đź“– Chapter 1120 - Projection of a Divine Emperor!
The three daggers were made of black gas, but they looked completely real. Countless skulls, big and small, wreathed the dagger blades and wailed noiselessly.
These wails were completely inaudible to outsiders, and only Chong Yizi could hear them. However, each wail carried a strange power that shook his mind, causing blood to flow from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Even with his late-stage Eternal Star Realm cultivation base, he couldn’t resist at all. As his mind reeled, he was left completely unable to avoid the daggers!
The first dagger pierced Chong Yizi’s chest in an instant. As soon as it did so, it dissipated into black gas that swiftly disseminated through his body.
Chong Yizi let out a shrill scream the moment the black gas entered his body. His flesh and blood withered instantaneously, as if being corroded by a deadly toxin. If it was just withering, that would be fine, but immediately after, Chong Yizi discovered that it even began to melt!
Droplets of black blood poured off of Chong Yizi’s body as he retreated. As the black droplets scattered in all directions, what fell into Wang Baole’s eyes was no longer the previous Chong Yizi, but rather… a skeleton!
In the distance, the onlookers, such as Xie Haiyang and Chen Han, felt their scalps go numb. Their breathing became ragged, and their minds shook. Wang Baole’s curse was really too savage and ruthless, and its power made their hearts tremble.
It had to be known that Chong Yizi was a late-stage Eternal Star Realm cultivator as well as the second-ranked Dao Child of the Nine Provinces Dao. Not only was his cultivation base deep, his fleshly body was also extremely powerful. Thus, no matter how grievous his previous injuries were, they were still nothing more than injuries.
But what had happened to him now could no longer be considered just an injury. To have all his flesh and blood melt and slide off his body… The horror of Wang Baole’s curse art was plain for everyone to see!
It completely disregarded the victim’s physical might, using the caster’s resentment and vitality to forcefully annihilate the enemy’s flesh and blood!
And that wasn’t the end. Although Chong Yizi had turned into a skeleton that could no longer scream, there were still two more daggers. At that moment, the second dagger appeared in front of him and directly stabbed into his bones without giving him the slightest chance to resist!
This dagger also turned into black gas the moment it struck its target, instantly spreading through Chong Yizi’s remaining skeleton. His bones turned pitch black in the blink of an eye, and then… once again, melted!
The melting of his bones brought Chong Yizi excruciating pain. If someone swept his soul with their divine sense, they would hear indescribable wails coming from within.
All of this takes a long time to describe, but it actually happened in an instant. A moment later… Chong Yizi’s bones melted away, and the only thing left of him was his divine soul.
His fleshly body had been destroyed, and his divine soul was exposed to the elements. This alone was a gruesome fate, but Wang Baole’s Flame Spirit Curse… still hadn’t run its course. The third dagger, filled with seemingly infinite darkness and surrounded by endless howling skulls, immediately whistled toward Chong Yizi’s divine soul!
But Chong Yizi was an extraordinary person, after all. At this moment of life and death, his divine soul immediately ruptured, splitting into over a dozen pieces with a loud bang. Thanks to that, he managed to avoid the death blow of the third dagger and rapidly retreated, merging into his dim and blurry Eternal Star.
As he did so, the Eternal Star flashed and seemed to disappear. However, the third dagger was too fast and managed to pierce into the Eternal Star just before it could successfully teleport away.
With that, the Eternal Star’s teleportation failed, and it couldn’t stop the dagger from exploding into black gas and corrupting it. The Eternal Star turned black at a rate visible to the naked eye. It seemed to be filled with countless black daggers, all howling toward Chong Yizi’s divine soul hidden within.
Chong Yizi’s divine soul fluctuated as despair and madness appeared in his eyes. He had never imagined that Wang Baole would be so strong.
Wang Baole’s power of law was horrifying, his fleshly body was horrifying, his divine abilities were horrifying, and his curse arts… were even more horrifying. At this moment, Chong Yizi finally understood why his Nine Provinces Dao’s curse arts, despite their strength, were not famous across the Never-Ending Dao Domain as a whole.
It was because above the Nine Provinces Dao’s curse arts, there were even stronger curse arts… those belonging to the Flame Patriarch!
