As she remembered these words, she then closed her eyes and continued to monitor the fluctuations in the world as she muttered to herself, “Heiress… we will meet at the end of these trails…”
After saying this, she continued to once more observe the change of the energies that bounded the world together as her consciousness faded into what seemed like a deep sleep…
∞ ∞ ∞
Back within the Cloudy Ghost Zones, the others looking at the newborn entity became stunned as most of them had a profound understanding of its kind. Zyne seeing the being before him losing his composure as his massive hammer shook, he opened his mouth and spoke in unbelieving tone, “How can this be?! Why is an Ethereal Soulfiend here?!”
Queen Demetria also had a similar look on her face as she pondered, “Could the Dragons have sealed this troublesome fiend here, why would they go to such an extent to leave such an abomination?”
King Yemo looked on in silence as his whole mood became a solemn one while looking at the creature before him, Elder Chen and Elder Duan also began to feel the pressure as they felt that being before them was of an entirely different level.
The Ethereal Soulfiend who had previously been distracted by the beings from the mystical zone finally regained its sense of self, as he looked at Zyne and the others with a ruthless intent, he lifted its hand and pointed its finger towards them before it spoke in a cold tone, “Daring to use me as a game? I will seize your souls and send you to the realm of eternal suffering…”
Buzz! As it said this, the surrounding space started to shake as if a terrifying power was coming into being, these energies formed together before the Ethereal Soulfiend transforming into a ghostly looking creature with dark wings and a skull face, its eyes glowing in a bright golden purple sheen as it gazed at Zyne and the others in a sinister manner.
“Not good! It’s using its divine ability, avoid it!” King Yemo said as he blurred from reality seeming to vanish from existence, Zyne sensing the power behind this attack gripped the handle of his hammer and channeled his energy within causing bright light to illuminate his form, Demetria also quickly chanted a spell causing her body to break up into droplets of water that scattered about the surroundings while Elder Chen and Elder Duan turning into flames scattered with the wind.
The Ethereal Soulfiend seeing this mocked as his finger glowed in an ominous light, “Your attempts to resist, is futile! Now die! Reckoning of the True Spirit!”
As it heard his voice, the evil looking creature before him lifted its skull face cried out in a strange voice to the heavens, “Kreeeeee!!!~”
It was like a scream that borders between a wail and chant, causing an unusual rhythmic sound to rumble across the entire region, the battling soul eater ghostfiends, specter wraiths, and the allied natives quickly becoming distracted as they fell into a daze. Soon, a large portion of them had their souls pulled from their bodies as they traveled towards the mouth of the strange creature which swallowed them in entirety causing them no longer to exist.
After a while this ghostly cry faded as the skull face creature gazed across its surroundings fixing its eyes on the empty space before it before vanishing into the void, the Ethereal Soulfiend seeing this result nodded but as he glanced the surviving members he frowned, “Well, to think that so many of you would have survived its pull. It seems that you lot are quite capable…”
As the Ethereal Soulfiend said this, King Yemo who had a solemn expression shouted at Zyne and the others, “We must destroy him now before his strength recovers! I don’t know why a being like this is here, but it appears as if a part of him is sealed in the Spiritual Soul Stele and its drawing on the essences from the Spectral Ghost Array.”
Zyne hearing this nodded his head as he sent a mental message to everyone gathered, “That’s right! We still have a shot, plus if we can distract him from the stele, we should be able to find a path for that brat to enter its domain and shut it down…”
Demetria who was nearby quickly spoke, “Good, I have already passed the message to Chosen Yu! Let’s go!”
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Instantly, the figures of Zyne, Demetria, and King Yemo had transformed into rays of light that beamed towards the Ethereal Soulfiend, their figures moving at a speed that rapidly shortened the distance as if they could bypass space itself.
Elder Chen and Duan hearing this nodded their heads as a blazing light shone in their eyes, their bodies turning into balls of scarlet golden flames that shot towards the Ethereal Soulfiend on top of a revolving disk that emitted oppressing energies.
