Chapter 1052: Chapter 805: The Spiritual World
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The God Chasers was immensely confident in his psychic fluctuations, for even among the upper planes, neither Demon Clan nor the Celestial Clan could resist his psychic attacks despite their substantial spiritual power. In fact, of the dozens of powerful races counted in the entire upper planes, very few could actually cope with the God Chasers. The Crystal Demons counted as one, and so did those Undead from Hell. As for the others, no matter how powerful, they were all, more or less, certainly subject to the influence of the God Chasers and ultimately under his control. Female Demons had never been included in this category. To the God Chasers, these spiritual condensations of deceased girls were not even worth devouring once!
But now, Little Zi was actually competing with him in spiritual power!
Spiritual power has nothing to do with one’s body; it is purely a matter of the spirit. Even Crystal Demons and Undead have merely some resistance to psychic attacks. Never had the God Chasers imagined that a mere Female Demon could actually match him head-to-head!
"Ignorant little girl! Let me devour you!"
The opposing spiritual force suddenly vanished, and the God Chasers unleashed his astonishing devouring power, enveloping all of Little Zi’s spiritual fluctuations like a massive net, dragging them toward himself.
"Dream on!"
In disdain, Little Zi chuckled lightly, and she also unleashed a formidable devouring force, wrapping around the devouring power of the God Chasers instead!
The God Chasers was taken aback. He knew Female Demons could devour spiritual power, but he never imagined there could be a Female Demon who could turn the tables and devour his spiritual power!
Impossible!
The God Chasers roared, his spiritual power surging out crazily. A confrontation at the psychic level is the simplest and most brute force: whoever is stronger wins—with no technique needed!
In such a straightforward contest of strength, as a God Chasers, he had rarely been defeated. Even when facing the Queen of the demon realm, Yavenny’s mentor, he had managed to escape from her grasp. If the Empress of the demon realm could be handled thus, how much more so the two insignificant characters of Long Yi and Little Zi?
However, the crushing domination he had anticipated didn’t occur. Instead, Little Zi’s spiritual force burst forth with even more terrifying power, colliding with his! The glow in the air, initially faint, became gradually brighter, and it was evident that the radiant orb was steadily advancing toward Solis!
Solis himself was in a tough spot, believing his ability to reflect spells using Mirror Image would be enough to trouble Long Yi. He didn’t anticipate that Long Yi would resort to such extreme measures. The continuous explosions were forcing him to retreat, further compressing the space for the showdown between the God Chasers and Little Zi!
"You fool, can’t you even deal with a mere ground-dweller?" the God Chasers berated Solis.
"And aren’t you, a parasite, suppressed by a little Female Demon without the slightest ability to fight back?" Solis shouted back.
And in that moment of distraction, the God Chasers’s spiritual power weakened, and Little Zi’s spiritual force swept over like a celestial canopy. This attack not only left the God Chasers without any resistant power, but Solis was caught up in the wave and instantly became mentally stunned. And the consequences were severe: his Mirror Image reflection shattered almost simultaneously, and the countless magical missiles Long Yi had fired, each with its own properties, struck Solis without reserve. Solis didn’t even get a chance to cry out before he was engulfed by the explosions of the magical missiles. By the time they ceased, Solis had completely lost consciousness.
With the spell gone, the spiritual power also disappeared, and Long Yi and Little Zi approached.
"Did we win?"
Long Yi kicked Solis, who showed no reaction. Clearly, the old Mage’s physical condition was not the best.
"In that case, just kill him off and be done with it."
Long Yi said, lifting his foot high, then brought it down hard!
Just then, Solis, who should have lost consciousness, suddenly rolled agilely out of the way of Long Yi’s foot. At the same time, his eyes snapped open, and the blood-red light enveloped Long Yi completely, and Long Yi, about to attack, suddenly couldn’t move.
Little Zi paused for a moment, then attempted to assault Solis with her psychic power, but she was shocked to discover that both Long Yi and Solis seemed to be gone.
It wasn’t that they had vanished, but rather their bodies were still there, but their spirits had disappeared.
This was a very strange phenomenon.
Even for a spiritual master like Little Zi, this was an unheard-of phenomenon, yet she wasn’t worried. She had fully anticipated this, for it was the God Chasers’s only tactic in the most critical moment.
Spirit Parasitism.
To perform Spirit Parasitism, the God Chasers would create a separate psychic space. Since this psychic space didn’t exist within the current one, to Little Zi’s view, Long Yi and Solis’s spirits had disappeared. But this didn’t mean Little Zi had nothing to do anymore, quite the contrary—she became even busier now.
"Alright, Brother Long, let me see where you are hiding!"
Little Zi laughed, spreading out a vast psychic net.
"Where am I?"
Coming out of his dizziness, Long Yi looked around. The surroundings were in ruins. Buildings were destroyed everywhere, flames burned around him, and explosions occurred sporadically.
