271: Terror in the Soul

In an instant.

A puff of black smoke rose from Xiao Shi's body.

It then transformed into a pitch-black Soul Body that was in a deep slumber.

It was none other than... the [Sleeping Demonic Cultivator Soul].

Xiao Shi inhaled forcefully.

He sucked the entire Soul Body directly into his own body.

He quickly used his own Soul Power to awaken it.

He allowed this Soul Body to possess him.

At the same time.

The Blood-colored Soul Body behind him also reached his back at this moment, seeping directly into his body from behind.

Xiao Shi felt a 'boom' in his brain as intense pain flared up, as if steel nails were being driven into his crown.

Two Soul Bodies now existed within his body simultaneously!

Both Soul Bodies carried the same evil and malevolent characteristics.

Mixing with a massive, chaotic amount of Soul Power, they rushed into Xiao Shi's Sea of Consciousness.

They intended to seize Xiao Shi's Sea of Consciousness and devour his Soul.

Fortunately, when the Soul Power of the two Soul Bodies touched, they both sensed each other's presence.

The Blood-colored Soul Body was somewhat surprised.

It hadn't expected the opponent to actually have a Demonic Cultivator Soul on hand!

The intention was now obvious: the opponent wanted to use this Demonic Cultivator Soul to deal with it.

Usually, a body could only be possessed by one Soul Body at a time.

If the Blood-colored Soul Body wanted to possess Xiao Shi,

It had to get rid of this Demonic Cultivator Soul.

The entire Demonic Cultivator Soul, having awakened from its slumber, was in a state of frenzy; it seemed that before it fell asleep, its mind had already been destroyed by insane, malevolent thoughts.

Upon sensing the presence of the Blood-colored Soul Body,

this Demonic Cultivator Soul immediately roared and charged toward the Blood-colored Soul Body.

Xiao Shi paid close attention to the situation inside his body.

Having no other way to prevent the Blood-colored Soul Body from entering his body, he could only rely on this Demonic Cultivator Soul to deal with it.

Now it remained to be seen which of these two Soul Bodies was stronger!

To him, the outcome he most wanted to see

was naturally for both sides to suffer heavy losses.

Then, he could easily deal with both Soul Bodies.

Meanwhile.

With the arrival of the Blood-colored Soul Body, Xiang Zizhen and the mysterious person inside the stone chamber also noticed the situation outside.

They saw Xiao Shi outside the stone chamber.

The mysterious person frowned at this.

He felt that the Blood-colored Soul Body's act of possessing Xiao Shi was a bit redundant.

It should have just come in and finished off Xiang Zizhen; why waste time on a Prison Guard at the Soul Awakening Stage?

However, he wasn't overly worried.

He believed that for the Blood-colored Soul Body to kill this Soul Awakening Stage Prison Guard would only be a matter of an instant.

Xiang Zizhen was even more anxious.

The sense of crisis in his heart continued to surge.

He desperately mobilized the remaining power in his body.

Both the mysterious person and Xiang Zizhen, the moment they saw Xiao Shi being possessed, thought he was dead for sure, with no hope of survival.

After all, the current Blood-colored Soul Body had recovered its strength through killing and devouring.

It was definitely not something a Soul Awakening Stage Prison Guard could contend with.

However, after several seconds had passed,

“Hmm?”

The mysterious person frowned.

He noticed that no abnormality had occurred with Xiao Shi!

He was still standing there perfectly fine.

“...What's going on?”

The mysterious person felt extremely surprised.

Logically speaking,

given the Blood-colored Soul Body's current strength, it should have been an instantaneous kill.

But several seconds had already passed,

and this Soul Awakening Stage Prison Guard was still unharmed.

This was very wrong.

Xiao Shi could no longer afford to look at the mysterious person and Xiang Zizhen.

All his mental focus was concentrated on the two Soul Bodies within his body.

Boom!

When the two Soul Bodies in his body collided violently,

Xiao Shi saw clearly... that in just a single encounter,

more than half of the Demonic Cultivator Soul's entire body was torn apart.

Only half a mangled body remained.

This immediately caused his heart to sink.

In terms of strength, the Blood-colored Soul Body was far more terrifying than he had imagined; the Demonic Cultivator Soul was completely outmatched!

There seemed to be an incredibly vast gap between the two.

This was a huge discrepancy from what Xiao Shi had envisioned.

It wasn't that he hadn't considered the possibility that the Demonic Cultivator Soul might not be a match for the Blood-colored Soul Body,

but he hadn't expected the gap to be this large!

According to his original plan,

if the Demonic Cultivator Soul's strength was inferior to the Blood-colored Soul Body, he would use his own Soul Power to assist the Demonic Cultivator Soul.

But now that they had clashed,

this massive gap... even if he assisted the Demonic Cultivator Soul with his own Soul Power, it wouldn't make any difference.

