Chapter 278

Xu Zhi Nan’s expression was gloomy. He snorted coldly, generated a wind with a sweep of his palm, and that yellow talisman was like being caught in a whirlwind, which instantly tore it into pieces. However, the blood-colored talisman did not disappear. The ghostly red glow intensified and became more and more dazzling in the air. The sky which was bright just now had darkened suddenly.

Qi Meng Sheng probably had poured all the spiritual power she could transfer into this soul-summoning talisman.

"Qi Meng Sheng, are you crazy? Jiang Qu Lian told me that Cheng Yan Zhi had already been reincarnated. What’s the use even if you can summon back a fragmented earth soul?!"

After a person died, among the three souls, the heavenly soul would return to heaven, the earth soul would return to earth, and the human soul would be led to the underworld and reincarnated. The mind, memory, and cultivation of the earth soul were incomplete. The only "function" was that those with obsession or resentment might become evil spirits.

"Might as well try it to see whether it’s effective or not." Qi Meng Sheng rebuked in a low voice. Her spiritual pressure was flaring up, and her eyes were flickering with a firm and persistent light.

Xu Zhi Nan inexplicably started to panic. He simply bit his finger and drew a forbidden talisman in the air. This forbidden talisman was a universal talisman. As long as the caster was strong enough, it could destroy any spell and formation. That forbidden talisman was wrapped with a green glow and attacked the soul-summoning talisman. The two talismans collided and competed in mid-air. If it had been Qi Meng Sheng, who was a generation of Immortal Lords in those years, she would have had the strength to fight with the current Xu Zhi Nan. However, Hua Xiang Rong's body was too weak in comparison. Soon, the soul-summoning talisman was in a disadvantageous position.

Xie Bi An immediately came up with an idea: "Wu She, change the soul weapon!"

Fan Wu She immediately understood. The soul weapon was far more useful on the soul than the physical body. As Qi Meng Sheng said, Xu Zhi Nan's soul was not stable in Cheng Yan Zhi's body. Even after eating a top-quality human core and breaking through the Imperishable Heavenly Fire, from Xu Zhi Nan's reaction, it could be seen that the different spirit and flesh still could not be fully merged. If the real soul of this body was summoned back at this time, it would have a great impact on Xu Zhi Nan. That’s why Xu Zhi Nan used his blood talisman to deal with it.

In addition, attacking Xu Zhi Nan's soul with the soul weapons now must be a heavy blow to him. Since they could not break through his tough body, they would defeat him from the inside!

Xu Zhi Nan's face suddenly changed, and he realized the purpose of this duo.

The two switched to their soul weapons and flew up, attacking Xu Zhi Nan from the front and back. These were the two parts that were easiest to strike a person's soul. The soul would be knocked out of the body if an ordinary person got hit. Xu Zhi Nan was now the body of a giant, so he could attack in a very large range, and his speed was much slower. This hard and huge body was like a fortress that could resist knives and guns, but it had become his disadvantage now.

The soul-hooking chain immediately wrapped around the crack of the Golden Carved Jade Suit. Fan Wu She ascended a few steps along Xu Zhi Nan’s body and leaped onto his shoulder. Xu Zhi Nan reached out to grab Fan Wu She, but Xie Bi An had already raised Wuqiongbi and attacked his back viciously.

Sensing the murderous aura behind him, Xu Zhi Nan had to turn back to defend and force Xie Bi An back, because the soul weapon was not a sword, he did not dare to take the attack directly.

Under the fierce converging attacks, with plenty of spiritual energy absorbed by Xu Zhi Nan’s blood talisman, he was suddenly struggling to cope.

Fan Wu She dodged Xu Zhi Nan's attack, jumped onto his shoulder several times, and aimed the soul-hooking chain between his brows.

Xu Zhi Nan shouted angrily. The golden-armored giant's hand grabbed towards Fan Wu She with an incredibly fast speed. If he was caught by this hand, he would undoubtedly be crushed.

Fan Wu She turned over again, went around to the back of his neck, and once again drew Xu Zhi Nan's attention to himself. Xie Bi An took advantage of this opportunity to attack again. He poured a lot of spiritual power into Wuqiongbi. A green spell was forming in midair. With a wave of Wuqiongbi, he hit directly on Xu Zhi Nan’s back. That spell on Xu Zhi Nan’s body looked very small, but it burst out with extreme power.

Xu Zhi Nan shouted in pain. His huge body staggered a few steps and twitched briefly but fiercely. That was his soul in shock!

Although this blow was not a heavy blow to Xu Zhi Nan, it was not easy to feasibly hurt him, and the pain on his face also proved the effectiveness of this blow.

The soul-summoning talisman, which was about to be suppressed by the forbidden talisman, became strong again because Xu Zhi Nan was injured. The blood-colored glow erupted. A sudden eerie wind spiraled close to the ground and swirled up countless fallen leaves and crushed stones.

Qi Meng Sheng once again clearly shouted the name of the summoning spirit: "Cheng, Yan, Zhi!"

Xu Zhi Nan's face gradually became pale, as if an immobilizing spell was cast on him. He suddenly slowed down all his movements, and his eyes were staring straight ahead. The muscles of his face were twitching and trembling, and his original handsome features were distorted frighteningly at this time.

When Qi Meng Sheng saw this, her tears rolled down again. She trembled and asked cautiously, "Yan Zhi, is that you?"

