đź“– Chapter 1267 - Outstanding Person!
The red-robed young man who had possessed Chen Qingzi was far stronger than Wang Baole and the others, and his cultivation base was even higher than Master Never-Ending’s.
After all… his body was that of Chen Qingzi, and Chen Qingzi’s cultivation base at its peak had been almost at the fourth step. As for his soul, it belonged to the Emperor. With these two together, even if he couldn’t truly bring out the power of the fourth step, he was infinitely close.
And against such an enemy, Wang Baole, Patriarch Seven Spirits, and the Xie Family ancestor all knew… that they couldn’t win.
If they were given more time, perhaps they would have a tiny chance. However… if they continued to wait, then it wouldn’t be long before the all civilizations in the Never-Ending Dao Domain were devoured. At that point, they wouldn’t be able to escape destruction themselves.
Therefore, this battle… was one that had to be fought.
The key point that needed to be considered and planned was how exactly they would fight.
In the end, after the Xie Family ancestor’s input, they decided on… this battle of kismet!
Kismet was ethereal and insubstantial, but it was precisely because of this that it was possible to catch the red-robed young man off guard.
Once the red-robed young man’s kismet was severed, even if his body and soul were completely unharmed, his movements in this stele world would be subtly restrained.
After all… even though he was extremely powerful, if he had no kismet, everything would go wrong for him. In turn, those who fought against him would see success in every endeavor.
Another point was that once his kismet was severed, the natural and magical laws of the stele world would completely reject him.
Right now, he had only been able to come in because he was hiding inside Chen Qingzi’s body. But if his kismet disappeared, then this layer of concealment would become ineffective.
Thus, everyone moved out in unison for this plan!
At this moment, although the red-robed young man’s cultivation base was incomparable, he found that he had been too careless. With the descent of Wang Baole’s ancient bronze sword, the flames engulfing the young man’s kismet exploded in intensity, burning faster and faster.
In just one breath of time, a tenth of his kismet disappeared, and he started to feel the rejection from the laws of the stele world.
However, the red-robed young man was too strong. Although his kismet was burning, he was still completely confident. A red light flashed through his eyes as he turned his attention away from the Xie Family ancestor and reached out toward Wang Baole.
“I hadn’t bothered with you yet, but since you’ve delivered yourself up to my doorstep like this, I won’t hesitate!” As he spoke, the red-robed young man possessing Chen Qingzi’s body thrust his hand at Wang Baole.
Wang Baole had a complicated expression on his face. The person in front of him was once very familiar, but now… there was a different soul inside.
“Senior Brother…” Wang Baole sighed. He buried his complicated feelings and was about to counter.
But at that moment… the red-robed young man’s expression suddenly changed, and an enormous gash appeared on his chest. This gash seemed to be on his fleshly body, but it was actually on his divine soul.
As soon as the gash appeared, a struggling will erupted from Chen Qingzi’s body, causing the red-robed young man’s face to contort with shock.
“Chen Qingzi? Impossible!!”
Wang Baole was also shaken as he watched this scene. His eyes widened as a voice reverberated in his mind.
“Since I’m dead, there’s no need to hold back. This is the last resort that I left behind in my body. I, Chen Qingzi, may have died… but I won’t let myself be possessed!
“Before I set out to fight, I laid a trap inside my body. If I won, then all is well. If I lost… then it’s fine if nobody tries to possess me, but if they do… they won’t be getting out!” This message was obviously left behind before Chen Qingzi departed. Now, countless runes suddenly appeared on his body. They were all a deathly gray, and exuded a decaying aura. His body began to dissipate in an instant, seemingly irreversibly.
For the first time, fear appeared in the red-robed young man’s eyes. He struggled and tried to at least escape with his divine soul, but Chen Qingzi’s body was like a cage. His divine soul was tightly bound, unable to escape and fated to simply dissipate along with the body.
Seeing this, Wang Baole’s eyes filled with sorrow, but he still gritted his teeth and attacked. A crazed expression appeared on his face, and the ancient bronze sword in his hand erupted with its maximum power. His cultivation base, too, was unleashed at this moment without holding anything back. Although the earth seed hadn’t been formed yet, it was no longer needed now.
In conjunction with the ancient bronze sword’s own powers, the power of four elements reinforcing each other gathered on the sword as it slashed down on the red-robed young man.
“Chen! Qing!! Zi!!!” A vicious scream came out of the red-robed young man’s mouth, who was unable to move or dodge at all. Right now, his struggling divine soul was half-exposed, taking the form of a blood-colored centipede. But no matter how he writhed, half of his soul stayed stationary. He was stuck inside Chen Qingzi’s rapidly decaying body.
It was even possible to see chains locking him down. In the next instant… Wang Baole’s ancient bronze sword struck.
With a boom, Chen Qingzi’s body collapsed, torn to pieces, and his divine soul also shattered. Every bit of his fleshly body bound itself to a wisp of divine soul, making it completely impossible for him to escape. No matter what he did, he couldn’t stop himself from dissipating along with the chunks of flesh and blood, and in the end, he completely disappeared from the starry sky.
As the divine soul in Chen Qingzi dissipated, rays of red light flew out from the brows of Patriarch Seven Spirits and the Xie Family Ancestor. These rays of light fused together and formed the figure of the red-robed young man.
However, this figure was extremely blurry, and a force of rejection from the laws of the stele world descended as soon as he appeared. In an instant, he turned even blurrier, and was about to disappear completely. But before he disappeared, he opened his eyes, looking at Wang Baole and the others with a sharp and piercing gaze.
Internally, he admitted that he had been too careless. In the first place, he had never expected that the Xie Family ancestor had cultivated the Dao of Kismet to such an extent that it was nearly at the fourth step.
Moreover, he hadn’t expected that the incense stick could produce such vicious flames once it was extinguished, nor had he expected Patriarch Seven Spirits to have such power. He especially hadn’t expected that final blow by Wang Baole!
All of this caused his kismet to burn away rapidly, but they weren’t the key point. After all, if it was just that, he would still have been able to easily turn the tables.
But unexpectedly, Chen Qingzi, whom he had killed and possessed… had left behind a trap that he couldn’t detect!
Only an incredibly deep scheme could have prevented him from noticing it. When his thoughts reached this point, the red-robed young man’s expression became even more gloomy, and the contemptuousness in his heart was replaced by solemnity.
“This time, I was careless. But… before long, I shall return, and when that time comes… I won’t hold back anymore!”
With the reverberation of these words, the red-robed young man’s figure blurred more and more, until finally he disappeared completely from the starry sky.
It wasn’t until his figure could no longer be seen that the Xie Family ancestor and Patriarch Seven Spirits truly allowed themselves to sigh in relief. They turned to look at Wang Baole, and seeing the sorrow and complication in his expression, they both fell silent.
After a while, the Xie Family ancestor spoke in a low voice.
“Chen Qingzi was an outstanding person!
In fact, after Chen Qingzi failed, the Xie Family ancestor and Patriarch Seven Spirits had actually held some resentment. After all, it was due to Chen Qingzi’s failure that all of this had happened.
But in the end, Chen Qingzi had left them all in awe.
Wang Baole closed his eyes and buried his sorrow. After a while, he opened his eyes again and spoke.
“My senior brother… is an outstanding person!”