Chapter 39: Innate Primordial Spirit

"You little dog!"

On another battlefield, Xi Luo, having witnessed Pan Hu's fainting with her own eyes, roared low.

Unfortunately, Xi Luo, currently entangled with the Ghost King, could only watch helplessly.

Although Xi Luo is the Mountain God of Feilai Peak.

But if one truly compares her current actual combat power, she is only slightly stronger than the exceptionally talented Pan Hu.

After all, her combat power had greatly decreased recently due to her battle with Ru Fu.

Afterwards, she used an explosive skill capable of increasing strength within a short time.

Therefore, as long as the Ghost King survives the initial phase of power explosion, Xi Luo's danger level will drop linearly.

In fact, this poses no difficulty at all for the Ghost King, who is the incarnation of the You Xiao.

As the strongest evil spirit, the Ghost King possesses the "Body of Immortality" common to all evil spirits; simply scattering his form is utterly meaningless.

Only by completely eliminating the wild beast spirits within the Ghost King's body is it possible to kill the Ghost King thoroughly.

So, unsurprisingly, the subsequent battle between Xi Luo and the Ghost King entered a phase of continuous attrition.

Neither side of the battle thought of breaking away from the other; instead, they focused all their attention on ending this battle quickly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Xi Luo, incarnated as a red leopard, stepped on fire clouds, breathing in and out flames.

Every dash successfully smashed the Ghost King, greatly eliminating the roaring wild beast spirits within his body.

In contrast, although the Ghost King's counterattacks were not as grand in scale as Xi Luo's, they brought the bizarre, mournful, and gloomy to the extreme.

Every attack carried terrifying curses, weakening the opponent in all aspects from physical stamina to spirit.

From time to time, the Ghost King's mournful howls could be heard, truly the most nauseating spiritual pollution.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The ear-piercing sound of metal striking metal spread throughout the Black Cloud Marsh.

If the battle between Xi Luo and the Ghost King was a clash of divine arts and spells, then the battle between Li Li Boyang and the Four-Armed Ghost God was purely physical attacks.

Relying on his body of indestructible diamond.

The Four-Armed Ghost God waved his arms, colliding with the sword pill time and again.

Even if occasionally pierced through the body by the spinning flying swords, the Four-Armed Ghost God could recover from the injuries in an instant.

Just as the You Xiao had said, incarnated as a Ghost God, he was an invincible existence in the darkness.

This is the characteristic of ghosts, and also the privilege of gods.

"I am a god now!"

"And gods are invincible!"

With a face of arrogance, he shouted wildly; the You Xiao was obviously influenced by his own obsession and resentment, becoming utterly mad and arrogant.

After all, if "gods" were truly invincible, he would not have targeted Li Li Boyang's physical body back then.

【A brainless fool, actually abandoning wisdom for power.】

A cold voice entered the You Xiao's heart; the golden sword pill halted in mid-air at this moment.

The next second, evil qi from beneath the earth rose up, continuously gathering near the sword pill.

This sudden scene directly stunned the You Xiao, who had originally planned to continue the attack.

Whoosh!

Accompanying the gathering of evil qi, the earth began to tremble, and the crust began to collapse.

In an instant, a small-scale earthquake occurred in this Black Cloud Marsh and rapidly spread throughout the Hundred Earth Mountain Ranges.

"Gathering Evil to Forge Form? Gui Fang Secret Art?"

Gazing with wildly dilated pupils at the evil qi still gathering, the You Xiao instantly revealed the essence of this phenomenon in one sentence.

"How do you know the Gui Fang Secret Art!?"

The "Gui Fang Secret Art" is the method the You Xiao used to refine evil ghosts, and also the untransmitted secret of the Grand Priest of the Gui Fang State.

If the You Xiao had not accidentally incarnated as a fierce ghost and used the power of the alchemy furnace to capture the Ox-Head Yin Spirit, he could never have achieved his current Ghost God body.

Precisely because he understood the difficulty of mastering the "Gui Fang Secret Art," the You Xiao displayed such an incredible expression.

"You refined me into a sword soul, and now you actually ask me how I know the Gui Fang Secret Art?"

A cold voice rang out again, but this time the voice had a specific source.

Endless evil qi gathered into a human form.

That was a man whose clothing and style were completely out of place with this era.

Short sleeves and long pants, a buzz cut, plus a youthful aura that could not be concealed no matter what...

This was unmistakably the image of Li Li Boyang's past life.

Clang!

From a distance, one could see him holding a golden long sword, standing in mid-air, with absolutely no ferocious evil qi about his entire body.

Had he not seen it with his own eyes, the You Xiao would not have been able to imagine that the opponent was actually an incarnation of evil qi.

"Moreover, this is not the 'Gui Fang Secret Art' you speak of..."

Li Li Boyang spoke the truth; the form he manifested using evil qi was not some evil ghost.

The so-called ghosts and monsters are powerful existences born when souls attach themselves to some material.

The stronger the resentment, the deeper the obsession, the stronger the ghost or monster's power.

When these powerful ghosts and monsters meet certain predetermined conditions and undergo further transformation, the so-called "evil ghosts" are born.

Looking at it from this angle, Li Li Boyang, whose soul attaches itself to the Shenxiao Sword, is actually a type of special evil ghost.

The Undying Soul, the Divine Thunder Sword...

If Li Li Boyang had not ultimately turned the tables to kill You Xiao and been reborn as a human again, he would have been the strongest malevolent ghost under You Xiao's command.

"Impossible! You are clearly now..."

You Xiao was just about to retort when his eyes suddenly widened in unbelievable shock.

For You Xiao discovered that what Li Li Boyang said was actually the truth; his current state was far more complex than that of a malevolent ghost.

Mimicking the human body's Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, the celestial cycle's acupoints and orifices...

Li Li Boyang had remarkably reconstructed a body independent of flesh—a spiritual form existing between being and non-being.

Roar!

Relentless waves of malevolent qi circulated within his body, ultimately converging into the Divine Thunder Sword in his hand.

Most crucially, compared to those malevolent ghosts born from gathered resentment...

In this form, Li Li Boyang was not only clear-headed and rational but had also nurtured a kind of transcendent spirituality.

That was the most fundamental and purest part of a living creature's mental consciousness.

It was the innate essence of spirit, existing without reliance on acquired experience or learning.

It was precisely due to the existence of this spark of spirituality that Li Li Boyang could not be counted as a malevolent ghost today.

"What exactly are you now?"

Perhaps out of fear of the unknown, You Xiao's voice began to tremble.

"I am also very curious... what exactly is my current state."

Feeling the resonance between himself and the earth vein's malevolent qi, Li Li Boyang murmured with equal curiosity.

"Even though I have lost my physical body, I still retain my complete self and emotions..."

"I seem to have become a 'god' like Rui Fu, a 'god' assembled from the converging primordial qi of the earth veins."

"Whether a fierce evil or an auspicious omen, both are merely choices of a 'god'."

As if to verify Li Li Boyang's words...

The Divine Thunder Sword in his hand actually emitted a warm, jade-like aura at this very moment.

"If I must give a suitable name to this state of mine..."

"I think using the term 'Primordial Spirit' is quite fitting."

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