BXBX NOVEL Chapter 112: Playing with the Soul?
Chapter 112: Playing with the Soul?
Chapter 112: Playing with the Soul??
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“You have obtained 12,560 points.”
Xu Disheng put away the point token with a flat expression. He stepped on the Yin Yang Diagram and ascended into the air, in search of his next target.
… …
Three days passed.
Xu Disheng went around plundering point tokens from ordinary disciples, killing mirage demons here and there. He had over 400,000 points in his token by now.
Most of the disciples he ran into in the last few days were quite discreet. As soon as they were found by Xu Disheng, they would hand over their point tokens and leave the realm by themselves.
These disciples had a clear view of things, so Xu Disheng just let them return to the sect. He didn’t kill them in cold blood, since He Junyu specifically told him to refrain from killing other disciples where he could.
It wasn’t for any reason other than the fact that mindless killing could negatively impact how the higher-ups of the sect viewed him, and even affect future promotions or the distribution of cultivation resources to him. If not for anything else, he had to be mindful of that.
On the huge screen back in the Green Lotus Domain, Xu Disheng’s name was listed as 23rd place, prominent under the gaze of tens of thousands of people.
The disciples who had Magic Treasures capable of flight had deliberately avoided each other for the past few days. Hence, even though Xu Disheng had encountered some of the top ranked disciples, no battles had broken out between them. After a subtle hint to each other, they would go their separate ways.
But right now, there were only 3 days remaining out of the 7 days allotted for the round. Aside from a scant few ordinary disciples who were hidden especially well, the only people that remained on Lightning Cloud Stone Island were the several dozen top ranking disciples.
The few thousand participating disciples had pretty much all been expelled from the stage, aside from those that had met an unexpected death. The rankings for these people were now fixed, unable to be changed anymore at this point.
“Xu Disheng?” a girl in a red dress called from her perch atop a white array flag, blocking Xu Disheng’s path.
“Hm?” Xu Disheng lightly knit his brows as he stood there floating in midair on the Yin Yang Diagram. “Do you have some business with me, Senior Martial Sister?”
This girl in a red dress was one of the geniuses whose details were recorded in the information jade slip. Her name was Zuo Yanran, and possessed a cultivation at the peak Sea of Qi stage. She owned two top-grade Magic Treasures, and had placed 11th in the first round of the tournament.
Zuo Yanran sized up Xu Disheng and the charming cherry lips on her small, pretty face curled into a smile. “You’re actually pretty cute, Junior Martial Brother Xu. It’s just a shame your strength is a bit lacking.”
With a dainty flick of her red muslin sleeves, she pointed a delicate finger at the point token at Xu Disheng’s waist. “What I want is that. Then, you can crush your survival token and go back, okay? After all, your ranking shouldn’t be that low by this point. You should have at least reached the top 30 by now.”
The youth laughed and fired back, “You’re quite beautiful yourself, Senior Martial Sister. It’s just a shame your brains are a bit lacking.”
“You’re courting death!” Zuo Yanran shouted, her face flush with humiliation and rage. “Previously, Senior Martial Brother He told all the other fellow disciples to treat you a bit nicely and look after you. It was only to give Senior Martial Brother He face that I even bothered to speak with you first. Now you seriously have the nerve to think you’re something special now? You’re just crutching on the two Magic Treasures that the Celestial Tide Spirit Master gave you. Your ego is inflated to the roof!”
Clearly, Zuo Yanran had a misunderstanding that Celestial Tide Spirit Master was backing Xu Disheng.
Xu Disheng simply made a silent note of He Junyu’s favor, then lifted his gaze, his eyes filled with an indomitable battle intent. “Then fight me,” he declared.
11th place in the first round of the tournament, and a genius with two Magic Treasures. But so what?
Just fight.
Zuo Yanran didn’t bother to squabble further. A large array flag appeared in her hands, which she immediately activated. An intense gale swept up!
Light and shadow warped before Xu Disheng’s eyes, and the stone rooms around him were suddenly no longer there. His surroundings were a desolate, barren wasteland, filled with flurrying yellow dust.
An illusion array?
The illusion array didn’t seem that realistic, but the feeling that this heaven and earth gave him was extremely familiar. The somewhat damaged rules of the realm were just like… the Chu Territory! However, the area was countless times smaller.
So this was the world brought about by that top-grade array flag Magic Treasure?
While he was in the middle of his thoughts, Zuo Yanran’s melodious voice rang out from somewhere in the sky. “You don’t have a top-grade Magic Treasure, so you definitely won’t be able to block the suppression of my White Lotus Array Flag, Junior Martial Brother Xu. Now that you’ve been taken into my array flag, I’m going to run all over you, you know?”
