\nThe Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd was a mid-divine tier soul armament. It had no spirit in it, but it was still overwhelmingly powerful. So powerful in fact that even the Returner Armor would have trouble fending off a blow from it. And a downward swing of it onto the head would be impossible to stop.
There wasnât any time for Bai Yunfei to recall the Cataclysmic Seal or Fire-tipped Spear to save him. He had been caught right as he was activating Soul Ignition! He hadnât the chance to move out of the way or block it with anything, but that didnât mean Bai Yunfei was going to die that easily!
He didnât have to move at all, in fact. All he needed to do was just think!
The downward stroke of Liang Yinshenâs halberd was true. It went through Bai Yunfeiâs head and then the rest of his body!
But he didnât feel any âresistanceâ. Liang Yinshen felt as though he had just whiffed air! In front of him, Bai Yunfeiâs outline flickered as if transparent. His attack went through an illusion of him!
Liang Yinshen roared in anger. He wasnât going to be outdone by the same move twice! Having predicted that something like this would happen, he brought his halberd back and waited. He knew that in two seconds, Bai Yunfei would reappear in his original spot!
Liang Yinshen wasnât going to hold back. It was a simple matter to wait and prepare for Bai Yunfei to reappear! Twisting his waist to bring his halberd back, Liang Yinshen swung his halberd so that itâd travel through Bai Yunfeiâs hip and bisect him in half!
It was a killing stroke thatâd certainly kill Bai Yunfei if it struck. Whether by bisection or having his spine crushed by the blow, Bai Yunfei was sure to die!
On the eve of Liang Yinshenâs victory, the loud clanging sound of metal hitting metal could be heard. He felt metallic resistance push back at his halberd. The shock transmitted up through his weapon and into his hands, jolting them enough for his skin to crack!
Bai Yunfei did appear in the same spot two seconds later as Liang Yinshen thought. But the Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd didnât go through him as expectedâit was stopped by a golden piece of armor!
âThe Triumphant Flame!!â
Liang Yinshen gasped in surprise!
The Regalia, the Triumphant Flame, stopped his fatal blow!
Bai Yunfei had already prepared the Core Stoneâs effect to save himself. He was more than ready to dodge the deadly attack and wasnât at all worried about Liang Yinshenâs attack. Though not worried, Bai Yunfei knew he wasnât out of danger just yet. Since his strength was already back thanks to Soul Ignition, he thought about what technique would be best to deal with him.
Though he wasnât able to use the Triumphant Flame as he wished, Bai Yunfei was still able to make use of the powerful defenses it offered. It was essentially a shield for him to make use of to block Liang Yinshenâs attack.
Liang Yinshenâs blow wasnât enough to stop Bai Yunfei from doing anything else. His right hand blurred for just a second before he retrieved the Vampiric Demon Edge from his space ring!
A bloody light pulsated out from the Vampiric Demon Edge once it appeared; itâs +12 additional effect had activated!
+12 Additional Effect: Heal from all wounds instantaneously. Increase all stats by 300% and dull the sense of pain by 50% for an hour.All damage sustained within that hour will have its severity amplified by 200% afterward.Cooldown of 24 hours.
But that wasnât the end! Another part of Bai Yunfeiâs body burst open to draw out blood from the wound. Amounts of it flowed eerily from the wound toward his right arm and into the Vampiric Demon Edge!
+10 Additional Effect: Pay a blood price to increase the power of the user and item. Gain 1% of attack and 2% increase to overall stats for every percentage of blood taken. Duration ends when no more blood is given.
This was the moment Bai Yunfei had been waiting for. After using Soul Ignition to replenish his strength, heâd use the +12 additional effect of the Vampiric Demon Edge to increase his strength and the +10 additional effect to increase it again!
On the other side, Liang Yinshen was in a heavy state of confusion. Rather than kill Bai Yunfei, he watched as his opponent survive the deadly blow and suddenly exploded with strength!
Bai Yunfei wasnât at the level of a Mid-stage Soul Saint anymore, his aura was reflecting that of a Late-stage Soul Saint!
The pigment of Bai Yunfeiâs skin grew red. Similarly, his eyes grew pink as blood seeped into them. He roared primalistically before swinging the Vampiric Demon Edge vehemently at Liang Yinshenâs waist!
The cry Liang Yinshen gave was one of deep-seated fear. He could no longer ignore how big of a threat Bai Yunfei was! In a rapidly-made decision, the man reflexively brought his halberd back to protect himself.
Something metallic slammed into his halberd, but Bai Yunfei felt as if all of the force had been transferred into him instead. The bones in his arms cracked under the pressure before the rest of his body was blown away like a recently-fired cannonball!!
Pain gripped at his heart, but not due to his arm bones cracking. The object that was breaking apart wasâŚnone other than the Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd!!
Several cracks could already be seen on the surface of the halberd!
The Soul Sealing Mandate said before that Liang Yinshen had greatly damaged the Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd in his battle with Wu Tianhun. Its current state was hardly better than back then with its spirit destroyed and its vessel practically in pieces, but at least it was battle-capable for just a little longer.