The Ethereal Soulfiend seeing their actions frowned as he thought, “Chet! These damn ants to think they’d be able to see through my major fault so quickly. It seems that I’ll have to use a little bit more power to keep them at bay as my true self-digest these energies from the Spiritual Soul Stele…”
Upon saying this, he stretched his hand forward causing a massive golden purple ring to form before his body, this ring was quite strange as it pulsated with a dark ghastly kind of power which formed into a myriad of different skull faces that orbited around the ring, each with an ominous glow shining in their eyes.
“Ring of Damnation!” The cold and sinister voice of the Ethereal Soulfiend said as it rumbled across the area filling those who heard it with dread, the eyes of the ominous looking glowed soon after glowing in even brighter light as they opened their mouths and spit out a strange looking set of chains towards the charging alliance leaders.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
These chains were fast as the moment they were spat out by the skulls they had arrived before the figures of Zyne and the others; they quickly wound around their figures as they threatened to bind them down for all eternity.
Zyne seeing this clicked his teeth as yelled, “Tsk! I’ve already been sealed for too many years; I have no intention of falling into a trap like this again! Bright Ball!!!”
As he shouted he spun the massive Bright Hammer in his hand and smashed it into the air, the moment this happened a ball of pure radiant energies began to spread from the point of impact spreading out for a region of 300 meters, the chains that were about to seal Zyne scattering apart and disappearing into nothingness as the light pushed them away.
“Aqua Barrier!” Demetria yelled as she had also acted by placing her slender arms outwards as if she was pushing apart the air itself, oddly enough, a strange aquatic barrier formed around her body causing the chains that were about to subdue her to become unstable before falling to the ground as if their weight had instantly increased.
“Ghostly Shade!” King Demi seeing this wasn’t slow, his ancient looking robes that covered his divine-like armor glowed in a strange light as his entire body became suffused with these strange energies, the chains that tried to bind him passing through his body as if he didn’t exist and was nothing more than air.
Swish! Swish! After dodging a few of the chains Elder Chen and Elder Duan looked at each other and spoke, “Let’s do it!” After saying this they moved towards each other causing the fireballs that surrounded their bodies to collide together as it generated a massive explosion of scarlet golden flames in distance.
The Ethereal Soulfiend seeing these actions frowned as he spoke, “How troubling… this will take more effort than I thought…”
As he was distracted by the foes before him, at a distance that was nearby the Spiritual Stone Stele, the outline of a transparent figure could be seen, his eyes flickering with lighting and flames as he gazed at the lightly guarded platform before him with a smirk on his face.
Suddenly, a voice that seemed to travel from the void itself echoed in his mind, “Yu’er, now’s your chance!” The voice of Jing Mingyun said, Feng Yu hearing this nodded and replied, “It’s about time!”
He pressed his foot against the coarse grounds of the Necropolis pushing himself forwards as his body flickered into the distance, within moments his body turned into a ray of light soon after vanishing inside of th
e stone stele while chaotic world around him remained unaware of his actions….
Chapter 168
The Sealed Being! A Harsh Battle Begins!
The realm within the Spiritual Stone Stele was quite mysterious indeed, a space filled with a myriad of ghostly nefarious energies, at its center stood two pillars which extended to depths of the limitless void, a strange being seated at their direct center with both of his arms bounded by unusual golden chains. His body was almost non-existent as he looked no different from a transparent ghostly shade, light purple hair, and menacing looking purple eyes that flickered with golden lights.
If one looked closely, they would see that these pillars were quite unusual as they would occasionally release a strand of energy that were channeled through the chains into the body of the fleeting looking figure, as this happened, this figure would then lift its head and curse towards the heavens in a viscous manner.
“Arghhh! Hahahaha! You can seal my true spirit here, but you can never break my will! Even if you try to suppress me with these Binding Pillars, they will only prove to be fluke in the end!”