The difference in strength between the two Soul Bodies was simply too vast!

The Blood-colored Soul Body was seen biting the half of the body it had torn from the Demonic Cultivator Soul, chewing and swallowing it.

As if it had received nourishment,

the blood-red color of the entire Soul Body became even more intense.

“I must thank you for sending me such decent food!”

The Blood-colored Soul Body conveyed its joy to Xiao Shi through Soul Power.

Whoosh!

It transformed directly into a streak of bloody light and pounced on the remaining half of the Demonic Cultivator Soul's body.

It completely devoured the half-mangled remains of the Demonic Cultivator Soul.

In an instant.

After devouring the Demonic Cultivator Soul, its entire blood-colored body expanded once again, and the aura on it became even more fearsome!

Xiao Shi's idea of using the Demonic Cultivator Soul to deal with the Blood-colored Soul Body had not only failed but had further fueled the Blood-colored Soul Body, making it even stronger.

This is trouble!

Xiao Shi's expression was grave.

His understanding of Soul Bodies was still too limited.

This had led to the deterioration of the situation.

The main issue was that the status of this Blood-colored Soul Body was too high, far beyond what an ordinary Soul Body could contend with.

After devouring the Demonic Cultivator Soul,

the entire Blood-colored Soul Body didn't pause for a second, pouncing straight toward Xiao Shi's Soul at the fastest speed.

Xiao Shi's head buzzed.

He lost consciousness on the spot.

He had never encountered a Soul Body with such strong negative energy.

Evil!

Madness!

Chaos!

It was as if all the negative emotions in the world were concentrated within this Soul Body.

After briefly losing consciousness, Xiao Shi was quickly jolted awake by 'pain'; his Soul let out uncontrollable roars and screams.

The entire Soul began to be devoured bit by bit by the Blood-colored Soul Body.

This kind of pain in the Soul far exceeded any physical pain.

And while the Blood-colored Soul Body was devouring,

it also noticed something.

“Oh? It's actually a Split Soul?”

The Blood-colored Soul Body let out a surprised voice.

It realized that the Xiao Shi here was just a Clone with a Split Soul.

“Your Soul is very delicious. Even a Split Soul is this tasty; the Main Soul must be even better...”

Amidst the evil voice emitted by the Blood-colored Soul Body,

blood-colored tentacles, resembling flames, suddenly extended from its entire Soul Body, stretching directly into the void.

They instantly crossed a vast distance and tunneled directly into the Soul of Xiao Shi's main body!

They firmly entwined the Soul of Xiao Shi's main body.

“Oh?”

“The Soul of the main body is actually so powerful. Not bad, not bad at all!”

The voice of the Blood-colored Soul Body resounded within Xiao Shi's Soul.

Originally, it wouldn't have been able to do this.

But after devouring the Demonic Cultivator Soul, its strength had been further enhanced, allowing it to precisely find the Main Soul through the Split Soul.

Immediately.

These tentacles entwining Xiao Shi's Soul began to burrow into it bit by bit.

It now intended not only to devour Xiao Shi's Split Soul

but also to devour Xiao Shi's Main Soul along with it!

The unprecedentedly massive crisis caused Xiao Shi's expression to change wildly.

He hadn't expected this Blood-colored Soul Body to have already become powerful enough to threaten his own Main Soul.

If it were a crisis in other aspects,

he might still find a way to solve it.

But a crisis concerning the Soul... he really didn't have many options.

After all, he was still only at the Soul Awakening Stage and had just begun to deal with the Soul.

He also didn't have any items that could counter such Possession and Possession methods.

Cold sweat constantly flowed down his cheeks.

His brain worked rapidly,

thinking of a countermeasure.

He first thought of the [Soul Plate]; if the [Soul Plate] could turn to the defense zone, perhaps there would be a chance to resolve this crisis?

But unfortunately... the next point of the [Soul Plate] was not the defense zone, but the use zone.

Even if he used the [Soul Plate], it wouldn't have any effect.

Moreover, he couldn't use the [Soul Plate] continuously.

After all, the [Soul Plate] could only be used three times a day.

He had already used it twice before.

There was only one last chance to use it left.

Xiao Shi went through his other items one by one in his mind.

None of them could resolve this crisis.

Suddenly, Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

He remembered that a black coffin still existed within his body!

He immediately called out to the remnant consciousness within the black coffin,

but he didn't receive any response.

The tentacles of the Blood-colored Soul Body burrowed into Xiao Shi's Soul bit by bit, deeper and deeper.

“Among the many Soul Awakening Stage Souls I've seen, I've never seen a Soul with such a solid and firm Foundation...”

It commented while delving deeper.

“The strength is also good. You seem to have integrated a special power into your Soul?”

“Eh? What's this?”

