Chapter 1513: Bai Qi, Escaping?

Bai Qi, Escaping?

Seeing Jian Changsheng's teeth-gnashing appearance, Chen Ling knew that during the time their souls were swapped, Bai Qi had done quite a few unconscionable and wicked things to him.

"I came here to find Da'an just to recover your body." Chen Ling patted his illusory shoulder. "But Bai Qi beat me to it. He should have already gotten that half Remnant Soul by now and seized the dominant control over your body."

"Then... what should we do now?"

"Since he's right ahead, as long as we kill him, your body can naturally be snatched back."

Jian Changsheng was still somewhat worried. "But even if we kill him... a body without a Remnant Soul is just an empty shell. Moreover, he already died on the River Styx. If I want to take back the body, can it still be done?"

Chen Ling looked at the gradually subsiding lightning in the distance and spoke faintly,

"He's not dead, and Da'an shouldn't be dead either. Let's go."

Holding the Great Red Paper Umbrella, Chen Ling strode forward. Jian Changsheng followed beside him, but without a physical body, his speed was very slow, even unable to keep up with Chen Ling's pace.

Helpless, Chen Ling stopped in his tracks and held the red paper umbrella over Jian Changsheng's head. Under the shelter of the red paper umbrella, Jian Changsheng finally felt slightly better.

On the River Styx, the two people and one umbrella slowly walked toward the direction where the lightning had fallen.

...

"I... won."

Amidst the ruins ravaged by the lightning,

A figure carrying the human-stick Da'an slowly stood up. Even though Da'an had helped him block the most fatal bolt of lightning, the residual lightning still shattered his black armor, leaving large areas of charred flesh all over his body.

That was Jian Changsheng's body, which was now riddled with wounds.

But fortunately, he didn't die in the end.

After the lightning was diverted, the chain around Da'an's neck was finally snapped by the shock of the lightning. The half of Bai Qi's Remnant Soul hidden within the chain immediately broke free and turned into a streak of light that drilled into Bai Qi's body.

The moment this half Remnant Soul entered his body, Bai Qi's eyes erupted with unprecedented bright glints!

Boundless Killing Intent continuously swirled around him as if it were tangible. That was the ancient murderous intent that only came from truly experiencing countless wars. It was the ultimate artistic conception of the Path of the Soldier, tempered through thousands of trials and hardships!

Bai Qi had finally completed the [Soul Return]!

Although his physical body was severely damaged right now, as long as he was given time to recover, he would definitely be able to return to his peak, or even... surpass his peak!

This was also why Bai Qi didn't kill Da'an.

Because when the lightning fell just now, Da'an could help him block a portion of it. Even more so, because if Da'an died, that half Remnant Soul would also be annihilated along with him. At that time, he would never be able to complete the [Soul Return] again... Da'an couldn't die, at least before completing the [Soul Return], he absolutely couldn't die!

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Pinching by Bai Qi, Da'an violently coughed up a mouthful of blood that carried a charred smell.

At this moment, there wasn't a single piece of good flesh on his entire body. The lightning just now had struck him to the brink of death... If not for the extremely tenacious vitality of a Ghost Path special envoy, he would already be a piece of charcoal by now.

"You..." Looking at Bai Qi in front of him, Da'an's eyes were filled with shock.

"You actually really... did it?"

Using the lightning to sever the chain, using the lightning to force Da'an to hand over the Remnant Soul, using the rules of the Ghost Path to leave a sliver of survival for himself, and then forcefully executing [Soul Return] to usurp the magpie's nest...

This guy was an out-and-out madman!

This kind of act of dancing on the tip of a blade would result in an Annihilated Soul with even the slightest error. If Bai Qi was a madman, then he was the king among out-and-out madmen!

"I said, I will take back what belongs to me." Bai Qi looked at Da'an coldly, his voice revealing unparalleled confidence.

"I didn't lose a thousand years ago, and today, a thousand years later... I still won't lose!"

Da'an smiled miserably. Then, he closed his eyes and waited for death.

Bai Qi had already completed the [Soul Return]. He no longer had any value to Bai Qi. Da'an knew he was bound to die.

"I won't kill you." Right at this moment, Bai Qi spoke calmly.

Da'an abruptly opened his eyes.

"Why?"

"I want you to watch with your own eyes as I step onto the divine altar step by step... I want to make the entire Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path prostrate at my feet!" Bai Qi casually tossed Da'an aside, his voice as cold as a blade.

After a moment of silence, Da'an still couldn't help but speak,

"But in your current state, you can no longer move forward... As long as the Ghost Path drops another bolt of lightning, you will undoubtedly die."

"Of course I know that."

Bai Qi raised his head. Looking at the thick thunderclouds gradually gathering above, a hint of mockery flashed across his eyes.

"So... I'm leaving."

Leaving?

Da'an was taken aback. Then, as if realizing something, he looked at him in incomparable shock.

"You... Could it be you want to forcefully break out of the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path?!"

"Since I have already completed the [Soul Return] and obtained a physical body, why should I continue to stay here? The Path of the Soldier no longer exists, so even if I get that Dao Foundation, it's meaningless..."

"I might as well go outside and turn it upside down!"

An unprecedented ambition erupted in Bai Qi's eyes. For a warmonger like him, staying in this lifeless Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path was simply more unbearable than killing him! Only that vast and boundless human world, that real world full of slaughter and war, was his true home!

As long as he left the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path, with his current strength, he would definitely be able to set off a storm of blood and gore in that human world!

Moreover, Bai Qi knew that this realm of the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path could not tolerate him. Just that single bolt of lightning a moment ago almost took his life. If a few more came, he would truly die here...

Since that was the case, if not leaving now, then when?

"But you simply can't get out!" Da'an couldn't help but shout. "The barrier of the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path is indestructible. Even if you completed the [Soul Return], you are merely a mortal. You simply can't break the barrier!"

"Barrier?" Bai Qi sneered.

"How do you think I entered the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path?"

Da'an froze.

"Since that guy could send me in, naturally I also have a way to get out... Although this physical body is a bit weak, it's still a member of that organization after all."

Bai Qi's eyes stared fixedly at a certain spot of nothingness in midair. His Killing Intent materialized like a long blade, which he grasped in his hand.

Taking a deep breath, he gathered all the Killing Intent in his body onto the edge of the blade!

The next second, he fiercely hacked a slash toward that patch of nothingness!

"[Domain of the Soundless]... Open!!"

Boom——!!

The terrifying Killing Intent instantly tore apart the nothingness. Faintly, a gigantic grayish-white rift slowly emerged in midair!

"What is that?!" Da'an looked at the rift in disbelief. He could feel that the other end of that rift connected to a completely different world!

"My world."

Bai Qi coldly dropped these words, then carrying the long blade, he strode toward that rift.

Bai Qi's footsteps were firm and steady. Even covered in injuries, even with only half a life left, he still remained like a God of War about to embark on a campaign, full of unrivaled momentum.

But just at the moment he was about to step into the rift...

A voice suddenly came from afar.

"Where are you going?"