Chapter 181: Accidental Victory (Please Subscribe)

Facing the leisurely enemy, Du En stabilized his footing after dodging, then immediately launched a violent counterattack with a backhand strike.

Boom!

The immense force slammed down; Li Jian, choosing to take the blow head-on, plowed through the ground as he retreated, sliding back over ten zhang.

"Hiss! So hard! Such power!"

His earth armor was shattered, and Du En, in his Solid Spirit state, was fully revealed—his entire body translucent and crystalline, flawless, looking just like a piece of top-grade spirit stone, while his hand still gripped the flesh he had just torn off, casually grinding it to dust with his Dharma power.

Li Jian looked down, only to see that his body, through the gaps in his sinister blood net, had actually been gouged out into a pit, almost allowing one to see through to the other side.

"Even this can't stump you. I finally understand why you hid away to cultivate in bitterness. What a truly magnificent acquired spirit... body..."

When things happen contrary to the norm, there must be a demon at work!

A chill ran through his heart, but it was already too late!

Because Du En had used his own divine ability.

The restless self-detonation of the Dharma artifacts stopped, the brewing and casting of spells stopped, and even the Solid Spirit body began to flicker, like a lightbulb with a bad connection.

But even Du En had not expected that after using his divine ability—perhaps because he recovered too quickly—he would accidentally discover such a bug: those foreign objects that had infiltrated his divine soul were all abruptly erased, leaving no trace of ever having existed!

His remaining divine sense glanced over, only to see his own corpse-body, which had long since been decisively and violently ravaged by Du En while he was in a blank, distracted state, now being thoroughly reduced to fly ash in the rising flames.

After all, these Li Jian corpses only appeared so weak when facing Du En; in reality, the combat power erupted by a single one was at the very least enough to rival the inner-city elites under Gao Feng.

Therefore, feigning weakness at this moment must surely mean there was an ulterior secret!

"Hard to fight, hard to fight..."

One corpse spoke a sentence, and one after another crawled out from all directions; in the blink of an eye, they covered the area, numbering in the tens of thousands—it was exaggerated and despair-inducing.

"Indeed, based on what you just displayed, even if my Foundation Establishment-stage corpses were two or three times as numerous, I reckon they would only be able to give you a few scratches."

"Your body, I want it!"

"Hahaha!"

What followed next was a mobile battle, dragging things out to gradually eliminate the evil corpses...

"Hehehe!"

"I can only say that hiding away to cultivate in bitterness was indeed the correct choice!"

The calm Solid Spirit hand, precise to the smallest detail, would avoid the evil nature and target only the malice once a gap was found, tearing it out to be ground down and destroyed.

If this number swarmed forward, even Meng Changqing and the Upper Envoy would only be able to handle them with ease; anyone else would be silently swallowed up.

Li Jian carefully controlled the extent of the previous evil cultivator chaos precisely because of this; only in this way did he have a massive home-field advantage, and if he were to borrow the sinister nature of the resentment-monsters, sweeping the entire field might even have been possible.

The residence of the divine soul, the palace of the spirit!

Strands of fishing-net silk quietly infiltrated, attaching themselves to the divine soul Du En kept deeply hidden within, and began to exert assimilation, intending to possess him in a peculiar form that would ensure it would not be detected by the upper echelons of the Immortal Sect later!

And Du En's response was no response.

"It's not that there are no traces of it having existed at all. At the very least, along the path you infiltrated, you let me see in advance where my divine palace is hidden. It didn't fully fade back into concealment, and now my divine thoughts are light and clear, which is of great benefit to my subsequent cultivation."

"Obediently accept your fate!"

He wanted to open his eyes, only to discover he had no eyes.

Moreover, it seemed that some accident had occurred in the distance; these sinister entities suddenly dispersed on their own, catching Li Jian off guard and causing his remaining body to be smashed directly to pieces.