But continual assault by the Cataclysmic Seal and the Fire-tipped Spear had nearly knocked out the rest of its durability. A blow from the Vampiric Demon Edge was enough to cause the halberd to lose the very last of its durability!
The last of Liang Yinshenâs calmness was gone. The damage to his halberd was far too much for him to handle. He was panicking. Wiping the blood from his lips, he began to circulate his soulforce to stabilize himself.
The rapid sound of wind displacement frightened him even more. Bai Yunfei wasnât flying toward him, meaning something else was coming at him!
Looking back around, he saw a giant-sized Cataclysmic Seal come crashing into him!\nLeft without a choice, Liang Yinshen was forced to bring his weakened halberd up in front of him.
The cry of pain that chimed out from the Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd was even worse than when it clashed against the Vampiric Demon Edge. Against another Regalia, the halberd could only groan and send more of the force into Liang Yinshen instead.
Arms shaking, Liang Yinshen watched as his hands were forced to loosen and drop the halberd from his grip before he was once again sent flying.
A good portion of Liang Yinshenâs moral dropped once his Regalia had been disarmed from him. He didnât even manage to try and stage a counterattack when he saw an even more frightful sight!
The Cataclysmic Seal exploded with a red light, showering the entire world with its glow and enveloping the Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd in it. The halberd flew into the Cataclysmic Seal, and like a stone sinking into water, it slowly melted into the Cataclysmic Seal!
The +14 additional effect had finally activated!!
âWhatâŚâ Liang Yinshenâs pupils were the size of a needle now. His jaw dropped open and his face went pale as the pain in his soul suddenly spiked! His connection with the Thunder Godâs Judging Halberd had been severed!
Liang Yinshen let out a heart-wrenching scream of pain as the loss of his soul armament hit him. Black and violet light exploded off from him in violent bursts as he clutched at his head with both hands and began to thrash about!
Even during his thrashes of pain and agony, Liang Yinshen was still on the alert. He could hear something else coming at him! A figure in red with a bloody sword! Like lightning, the figure flickered toward him before raising his sword up to deliver a downward stroke!
But there was still more to that attack! From his left and right, a red streak and a gray streak f;ew at him! The Fire-tipped Spear and the Soul Extinguishing Needle!
A three-pronged attack! Escape was an impossibility now. Death was all but confirmed. Steeling his nerves, Liang Yinshen raised both of his hands to begin performing a series of arcane-looking handseals!
Energy began to roll off in waves from Liang Yinshen, but in ways that were both mysterious and unsettlingly powerfulâŚ
Then in the next secondâŚall three of Bai Yunfeiâs attacks converged!
The Vampiric Demon Edge made contact first. Cleaving air and biting into his flesh, the Vampiric Demon Edge cut down his left shoulder and across to his torso to the right side of his hips!
The next was the Soul Extinguishing Needle. It pierced Liang Yinshenâs throat while the Fire-tipped Spear embedded itself deep into his chest!
Bai Yunfeiâs eyes lit up with glee for a moment before he realized his mistake, âWait! ThisâŚthis is just an avatar!!â
Despite his sword cutting the man practically in two, Bai Yunfei didnât see any blood! Not a single trace of blood could be seen from any of the three wounds despite Liang Yinshenâs aura dropping drastically! The reason why it dropped wasnât because his strength was waningâŚbut because it wasnât his real body! It was an avatar Bai Yunfei just struck!
A powerful aura popped to life several kilometers away shortly afterward; Liang Yinshenâs real body had somehow appeared out of thi nair!
Somehow, through his arcane ability, Liang Yinshen managed to switch places with his avatar!
That was how he survived! Rather than take on a fatal blow himself, Liang Yinshen switched his body out with an avatar! It would hurt him immensely, but heâd still be alive!
An avatar didnât have a body made from flesh and blood, but damage done to it was the same as doing damage to the soul. The attacks from the three soul armaments were all powerful in their own capabilities, and their combined forces equated to a tremendous amount of pain for Liang Yinshen. A majority of his strength bled out from him when his avatar was struck, but not even that was enough to hide the fury he held for Bai Yunfei!
He was going to self-destruct!!
Before his avatar could fully disappear, heâd force it to self-destruct!
Just as his avatar was beginning to prime itself to blow up, a white ball of light flew toward it!
It had been another surprise for Bai Yunfei to see his opponent escape death again, but he still had a few tricks up his sleeves! Before the avatar could go through with self-destruction, Bai Yunfei threw out the Soul Sealing Mandate!
The effect was instantaneous. Its power activated, the Soul Sealing Mandate let out a flash of white light and covered Liang Yinshenâs avatar in it!
The rapid build-up of soulforce came to a stop at once. Liang Yinshenâs avatar stood there, frozen stiff now that it was sealed!
Bai Yunfei turned his attention back to Liang Yinshen just in time to see him break free from Shen Pojun, Xiao Qi, and Wu Lieâs encirclement. He was trying to fly back down to earth!
Bai Yunfei roared. Calling his soul armaments back to him, Bai Yunfei began to follow Liang Yinshen back down!