Chapter 330: Soul and Body Destroyed

At this moment, Wang Yu did another backflip.

After a series of afterimages trailed through the void, he somehow crossed a distance of seven or eight zhang, appearing directly above the dwarf.

With a low shout, he shook both arms, simultaneously slapping down with one palm and striking with one fist.

With two "whooshes"—

A giant golden palm print and a giant golden fist phantom roared downward.

The dwarf's expression changed; he shook his sleeves upward, and over ten masses of eerie green fire shot toward the golden palm print above. The green hand that had been clutching the black flying knife also curled, meeting the golden fist phantom.

"Boom—!"

After the green fireballs struck the golden palm print, they burst into rolling green flames, causing the palm print to stall.

When the green hand collided with the golden fist phantom, golden light flashed, and the fist phantom burst apart instantly, revealing a hidden gourd inside.

This gourd trembled and also burst apart, spraying dense, ink-green droplets that fell toward the dwarf like raindrops.

A putrid stench filled the entire void, clearly extremely poisonous.

The green-robed dwarf let out a strange cry, spat out a silver talisman, which transformed into a large expanse of silver light in the wind, and with a single swirl, collected all the ink-green droplets, condensing them into a small silver bottle phantom.

Just at this moment, another muffled "bang" came.

The green hand in the air trembled, and a streak of black light shot out from it, flashing to pierce the green-robed dwarf's chest, leaving a bloody hole.

It was Wang Yu who had quietly used the power of the "Gold-Pointing Art" to manipulate the black flying knife and forcibly break the green hand's control.

The green-robed dwarf, suffering such a heavy blow, did not die immediately; instead, after a scream, he shook his sleeve and threw out a blood-colored talisman.

It was a Blood Escape Talisman!

But just as this talisman emitted blood-colored light, a thunderclap suddenly rang out from nearby.

A sound of breaking through the air arose.

A wisp of golden light appeared at the green-robed dwarf's forehead and sank into it in a flash.

The speed was so fast that the naked eye couldn't fully see it.

A distant floating cannon platform had dense silver electric light swirling on its long barrel.

With a "thud"—

A charred hole appeared on the green-robed dwarf's forehead, his expression froze in terror, and his body plummeted to the ground, seemingly dead on the spot.

Wang Yu shook his sleeve, and seven or eight fist-sized fireballs shot out, striking the falling green-robed dwarf's body in a swarm.

"Boom—!"

The fireballs burst apart, rolling flames enveloping the dwarf's body, about to turn him into ashes within a few breaths.

A muffled thud.

The seemingly motionless body in the flames burst apart on its own, flesh and broken bones flying everywhere, forcibly extinguishing most of the nearby flames.

But amidst the flying flesh, a head-sized green light ball appeared, wrapping a black jade pendant inside. After trembling slightly, it broke through the air and fled desperately toward the distant horizon.

Two more thunderclaps came from afar!

Two wisps of golden light flashed in the nearby void, piercing the black jade pendant inside the green light ball one after another.

"No!"

A desperate cry from the dwarf came from the black jade pendant.

"Crack!"

The black jade pendant turned into powder, and a wisp of green mist emerged from it, frantically condensing into a mass in place, vaguely manifesting the green-robed dwarf's twisted face.

"Whoosh!"

Wang Yu's feet swirled with blue-red light, and he appeared directly before the green mist, spat out the words "Divine Soul," and pointed a finger.

A spark of fire shot from his fingertip, landing lightly on the green mist mass.

With a "hiss"—

The green mist burned fiercely like tung oil, and the green-robed dwarf's screams came from within again, but after a few sounds, they weakened and vanished entirely.

The green mist in the flames vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Wang Yu exhaled a long breath.

A Foundation Establishment opponent is indeed completely different from a Qi Refinement one; not only are they rich in combat experience and lacking neither magic artifacts nor secret techniques, but even if their physical body is destroyed, they can entrust their divine soul to a magic artifact to escape, making them far more troublesome than Qi Refinement opponents.

Perhaps one can easily defeat a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but to achieve a complete kill where soul and body are destroyed is much more difficult.

