Chapter 1274: Let Loose
Han Li's entire consciousness was instantly filled with howling gusts of wind and deafening thunderclaps, and neither Han Li nor the wicked corpse soul uttered a single word as they charged at one another with single-minded determination.
At the same time, the two halves of Han Li's consciousness also erupted into a frenzy as they prepared for an almighty clash.
Han Li and the wicked corpse soul employed very simple attacks, with the former's fist clashing against the latter's palm, and immediately thereafter, the two halves of Han Li's consciousness also collided.
High up in the sky, crimson and golden lightning intertwined, while down below, two turbulent seas clashed with unstoppable might, with both sides itching to devour the other.
Han Li felt as if his soul were about to be torn apart, and he hurriedly channeled his Spirit Refinement Technique with all his might, sending all of his spiritual sense crashing toward the wicked corpse soul.
"Do you still not get it? I am now the dominant force in your consciousness! The more enraged you get, the more powerful I become, so let the flame of your wrath burn brighter!" the wicked corpse soul sneered, then thrust both palms forward to release a burst of tremendous power.
The weight of half of Han Li's consciousness came crashing down upon him, and despite his best efforts to resist, he was still involuntarily pushed back.
As a result, the crimson half of Han Li's consciousness was able to gain the upper hand, and as it began to conquer more and more space, its crimson coloration began to slowly fade, as if it were gradually returning to normal, much to Han Li's alarm.
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This indicated that the wicked corpse soul was gradually taking his place and becoming the legitimate force in this space. Once his half of his consciousness was completely overwhelmed, his spiritual sense would be rejected as a foreign infiltrator.
If that were to happen, the best outcome that he could hope for would be to be banished from his own body, but it was much more likely that he would be devoured and assimilated instead.
"You've lost! Rest assured, I'm going to take your place and elevate you to heights that you'll never be able to touch!" the wicked corpse soul cackled with elation at the sight of its crushing advantage.
Right at this moment, Han Li suddenly sneered, "Have you not heard that it's a bad habit to celebrate too early?"
In the next instant, a gargantuan yin yang symbol suddenly appeared beneath Han Li and the wicked corpse soul, and each of them occupied one half of the symbol.
The wicked corpse soul's expression instantly stiffened upon seeing this, and it roared in a frantic voice, "No! How could this be..."
Immediately thereafter, the yin yang symbol began to glow with black and white light, and it also spun around to completely reverse the state of the two halves of Han Li's consciousness.
Han Li let loose a thunderous roar as he thrust both palms downward with all his might, and the dominant half of his consciousness instantly crushed the other half, recombining the two into one.
At the same time, Han Li's eyes sprang open atop the altar on Frostless Island, and blood was flowing out of all of his orifices, while a ball of black shot out of his glabella.
A burst of condensed immortal spiritual power was dragging along behind the ball of black light like a disruptive veil, and in the instant that it flew out of Han Li's body, it abruptly swerved around to try and re-enter through his glabella.
However, right at this moment, a burst of radiant light suddenly erupted out of the yin dot in the yang half of the symbol to suck in the ball of black light, and in the next instant, the ball of black light re-emerged from the yang dot in the yin half of the symbol before vanishing into the Earthly Deity Avatar's glabella without a trace.
The entire altar was silent for close to twenty seconds, following which a guttural roar of boundless fury and indignation rang out.
The Earthly Deity Avatar had reopened its eyes, and they were filled with malicious rage as it threw its hands over its head with a twisted look on its face.
It immediately tried to rise to its feet, only to discover that it was unable to control this body at all, and that only further exacerbated its fury.
Han Li was sitting across from it with his aura fluctuating in an unsteady fashion, and he appeared to be in quite a sorry state, but all eight hundred and forty of his immortal acupoints had been opened, elevating him to the mid-Great Encompassment Stage.
However, the wicked corpse soul had taken part of his immortal spiritual power with it, so he would need time to rest and recuperate before he could stabilize his aura and consolidate his mid-Great Encompassment Stage cultivation base.
"It's going to take you some time and effort to be able to gain control over this body. Don't say I didn't warn you," Han Li said in a calm and composed manner, then closed his eyes to focus on his recuperation.
