Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1180 - 1180 0685 Subdue the Ghost Face_2

Chapter 1180: Chapter 0685: Subdue the Ghost Face_2 Chapter 1180: Chapter 0685: Subdue the Ghost Face_2 Originally, when Qi Tian moved the ghost face’s mouth to his own face, the ghost face was still struggling and challenging him. But after Qi Tian spoke these words, the ghost face immediately became silent, no longer as active as before, without any superfluous motion.

Qi Tian raised an eyebrow and said, “It seems you don’t wish to cooperate with me, nor do you have any slightest intention to surrender to me. Have you considered the severe consequences of not accepting my recruitment, of not surrendering to me? I’ll give you one last chance. Are you going to yield or not?”

The mouth of the ghost face remained motionless. Qi Tian could clearly feel that it was still sentient, not dead. This pretty much confirmed the ghost face’s mouth was rejecting his offer.

Qi Tian sighed in disappointment, regretting that he could not make a successful start. However, he also stopped wasting any more time on this mouth of the ghost face. He immediately had the Transporting Whirlwind wrap up the mouth and send it back to the storage room of the Heavenly Dao Engine through the black hole in his palm.

This time, Qi Tian was not just detaining it with the Transporting Whirlwind. Instead, he activated the power of the Heavenly Dao Engine to engulf the mouth of the ghost face, beginning to extract the vast energy contained within this fragment, including any existing thoughts that were also extracted as energy, erasing them completely and transforming them into fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine.

The whole process took place alongside the other fragments of the ghost face skulls. If these fragments had eyes, then they would have witnessed how their comrade was being completely erased from the world by Qi Tian, leaving not a trace behind.

The previously struggling fragments of the ghost face skulls briefly entered a moment of stillness after “witnessing” this scene, whether they were frightened or needed time to digest this spectacle was unknown. However, after a brief calm, signs of polarization appeared among these fragments. Some struggled even more fiercely than before, while others stopped struggling altogether.

Qi Tian did not wait any longer; he directed the Transporting Whirlwind to wrap up the most fiercely struggling fragment and then brought it in front of himself.

Qi Tian repeated what he had said before, hoping that this fragment of the ghost face skull would surrender to him and sign a Blood Pact. But this fragment, steadfast to the end, refused to yield despite Qi Tian’s persuasive eloquence.

Qi Tian was not one to indulge in such obstinate behavior and sent it straight back to the storage room of the Heavenly Dao Engine. In front of the other ghost face skull fragments, he once again transformed this skull fragment into fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine.

After that, the fragments that had chosen to struggle ceased to do so. Even if they struggled, it was much less vigorous and less frequent.

Qi Tian had the Transporting Whirlwind pick up a third fragment of the ghost face skull, inquiring whether it was willing to surrender. This time, the fragment did not display the same resoluteness as its two comrades but instead fell into a long internal struggle.

If given the choice to live on, not a single being would willingly give up their life easily, and these ghost face skull fragments were no exception.

Qi Tian knew that now was the time to set terms. To willingly persuade the fragmented ghost face skull to accept the Blood Pact, he could not let the other party harbor any resistance, especially not vehement resistance, for then subjugation would be an impossibility.

Qi Tian said, “If you are willing to surrender and accept my Blood Pact, I can assure you that in the future, I will not make you do heavy, tiring, or dirty work, nor will I have you labor like a slave for long periods. I only hope that when I need you, especially at critical moments of life and death, you will fight to protect my safety. The rest of the time, you are free and will not suffer enslavement. Moreover, I can promise that, if possible in the future, I will try to enhance your strength. And one day, I do not entirely rule out the possibility of setting you free to regain your liberty.”

Qi Tian issued one empty promise after another. What he said might be honored in the future, but it was equally possible that they would never be fulfilled. After all, none of the conditions he offered were time-bound; whether he would uphold them depended wholly on his mood.

The fragmented ghost face skull didn’t notice this, or what could it do even if it had? It had absolutely no strength to bargain with Qi Tian. Now laid out before it were only two paths: reject Qi Tian’s proposition, and it would follow in its comrades’ footsteps, being transformed into fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine, obliterated from this world, or accept Qi Tian’s proposal and sign the Blood Pact. Then, whether it would regain freedom in the end entirely depended on Qi Tian’s whims.

Even if Qi Tian never dissolved the Blood Pact between them, could it refuse to sign the agreement? If it refused, there was only the first path left, with no third option.

Facing a destiny where noncompliance meant obliteration, this third ghost face skull fragment ultimately chose to yield, agreeing to sign a Blood Pact with Qi Tian and become his servant.

Having already signed a Blood Pact with the Glazed Sand, Qi Tian was now quite familiar with the process. Thus, under his manipulation, it didn’t take long for him to successfully sign the third ghost face skull fragment, the first to be subjugated.

After the signing of the Blood Pact was complete, Qi Tian used the Heavenly Dao Engine’s ability to sense Spirit Qi to conduct a thorough scan and check of his newly subdued minion. He confirmed that this ghost face skull fragment, though only the size of a walnut kernel, contained an astoundingly vast amount of energy, and its strength was also formidable, already possessing the power equivalent to a cultivator of the Golden Core Stage Seventh Level.

When this data emerged, Qi Tian almost thought he had read it wrong. But after deeper consideration, it was not difficult to understand—if these ghost face skull fragments weren’t that powerful, how could they, once fused, become an existence comparable to a Nascent Soul Master?

After successfully subjugating the first fragment, Qi Tian used the Transporting Whirlwind to send it back to the Heavenly Dao Engine’s storage room. There, the ghost face skull fragment began to fulfill its duties, helping Qi Tian convince its comrades.

Fortresses often fall more easily from within. With this ghost face skull fragment now rallying under Qi Tian’s banner as an insider, the remaining fragments began to waver. Brought before Qi Tian one by one, most chose to sign the Blood Pact, becoming his subordinates. However, there were a few ghost face skull fragments that still refused Qi Tian’s recruitment, even knowing the consequences of non-compliance.

For these resistant ghost face skull fragments, Qi Tian showed no mercy, transforming them all into fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine.

In total, four ghost face skull fragments were utterly eradicated by Qi Tian. Their transformation not only provided the Heavenly Dao Engine’s storage room with a lot of reserve fuel, but a portion of it was also transported into Qi Tian’s meridians.