Spells of destruction flew over from a great distance, crashing behind him far away, where the two armies were clashing. The creatures involved in the battle were massive and strong, each swing of their fists leaving rifts in the space; even a roar could shake the entire area!
And those were just the common soldiers—countless such warriors were fighting, and Long Yi couldn’t make out their factions. They were simply slaughtering each other.
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The air was rife with an odd scent, a mixture of the smell of blood and the fragrance of flowers.
Long Yi lifted his head, and the sky was mostly shrouded in dark clouds, except for the center where a gentle force was pushing the clouds apart, allowing light to spill through continuously.
"Hey! What are you spacing out for, rookie!"
A burly middle-aged man slapped Long Yi on the shoulder.
"Rookie?" Long Yi was startled, then looked down at his hands, memories flooding in: His name was Long Yi, a soldier who had just joined the battle, and he fought for the great Emperor.
"Oh no, I wasn’t spacing out, I was just..." Long Yi tried to explain.
"No need to explain! I was the same my first time on the battlefield! But once you’ve personally slaughtered a few enemies, you’ll get used to it, hahaha!" the middle-aged man said heartily.
"Yes, Captain Maxwell!" Long Yi immediately, instinctively, gave a military salute.
"Alright, stop looking and listen up, our mission is to take out the enemy’s support fire. There’s a Strategic Spell Generator over there, and if we take out that machine, we can completely end the battle here—maybe even get home in time for the Winter Moon Festival!" Maxwell said.
"Just the two of us?" Long Yi asked.
"Of course not." Maxwell pointed ahead, "The brothers are all waiting for you up front. We were just hit by a strategic spell barrage, did it knock you silly?"
Long Yi shook his head; his mind was still a bit foggy, and he instinctively felt that something was off, but he couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong.
"Don’t overthink it! Hurry up and follow!" Maxwell clapped Long Yi on the shoulder forcefully, interrupting his train of thought.
At that moment, above the dark clouds, in the midst of the soft light, Solis and the God Chasers’ spirits had transformed into two orbs of light, hiding here. They watched from on high, everything below them, as the space within a radius of nearly ten thousand meters centered on Long Yi, changed continuously with Long Yi’s movement. As Long Yi approached, new ruins were constantly generated, and as he moved away, the original ruins disappeared.
"Long Yi’s mental strength is shockingly powerful. When I occupied your spiritual world, you barely managed to generate a mere thousand-meter world, yet the world Long Yi created is almost ten thousand meters!" the God Chaser’s spirit said.
"Hmph, what does that matter? Aren’t you still trapped here without a clue?" Solis said disdainfully.
"Matter? The point is, once I’ve taken over Long Yi’s spiritual world, I will regain the peak strength of my hay days! Heck, I might even become stronger than before!" the God Chaser said.
"I’m thrilled you’re finally getting lost!" Solis said viciously.
"Yes, I’m also thrilled."
While they were talking, the God Chaser’s orb of light suddenly swallowed up Solis’s orb!
"Parasite! What are you doing!" Solis’s spirit orb struggled desperately to break free, but strange runes appeared around the God Chaser’s spirit orb, eroding Solis’s spirit incessantly!
"What am I doing? Of course, I am devouring your spirit! Hahaha! I was still wondering how I could consume you, and you actually entered my spiritual world voluntarily! This place belongs to me, my world, my space, my rules! Everything that happens here is under my control!"
"No! You can’t devour me! You despicable worm! I will kill you, crush your consciousness!"
Solis struggled and cursed, but in the end, he could not escape being devoured.
After devouring Solis’s consciousness, the God Chaser’s mental strength surged immediately! He hardly took the event to heart as he was focused on controlling his avatar: Maxwell.
Occupying someone’s spiritual world was not as easy as one might think.
A person may be controlled, deceived, hypnotized, but being possessed is quite another matter.
People instinctively feel something amiss in their spiritual world, and everyone has absolute control over their own spirit. So how does one occupy another’s spiritual world? There is only one way, by having them give up their control voluntarily.
This was exactly what the God Chaser was doing.
The God Chaser would first create a war-torn, ruin-filled space in his own spiritual world, and then he would draw Long Yi into it. Once inside, Long Yi would instinctively fill in the gaps with his imagination, and whatever Long Yi imagined would become reality here.
The appearance of Maxwell, the battling forces on the battlefield, the strategic spell bombardments at a distance—all were the creations of Long Yi.
Everything here was created by Long Yi.
The God Chaser wouldn’t create a world, because no matter how carefully he crafted it, there would always be flaws. But letting Long Yi do it was different. A world one creates themselves will naturally be accepted instinctively, no matter how unreasonable it may seem.
By doing this, the God Chaser was leading Long Yi little by little to hand over control of this place. It might not be quick, but the God Chaser was patient. This wasn’t his first rodeo, and he had always been successful. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