Perhaps it was because the Flame Patriarch had been quiet for many years, or perhaps it was because his disciples almost never left the Raging Flame Galaxy, but Chong Yizi had never paid much attention to those famous curse arts until now. But today… he finally learned what a true curse art was like. And this lesson came at a painful price!
“I don’t want to die! I can’t die!” Chong Yizi seemed like he had gone crazy. He could sense the countless black daggers charging toward him inside his Eternal Star, and he could also sense that the curse imbued in the daggers… could truly destroy everything about him. If he was killed by the curse, then even if the sect tried to resurrect him in the future, it would be futile.
Because this curse… would exist for all eternity. What it locked onto was not Chong Yizi the person, but the imprint that his life left on the universe. He could only survive by canceling out the curse here and now. If he let himself be struck… there was no future for him!
“Wang! Bao! Le!!” At the moment of life and death, Chong Yizi roared and the madness in his eyes reached its peak. Seemingly having come to a certain decision, his divine soul rapidly shrank and turned into a scroll.
This was Wang Baole’s first time encountering such a scene, but he was instantly reminded of a certain text he had read in the Raging Flame Galaxy.
“Divine soul art?” Wang Baole’s eyes narrowed. He recalled that there were certain secret techniques in the Never-Ending Dao Domain that could only be used at the expense of a person’s divine soul. These techniques were called divine soul arts, and each divine soul art was filled with bizarre power.
What Chong Yizi was using at this moment was none other than a divine soul art.
While Wang Baole watched vigilantly, the scroll that Chong Yizi’s divine soul had transformed into flashed with light. It seemed to have turned into a real scroll as it violently unfurled!
As it unfurled, the image inside the scroll fell into Wang Baole’s eyes.
The image contained a long river of stars shining with bright light. Beside the starry river was a person wearing a long gray robe. He seemed to be watching the starry sky, and the image only revealed his back.
Although what Wang Baole could see was only a back, as soon as the image appeared, an indescribable suppressive force instantly erupted from the scroll!
It suppressed the dust in all directions, suppressed the natural laws in the surroundings, suppressed all lives and all creation, suppressed the entire starry sky!
“Wang Baole, even if I have to risk half my divine soul being destroyed, I’ll crush you!” A divine will filled with madness spread out from the scroll.
Xie Haiyang and the others, even the Eternal Star Realm Dao Protectors, all spat blood. Their bodies were instantly pressed to the floor of their battleships due to the powerful suppression.
Even the battleships themselves suddenly flickered and lost their spirituality, falling from the sky in an instant. The only reason they got off this lightly was because they were far away in the first place. However, Wang Baole was the direct target of the attack and was forced to bear the brunt of the suppressive force. His whole body instantly rumbled, and it seemed like he was about to collapse. However, this force was unable to completely crush him.
That was because inside his star chart, there were nine quasi-Dao Stars and one Eternal Dao Star!
Bearing the moniker of Dao Star, how could they give in so easily!?
In an instant, although the nine quasi-Dao Stars dimmed, the Eternal Dao Star released a monstrous black light, like an enormous black hole. Although Wang Baole’s whole body was trembling, he slowly lifted his head and stared at the unfurled scroll!
“The projection of a Divine Emperor?”
This horrifying suppressive force surpassed all the Star Domain Realm Almighties that Wang Baole had seen in his life. This sort of power… had to belong to the Universe Realm!
As soon as Wang Baole’s gaze struck the scroll, the figure inside with his back turned suddenly began turning his head, as if he wanted to take a look at Wang Baole.
And as the figure turned his head, the suppressive force emanating from the scroll skyrocketed. In an instant, the starry sky in all directions began to collapse!
“Interesting. I’ve always been the one suppressing others, and this is the first time someone’s tried to use a similar method to suppress me. Well then, let’s see who’s stronger… this Divine Emperor, or my father-in-law!” Although Wang Baole’s body was on the verge of collapse, his eyes were shining brightly. Even as he spoke aloud, in his heart, he was silently reciting… the Dao Scripture!
“Enlightened, prisoner of the dao of heaven…
“All sentient beings must endure immeasurable calamities…
“It takes but a thought to leave the deep prison…
“Await the path of cultivation!”