Chapter 1274: Chapter 1198: I’ll Bear This Karma!
A sword struck down, slicing the golden-red blood leech in half, writhing on the ground.
The Gu Soul Asa housed within let out a serpent-like hiss, the sound densely sharp, piercing and itching like a thin wire drilling into one’s eardrums.
With a thought, Qin Liuxi dispelled the resentful energy that infiltrated the senses, turning it to nothingness, then her scorching Karmic Fire flared from her body, instantly dissipating the resentful energy.
"Ah, foolish, you think cutting me down means death? As long as the Gu insect still breathes, resurrection is possible," Asa shrieked.
Qin Liuxi retorted, "Take a look around, see if you can still resurrect?"
Using the Divine Weapon to cut a blood leech was quite extravagant, but it couldn’t be helped, it was effective.
The Sword Intent of the Mieluo Sword buzzed, the weapon felt disgusted by being used to slice soft-bodied insects, preferring to slay demons than touch such soft things.
Because it doesn’t fit!
Instinctively, Asa looked at himself, and upon seeing, he let out a shrill scream, a spirit-like insect soul floated out, while the bisected blood leech ignited.
The broken soul screamed madly, the fierce wind raging, robes fluttering sharply, and if not for the Array Barrier set by Qin Liuxi, the yin energy would have dispersed long ago.
"It turns out your soul has suffered great damage, no wonder you control outside people with Gu insects, nourish the body with essence and blood, and supplement the soul with more souls," Qin Liuxi coldly remarked, "This Soul Suppressing Well, it’s been suppressing your damaged soul with no chance of recovery, yet the Stone Beast’s talisman array gave you a chance for transformation, allowing you to summon evil and raise spirits, growing increasingly rampant."
Asa sneered sinisterly, "Indeed. That old witch Si Cheng sacrificed soul energy to suppress me eternally, but heaven didn’t forsake me. As I thought my soul scattering was inevitable, this Well Sealing Stone Lion transformed into a demon summoning beast, and I grasped that hint of life, like a dry well injected with water, gained yin energy, then entered the blood leech for propagation. Once strength recovers, the well water can be as sweet as desired, and foolish mortals drank it, their descendants became my nutrients."
"Foolish mortals?" Qin Liuxi sneered, "Seems you’ve forgotten you were human too, mistaken yourself as a Gu, so, why yearn for a human’s body to resurrect? Isn’t being a bug hidden forever in darkness good enough?"
Asa replied, incensed, "Blame their foolishness, they worshipped me, voluntarily offered themselves, even volunteered sacrifices, those young girls’ essence and pure yin souls are delicious nourishment... ah."
A streak of Karmic Fire enveloped him.
Asa panicked, sensing his yin soul about to disintegrate, he shouted, "Kill me, they’ll also die, you will bear tremendous consequences. I’m the Gu God, their source of survival, the water derives from me, sweetened by me, once my Divine Soul disintegrates, the well water turns foul and dry, leading to their deaths. You righteous paths are murderers!"
Si Lengyue dashed to Qin Liuxi’s side, grabbed her wrist, glanced outside the array with a grave expression, "Little Xi, don’t."
Qin Liuxi glanced back, realizing when all the villagers of Ancient Well Village gathered there, unable to enter due to the array, and since Asa was harmed, all faces revealed both agony and madness, some collided against the array, clutching their stomachs and rolling.
"Look," Si Lengyue pointed to a frail man, who fell to the ground, something swiftly scuttled across his face, and soon, the man shriveled completely, as if drained dry.
His yin soul floated from his body, not bewildered, but seemed guided, directly merging with Asa retreating to above the well.
Then, another child followed.
"Let us in, give us Divine Water," villagers kept attempting to rush toward the well.
Qin Liuxi’s expression turned cold, retracting her thoughts, reclaiming the last bit of the Karma Fire Star on Asa.
Asa felt his entire Divine Soul tearing apart, while hovering at the well mouth, absorbing extreme yin energy to repair his damaged soul body, incessantly sneering, "I said that when I die, they’ll die too, they’re all part of me, belonging to me."
Would they dare to kill? They wouldn’t, because they are mortals, the righteous paths claim upright hearts, they won’t bear such consequences.
Killing intent flashed in Qin Liuxi’s eyes—she doesn’t allow anyone to act more defiant than her!
She was about to move; Si Lengyue was quicker, wielding Witch Power to conjure the White Witch Clan totem, sweeping toward Asa.
A black Mystic Snake entwined with a lotus emitting holy light, its snake head rose and opened its mouth, biting Asa’s residual soul.
Ferocious and swift, when the snake head approached, flames spewed from its mouth, the Xuan Fire, fierce and glaring, feared by yin souls.
Asa was familiar with this Xuan Fire, as it was how he fell into the hands of the old witch Si Cheng in the past.
This was the White Witch Clan’s abnormal fire totem, only pure direct lineage bloodlines who comprehended to the fullest and wielded witch power at will could unleash the abnormal fire totem.
"How dare you!" Asa invoked all yin energy, even chanting the Destroying Gu Curse, causing those with Gu to die, using yin souls as shields to halt her, serving as his Amulet.
One after another villagers fell, terror spread among everyone, growing more frenzied to rush into the array.
With a loud bang.
Qin Liuxi employed the Five Thunders Skill, blasting the piled stones of the Soul Suppressing Well, the power of thunder stagnated the yin energy within the array.
Asa, already weakened by the Karmic Fire, the Gu God, merging human and Gu souls, capable of controlling myriad gu insects through will, was by no means a match for these fierce yang flames, especially being just a yin soul inhabiting a Gu body.
And the difficulty Si Lengyue mentioned was also due to him manipulating ordinary mortals with Gu, sharing fate with them, actually leveraging their mortal status, causing righteous factions to hesitate, fearing mortal lives and consequences.
This individual held countless hostages, which is why they dared not recklessly move initially.
But knowing the village’s sins, witnessing his arrogance, they could outdo him in evil!
At this moment, he was encircled by the transformed Mystic Snake totem, every flame consuming his soul, while outside came cries of anguish beyond imagination.
The Soul Suppressing Well exploded open, revealing the Stone Beast, Qin Liuxi wielded the Divine Weapon, about to strike, Si Lengyue shouted sharply, "Little Xi, don’t move!"
Her face pale, using Qin Liuxi’s hesitation to seize the Divine Weapon, she said, "Don’t move, let me handle this."
Qin Liuxi froze.
Si Lengyue separated a thread of witch power to firmly grip the uncontrollable Divine Weapon, smiling at Qin Liuxi, "Step back, I’ll bear this consequence!"
