103: Chapter 103 Fragrance of Flowers

The lightning pillar struck Lord Tunming's chest, golden electric currents exploding across his body; the ghost faces on his armor hissed, shattered, and dissipated amidst the lightning strike.

Lord Tunming let out a muffled groan, his figure blasted sliding several meters backward by the lightning pillar.

A fist-sized hole was blasted into his chest, and grayish-black Ghost Qi surged madly from the wound, eventually restoring his ghost body.

"Is that all?"

Wu Li did not answer and blasted out another lightning talisman.

The lightning pillar struck Lord Tunming's shoulder, exploding in a cluster of golden sparks; his shoulder was blasted to smithereens, and his entire arm hung limply, yet he still did not retreat.

The third, the fourth, the fifth...

Wu Li detonated the Five Thunder Exorcism Talismans attached to the command flag one after another, golden lightning pillars striking Lord Tunming one after another.

With each lightning pillar that fell, a bloody hole was blasted into Lord Tunming's body, Ghost Qi surged madly from the wounds, and his soul body flickered unsteadily, but he never fell.

He gritted his teeth, his eerie green ghost eyes staring fixedly at Wu Li, the killing intent in his eyes almost coalescing into substance.

"You can take this much?"

"Then how about this!"

"Hum~"

As the words fell.

Wu Li pulled a fist-sized bead from his Stomach Storage; it was entirely pitch-black, its surface covered in fine cracks, with golden light faintly flowing within them—it was none other than the yin blood spirit bead.

This bead was Lord Tunming's Magical Artifact, and inside it was hidden the spiritual consciousness he had refined.

"Refine for me!!"

"Boom~"

Wu Li held the yin blood spirit bead up before him, and Colorless Profound Light surged from his body, enveloping the bead like a tidal wave.

The Blood Eye Shadow simultaneously appeared between his brows, crimson light intertwining with the Colorless Profound Light as both forces invaded the interior of the yin blood spirit bead simultaneously.

The Blood Pupil suppressed, the Colorless Profound Light refined; one hard and one soft, one yin and one yang, they tore, crushed, and devoured the spiritual consciousness Lord Tunming had left inside the bead, inch by inch.

The yin blood spirit bead trembled violently, the golden light within the cracks flickering unsteadily.

Lord Tunming immediately felt the backlash to his spiritual consciousness, roaring heart-rendingly, "You dare!"

At the same time.

His true body suddenly stiffened in mid-air, his soul body trembling violently, his eerie green ghost eyes filled with shock and rage; they were now at a critical stalemate, and if Wu Li refined the precious bead at this moment and Lord Tunming's spiritual consciousness was forcibly erased, he would definitely suffer a backlash.

"Damn it, stop for me!!"

Lord Tunming was furious, Ghost Qi spreading within his body, but it could not break through the restrictions of the Formation, only creating ripples.

He could feel it; his spiritual consciousness was being erased bit by bit, a feeling like someone was cutting his flesh with a dull knife, one cut at a time.

Wu Li crouched in the pile of rubble, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, revealing a cold sneer.

"You can still say such things at a time like this? You tell me, if you don't die, who will?"

As the words fell.

The Colorless Profound Light suddenly contracted, the light of the Blood Pupil flared intensely, and both forces erupted simultaneously, completely crushing Lord Tunming's spiritual consciousness.

The yin blood spirit bead jolted violently, the cracks on its surface all exploded, and the spiritual consciousness inside dissipated.

"No!!"

"Ah!!!"

The moment his spiritual consciousness was broken, Lord Tunming knelt on one knee, clutching his head, two lines of bloody tears flowing from his eyes.

"I want you... to die!!"

Lord Tunming's voice was hoarse and weak, but a flash of madness crossed his eyes.

He raised his arm, Ghost Qi condensing in his palm into a pitch-black spear, the spear shaft covered in twisted ghost faces, the spear tip gleaming with an eerie green cold light.

Subsequently.

