Floating Immortal Order

Chapter 83: Girl

Chapter 83: Girl

Hearing that, Bai Zhehua didn’t respond. Instead, he channeled even more profound qi into the lotus platform Spirit Tool, causing the white light spilling forth from it to shine even more intensely.

Xu Disheng was a lot more laid back. He casually grabbed a resentful soul and tossed it into his Soul Suppressing Vestment. “What, do you take the two of us for idiots? After you manage to break through to the Evil Spirit stage, we’ll probably be the first ones you’ll kill,” Xu Disheng jeered with a smile.

Seeing that the two of them didn’t fall for it, the ghostly face became even more sinister and it began to shriek loudly. A stream of ghostly qi transformed into ghostly claws, rushing out of the array towards the two of them.

Bai Zhehua said in a grave tone, “Junior Martial Brother Xu, block these ghost claws and buy me a bit of time. This bastard is at the most important juncture of its breakthrough. We absolutely can’t let it succeed.”

When he finished speaking, he began to flash different hand symbols which shot towards the lotus platform, causing the ghostly qi below to sizzle with a ‘zizi’ sound. The scene that played out was like the scorching sun beating relentlessly upon a field of snow, as the ghostly qi began to rapidly melt away.

Xu Disheng released the large Soul Force palm. In the next moment, light began to fill the area, and a small imperial seal appeared, filled with a baleful aura. At a glance, it was easy to tell that it was a top-grade attack-type Spirit Tool.

Xu Disheng extended a finger, and the Severing Spirit Seal suddenly grew larger, the baleful aura emanating from it ballooning as it ferociously smashed down towards the ghost claws that were coming in their direction!

Bang!

The ghost claws fizzled out, reverting back into black energy. The might of the Severing Spirit Seal continued downwards unabated, getting bigger and bigger as it advanced. Once it was about to slam into the array, it was already as big as a house!

The Malicious Spirit inside of the array shrieked horrendously and condensed ghostly qi into a massive shield which managed to block the crushing force of the Severing Spirit Seal.

The Severing Spirit Seal flew back, gradually shrinking along the way as it returned to Xu Disheng’s hand. After the ghostly qi shield took the brunt of that attack, it wasn’t left in good shape. It had become a lot more transparent, and it finally transformed back into ghostly qi, returning back into the array.

“This ghost is at a critical point in its breakthrough. Right now, it can’t use more than 50% of its strength. We should kill it when it’s down, Junior Martial Brother Xu. Let’s attack together and take it out!” Bai Zhehua said.

Both of them had already seen that the ghost couldn’t display its full might, and on top of that, it had to protect the array. If it didn’t want the array to be destroyed by these two, it could only passively take the beating instead.

If both of them were to act at the same time, the attack would be even stronger.

“Summon Rain,” Xu Disheng uttered after putting away the Severing Spirit Seal. His black and gold Daoist robe began to flap in the wind, and his long, ink black hair began to float and flutter along with it. More than a dozen cyan raindrops appeared above the array. Although they were small, each and every drop of rain was emitting an extremely tyrannical aura.

“Celestial Tide Spirit Master’s Azure Ocean cultivation method?” Bai Zhehua muttered, his complexion freezing as if he somewhat doubted his eyes. He knew that it wasn’t the time to be asking about this, so his hands didn’t stop moving as he continued to unleash the lotus platform Spirit Tool’s burning, luminous light on the array below.

The raindrops pounded down unrelentingly! Every single raindrop was saturated with an intensely powerful corrosive aura, creating massive, indelible craters on the array everywhere they landed. More than 10 resentful souls filled with a huge amount of ghostly qi rushed out of the array. But before they could escape, they were snatched out of the air by a swipe of Xu Disheng’s massive Soul Force palm.

“Damn you all!” Unable to contain its anger, the Malicious Spirit gave up on defending the array and decided to simply withdraw to the bottommost corner of the array.

Seeing that the Malicious Spirit had practically given up on its resistance, Bai Zhehua smiled and said, “Even though you’re weak, as the mountain god of Tongyin Mountain, you had an inexhaustible lifespan. Why did you give up your divine rank and willingly transform into a ghost?”

