The mountains and stones shattered, and the earth trembled.
The colossal roar completely buried the once-elegant little courtyard. Main Soul Bloodbeard had merged a full four hundred ferocious ghosts into one, transforming into a monstrous ghost that had long since surpassed the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
Bloodbeard hammered down punch after punch at the place where the demonic young man had stood. With every blow came a sinister ghostly aura, while a fierce, hidden Baleful Intent shot straight into the night sky.
From the very first exchange, Lu Yan had deliberately shown weakness, openly sending out only two hundred ferocious ghosts.
Yet under the cover of the eerie Ghost Mist, Lu Yan had secretly sent a large number of ferocious ghosts into this ghost domain, waiting for the right moment.
Lu Yan's Mid-Stage Qi Refinement cultivation was simply too deceptive. Being able to control a Hundred Soul Banner with Mid-Stage Qi Refinement cultivation was already enough to be called extraordinarily gifted.
And commanding two hundred ferocious ghosts was already considered quite impressive for a Hundred Soul Banner.
No one would have imagined that the Hundred Soul Banner controlled by a mere Mid-Stage Qi Refinement cultivator would actually contain eight hundred ferocious ghosts, or that its Main Soul could even merge so many ferocious ghosts into one.
This was the crucial trump card Lu Yan had hidden away, and the moment it erupted, it produced an astonishing effect.
Under the successive bombardments of the Bloodbeard giant ghost, the Red Lotus Protection Spell hastily cast by the demonic young man had already shattered. Even a High-Grade Magic Tool shaped like an umbrella had been corroded by the Ghost Mist until it completely lost its spiritual nature.
The moment each spirit talisman activated, it was shattered by the Bloodbeard giant ghost. Under this string of attacks, the demonic young man could not launch any effective counterattack at all.
"Damn you! You really deserve to die!"
The demonic young man's eyes were bloodshot, and the arrogance he had displayed before, as though everything lay within his grasp, was gone.
With an enraged roar, the blood-colored robe on the demonic young man's body billowed. He actually gave up using spells to resist.
Boom!
The Bloodbeard giant ghost's fist came down without mercy. Blood-colored lotuses bloomed across the demonic young man's robe, and the seemingly delicate petals actually blocked the Bloodbeard giant ghost's strike.
In the next instant, a streak of bloody spiritual light flashed. A strange flying sword shaped like a hooked barb shot out from the Storage Bag on the demonic young man's body, piercing straight toward Lu Yan hundreds of meters away.
"This gigantic ghost can block my attacks, but what can you, a mere Mid-Stage Qi Refinement ant, possibly use to resist?"
The blood-colored sword light arrived in the blink of an eye, but Lu Yan showed not the slightest panic. A massive ghost had already stepped in front of him. It was none other than Lu Yan's first Main Soul Warrior.
Talent Spell Armor Art!
A ferocious ghost flew out from within the Ghost Mist. Cold, black-iron light bloomed across its body as condensed armor gathered and clung to its soul-body, meeting the blood-colored flying sword head-on.
The flying sword pierced through the ferocious ghost in an instant. Its turtle-shell armor shattered, bearing the fatal blow for the ghost and allowing it to cling to life.
A Mid-Stage Qi Refinement ferocious ghost alone could not stop the blood-colored flying sword. The sword light's remaining force did not diminish as it continued toward Lu Yan. Yet in the next instant, more than a hundred ferocious ghosts clad in Ghost Armor Art took the initiative to meet the flying sword.
One ferocious ghost was insignificant. But what about ten, twenty, or even nearly a hundred?
The Ghost Armor Art blocked most of the damage, while the sinister ghostly aura weakened the flying sword's spiritual nature. The ferocious ghosts with shattered soul-bodies recklessly squeezed out their soul power to interfere with the flying sword.
After piercing through forty-one ferocious ghosts in succession, the flying sword finally lost all momentum and fell.
Seeing this, the demonic young man's expression went blank, his face filled with disbelief. Yet what greeted him was another punch from the Bloodbeard giant ghost.
The protective spell engraved on his robe shattered, and vast soul power mixed with sinister ghostly aura completely submerged the demonic young man.
