Chapter 598: Chapter 597: A Monstrous Entity
Under the impact of this voice, the stone walls on both sides of the space began to crack, and the pebbles on the ground were crushed into dust.
The sound flooded into Shi Xiaole’s mind, causing him a splitting headache.
This was a surge of spiritual fluctuation!
Everyone knows that spiritual fluctuations have no substance, but when they are strong enough, they can still affect reality. For instance, this spiritual fluctuation is powerful enough to easily slaughter warriors in Dragon Gate Realm.
No, perhaps even masters in the Divine Barrier Realm could not escape.
At least, judging from the mental strength Shi Xiaole displayed, facing this spiritual fluctuation, he appeared as fragile as tofu dregs, not able to withstand a single blow.
However, to the surprise of the voice’s owner, Shi Xiaole did not collapse, but quickly regained his consciousness.
"Die!"
It shouted several more times.
Spiritual fluctuations surged like a tsunami, assaulting time and again.
But the owner of the voice quickly discovered that the surface of Shi Xiaole’s mental power was just the tip of the iceberg. The opponent’s true spiritual sea was unimaginably vast. The spiritual fluctuations crashed against it, and didn’t even have the qualifications to make it tremble.
"How is it possible?"
The owner of the voice was stunned.
Little did he know that Shi Xiaole was originally a fusion of two souls, and his mental power had mutated. Later, in the ghost castle of Xuanfeng Town in the Great Cold State, he absorbed the mental power of a mysterious brain millenary, completing his second metamorphosis.
It’s just that Shi Xiaole can’t really use it, otherwise, his mental power has long surpassed the level of the Divine Barrier Realm.
"Hehehe, that’s just perfect. I am in need of nourishment like you, what a heavenly favor!"
The owner of the voice became more frenzied, the surging murderous intent seemed to become tangible, frightening the countless Fire Stiffs behind into absolute stillness.
Whoosh!
A fiery red lance suddenly appeared, effortlessly crushed the eye knife shot out by Shi Xiaole, causing his vision to blur and sending him stumbling backward.
What came next were long spears, sharp swords, and enormous blades all vying to appear near Shi Xiaole. Even though they didn’t harm his spiritual sea, the pain was enough to torture an ordinary person to death.
The roar rang out, and the Fire Stiffs behind received the command to attack Shi Xiaole again.
Shi Xiaole withstood the stabbing sensation while swinging his sword in retaliation. Although his combat power had dropped drastically, the Fire Stiffs had still been unable to harm him within a short period of time.
"My spiritual power is improving."
Shi Xiaole keenly realized that after each impact on his spiritual sea, a bit of spiritual power was stripped off and became a force he could use.
This process was very slow, but the accumulative effect made him feel a noticeable progress.
Pain seemed to become a different kind of enjoyment. Shi Xiaole brandished his sword frantically, and one after another, the Fire Stiffs fell at his feet.
At some point, the empty space turned from scarlet to dark red, with hundreds of weapons appearing in the air, burning with flares that made hearts tremble.
Whoosh!
At some moment, hundreds of weapons were launched simultaneously, tracing dark red trajectories.
Crash...
Shi Xiaole’s mind exploded, and he was sent flying horizontally. The pain that pushed human limits made him lose most of his consciousness. However, correspondingly, a large amount of mental power fell from the surface of his mountainous spiritual sea, actively integrating into his conscious surface.
The pain continued, but everything around him had changed.
The Fire Stiffs seemed to move much slower, the flow of air in the space had become clearer, and the world seemed to have torn open one thin layer, becoming more real.
"My spiritual power has gone up a level."
The smile at the corner of Shi Xiaole’s mouth refused to be suppressed.
If previously, his spiritual power was at the weakest level of the Divine Barrier Realm, then now, it probably reached the intermediate level of the Divine Barrier Realm.
Of course, he had never seen a real Divine Barrier Realm master, so he would need to experiment to know for sure.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the dark red void, a tidal wave of magma arose, filled with a sense of world destruction.
"Boy, this is my soul-weakening weapon dissolution technique, which can crush the soul of an unparalleled master in the Void Origin Realm. You brought this on yourself, hahaha..."
The voice sounded ruthlessly.
Shi Xiaole slayed many Fire Stiffs with one stroke of his sword. Instead of running away, he stood his ground, coldly watching everything unfold: "Stop your bluffing."
"What did you say?"
"If you were sure you could kill me, why did you bother ordering those Fire Stiffs to attack me? That would be unnecessary. And as for your touted ’soul-weakening weapon dissolution technique’, can it be that you emphasized it just to scare me off?"
Attack after attack proved ineffective, and Shi Xiaole wouldn’t believe that the person in the dark would remain unaffected. But there seemed to be no significant change, either because he was stupid, or because he was truly helpless.
And the opponent’s final attack further revealed his secret.
Can a being that can even kill a high-level entity from the Void Origin Realm possibly find it hard to kill a rookie like himself for such a long time? Isn’t that possible?
The owner of the voice was silent for a while.
The tide of magma in the void suddenly burst, turning out to be only an illusion.
"You’re very smart, but unfortunately, smart people don’t live for long."
The voice was filled with a thick murderous intent.
Actually, Shi Xiaole had only guessed half the situation right.
The owner of the voice indeed wanted to intimidate Shi Xiaole, but the true objective wasn’t to scare him away, but to eliminate his fighting spirit and thus seize control of his body.
