Wang Wei quickly ca up with a plan for the situation and executed it. He condensed his Proving Dao Artifact into a whip before teleporting before his opponent and whipping him. The Serenity's Ghost's face contorted in pain as this whip affected him in a way he had never experienced before.
"What have you done?"
Wang Wei frowned as he observed. The effect was not as potent as he wanted. The Serenity's Ghost released a tornado of Flas of Retribution, but Wang Wei's bolstered defenses rendered this attack useless. Instead, he continued whipping the enemy with his [Whip of Freedom]. His purpose was to free Dong An from his obsession, thus separating all these souls/spirits from his body.
Unfortunately for him, in this Chaos Universe, obsession was a power that defied common sense, and most ans of purification were useless to them. Of course, Wang Wei did not stop despite the subpar results. This was a good opportunity to understand this power and gather more data.
The Serenity's Ghost roared in agony and anger before going on the offensive: [Mortal Retribution]. His eyes suddenly turned golden and illusory, and before Wang Wei could react, he received a spiritual attack.
Wang Wei found himself before a towering and intimidating figure dressed in all black. The figure looked at him: "How do you plead?"
"Plead for what?"
"For all the atrocities you've committed," the figure reported before showing him a display of all the cris he had committed in his life.
"Is this a joke?" Wang Wei asked.
"You think I would joke about sothing so serious?"
"I thought we had already established I had no remorse for my actions," Wang Wei asked. "So, you admit you're soone without any morals?"
"I thought that was very clear," Wang Wei rebutted. His desire for freedom was absolute, aning he wanted to transcend morality. In other words, this was a fancy way of saying that the difference between him and the worst of society was his whim. He believed in no Gods for his morality, cared for no societal rules, and had absolute control of his empathy, aning his mortality was more logical than emotional.
"You scum of the world," the judge-like figure roared before a blinding light descended on Wang Wei. However, the thing was worthless, and his spirit returned to his body. He opened his eyes to Serenity's Ghost regenerating his fist and understood what happened.
The latter had attacked him while the other technique worked. Unfortunately, he could not bypass Wang Wei's first layer of defense that he created based on his Skin Flesh Ability. An Innate Magnetic Shield once protected his skin, and now, Wang Wei recreated it with an Innate Emptiness Shield. Anyone who attacks him will not only have to destroy that protective layer but also have to fight against the erasure of the Power of Nothingness. When Serenity's Ghost punched him, he lost his fist without even putting a dent in his protection.
[Liberation of Idea]
Wang Wei waved his hand to summon a pillar of light that bombarded Serenity's Ghost. The latter scread as a force was constantly trying to force him to abandon his grudge and vendetta, but the obsession in his body would never accept this outco.
Serenity's Ghost fought back with his own technique: [Society Retribution]. Cultivators had rules and laws they had to follow, and their primary difference from mortals was that they did not hold each other accountable — it was Heavenly Dao's job to keep them in check. So, with this technique, Serenity's Ghost essentially summoned the power of the law to punish Wang Wei.
'Divine Punishnt,' Wang Wei thought as he looked at the dark clouds above. 'Should I use this opportunity to remove more of my Fate Seed status?' However, he imdiately abandoned this idea since that thunder was not enough. Additionally, it was not the ti to be doing sothing like that.
Nurous thoughts flashed in his mind. He had plenty of ways to deal with this attack, with the easiest being using his Freedom Dao to escape all punishnts or laws placed on him. However, he had a better idea.
Boom!
The lightning bolt descended from the sky, and Wang Wei fought it. He scread in agony as the thunder scorched his body, burned his soul, and sundered his mind. A massive Yin-Yang Symbol materialized above his head to protect himself, but it was useless. Wang Wei's screams echoed between Heaven and Earth.
"Yes, yes, yes," Serenity's Ghost said. "This beautiful sound of pure agony — I have been waiting so long to hear it." He waved his hand to cast another spell: [Pain Penalty]. Wang Wei's lips secretly twitched. For all his life, he has been the one who increased people's pain, not the other way around. Regardless, since he was performing, he had to make it believable. So, his voice increased by a few octaves, and his body started twitching uncontrollably in certain places.
Serenity's Ghost was not finished, as he added a few more penalties to Wang Wei, ensuring he suffered to the fullest extent. By the ti he stopped, Wang Wei wasn't wholly acting as the pain had reached the threshold of his willpower.
"You might be an amoral piece of shit who thought no laws could judge you, but you were wrong," Serenity's Ghost said as he approached. "There is justice in the world, and retribution always cos for people like yourself."
