Chapter 187: CH. 187 | Mo Xiu Demon Transformation
With the power they had, Zhu Xian and Si Lingxi should have been able to beat the five young elders with ease, especially since their strength had already been drained from the earlier fight.
Elsewhere, Lin Tian flew off in another direction, chasing after Elder Mo Xiu.
His eyes could clearly make out Mo Xiu, wounded, standing among the wreckage of the floating island. His physical condition was severe, and his spirit was in turmoil.
"You?!"
"You think that’s enough to kill me?!" Mo Xiu shouted.
As Lin Tian flew closer, he was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of a massive array spreading across the area.
A crimson colored array formed beneath Mo Xiu’s feet, releasing an aura of demonic qi that began pulling something into it.
The man flew back and activated his spiritual qi orb, shielding himself from the resulting shockwave of spiritual energy.
Lin Tian watched as the flow of qi from inside the array was drawn into the demon tower.
The pillar of crimson light that had risen toward the sky faded and vanished, its energy fully absorbed into the array Mo Xiu had summoned.
He was trying to absorb that much spiritual energy all by himself.
His strength was growing, and so was his cultivation base.
But a Soul Formation cultivator without any concept of dao is the weakest kind, no matter what stage of Soul Formation he’s reached.
Lin Tian’s suspicion was confirmed. Mo Xiu was pulling spiritual energy from the tower into the array, then absorbing a huge amount of it directly into his own body.
The spiritual energy fluctuations grew stronger, pounding endlessly, shaking heaven and earth with their force.
Lin Tian understood right away that the effects of this absorption could cause him real trouble in the fight ahead.
It wasn’t just his strength and cultivation base that were changing. His physical body was transforming dramatically too.
His frame swelled up like some kind of monster, his muscles bulging, veins glowing crimson across his body, the result of demonic qi fully seeping into him.
"HAHAHA!"
"With the Demon Transformation Technique, I can push my strength past yours!" Mo Xiu declared.
His face changed completely. His eyes burned red, and a powerful spiritual qi aura radiated off him.
Lin Tian stood fully on guard, his right hand gripping his golden sword tightly.
Elsewhere, Zhu Xian and Si Lingxi stopped their attacks when they noticed the five young elders they were fighting suddenly freeze in place.
The elders locked up, unable to move, their spiritual energy being drained away by an aura coming from somewhere behind them.
"No, Senior Elder Mo!"
"Damn you, Mo Xiu!"
Zhu Xian and Si Lingxi exchanged a look, both sensing something was very wrong.
Moments later, the elders’ bodies crumbled into dust, their spiritual energy completely drained.
The two women flew toward the source of the crimson demonic qi until they reached Lin Tian.
They stood in shock, unable to say a word as they took in what was happening.
"He’s absorbing all that demonic qi for himself?!" Si Lingxi asked.
"This is bad. He keeps absorbing more, and his cultivation base is climbing fast."
Lin Tian nodded, agreeing with what the two women had said. But when it came to Mo Xiu’s actual strength, he saw things differently.
"Even though his cultivation base is now Soul Formation, all I see is a body with no concept of dao."
"That’s fatal for a Soul Formation cultivator. It’s like being a cultivator with no qi at all."
The man turned to face them, his expression hard and serious. "Get out of here and take everyone from the Yanzhou Sect with you."
"If you can, put up a barrier outside to keep the demonic qi fluctuations from corrupting your spiritual energy."
"But what about you?" Si Lingxi asked, clearly worried.
Lin Tian raised his sword toward the sky, calling down heavenly lightning from within the rumbling black clouds.
He didn’t explain his situation to them, but he showed them exactly what he intended, right there in front of them.
Zhu Xian understood what Lin Tian was planning. She was certain his calm confidence wasn’t coming from carelessness or foolishness.
He has a plan to deal with Mo Xiu, now that he’s turned into some horrifying Soul Formation monster.
She pulled Si Lingxi along and they left. Since Lin Tian had told them to go, she had no choice but to follow his instructions.
Zhu Xian and Si Lingxi flew off, away from the area near the demon tower.
Mo Xiu watched the two women leave, then let out a deep laugh that echoed across the sky.
"You just sent them away. You don’t want them dying alongside you."
"You’re wrong," Lin Tian replied.
The black clouds overhead split apart with a tremendous roar.
Mo Xiu looked up, fixing his eyes on whatever had been hidden behind those clouds all along.
"Your cultivation base has reached Mid Soul Formation, but your spirit doesn’t understand the will of heaven."
Lin Tian took a step forward, and with that single step came a faint burst of qi against the floor of the sky, qi that shone gold and white.
"The Yuanmo are a branch of the Youdu Demon sect. I have a thousand ways to defeat people from a demonic sect like yours!"
"The Youdu Demon? How do you know about that?!" Mo Xiu shouted.
His eyes locked onto Lin Tian, and he caught a faint glimpse of the shadow of some powerful cultivator standing behind him, a golden silhouette.
The strength radiating from that figure went far beyond anything he could imagine. He started to sense that something about Lin Tian wasn’t right.
From the sky, a giant figure emerged, wearing Lin Tian’s face, its body formed entirely from a projection of golden qi energy.
The projection towered even larger than the heavenly guardian projection from before.
Lin Tian pointed his sword forward, the motion signaling his golden projection to attack the demon Mo Xiu.
The projection’s two hands formed a space between them, and from within that space, a black orb appeared, like a black hole ringed with gold.
He hurled the black orb at Mo Xiu, and the demon immediately struck back at it with the combined force of a thousand powerful black demon skulls.
But instead of shattering, the thousand black demon skulls were pulled completely into the black hole, without dealing any damage at all.
"What the—"
"You think an attack like that could destroy my black orb?"