadow fell back into a deep slumber; it had originally been forcibly awakened by the Shadow.

Through the Insight Eye, Ye Bai took away the treasures covered in gray mist, then had the Sunflower Emperor clean up the battlefield.

"Finally, a weight has been lifted from my mind."

The school bus was safe and sound, the Shadow had been killed by Dahui, and Ye Bai felt that one less Sword of Damocles was hanging over his head.

(End of this chapter)