After all, as long as the divine soul can escape, they can return to find a suitable body to possess and save their little life.

Of course, only Foundation Establishment or higher cultivators have a divine soul strong enough to possess a body; although there are many limitations and flaws, it is still one of the most important life-saving means for Foundation Establishment cultivators.

As a Foundation Establishment early-stage cultivator, the green-robed dwarf's techniques and magic artifacts were not weak; the reason he was finally killed was mainly that his physical body was too weak and lacked an automatically triggered defensive secret technique, so he couldn't withstand a single close-range sneak attack from a second-rank flying knife or trigger any defensive means.

It seems that if one learns from the opponent's lesson and wants to be safe in Foundation Establishment-level battles, second-rank body refinement is a must, and it would be best to find a protective secret technique that can be automatically triggered in the face of sudden attacks.

Wang Yu pondered this, his gaze sweeping toward the dense forest below.

Now was not the time to relax, as there was still a second-rank corpse-mouse below, but he immediately gave a light "eh."

In the white mist of the dense forest, it was silent, with no sound coming out.

Wang Yu showed a trace of surprise, raised his hand, and beckoned toward the dense forest below.

After three "whooshes," the three light-blue banner flags flew up from the dense forest and landed in his sleeve. He pinched an incantation with one hand, a green magic pattern diagram condensed in his divine sense sea, and he cast a spell downward.

A roaring wind erupted!

A wild wind blew, swirling the white mist below away, revealing the clear scene in the dense forest.

On a large, empty patch of ground, there were broken trees and dirt pits of various sizes everywhere, but that giant corpse-mouse was nowhere to be seen, which was very strange.

Wang Yu's gaze froze, seemingly having seen something, but he first turned his head to look at the Tong family ruins.

He could clearly see that the two beasts, Da Lu and Xiao Bai, although covered in wounds, seemed to be fine and were instead chasing the few remaining skeleton mice relentlessly.

Both beasts were extremely excited, like hunting dogs chasing rabbits.

Only then did Wang Yu feel relieved, his figure moving as he drifted down toward the dense forest below.

With a "bang"—

His feet landed beside a giant crater.

In the crater was a large patch of black liquid, emitting a thick, putrid stench.

In the middle of this liquid, a pair of fleshy red bat wings lay quietly.

This liquid was that corpse-mouse!

Seeing that the nearby mud had dissolved quite a bit, one knew the black liquid's toxicity was extraordinary.

And the corpse-mouse itself contained highly toxic substances.

Wang Yu pondered this and didn't find it too strange.

After all, it was a corpse-demon beast; with its master's soul and body destroyed, the beast was restricted by the prohibition and couldn't survive alone, which was reasonable.

Moreover, judging from everything seen in the Tong family secret room earlier, this corpse-mouse's ability to become second-rank didn't seem to have been cultivated through normal means, so it was normal for it to have major flaws.

But for such a large corpse-mouse to have dissolved completely while these bat wings remained alone, they didn't seem like ordinary objects!

Wang Yu thought this and grabbed with one hand into the void.

With a "puff," the fleshy red bat wings rose from the black liquid and landed before him.

Wang Yu pointed with one hand, and masses of clear water condensed above, falling down to wash the black liquid covering the wings clean.

He patted his waist storage bag, and a stream of white light sprayed out to collect the wings.

Then he turned to leave, but after a glance, he couldn't help but walk toward another place.

There was a straight, deep trench, the inside of which was extremely smooth, made of flat, gray-white stone.

Even more eerie was that several broken trees beside the trench had also turned gray-white on the side facing the trench.

Wang Yu walked to one of the strange trees, looked at the gray-white branches and leaves, and a trace of solemnity appeared on his face.

After examining it for a good while, he stretched out a finger and flicked a gray-white branch.

With a "bang"—

A layer of the gray-white branch shattered, and many stone flakes fell off, revealing the original appearance of the branches and leaves, though they appeared somewhat withered and shriveled compared to the other side.

At the same time, a sense of numbness spread from his flicking fingertip. ===== CHAPTER 331 =====