Xu Zhi Nan didn't move, and everyone didn't move either. The chaotic battlefield seemed to freeze instantly. It was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.

For a long time, a faint sigh came from the air.

"Yan Zhi......" Qi Meng Sheng cried, "is it you?"

Xu Zhi Nan's body trembled uncontrollably as if something invisible was fighting in his body. His head was hung down, his hands kept trying to clench, and his lips were opening and closing slightly, letting out an indistinct voice.

"Cheng Yan Zhi!" Qi Meng Sheng roared.

Xu Zhi Nan's body trembled again. He shrunk rapidly and returned to normal. He staggered a few steps, put his back against a camphor tree, and slowly raised his head. That moment when he saw Qi Meng Sheng, his tears fell: "Is...is…it…you…?"

"It's me." Qi Meng Sheng only felt her heart ache extremely.

"Meng......Sheng......" After a hundred years, Cheng Yan Zhi's earth soul returned to his body again.

The crowd was shocked by it.

Qi Meng Sheng’s tears were running like a bubbling spring: "This is…this is the first time I've seen the real you."

"......I'm sorry." Cheng Yan Zhi was desperately suppressing something. He was using his lonely earth soul resisting Xu Zhi Nan's three souls and six spirits, and he also saw everything in Xu Zhi Nan's memories. After seeing everything, painful and hopeless tears flowed down from his eyes, "I thought......senior brother had lied to me. I'm sorry......"

"It's not your fault, Yan Zhi, it was never your fault." Qi Meng Sheng cried, "I was incompetent and didn't stop him."

Cheng Yan Zhi shook his head and murmured in pain, "Why is senior brother like this.....?"

"He is no longer the senior brother you knew. In these hundred years, too many things have happened. We have gone too far and there was no way back." Qi Meng Sheng slowly walked up to Cheng Yan Zhi. She stretched out her hands. The look of wanting to embrace but not daring to made people extremely distressed. Finally, she just gently cupped Cheng Yan Zhi's face, "Yan Zhi, you and I fell in love but never met each other in our true form. In the past, I didn't care that you were just a living dead man. Now I don't care that you are only a wisp of a remnant soul. You are always in my heart."

Cheng Yan Zhi stiffened and suddenly hugged Qi Meng Sheng. This was the first time he hugged the woman he loved most with his own body, but this time it was her turn to live in someone else's body. This bitter love spanning a hundred years would not even have a moment of perfection from beginning to end. He burst into tears: "Meng Sheng, I'm sorry. If I could restrain my emotions, none of us would be like this. I'm sorry."

Qi Meng Sheng also hugged back tightly: "Yan Zhi, let’s not talk about right and wrong. Let’s not talk about it. We must stop him now. This is our last chance."

"Okay......wuu......" Cheng Yan Zhi's body twitched again. His arms holding Qi Meng Sheng suddenly tightened. The force was so great that it seemed like he wanted to embed Qi Meng Sheng into his own body. There was a strange voice rolling in his throat and his expression was changing unpredictably. From this face, people saw the expression belonging to Xu Zhi Nan.

Qi Meng Sheng endured the pain and called out, "Yan Zhi, stop him, stop him!"

"Meng Sheng, see you…in the next life.” Cheng Yan Zhi roared furiously and pushed Qi Meng Sheng away fiercely.

Cracks suddenly appeared one by one on the body that was invincible and invulnerable to swords and spears. The dazzling golden light was shooting out from the cracks, lighting up the gloomy sky. Cheng Yan Zhi's body was like a Thunderfire Stone that was about to explode, and he screamed bitterly.

"Qi Meng Sheng----" That was Xu Zhi Nan's last roar, which was full of despair, pain, and unwillingness.

With a boom, this body burst into flames in an instant, turning into a huge ball of fire.

Qi Meng Sheng stared at the fire in a daze, and the heat dried up her tears. The golden light reflected in her pupils was clearly the most brilliant color, but she clearly gave off a miserable and lonely feeling of death.

Initially, that ball of fire burned warmly and magnificently, as if it could burn everything, but it eventually returned to desolation too. The light disappeared and the temperature cooled. Finally, it turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated into the world.

The empty Golden Carved Jade Suit fell to the ground.

Everyone looked at this scene and could not come back to their senses for a long time.

This was originally the ultimate style of the Chunyang Technique ---- the Indestructible Heavenly Fire, where one will be reborn after death*. As long as one breaks through a boundary, one can be reborn regardless of any state, which is equivalent to having eternal life as a mortal, but if one is careless, one will be burnt alive. Cheng Yan Zhi was the genuine owner of this body. Even if he was only a wisp of a remnant soul, he had defeated Xu Zhi Nan.

From now on, there would be neither Cheng Yan Zhi nor Xu Zhi Nan in this world.

He racked his brains and suffered defeat on the verge of success. The conspiracy and scam that spanned a hundred years ended at this moment.

 

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PS: my head hurt like MAAAD today, so I’ll only upload this one chap today. Will reach 280 soon :’) (headache plz go away soon)

 

reborn after death* [置之死地而后生]--- the true definition of this Chinese phrase is: place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War"). However, I don’t think it has the same meaning in this novel. What this phrase means is like a phoenix. When a phoenix dies, it will be born again. 

 

Edited on 9 Aug. 21 (Emzie)

 

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