Chapter 1869: Chapter 1854: The Method to Mobilize the Power of Belief
The Bone-Attached Triple Extreme Poison Dragon Flames are incredibly venomous. The characteristics of soul severance, spirit severance, and body severance make its destructive power extremely formidable.
Even Dao Realm experts suffer heavily in the face of the Poison Dragon Flames.
However, as mentioned by Meng Lixi of the Sand Sea Divine Priest, experts like him can easily drive away the Poison Dragon Flames.
Normally, the Poison Dragon Flames can cause damage to Dao Realm experts, but the damage is extremely limited.
Yet, the attached characteristic changes everything.
The Triple Extreme Poison Dragon Flames utilize impacted spiritual power, flesh, and blood as fuel, igniting fiercely even on Meng Lixi’s yellow sand armor.
The most straightforward and effective method to extinguish these flames is cutting!
At the first moment, if one cuts off the burning area along with the flesh, the damage can be minimized.
But in most cases, neither the previous Three-eyed Demon Clan’s Jii Tongduan nor the current Meng Lixi can make the wisest choice immediately.
Moreover, with Ye Zhen present, how can he give them a chance to rescue themselves?
Boom!
Amidst the rolling thunder, the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder has already crashed onto Meng Lixi’s head.
Meng Lixi, who was howling miserably due to the Bone-Attached Poison Dragon Flames, rolled like a serpent in the Sand Sea, trying to dodge Ye Zhen’s continuous attacks.
But with Wind Flash and Sweep in hand, Ye Zhen could still keep up with Meng Lixi’s swift shadows and accurately unleash the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder on Meng Lixi’s head.
Previously, Ye Zhen’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder couldn’t break Meng Lixi’s Protective Spirit Armor and didn’t harm him.
But now, Meng Lixi’s Protective Spirit Armor, under the control of the Innate Phosphorus Fire Spirit within the Bone-Attached Poison Flame Pearl, was madly devouring and burning everything.
The Innate Phosphorus Fire Spirit is extremely fierce, and especially after merging with the Poison Dragon Pearl, its savagery is even greater.
In just a moment, it melted Meng Lixi’s yellow sand armor and greatly weakened his Protective Spirit Armor power.
The Bone-Attached Poison Dragon Flames even began burning Meng Lixi’s flesh through the weakest parts of the Protective Spirit Armor, such as hands and neck.
In such circumstances, Ye Zhen’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder easily shattered Meng Lixi’s Protective Spirit Armor.
As the purple thunder light flashed wildly on Meng Lixi’s body, his control over his flesh was reduced to its lowest.
Boom!
Amidst the faint sound of dragon roars, a dragon-shaped iron fist knocked Meng Lixi from the sky, dropping him into the Sand Sea.
Seeing this scene, Patan exclaimed in panic, "Don’t!"
In the eyes of the heavily injured Meng Lixi, there was a hint of relief. They are called Sand Sea Divine Priests for a reason.
Once they fall into the Sand Sea, it’s like returning a dragon to the ocean, and their combat power would soar instantly.
Many fake divine skills of the Sand Sea Divine Priest require the help of yellow sand to be cast.
One could say the Sand Sea is their main battlefield, their base camp, which is why Patan exclaimed not to let it happen.
But in the blink of an eye, Patan’s shout could not alert Ye Zhen.
This left a bitter smile on Patan’s lips, seeing the divine envoy wielding great power, battling the Sand Sea Divine Priest, finally gaining a slight upper hand, yet understanding deeply how the Sand Sea enhances the Priest’s combat power.
That power boost isn’t just a minor increase; it’s nearly doubled.
Otherwise, why would the Yizhi Temple consistently defeat the Great Zhou Dynasty and Heavenly Temple attacks?
Just as Patan showed a bitter smile, Meng Lixi was already slammed into the thick yellow sand below by Ye Zhen.
Relief started to blossom from Meng Lixi’s eye corners; the time for reversal had arrived.
But before that relief could fully bloom, it abruptly ceased.
A thread of surprise, or perhaps fear, suddenly emerged on Meng Lixi’s face.
At this moment, countless dark green vine-like spikes emerged from the Sand Sea, effortlessly penetrating Meng Lixi’s flesh.
Ye Zhen had studied the Yizhi Temple thoroughly in recent days, how could he not understand this?
