Chapter 138: About to Be Possessed Again

Although Li Xuan was wearing gloves, the wooden spike's surface still had a layer of tiny thorns as thick as iron nails; when Li Xuan grabbed it, the thorns pierced his glove and also pierced his skin.

"I'm finished…"

Li Xuan stared at the wooden spike in his hand, his mouth twitching, then the spark in his eyes vanished quickly, and in the second before his consciousness fully dissipated he entered the Palm Heaven Bottle.

……

"Sigh… a thousand defenses still got hit! Damn Soul Nurturing Wood, I shouldn't have been greedy!" Li Xuan's Soul Body floated in the Spiritual World, so annoyed he could have slapped himself twice.

If I hadn't been greedy, the blood‑red nine‑headed bat's soul wouldn't have entered my Spiritual World.

But the Soul Nurturing Wood is extremely valuable; if Li Xuan can obtain a piece, it would give him another means of survival.

Within the Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan are several top‑tier Heavenly Material Earth Treasures and Immortal Grade spirit plants that can reshape the flesh.

As long as the Soul Nurturing Wood guarantees that my soul does not dissipate, I can use it together with these body‑reshaping treasures to revive successfully!

Li Xuan thought the Weird Puppet might possess him; he had already equipped his armor, but he truly didn't expect the wooden spike to still have thorns! Now that it has come to this, Li Xuan can only accept the fact.

After entering the Spiritual World, Li Xuan wasn't panicked at all; he possessed the Burning Heart Divine Flame, and in the Spiritual World, aside from his own spirit, there is essentially nothing that can match his soul.

It wasn't Li Xuan's first time entering his Spiritual World, but it seemed to have changed a bit, so Li Xuan carefully observed the surrounding pure white space.

After a while, Li Xuan was surprised to find that his Spiritual World was much larger than the last time he entered.

"I guess after absorbing the Filthy Flame Yin Lotus, my soul power grew considerably, which caused the Spiritual Space to expand," Li Xuan said, rubbing his bare chin.

At that moment, a dense blood‑red light rose in one corner of Li Xuan's Spiritual World.

The massive blood‑red light instantly bathed half of the Spiritual Space in crimson.

The blood‑red light suddenly warped, and a gigantic blood‑red bat with a wingspan over a hundred meters burst out, flapped its wings, hovered in the air, bearing nine heads and eighteen blood‑red eyes that stared intently at Li Xuan.

"Sure enough, it's still a blood‑red nine‑headed bat, but why does the City of Slaughter have so many of them? Feels like this thing is worthless now," Li Xuan said, covering his eyes with a hint of helplessness.

"Ha ha, kid, my soul has been nurtured in the Soul Tree for ten thousand years, just one step away from divinity. Be a good food for me!" the blood‑red nine‑headed bat screeched wildly, defiantly addressing Li Xuan.

"Noisy…" Li Xuan ignored the creature, clasped his hands together, and the Nine Hearts Nine Flame Lotus appeared above his head.

"First Soul Technique! Burning Heart Seal!"

"Second Soul Technique! Corrupt Flame Prison!"

As Li Xuan finished speaking, the Nine Hearts Nine Flame Lotus suddenly emitted a golden and a black fire line, swiftly enveloping the blood‑red nine‑headed bat.

Although the blood‑red nine‑headed bat's soul had dwelled in the Soul Nurturing Wood for tens of thousands of years, Li Xuan had also absorbed the soul of the Immortal Grade spirit plant Filthy Flame Yin Lotus that had existed for ninety thousand years; it's not as strong as the bat's, but the gap isn't large.

Moreover, the Burning Heart Divine Flame suppresses souls, making Li Xuan's advantage even clearer. The golden fire line turned into two gold‑red Burning Heart Seals that covered the bat from top to bottom, while the Filthy Flame linked the centers of the two Fenxin Arrays.

"What is this?" the blood‑red nine‑headed bat was stunned; it had expected to wreak havoc, but was controlled the moment it appeared.

"Gah!" the blood‑red nine‑headed bat roared angrily, then turned its head and charged at the Burning Heart Seal.

"Bang!"

"Sizzle…"

A massive clang.

The Burning Heart Seal trembled briefly, and a large chunk of the bat's soul energy was incinerated.

These soul energies, after being scorched by the Burning Heart Divine Flame, turned into the purest soul power and spilled beyond the Corrupt Flame Prison.

"What on earth is this? Let me go! Let me go!" the blood‑red nine‑headed bat was dumbfounded; it had thought it would be simple, but now it was controlled, and it seemed it couldn't negotiate, so it struggled wildly within the Burning Heart Seal and Corrupt Flame Prison.

"Fine, since you've entered my Spiritual World, I have no need to let you leave. Stay and become nourishment here," Li Xuan said, forming a seal with both hands; countless gold‑red and black chains shot out from all sides of the Prison, tightly binding the blood‑red nine‑headed bat.

Once fixed, all chains tightened simultaneously, imprisoning the bat within the Prison.

"Gah!" the bat twisted wildly, trying to break free from the fiery chains, but it was impossible.

Li Xuan watched the bat, unable to escape the fiery chains, and nodded with satisfaction. Then he pushed both hands forward, continuously pouring gold‑red Burning Heart Divine Flame into the Prison.

"What? Your flame can even enter the Spiritual World and harm souls!" the blood‑red nine‑headed bat was going insane, regretting what kind of being it had provoked.

It felt the Filthy Flame and Burning Heart Divine Flame scorching its soul at a blistering speed; its soul would soon turn into soul energy and completely dissipate into the air.

"Damn! Damn! If you release me, I'll give you the inheritance of the Luocha Divine Position! Just let me go!" the blood‑red nine‑headed bat thrashed wildly within the Fenxin Array, but the more it struggled, the more the Burning Heart Divine Flame hurt it.

Li Xuan remained completely unflustered, steadily controlling the Burning Heart Divine Flame as it burned the bat's soul.

Endless soul energy streamed out of the bat's body; Li Xuan, while controlling the flame, also absorbed the soul power within the Spiritual World.

As more and more soul energy was extracted by the Burning Heart Divine Flame from the bat's body, its Soul Body shrank rapidly.

Its struggling grew weaker.

Nevertheless, the creature's soul is truly powerful; extracting all the soul energy from its body would take a great deal of time.

But Li Xuan now lacks nothing in the way of time, so he sat cross‑legged in the Spiritual Space, closed his eyes, and simultaneously released the Burning Heart Divine Flame while absorbing the surrounding soul power.

Li Xuan has also prepared for a protracted battle. (End of Chapter)