Chapter 440

Suddenly!

Madam Yousha's charming body trembled, and her bewildered expression suddenly cleared.

"Wrong!"

"Fellow Daoist Helian, wake up quickly!"

Helian Yun's body shook, and amidst that sharp shout, he regained his senses.

In the sky, Luo Chen let out a muffled groan.

He looked at Madam Yousha in surprise; the other party had actually managed to see through his Soul Confusion Technique.

Just now, he had gone head-to-head with Xiao Sanren in a soul clash, and with the defense of the Lanke Black Chess, he had unscrupulously unleashed his Great Perfection-level Soul Suppression Technique and his Perfect-level Soul Confusion Technique, which was the only way to deal the heaviest blow to the opponent's strongest point.

After achieving such results, Luo Chen was even more confident in his soul attacks.

By comparison, Madam Yousha and Helian Yun clearly had weaker soul strength than Xiao Sanren.

He was also riding the momentum of having instantly killed one person, using his dominance to intimidate the two.

Under these circumstances, his Soul Confusion Technique had actually returned empty-handed.

He had even suffered a small backlash.

"I underestimated you, you cheap maid."

Amidst Bai Meiling's worry, Luo Chen rubbed his temples.

Hearing his words, Helian Yun broke out in a cold sweat; they were the ones who had truly underestimated Luo Chen.

Or rather, he had disguised himself so well that even Xiao Sanren had been deceived by him.

Cheap maid?

Madam Yousha gritted her silver teeth, "Attack together! Today, either he dies, or we perish. Fellow Daoist Helian, you and I have no way out!"

As soon as she finished speaking.

She stretched out her hands, and the vermilion long silk wrapped around her waist suddenly expanded.

Before long, it was several feet in size, surrounding Luo Chen and Bai Meiling in the center.

"Such moves are useless against me!"

Luo Chen gave a light shout, his figure rushing out with a boom, intending to fly out before the silk could close in.

However, no matter how fast his escape speed was, under the enemy's guard, he had nowhere to hide.

Luo Chen's heart jumped, and he drew a circle with his left hand.

A cerulean glazed light screen immediately blocked his front.

Hiss!

Within the light screen, a streak of black light was slowly passing through.

It was exactly that Armor-Piercing Nail!

Helian Yun took a deep breath and fired another nail.

Qi-Piercing!

The follow-up Qi-Piercing Nail entered the glazed light screen, and the Tier 2 top-grade water-type defensive spell, which had already reached Great Perfection, collapsed instantly.

This eerie scene made Luo Chen's expression change slightly.

With the defensive spell broken, the first streak of black light arrived instantly in front of Luo Chen, about to burrow into his body.

"I want to see if your Armor-Piercing Nail can break my protective Qi armor!"

"Roar!"

A low roar, like the angry howl of an ancient monster from the depths of the wild mountains.

Layer upon layer of Qi armor stacked up.

Even though the Armor-Piercing Nail was as unstoppable as bamboo, under the obstruction of these layers of Qi armor, it could only stop in the end.

Madam Yousha controlled the Amber Vermilion Silk to continuously close in, determined to trap Luo Chen within.

The moment Luo Chen's vast white protective Qi armor appeared, she understood, as if enlightened, what Xiao Sanren meant by the "It's you" he shouted before dying.

"It's actually you!"

"Perfect, every debt has a debtor, you can pay with your life for my husband!"

She said with hatred; at this moment, she finally revealed her true feelings, having seemed not to care about the death of Mingsha before.

The reason Mingsha had died in the Soul Transformation ruins back then.

While it was true they were greedy for opportunities, being heavily injured by Luo Chen's palm in the ruined palace was a major factor.

Now, it was the time for the enemy to deliver himself to their door for revenge!

Luo Chen didn't care about the words of hatred from her mouth.

What he cared about was Helian Yun!

Clearly, Helian Yun didn't just have these means.

There were three Soul-Piercing Nails!

While he was resisting the Armor-Piercing and Qi-Piercing nails.

The final nail was finally fired.

Soul-Piercing Nail!

Once this treasure appeared, it pierced toward Luo Chen's glabella with lightning speed.

However, before it could nail Luo Chen's soul.

A black halo emerged from Luo Chen's body.

With a dense and impenetrable posture, it blocked it firmly outside.

Seeing this black halo, Helian Yun's pupils shrank, and his expression changed drastically.

"A soul defense magic treasure!"

Hearing this term.

Madam Yousha's heart shook violently, and she subconsciously shouted.

"Come back!"

However, it was already too late.

Luo Chen frowned, feeling some abnormality on his body.

Soon, he knew where that abnormality came from.

A transparent shadow pierced through his body and was about to burrow into his sea of consciousness.

At the same time, a rampant voice was emitted.

"Such a physique, such cultivation, it is perfect for my new body! And your remaining forces, your Dao companion, I will also..."

