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Chapter 186
Chapter 186
Chapter 186
Chasing the Wind's evil ghosts space was originally pitch black, nothing could be seen, its shape, size and direction were unknown, making it easy to control the evil ghosts.
But now, sitting cross-legged in the middle of this evil ghosts space was an enormous flaming old man, illuminating this space.
He sat cross-legged on the ground of the evil ghosts space, his head touching the sky. He was slowly growing bigger, sooner or later he would burst this evil ghosts space.
Li Shiyin appeared in the evil ghosts space wielding a sword, but compared to that flaming old man...
The flaming old man was infinitely large, his primordial spirit close to having a physical form; Li Shiyin was extremely small, her figure like a phantom.
This reminded Li Shiyin of the Journey to the West her master had given her to read, where Monkey King was contrasted with the gold body of Tathagata, she was like Monkey King, standing up she wasn't even as tall as the other's fingertip.
But how could she, Li Shiyin, fear anything?
She held her sword, utilized the Nine Revolutions Star Sword Technique, and suddenly a glint of starlight sprang up on her Muran Sword, a wisp of stellar sword qi appeared.
Li Shiyin looked at the sword qi on her blade, somewhat puzzled. Because sword qi was essentially still a kind of magic, formed from the interweaving of magic power. She was currently in her primordial spirit state, so where could she get magic power from?
But though she had doubts, she didn't think too much about it, only sent out that sword qi along with her body towards Liu Daoji to kill him.
Liu Daoji was so big and Li Shiyin so small that he simply didn't notice Li Shiyin at all, just like humans don't notice mosquitoes that don't buzz and don't bite.
It wasn't until Li Shiyin's sword pierced through his bodily mechanisms that the pain made him react.
He lowered his head for a look, saw Li Shiyin's phantom wielding a sword with sword qi on it flying towards another part of his body, and he exclaimed in astonishment, "Primordial spirit? Controlling a sword with divine sense? Primordial spirit sword qi?!"
And while he was astonished and confused, Li Shiyin had already cut another wound on his body.
He waved his hand to grab Li Shiyin, but Li Shiyin suddenly utilized the Immortal Seeking the Way movement technique, her figure erratic and elusive, for that moment somehow profound, easily evading from under his hand and stopping on his back to open up another mouthful of blood.
"Immortal Technique!"
Liu Daoji was greatly shocked, this young woman even knew Immortal Techniques?
Not daring to look down on her further, his massive body shook, calling out a doppelganger that was the same as him, about the same size as Li Shiyin.
This doppelganger sought out Li Shiyin, forcing her to battle with it, but this doppelganger's fleshy body was frighteningly powerful, sword qi clashing with it resulting in the sound of metal striking metal; occasionally their fists and swords crashed heavily, Li Shiyin also couldn't withstand its might.
In fact this was the difference in power between primordial spirits, even if it was just one of Liu Daoji's doppelgangers, it was still a bit stronger than Li Shiyin's primordial spirit.
Li Shiyin could only utilize the Immortal Seeking the Way technique, fluttering around this doppelganger, constantly sending out her sword... Fortunately her stellar sword qi had special additional power versus primordial spirits, after a lengthy barrage, she still managed to breach this doppelganger's defenses.
Once the defenses were broken through, this doppelganger could no longer withstand Li Shiyin's sword qi, soon its whole body was shrouded in sword qi, unable to support itself any longer. It was withdrawn back by Liu Daoji.
"Hm? She does have some skills!" Liu Daoji laughed loudly and with a blink summoned out three more doppelgangers.
"Phew!" Li Shiyin lightly let out a breath, one had already been so troublesome, what about three?
So what if three!
She went forward wielding her sword, it would just take a little longer than one!
Slowly, surrounding Liu Daoji's enormous body in this space appeared three doppelgangers, five doppelgangers, ten doppelgangers, until several dozen, over a hundred!
Finally Li Shiyin could no longer endure, this was not her inadequacy in combat.
Her whole body was covered in injuries, her form was also nearly transparent from exhaustion; the sword qi on Muran Sword flickered, seemingly about to disappear at any moment; the Immortal Seeking the Way technique could basically no longer be utilized at all.
Could it be that she, Li Shiyin, would die here?
Li Shiyin endured the waves of weakness spreading through her body, watching the hundred plus Liu Daoji doppelgangers enclosing towards her, she sensed the advent of death.
"If death comes then so be it!" In her heart she recalled the words she had heard from Li Shiwen and Qin Ran, "The general dies from a hundred battles... From ancient times who did not die... To die in battle brings honor and glory!"
Then she exerted the last bits of her strength, carrying the final strand of stellar sword qi to kill towards that ocean of people before her!
"What's going on?"
