bayedsolid Chapter 414 Outwardly Strong but Inwardly Weak
Chapter 414 Outwardly Strong but Inwardly Weak
Unexpected events always seem to occur smoothly before success.
Before Nangong Xiyan could deal with the undead in front of her, another undead was attracted by the battle fluctuations.
As expected, Nangong Xiyan began to face a situation where she had to fight two opponents at once.
Even with Nangong Xiyan wielding a branch of the World Tree, the battle between the two undead with the strength of Martial Saints began to become difficult, as she was unable to defend herself against both.
Suddenly, two undead figures launched a sneak attack from the mist, one after the other.
A black ribbon, imbued with the power of death, enveloped Nangong Xiyan like a serpent, rapidly closing in.
Before the attack even officially began, the aura of death had already invaded Nangong Xiyan's body.
In an instant, the skin on Nangong Xiyan's face began to wrinkle visibly.
Even the three thousand strands of black hair on her head are starting to turn white.
In an instant, Nangong Xiyan looked as if she had aged decades.
The power of death is indeed that domineering.
However, the next second, the World Tree branch in Nangong Xiyan's hand shone brightly.
A verdant light enveloped Nangong Xiyan's body, instantly restoring the life force she had just lost.
In the blink of an eye, Nangong Xiyan's youthful and beautiful appearance was restored.
At the same time, a sharp rebuke came from Nangong Xiyan's mouth.
Spring is here and flowers are blooming!
As the sound rang out, a giant hibiscus flower appeared out of thin air and enveloped Nangong Xiyan's body.
With the blessing of the life force of the World Tree's branches, this seemingly delicate and fragile hibiscus flower firmly resisted the attack filled with the power of death.
Seeing this, the two undead hidden in the mist launched another attack.
Two black light waves, one after the other, flew out of the mist and landed on the surface of the hibiscus flower, merging with the original black ribbon and unleashing even greater power.
In an instant, the hibiscus flowers withered and fell petal by petal.
Then, the power of death swept through, and the hibiscus flower completely turned to ashes and vanished.
Nangong Xiyan's figure also vanished into thin air.
As Nangong Xiyan disappeared, the two spirits exchanged a glance, realized they were evenly matched and could do nothing to each other, so they left and vanished into the mist.
Of course, as the strongest prodigy of the Nangong family, Nangong Xiyan would not be so pathetic as to perish so tragically.
In fact, when Nangong Xiyan used "Spring Blossoms" just now, the hibiscus flower that appeared was not just the one seen by the two undead.
Beneath the ground, there was another hibiscus flower that looked exactly the same.
Moreover, once the hibiscus flower on the ground completely enveloped Nangong Xiyan's body, she seized the opportunity to unleash another unique skill of the Nangong family—the Flower Grafting Technique.
Thus, Nangong Xiyan's body was transferred from the hibiscus flower on the ground to the hibiscus flower underground, achieving the effect of deceiving the heavens and crossing the sea.
The two spirits from before, though possessing some intelligence, were not very intelligent. Upon seeing the hibiscus flower disappear, they subconsciously assumed that Nangong Xiyan, hidden within the flower, had also perished, and thus left without worry.
And shortly after the two spirits left.
A hibiscus flower suddenly sprouted from the ground and then slowly bloomed.
At the same time, Nangong Xiyan's stunning figure materialized and appeared.
At this moment, the World Tree branch had already disappeared from Nangong Xiyan's hands.
Instead, a black wooden sign was placed.
The wooden sign looked simple, like a piece of burnt charcoal, and was quite unremarkable.
However, this wooden plaque exuded a strong death energy, enveloping Nangong Xiyan's entire body.
Originally, Nangong Xiyan's presence as a living person would be like a guiding light in this misty area filled with the aura of death, instantly detected by the undead.
However, under the shroud of the wooden plaque's death power, Nangong Xiyan's life force vanished completely, replaced by a strong aura of death that blended seamlessly with the surrounding mist.
However, Nangong Xiyan did not act rashly. Instead, she stayed in place for a while to make sure that her aura was not leaking out and that no undead came looking for her before continuing to advance deeper into the misty area.
What Nangong Xiyan didn't know was that the two undead who had attacked her earlier, after thinking they had dealt with her, went back to their old ways.
That is, to seek out and devour undead weaker than oneself, or those black figures, in order to strengthen oneself.
Of course, in reality, there aren't many undead in the misty area, and most of them are of similar strength.
Therefore, infighting rarely occurs among the undead.
More often, they devour the weaker black figures.
Unfortunately, Chu Yunfan was also searching for and hunting these black figures at that moment.
Moreover, Chu Yunfan was hunting down the black figures while advancing deeper into the mist.
The result is obvious.
Not long after, Chu Yunfan officially encountered the undead.
Of course, just like Nangong Xiyan.
At first, Chu Yunfan only encountered one of the undead.
However, in one respect, Chu Yunfan was luckier than Nangong Xiyan.
In the instant they met, the undead did not attack Chu Yunfan directly, but instead treated him as an ordinary black figure.
He simply opened his mouth and inhaled, drawing Chu Yunfan into his body and beginning to refine him.
Chu Yunfan, however, played along and did not resist, allowing the undead to devour him.
Subsequently, Chu Yunfan launched a sneak attack from inside the undead's body with the Blade of Death, and in turn absorbed the power within the undead's body.
Moreover, after being absorbed into the body by the undead.
Chu Yunfan discovered that the soul power within the undead was not scattered throughout the body, but rather gathered at the center of the forehead, forming a ball of soul fire.
The moment Chu Yunfan saw the Soul Flame, he realized what was happening.
This ball of soul fire is the core of the undead's body, equivalent to the soul body of a cultivator.
Once this flame of soul is extinguished, the undead will die completely.
Therefore, Chu Yunfan did not hesitate at all and decisively took action, launching his strongest soul attack.
"Soul Storm!"
It is called a soul storm, but this storm is not composed of wind, but rather a sword storm composed of countless soul blades.
Once caught in the storm of blades, the soul will suffer the fate of being torn to pieces.
As can be seen, as soon as Chu Yunfan unleashed his Soul Storm, the soul fire between the spirit's brows began to fluctuate violently, like a candle flame in the wind.
In the blink of an eye, the soul fire within the undead's body was already riddled with wounds by the countless soul blades in the soul storm.
At the same time, a shrill and piercing sound emanated from the body of the undead.
Although the dead are not considered true life forms, they have no physical body and cannot feel physical harm.
However, the pain of the soul is unbearable for any living being.
It was this scream from the undead that made Chu Yun'e realize what was happening.
It turns out that the soul fire of the dead, though seemingly powerful, is actually quite potent.
In reality, it was just a collection of soul fragments from Martial Saint realm experts, a stitched-together monster that couldn't unleash its normal power.
They couldn't withstand his soul attack at all.
"So it was all bark and no bite!"
Upon realizing this, a smile instantly appeared in Chu Yunfan's eyes.
However, to Chu Yunfan's surprise, before he could completely deal with the undead in front of him, another undead appeared in his perception.
To be precise, it was the intense aura of death emanating from this new undead that triggered the Reaper's Blade's response.
The newly appeared undead was naturally attracted by the screams from earlier.