At this moment, he gathered and summoned all the corpses, aggregating the soul-nature from each one into a form completely different from a normal divine soul, like pulling open a net to shroud Du En within it, while gradually infiltrating his body.

Just like netting a demon whale in the deep sea, Li Jian had already prepared himself for a desperate tug-of-war, but the result was nothing—everything was nothing!

Li Jian naturally could not admit defeat; he also wanted to trade blows with Du En and beat him into a pile of scattered spirit stones.

Du En did not dare to underestimate him; he flew out four hundred Dharma artifacts from his storage bag, firepower fully engaged, humming and restless, ready to explode.

"Hehehe..."

Dharma power, recovered; body, recovered; full status, recovered!

The voice dragged on again, but this time, it was Du En who lunged in close, directly cutting off his words.

The cause of everything boiled down to one point!

Li Jian's goal: possession!

"Wrong! You actually aren't resisting?"

Each Li Jian said this in turn, and then, the previously very vigorous evil nature actually began to wane, rapidly returning to calm, while Du En, who should have been unable to stop his movements, fell into a stupor at this moment and halted.

In a battle between those below the top-tier elite level, there would naturally be no problem, but now that both were at the level of strong top-tier combat power, it appeared full of flaws.

Du En remained silent.

It was also because his situation was special that he was able to recover his reason after losing thirty percent of his divine soul.

Using the self-detonation of these Dharma artifacts to open a path, relying on the toughness of his spirit body to break through, and finally using spells to clear away the sporadic resistance to carve out a bloody path—that was no problem.

"You're welcome."

Because would it really be that kind of situation?

No.

"No matter how many people there are, what use is it?"

After Li Jian, whose mind and spirit were a blank slate, came to his senses, he heard these calm words from Du En.

Du En looked toward the sound, and unsurprisingly, saw yet another Li Jian corpse.

Once Dharma power was exhausted, his physical state would gradually decline, and even the Solid Spirit body would be unable to sustain itself; therefore, if there were several thousand corpses like the ones just now using evil arts to conduct a wheel-battle of attrition, they could indeed exhaust him to death.

He was lamenting this, never having expected that he would be unable to take down Du En for so long.

Li Jian had quickly infiltrated thirty percent, and just as quickly realized something was wrong.

Burying many dead, using their death and demise to nourish him, the master of this divine ability!

His original intention was to use this to directly repel the opponent, and then, taking advantage of the moment the opponent's divine soul was injured and dazed, create a chance for victory.

"You... so that's... how it is... Sovereign, resentment-monster, ah... so that's it... I am... free... how wonderful... thank you..."

Avoiding the hard and powerful Solid Spirit Body, avoiding that extremely high-purity mana, in short, avoiding everything Du En had directly cultivated until now, it went straight to the obscure and sealed Upper Dantian Divine Palace that he had not yet cultivated!

But these two things, one was achieved through bitter cultivation and was perfect and flawless, while the other was an external evil that clung to the body.

Before long, Du En had only been scraped of a few specks of dust crystals, while the corpse of Li Jian was already nearly hollowed out, leaving only that rootless, evil outer shell.

"I won't let you run!"

"……"

Bury the dead, flourish the living!

Because even if caught off guard, given the temperament Du En had displayed, he should have reacted by now and put up resistance in terms of his soul, which is to say, a conflict between his will and Dao heart.

"Haha, I am becoming more and more satisfied with your body!"

"If the body cannot compare, then don't compare!"

The residual soul thought dissipated completely, and Du En left this place calmly after leaving only this sentence.

The reason for his hurried departure was, firstly, that a great battle had just taken place here and it was not suitable to stay long; secondly, the sudden departure of the resentful evil was unusual, and he naturally needed to investigate it to avoid being unable to respond effectively should any accidents occur!

Matters concerning resentful evils naturally required extreme caution, especially since his trump card, the divine ability, had already been revealed and could not be used again for the time being, so Du En used his Breath Concealment Technique and followed the trail as slowly and carefully as possible.

(End of this chapter)