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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 533

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:17:06 AM


Chapter 533: Is It Over?

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Chapter 533: Is It Over?

Neither side looked to be in good condition. The red skull was much dimmer than it had been earlier, and the huge cobra was missing a few feet off the end of its tail. They both seemed beat up and worn out, but there was also no signs that either were defeated.

Sage felt helpless.

He was a whole rank higher than Hei Bai when the battle started, but after the changes shed undergone, it seemed she was now his equal. Annoyingly, she hadnt actually broken through because of the Samsara Flame, but she had still found a way to use it to grow stronger. Just like shed done with that Blood Ghost and the Green Flame Ghost in the past. She had some sort of method to assimilate soul related things and use it to improve her strength. The strength of a Nascent Soul was mainly within their laws, and Sage was still new to this realm. At the moment, he had only scratched the surface of what the Law of Corruption could do and was mainly using it like the Law of Poison in the past. His poisons were gathered from Guan Zhenyan and mostly affected the body. Only the poison from the Twin Ringed Soul Serpent was different, and even that only weakened Spirit Power. It was useless against a spirit form.

Spirit like beings were basically made up of energy and only other types of energy could affect them. Sages methods werent really focused in this regard as hed always been the one using his Twin Soul as a spirit being to catch others off guard. Now that he was on the receiving end of such a tactic he was in a very foul mood. His only real energy attacks were the two Heavenly Flames, and another area he hadnt spent much time on developing. He just had too many directions he could take his training, the options were overwhelming.

Hed had to fall back upon the technique hed invented with Ruanfu, Wave Combustion. It didnt have the same terrible side effect of burning up his own cultivation like the Six Dreadful Inferno Finger, one of the moves it was derived from, but it did still have the problem of causing his physical body damage. That was also a reason they changed it from a finger move to a tail attack. Losing the tip of the tail was far less detrimental than blowing off ones own finger. Ruanfu liked to use it as a kick, and shed trained her toes to have extremely wide pores so she could use more power without blowing her toes off, but to use Wave Combustion at full strength, she also used her tail.

Much of the strength of the move was wasted going up against Hei Bai in this manner, but only the explosive detonation harmed the spirit and so he was forced to use it at full power over and over again. As for his enemy, Sage no longer felt that terrible power from the fingerbone necklace radiating from her, but the Soul Clone was still heavily damaged by those eye beams. The feeling was gone, but the suppression upon spirit type enemies seemed to remain. On the plus side, the more she used those beams the dimmer the red skull became.

Sage didnt know much about spirit type beings, but if they were anything like his Soul Clone, then their body was their power. In the past, when his Twin Soul was damaged parts of it would crack and break off, reducing its size and overall strength. In gaming terms, he imagined that spirit type beings had only one pool of health points and mana. Those eye beams were powerful, but they also seemed to burn up Hei Bais life. Thinking to this point, from how the Twin Soul used the Anima Devour technique to consume other souls, he also guessed that spirit type creatures had no maximum health points. They werent like a living creature that had a peak condition to heal back up to. There wasnt healing for them, there was only increasing their strength.

Right next to his huge cobra body, a pile of bones appeared. It was the skeleton of the Rhino Seal, one of the few hed kept from Hei Bais collection as it was a valuable material for a Blacksmith. The other beast skeletons werent as valuable to a refiner, even if they were very useful for Hei Bais Yin Bone techniques. Sage didnt care to practice that path so hed sold most of the bones already.

Hei Bai looked at the bones with interest and then she cackled again, Haha, I may not be able to beat you, but I will make you pay. This big bug is valuable to you, right? You cant stop me from taking it. If you try Ill just destroy it and we both lose!

Uncle Zhuo is not an IT! Get away from him now!

Shes right. I dont care much about that scorpion, but its an important person to Xiezi. Right now the conflict is between the two of us. Do you want to gain the ire of the entire Chong Clan? Can you stand up against the might of a first rate power?

The eyes of the red skull started to burn, but no beams came from them. Instead there was a harumph, Fine, but I dont trust you. Leave behind the Rhino Seal and also my Soul Locker. Then we will swap places, got it?

Xiezi was about to rush forward, but Sage shook his head to her. This was basically a hostage transfer and he didnt want Hei Bai to take the money and kill the hostage. They went with one of the classic options: set the goods down and trade places. The most tense moment of course being the time they passed by each other. They both moved in an arc, keeping distance between them, but also not wanting to let the other steal both objects.

Thankfully, it seemed Hei Bai wanted the Soul Locker and Skeleton enough to stick to her side of the bargain. For all that Sage knew that Soul Locker only had a couple souls in it and even so they werent very exceptional. That meant there was more to it then he had thought.

Whatever, as long as we can get Uncle Zhuo back.




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