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Chapter 661 - Chapter 661 Chapter 47 The Descendant of Heavenly Essence

Chapter 661: Chapter 47 The Descendant of Heavenly Essence Chapter 661: Chapter 47 The Descendant of Heavenly Essence Watching Ye Shiru fall to the ground unconscious, the giant red python in the night sky suddenly let out a cry and its form burst apart with a boom.

Xue Wenhai opened his eyes, and without fully straightening his waist, he scrambled over to Ye Shiru, lifted her upper body, and pinched her philtrum with his thumb; his face flickered between dark and light, unpredictable.

He looked up in disbelief at Li Yan, “Could the White Dragon King have miscalculated, or could there actually be two Sanqi Nobles in the world? That makes no sense.”

But Li Yan didn’t even offer a single word, ducking low to avoid the stealth attack of a bloody paper shadow behind him. He flipped over and grasped the neck of the Mingzha, a torrent of Dragon Mist gushing out of his palm! The red Mingzha fluttered a couple of times before it completely lost its ability to resist and transformed into an unremarkable paper face, which Li Yan crushed into a ball.

“Li Xiaoshu?” Li Yan stuffed the Mingzha into his pocket, “Of the eight Jinmen Mingzha you stole three, and there’s still one left. Feel free to take it out; I’ll return it to the Jin family for you.”

“Sanqi Noble… Sanqi Noble…”

Xue Wenhai seemed to have taken a heavy psychological blow, obsessively muttering to himself, ignoring Li Yan completely.

Li Yan lifted his hand, and a ball of Disaster Water the size of a fingernail cap twisted in the air, flying towards Xue Wenhai’s face like an octopus, baring its teeth and claws. But before it even touched Xue Wenhai, it suddenly exploded, accompanied by a fizzing sound of corrosion and a large amount of white smoke.

“Sanqi is the bane of Heavenly Yi, but not my bane!”

A hysterical roar from Xue Wenhai came through the smoke, “You think you’ve got me cornered with Sanqi?”

As the mist cleared, a blood-colored humanoid figure stood up before Li Yan, with a green face and long beard. It was another Mingzha mask, only its body was surrounded by viscous, substantial blood plasma, forming a complete set of soap-robed cloud shoulders and a ceremonial backing, wielding two red spears, like a red deity who had stepped off the offering stage. In terms of appearance, it was worlds apart from the other Mingzha and even the three eye-painted by Jin Boqing could not compare.

[Filial Piety without Descendants]

Category: Yin creature

Note: Originally one of the eight Jinmen Mingzha passed down, it has become a peerless fierce ghost after Xue Wenhai has refined it with thousands of fierce and life-fiend grimoires.

“Dare!”

Filial Piety without Descendants shouted loudly, darting in front of Li Yan like a ghost, stabbing with crossed spears at Li Yan’s chest.

Li Yan seemed indifferent, and just as the bloody spear points were about to pierce him, the white-gold object in his hand expanded with the wind, and the Tiger Head Great Spear, like a towering jade pillar, lightly deflected the toothpick-like spears. With the spearhead engulfed in a vast expanse of Dragon Mist, it pierced through Filial Piety without Descendant’s chest, leaving a hole the size of a human head, clear through.

Filial Piety without Descendants immediately stiffened, immobilized.

Seeing the so-called peerless fierce ghost fall so easily, Li Yan sensed something amiss. Meanwhile, sounds akin to shattering glass echoed by his ears.

Qian Wu did away with his Spirit Turtle Transformation, arriving at the corridor just in time to witness this scene and instinctively cried out, “Don’t!”

Li Yan swung his spear to withdraw. Unfortunately, he was one step too late.

Several streams of malevolent qi burst forth from Filial Piety without Descendants’ wound, like fresh blood surging in an artery, staining the Tiger Head Great Spear and even the back of Li Yan’s hand.

“Due to the severe contamination from the collapse of fierce qi, your Wu Zhiqi form has lost 5% of its Awakening Degree.”

Li Yan’s face darkened like the deep waters; he withdrew in flight, but Filial Piety without Descendants refused to let up, charging at Li Yan regardless of the consequences. Li Yan was contemplating releasing the R’lyeh Water Tiger to deal with the situation when Qian Wu stepped forward to meet the charge.

Qian Wu’s golden compass beneath his feet whirled like a vast ocean vortex, absorbing the black Life Fiend Qi into it, just as he once did in the cold storage on Pugang Road, where he gathered the Life Fiend of several hundreds of frozen corpses into his own Life Grid.