Having slumbered for many years, the owner of the voice, due to his partially restored spiritual power, sent out the Fire Stiff not only to replenish his vitality but also to attract strong warriors. He aimed to crush them with his absolute spiritual power and then choose a satisfactory body.
Heaven always helps a willing mind.
In his opinion, Shi Xiaole was simply perfect, flawless from inside to out, especially his spiritual power, which was so strong that even he couldn’t shake it.
However, that was okay. If mental intimidation didn’t work, then physical damage will do!
Stealthily, a streak of blood-red light shot out from the depths and poured into the body of a red Fire Stiff. Almost instantly, this red Fire Stiff’s aura skyrocketed, its eyes turned from red to black, and revealed human-like cunning and cruelty.
"Kid, accept your death!"
Amidst a devious laugh, the red Fire Stiff pounced, like a cannonball, its speed surpassing the other red Fire Stiffs by more than twice.
Its original body had long been destroyed, so it could only temporarily reside in the body of others. This limited its full display of power.
However, with the constitution of the red Fire Stiff, his current strength surpassed at least 90% of the Limit Supreme Lords, suppressing this kid would be effortless.
"Fierce Wind Hundred Turns."
Shi Xiaole swung his sword, the Sword Qi washed over the Fire Stiff, but other than making the sound of metallic collision, it didn’t manage to even scratch the surface.
In contrast, the Fire Stiff stretched out its arms, throwing two three-foot wide fireballs towards Shi Xiaole. After Shi Xiaole dodged, two deep holes appeared in the ground.
Sho! Sho!
Astonishing events unfolded.
The two fireballs didn’t vanish. They merely shrunk in size, but their power was not halved. On the contrary, it increased. It seemed to have locked onto Shi Xiaole’s aura and wouldn’t stop until it got its prey.
"With my current powers, even though I can only display a minor trick from the Fire God Palace of the olden days, it’s more than enough to deal with you," the Fire Stiff smirked arrogantly.
Only the people from the Martial World in the era long ago knew how terrifying a true Fire Stiff was. It included not only their physically robust bodies that were fearless in face of death but also their unique and extremely bizarre special abilities based on these traits.
The Fire Cicada Fist Technique in front of them was one of them.
Like the proverb: a cicada escaping its shell. But, faced with this punch, no one could easily escape.
In mid-air, Shi Xiaole made the first move, stabbing the fireball on the left with his sword. The fireball didn’t explode but instead, under the impelling action of the Sword Qi, it rushed towards the fireball on the right and instantly exploded into a cluster of mushroom-shaped flames.
"Extinguishing Flame Fist!"
The Fire Stiff squinted its eyes slightly, and with a thrust of both feet, it shot towards the sky. The punch mirroring a torrent of flames darted towards Shi Xiaole, burning a pathway through the air.
Among the Limit Supreme Lords, there are differences in strength. The power of this punch was enough to instantly murder a Red Rock Altar Leader. Unfortunately, Shi Xiaole was no longer the same as he used to be.
A green beam of Sword Qi rose to meet it without hesitation. As they crossed paths, both the Sword Qi and the fist light vanished simultaneously.
The Fire Stiff crushed the hillside with a single kick and used the momentum to charge towards Shi Xiaole. This time, flames rose all over his body; he looked like a human-shaped fireball.
A radius of two hundred meters appeared as if it had turned into the center of lava, with the fizzing sound, the Vigorous Air on Shi Xiaole’s body surface was continuously caught on fire.
"Gale Blade."
The sword was lifted high, Shi Xiaole’s hands moved swiftly.
Chi!
Most of the fire was shaved off, but it immediately reignited with no less fierceness. At the moment when the Sword Qi swept past, the Fire Stiff abruptly attacked, pushing his arms forward and drove a wave of a firestorm forward.
His spiritual power was equally unfathomable. Although it was limited by the capacity of the red Fire Stiff and couldn’t be fully displayed, it had still reached the level of the Divine Border Realm. Therefore, his control of the timing was not weaker than Shi Xiaole’s.
The Life and Death Dual Qi circulated, Shi Xiaole’s Qi returned extremely fast, and he horizontally cut his sword forward. Another Gale Blade cut the firestorm into two halves.
"Damn it!"
The Fire Stiff was furious.
Who was he? An ultra-powerful figure who caused the entire Martial World to tremble in fear. Yet, with someone of the same level, he still couldn’t subdue this brat immediately.
"Let’s see how you block this move, Fury of the Flame!"
An unparalleled, seemingly ten times hotter than lava, heat suddenly surged out from the Fire Stiff’s body and merged into his left hand.
Wo-la.
The sea of fire surged and the glaring light of fire caused one’s soul to tremble from afar. As the Fire Stiff threw his punch, the entire void turned from dark red to black, and the sound of rolling blood could be faintly heard.
His body hairs stood on end. This was the instinctive reaction of extreme danger. Shi Xiaole’s eyes sparkled like electricity, he swung out his sword unhurriedly. On the sword, there was also a layer of black radiance. However, it was not a scorching black but a black that carried the breath of death.
Sword technique, Soul Extinguisher!
Shi-la.
The scorching black light was suddenly split by an even blacker Sword Qi. The Sword Qi had its power neutralized by ninety percent, but ten percent still pierced into the Fire Stiff’s body when he least expected it, making him groan on the spot.
"What kind of sword technique is this?"
The Fire Stiff was both shocked and angry.
Under the effect of ten percent Sword Qi, the life force of the red Fire Stiff he was possessing was actually being extinguished. Even if he burned his Flame Vigorous Air, it would be hard to dispel it in a short time.