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Xu Disheng ignored her, silently perceiving the world inside the array flag.
The world inside his Yin Yang Diagram could also take in all kinds of things, but it was limited to inanimate objects. The only animate entities it could take in were ghosts and souls.
This array flag was a top-grade Magic Treasure. As long as the owner had sufficient strength, any living being could be taken in and suppressed by it. Before they could react, the enemy would already find themselves taken into the White Lotus Array Flag.
Petals of white lotus appeared, drifting towards him along the wind.
There was a tremendous pressure pressing down on the space between heaven and earth. Xu Disheng could also feel that the flurrying yellow dust wasn’t simply flying past him. Rather, every fleck of dust was slowly tearing away his profound qi, eroding it away little by little.
There was simply too much yellow dust filling the air. In just a few breaths of time, the profound qi in Xu Disheng’s body had already diminished by 10-20%.
Xu Disheng took out a Qi Boosting Pill and ingested it, temporarily alleviating his worries about his profound qi. But right now, his enemy was hidden, so it was difficult to find a way to free himself. How could he escape from the White Lotus Array Flag?
Several white petals slipped through the protective barrier of the Soul Suppressing Vestment. They floated and whirled along, disappearing into his sea of consciousness.
Zuo Yanran sounded pleased as her voice resounded from the sky once more. “This trusty Soul-Devouring White Lotus Spell in my array flag is one of those rare soul attacking techniques. It can slowly erode away at your mind, and at the end, you’ll be left a complete idiot! What will you do, Junior Martial Brother Xu? Will you hand over your point token? Right now, you’re just a piece of meat on a butchering block. What, you’re actually still thinking of trying to escape?”
Xu Disheng’s expression was indeed a bit strange. When those petals of white lotus slipped through his defenses and entered his sea of consciousness, they didn’t erode away at his mind at all. On the contrary, they ended up being suppressed and absorbed by the cyan jade flute in his sea of consciousness, increasing his overall Soul Force by a certain amount.
However…
“Ahh! What are these white lotus petals? How come I feel myself getting weaker for some reason?!” Xu Disheng exclaimed in anguish, buckling to the ground with a painful expression on his face as he let even more white lotus petals flood into his sea of consciousness.
“As I just said, these Soul-Devouring White Lotus Petals are part of one of those extremely rare soul attacking techniques. It’s a remarkable ability that comes from my White Lotus Array Flag! If an ordinary Dao Foundation stage cultivator was taken into my array flag, even they would have their mind eroded away and eventually meet death!” Zuo Yanran gloated, sounding inwardly elated. This attack move was the one that she was the most proud of. Seeing Xu Disheng’s face wracked with pain, her petite, attractive face curled into a smile.
“Didn’t you say you wanted to fight just now? Look at you, you can’t even touch the hem of my dress. Just who did you think you were up against?” Zuo Yanran jeered.
Xu Disheng’s expression became even more pained. He was half-kneeling on the ground, his head deeply lowered. The jade band binding his hair had also come loose at some point, letting his long, inky black hair flow down freely.
As Zuo Yanran looked at Xu Disheng inside of the array flag, she suddenly felt something seemed a bit off. Normally, when a living being was being suppressed, the white lotus petals would enter their body and erode a portion of their mind. But at the same time, there would also be another portion of Soul Force extracted from the target which would usually cycle back to power the White Lotus Array Flag so it would become stronger over time and release even more Soul-Devouring White Lotus Petals, to be repeated ad infinitum.
Several dozens of Soul-Devouring White Lotus Petals had already entered his sea of consciousness, but the array flag hadn’t received any Soul Force back whatsoever. The white lotus petals were disappearing, like rocks being thrown into the ocean!
Zuo Yanran suddenly guessed that Xu Disheng had some sort of Magic Treasure that could protect his mind. She gave a cold snort and said, “Looks like you were hiding yourself quite deeply, Junior Martial Brother Xu. Who would have thought that you actually have a Magic Treasure that is capable of protecting your mind? But my White Lotus Array Flag isn’t something that some shoddy second-rate Magic Treasure can resist!”
With that, she took two Qi Boosting Pills and poured even greater power into the Soul-Devouring White Lotus Petals in an attempt to break through the defenses of the ‘mind-protecting Magic Treasure’ that he supposedly had.
Countless white lotuses appeared in the air above the barren wasteland setting of the array flag, rushing crazily towards Xu Disheng’s mind.
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