Wang Wei knelt on the ground with his black and white robe tattered and his hair disheveled. He glanced at his enemy with hatred, anger, and regret.
"Is that regret I sensed? What? Regret what you've done?"
"I…I regret…I didn't…kill all…of you," Wang Wei answered with gritted teeth.
"Good, good, good," Serenity's Ghost uttered. "My greatest fear is you would be a coward that asked for rcy, that begged for his life. It would be too disappointing if you were this weak-willed."
Serenity's Ghost smiled before holding Wang Wei by the neck. He cast the technique [Divine Retribution: Life Absorption]. All energy and power from Wang Wei's body left his body, turning his potent fleshly body into skin and bone.
"I am so glad I ca to this trial. Otherwise, killing you would have been a pain," Serenity's Ghost said. The rules of the trial still applied to them, aning dying here was permanent death. In all his life, this was the first ti Serenity's Ghost beca a Paragon, so he had never trained his ChronoSpirit battle skills.
"It's almost as if destiny had been waiting for your demise," Serenity's Ghost continued with a gentle smile. "Now then, enough with the chit-chat." He crushed Wang Wei's body and soul. As he watched the remains turn into dust scattered in the void, a single tear dropped from Dong An's right eye.
"It's finally over," he muttered. "Father, Feng'er, everyone, I can finally join you." An intense aura emanated from Dong An's body to release myriad black floating faces.
"So, it's over?"
"It appears so."
"aning we are free?"
"Yes."
"Does anyone feel sothing is wrong?"
"What do you an?"
"It felt too easy. Or maybe we miss sothing."
"You think he is faking his death?"
"I just checked. His Dao Imprint is gone."
"All his karma is gone."
"I can't sense his na in the Book of Life and Death."
"His Fate has been severed."
"You're worrying too much. It's obvious that he's gone."
"You guys are right. It seems like I worry too much."
"You've always been like this."
"Boy Dong An, are you sure you want to do this?"
"There is no point in convincing ," Dong An answered. "This has always been the plan."
"But that bastard had a point. Maybe you can see everybody again."
"Yes, we might be done, but it doesn't have to be the sa for you."
Dong An shook his head. He had died that day, and his current self was only the shelf—the embodint of his desire for revenge. So, he took one last look at these obsessions: "Thank you for accompanying all this ti. You made the journey less lonely."
09:04
Dong An truly smiled for the first ti in probably hundreds of millions of yuan epochs before destroying his vitality and soul. Unlike his first death, or the countless others, this one was peaceful, and Dong An died with a smile on his face.
"Do you think we did sothing wrong?" soone asked.
"No, we did not. We were born for only one reason. Our objective must be accomplished no matter the price paid."
"You're right."
"Alright, it's ti to end this wretched existence."
As the obsession disappeared, a gravitational force pulled them into one place, which soon revealed to be an orb in Wang Wei's palm. "Phh, that was exhausting." He went above and beyond to fake his death.
First, he found the flaw in Dong An's soul to weave the illusion before hiding himself with the Heaven Deception Array. Then, he had to remove his Dao Imprint and hide it with the sa array. He used his Fate Dao to change his fate to being dead, hid all his karmic lines, and even used his Death Dao to make it even more believable.
'The sect must be freaking out,' Wang Wei thought. During this deception, his Soul Fla should have been extinguished. Even worse, people with deep karma with him should have felt he was dead, including his future wife locked in the Dark Truth. 'Let's hope she won't bla after finding the truth.'
Wang Wei smiled. Although he went to extre lengths, it was worth it because of the gain. He looked at the orb and muttered: "Your obsession is to kill . But what if I could change that obsession to keep alive?" Dong An's immortality was sothing worth all that hassle. Although Wang Wei did not know whether he would succeed, it was worth trying.
"I'm already late, so let's hurry." He imdiately started checking this creature's [Existence]. However, Wang Wei was imdiately confused. The blueprint already looked like the nonsense graffiti of a toddler, so he usually used his body as a reference to examine people. However, he realized this aspect was almost useless for this creature since their life level was on another scale.
'It's like a two-dinsional life form trying to understand a three-dinsional creature,' Wang Wei complained. For now, he could only morize this thing for later use. As for the inner core area, he had to try another approach.
He used the spirit particle that was already inside to find the area in the blueprint to correspond to the inner dinsion of this place. Luckily, his Space Dao was high enough, so he soon found what he sought. Wang Wei did not enter with his actual body but sent a puppet controlled by his spirit particle.
"Let's hope I'm not too late."
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