Chapter 183: Fierce Battle II

Lei Kedun ignored the scuffle behind him, gripping the spirit‑flesh blade formed at the tip of his Bone Staff, and drove it straight into werewolf Tai Er's heart.

The spirit‑flesh blade deals greater damage and breaking power against creatures with fallen intent, and werewolf Tai Er's body, like a block of tofu, was easily pierced by it.

Its accompanying ability to corrode flesh and erase the soul continuously ate away at Tai Er's body from the wound.

To avoid wasting the trait, Lei Kedun continued to use the flesh blade to cut off the arms, vines, and tentacles that protruded from the bronze‑colored Great Gate.

After cutting off werewolf Tai Er's palm, he kicked his body out of the bronze‑colored Great Gate's enclosing range.

As Tai Er's palm fell to the ground, the deep red moon crown that landed with it was kicked by Lei Kedun toward Sha Lun.

Then the surrounding shadows instantly came to life, turning into black tentacles that surged toward the tormented soul Steve, who was entangled by Ke Lai En.

In the next instant, the tormented soul Steve's figure vanished from the spot.

And in Ke Lai En's eyes reflected two identical silhouettes:

A black tailcoat, dark red cloak, slicked‑back hair with pomade, eyes flashing with a murky green, a pale face about forty years old.

Ke Lai En's body stiffened rapidly, his eyes became vacant, and his thoughts grew hazy.

Two holy, descending beams of bright, pure, warm light arrived almost simultaneously.

Like pillars of light from the Sun Country, bringing brilliance and holy purification, they completely enveloped Ke Lai En.

The two summoned holy lights of the Sun Domain originated respectively from Ke Lai En's self‑rescue using the sun brooch he wore on his chest, and from Lei Kedun's imitation of a Sun Domain spell.

Possessed by the tormented soul, Ke Lai En's eyes gradually regained their luster. Immediately, his figure ignited, becoming brittle and charred, leaving only a thin sheet of paper.

In the next moment, Lei Kedun, whose eyes were covered by a blue‑white glow, was suffused with a rich gold hue.

The brass‑colored ring behind him turned slowly, emitting a squeaking gear sound, and then the rich gold on his body rippled outward layer by layer like water.

Sha Lun, Ma Li Qi, and Jie Sen froze simultaneously, black smoke puffing from their bodies, accompanied by a sizzling sound.

"Ah!" a mournful scream rang out.

Not far from Ma Li Qi, the tormented soul Steve's figure fell from nowhere; his pallid skin was scorched as if by boiling water, a sheet of crimson, with layers of heat and black smoke billowing from him.

Steve's body swiftly shifted from a spirit state to flesh, and this purifying force was the bane of filth and undead.

Ke Lai En seized the moment; the dark golden sun‑bird brooch on his chest flashed, and golden illusory flames instantly ignited around the fallen tormented soul Steve.

These flames, exuding solar aura, multiplied densely and soon merged into a sea of gold.

During this time, Sha Lun retrieved the deep red moon crown from the severed hand of werewolf Tai Er that Lei Kedun had kicked to her side.

The scarlet moonlight that had shrouded the surroundings vanished without a trace, and Sha Lun's and Ma Li Qi's conditions were rapidly recovering.

Steve, bearing burning and scorching heat, burst out of the dense, ocean‑like blaze of bright fire.

His tailcoat and cloak were tattered, his pomade‑slicked back hair turned dry yellow and partially charred.

Centered on Steve, an extremely low‑temperature cyclone howled, sweeping outward.

The surrounding air temperature dropped rapidly, white frost formed on the ground, a cold transparent ice layer spread swiftly, and beautiful, dreamy snowflakes drifted in the air.

Ke Lai En, currently within the negative fruit of the sun brooch, couldn't help but shiver.

"He wants to escape," Sha Lun's ethereal voice said.

"Swoosh! Swoosh!" thin icicle arrows surged amid the cold wind and snowflakes.

The shadows around Lei Kedun writhed continuously, as if trying to sprout limbs and crawl up from the ground.

But in the next instant, those writhing shadows shattered into a patch of deep black and spread rapidly toward the tormented soul Steve at the center of the cold wind.

Anything that this deep black touched—black snowflakes and icicle arrows—became coated with a viscous darkness, instantly corroding and breaking.

Sha Lun's figure suddenly faded away, and the next moment, the zombie Jie Sen tangled with Ma Li Qi froze in place.

Jie Sen's pale face, scarred with corrosion and burns, briefly showed a struggling expression before vanishing.

His eyes went vacant, reflecting an image of a figure in a black, intricately patterned court gown, wearing a small soft hat, with golden hair slightly disheveled.

In just a moment, Sha Lun had completed the tormented‑soul possession of Jie Sen.

Jie Sen slowly extended his hands, clutching his own throat, tightening more and more.

The ice layer created by the tormented soul Steve for Mirror Flash was entirely covered by shadows, and large swaths of shadow around attempted to engulf him.

Steve suddenly thrust his left hand forward, emitting a silent, sharp scream that shattered all the surrounding shadows.

The others nearby were also affected; the farthest, Ke Lai En, felt his head dull and throbbing, as if about to explode.

Ma Li Qi attempting to attack Steve froze, clutching his head in pain and collapsing onto the ground.