However, this rampant voice stopped abruptly before it was even half finished.

It was replaced by a terrified scream.

"Ah!!!"

Luo Chen's expression changed drastically, and the soul within his sea of consciousness transformed into spiritual sense, surging out violently.

Like a monstrous wave, it instantly submerged the transparent soul.

When the spiritual sense swept back, Luo Chen's expression was gloomy to the extreme.

He ignored Helian Yun, who was recalling the three nails, and stared fixedly at Madam Yousha.

"Possession!"

"You all had a good plan!"

He finally understood why Madam Yousha hadn't felt sad about the fall of her Dao companion, Mingsha, before.

He also knew why Madam Yousha, despite not having a strong soul, could break free from his Soul Confusion Technique the first time.

It turned out Mingsha hadn't died at all.

Or rather, his body had died, but his soul had not been extinguished.

Instead, he had used some means to reside in his Dao companion, looking for an opportunity to possess someone.

And he, clearly, was the best target for possession!

But they had never expected that he would have a soul defense magic treasure—the Lanke Black Chess.

Methods of possession are strange and varied, impossible to recount.

But all roads lead to the same destination: one must enter the cultivator's sea of consciousness and devour the enemy's soul to occupy their body.

Unfortunately.

Mingsha hadn't even entered the sea of consciousness before being blocked outside by the defensive halo of the Lanke Black Chess.

Coupled with the lack of his own sea of consciousness as support, fighting on away ground, he was directly crushed by Luo Chen, who was already stronger than him, with a fierce and violent soul.

And this time!

Mingsha was truly and completely dead!

With her Dao companion fallen, Madam Yousha revealed a look of extreme grief.

No longer caring about anything, the Amber Vermilion Silk suddenly bloomed with dots of red light, and countless blood rain sprayed out, filled with baleful energy.

Luo Chen snorted coldly, and red light also emerged from his body.

The Blazing Fire Miasma gushed out!

Over the past nine years, he had cultivated the Blazing Fire Miasma to the master stage, which could be called Great Success.

The effect was that it was no longer limited to the True Body of the Heavenly Peng.

In his human form, he could also unleash this monster art.

The surging earth-fire baleful energy swept across all directions.

The baleful energy in the blood rain was of a higher grade, but its quality was poor because it was mixed with too much living blood, especially a large portion that had been devoured recently and not refined.

How could such impure things suppress Luo Chen's Blazing Fire Miasma?

When the two collided, countless white smoke immediately emerged.

Under continuous consumption, they both perished.

Taking advantage of this gap, Luo Chen leaped out, breaking free from the encirclement of the Amber Vermilion Silk.

His whole person turned into a streak of white light, rushing straight at Madam Yousha.

The super-high escape speed made her soul tremble with fear.

Especially when she saw out of the corner of her eye that Helian Yun had already escaped toward the exit of the cave.

Clearly, Helian Yun was already afraid and had decided not to get involved in this battle anymore.

"Then let's die together!"

Madam Yousha showed a look of madness, and the Amber Vermilion Silk, which she had refined to 90%, suddenly expanded to the extreme, reaching a hundred feet in length, covering the entire underground cave.

"Explode!"

When Luo Chen decapitated Madam Yousha with a sword, what greeted him was a violent explosion.

It was not just the self-detonation of the magic treasure, but also the collapse of the underground cave.

Rumble!

A deafening explosion came from behind, and rolling air waves surged from the tunnel.

It pressed down on the aged figure, making him tremble.

His heart was also trembling.

"The strength of his physique is no less than that of a wild monster."

"The vigor of his spiritual power is even greater than that of an ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment great cultivator."

"The soul, which I thought was his weakest link, actually has a soul defense magic treasure."

"How on earth was I possessed to provoke such a formidable enemy!"

Helian Yun was terrified and uneasy in his heart.

When Luo Chen exposed the Lanke Black Chess, he knew that the other party had almost no flaws at the Foundation Establishment level!

Such a formidable enemy was simply not something they could deal with.

He finally understood why Luo Chen could come and go freely and dominate in battle after battle.

It was laughable that he had been possessed, and for the sake of that so-called slightly higher chance of Jin Dan, he had taken the initiative to provoke Luo Chen.

If he had learned from Fu Jiusheng and left calmly, he could not only have had a glimpse of the Jin Dan Great Dao but also established a good relationship with Luo Chen.

In the future, wouldn't he have gained a strong ally in this cultivation world?

"I was wrong!"

"This time, I was truly wrong!"

Regretting endlessly, Helian Yun fled quickly.

The journey that would have taken two days could be escaped in at most a stick of incense under his frantic running.

In his heart, besides the regret brought by greed, there was also a glimmer of hope.

"That Madam Yousha must have unleashed some major means before dying, otherwise there wouldn't be such a scene."

"The mountains are shaking and the earth is moving, vibrating endlessly."