Initially, Meng Lixi’s body was covered with the Bone-Attached Triple Extreme Poison Dragon Flames, but where the dark green vine appeared, those flames retreated swiftly, acting like they encountered allies, without harming the vine.
The Innate Bone-Attached Phosphorus Fire Spirit is extremely fierce, ignoring everyone but Ye Zhen during peacetime.
However, during combat, it must obediently cooperate with the Little Demon, since that’s Ye Zhen’s command.
The vine, sharper than any blade, instantly pierced into Meng Lixi’s vital acupoints and joints.
It made his inner spiritual power flow sluggish.
Over a hundred dark green vines surrounded Meng Lixi’s head, wildly stabbing toward his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.
Moreover, dozens of vine spikes drilled toward Meng Lixi’s essential points like his forehead, top of the head, and back of the head.
If these were solidly pierced, Meng Lixi, even as a Dao Realm expert, would be undoubtedly doomed.
At the brink of life and death, Meng Lixi let out a roar, and a drop, small as a millet seed and possibly only needle-sized, golden and dazzling water droplet flew from the back of his head.
In an instant, it transformed into a faint golden light curtain, tightly protecting his head.
Faced with that faint golden light curtain, the Little Demon drove those dozen drill-like vines to the extreme, drilling with sparks flying.
Not only did it fail to damage that golden curtain, but the ancient mutant vines soaked by the Creation Power turned to dust.
Truth be told, the Little Demon hadn’t been completely idle during its years of sleep.
In the Holy Lake of the Barbarian Clan, when the Princess Changle underwent the Barbarian Saintess inheritance, aided by the Ancient Mirage Dragon’s Origin Mirage Qi from Achou’s Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit, the Little Demon managed to claim a portion of the Creation Spiritual Power from the Saintess inheritance, less than half.
The Creation Spiritual Power is extremely advanced, and even with just half, the Little Demon found it hard to refine and absorb.
However, during the years of the Little Demon’s slumber, with the strength in its body dried up, it was instead nourished and transformed by the deposited Creation Spiritual Power.
To illustrate, a person’s finger, typically unable to absorb ink.
But if dried and soaked in ink for seven or eight years, that finger would be absolutely ink-black inside and out.
This was the state of the Little Demon during its prolonged slumber, being soaked and transformed by the Creation Spiritual Power.
This transformation made the Little Demon’s flesh extremely tough, and even the battle plants it spawned became exceptionally strong.
This is why the Little Demon’s vines could easily pierce through Meng Lixi’s flesh.
However, even after being nurtured and tempered by the Creation Spiritual Power, the vines could not undermine the faint golden light curtain.
This made Ye Zhen’s eyes light up, and in an instant, he thought of something.
If Ye Zhen was not mistaken, this should be the power of belief.
The tiny golden droplet, no larger than a pinhead, was likely the power of belief.
Indeed, there was a secret method within the Yizhi Temple to harness the power of belief.
However, Meng Lixi of the Sand Sea Divine Priesthood possessed very little power of belief—so little it was pitiful.
If he had a droplet the size of a grain of rice, deploying it now, Ye Zhen would be helpless against Meng Lixi.
In a flash, Ye Zhen made a decision.
Today, he must capture Meng Lixi, the Sand Sea Divine Priest, and employ all means, even resorting to soul search, to obtain the secret method of activating the power of belief from Meng Lixi.
Even a tiny bit of power of belief, no larger than a pinhead, can exert powerful capabilities; the half-barrel of belief power stored in Ye Zhen’s Xuan Palace will unleash an unimaginable impact.
"Little Demon, hold him down, weaken his strength, leave him alive!"
Once more, the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder poured down on Meng Lixi’s exposed back, causing the Heavenly Thunder Power to continuously paralyze Meng Lixi, giving Little Demon an opportunity!
Simultaneously, the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword shimmered with chilling light, targeting the vulnerable spots of the Sand Sea Divine Priest Meng Lixi, giving him no chance to divert attention.
Countless green vines tumbled and grew wildly, completely isolating Meng Lixi from the layers of the Great Desert’s yellow sand inside and out.
Among the Five Elements, wood suppresses earth.
For Meng Lixi, who diligently trained Earth Element Spiritual Power and made his home in the Sand Sea, being trapped by Little Demon felt like having his throat strangled, unable to unleash a lifetime of divine skills.
