62: Chapter 61 [Crimson Sky] VS Ten Thousand Ghosts!

As Liu Jianren's hand seals shifted, the [Water and Fire Blasting Flow] in the [Red Flood Dragon]'s mouth abruptly changed direction, slamming toward the flood dragon pill wreathed in water and fire.

Just as everyone was filled with doubt, the round [Water and Fire Flood Dragon Pill] suddenly underwent a change.

Its originally plump and round shape seemed as though it were being smelted, gradually melting away.

Immediately after, Liu Jianren's hand seals rapidly shifted once more,

the liquefied [Water and Fire Flood Dragon Pill] seemed to be framed by some kind of mold,

rapidly condensing into a crimson longsword.

The entire longsword looked as though it were forged from magma,

and amidst the glowing magma fissures, faint blue light flickered within, looking immensely divine and miraculous—this must be the "Chixiao" Liu Jianren spoke of.

The [Water and Fire Blasting Flow] seemed to be "charging" Chixiao; the sword body of Chixiao grew increasingly solid and massive,

and the patterns on its surface were no longer crude magma fissures, gradually transforming into various profound and wondrous designs.

The aura emanated by the giant Chixiao sword also grew increasingly terrifying, and violent energy fluctuations rippled outward in concentric waves.

Bai Yu opposite him was also secretly alarmed at this moment:

"Such high attack intensity! As expected of an opponent from the provincial tournament; that red and blue light wave just now actually burned away several thousand wandering souls of mine, and this crimson giant sword is even more frightening."

However, although Bai Yu was alarmed, he still had absolute confidence in his victory.

Along his journey thus far, his greatest reliance was actually his exclusive talent—[Soul Essence Myriad Transformation].

The talent effect of [Soul Essence Myriad Transformation] is:

It can convert the power of souls into any energy form understood by himself, with conversion losses determined by the magnitude gap of the energies.

The power of souls is the strength contained within the spirits of people after death.

Like the blue soul fire inside the skull of a [Yin Soldier], it belongs to the power of souls, except it is not so pure, mixed with things like calamity qi.

Under the condition of possessing a massive amount of soul power, this exclusive talent could provide Bai Yu with tremendous assistance.

Yet as a commoner, Bai Yu could neither immerse himself in secret realms to kill enemies every day nor kill people casually to accumulate soul power.

Most likely, this exclusive talent would become a useless decoration.

But as it happened, Bai Yu inadvertently crafted a [Yin Soldier], and this [Yin Soldier] actually awakened into a [true name card].

The name of the [true name card] is: [Bai Qi].

The newly awakened [Bai Qi] immediately displayed formidable combat power.

He possessed numerous powerful skills such as [Profound Fiend Array Breaking] and [Profound Bird Armor Removal].

But the most core feature was actually an inconspicuous trait of [Bai Qi]: [Soul-Siphoning Cloak].

[Soul-Siphoning Cloak]: Can trap the souls of enemies killed by Bai Qi during his lifetime within the cloak, reducing a portion of the damage received for him.

It looked like a mediocre defensive trait, but in the hands of Bai Yu, who possessed [Soul Essence Myriad Transformation], it was completely different.

These massive numbers of wandering souls were genuine treasures in Bai Yu's eyes. You must know that

[Soul Essence Myriad Transformation] could convert soul power into any energy form Bai Yu understood.

Logically speaking, this thing could even convert soul power into spirituality!!

However, when the [Yin Soldier] first awakened his true name as [Bai Qi], there were only one hundred thousand wandering souls in the cloak, and he had not regained all of [Bai Qi]'s power from his lifetime.

But shortly before, when [Bai Qi] underwent his second awakening with the true name [Butcher Bai Qi], Bai Yu felt that he was truly invincible.

Because right now, [Bai Qi]'s cloak contained a full one million wandering souls!!

A true one million wandering souls all obey my command!

However, Bai Yu's current ability was limited, and he could not completely convert the soul power of one million souls.

His current limit was roughly the soul power of one hundred thousand wandering souls.

Any more, and Bai Yu might fail to control this power, thereby brewing immense danger.