Only then did the wicked corpse soul notice the chains that were protruding out of its body, and it quickly realized that Han Li was trying to use this body as a cage to trap it.
It was naturally furious to the extreme, but it had no choice but to compose itself and try to refine this body.
As the wicked corpse soul's power began to circulate within the lifeless body, it began to take on rapid changes, and the Earthly Immortal body was rapidly being converted into a normal body of flesh.
Bursts of spiritual power began boring tiny tunnels into the body, forming veins and meridians to connect all of its internal organs.
The body's chest began to slowly rise and fall, and it really was beginning to give rise to renewed vitality.
Even though Han Li's eyes were closed, he was constantly keeping tabs on the wicked corpse soul with his spiritual sense, and he had no choice but to reopen his eyes upon sensing the rapid progress that it was making.
The wicked corpse soul was far more compatible with this body than he had imagined, and this current rate of modification was both alarming and concerning.
Right as he was about to activate the array on the altar to subjugate the wicked corpse soul, it sprang into action first.
All of its baleful qi had vanished without a trace, replaced by waves of immense water law power fluctuations that surged out of its body, while its aura also rapidly swelled.
Crap!
The golden light barrier overhead was especially potent in subjugating baleful qi, and it had been designed to trap the wicked corpse soul, but it seemed to have realized this and completely restrained all of its baleful qi.
A resounding boom rang out as an overpowering wave of blue light erupted out of the wicked corpse soul's body, scattering all of the surrounding chains.
Immediately thereafter, it rose up into the sky, propelled by a blue water dragon, and crashed straight into the golden light barrier up above.
A dull thud rang out, and the golden light barrier remained intact, while the water dragon erupted into a vast volume of water.
"Get back here!" Han Li roared as he made a grab for the wicked corpse soul's ankle, only for it to disintegrate into water amid a flash of blue light.
As a result, Han Li grabbed onto nothing but a fistful of water, and before he had a chance to do anything else, a resounding boom rang out up above as the wicked corpse soul burst through the golden light barrier, then fled the scene without any hesitation.
Right at this moment, a dazzling, golden, seven-story pagoda appeared out of thin air before descending rapidly upon the wicked corpse soul, while Han Li closed in on it from down below.
However, before he was able to reach it, another deafening boom rang out up above, and a massive hole was blown into the top of the pagoda.
A vast expanse of black light was gushing out of the hole, and a broken piece of a black wheel could be seen within it.
The wicked corpse soul had detonated its Heavy Water True Axis in order to break out of the Treasured Pagoda Demon Subduing Array!
"I was too careless today, but I'll be back to exact my revenge!"
A resentful roar rang out in the sky, following which a streak of black light came plunging down into the sea, raising an enormous wave in the process.
A grim look appeared on Han Li's face as he hurriedly set off in pursuit.
Compared with the risks of failing to consolidate his cultivation base in a timely fashion, it was a far greater risk to allow his wicked corpse soul to run free.
Hence, he had to capture it at all costs.
All of this had unfolded in the blink of an eye, and Jin Tong and Weeping Soul still had no clue what had just happened, but they hurriedly set off after Han Li, nonetheless.
In the blink of an eye, Han Li had already flown several hundred feet, but the wicked corpse soul was nowhere to be seen, so he could only pause for the moment and channel his Spirit Refinement Technique to aid him in his search.
"What happened, Uncle?" Jin Tong hurriedly asked.
"My Earth Deity Avatar has been corroded by the power of faith of countless people, and that power of faith is imbued with all types of malicious fixations like vengeance and bloodlust. Hence, its body is extremely compatible with the wicked corpse soul, and it was able to seize control of the body far faster than I expected, allowing it to catch me off guard and get away.
“It's now fled into the sea, and in my current state, I'm unable to fully channel my Spirit Refinement Technique, so I can't detect where it is right now," Han Li explained with a grim expression.
Right at this moment, Weeping Soul flew onto the scene, and she had one finger pressed against her own glabella while pointing in a certain direction with her other hand as she yelled, "It's in that direction, and it's moving very quickly! Should we..."
"We have to go after it!" Han Li declared as he immediately set off in the direction that Weeping Soul was pointing in.