Seizure

The crimson Fire Snake Dart and the silver-white flashing snake—one condensed from blazing flames, the other wreathed in darting arcs of electricity—both placed considerable psychological pressure on the Crow Totem.

As a totem, its spirituality was constantly warning it that being struck by either one would lead to no good end.

The Crow Totem looked at Yu Chen and drew a deep breath. Under its control, Bald Crow raised his head and let out a shrill, miserable cry. A vast number of black feathers, dark as storm clouds, flew from his body and circled around him, forming a defensive barrier.

After the serpent-shaped flames formed by the Fire Snake Dart burned more than a dozen feathers to ash, they were extinguished by the cold aura carried by the feathers. The Yin Snake Chain fared even worse. Feather after feather, sharp as blades, continuously slashed at the little white snake. Though Yu Chen had refined it and improved its durability, it could not withstand so many attacks.

Fine cracks appeared across the little white snake's body, forcing Yu Chen to recall it.

"You... deserve... to... die..." Seeing this change, how could the Crow Totem not realize it had been deceived? It controlled Bald Crow and let out an enraged voice.

At this moment, there was not a single patch of intact flesh left on Bald Crow's body, yet the Crow Totem showed no concern at all, frantically draining his life.

Yu Chen could see brief flashes of shock, dread, and fear in Bald Crow's eyes, only for them to be replaced by the Crow Totem's gaze the next instant.

That's exactly why I never wanted to keep walking the path of a shaman! Yu Chen sighed inwardly and unleashed one final Snake Shadow Blade at White Wolf, forcing the witch she controlled to retreat once again.

Yu Chen himself strode forward, evading the Crow Totem's attack. A small azure mirror flashed through his hand, causing the Crow Totem to fall into a brief daze. Then he reached out and pressed his hand against Bald Crow's crown, chanting, "The Mysterious Ancestor of Heaven and Earth, root of all qi. Cultivated broadly through countless kalpas, I bear witness to my divine powers. Within and beyond the Three Realms, the Dao alone is supreme..."

The Golden Light Mantra—again, it was the Golden Light Mantra. And this time, Yu Chen showed no mercy, forcibly injecting the power of the Golden Light Mantra directly into Bald Crow's brain through the crown of his head.

"Ahhh..." Amid a shrill scream, Bald Crow collapsed to the ground. Golden flames burst from his crown and spread without cease, eventually turning him into a torch.

Within the golden flames, a shamanic glyph flew out and transformed into a Three-Eyed Blood-Patterned Black Crow, struggling desperately within. Yet no matter what it did, it could not drive away the scorching Golden Light Mantra.

The Crow Totem's fate left both the Snake Totem and Wolf Totem alarmed. But before either could react, Yu Chen stepped forward again and waved at the Wolf Totem. No Snake Shadow Blade light appeared, yet the White Wolf witch crashed to the ground with a bang. The Wolf Totem was greatly shocked. Only after examining her carefully did it discover that, at some unknown point, threads of yin energy had already entwined themselves throughout the witch's body, suppressing its control over her.

Even more terrifyingly, these networks of yin energy did not merely coil through the witch's meridians. They had also entwined the power bestowed by the Wolf Totem, forming strange serpent patterns that suppressed the Wolf Totem's power within the witch's body.

At the sight of this, the Snake Totem was frightened out of its wits and controlled Poison Fang in an attempt to flee.

It was not that it did not wish to leave alone. Rather, the Snake Totem knew perfectly well that it was only an incarnation summoned by Poison Fang through the ritual just now. Within Yu Chen's sanctuary, stripped of the concealment of a physical body, it simply could not contend with him.

And how could Yu Chen, who had already begun drawing in his net, allow the Snake Totem to leave peacefully? The Snake Shadow Banner, which had remained unused ever since the three shamans appeared, flew out. Five streams of turbid qi descended, and the venomous snakes in the distance that had been restraining the three totem pillars of light exploded one after another. Those snakes had long since been guided by Yu Chen into their corresponding positions.

When they exploded now, they became a special blood sacrifice, transforming into hazy blood mist that obscured the totems' influence over the pillars of light. Deprived of the pillars' anchoring, the three totems remaining here were affected as well.

