Chapter 1440: Chapter 151: Prayer to the Gods_4
Thinking of this, Ah Dai couldn’t help but feel a sense of defeat. Why would the evil aura and malevolent aura gather in his brain? If they were elsewhere, he might dare to risk an attempt, but the brain’s structure was so complex and fragile—it was truly challenging. He couldn’t think of a proper solution for half a day and decided to first retreat from the meridians before figuring it out. His entire body was currently enveloped by the evil aura, but he didn’t dare to resist it too much and could only channel his golden energy internally, retreating swiftly outward. Although Ah Dai didn’t dare to confront the evil aura within the meridians, the evil aura had no intention of letting him go. As his body retreated, the evil aura chased him rapidly, continuing to envelop his body.
With a swift motion, Ah Dai darted out of the meridian shrouded by the evil aura. The dark blue evil aura followed him out as well. Ah Dai’s mind stirred, and he deliberately slowed down, allowing the evil aura to follow him, gradually moving closer to the golden ocean of energy. Ah Dai carefully controlled the sacred energy-filled golden meridians, slowly hiding the energy within the meridians as he entered the wide meridian covered by the evil aura. A cold smile crossed his heart; within the meridians in the brain, perhaps he couldn’t deal with it, but in his own domain, it would have no escape. To prevent the evil aura from infiltrating the meridians, he first unleashed the sacred energy contained within them, causing the entire meridian to instantaneously turn a brilliant gold. The evil aura, which followed Ah Dai’s golden body into the meridians, panicked, releasing its hold on Ah Dai’s body and attempting to retreat along the same path. But how could Ah Dai let it retreat so easily? The golden light surged drastically, and Ah Dai’s golden body rapidly expanded. He circled his hands, sealing the meridian’s exit with energy from the golden ocean before charging forward, colliding head-on with the cluster of dark blue evil aura. With no reservations now, under Ah Dai’s full efforts, the evil aura couldn’t resist at all and was completely dissolved by the sacred aura-filled liquid life essence.
After eliminating the evil aura, Ah Dai calmed himself and thought, even if more evil aura lingered in his brain, it must have a finite amount. If he continued using the same method to gradually draw out and eliminate the evil aura, he would be able to completely eradicate both the evil and malevolent aura in the end.
With this realization, Ah Dai regained his confidence. Reducing his body again, he flew out from the meridians, once more using the liquid life essence like a golden ocean as his support. Adjusting his golden body, he fully channeled his energy internally. Instead of returning to the previous meridian, he entered another larger meridian. This meridian contained gray malevolent aura. The malevolent aura was even more ferocious than the evil aura. As soon as Ah Dai entered their territory, the surging gray aura immediately charged toward him, clawing wildly as if attempting to completely swallow him. However, the golden body—the foundation of all liquid life essence—contained such immense energy that the malevolent aura in this meridian posed no real threat. Ah Dai did not retreat immediately but stayed in place, floating within the meridian, waiting until wave after wave of gray aura entirely enveloped him before slowly retreating from the meridian. The malevolent aura was much easier to deal with than the evil aura. Though ferocious, it did not have the same penetrating power as the evil aura. It seemed that nearly half of the malevolent aura in the meridian got drawn out by Ah Dai, and under the influence of his liquid life essence, they were quickly neutralized. Ah Dai was overjoyed, realizing he had found the right strategy. Temporarily abandoning those dark blue meridians, he specifically targeted the gray meridians harboring the malevolent aura. In this way, wave after wave of malevolent aura was continuously drawn out and annihilated by the liquid life essence. After an unknown amount of time, Ah Dai found that the color of the meridians in his brain had significantly recovered, and his consciousness seemed clearer as well. About half of the malevolent aura had already been neutralized. Ah Dai decided to temporarily leave the malevolent aura alone, as completely eradicating it wasn’t easy. He shifted his focus back to the evil aura, repeatedly applying the same method to clear the foreign energies inside his body. As the foreign energy entrenched in the brain meridians diminished, his thoughts became increasingly lucid.