The Malicious Spirit was silent for a while before eventually speaking. “Divine rank? As such a low-ranking mountain god, how was I any different from an ant? Trapped in this mountain, with neither freedom nor any hope of progress… It’s no different from an eternal prison. At that point, it was better to just turn into a ghost. At least that way, I could have some freedom. Even if my body was crushed and my soul extinguished, I still wouldn’t be willing to return to that horrible captivity! Hahahahah!”

The array quivered intensely as ghostly qi dispelled, mirroring the intense waves in the Malicious Spirit’s mood.

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These kinds of scenarios weren’t that uncommon. There were some low-ranking mountain gods and river deities who resided in poor, barren areas. Even if they were to cultivate for ten thousand years, they would only be able to increase their Divine Force by a bit, but it was still far from being enough to promote to the next divine rank.

Of course, the outcome was entirely different for those divine descendents who had a large backer. Take for example, Divine General Tianrui, who was defending the Human Path of Reincarnation. When he was born, he was only the most ordinary of ghost civilians in the Nine Serenities Realm. It was only because he had the blood of the Grandmaster of Rotation that he was able to receive the edict of the Heavenly Court and ascend to such heights in a single step. After his body was washed of ghostly qi and remade into a divine body, he was bestowed the position of a 4th Rank Divine General and assigned the task of guarding the Human Path of Reincarnation with three million ghost soldiers beneath him!

Just as Bai Zhehua was shaking his head, about to speak…

“Senior Martial Brother Bai! This guy is stalling for time!” Xu Disheng exclaimed, his expression becoming even more grave. At the bottom of the array, he could gradually feel the aura of an Evil Spirit emanating outwards.

Bai Zhehua’s expression changed greatly. “This bastard actually gave up on a portion of its essence to forcefully break through to the Evil Spirit stage! Even though doing so will limit its future prospects, it’ll still be a genuine Evil Spirit!” Bai Zhehua put away the lotus platform and summoned the massive flying sword. “Junior Martial Brother Xu, hurry up and get on. The two of us won’t be able to deal with this Evil Spirit. We should take advantage of the time that it’s still breaking through to hurry and run away,” Bai Zhehua said urgently.

Without the suppression of the white light coming from the lotus platform, the Evil Spirit stage aura coming from the array became even more concentrated. The entire array also began to slowly shrink and contract.

Xu Disheng gazed down at the resentful souls trapped in the ghostly qi, somewhat reluctant to part with the gains right before him. In this time, he had already absorbed more than a dozen resentful souls, which all belonged to the villagers. After their souls had been sucked into the array by the Malicious Spirit, they already had no way of reincarnating, so it was convenient for Xu Disheng.

There were still more than a hundred resentful souls in the array, but it was already too late for him to absorb them now. He got on the massive flying sword with Bai Zhehua, and after a short moment, they were streaking across the sky in a purple beam, beating a swift retreat.

The massive array surrounding the dozen or so villages shrank and contracted, finally condensing into a humanoid form, shrouded with ghostly mist.

When the ghostly qi dissipated, there was a slender, beautiful girl with white teeth and red lips sitting there, completely naked.

The girl looked in the direction of the purple beam of light, her heart filled with hateful spite. “Those guys caused me to lose half of my essence, damn it!” she grumbled to herself.

She felt frustrated, since she definitely didn’t dare to chase after them, even if she was at the Evil Spirit stage, which was said to be similar to the Dao Foundation stage on the surface. If she ran into a Dao Foundation stage disciple from the Sacred Sect, she would be turned into ashes in an instant.

After waving her hand, a pink dress appeared on her body, making her appear even more fair and elegant.

“The feeling of freedom is truly wonderful, but I need a bit of blood nourishment. However, I can’t show myself in the lands under the jurisdiction of the Shangqing Sacred Sect. I need to get far away from here, fast.”

The girl transformed into a black wind, blending and disappearing into the air between heaven and earth.

The towering Tongyin Mountain stood there as tall as ever. But the foot of the mountain, which was once brimming with lively vigor, was now completely silent. All that remained were a dozen or so deathly still villages.

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