Chapter 1691: Soul and Disappearance

Think of it and do it.

Lin An tentatively condensed a strand of spiritual power and slowly reached toward the soul fire on his left shoulder.

Physical attacks should be ineffective; at least, touching it with his hand produced no effect.

Soon, as the needle-like spiritual power pierced the soul fire, Lin An instantly felt a strange sensation.

Exactly, it was a sensation.

Ice-cold, warm.

The flame representing his soul seemed to have a temperature, and upon touching it he instantly felt the sensation of touching ice.

That was a bone-chilling cold, enough to freeze thought.

Yet within that icy cold, there burst forth an overwhelmingly intense heat.

Such a contradictory feeling was like touching an ice block wrapped in magma.

Moreover, at the moment his spiritual power touched the flame, Lin An actually sensed a tangible presence, as if the flame was not merely a projection of his soul but part of his own body!

Like a hand, like a foot, like a heart, like an extra part of his body materialized out of nowhere.

"What a strange feeling..."

Lin An's complexion shifted slightly, then he suppressed this strange feeling and simply bent his spiritual power into a needle.

Pull back, then thrust fiercely!

With the resolve to test something to the utmost, Lin An gave no thought to the pain he might endure.

All he saw was the amplified spiritual power spike instantly becoming like a deadly venomous snake, viciously stabbing toward the soul fire on his shoulder.

With the force of splitting bamboo, as if a needle pierces white paper!

He hardly felt any resistance.

Unlike the silent previous attack, in an instant Lin An's head buzzed and his vision went dark.

The ensuing immense pain erupted like a flood from deep within his soul, exploding in his mind!

Pain to the extreme!

It was merely a simple stab at the soul fire, yet for Lin An he felt his whole body pierced; under pain surpassing human limits, even though his will had strengthened to over a thousand points, he was still unable to withstand it.

Instantly he hunched over like a shrimp on the ground.

Several seconds later, after a full three or four seconds, Lin An finally turned pale, gasped heavily, and trembling, pushed himself up from the ground.

Damn it!

Attacking one side of the soul fire certainly wouldn't kill him, but it hurt more than death!

Who knows what principle this is!

If the one who had just endured that pain were a Third Stage cultivator, Lin An even doubted that the agony driving one mad could literally crush a person's own brain!

Although it was painful, he also felt a strange joy, making it hard to describe Lin An's current mood.

Under such immense pain, Lin An suddenly realized how deadly this attack method would be in battle!

Even he couldn't bear it, let alone those with weaker will!

In high-level combat, life and death are decided in an instant!

At the peak of pain, even forgetting to use rules, theoretically a Third Stage could slay a god!

Just thinking of that, Lin An did not end the test.

Not enough...

At least I want to see what effect shattering half of the soul fire has...

Clenching his teeth, Lin An stood up, took a deep breath, and fixed his gaze on the swaying soul fire on his left side.

It's just pain; this isn't enough, far from enough!

He needs a true killing move capable of breaking through Fifth Stage rules!

His defense is sufficient; he now has a slim chance to catch his breath before a Fifth Stage, but he needs to kill! Only death can truly intimidate those Fifth Stages!

If I shatter it completely, I fear I'll either die or be crippled.

I have no trump card to repair my soul.

But if it's just an injury, I can still endure it...

In this world, nothing makes one understand more than personally experiencing pain.

Without Hesitation

Like a machine that feels no pain, Lin An's eyes turned grim as he again condensed a strand of rule power and suddenly bombarded the soul fire on his left shoulder.

Repulsive force rule!

No longer using spiritual power to attack himself, this time Lin An wanted to see what effect attacking with rules would have!

--jing!

Like the resonant hum of a vibrating bronze cicada.

As the gray repulsive force rule sank into the soul fire, in the mirror before Lin An, time seemed to pause briefly and the endlessly swaying white flame instantly froze.

As if the World Cup had been put on pause.

Seconds later, a wisp of gray rule power suddenly burst the white flame, and in an instant it became like fireworks, like molten iron splashing across the sky.

At the same moment, Lin An instantly froze in place.

At visible speed, his left half of his body became like dead, unable to be controlled at all.

A deathly white pallor covered his left eye.

He could no longer feel his left half of his body.

Crack... crack...

The flesh collapsed.

Half a minute later.

Lin An, heart still trembling, gazed at his left half-body that had been reborn; beads of cold sweat the size of soybeans trickled down his forehead.

Flesh reassembled, regenerated.

Only seeing, with his left shoulder as the dividing line, the left-side flesh that originally held strong vitality now shattered like stone into pieces.

And beneath the 'stone', fresh flesh that had grown was continually filling in.

Too terrifying..

Silently looking at himself in the mirror, Lin An felt as if he had walked through the Gates of Hell.

Besides the shock, he also felt an indescribable surge of exhilaration.

The effect of attacking the Soul Fire was even more effective than he had imagined.

After testing on himself as if courting death, Lin An happily discovered that the three Soul Fires seemed not only to represent the soul, but also to be linked to a kind of power of his!

After the Soul Fire on his left shoulder was injured, his flesh and Spiritual Energy actually vanished outright!

It was not a physical loss like being chopped off, but disappeared from the bones, from the soul, from all levels!

It was as if a chunk of his soul had been forcibly cut off; after losing his left-side soul, his flesh also followed suit, disintegrating as if it had never existed!

Spiritual Energy disappeared; within that span of over ten seconds, Lin An shockingly discovered that his interior was completely empty!

Before the Soul Fire reignited, he couldn't operate even a trace of Spiritual Energy!

This kind of attack..

It was simply too eerie.

"This ability is absolutely useful against Fifth Stage! If truly extinguishing all Soul Fires, even the strongest existence would die instantly, and it would be a death without any resistance!"

Staring fixedly at the infinite reflections of himself in the mirror, Lin An's face turned deathly pale, his fists clenched involuntarily.

Although he couldn't understand how this was done.

But after testing on himself, Lin An firmly realized that this move would become his ultimate trump card.

Directly bypassing flesh and rules to attack the soul, before such a heaven-defying ability, even the strongest Awakened One could not withstand.

This thing is basically a decomposed version of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

Moreover, Lin An keenly realized that under soul attacks, even if the opponent wasn't killed, the targeted target would suffer great loss of combat power and fall into panic!

"Even if the Soul Fire isn't completely shattered, as long as it's injured, before the damaged soul is repaired, some of one's own abilities will lose effect."

"It's like deleting part of a program's code; before the code is fixed, the whole program struggles to operate!"

"Does the left-side Soul Fire represent a part of the flesh and Spiritual Energy?"

"Then what is the right side? Rules?"

"The top of the head is... Mental Power?"