Space Versus Soul

Great Immortal Yang Mei transformed from a Hollow Willow Tree in the Primordial Era. His innate divine abilities were incredibly powerful, simply put, he could collect all the magical treasures in the world. No matter how powerful your treasure was, it couldn't escape. It was a hundred times more effective than Grand Supreme Elder Lao's Diamond Bangle.

Great Immortal Yang Mei simply revealed his true form, a large, swaying willow tree in the sky. The great willow tree emitted specks of starlight, its branches gently curling, moving without wind. Various profound rules flowed.

The willow tree shook, emitting a peculiar suction force that targeted only magical treasures. This suction force easily plucked away the defensive supreme treasure that Xuanhuang prided himself on.

Pangu and Xuanhuang looked at each other, unable to believe it. Xuanhuang repeatedly cast restrictions, but they couldn't stop it. The starlight emitted by the willow branches shifted, blocking all the restrictions outside.

Dao Lord Lu Ya bowed and said, "Brother Dao has saved me again. I noticed something was wrong with your expression just now, what happened?"

Great Immortal Yang Mei said calmly, "That lion demon came to cause trouble again, even using the power of curses."

Dao Lord Lu Ya was shocked and said, "Doesn't he not have a physical body? Could it be..."

Great Immortal Yang Mei said, "There's no need to worry. It hasn't found its companion spirit treasure, nor has it obtained its body. It's cobbled together some remnant parts from who knows where. The curse power isn't very strong either." Although he said this, he still felt a lingering fear and couldn't help but recall the first time he met that Nine-Headed Savage Lion.

In the early days of the Chaos world, Great Immortal Yang Mei was seeking an opportunity to become a saint when he encountered Dao Lord Lu Ya fighting with the Nine-Headed Savage Lion. Although Dao Lord Lu Ya's speed was the fastest in the world, he was suppressed by a savage lion that couldn't transform. The savage lion had a White Jade Bone Bell on its head. The bell's chime was melodious but contained infinite soul power. Fortunately, the savage lion was clueless and didn't know how to refine the treasure, only knowing how to ring the bell to confuse enemies and make them lose the will to fight.

Great Immortal Yang Mei also felt a moment of daze under the bell's chime and quickly used his "Universe in a Sleeve" to seize the White Jade Bone Bell from the savage lion's head.

Seeing his magical treasure stolen and his soul abilities ineffective, the Nine-Headed Savage Lion immediately felt a desire to retreat and instinctively wanted to flee.

Dao Lord Lu Ya said weakly, "Fellow Daoist, you cannot let it escape. When this beast's soul laws reach great accomplishment, it will be a disaster for us beings of the Primordial Era."

Great Immortal Yang Mei pondered for a moment and nodded secretly. He unleashed endless restrictions with his hands, binding the Nine-Headed Savage Lion, and then collected it into the Chaos Bead.

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion struggled and retreated against the Chaos Bead's suction, letting out whimpering sounds.

"Why aren't you afraid of my soul abilities, whimper?" A divine sense echoed in Great Immortal Yang Mei's mind.

Great Immortal Yang Mei chuckled, "Don't you know about the 'heart hiding the divine'? My true form is a Hollow Willow Tree. Without a heart, there is no Primordial Spirit. How can your abilities affect my soul if there is no divine essence?"

"Why did you capture me? Eating people isn't my fault. The law of the jungle is the rule of this world."

Great Immortal Yang Mei paused, muttering to himself, "Survival of the fittest, natural selection. The law of the jungle has no right or wrong." He said to the Nine-Headed Savage Lion, "What I did was also not wrong."

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion was still collected into the Chaos Bead, leaving behind only its unwilling roars echoing in the Chaos.

Tens of millions of years passed, and the Nine-Headed Savage Lion was almost crushed to pieces by Great Immortal Yang Mei once again. How could the world be so unfair to him?

He had thought he could use the power of curses to kill Great Immortal Yang Mei and relieve the suffering of his imprisonment for so many years. He never expected to be almost killed by him again. He was unwilling!

This world belonged to him, and his body had been refined by him. How could he get revenge? He was unwilling!

He didn't even know where Great Immortal Yang Mei had hidden his White Jade Bone Bell.

He had searched for tens of thousands of years, but he couldn't find it.

Alas, he had arrived at this canyon again and seen this ancient palace again.

No, if anything, this ancient palace was the most peculiar place in this world. If it weren't for this ancient palace, he wouldn't have been able to cultivate a Ghost Body. Without this ancient palace, he would have long ago been reduced to dust by the World-Ending Divine Lightning of the Myriad Stars Grinding Mill.

This ancient palace had a problem.

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion grew in the wind, spitting Ghost Fire to refine the ancient palace.

" Whimper, haha, I should have realized this long ago, I should have realized this long ago."

" Whimper, how could I be so stupid? The treasure was right beside me, and I didn't even know."

"Old man Yang Mei, aren't you very powerful? It turns out you also don't dare to refine my White Jade Bone Bell for your own use. Without soul laws, you cannot control it and will only become its puppet."

"I sense the aura of that brat Lu Ya. I can't defeat you, Yang Mei, but I can still scheme against Lu Ya. Haha, you just wait."

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion cast a spell, and the White Jade Bone Bell shook. A pale white light shone, revealing grotesque faces. There were demons spitting flames, Yakshas flying, skeletons holding their heads, and so on.

Illusory figures appeared all over the sky, forming an altar three feet high and a hundred feet wide, with a Nine Palaces layout outside and an Eight Trigrams arrangement inside.