Watching the battlefield from afar, Lu Yan slightly furrowed his brows, wariness rising in his heart.
He was certain that the demonic young man's methods did not end here, because he still possessed the most important Supreme-Grade Spell from the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra," which he had yet to use.
The next second, a blood-colored flame suddenly rose from the crater and ruins created by the Bloodbeard giant ghost. It ignited the giant ghost's palm before rapidly spreading across its entire body.
Supreme-Grade Spell Lotus Karma Fire!
The blood-colored flames almost instantly swallowed the Bloodbeard giant ghost. Then, all the ferocious ghosts let out trembling, shrill roars, and the enormous body collapsed with a thunderous crash.
The demonic young man flew out of the giant crater in a battered state. His Red Lotus robe was already tattered beyond recognition. The successive spells and the Red Lotus Karma Fire had consumed a great deal of his magical power, while the Bloodbeard giant ghost's final strike had wounded his Divine Soul in particular.
Looking at Lu Yan protected by the horde of ghosts, the demonic young man clearly understood that although the Red Lotus Karma Fire countered the Bloodbeard giant ghost, his current condition might not be enough to seize Lu Yan, who was guarded by the ghosts. He could only leave behind a furious threat:
"Next time, I will take your life!"
As his voice fell, a blood-colored lotus platform descended beneath the demonic young man's feet and carried him toward the outside of the ghost domain.
"Don't wait for next time. Stay here this time!"
Layer upon layer of Ghost Mist parted, but a figure had already been waiting there for a long while.
It was a ghost whose soul-body had condensed into physical form. Its body was not strong, yet it carried an indescribably heavy presence. Its cultivation had astonishingly reached the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
Looking at the demonic young man attempting to break out of the ghost domain, this ghost slowly extended its right hand.
As the palm reached out, the originally normal-sized right hand began to expand rapidly. Ghostly aura coiled around the palm, as though encompassing the patch of heaven and earth through which the demonic young man was fleeing.
No! It was not merely the palm!
Under the demonic young man's stunned gaze, this Foundation Establishment Early Stage ghost, originally less than a zhang tall, expanded more than tenfold, transforming into a colossal giant as large as a small mountain.
This was the third Main Soul refined by Lu Yan, the Corpse King. Its giantification talent had also become the Main Soul's Talent Spell: Giant God!
Lu Yan named it: Giant Spirit!
Giant Spirit's palm turned over. Wherever it descended, it seemed as though the entire ghost domain had been drawn into it. Several talismans on the demonic young man's body exploded in an instant, yet none of it had any effect.
Giant Spirit's hand descended, and the demonic young man's physical body was crushed to pieces.
"Damn it! Damn it!!!"
A white bell flew out from the shattered body. A soul was wrapped around it, and furious roars repeatedly came from the soul's mouth.
The ghost domain was shrinking, and the other ferocious ghosts all surrounded him. The demonic young man had nowhere left to flee.
"If I can't live, don't think you'll get off easily either!"
His Divine Soul was almost instantly drained dry, transforming into a blood-colored curse that easily passed through the protection of the numerous ferocious ghosts and descended upon Lu Yan.
Second-Order Supreme-Grade Spell Soul Curse!
This was a spell of mutual destruction from the Red Lotus Demonic Sect. The caster had to sacrifice half of their own Divine Soul, after which the Karma accumulated throughout their life would transform into a curse and corrode the enemy's Divine Soul. Even a person of higher cultivation would find it difficult to advance under Karma Entanglement.
And for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to curse-kill Lu Yan, who was only at Mid-Stage Qi Refinement, there was even less chance of survival.
Moreover, unless one was protected by a treasure of merit, ordinary methods could not resist a curse-killing technique at all. As for such a precious treasure of merit, how could it possibly appear on a mere...
In the next instant, the divine ability protecting its master activated. The fire of profound-yellow merit illuminated the surroundings in the void, manifesting the phantoms of the gods of the celestial circuit one after another. An imposing, righteous aura instantly suppressed the terrifying netherworld ghost domain.
The Karma Soul Curse that had rushed before Lu Yan was like a moth flying into a flame. Under the light of merit, it vanished into thin air.
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