txolops Chapter 397 Luo Ming Appears
Chapter 397 Luo Ming Appears
When Shattered Soul Master saw that Blazing Sun Venerable was feigning an attack and pretending to join forces, but in reality suddenly activated the "Dry Light Mirror," the golden beam of light unexpectedly immobilized the Blazing Sun Bird. He was first stunned, and then a complex emotion welled up in his heart. He couldn't help but secretly admire the old ghost's cunning.
"This old thing is indeed not someone to be trifled with!" Shattered Soul True Man's eyes flashed.
But he could never stand by and watch as Venerable Lieyang so easily regained control of this transformed demonic bird. This was a top-tier fire-attribute spirit bird, level eight, that had awakened the "Golden Crow True Fire"! It was extremely rare in the entire Tiannan cultivation world, and its value was immeasurable!
Even if they can't capture him alive, getting a share of his materials, such as the newly awakened, infinitely potential "Golden Crow True Fire" within his body, or his demon core, essence, feathers, etc., would be an enormous gain!
While weighing the pros and cons in his mind was only a matter of a moment, the Soul Shatterer's hands moved swiftly. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and he pointed forward with his right hand!
"Whoosh!"
A short blade, only a foot long and as black as ink, shot out from his sleeve. It was so fast that it left only a faint black line in the air, its target being the Qian Guang Mirror high in the sky!
With his extensive combat experience, Shattered Soul True Person immediately saw the key point! Although the "Dry Light Mirror" is powerful and can stabilize a person's soul, once it is fully activated and locks onto a target, the mirror itself becomes difficult to move flexibly, making its defense relatively weak!
The Venerable Lieyang was extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do.
At this moment, most of his mental energy was connected to the "Qian Guang Mirror" to suppress the raging Sun Bird's frenzied resistance. He could only grit his teeth, quickly form a hand seal with his left hand, and slap his waist.
"Buzz!"
A delicate little shield, no bigger than a palm, spun and flew out, growing larger as it faced the wind, instantly transforming into a thick shield several feet in diameter, shimmering with golden light, blocking the "Dry Light Mirror" between the incoming "Soul-Devouring Short Blade"!
"clang--!!"
The ear-piercing sound of metal clashing against metal resounded through the sky!
Master Lieyang's body trembled slightly, and his face paled even more. He dared not be negligent, and with his right hand forming a sword-like gesture, he pointed sharply at the head of the Lieyang Bird, which was frozen in the golden light and struggling desperately!
"go!"
A drop of "life essence blood," only the size of a grain of rice but dark golden in color and exuding the aura of its own life source, was forced out from his fingertip, transforming into a golden thread that ignored spatial distance and shot towards the front of the Fiery Sun Bird's brow, about to seep into its sea of consciousness!
As long as this drop of "life essence blood" containing his soul imprint is successfully injected into the core of the Fiery Sun Bird's soul, even if it cannot immediately make the bird recognize its master again and obey its commands, it can temporarily influence and control some of its actions through secret methods!
On the other side, when Shattered Soul Master saw that the "Soul-Devouring Short Blade" was blocked by the golden shield and failed to achieve its goal in one strike, the fierce look in his eyes intensified.
With a flicker of his body, he stopped attacking from a distance and instead transformed into a blurry ghostly figure, instantly traversing hundreds of feet and appearing not far behind the Fiery Sun Bird that was frozen in the golden light!
"Old ghost of the blazing sun, you wish!" Shattered Soul True Man chuckled hoarsely, his withered right hand suddenly grabbing at the blazing sun bird shrouded in golden light in front of him!
"call--!"
A ghostly claw, dozens of feet in size, formed entirely from dense, almost tangible black ghostly energy, with a hideous ghostly face floating in its palm, appeared out of thin air and fiercely grabbed at the relatively vulnerable chest and abdomen of the blazing sun bird amidst the golden light!
Imprisoned by the golden light of the "Dry Light Mirror," the Fiery Sun Bird's demonic power was sluggish and its body could hardly move. It watched helplessly as a drop of essence blood, which exuded an aura that it instinctively loathed and feared, approached its brow. It also felt the terrifying ghost claws attacking. Its original shock, anger, resentment, and struggle suddenly turned into utter despair and madness!
"Even if I turn to ashes and my soul is scattered, I will never let you despicable humans succeed again!"
The Fiery Sunbird's sharp eyes instantly turned blood red! A violent and resolute aura, like a dormant volcano, erupted from the deepest part of its imprisoned body!
"Buzz—!!!"
The slightly dim "Golden Crow True Fire" that had been enveloping it suddenly blazed up again. The terrifying high temperature even caused the space around it, which was stabilized by the golden light of the "Dry Light Mirror", to begin to distort violently and ripple with visible waves!
Immediately afterwards, the massive body of the Fiery Sun Bird began to burn from the inside out, like kindling being ignited! Its aura surged wildly at an unbelievable speed!
"Oh no! This beast has gone mad! It wants to burn its very essence and perish together with the beast!" The first to react was Venerable Lieyang! He was all too familiar with the aura and habits of the Lieyang Bird!
His face turned deathly pale in an instant, his eyes filled with horror and heartache! He no longer cared about injecting his "life essence blood"! He desperately urged his divine sense to forcibly recall the drop of essence blood that had reached the Fiery Sun Bird's brow!
At the same time, he retreated rapidly, waving his hands repeatedly to create multiple layers of fire shields in front of him, and tried to control the "Dry Light Mirror" to withdraw the golden light and defend with all his might!
This was the first time that True Immortal Shattered Soul had witnessed a demon beast self-destructing. Hearing the roar of Venerable Blazing Sun and seeing the strange, surging aura on the Blazing Sun Bird, he suddenly realized something was wrong!