At this time, a panicked voice of Liu Daoji suddenly rang out in the space. Li Shiyin's flying speed was very slow now. Slow enough for her to follow the sound with her eyes and see that Liu Daoji was no longer so gigantic and "heaven topping and earth supporting" as when they had first begun. With so many doppelgangers, now he was merely an ordinary giant, probably only a tenth of his original size.
Li Shiyin also discovered that Liu Daoji had originally been wrapped in a layer of earth fire/magma, but now that earth fire/magma was silently extinguished. She clearly saw an unknown black colored substance unceasingly creeping towards Liu Daoji, spreading onto him.
This situation made her quickly halt and look around in other directions, only to find that everywhere in the space had the noiselessly encroaching black substance, spreading towards all the Liu Daoji doppelgangers.
She took another look around herself and found that those black substances all avoided her, only invading Liu Daoji.
In an instant she understood, it was Chasing the Wind!
This space was Chasing the Wind's evil ghosts space!
The souls of all living beings killed by Chasing the Wind would be absorbed into this evil ghosts space and become evil ghosts under Chasing the Wind's control.
Liu Daoji had been caught unawares for a moment by Chasing the Wind and pulled into this evil ghosts space. His primordial spirit had originally been strong enough that Chasing the Wind simply could not turn him into an evil ghost. Without too long a time he could have burst out of Chasing the Wind's evil ghosts space.
But Li Shiyin had entered.
In order to deal with Li Shiyin, Liu Daoji had no choice but to split into doppelgangers...
One doppelganger wasn't enough, two doppelgangers, two three doppelgangers still couldn't beat Li Shiyin, then ten eight doppelgangers, several dozen, over a hundred, finally without him noticing, his main body was no longer strong enough, already unable to resist Chasing the Wind's erosion and control!
"No! No..." Liu Daoji shrieked in terror, he keenly felt the advent of death... But how could he, Liu Daoji whose glory and fame shook the world, die in a place like this!?
In Liu Daoji's perspective, to die in the evil ghosts space was just as shameful as a mortal tyrant drowning in shit.
He hurriedly utilized primordial spirit arts to withdraw all his doppelgangers, in an instant he once again became "heaven topping and earth supporting"!
But along with him withdrawing his doppelgangers, the black substances sticking to those doppelgangers were also withdrawn back to him.
He turned into a black giant. Very quickly, apart from his head, his whole body was enveloped by the black substances.
Then to his horror he discovered that he was shrinking... As if he was being eaten by some creature, digested in its stomach.
Clearly feeling himself dying bit by bit, clearly finding himself becoming weaker and smaller bit by bit, clearly realizing he was being eaten up bite by bite, there were not many things more terrifying than this in the world.
Liu Daoji struggled extremely desperately, but he could barely control his own body. As his body shrank, he gradually collapsed.
"I don't want to die... I cannot die, that won't happen, I won't die!" He fiercely protected his head, his mouth continuously chanting.
At a certain moment, the black substance wrapped around him suddenly withdrew a layer, sweeping through the air in an arc that enveloped Li Shiyin's entire body. After a short while, the black substance retreated and Li Shiyin's spirit was refreshed, her whole body free of injuries, her form even transformed from insubstantiality into physical tangibility.
Liu Daoji knew this was because it had digested his primordial spirit and was transferring that power back to nourish Li Shiyin.
At this moment, he completely broke down!
"Ahhh!!!" Liu Daoji screamed towards the heavens in anguish, and then his enormous head exploded, from it exploded a translucent egg, and inside the egg was a baby.
As soon as that egg appeared it disappeared from Chasing the Wind's evil ghosts space, appearing on the surface of Sword Washing Lake. Then it suddenly accelerated, shooting out of Dan Peak in a streak of light!
But unfortunately, before it could fly out of Dan Peak, the Guardian Mountain Formation was suddenly activated. It collided with the membrane of the formation. By the time it readjusted its direction to fly downwards, Qin Ran flew out from the mists and intercepted it.
Qin Ran carried this egg back to the side of Sword Washing Lake. He saw a mess on the shore, half the tree saplings and greenhouses destroyed, the ground bumpy and uneven. Devouring Demon Willow had a charred black body.
Li Shiyin's body was covered in blood while she sat cross-legged atop the island pavilion in the middle of the lake.
Sword Washing Lake was cloudy, full of white hairs, Chasing the Wind with blood seeping from his seven apertures floated up from under the lake.
Tu Mountain was graceful and elegant, with outstanding bearing and the greatest beauty, remaining aloof with her sleeves clasped.
Qin Ran placed the baby next to the willow tree that had been charred black from lightning strike. In a gentle voice, he said:
"From now on, your name is Liu Xiaoji."
The baby then transformed into a ray of light and flew into the charred Devouring Demon Willow. In an instant, new life was breathed into the heart of this willow tree.
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