112: parasitic!

Crack! Crack!

Amongst the many echoing chewing sounds, a new sound of stone being crunched suddenly emerged.

And among the many chewing sounds, this one was the loudest.

It reverberated in everyone's ears.

There was no need to guess.

This was the sound of the entire Crimson Tiger stone statue being crunched.

The three Blood Martial Realm Elders' faces turned ashen.

Their eyes were filled with despair.

They never would have imagined… that the Crimson Tiger Totem would be snatched by a Ghoulish Spirit!

And even directly swallowed and crunched by the Ghoulish Spirit.

In an instant.

Whether it was the Entering Martial Realm Night Watch, or the Qi Martial Realm Inner Sect Disciples, including the three Blood Martial Realm Elders, signs of weakening instantly appeared on their bodies.

The Qi and blood of the Entering Martial Realm Night Watch became unstable.

The Qi Strength fluctuations of the Qi Martial Realm Inner Sect Disciples were extremely intense.

The auras of the three Blood Martial Realm Elders weakened rapidly.

They all showed signs of their cultivation about to regress.

The reason for this… was because they all cultivated the Crimson Tiger Art.

And the Crimson Tiger Art originated from the Crimson Tiger Totem.

Once the Crimson Tiger Totem encountered a problem.

Everyone who cultivated the Crimson Tiger Art would be affected.

At this moment, not only were the people in Jin Yun City affected.

Even the Sect Master and other disciples within the sect all experienced unstable cultivation.

“What happened?!”

Guo Chengdao’s expression changed drastically.

He instantly realized that there was a problem with the Crimson Tiger Totem.

“It’s over!”

“Everything is over!”

The three Blood Martial Realm Elders’ faces were grim.

They had completely despaired.

Originally, with their strength, their chances of defeating the Ghoulish Spirit were not high.

Now the Crimson Tiger Totem had also been swallowed by the Ghoulish Spirit.

Their entire cultivation would begin to drop.

This made their hearts even more bitter.

This time… they were completely finished!

The rest of the Red Tiger Sect disciples and Night Watch, in their horror, also felt an unprecedented great crisis.

Now that the strongest three Blood Martial Realm Elders among them were also helpless.

There was even less they could do.

What awaited them… was only death!

In front of this terrifyingly powerful Ghoulish Spirit, they saw no hope at all.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

The tentacles that had been blown apart now retracted one after another.

Then, they regrew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This was a major characteristic of a Ghoulish Spirit.

Difficult to eliminate!

As everyone despaired.

Not far from the Ghoulish Spirit.

Xiao Shi, who had entered the Tai Yin, was hidden there; neither the many evil spirits around him nor the massive Ghoulish Spirit detected his presence.

However, Xiao Shi in the Tai Yin also showed signs of cultivation regression.

This made him frown.

The sense of crisis in his heart grew stronger.

He knew.

At this point, he could no longer rely on the three Blood Martial Realm Elders.

To resolve this crisis.

He could only rely on himself!

“Then the only hope…”

Xiao Shi lowered his head.

He looked at the bracelet on his wrist.

A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.

“I’ll go all out!!”

Xiao Shi did not hesitate at all.

He decisively released the Battle Soul within the bracelet…!

Buzz!

As the bracelet vibrated.

Among the three gems on the bracelet, the bright one quickly dimmed.

Immediately after… a massive soul body, covered in blood-colored armor, wearing a helmet with a cross mark, and with darkness inside the helmet, suddenly flew out from Xiao Shi’s bracelet.

He also had a tall warhorse beneath him, entirely covered in blood-colored armor.

Upon its appearance.

A towering battle intent immediately erupted from this blood-armored knight, causing the world to change color.

It was… the Battle Soul within the bracelet!!

This was also the first time Xiao Shi had seen the appearance of the Battle Soul.

The entire Battle Soul seemed capable of affecting the battle intent of those around it.

As soon as it appeared.

Xiao Shi felt his inner battle intent ignited, and an extremely urgent desire to fight arose.

He couldn't wait to fight!

Fortunately, the martial emperor mask on his face helped him suppress this desire.

Otherwise, he would immediately rush to attack the surrounding evil spirits.

This also startled Xiao Shi.

He nervously watched the released Battle Soul.

This was the only method he had thought of… that had a chance to deal with the Ghoulish Spirit.

After more than half a month of slaughtering evil spirits.

The black Qi he absorbed from these evil spirits had made the Battle Soul much stronger than when it first left the Seven Stars Holy Land.

Although it had not yet reached a realm beyond the Blood Martial Realm.