Moreover, Bai Yu discovered that soul power suffered the least loss and had the highest cost-performance ratio only when converted into a single energy form.

That was the power system belonging to [Butcher Bai Qi] himself—fiend qi.

Just like how the [Soul-Siphoning Cloak] was able to withstand the [Water and Fire Blasting Flow] just now,

it was because Bai Yu converted the soul power of some wandering souls in the cloak into fiend qi, successfully blocking it at the cost of several thousand wandering souls.

The energy fluctuations emitted by this time's opponent's Chixiao sword were clearly stronger.

Bai Yu knew clearly that

facing such might, he could not hold back and must go all out.

With a rather heartache-inducing expression, Bai Yu activated [Soul Essence Myriad Transformation].

"One hundred thousand!! Come on!!"

The dark red cloak, which had just dimmed, lit up once more, and countless weeping and howling human faces were rapidly refined into blood-red fiend qi.

Yet he did not choose to imbue the fiend qi onto the [Soul-Siphoning Cloak] for defense.

This time, he chose to condense the fiend qi onto the bronze broadsword, going tit for tat against Liu Jianren!!

As the dignified [Butcher Bai Qi], how could he simply take a beating passively?!

"[Soul Essence Myriad Transformation]!! [Profound Fiend Array Breaking]!!"

Along with a low shout from Bai Yu's mouth, the bronze broadsword in [Butcher Bai Qi]'s hand slowly lifted, pointing from afar at the opposite Chixiao sword pill.

Immediately after, a blood-colored light flame suddenly flared on the body of the bronze broadsword, and massive blood-colored sword images began to slowly condense around the sword body.

...

Outside the secret realm at this moment, looking from afar:

One giant sword was crimson like fire, with faint blue halo circulating within.

Another giant sword had sword light like blood, as if it had just been fished out from an Asura sea of blood.

Across the entire venue, pin-drop silence reigned. All the university students were paragons of their respective eras, yet none of them failed to be shocked by this scene.

Li Tiance had long since lost his calm appearance of resting his eyes just moments ago.

He did not even know when he had stood up, his eyes staring fixedly at Liu Jianren within the secret realm, revealing neither joy nor anger.

But Sun Po only wanted to say at this moment:

Squinting-eyed people really are all monsters!!

Liu Jianren's sword pill technique could not be said to be anything less than powerful.

It completely concentrated the already extremely powerful [Water and Fire Blasting Flow] into the Chixiao sword transformed by the [Water and Fire Flood Dragon Pill].

This brought the power of the Chixiao sword to an extremely terrifying level.

You must know that the power of the [Water and Fire Blasting Flow] dominated the charts during the city-level tournament, and this Chixiao sword pushed explosion to its absolute limit.

The power of this single sword strike even surpassed the latter half of Xu Xiu's [Return of Ten Thousand Swords], known as the "Return to the Origin".

Yet even so, the opposite [Butcher Bai Qi] still looked no less inferior, its momentum even stronger.

Placed in previous years, the strength of these two would already rank in the top five nationwide.

...

Finally, the auras of both giant swords had climbed to their peak.

Fine beads of sweat began to seep from both of their temples, and their bodies started trembling uncontrollably, clearly having reached their limits.

Almost at the exact same second,

Liu Jianren and Bai Yu suddenly opened their eyes and shouted loudly:

"Go!!!"

Following their command, the two giant swords stirred up fierce winds and shattered stones, carrying immense might as they flew toward each other simultaneously!!

The tips of the two giant swords fiercely collided against one another, pin against awl, neither yielding an inch.

Everyone held their breath, nervously watching the clash between the two giant swords.

"Crack!!"

A clear cracking sound suddenly rang out, and both giant energy swords simultaneously began to rapidly disintegrate starting from their tips!

"Boom!"

In the end, both giant swords shattered and exploded simultaneously, stirring up terrifying residual energy shockwaves and a sky full of smoke and dust.

When the smoke and dust gradually dispersed,

within the secret realm, a single figure could be vaguely seen standing staggeringly amidst it...