However, everything happened too fast!
"boom--!!!!!"
A terrifying, earth-shattering roar, seemingly capable of splitting the heavens and earth, erupted suddenly from the location of the Fiery Sun Bird! It shook the rocks of several mountains below, causing them to tumble and fall! (Latest chapter of [Title Missing] - High-energy plot!)
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying ball of flame, more than a hundred feet in diameter, suddenly expanded and spread out, as if a second sun had risen out of thin air!
The terrifying heat and shockwaves swept wildly in all directions like a tsunami! Wherever they passed, the clouds were torn apart, and the forests below were instantly turned into charcoal, revealing the crimson earth!
At the heart of the self-destruction, the massive body of the Sunbird had vanished, replaced by this all-destroying "sun"!
A few breaths later, the earth-shattering fireball, having lost its subsequent energy support and with the explosive energy rapidly dissipating, finally stopped expanding and began to shrink, dim, and dissipate at a visible speed.
Just as the fireball's light dimmed slightly and its core became faintly visible—
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Two disheveled and exhausted figures, almost simultaneously, forced their way through the still-lingering turbulent flames, staggered out, and hovered in mid-air, panting heavily, their faces showing lingering fear and paleness.
It was none other than the Soul Shatterer and the Blazing Sun Immortal!
At this moment, the Soul Shattered True Man was in the most miserable state. His once magnificent black ghost robe was now tattered and charred in many places, even revealing the inner armor underneath, which was also covered with cracks.
His face was ashen, with dark red bloodstains at the corners of his mouth. The once dense ghostly aura around him was now thin and dim, and his aura fluctuated. Compared to his peak, he probably only had less than 50% of his strength left!
Clearly, in that terrifying self-destruction, although he reacted quickly, retreated fast, and used several life-saving trump cards, he was still directly impacted by the aftershocks of the extremely yang and powerful "Golden Crow True Fire" self-destruction, and was seriously injured.
At this moment, he was extremely annoyed. Not only had he gained no benefits from this operation, but he had also been seriously injured. It was a classic case of trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead. His face was so gloomy that it was almost as if water could drip from it.
Master Lieyang was in slightly better condition, but he was by no means relaxed. After all, he was a Nascent Soul cultivator who practiced top-tier fire-attribute techniques, and his resistance to fire attacks far exceeded that of others. Moreover, his reaction was faster, and he went all out to defend himself just before the self-destruction.
However, he was still shaken so badly that his blood and qi churned and his internal organs were injured. At this moment, his face was also pale, and the "Qianguang Mirror" he was holding was sparsely lit, obviously severely damaged, which made his heart clench with pain.
The two hovered in mid-air, desperately trying to regulate their breathing and suppress their injuries, while looking at the core area of the rapidly dissipating blazing white fireball with a mixture of surprise, uncertainty, frustration, and resentment.
At the core of the fireball, in the void distorted by the explosion and not yet fully calmed, a bright, fist-sized, yet incredibly pure and chilling fire attribute energy and faint level eight demonic aura floated quietly and slowly rotated.
The Soul Shattering Immortal, possessing the strongest divine sense, was the first to notice. His pupils constricted sharply, and he exclaimed in a low voice, "That's... the demon core of the Fiery Sun Bird?! It... it didn't completely self-destruct? It actually preserved the demon core and part of its primordial true fire!"
Master Lieyang also sensed it immediately. He was stunned at first, and then his eyes burst with unbelievable joy and greed!
"A demon core! And the essence of the Golden Crow True Fire! This beast... in the end, couldn't bear to be completely annihilated, and at the last moment, it forcibly collected some of the demon core's essence and the true fire's essence, attempting to escape?"
At this moment, this demon core, which contained most of the essence of the level eight Fiery Sun Bird and the origin of the "Golden Crow True Fire," seemed to realize its own dangerous situation. It paused slightly, then trembled violently, transforming into a streak of crimson-gold light, and was about to fly away from Shattered Soul True Person and Fiery Sun Venerable at high speed! Its speed was not slow at all!
"Where do you think you're going!" Shattered Soul True Man and Blazing Sun Venerable shouted almost simultaneously, their eyes gleaming with greed. They didn't care about recovering from their injuries and forcefully raised their magic power to intercept and seize this unexpectedly appearing "trophy" that was even more valuable!
However, just as the crimson-gold demon core had flown several dozen feet away, and before the attacks of True Immortal Shattered Soul and Venerable Blazing Sun could be launched—
"call out--!"
An extremely fine, yet lightning-fast and almost silent crimson "needle" shot out without warning from a scorched, still-smoking crack in the ground below. With a speed exceeding the reaction limit of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it struck the surface of the crimson-gold demon core that was about to fly away with perfect accuracy!
The crimson-gold flames flowing across the surface of the demon core suddenly stopped, and its speed of flight also dropped by 70-80%, as if it had sunk into an invisible swamp!
"What?!" "Who?!"
Both Shattered Soul True Man and Blazing Sun Venerable were shocked and shouted, frantically scanning the direction from which the "needle" had been shot!
However, before they could see the attacker clearly, a slightly blurry but burly figure with an indistinct face appeared out of thin air from the scorched earth below, like a ghost! The figure appeared without any warning, as if it had always been standing there, blending into the scorched earth.
As soon as the figure appeared, without hesitation, he casually stretched out his right hand, and a "magic hand" made entirely of condensed magic power, light gold in color and only about ten feet in size, condensed out of thin air and gently scooped up the crimson-gold demon core that was entangled in gray-black mist and whose speed had been greatly reduced!
"puff."
With a soft sound, the crimson-gold demon core, powerless to resist, was firmly grasped in the palm of that "magical hand," its light completely concealed, and it ceased its struggle.