As the figure said this, multiple different streams of blood colored energies traveled from the void into his sealed body causing his fleeting looking form to slowly become steady and more solid, as the figure saw this he smiled sinisterly as he muttered, “Hehe! Just you wait, once more outer body finishes off those rats, I will gain all the energy I need to free myself and once more become… hrm?”
As the figure was muttering, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows as he moved his sight to circular formation diagram that was only a few hundred meters away from him, not long after, there was a change…
The formation started to glow in a bright blue light reflecting on the ground and the pillars scattered around the surroundings, quickly a beam of blue light shot towards the sky as it created a blue pillar of energies around the formation diagram, standing at a center of this pillar was a long-haired silhouette who wore a mystical armor with his two swords in each of his hands.
“Someone managed to sneak in here… how did they do this when my outer self has already materialized?” The figure said in confusion, his eyes showing in vigilance as he gazed at the silhouette before him.
Soon, the lights vanished, and the scene returned to normal, the youthful figure of Feng Yu was now revealed with his long golden hair swaying behind him and an odd wristband, he wondered around for a bit before fixing on the being before him with a sharp gleam.
“This man…” Feng Yu muttered in a soft voice, his pupils soon after shrinking as dense murderous intent emitted from his being, “He is most definitely the true self of that being outside… and he doesn’t look like a pushover, I have to quickly think of a way to destroy this stele..."
As the figure sensed Feng Yu’s killing intent, he couldn’t help but smirk before he spoke, “A curious little on you are… I do not sense the energies of a Trueblood within you. Yet, your bloodline is no weaker than their kind… heh! Very intriguing, but that’s all, at your current level you haven’t even understood how to use the power of your divine abilities, I must really have a look to see what you are going to do to me now that you entered my domain!”
Bang! The moment the figure said this, chains around its wrists shook violently as a powerful ripple of energies was emitted from his being, his body rose from the ground and floated in the air pausing a few feet’s from the ground.
Feng Yu feeling his power couldn’t help but grow solemn but as he was about to ponder his life mistakes his expression suddenly turned bright, the figure seeing this couldn’t help but change as sensed a strange suppression from the pillars.
Buzz! Following a loud sound, the pillars began to change as their runes glowed in a radiant golden light, quickly, the terrifying energies coming from the body of the figure were suppressed even further falling all the way down to a level much like that of a 6th Tier Aura Disciple.
“Dammit!” The figure said as he saw this, Feng Yu seeing this smiled as stepped forwards boldly with a confident demeanor as he spoke, “It seems that these pillars do more than just keep you in your place, I don’t know nor care about your past glory or ancient history, for what I do know is that today…”
As Feng Yu spoke to himself, his eyes became as sharp as swords as he bent his knees before arching his body forwards, he spread out his arms wide behind his back firmly holding the handles of Black lighting and Crimson Ember before speaking in a cold emotionless tone of voice, “Is day you shall die!”
Bang! Swish! After releasing his recently broken through 6th Tier Aura Disciple energies, his body quickly flickered turning into a blazing ray of light which had flickers of thunder, his figure quickly traversing a hundred meters of distance arriving before the Ethereal Soulfiend’s true self.
Buzzz! Blaze! As he reached his foes, both Black Lighting and Crimson Ember became shrouded by Dark Lighting and ominous looking purple flames separately as they gave one a feeling of mysteriousness and unparallel might, Feng Yu swung both of his swords at the Ethereal Soulfiend’s true self leaving behind a trailing line of black and purple lights.
Shing~! As the cries of both swords echoed, the Ethereal Soulfiend woke up from his distracted state before sneering, “Hahaha! It doesn’t matter that my strength is suppressed, and you have a strange power within you, for I am of a different class even among those that have transcended, even if my power is lowered to stage similar as yours, I will still be invincible!”
Upon saying this, his eyes glowed in a purplish golden light, before his figure moved to turn into in a series of ghostly shades as easily distance himself from Feng Yu’s charge.