Xiao Shi could feel that the Battle Soul’s strength, within the Blood Martial Realm, had almost reached its peak.

After all, the second gem on the bracelet was also about to be lit up.

Xiao Shi didn't know if the Battle Soul’s current strength could deal with the Ghoulish Spirit… because he didn't understand the Ghoulish Spirit’s strength.

But he only knew.

In this situation, he could only go all out and take a gamble!

With the appearance of the blood-armored knight.

Everyone’s gaze instantly focused on this suddenly appearing Battle Soul.

Although Xiao Shi was hidden in the Tai Yin and they could not see him, the Battle Soul released by Xiao Shi was not affected by the Tai Yin.

This allowed everyone to clearly see the Battle Soul’s existence.

“This is…”

Everyone looked at the blood-armored knight with curiosity and confusion.

They could all see that this blood-armored knight was a soul!

And from the state presented by the entire blood-armored knight, he seemed… to be hostile to these evil spirits and the Ghoulish Spirit!

This immediately made many people’s eyes light up, and a glimmer of hope ignited in their hearts.

However.

Most people were not optimistic about this blood-armored knight.

Although the aura emanating from this blood-armored knight was extraordinary.

In terms of size… the difference between the two was vast.

The blood-armored knight, along with his warhorse, was over ten meters tall.

This height, for ordinary people, was already considered enormous, but in front of the thirty to forty-zhang Ghoulish Spirit, it appeared extremely small.

Under everyone's gaze.

Xiao Shi then issued an order to the Battle Soul to attack the Ghoulish Spirit.

The Battle Soul slightly raised its head.

Although there was only darkness in the blood-colored helmet, with no face or features, it directly locked onto the massive Ghoulish Spirit ahead.

The Battle Soul directly raised its hand.

Streaks of black Qi, surprisingly, continuously roared out from the Battle Soul’s hand, gathering on his raised palm.

These black Qi… were precisely the black Qi Xiao Shi absorbed after killing the evil spirits.

The numerous black Qi gathered in the Battle Soul’s hand, directly transforming into… a massive, pitch-black long spear!

And on the long spear, there was still a lot of black Qi, swirling around the spear, flowing everywhere.

Some black Qi even spread to the Battle Soul, causing the blood-colored armor on the Battle Soul to also turn dark red.

And some black spikes appeared on the armor.

Its entire aura and presence became completely different from before!

It was as if… some kind of mutation had occurred!!

The Battle Soul held the spear in one hand, its tip aimed at the Ghoulish Spirit not far away.

Swish!

The warhorse beneath it moved its four hooves, transforming into a dark red stream of light, with black Qi flowing over its body, trailing behind it like smoke and dust.

In an instant, it charged towards the Ghoulish Spirit with astonishing speed.

The Ghoulish Spirit also noticed the suddenly appearing Battle Soul at this moment.

The eyes on the regrown tentacles all fixed their gaze on the charging Battle Soul.

However, the entire Battle Soul was completely unaffected.

Its speed did not slow down in the slightest.

This immediately made the eyes on the many tentacles become serious.

The large and small mouths spread across its long skirt all opened, revealing sinister fangs, and at the same time, a huge suction force emanated from these mouths.

Desiring to swallow the Battle Soul!

This made the Battle Soul, which was already charging at an astonishing speed, move even faster under these suction forces.

Just as it reached the Ghoulish Spirit’s front.

A mouth, almost twenty meters long, suddenly extended from the Ghoulish Spirit’s long skirt, and in one gulp, swallowed the entire Battle Soul.

However, after swallowing the Battle Soul, the Ghoulish Spirit’s body trembled.

The tentacles’ eyes all widened, revealing a look of horror.

The many mouths on its long skirt also simultaneously let out a piercing scream, a sound it had never made before.

It was as if it had swallowed something that made it incredibly uncomfortable.

The twenty-meter-long mouth even opened, trying to spit it out, but to no avail.

Boom!!

The Ghoulish Spirit’s body trembled violently.

Even those outside could clearly hear the booming sound coming from within its body.

At the same time, they were even more shocked to see.

A crack actually appeared on the massive body of the Ghoulish Spirit.

At this moment.

The Ghoulish Spirit completely panicked!

The tentacles behind it thrashed wildly, all the eyes on the tentacles showing fear, as if it had encountered the greatest nemesis in its life!

Its screams became even more chilling.

The cracks on its body continuously increased, and from these cracks, a lot of black Qi actually emerged.

Xiao Shi watched this scene with a tense expression.

His eyes gradually lit up.

From the Ghoulish Spirit’s reaction… the Battle Soul clearly had an effect!