The zombie Jie Sen, possessed by the tormented soul, paused briefly while choking himself, then quickly recovered.

The writhing shadows around transformed into a black armor that enveloped Lei Kedun, shielding him from most of the tormented‑soul shriek's damage. Yet this soul‑piercing assault still left Lei Kedun's thoughts sluggish and his mind hazy.

Seeing the tormented‑soul shriek fail to achieve his aim, Steve crouched slightly, pressing his hands to the ground.

The ground around suddenly turned black, becoming a muddy abyss, from which a twisted blood‑red vine sprouted, segmented with four fangs and an eye per segment, wildly growing upward.

Yet in the next instant, golden illusory flames ignited out of nowhere, denser, hotter, and purer than those previously created by Ke Lai En using the sun brooch.

These flames exuded the Sun's vast, pervasive aura, pure and holy, melting the bizarre blood‑red vine into droplets like candles.

The muddy abyss of the ground was also engulfed by the bright fire, burned cleanly.

Likewise vanished was the tormented soul Steve's figure; where the bright fire had passed, only scorch marks remained, nothing else.

The previous series of actions were merely Steve's tormented soul buying time, preparing to use Mirror Flash.

In the next moment, in a warehouse corner not far away, the tormented soul Steve's rigid figure materialized, and his eyes briefly reflected Miss Sha Lun in an elaborate black court gown.

Although the possession ability cannot affect the tormented soul Steve in his spirit state, Sha Lun, also a tormented soul, can still force him out of the mirror world when prepared.

After dealing with Jie Sen, Sha Lun silently entered the mirror world to prevent Steve from escaping via Mirror Flash.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three gunshots, two pale gold streaks and one brass streak, struck the tormented soul Steve's body precisely.

Golden flames and thick black smoke billowed from the wound, halting Steve's renewed attempt to flee.

In the next instant, Ma Li Qi rushed forward, his left hand curled into a fist, hammering Steve's left shoulder, then he grabbed Steve's still‑recovering body and threw it toward the center of the open ground.

Thick frost spreads over Shi Di Fu's body, and his flesh is instantly frozen solid.

When Shi Di Fu's body hits the ground, it completes its ethereality, shedding its inertia, and simultaneously disperses the frost that had frozen his flesh.

Shi Di Fu's body gradually becomes ethereal and transparent, but the next moment the process of becoming transparent is halted.

Shi Di Fu discovers in terror that his connection to the mirrored world has been severed.

On the clearing surrounded by several warehouses, an unknown time ago a barrier shimmering with specks of starlight had come to envelop it.

A holy, bright, brilliant and purely warm light descends from the heavens, followed by two demon‑hunting projectiles imbued with Purification Slash.

Shi Di Fu quickly shifts his body, evading the descending holy light and the demon‑hunting projectiles bearing Purification Slash.

In the next instant, however, an illusory skull shrouded in black vapors and heavy death intent, as if a messenger from the underworld, strikes him.

This is a death‑type spell cast by Miss Sha Lun, and Shi Di Fu's figure freezes rigidly on the spot.

Lei Ke Dun throws the Bone Staff in his hand, and it lands with precise accuracy into the corpse of the undead Jie Sen lying on the ground.

He then steps forward two paces, closing the distance between himself and Shi Di Fu. He leans his body back, spreads his arms, as if embracing the sun.

A magnificent, pure, blazing column of light descends from the heavens, enveloping both Shi Di Fu and himself; Shi Di Fu's body continuously emits rolling black heat, as if being vaporized.

At the same time, Lei Ke Dun feels intense burning and pain on his own body, as the corrupt, filthy power accumulated from using the Bone Staff is being purified.

Because the holy light conflicts with their own abilities, Sha Lun and Ma Li Qi do not intervene in the ensuing battle, merely standing guard silently on the side to prevent Shi Di Fu from escaping.

Ke Lai En continuously fires from his side, coordinating with the Sun Domain spell attached to his sun brooch, restraining the wronged spirit Shi Di Fu so he cannot leave the holy light's enclosure.

The dense Sun Domain power and aura surrounding them prevent Shi Di Fu's death‑type spells from even taking shape.

"Numb!" he mutters a short, low dragon word.

A pale‑green flash bursts forth in an instant, directly striking Shi Di Fu, who is clumsily dodging attacks and trying to escape the holy light's influence.

Shi Di Fu, still in his flesh body, instantly freezes rigidly on the spot, unable to move; under the relentless baptism of holy light, he cannot even transform into a spirit form to escape the negative effects.

Lei Ke Dun's eyes, covered with a blue‑white glow, take on a faint golden hue.

Around them, illusory golden flames spontaneously ignite and gradually converge, forming a golden flaming spear.

Under Lei Ke Dun's control, the golden flaming spear turns into a streak of light and pierces Shi Di Fu's body.

The golden illusory flame bursts onto Shi Di Fu's body with a boom, a massive solar aura permeates his entire form, and the sizzle of burning oil can be heard.

Even his roar is swallowed by the golden flame; Shi Di Fu fails to let out a scream.

One golden flaming spear after another appears, then pierces Shi Di Fu's body, until he is reduced to a charred corpse.

(End of chapter)