He then stretched out his ethereal like palm and yelled, “Ethereal Soul Arts: Cage of Lost Spirits!” The instant he said this, the void shook as a semi-transparent cage formed around Feng Yu’s body. It was square that roughly 100 meters on all sides with a strange nefarious energy flowing around it, soon, these energies formed into many spectors which promptly lunged towards Feng Yu.
“Not good!” Feng Yu seeing this grew anxious, his eyes then became scarlet red as the entire 100-meter region became a shade of deep red. A towering amount of killing intent was suffused within this red hue as if the asura of hell had descended into the world.
If one looked at Feng Yu, they would notice that his hair was floating above his head, a sharp presence pervaded his being making him seem no different from a sword that is fully drawn, the rubbles with the space floating around his figure like blades were ready to serve their master.
“Dual Extremity Swords: Thunderblaze Sword Slash!” Feng Yu roared as he swung his swords that now glowed with his thunderblaze aura at the figures that charged towards him, within moments his swords turned in blurs leaving behind only a black and purple trailing light as they swept across the figures that charged towards him, the surrounding rubbles soon after following his blades as they too swept across the large number of spectors.
“Sword Intent? And such a powerful one at that… it is similar to the ‘Slaughtering Intent’ of the sword but does not bare its baleful nature, could it be that this killing intent is no more than a part of a greater type of intention?” The Ethereal True Ghost said as it saw the changed around its cage technique, but before he could finish his thoughts the cage exploded as tarrying thunderblaze energy spread out across the hundred meters region suffused with a sharp but murderous intent.
Eventually, the flames started to fade as the Feng Yu’s figure could be seen walking from the center of the region filled with golden flames and sparkling multicolored lightning; his golden hair dancing wildly as his eyes glared at the figure of Ethereal Soulfiend while speaking, “My strength is more than enough to end your tales’ old ghost!”
“Hmph!” The Ethereal Soulfiend snorted as his eyes glowed in a ruthless manner, he glared at Feng Yu before adopting a serious posture spreading his legs and arms apart and crouching, he then used his fingers to grip the air creating a strang
e distortion through space as it now seemed as if he was gripping the entire world.
“A mere human dare to be so arrogant before my existence? You are truly seeking death! In your battleform your battle power is no more than a mere Second Step as with sword intent you have managed to achieve the Third Step, although your bloodline can rival that of paragon races it still lacking due to your own limitations!”
“Ethereal Ghost Arts: Void Shrinking Grip!” As the Ethereal Soulfiend said this, his arms which grabbed the space suddenly clenched causing the space around them to start condensing. Instantly, the world began to shrink at rapid pace pulling everything towards his two palms, Feng Yu who was momentarily a distance away had quickly been pulled towards the Ethereal Soulfiend only a few inches away from his hands.
“Damn!” As Feng Yu came to his senses his cursed, he quickly pierced both of his swords towards the Ethereal Soulfiend’s hands, but a strange scene occurred, the swords easily went through both of palms causing no damage whatsoever as if the being before him had no tangible form.
“What!” Feng Yu exclaimed as he saw his attacks with no effect, he pondered, “Why is his body so different from Ghostfiends? How could me thunderblaze energies have no effect?”
“Hahaha! Foolish human, my kind is of a higher level than those small and weak Ghostfiends, I am of Etherealkin and even in my weakest days, my natural battle power is almost at the Four Step. It is natural that my intangibility would be of different scale, while your merged sacred flames and divine thunder energies are quite astounding; they are incapable of harming me at your level. Now then, prepare yourself for death!” The Ethereal Soulfiend said menacingly, he then gripped both of Feng Yu’s arms rendering him defenseless as a strange light glowed within his eyes.
“Ethereal Ghost Arts: Soul Breaker!” He said in a cold tone, immediately after his voice his fingers which gripped Feng Yu began to glow in an ominously looking purple light, this light soon after spread throughout Feng Yu’s body causing his figure to become shrouded by its hue.
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