Published: September 9, 2025
Chapter 849: Demonic Might Runs Rampant
The pitch-black blade light cut through several layers of shields as easily as slicing through vegetables, instantly cleaving them in half. These shields then exploded with a burst, dissolving into countless specks of spiritual light.
After the demonic soul unleashed the slash, it saw the three splitting up to escape. Its gaze followed the fleeing traces of their flight before a mocking expression appeared on its face.
At that moment, over a thousand ice spikes spread above, encasing it within.
The demonic soul flicked its hands subtly, and the black giant blade in its grasp shimmered with light, transforming once again into a dazzling cluster of dark rays. Then, parting its hands, the black radiance stretched and thinned, suddenly becoming two black light spears about two zhang (roughly 6 to 7 meters) long.
With a powerful swing of its arms, one spear shot toward the elder while the other spun around, flying toward the silver-haired elder. The demonic soul itself stomped hard, and its figure suddenly became a streak of black light, dashing straight at True Immortal Tianjing.
A sharp whistling sound rang out as the two black spears flickered and mysteriously vanished mid-flight. The demonic soul’s figure wavered several times, like a phantom, reappearing over twenty zhang away, instantly escaping the reach of the ice spike attack.
The nascent soul elder who was desperately fleeing heard the piercing whistle from behind. Startled, without much thought, he suddenly released something he had been clutching tightly.
Immediately, an octagonal silver token shot out, forming a silver-white light veil that enveloped him completely.
Feeling slightly reassured, the elder hastily looked back.
But before him was nothing but emptiness — no sign of anything at all.
The elder stood dumbfounded, still unclear about what had happened, when the sharp whistle suddenly sounded right beside him with a loud roar.
A flash of black light, and the black spear ghostly appeared about a zhang away, shooting at the light veil with lightning speed.
Under the elder’s horrified expression, black and silver lights intertwined. However, the black spear twisted and vibrated violently, and with a “puff” sound, the light veil was pierced through as if it were paper.
The spear then plunged into the elder’s abdomen, exploding violently.
The elder didn’t even manage to scream; his body instantly shattered into pieces of flesh flying in all directions. A nascent soul, wrapped in a silver light orb, appeared blankly in that spot.
It seemed unable to believe that its body had been destroyed so thoroughly.
But in that brief hesitation, the strands of black radiance from the explosion reformed into a large net, instantly trapping the nascent soul within.
Only then did the nascent soul’s face show terror as it hastily formed hand seals with both hands. The silver light around it flashed wildly several times before it suddenly vanished from that spot, having used the true teleportation technique.
The silver light flickered as the nascent soul appeared headfirst inside the net.
The black silk net tightened mercilessly, and in the blink of an eye, this nascent soul was wrapped into a massive light sphere, suspended motionless in the air.
Meanwhile, the other black spear shooting toward the silver-haired elder also appeared behind the elder in an instant.
The silver-haired elder hadn’t fully recovered his vital energy before entering the valley. Faced with such a strange attack now, he was even less able to react. He could only mutter “Not good” and prepared to have his nascent soul exit the body and escape to save his life.
But just then, fierce spatial fluctuations appeared as the elder stretched out his hand, and a blood-red sword light about a zhang long materialized before the black spear.
This sword light was crimson like blood, filled with overwhelming evil qi, and without hesitation, it slashed directly at the black spear.
Black and blood-colored lights intertwined with the rocky terrain. Then, with an explosive sound, both vanished in a mutual destruction.