Near the Tianxiang Doukou Company, Number Seven, possessed by a dark shadow, was about to claw Shen Youling and the other two to death.
Suddenly, the explosion of a sword light in the distance caught his attention. He turned his head and stared blankly as the sword light faded, his gaze filled with a mixture of fear, confusion, struggle, and tornt.
Number Seven's own consciousness had only been sealed by Lin Tang, not erased. After possessing him, the shadow's first objective was to devour his consciousness, assaulting the seal at the sa ti. The struggle between the two caused Number Seven's body to rampage madly, blasting everything in sight.
The shadow was simply too bizarre. Although Number Seven was a Martial Saint, he possessed no soul or spiritual vigor. In a battle of pure consciousness, he was no match for it. It was only a matter of ti before he was completely taken over.
While Number Seven was stunned, Shen Youling and the other two held their breath, retreating bit by bit. They circled around behind him and then tiptoed away in an attempt to escape.
Unfortunately, they had only run a few hundred ters when Number Seven regained his senses. He slamd a palm in their direction, and the force ford a shockwave that struck them viciously. Thankfully, the distance of several hundred ters buffered the impact, saving them from being instantly blown to bits.
Even so, they were sent tumbling to the ground, vomiting mouthfuls of blood. Countless bones throughout their bodies had been fractured.
Shen Youling fared the worst. She was just an ordinary person with no martial arts skills whatsoever. The back of her head collided heavily with the ground.
CRACK!
The hairpin made of Demon Spirit Wood, a gift from Mu Ping'an, snapped to pieces. It transford into specks of flowing light that, with a WHOOSH, drilled into her mind.
This…
In her shock, Shen Youling completely forgot the pain, and her pupils lost focus.
"Youling? Youling! Dammit, she's stopped breathing!"
"Damn it! That bastard Lin Tang, can't he fly? Why isn't he here yet?" Zhu Yingning and Mo Pinglan cried out in a panic.
BANG!
Number Seven leaped again, landing right in front of them. Just as he was about to grasp their necks and snap them, Lin Tang finally arrived.
His condition was far from ideal. His True Qi was nearly depleted, and his Golden Core had shrunk. But he had gained a significant advantage: his flying sword had been upgraded. Seeing that Shen Youling had stopped breathing made him furious.
With an easy flick of his flying sword, he carved out Number Seven's heart.
Normally, Number Seven's heart was like a machine's battery. Once removed, his body would instantly beco a corpse. But this shadow was truly bizarre. It sohow forced Number Seven's body to wrap its arms around Lin Tang.
"Look out! Get away from him!" Zhu Yingning scread.
If Lin Tang was also possessed and went berserk, everyone in the city would probably be killed.
"Hmph!"
Lin Tang's True Qi was nearly exhausted, but his Divine Sense was not. He imdiately launched a ntal attack, his Divine Sense clashing fiercely with the encroaching shadow on the spiritual plane.
BUZZ!
The shadow, which had just transferred onto Lin Tang, suddenly froze. Lin Tang also stood motionless.
His consciousness was instantly pulled into a chaotic, madness-filled, illusory world. In the boundless darkness, a multitude of starlights erged… no, not starlight, but the eyes of countless beasts in the night. They stared intently at Lin Tang, brimming with malice. Then they began to swirl, forming a vortex. At the center of the vortex, a twisted, indescribable, and unfathomable figure gradually appeared.
"I am the great deity, the supre ruler. I am the world's dark side, the origin of the Soul Sea. I am the Shadow Master! Submit to , believe in …"
"SO NOISY!"
BOOM!
Lin Tang's Divine Sense transford into a suprely yang True Dragon. With a roar, it tore the figure to shreds. Soaring through the darkness, it shattered every last eyeball.
"I will rember you…"
The voice faded away.
CRACK!
The entire illusory world shattered like a mirror, falling to pieces and dissipating.
Returning to reality, Lin Tang vibrated his True Qi, violently shaking the shadow from his body. He opened his mouth and spat out his entire Golden Core. Its surface blazed with Dan Fire, which instantly engulfed the shadow. Like gasoline, it ignited into a raging inferno.
The shadow writhed on the ground, letting out a piercing shriek, as excruciating as a knife scraping bone. In the blink of an eye, it was burned into nothingness, leaving only a pitch-black bead radiating an evil aura.
Seeing that the bead was also about to be destroyed, Lin Tang acted on impulse. As he recalled his Golden Core, he snatched the bead and sealed it away. He then collected Number Seven's body and heart into his Storage Ring before approaching Shen Youling and pressing a hand to her chest.
He began to use the Spring Breeze and Rain technique.
I'm running out of True Qi… Lin Tang's heart sank.
He took out the carriage he had seized earlier and forcefully broke off a large piece of wood. Without a second glance, he stuffed it into his mouth. It was incredibly crunchy with a fruity flavor, but it was so hard it scraped his throat. This was Jianmu, a wood typically used for crafting Magic Artifacts. But, at the end of the day, it was a plant. It could barely be considered a Spiritual dicine, and it could certainly be used to replenish True Qi.
Zhu Yingning and Mo Pinglan knew nothing of this. Seeing him chew and swallow the hard wood, they were stunned.
"Has he gone mad? He's actually eating wood…"
"How did he just wave his hand and make that body disappear? And where did that piece of wood co from?"