And the effect was not small.

His biggest worry before was that the Battle Soul would be ineffective against the Ghoulish Spirit.

Just like when he, as an early-stage Entering Martial Realm Wandering Souls, attacked an early-stage Qi Martial Realm martial artist.

It would have no effect at all.

But now, the Ghoulish Spirit’s reaction was intense.

It seemed that the Battle Soul had a certain restraining effect on it.

Puff!

At this moment.

A hole suddenly appeared on the Ghoulish Spirit’s body, as if it had been pierced by a long spear.

This caused the entire Ghoulish Spirit to let out an even more piercing scream.

It continuously tried to suppress the Battle Soul within its body with its own power, but it was completely ineffective.

No matter what it did, it could not affect the Battle Soul within its body.

Puff!

Puff!

Holes continuously emerged from its body.

In an instant.

The entire Ghoulish Spirit was covered in holes of various sizes.

Its aura rapidly weakened.

Its screams also grew fainter.

The tentacles behind it all drooped weakly to the ground, barely alive, the eyes on the tentacles all exuding a sense of death.

On the city wall.

Everyone stared blankly at this scene.

A profound silence.

They never expected… that this blood-armored knight, whose body was much smaller than the Ghoulish Spirit and whose aura was far inferior to the Ghoulish Spirit, could actually… actually severely wound the Ghoulish Spirit to this extent!!

When they saw the blood-armored knight being swallowed by the Ghoulish Spirit, they all thought it was hopeless… but the blood-armored knight’s power far exceeded their imagination!

The three Blood Martial Realm Elders breathed rapidly, their eyes filled with horror.

They knew well… that the power of a Ghoulish Spirit often lay in its difficulty to kill!

Just like its tentacles, after being blown apart, they would quickly recover and regrow.

And its physical body was the same.

They feared that even if they fought with all their might and severely wounded it, its injuries would heal and recover in a short time.

Difficult to kill!

But now… the injuries caused by the blood-armored knight, the Ghoulish Spirit actually couldn’t recover from!!

This greatly shocked them.

“Could it be that the nemesis of the Ghoulish Spirit… is a soul body!?”

A conjecture simultaneously arose in the minds of the three Blood Martial Realm Elders.

At least, when they, as martial artists, dealt with Ghoulish Spirits, they were extremely difficult to kill.

Far from being as easy as a soul body.

Puff!

When a hole was also pierced in the Ghoulish Spirit’s head, it no longer had any aura and died just like that.

Its entire massive body.

At the moment of death.

It rapidly turned into ashes.

And dissipated between heaven and earth.

“Success!”

Xiao Shi’s heart was invigorated, and at the same time, he let out a sigh of relief.

If he had failed… everyone here would probably die!

Xiao Shi gained a deeper understanding of the Battle Soul’s power.

However.

After releasing the Battle Soul once, it had to be re-accumulated.

To re-accumulate the Battle Soul to this extent, a large number of kills would be required.

“With the powerful strength of this Ghoulish Spirit… I wonder what kind of item will drop this time?”

Xiao Shi’s heart pounded.

An extremely strong sense of anticipation arose in his heart.

He immediately prepared to approach and pick up the item dropped by the Ghoulish Spirit after its death.

However, at this moment.

With the death of the Ghoulish Spirit, although its massive body had dissipated between heaven and earth, a crimson light remained at its death location.

As Xiao Shi approached.

This crimson light seemed to sense Xiao Shi’s presence; even though Xiao Shi was currently hidden in the Tai Yin, he could not avoid the perception of this crimson light.

Swish!

The crimson light flashed out of thin air.

It appeared directly in front of Xiao Shi, and before Xiao Shi could react, it directly merged into his body.

Boom!!

Xiao Shi’s entire body instantly vibrated violently.

A sensation of heat spread throughout his body.

On his back, a pattern slowly emerged at this moment, like a tattoo, appearing permanently on his back.

This pattern… was exactly the same as the Crimson Tiger stone statue that was previously swallowed by the Ghoulish Spirit!!

The difference was that it transformed from a stone statue into a pattern.

Xiao Shi felt that the Qi and blood and Qi Strength in his body all boiled with the integration of this red light.

His originally unstable cultivation, with the appearance of this pattern on his back… no, to be precise, it should be a totem!

The moment this totem appeared on his back, his cultivation completely stabilized, no longer showing signs of falling.

It wasn’t just Xiao Shi.

Everyone in Jin Yun City, as well as everyone in the Red Tiger Sect, had their cultivation stabilized at this moment and did not fall.

“The Crimson Tiger Totem… parasitic on me!?”