Lord Tunming chanted an incantation, his voice low and hurried, carrying a cold and chilling rhythm.

"Incense as the guide, Power Of Will as fuel, borrowing the laws of the netherworld, ten thousand grievances return to the body, with the will of ten thousand, exchange for your power, burn!"

The moment the incantation fell.

The Power of Incense within Lord Tunming surged out like a tidal wave, golden Power Of Will intertwining with the grayish-black Ghost Qi, forming a strange halo around him.

"Boom!!"

Lord Tunming's soul body began to expand, the cracks scorched by the Buddha light and the Formation healing at a speed visible to the naked eye; his severed arm grew back, and the charred skin fell off, revealing the newly formed grayish-black ghost body beneath.

His aura was climbing, from weak to Peak, from Peak to beyond, actually reaching the Middle Stage of the Third Rank directly!

"Break for me!"

Lord Tunming thrust his spear out, the spear tip wrapped in the Power of Incense and Ghost Qi, transforming into a grayish-black pillar of light, striking straight at a sun stone on the periphery of the depression.

Wherever the pillar of light passed, the air was torn apart, emitting a sharp sound of breaking through the air.

Under the impact of the pillar of light, the sun stone trembled violently, cracks spreading like a spiderweb, and then it shattered with a boom.

Wu Li's eyes widened suddenly, his claws pressing onto the Formation Plate, Demon Power surging madly in an attempt to maintain the operation of the Formation.

But the sun stone was shattered, the Formation Foundation collapsed, and the Essence of the Sun leaked madly from the gap; the light rain thinned, and the pillar of light dimmed.

Lord Tunming thrust his spear out again, striking the second sun stone.

"Boom!"

The second sun stone shattered.

Only the last piece of the Formation Foundation remained; the yang pearl was still releasing Essence of the Sun, barely maintaining the operation of the Formation, but the power of the Formation had already been weakened by more than half.

Wu Li's blood-red pupils were filled with shock.

"This old guy can actually use the Power of Incense to replenish himself!"

This was something Wu Li had not expected; Lord Tunming withdrew his spear, standing in the center of the depression, his eerie green ghost eyes filled with triumph.

Under the fortification of the Power of Incense, his soul body smoothed out all abnormal states, even more powerful than during his Peak period, but the price was that the moment the Power of Incense was exhausted...

Everything would return to before, and he would also enter an extremely weak state...

However, Lord Tunming could not care about that at this moment.

He looked at Wu Li, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, revealing a ferocious smile, his voice hoarse and cold: "This Lord said, just based on this broken Formation, you cannot trap this Lord."

"Break, for me!!"

Lord Tunming raised his spear again, the spear tip aimed at the last sun stone.

His eerie green ghost eyes were filled with madness, the Power of Incense within his body surging out like a tidal wave, condensing at the spear tip.

"Hum~"

But just at the moment he struck, Wu Li suddenly felt an abnormality, and then the Formation Plate in his claws began to become uncontrollable.

A fragrant breeze drifted by.

The yang pearl suspended in the center of the depression suddenly became uncontrollable by Wu Li, golden light flaring intensely, the terrifying Essence of the Sun like a small sun.

"Boom!!"

The Essence of the Sun surged from the yang pearl like a volcanic eruption, golden light rain pouring down and covering the sky, enveloping the entire depression in a blaze of white light.

"Ah!!"

Lord Tunming let out a shrill scream, his ghost body trembling violently in the light rain, skin cracking, Ghost Qi steaming, his soul body flickering unsteadily.

Most importantly.

The Power of Incense within his body was also instantly cut off during the impact of the Essence of the Sun, the golden Power Of Will and the grayish-black Ghost Qi falling apart, dissipating from within his body and vanishing into the light rain.

His aura plummeted all the way from the Middle Stage of the Third Rank, returning to the Early Stage of the Third Rank, and then dropped to the edge of the Third Rank, his soul body teetering, as if it could dissipate at any moment.