What terrified Meng Lixi was the Bone-attached Poison Dragon Flame continually burning his flesh, spiritual power, and divine soul while countless vines embedded in his body, thirty-six of which maliciously penetrated his body like leeches, beginning to ravenously devour his inner spiritual power.
For a Dao Realm expert, spiritual power is virtually inexhaustible.
But under these circumstances, he could not refresh it from the heavens and earth.
He foresaw that once his spiritual power was drained, his death would follow.
Moreover, at the current rate of consumption, it wouldn’t take long—about an hour.
But it was not his greatest despair.
Meng Lixi’s greatest despair was his inability to change the current situation.
Ye Zhen’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder prevented him from retaliating fully, the Bone-attached Poison Dragon Flame kept burning his flesh, spiritual power, and divine soul power, while that sharp Purple Sword Light necessitated his full attention.
If he didn’t put in full effort, he was certain his body would be punctured with transparent holes.
And those thirty-six vines’ extraction drastically weakened his strength every moment.
Sand Sea Divine Priest Meng Lixi no longer had time to regret underestimating Ye Zhen, whose cultivation was merely at the peak of the Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm.
If he had known that Ye Zhen, the divine envoy, possessed three powerful Acquired Spirit Treasures, he would have never been so careless.
Meng Lixi’s heart suddenly birthed a fear of death.
For the first time in so many years, he felt the fear of death. Death was closer to him than ever before.
"You can’t, you can’t kill me. If you dare kill me, the Yizhi Temple will not forgive you." Suddenly, trapped by countless green vines, Meng Lixi screamed hysterically.
Feeling Little Demon’s rapidly increasing strength, Ye Zhen sneered.
"Even if I don’t kill you, it doesn’t mean you’ll spare me, does it?"
"It’s different now, things are different! Let me go, and we can negotiate!" Meng Lixi’s eyes were filled with terror.
"Let you go? Impossible!"
Ye Zhen firmly shook his head. "For a betrayer of beliefs, for one who dared to ambush the Yizhi Heavenly God’s envoy, the Heavenly God will never forgive you, nor show any mercy.
Only blood can wash away your sins!"
"You..."
With a furious shout, Meng Lixi of the Sand Sea Divine Priesthood became progressively desperate, yet his eyes turned remarkably resolute.
In the next instant, without visible movement, a flicker of light from the pale golden shield protecting his head neatly sliced off Meng Lixi’s head.
As blood spurted skyward, the pale golden shield had already taken Meng Lixi’s head, breaking through the encirclement to soar skywards!
"Boy, you will regret this, you will definitely regret this! Today, in my careless moment, I lost my body; in the days to come, I will repay you tenfold and hundredfold, I will make you regret being alive!"
Cursing furiously, the pale golden shield formed by the power of belief took Meng Lixi’s head and flew into the distance.
The speed was incredibly fast.
Even using Wind Flash and Sweep, Ye Zhen was barely able to catch up.
"Stop there!"
With an angry shout, a bolt of Nine Heavens Divine Thunder precisely struck that pale golden shield.
To Ye Zhen’s shock, the shield merely rippled, but his Nine Heavens Divine Thunder was completely extinguished!
"Hahaha, did you really think I had no means of survival? I previously refrained from using this divine art simply because I did not wish to lose my body.
Boy, you can wait for my revenge! In the future, I will make you unable to live or die."
Amidst the fierce laughter, the golden shield quickly accelerated, transforming into a golden light, leaving Ye Zhen, who was closely using Wind Flash and Sweep, far behind as it rapidly fled.
Ye Zhen’s expression dimmed; today’s goal was ultimately not accomplished.
But in the next moment, Ye Zhen’s eyes suddenly narrowed.
Because what Ye Zhen saw was that the golden shield carrying Meng Lixi’s head suddenly halted in the distant void.
With a few flashes, Ye Zhen was already in front.
What he saw was a giant sand-formed hand gripping Meng Lixi’s head and the golden shield tightly.
A gray-robed figure gradually materialized in the void.
Simultaneously, Meng Lixi exclaimed with ecstasy, "High Priest, you’re here?"
"High Priest, you are here just in time!"
"High Priest, you must avenge me, this guy not only impersonated a divine envoy but also destroyed my body!" Meng Lixi cried out!
