"Sword... Self...?"
"This is the trump card you relied on?"
Hua Changdeng looked down from above. His eyes were crimson as though dripping blood, and amid the madness on his face lurked a trace of mockery.
He had hesitated for so long.
He had deployed the Rootless Ghost Domain and Heaven-Liberated Ghost Hunter in advance.
He had regarded Ba Zunan as his greatest opponent, ignoring every other enemy within and beyond the Holy Spirit Continent for that very reason.
Yet after waiting all this time...
Ba Zunan was telling him that the trump card he had hidden until the end was the very man Hua Changdeng had defeated thirty years ago? "Ahahahaha!"
Hua Changdeng did not even know whether he was amused or enraged by his own stupidity.
Once Dead-Spirit Reincarnation was activated, he had little time left. Every breath was burning away his very being.
Even with the Rootless Ghost Domain laid out, the power drawn from the Three Talents of heaven, earth, and man was insufficient to counter the life force constantly draining away.
And the combat strength he had squeezed out by pushing himself to such extremes—strength enough to fight the Devil Ancestor, Medicine Ancestor, and Sui Yin—was to be wasted on a defeated foe from the past? Then how was he supposed to gain enlightenment from Ba Zunan's path, devour his Sword Self to achieve Two-in-One, and halt the backlash of Dead-Spirit Reincarnation? He would die!
But not because he had been killed.
Rather, because Ba Zunan was too weak to give him sufficient pressure?
"Damn it!!!"
With a long howl, Hua Changdeng's entire body exploded into soul energy and merged into heaven and earth.
Across the Five Domains, hazy dark-cyan mist seeped into existence from the void. Everyone's hearts trembled, and panic showed on their