When the tentacles of the Blood-colored Soul Body burrowed into the depths of Xiao Shi's Soul,

it suddenly saw an exquisite, small, and translucent miniature tower in the depths of Xiao Shi's Soul.

The moment it saw this miniature tower,

Boom!!

All of its tentacles exploded!

This caused it to let out a piercingly shrill scream.

It experienced the pain of its Soul being destroyed.

“A treasure of this level... how is it possible!!”

“How could you possibly have a treasure of this level!!”

The Blood-colored Soul Body let out screams of terror.

All its tentacles dared not delve any deeper, retracting rapidly like startled snakes.

The area where that miniature tower was located was like a forbidden zone; once it entered this zone, all its tentacles would be unable to withstand it and would explode.

Fortunately, its tentacles were relatively long; even if a section exploded, a portion was still rooted in Xiao Shi's Soul.

It just didn't dare to delve deeper anymore.

At the same time, it also realized something.

Although a supreme treasure of an extremely high level existed in the depths of the opponent's Soul, precisely because its level was too high, the opponent was unable to actively use this supreme treasure to deal with it.

As long as it didn't enter the area where this supreme treasure was located, there wouldn't be much of an impact.

“Then I'll just devour his outer Soul.”

“As long as I devour his outer Soul, he will similarly fall into a coma and find it difficult to wake up due to the incompleteness of his Soul. At that time, when I possess him, I might have a chance to get my hands on this supreme treasure in the depths of his Soul!”

Greed arose in the Blood-colored Soul Body's mind.

If it could get its hands on a supreme treasure of this level,

the gains this time would be incredibly astonishing!

Thinking of this,

after the many tentacles of the Blood-colored Soul Body retracted to the outer area,

it immediately began to devour the Soul in Xiao Shi's outer area.

But it had only just taken one bite of Xiao Shi's Soul... Boom!!

Within the consciousness of the Blood-colored Soul Body, an extremely terrifying image appeared!

In the image, there was a giant petrified face that pierced through the clouds, occupying almost the entire sky.

The feeling it gave,

was like the face of a Heavenly God!

It exuded an indescribable majesty and power.

Although the entire image flashed and disappeared in an instant, it brought a terrifying shadow to the mind of the Blood-colored Soul Body.

Not only did every single one of its tentacles tremble and develop cracks, but even its body, which hadn't entered Xiao Shi's Main Soul, was covered with a dense network of cracks!

It seemed ready to shatter at any moment!

The Blood-colored Soul Body trembled violently, its heart already filled with endless fear and horror.

“You... who on earth are you!!”

It let out a shrill, desperate, and terrified scream.

The existence of a super supreme treasure in the depths of the Soul was already scary enough.

Yet, within his Soul, there was actually the figure of some terrifying existence!

The person it had encountered... was actually such a terrifying figure!!

At this moment.

The Blood-colored Soul Body no longer had the slightest thought of wanting to devour the opponent's Soul.

Its heart was filled with remorse.

If it had known, devouring the opponent's Split Soul would have been enough; it shouldn't have thought about devouring the opponent's Main Soul.

Within his Main Soul, there lurked a great terror!

Whoosh!

All the tentacles of the Blood-colored Soul Body that had seeped into Xiao Shi's Main Soul immediately fled at the fastest speed in panic, not daring to stay here for a single second longer.

But just as these tentacles were about to escape from Xiao Shi's Soul,

a puff of black smoke suddenly wafted up from within Xiao Shi's Soul.

When this black smoke gathered together, it transformed into a large black hand.

It reached out and grabbed!

It directly caught all these tentacles in its hand.

“Damn it!!”

“What is this again!!”

The Blood-colored Soul Body was completely losing its mind.

This suddenly appearing large black hand gave it a feeling that was equally terrifying!

When its many tentacles were caught by this large black hand, no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't break free from the grip of this large black hand.

The level of this large black hand... also exceeded its own by far too much!

Even, when this large black hand pulled forcefully, it actually dragged the Blood-colored Soul Body directly from Xiao Shi's Clone Soul into the main body's Soul!!

Whoosh!

When the Blood-colored Soul Body was dragged into Xiao Shi's main body's Soul, it was completely dazed.

The previous terrors hadn't directly endangered its life; they were more of a warning—as long as it didn't continue to court death and quickly left the opponent's Soul, there was still a chance to survive.

But this large black hand now... made it feel as if it had already stepped into the gates of hell!

It saw at a glance... that at the base where this large black hand extended from, there existed a pitch-black coffin.

Currently, the lid of this coffin revealed a crack as thin as a cow's hair, and a large amount of black Qi was emanating from this crack.

The large black hand, holding the tentacles, began to drag it bit by bit toward the coffin.

No matter how much the Blood-colored Soul Body struggled,

it was all in vain.

It was directly dragged into the coffin by the large black hand.