Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1297 - 1297 0743 Fighting Poison with Poison

Chapter 1297: Chapter 0743: Fighting Poison with Poison Chapter 1297: Chapter 0743: Fighting Poison with Poison Chapter 0743: Fighting Poison with Poison

Manager Chen’s head and body both tumbled to the ground, the latter shattering into pieces, with finger bones, humerus, ribs, and heart scattered all over the place. The former rolled away with a rumble, both eyeballs falling out as the head rolled, one to the east, the other to the west, creating a chilling sight.

Despite Manager Chen’s condition, as a living dead, he had an astonishing vitality. Qi Tian could still sense a tremendous life force emanating from his severed skull and exposed heart. If not dealt with, they might survive much longer, waiting for the next opportunity to seize and fuse with some unfortunate soul, which would allow Manager Chen to be reborn and continue to wreak havoc in the world.

Qi Tian didn’t want to leave any potential danger behind. He first made sure to protect himself before carefully landing on the ground. He took out several talismans and aimed them at Manager Chen’s head and heart, casting them out.

These talismans mainly had two functions: one was to anchor, and the other to bind. The former could ensure that Manager Chen’s head and heart stayed in place, without rolling about, while the latter made sure they couldn’t cause any mischief, especially the remaining Divine Sense and mental powers, which were locked within the head or heart and couldn’t spill out to bewilder the outside or cause him trouble.

Even with such precautions, Qi Tian remained extremely careful. He didn’t dispel the dense fog sprayed by the colored glaze sand and allowed it to continue. First, Qi Tian took out the Corpse Water Bottle and collected all the Millennium Corpse Water scattered on the ground. This stuff was too vicious; an accidental touch meant you had to amputate like Manager Chen to save your life, so it was better to collect the Corpse Water first. Afterward, he leisurely walked over to a phalanx of Manager Chen’s.

This phalanx wasn’t even half an inch long and lay quietly on the ground. No life force could be felt from it, but through the Heavenly Dao Engine’s sensing function for Spirit Qi, Qi Tian could still sense the phalanx was charged with a pure yet sinister energy.

What caught Qi Tian’s attention was not the energy on the phalanx, but he noticed a Storage Ring on it. He wondered who its original owner was—Manager Chen or the owner of the Saint’s Tomb? Regardless of who it was, it highlighted one thing: this Storage Ring was definitely not ordinary and likely contained many treasures.

Qi Tian removed the Storage Ring from the phalanx. Since Manager Chen wasn’t completely dead yet, Qi Tian tried and found, to his surprise, that he couldn’t open the Storage Ring. There was no way to know what exactly it contained.

But this didn’t stump Qi Tian. It wasn’t his first time dealing with such matters. He directly tossed the Storage Ring into the Heavenly Dao Engine’s storage chamber, planning to use the Heavenly Dao Engine to devour the mark Manager Chen left on the Storage Ring.

The mark on the ring was left by Manager Chen at his peak and was very formidable. It would take the Heavenly Dao Engine some time to break it open. Qi Tian wasn’t in a hurry; he turned his gaze towards Manager Chen’s heart, which was still thumping on the ground.

The heart, confined by the talisman, posed no threat to Qi Tian, but observing it still made his heart race. This was the heart of a living dead at the Second Level of the Nascent Soul Stage. When Qi Tian first used the talisman to suppress it, the heart didn’t react much, but now it exuded an evil and overwhelming aura. Standing next to it was like standing before a ferocious flood.

This aura, even before Manager Chen was decapitated, Qi Tian had never felt from him. It wasn’t that Manager Chen wasn’t strong, but back then, he could decide whether to let his aura seep out. Generally, such a seepage is discouraged, as it’s a needless waste of one’s energy. Except on specific occasions, this kind of seepage is mostly meaningless.

Now, without Manager Chen’s restraint, the constant seeping of the heart’s aura would lead to continuous leakage of its evil power, which over time would weaken the heart’s power, detrimental to the heart itself.

Of course, the current leakage of the heart’s aura gave Qi Tian a direct understanding of how powerful a living dead at the Second Level of the Nascent Soul Stage truly was. Compared to this, Qi Tian profoundly felt his own insignificance and weakness.

Qi Tian considered how to deal with the heart. Judging by the aura emanating from the heart, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to sweep it away with the Transporting Whirlwind. The power of the Transporting Whirlwind had its limits, and such an aura was enough to keep it at bay, unable to get close.

As for killing the heart with a flying sword, Qi Tian admitted to himself that it was beyond his ability.

The aura seeping from the heart represented a long-term loss, but at the moment, it actually served as protection for the heart. It formed a defensive barrier around the heart, which only forces strong enough to break through could injure. In other words, to kill the heart, one must break through the aura it was emitting.