With his True Qi replenished by the Jianmu, all of Shen Youling's injuries vanished. Yet, she did not wake up. Lin Tang carefully checked her. Her soul was intact and whole. Her breathing and heartbeat had fully recovered. Her life was saved.
Why isn't she waking up? I'll have to figure it out later…
Lin Tang then healed Zhu Yingning and Mo Pinglan's injuries and instructed them to take good care of Shen Youling. Then, without a mont's rest, he departed at top speed.
「Abroad.」
Gan Leixin suddenly collapsed to the ground, convulsing and screaming. Qiu Yuxian and the others were terrified and imdiately rushed him to the hospital. But no matter what dicine the doctors administered, nothing worked, nor could they alleviate his pain.
A long ti later, Gan Leixin finally recovered, gasping for air.
How can this be? The evil spirit sent by that entity was actually destroyed? Sothing in this world can deal with it? Who could it be?!
He was utterly shocked and bewildered. Forgetting any thought of rest, he imdiately left the hospital and headed for a mysterious stronghold to beg the entity for answers.
「Jiangbei.」
On a highway in the city outskirts, a taxi driver with a numb expression had the gas pedal floored, speeding recklessly down the road.
BANG!
Lin Tang descended from the sky, kicking the hood of the car and bringing it to a screeching halt. His face was expressionless as he peered inside. There was only the driver; no one else.
Lee Encai's Communication Talisman lay on the passenger seat. With a grasping motion, Lin Tang made it fly back into his hand. At the sa ti, his Divine Sense twisted fiercely, and all the insects inside the driver's body died instantly.
"Huh? What's happening to …" The driver ca back to his senses, completely baffled.
By then, Lin Tang had already vanished.
A short while later, Lin Tang found Gu Zicheng. He wasn't dead, but his injuries were so severe that he was hanging on by a thread. Lin Tang didn't care whether he lived or died, but to find out what happened to Lee Encai, he had no choice but to take out another piece of Jianmu, gnawing on it while casting the Spring Breeze and Rain technique.
"Cough, cough—"
Gu Zicheng had barely co to before Lin Tang slapped him several tis.
"Useless! You can't even protect one person. What good are you to ?"
"Ouch! Ouch! Please, stop hitting …"
"Talk. Can you sense Lee Encai's location? If you can't, you can die!"
"Ah! Don't, don't kill ! I can! The corpses of the Gu bugs I raised left a lingering aura on her. She's in that direction!"
"At least you have so use."
Lin Tang grabbed him and soared into the sky once more.
"AHHHH—!"
Gu Zicheng was completely unprepared for this. It was an absolutely terrifying thrill. He never imagined that Lin Tang could actually fly.
Is he even human?
「In a secluded forest.」
Yan Luoyang quickly set up a ritual formation and threw the tightly bound Lee Encai into its center. Next, he took out a small bronze tripod and tossed so specially prepared fuel into it. Amid the curling blue smoke, all sorts of wild insects, poisonous and non-poisonous alike, were drawn in, converging in a frenzy.
Lee Encai had been terrified that Yan Luoyang would violate her. To her imnse relief, he didn't. But when she saw this scene, she nearly fainted from a new fear.
"You… you… you're not going to make eat those things, are you?"
Yan Luoyang gave her a cold glance but didn't answer. At his command, the wild insects began to kill and devour one another. It was as if ti had been sped up many tis over. In the blink of an eye, all the insects had been consud by the final victor, which had swelled to a size larger than a snake and had mutated into a grotesque shape.
After that, Yan Luoyang reluctantly took out a jade carving in the shape of a silkworm. The silkworm's mouth had distinct barbs. He jabbed the barbed mouth into the victorious insect.
An incredible scene unfolded. The silkworm, though clearly made of jade, sohow ca to life. Despite being only the size of a baby's fist, with a series of gulps, it completely drained the victor of all its bodily fluids.
The next mont, the sated silkworm crawled toward Lee Encai of its own accord.
"Yan Luoyang, I'm begging you, let go! I promise, when Lin Tang finds , I'll convince him to spare you, too. We can go our separate ways and never interfere with each other again, how about it?" Lee Encai pleaded through her tears. "If you do this to , Lin Tang will definitely kill you! You can still stop now before it's too late!"
Yan Luoyang sneered. "Even if Lin Tang can fly, he won't be able to find us anyti soon after all the false trails I left. Give another half hour, and I can force you to mature. It's true that this process will kill you the mont you're ripe, but I will gladly accept all of your power. By then, I will be the new Gu Immortal, and he will be the one who should be afraid!
"This is probably the last precious Ti Moth in the world. Consider it your honor to be its sustenance!"
As his words fell, the jade silkworm on Lee Encai's body grew stiff and thick. Then, it tore open, and an exceptionally beautiful moth erged from within. It spread its wings and took flight, dozens of tis faster than an ordinary moth.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
It circled Lee Encai at high speed, showering her with a fine powder. The multicolored dust was srizing, creating a dreamlike scene as it enveloped her.
Watching the spectacle, Lee Encai felt as if she were being hypnotized. Gradually, her eyes closed. Her hair began to turn white. A strange fragrance emanated from her body as white silken threads began to envelop her from the inside out.
In the blink of an eye, she had beco a giant cocoon.
And inside, she began to transform, and transform…
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