Li Yan’s eyes widened; this was his first time witnessing “Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven” with his own eyes. What shocked him even more was the explanation given by A Fleeting Glimpse.

[Heavenly Marrow Life-Continuation Chronicles: Volume Eleven: Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven]

Category: Code

Quality: Special

It can extract the Four Pillars Divine Fiend, soul, blood pact spirit body, and Yan Fu Heritage. And convert them for one’s own use.

Qian Wu failed to notice the change in Li Yan’s emotions and spoke to him, self-absorbed, “When a human’s corpse decomposes, the fierce Life Fiend Qi on the body will gradually dissipate. A few strands are not a problem ordinarily, but once they accumulate to a certain extent, dozens of these fierce Life Fiends dispersing at once could potentially become an epidemic. This fierce ghost has at least a thousand strands of accumulated fierce Life Fiend Qi. If you were to kill it, the released Qi could breed a virulent contagious disease that would bring calamity to living beings. I possess the Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven, let me handle this.”

Having said that, he turned his head and ridiculed Xue Wenhai, “Come to think of it, Jinmen Mingzha has been worshipped with incense for a hundred years, capable of withstanding more refinement from the Four Pillars Divine Fiend compared to ordinary metals and vegetation. How could someone as crazed as you, Jiang Sihai, let that opportunity pass?”

Xue Wenhai’s cheeks visibly hollowed, and his lips were cracked and pale, showing that controlling the “Filial Piety without Descendants,” which fed on flesh and blood, was not easy. Yet, he still sneered, “You talk so much, but it’s just because Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven restrains me. No matter how many fierce Life Fiends I collect, you can put them all to use for yourself. But this time, Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven will probably be put to shame.”

As his voice fell, Qian Wu’s face suddenly took on a cyan-black hue, and the Taiji Noble’s compass at his feet burst with several cracks, then thunderously dissipated!

A massive amount of Life Fiend Qi surged wildly from the shattered golden compass!

They gathered, each forming a human silhouette with a black compass beneath their feet, spinning on its own. Even weirder, these human silhouettes only had contours but all possessed a pair of lifelike eyes.

“Skill of Painting Eyes?”

Li Yan looked toward the corner, at Jin Boqing with his pale and rigid face.

“Junior brother, having Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven is indeed phenomenal. But after all, it uses your aged body as a vessel to store and plunder the acquired Life Grids. However, the mystery of painting eyes is about granting self-awareness to all things, amplifying their nature and power, making the good better and the evil worse, to the point that they can’t be controlled by their original masters. Not only can Jin Boqing paint eyes for Mingzha, but he can also add detail to the eyes of auspicious and fierce Life Fiends. Night and day, nonstop, what I’m plotting is not just a few Mingzhas, but Jin Boqing’s hand in the Skill of Painting Eyes. As long as he paints eyes for the corpses in my storage, the Four Pillars Divine Fiend on the corpses will be several times more fierce!”

“Poor Jin Boqing, his talent surpasses all ancestors of Jinmen, able to comprehend such an extraordinary skill from the small path of Mingzha. But due to the backlash from a few Mingzha, he views this divine skill as a bizarre art that brings disaster to his descendants, which is like begging with a golden bowl. In my hands, it’s properly glorified.”

Just as Li Yan was about to make a move, Qian Wu blocked him with a hand, asking expressionlessly, “The accumulation of fierce Life Fiend Qi leads to disaster, and no one here can escape unharmed. If these Life Fiends are fierce and hard to control, unable to be contained, even you won’t escape death. Have you resolved to perish together with us?”

Xue Wenhai seemed to hear something amusing, holding his forehead and laughing for a long time before he composed himself, “Junior brother! Have you gone senile?! Using a mortal body to store the painted eye Life Fiends through Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven would indeed be unbearable. But Myriad Assembly of Humanity’s Prime uses spiritually imbued metals and vegetation to store the Life Fiends. I have Myriad Assembly of Humanity’s Prime. Once I’ve dealt with you, I can at any moment redirect the dispersed Life Fiend Qi back to the Mingzha’s body. Wouldn’t that work?”

“So that’s why.”

Qian Wu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and nudged Li Yan with his elbow.

“Give me the Mingzha from earlier.”

Li Yan did as told, and handed over “Liandouming” to Qian Wu.

Xue Wenhai’s smile gradually faded, a sudden shadow shrouding his heart.

“Elder brother, did you think that’s all I could do, just Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven?”