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion silently chanted, "Summon." The altar emitted waves of clear light, releasing a vast aura. In the center, a three-inch Yin Person condensed, vaguely resembling Dao Lord Lu Ya.

He bowed deeply to the three-inch Yin Person on the platform.

"First bow: Soul flies."

At this moment, Dao Lord Lu Ya felt a moment of daze, his expression became dull, and his actions were restless.

Great Immortal Yang Mei was shocked and exclaimed, "Not good!" He quickly cast a spell, using the Universe in a Sleeve technique to place Dao Lord Lu Ya in another space to isolate this peculiar power.

Seeing that he had captured three souls of Dao Lord Lu Ya, the Nine-Headed Savage Lion was overjoyed. This curse technique was so effective; he could kill anyone from thousands of miles away. It was a pity he couldn't kill that damned rotten wood in one go.

"Second bow: Spirit scatters."

The second bow was ineffective. The curse power seemed to be blocked by something and lingered beside the three-inch Yin Person, unable to dissipate for a long time.

What's going on? Why is it not working? Not good, old man Yang Mei has noticed. He must have used his spatial abilities to isolate Lu Ya. I hate him! Why is there someone like him, opposing me at every turn?

Never mind him, I'll deal with Lu Ya's three souls first.

"Third bow: Life ends."

A golden bow and a golden arrow appeared out of thin air, drawing the bow and nocking the arrow. With a swish, it shot towards the three-inch Yin Person!

"How dare you!" A large sleeve capable of enveloping the universe swept towards the three-inch Yin Person. Great Immortal Yang Mei also cast a divine ability to devour the golden bow.

Great Immortal Yang Mei's large sleeve was blocked by the ripples generated by the altar, but the golden bow was also deflected by a spatial rift. The golden arrow grazed the three-inch Yin Person and shot past, causing the small figure to shatter.

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion said, "Haha, too late." He shrunk himself and hid into the White Jade Bone Bell, merging with it.

"What can you do to me, Heh heh."

Great Immortal Yang Mei took back the remnant soul of Dao Lord Lu Ya. One soul had completely dissipated, and another was incomplete.

"Good, good. The Dao Lord was right before. If you are not eliminated, we Chaos beings will never have a moment's peace. I didn't refine the White Jade Bone Bell back then because I was afraid of incurring too much karma. Today, I will surely scatter your soul to the winds."

"You dare try to refine it? You think you have the ability to control it. Only I can in this world. Haha."

"If I can't refine it, I can destroy it and suppress your soul in the dimensional space for eternity, subjecting you to the daily punishment of the Blade of Space."

"Try it. You're cheating, woo woo..." The Nine-Headed Savage Lion was swallowed by a spatial rift. The spatial rift tore at the defensive White Jade Bone Bell, its chimes sometimes clear, sometimes melodious, emitting white light to resist this tearing force.

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion forcefully activated its White Jade Bone Bell. The ripples of the bell's chimes spread out, shattering the spatial rift that confined it.

"Slash!"

The spatial rift seemed to come alive, wriggling rapidly. White lines, each containing the power of cleaving and decomposition, emerged from the space and shot towards the White Jade Bone Bell.

The great bell also sensed this destructive aura, shaking left and right, partly to dodge the countless fine lines and partly to resonate the Great Dao rules within.

The white lines ignored the defensive ripples of the White Jade Bone Bell and directly struck the surface of the bone bell. Immediately, bone powder flew everywhere. This drove the Nine-Headed Savage Lion mad, never expecting that Great Immortal Yang Mei was naturally its nemesis.

"I won't fight anymore. I admit defeat, I admit defeat, alright?"

Great Immortal Yang Mei said calmly, "It's too late."

The Nine-Headed Savage Lion gritted its teeth, "Then I'll risk it all. Don't you regret it." The Nine-Headed Savage Lion dispersed its entire essence, willing to become the spirit of the White Jade Bone Bell, imprinting the Great Dao onto the rules within the bone bell and activating it.

The White Jade Bone Bell instantly emanated a vast Great Dao aura, the might of the Great Dao.

Great Immortal Yang Mei said calmly, "In the Chaos space, I might perish, but in my world, even the Great Dao must follow my rules."

Great Immortal Yang Mei revealed its Primordial Spirit, merging with the world transformed by the Chaos Bead. The world had laws, to be used by him.

"Slash!"

Those fine white lines were instantly infused with vitality, transforming into sharp blades that fiercely struck the White Jade Bone Bell. The greatest function of the White Jade Bone Bell was to affect the souls of others, even directly obliterating the souls of those with weak wills. However, this greatest function was ineffective against Yang Mei.

The slight defense increased by the Great Dao rules could not withstand the Blade of Space, which also mobilized the power of heaven and earth.

"Ooooh, I'm not reconciled! Why did I have to meet this damned nemesis?"

Under the continuous attacks of the Blade of Space, the White Jade Bone Bell was undoubtedly shattered and simultaneously devoured by countless spaces. The black shadow that claimed to be indestructible also vanished somewhere unknown.

Great Immortal Yang Mei gazed at the devastated world, his heart aching. The power of this world had been used twice, and the cracks on the Chaos Bead had increased significantly. It might not withstand a third use.

Furthermore, Dao Lord Lu Ya was still somewhat dazed, alternating between clarity and confusion. He sighed to the heavens.

Who was to blame for all this, and for what purpose?