In truth, malevolent aura is fundamentally incomparable to the evil aura produced by the Sword of Hades. Malevolent aura originates from Ah Dai’s own inner malice and the resentment emanating from those he killed, gradually accumulating as the number of deaths increased. By contrast, the evil aura of the Sword of Hades was formed from countless years of absorbing souls combined with its inherent ultimate evil energy; the two types of energy are intrinsically different. If Ah Dai hadn’t imbued all his liquid life essence within himself when using the Netherworld domain, he might have long been completely controlled by the overwhelming evil aura. Yet despite this precaution, the evil and malevolent aura combined still produced massive destructive power, which Ah Dai’s liquid life essence could suppress only barely with the aid of the Sacred Aura brought forth by Mie Feng’s singing of the Prayer Charm. However, these two foreign energies were not easy to deal with. Though they were inferior to liquid life essence in sheer volume, the evil and malevolent aura instinctively understood that the brain was the most critical battleground. Thus, they converged their energies entirely in the brain, resisting any attacks from the liquid life essence with all their might to safeguard their last bastion. During the period when Ah Dai’s consciousness had slumbered, the liquid life essence truly had no means to deal with them. What Ah Dai should be most grateful for was the Sword Sheath sealing the Sword of Hades. Without the sheath’s mysterious and powerful spells containing the sword’s evil aura, the Sword of Hades, fueled by countless absorbed souls, would have long commanded the evil aura to seize control of his body. To have maintained his body in its current state, Ah Dai was indeed extraordinarily fortunate. Despite the Sword of Hades’ soul being of low intelligence, it harbored an instinct to act—a root of all evil aura—that after absorbing an unfathomable number of souls had grown incomprehensibly powerful. Should it seize an opportunity, Ah Dai would never have a chance to turn things around.
As time passed, the evil and malevolent aura in the brain finally began to dissipate, and the brain meridians gradually regained some of their original color. Moreover, several meridians had already been brought under Ah Dai’s control again. Ah Dai was not in a rush. He understood that to completely eradicate the evil aura, he had to solidify the already conquered territories, leaving no room for the enemy to stage a resurgence. Thus, he planned to utilize the liquid life essence within his Dantian to fortify the meridians he had reclaimed, transforming them into golden rivers, gradually recovering lost ground bit by bit. With his decision made, golden waves began to flow into Ah Dai’s largest occupied meridian. Ah Dai carefully fused these waves into the meridian, enhancing its resilience. When the energy was about to fully repair the meridian, Ah Dai suddenly discovered that the meridians in his entire brain seemed to stir. Gray malevolent aura and dark blue evil aura frantically surged toward the meridian he was fortifying. At that moment, Ah Dai realized that these foreign energies must have sensed their impending danger, so they were counterattacking with all their strength. He did not panic, floating upward and landing at the fortified meridian’s end. He expanded his body just enough to block the meridian entrance, holding all the evil and malevolent aura outside. Simultaneously, he reinforced the meridian continuously. The golden ocean in his Dantian concentrated into a massive vortex outside the meridian under his manipulation.
The outcome hinged on this critical moment. Ah Dai’s heart tightened as gushes of energy surged against his body. Even his golden body, so mighty in energy, felt a chilling reduction in vitality under the continuous impacts. Sensing that the golden ocean in his Dantian was now arranged according to his intentions, Ah Dai’s golden body retracted all its energy internally, retreating instantly, flashing out of the fortified meridian like lightning. Awaiting him was the ocean-like surge of the liquid life essence. Under its nourishment, Ah Dai’s golden body immediately returned to normal.
The combined evil and malevolent aura rushed madly into the meridian. Under Ah Dai’s command, the liquid life essence surged forward, enveloping the foreign energies from all sides of the meridian. The final battle commenced. The cyclic liquid life essence formed a bag-like structure, rapidly absorbing the incoming evil and malevolent aura. As they frantically barged in, the liquid life essence trap devoured them swiftly. Under their violent assault, the foreign energies in Ah Dai’s brain coagulated like rivers flowing into an ocean, hurtling toward his devised trap with ferocity. Ah Dai infused all the energy in his golden body into the golden energy pouch, ensuring that no matter how swiftly the evil and malevolent aura rushed in, he could annihilate them entirely.
