Free Web NovelChapter 200: Chapter 197: Life and Death in an Instant
’This is bad!’
This aura...
It’s a Demon Cultivator!
And a Demon Cultivator at the Soul Emergence Realm, no less!
’What’s going on?’
’Why is a great demon of the Soul Emergence Realm here?!’
’Weren’t all the Soul Emergence experts supposed to be at the Wu Family Collection, fighting over something?’
He felt the negative aura rush directly into his mind, and from an unknown distance, he could faintly hear the wails of countless resentful souls.
Nangong City was utterly horrified.
At the same time,
deep within the chasm below, in a cavern exposed by the fissure—the main den of the black-robed Demon Cultivators—
for some unknown reason,
the cavern was suddenly and rapidly flooded with a thick black mist.
Immediately after, a black figure shot out like a bolt of lightning, soaring into the sky.
As if using Instant Teleportation,
with a few flickers,
a series of afterimages appeared along the cliff’s edge.
In the span of a breath, he had leaped thousands of feet and arrived at the top.
"Hm?"
The moment he arrived,
he sensed the presence of Shen Changchuan and Nangong City, two living cultivators at the Qi Introduction Ninth Layer.
He also noticed the corpse of the black-robed man not far away, which had been sliced in two.
A red glint flashed in his eyes.
"Hmph! Courting death!"
The man was also clad in a black robe that concealed his hands and feet.
But unlike the previous black-robed men, his was adorned with crimson patterns like blood vessels, emitting a powerful pressure that seemed to crush any thought of resistance.
Following the Blood-Patterned Black-Robed Man’s cold snort,
he casually struck out with his palm.
From dozens of feet away, he struck toward Nangong City and Shen Changchuan!
Blood-red Magical Power, condensed as hard as steel, erupted from his palm. It expanded rapidly in mid-air, gathering the clouds and wind, and in the span of a breath, formed a massive blood-red hand dozens of feet wide. It generated a mighty torrent as it crashed down upon the two of them!
Beneath this palm,
a pressure that could topple mountains and overturn seas crushed down on them!
The terrifying power was so oppressive,
it felt like a small mountain pressing down on their shoulders, rendering them completely immobile. They could only watch as the massive, sky-blotting hand descended upon them!
’It’s over!’
In that instant,
Nangong City’s mind went blank, unable to think.
His entire consciousness plummeted into an endless Dark Abyss!
In that instant,
Nangong City felt as if his Magical Power had been drained,
leaving him without any strength.
An expert of the Soul Emergence Realm possessed an irresistibly crushing power over a Cultivator of the Qi Introduction Realm!
It was like an adult to a three-year-old child.
Faced with the opponent’s casual strike,
and its immense power, every technique Nangong City had ever cultivated flashed through his mind. But even if he used them all at once,
they would be like eggs smashing against a stone before this palm, shattering on impact!
He couldn’t resist it.
He couldn’t dodge it!
He could only watch helplessly as death descended upon him!
Nangong City felt this immense, irresistible pressure.
Shen Changchuan, at his side, felt it too!
In fact,
his perception of it was even clearer than Nangong City’s!
As a Transmigrator, perhaps due to the mysterious circumstances of his transmigration, his Divine Soul was inherently stronger than that of an ordinary Cultivator.
Later, with the help of the Cyan Essence Water Grass and the Cyan Essence Purifying Spirit Pill, he had managed to unlock the ability of Divine Sense Inner Vision even before reaching the Qi Introduction Seventh Layer.
After that,
he also obtained the Soul-Attracting Bell and the Nine Elements Divine Extraction Technique.
By practicing the Nine Elements Divine Extraction Technique and using the Soul-Attracting Bell to train his Divine Sense, his Power of the Divine Soul had surged dramatically. After being refined by the Earth Vein Spiritual Milk and advancing to the Qi Introduction Ninth Layer Realm, it had grown so strong that it was faintly approaching the level of the Soul Emergence Realm!
With a powerful Divine Soul,
his perception was also much sharper.
Because of this,
Shen Changchuan could clearly perceive the changes in how his opponent manipulated the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power when he attacked!
And this,
also caused him to bear far greater pressure than Nangong City!
This was the closest Shen Changchuan had come to death since his transmigration.
He felt as if he had plunged into an endless darkness, where the blood-red character for "death" filled every inch of space, relentlessly pressing in on him from all sides.
The unspeakably immense pressure felt as if it would crush his Divine Soul to dust!
His consciousness was about to fall into a bottomless abyss of despair!
However,
suddenly,
CRACK...
A crisp cracking sound, as if something had shattered, spread from the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.
Abruptly,
Shen Changchuan felt as if a cool spring had suddenly burst forth in his mind, pouring into his Divine Soul which had been under immense pressure and was on the verge of splitting from pain.
In that instant, his consciousness became incomparably clear!
At the same time,
as that cool sensation washed over him,
Shen Changchuan felt as if the entire world before him—time and space itself—had slowed by a hundredfold!
The immense blood-red hand that blotted out the sky, which should have descended in the next moment, slowed down rapidly.
Every single pattern of Magical Power on it, every current of air it stirred up, became clearly visible to Shen Changchuan’s eyes!
In a flash,
countless sparks of inspiration flashed through his mind...
’I can fight!’
In an instant,
as if struck by sudden enlightenment, all the Magical Power in his body was mobilized in a flash, converging into powerful Magic that made even the void tremble!
At this moment,
Shen Changchuan seemed to have crossed a threshold. Powerful Magic that should have required Casting Preparation was now completely mastered thanks to the change in his Divine Soul, allowing him to reach the Instantaneous Realm!
And so,
Green Wood Sword Light·Triple!!!
In an instant,
all the Magical Power in Shen Changchuan’s body transformed into the Magic, Green Wood Sword Light·Triple!
SHIIING!
Between heaven and earth,
a clear chime seemed to echo, and the surrounding flora appeared to resonate in response.
The next moment,
space seemed to crack open as a dazzling green light burst forth, flooding everything.
Three beams of green sword light, condensed like physical sword edges, spewed forth a sharp and intimidating aura. They let out a piercing whistle that tore through the air, carrying a power that seemed capable of slicing through space itself as they blasted toward the giant blood-red palm above!
BOOOOM!!!
In that instant,
an earth-shattering explosion erupted.
Terrifying Magical Power detonated in an instant. A torrent of energy scattered across the sky, sweeping out in all directions like a flood!
The ground trembled violently as a web of cracks spread out one after another.
An area dozens of feet across was turned into a desolate wasteland.
Nangong City, on the other side,
was sent flying by the impact of the torrent!
Shen Changchuan’s face turned pale.
Under the overwhelming force of the impact, his figure staggered back a dozen steps.
A trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
But at the same time,
high in the sky above,
the blood-red hand of Magical Power that had been pressing down had completely vanished!
At this moment,
Shen Changchuan, at the Qi Introduction Ninth Layer Early Stage,
had successfully blocked an attack from a Soul Emergence Realm expert!
