Chapter 1328: Abyssal Ghost Passage

Abyssal Ghost Passage

Watching its own soul uncontrollably flying toward Chen Ling, deep despair surfaced in the Centipede Poison Chief's eyes.

As the Poison Chief of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, it naturally knew what methods its own King had. Any enemy who died by the King's hands would have their soul played with by the King... It originally thought that since it was a Calamity of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, the King might let it off. But looking at it now, perhaps because of its reckless challenge against the King, the King didn't plan on sparing it.

At the thought that it too would be thrown into that Red Paper Umbrella, enduring endless torment of sinking and becoming one of the King's many toys, the Centipede Poison Chief instantly wished its soul would be Annihilated directly.

Unfortunately, the centipede didn't understand soul arts, and it couldn't possibly beat itself until its soul scattered...

Just as the centipede closed its eyes in despair, a palm gently choked its throat. The centipede trembled all over, already prepared to experience endless pain. But after waiting for a long time, the pain didn't arrive.

It tentatively looked forward, only to see a figure draped in a Great Crimson Theatrical Robe standing in the wind, holding the emptiness in front of him with one hand, his brows slightly furrowed, as if carefully studying something...

"It seems... feasible?" Chen Ling raised his eyebrows slightly.

Before the centipede could regain its senses, Chen Ling took out a Bone-Stripping Knife from his embrace with his other hand, and directly dragged the Centipede Poison Chief's soul, stuffing it into the Bone-Stripping Knife!

It had become a Bone-Stripping Knife.

Or rather, it had become the "artifact spirit" of a Bone-Stripping Knife.

Chen Ling casually tossed the Bone-Stripping Knife in his hand, and the latter rotated and fell to the ground, emitting a soft clatter.

Chen Ling still had his hand spread out and spoke faintly to the Bone-Stripping Knife:

"Come back."

The Centipede Poison Chief was startled. In the next second, its soul directly exerted force. Two rows of sharp centipede legs actually grew directly out of the two sides of the Bone-Stripping Knife, rapidly swinging in the air. Like a lightning bolt crossing the void, it flew back into Chen Ling's hand by itself.

A sharp glint flashed in Chen Ling's eyes.

Imprisoning the soul of a spoil of war within an item, giving it self-consciousness and "life". This was the new ability of Chen Ling's Twisted Path of the Actor——

[Abyssal Ghost Passage].

To some extent, [Abyssal Ghost Passage] could be considered a bizarre poison. As long as Chen Ling injured the enemy deeper, and injected more of this toxin, ultimately, after the enemy died and their soul left the body, he could manipulate the other party's soul.

Therefore, although the Centipede Poison Chief wasn't killed by Chen Ling personally, Chen Ling injured it the most heavily. The toxin had already permeated deep into its soul. Even though it ultimately died by Wu Yi's hands, it was still considered Chen Ling's spoil of war.

"I know you can hear me." Chen Ling spoke calmly to the Bone-Stripping Knife in his hand that had grown centipede legs.

The Centipede Poison Chief's heart trembled, and the entire Bone-Stripping Knife swayed along with it.

"You hate me, I understand... You want to kill me, I can also understand." Chen Ling said faintly,

"To be honest, I quite admire you. You have more bloodlust and courage than any other Poison Chief. If I could have controlled this body and come to the Ghost Mockery Abyss earlier, perhaps many misunderstandings wouldn't have had to happen..."

"But what's done is done, there is no meaning in discussing these things anymore."

"Now, I'll give you two choices:

First, become my poisonous blade and be used by me. I can guarantee not to deliberately abuse your centipede descendants. After fifty years, I will release your soul back to heaven and earth.

Second, refuse me, and I'll stuff your soul into the toilet bowl of the Royal Palace restroom, never to rise again for eternity."

Saying they were two choices, but actually Chen Ling only gave it one path. If the Centipede Poison Chief insisted on being stubborn and seeking death, then Chen Ling could only make it live a life worse than death.

The Centipede Poison Chief naturally wasn't that stupid. Originally, it thought it would be trapped in the Red Paper Umbrella and tortured for eternity. But now Chen Ling actually gave it a relatively comfortable "cage" and even promised to release it fifty years later. It was naturally incomparably joyful!

It unhesitatingly trembled again, responding to Chen Ling.

It chose the first one.

Chen Ling held the hilt of the Bone-Stripping Knife and gently tossed it upward. As he raised his hand and pointed at a cliff not far away, his calm voice rang out again:

"Go."

Swoosh——!!

In the next second, the Bone-Stripping Knife actually wildly sped through the air on its own, crashing into the cliff at a speed uncapturable by the naked eye with a boom, forcibly chopping off a corner of the cliff!

Closely following, the Bone-Stripping Knife's gravity control ability activated, directly suspending the falling crushed stones from the earth in the air. Then they surrounded the Bone-Stripping Knife and shot backwards into the sky like missiles!

Just now, Chen Ling controlling the Bone-Stripping Knife to return was his absolute control authority as the controller. Now, it was the Centipede Poison Chief spontaneously cooperating with Chen Ling. Whether it was speed or attack power, it had multiplied several times over, and it fundamentally didn't need Chen Ling to distract himself to control it.

With such a Dao Foundation weapon capable of moving freely, Chen Ling's Combat Power rose another level!

But Chen Ling's experiment didn't stop there.

As he gently raised his hand, another long-dusted ability was activated:

[Soul Memory Art]!

Within the Bone-Stripping Knife, the Centipede Poison Chief's soul suddenly flickered. Chen Ling seemed to have grasped something, spread out his five fingers across the air, and a clump of deadly venom was actually secreted out of thin air!

This was the Centipede Poison Chief's ability while it was alive. The super deadly poison secreted from its body that could poison a Rank 8 to death!

The Soul Memory Art was an ability Chen Ling extracted from Kongwang a long time ago. It could awaken a portion of a soul's abilities from when it was alive to be used for oneself. But the prerequisite was that Chen Ling needed to be in a state of "controlling" this soul.

The former Chen Ling didn't have the means to control souls, and this ability had always been dusted until today... But now, everything was different.

After [Abyssal Ghost Passage] imprisoned the soul within a certain item, it completed the "control" over the soul!

[Self-Reconstruction of Biomagnetic Fields and Consciousness Frequencies] allowed Chen Ling to see souls and modify his own soul;

[Abyssal Ghost Passage] allowed Chen Ling to stuff the souls of spoils of war into items to be used for himself;

[Soul Memory Art] allowed Chen Ling to awaken the abilities the controlled soul had while it was alive, augmenting himself.

These three abilities formed a perfect closed loop in Chen Ling's hands, creating a unique and terrifying soul manipulation system... Moreover, the more people Chen Ling killed in the future, the stronger this snowballing Combat Power would become!

As Chen Ling raised his hand, the Bone-Stripping Knife accurately flew back into his hand, emitting bursts of buzzing sounds!

The strong wind stirred up by the Bone-Stripping Knife fluttered the hem of Chen Ling's theatrical robe. Like a wild red beast, churning above the countless Poisonous Insects in the Ghost Mockery Abyss, its ferocious fangs and claws completely exposed...

Chen Ling couldn't help but laugh out loud!

"Today is a good day!"

"Bring me wine!!!"

"Tonight I... this King! Will not return until drunk!!"