Chapter 2209 - 2202: The Soul-Cutting Sword Unleashes Its Might
The transcender who was pointed at immediately had his back drenched in cold sweat, "You can’t do this, I found the clues, even if someone tries, it should be someone more capable."
"You lowly dog, do you dare defy my orders?" The powerhouse from Honghu Academy immediately showed displeasure on his face. As a Realm Breaker, he couldn’t even command a transcender; in front of so many people, it was somewhat embarrassing for him.
"Hahahahaha, it seems your words don’t carry much weight!" The other few from Honghu Academy mocked, but from start to finish, they didn’t take the transcender’s life seriously at all. In their view, these lives could be swayed with just a couple of words.
The transcender looked towards the others, but nobody paid any attention to the pleading expression in his eyes, only indifference and unconcern.
"I’ll give you five seconds to consider. If you don’t follow my words, you’ll die even sooner!"
"You all..." The transcender eyed everyone venomously, "Even if I die, I’ll curse each and every one of you!"
In front of that door on the ground was a small sphere, and above it was a groove. Around the groove, there was a very powerful restriction. Except for spiritual power and Soul Power, no other force could penetrate this restriction. According to their conjectures, as long as the sphere was placed into the groove, the door should open.
The transcender took a deep breath and slowly released his spiritual power.
At that very instant, an invisible force swept across him. It felt like he had plunged into a cloud, with his body experiencing a moment of weightlessness. As this force swept over him, Supreme Crystal crystals began to slowly surface on his body.
He looked like he was frozen, his expression fixed in his final moment alive, and his life was simultaneously taken away in that instant.
"Just as expected!"
This outcome didn’t shock the crowd; instead, it was what they anticipated. A powerful soul force in this space would hunt all creatures that released Soul Power!
"Alright, it seems it’s just as we suspected, both the warcraft and humans here died this way." The people from Honghu Academy didn’t even glance at the corpse.
"That’s strange, so many people and warcraft were trapped to death here, shouldn’t the first person to use Soul Power have warned others not to recklessly use Soul Power anymore?"
"Indeed, as long as they refrain from using Soul Power, even if trapped alive, it would take centuries or even millennia; there would be time to leave some clues."
"So it means these people must have hastily used Soul Power before their deaths, with no chance to leave anything substantial for those who came after!"
No wonder Zhang Menglong felt the information left by the predecessor ended abruptly; it doesn’t seem coincidental.
"Without forcibly using Soul Power to open the door, how did they die then?"
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Suddenly, as if revealing the final puzzle to them, a commotion arose in the distance. Zhang Menglong looked over and found that the door had split open into a crack!
The crack was so tiny that Zhang Menglong doubted if it was even a couple of millimeters wide, and from it, golden mist began to pour out!
The mist quickly condensed, transforming into creatures resembling bats!
Almost without any warning, these bats launched an attack towards them.
"Be careful!" A member of the Moyan Family drew a long bow, and as energy gathered, countless arrows flew out instantly, outnumbering the bat swarm!
"Just such things..." The Realm Breaker looked confidently at the bat swarm; he expected something remarkable to emerge from the door.
However, the next scene was bizarre; those energy arrows pierced right through the bat swarm’s bodies, as if striking a mirage.
"What are these things?" The Realm Breaker was stunned, as this was the first time he had seen such strange entities.
The bat swarm flew incredibly fast and charged into the crowd in no time. People began to counterattack with various weapons, but they found they were completely ineffective; everything would pass right through the bats!
"Ah!" A transcender screamed as a bat brushed past him, and the bats began consuming the Soul Power covering his body!
Each bat sweep resulted in semi-transparent fragments appearing on his body, as if part of his Soul had been torn away by a special force!
This attack seemed like dimensional destruction; the bat swarm could harm them, but their attacks couldn’t affect the bats at all!
"These bats are formed from Soul Power; to resist them, we must also use Soul Power..."
Even without anyone mentioning it, everyone realized the situation, but they had seen what happened to those who used Soul Power: it was akin to suicide.
"I refuse to believe it!" A defiant Realm Breaker released his Soul Energy. To him, the transcender’s death might have been due to his weak Soul Power. Being a bona fide Realm Breaker, perhaps he could withstand the soul force assault!
Yet he was still overconfident; the force immediately locked onto him, erasing his life force in an instant, turning him into one of the many statues.
His companions had no time to grieve; he was a fifth-order Peak Realm Breaker, yet under this force, he had no resistance at all! Their prowess was on par with him, and if the force attacked them, their fate would likely be the same.
"Don’t use Soul Power, that force is too strong and bizarre, don’t be blindly overconfident!"
These Realm Breakers were all from extraordinary backgrounds; although they couldn’t use Soul Power to ward off the bats, they possessed magical artifacts that could resist Soul attacks; these treasures became their lifeline.
Of course, not everyone had such backing; apart from them, the rest had no means to fend off the bats’ assault, with some falling into soul-induced slumber due to severe damage, and a few were already lost.
"Soul-Cutting Sword!" Zhang Menglong had many tools to counter Soul Bodies, and the Soul-Cutting Sword was particularly effective.
Without the advantage of the Soul Energy Body, the bats’ combat ability was inferior to even some ordinary transcenders.
"Excellent tool!" Many noticed Zhang Menglong holding the Soul-Cutting Sword. Their items could damage Soul Energy Bodies as a side effect, whereas Zhang Menglong’s Soul-Cutting Sword seemed born to slay Soul Energy Bodies.
Killed bats turned into particles of light, and Zhang Menglong astonishingly found his soul actively absorbing this energy!
However, this energy differed greatly from the golden colloid energy obtained after killing Blood Slave Beasts, and even had a certain repulsion; a sharp pain suddenly assaulted Zhang Menglong’s brain.
𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Amid the agony, Zhang Menglong felt the two distinct types of Soul Energy beginning to merge!