"Maybe Luo Chen will be seriously injured inside, and I..."

Suddenly!

His figure paused, and he faintly had another impulse.

However, looking at large pieces of mountain rock falling from the tunnel, he finally cut off that impulse to turn back.

"Get out first!"

"If Luo Chen is dead, so be it."

"If he is still alive, I can just observe the situation from the outside; maybe I can pick up some scraps."

Just as he was muttering to himself.

A rumbling sound suddenly came from behind again.

But!

This time, it was completely different from the sound of the previous explosion.

That was someone violently clearing a path, rushing toward the outside world.

And among those he knew who could do such a thing, only Luo Chen came to mind.

"Damn it!"

"He's not dead!"

He cursed fiercely and accelerated his speed to rush out.

And behind him, the rumbling sound was getting closer, and among it was Luo Chen's cold voice.

"Old scoundrel Helian, where do you think you're running!"

As he spoke, a violent spiritual energy fluctuation struck instantly.

Helian Yun turned his head abruptly, and what met his eyes was a huge brownish-yellow handprint pushing over with unstoppable force.

Wherever it passed, mountain rocks could not block its momentum, and the terrain could not trap its form.

Fierce and domineering, it had the momentum to suppress everything.

It was exactly the Tier 3 spell Luo Chen had just started learning—the Innate One Qi Great Handprint!

Facing this move, Helian Yun gritted his teeth and pinched a spiritual formula.

A flying sword flew out.

Pfft!

A hole was suddenly poked in the center of the Great Handprint.

Because of this hole, its power was no longer so concentrated.

The remaining palm power struck Helian Yun's body.

But he only let out a muffled groan, a layer of rippling light flashing over his body; clearly, he hadn't suffered any serious injuries.

Instead!

Taking advantage of the force of this palm, he retreated even faster.

Inside the mountain tunnel.

Luo Chen, who was running, keenly discovered this scene with his spiritual sense.

For some reason, that flashing ripple of light gave him a sense of familiarity.

However, the speed at which Helian Yun escaped using the force of the palm made him unable to confirm it.

Just right, he had cleared the tunnel with one palm, and now it was unobstructed.

A pair of illusory wings appeared on his back.

A flash of fire!

Whoosh!

The next moment, Luo Chen appeared dozens of feet away.

This was his fastest escape speed without revealing the True Body of the Heavenly Peng.

Luo Chen was confident that even against the Five Elements escape speed, he would not be inferior by half.

No matter how fast Helian Yun was, where could he run?

After only a few dozen breaths, Luo Chen's super-strong vision saw Helian Yun's back.

"Old scoundrel, come and die!"

He flicked his fingers continuously, and fireballs flew out as if they were being fired instantly.

Not to kill the enemy, but to obstruct them.

However, facing this level of attack, Helian Yun ignored it, acting as if he hadn't seen it.

When the fireballs hit him, water light shone, and then they dissipated without a sound.

Luo Chen raised an eyebrow, and the Blazing Cloud Wings trembled again.

At this time, he was only a hundred feet away from Helian Yun.

"Earth Mountain Technique!"

"Binding Technique!"

Two Tier 1 spells were fired instantly again, blocking Helian Yun's front.

The old man shouted angrily.

"Get lost!"

The flying sword in his hand slashed continuously, destroying the attacks created by the two spells with unstoppable force.

However, this action still delayed his speed.

The next moment, the Profound Fire Sword pierced through the air.

He didn't look back and also sacrificed his flying sword to block the Profound Fire Sword.

Seeing Luo Chen getting closer out of the corner of his eye.

He pinched a formula with both hands!

"Explode!"

"Explode!"

"Explode!"

Three shouts in a row.

In the tunnel, three talismans were suddenly triggered.

Facing this sudden attack, Luo Chen took a deep breath, his tattered Qi armor condensed again, and then he rushed forward regardless.

After rushing out several feet, he raised an eyebrow.

His whole person actually crashed into the hard mountain belly, avoiding the trap in front of the tunnel.

That was a Tier 2 earth-type formation, the Black Swamp Formation, set up by a simple formation plate.

If trapped in it, even with Luo Chen's escape speed, it would be slowed down to only one or two tenths.

Entering the mountain belly, Luo Chen's pace did not stop at all.

His bare palms turned into eagle claws, grabbing out continuously.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

Large pieces of hard mountain rock were grabbed by him, and with the help of powerful spiritual energy impact, a brand-new tunnel was opened up by him.

However, although he could advance like this, the speed was still too slow.

After a while, Luo Chen felt that he had crossed the range of the Black Swamp Formation, so he punched through the mountain belly and returned to the original natural tunnel.

At this moment.

The distance between him and Helian Yun had been opened up again.

"I want to see how long you can run!"

A fierce look flashed in Luo Chen's eyes, and he recalled the Profound Fire Sword and rushed straight ahead.