Yu Chen stepped forward and arrived beside Poison Fang, only to see a serpent shadow emerge from Poison Fang's body and lunge fiercely at his brow.

I knew you still had something up your sleeve! Yu Chen looked at the serpent shadow. The windmill-like ornament on his hairpin turned lightly, and invisible blade light swept past. The Snake-Slaying Sword Intent directly severed the serpent shadow.

Then Yu Chen reached out and grabbed, thoroughly absorbing this portion of power separated from the Snake Totem.

Next, Yu Chen went to the Crow Totem's side and used the secret technique for stealing divine power recorded in the Free and Easy Treasure Scroll. Using the Crow Totem's incarnation descended upon Bald Crow as a foundation, he devoured a great deal of the Crow Totem's power.

During this time, the Wolf Totem, likewise suppressed by the Snake Shadow Banner, struggled frantically. By the time Yu Chen came to its side to seize its divine power, White Wolf, serving as its mount, suddenly threw back her head and howled. Dense blood-colored flames emerged over her body, and in a manner nearly akin to sacrificing herself in blood, she helped the Wolf Totem break free of its restraints.

You want to leave? How could I possibly let you?

Watching the Wolf Totem, which had condensed into form through the blood flames born from White Wolf's sacrifice, Yu Chen smiled.

From the moment he noticed the people of the three great tribes coming to cause him trouble, Yu Chen had begun laying out his plan.

Deliberately exposing the characteristics of his sanctuary was the first step, meant to draw out the Wolf Tribe and Crow Tribe's methods of investigation. Cursing Bald Crow afterward was meant to enrage the Crow Totem and make them draw down the totems' power. Then, he used the Snake Shadow Banner to control the snakes and employed a method similar to blood sacrifice, forcing the totem warriors and shamans apart while compelling the shamans to fight on his home ground.

Yu Chen had considered whether they might see through his scheme, but he did not care. From the moment he exposed his sanctuary, the totems had lost the right to choose.

The Crow Totem, Snake Totem, and Wolf Totem were beings whose essence lay somewhere between ancestral spirits and earth deities. Half their power came from the land, and half from worship. They understood perfectly well that once Yu Chen's sanctuary continued to improve, any shamans who came here in the future would only face greater restrictions. The only correct choice was to cut through the mess with a swift blade and settle everything in one stroke.

The one thing Yu Chen had not expected was that the totems would be willing to set fire to the mountain. Yet that very act made the spirituality of the surrounding mountains, rivers, grass, and trees align even more closely with Yu Chen, strengthening his power and greatly reducing the difficulty of defeating the three totems.

In truth, during the battle, Yu Chen had already drawn all three totems into his calculations.

Through the information he had gathered in the past and their initial probing of one another, he had roughly sensed the spiritual essence of the Crow Totem. He inferred that it was temperamental and proficient in curses, so he used the Azure Light Mirror to shake up his own aura, provoking it in the art of curses and guiding it into launching an attack.

At the same time, he had realized that the Wolf Totem's combat awareness far surpassed his own, while the witch's physical body was the strongest on the field—more difficult to deal with than even a totem warrior of the same level. After his brief clash with the White Wolf witch, Yu Chen had never intended to meet her head-on. When the Snake Totem and Wolf Totem joined forces to besiege him, it was not as though Yu Chen had lacked opportunities to severely wound Poison Fang.

But Yu Chen would rather place himself in danger than allow Poison Fang to leave the battlefield. To a great extent, it was because he wanted to use Poison Fang, whose methods he knew inside and out, to restrain the Wolf Totem, whose ways were completely unknown to him.

Now that Yu Chen had taken the Snake Totem and Crow Totem's power, how could he possibly spare the Wolf Totem?

With a swipe of his hand, the Yin Snake Chain and Fire Snake Dart flew out from the side, directly piercing through the Wolf Totem, which had lost the protection of its physical body. Then he stepped forward and absorbed all the blood flames and the totem's power.

Having obtained the power of the three totem incarnations, the Earthly Fiend Talisman Water, which had been constantly changing, seemed to gain some powerful aid. Its transformation gradually stabilized, and threads of red light emerged from the two characters for talisman water.