Chapter 97: Day

After recovering, Meng Su looked at the Demon-Trapping Pill constantly spinning in the void, closing his eyes as if sensing something.

Soon, under the sunlight, the Demon-Trapping Pill cast a small, spherical shadow on the ground. The shadow writhed on the ground, grew larger, and finally transformed into a human-shaped black shadow. The human-shaped black shadow had no facial features, no temperature, and not even a shred of baleful aura; it moved through the void without any presence, yet it possessed killing intent.

This killing intent condensed into a form of demonic power, which then solidified into the black sword in its hand. The black shadow looked up at Meng Su in the air, flickered, and arrived before Meng Su, then struck at him with a single sword blow.

This strike was silent, almost imperceptible, yet impossible to dodge. Helpless, Meng Su could only crush another Void Escape Pill, and the two of them traversed the void to a distance of a thousand zhang away.

After steadying himself, Meng Su recalled everything he had learned, yet there was not a single supernatural ability that could deal with this eerie figure. This figure could not be killed, could not be shattered, and had no point of leverage. Even Meng Su's devouring power could not swallow this bizarre thing, because the figure was not a substance or energy to begin with. It could be said to be a void condensed from killing intent.

Just one breath after Meng Su and Shi Xiaoxiao steadied themselves, the sun above Meng Su faintly became two suns again, and the black shadow appeared before Meng Su. Helpless, Meng Su hurriedly said to Shi Xiaoxiao, "Little sister, you must leave quickly. This shadow's target is me. I can let go and deal with it alone if I'm by myself; I can't fight freely with you here."

Having said that, regardless of whether Shi Xiaoxiao agreed or not, he used ten Void Escape Pills in succession to teleport Shi Xiaoxiao to a place extremely far away.

Meng Su and the black shadow began a tangled fight.

Fortunately, Meng Su possessed the movement technique 'Body Follows Thought', which allowed him to barely dodge the persistent shadow assassin. Even so, after a few exchanges, Meng Su was already covered in wounds. But Meng Su had the blessing of the Reincarnation Lotus, and that powerful life force seemed endless. Although Meng Su could not find the time to repair his shattered body under the dense stabs of the black sword, as long as his divine sense remained intact, Meng Su could never be killed.

As time passed, Meng Su began to grasp the pattern in his battle with the black shadow. He faintly understood the essence of this black shadow: the essence was intense killing intent residing on his own shadow. When Meng Su left the sunlight, this attack would disappear or weaken.

After the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, Meng Su had already thought of a way to deal with this shadow assassin, but Meng Su did not use it, because he was not sure if, after dealing with this shadow, the shadow assassin would make a comeback the moment he stepped into the sunlight again. So, he simply descended to the ground and wandered among countless buildings.

This shadow was actually a type of Demon Body, just like the Mist Body of the Mist Demon Sect, the Blood Body of the Blood Demon Sect, the Gang Body of the Yang Family, and the Illusion Body of the Li Family; they all belonged to Demon Bodies.

Meng Su had never learned any Demon Art from the Demon Realm; his Demon Body was actually generated by himself through the transformation of the Chaos Infant and his powerful thought power.

A thousand miles away, a figure wrapped in a long black robe was sitting cross-legged on a mountain peak performing a ritual. This person in black was wrapped tightly, revealing only two eyes. The eyes stared at the sun in the sky, and in the person's hand was a brilliant light sphere. This light sphere emitted a dazzling radiance, echoing the sun; it was a treasure.

Treasures are divided into Magic Tools, Mystic Treasures, Spirit Treasures, Saint Treasures, Dao Treasures, Immortal Treasures, and World Treasures. This treasure should be between a Saint Treasure and a Dao Treasure. It was precisely this treasure that drove the killing intent, condensing Meng Su's shadow to assassinate him.

Killing from a thousand miles away.

At this moment, the person in black suddenly felt a palpitation in their heart. The person hurriedly put away the treasure sphere, and then a silver dot appeared in the eyes of the person in black, which were full of killing intent. The silver dot rotated rapidly, and its immense mass compressed the space around it, forming ripples. It was precisely Meng Su's Universe Needle.

Meng Su had long seen that the shadow assassin was merely a Demon Body, and he did not know where the assassin's true self was. He could only sense the true self's aura by constantly fighting the shadow assassin. Finally, after countless injuries, he locked onto the true self, but he did not expect the true self to be a thousand miles away.

The person in black was shocked and instinctively wanted to dodge, but Meng Su's thought power was tyrannical. The silver needle, blessed by this thought power, had already locked onto the person in black, leaving them unable to move. They dared not receive it head-on, because how could a silver needle flying from a thousand miles away be of low grade? They definitely could not catch it, and this silver needle carried the power of Nirvana, which withered the very space around it; a black cloud seemed to surround the silver needle.

Helpless, the person in black had to take out the light sphere and summon the Demon Body. A shadow flashed before them, the Universe Needle pierced through the shadow, and the person in black took the opportunity to hide a thousand zhang away.

"You cannot kill me. Where there is sunlight, I am eternal. Because my name is Zhou."

The person in black said to the Universe Needle.

The Universe Needle turned around rapidly and stopped ten zhang in front of the person in black, as if it had heard what the person said.

The Universe Needle stopped rotating, and the thought power originally blessed upon it began to condense, finally forming a phantom of Meng Su.

At such a distance, Meng Su's 'Body Follows Thought' could not reach, but he could send his thought power through the Universe Needle.

The phantom of Meng Su looked at the person in black and smiled, "Who said I wanted to kill you? You must be an assassin from the Left and Right Sect. I have no grievances with your sect, neither recent nor old; why do you insist on exterminating me? If you leave now, you can still save your life. If you remain obsessed, I will surely make you lose your head."

The person in black sneered, "What a joke. When the Left and Right Sect strikes, there has never been anyone we couldn't kill. Let me tell you this: even if you were at the Demon Venerable realm, we would still kill you."

"What big words. Since I can find you, I naturally have a way to deal with you. If you continue to pursue me, I will kill you and then exterminate the Left and Right Sect."

"Presumptuous, ignorant. You, a mere True Demon, just because your Demon Art grade is slightly higher, you actually fantasize about exterminating our Left and Right Sect? Wishful thinking."

Meng Su smiled lightly, "You won't give up until you see the Yellow River. I will let you see how I kill you."

After saying this, Meng Su's projection disappeared, and the Universe Needle resumed high-speed rotation, but this time, a phantom of the Reincarnation Lotus appeared behind the Universe Needle.

Zhou had never seen the Reincarnation Lotus, but he could not feel the killing intent from this void lotus; on the contrary, he felt very comfortable. Because this time, the Reincarnation Lotus carried powerful life force.

Powerful life force, powerful killing intent—such contradictory extremes were all on that tiny silver needle. The silver needle locked onto Zhou again.

Helpless, Zhou began to run wildly for his life.

In the void, a black shadow moved rapidly, flying, his body flickering in and out of existence. Zhou used the 'Escape Demon Step', but even the 'Escape Demon Step' could not resist the lock of the silver needle.

After one person and one needle flew for several hundred miles, Zhou finally exhausted his demonic power and had to sacrifice his Demon Body—the shadow—again. ===== CHAPTER 98 =====