Two great blades, one large and one small.
In the blink of an eye, they collided.
*Crack...*
A crisp sound.
Chu Tian's expression changed.
His body, condensed from his soul.
Flashed several times.
At one point, his body was transparent, almost imperceptible.
His golden-pink soul blade.
The moment it clashed head-on with Zu Yunxi's,
It directly snapped. In the next moment, it dissipated.
The dissipating soul energy vanished without a trace.
Ya Ya's formation was still active.
Any soul energy within a spherical cage, once it lost its master's control,
Would be drained.
Chu Tian's was no exception.
His soul power was still far inferior to Zu Yunxi's.
Seeing this, the latter's disdain intensified.
Chu Tian's heart sank.
"Not enough?"
However, at the very instant Chu Tian's soul blade shattered.
A faint golden-pink light blade did not disappear.
Instead, it continued to shoot towards Zu Yunxi.
This sight made Chu Tian's spirit tremble.
Zu Yunxi, who had been showing disdain,
Suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
That golden-pink light blade had pierced through his soul blade.
As if it were nothing, his soul blade had no effect on it.
He was not slow to react.
The light blade was already before him in an instant.
Dodging a kick from Chu Tian's clone.
He moved his hands rapidly.
A soul shield, about a foot thick,
Condensed before him.
The moment the soul blade appeared, the golden-pink light blade, indirectly, made contact.
However.
*Chiiii...*
A soft slicing sound.
Zu Yunxi stared in disbelief.
With a terrified expression, he looked down at his chest.
Right there.
A golden-pink light blade remained.
And the blade was continuously shrinking.
Not to disappear,
But along the wound, threads of golden-pink light were spreading into his body.
The golden-pink light spread like capillaries!
He reached out to grasp it.
But as his hand closed around the gradually shrinking light blade!
"Ah..."
Zu Yunxi let out a scream.
His hand, which had touched the light blade,
Began to change as well.
That hand and his chest started to crystallize.
Zu Yunxi channeled his soul power, desperately resisting.
"What in the world is this? Stop... just stop!"
But no matter how hard he tried,
The crystallized area continued to spread.
Seeing this, Chu Tian felt a slight sense of relief.
The Buddha-Demon Harmonizing Profound Magnetic Light!
It was actually showing its power at this moment.
The first time he had used it inadvertently, he found it useless against inanimate objects.
Zu Yunxi's current soul body,
While not exactly inanimate, was also not truly alive.
However, he was a life form.
It seemed... this Profound Magnetic Light only took effect on life forms, even if they were souls.
Anything alive would be crystallized by it.
He couldn't help but sigh, that Fahai had left him this.
It could be considered a good deed.
However...
After a moment, the speed of crystallization slowly decreased.
Zu Yunxi's chest up to his neck was entirely a golden-pink hue.
Whether his resistance was effective,
Or for some other reason!
In any case, a large portion of his body had not undergone this transformation.
Having reached this point, the man's emotions settled slightly.
However, the way he looked at Chu Tian,
Was filled with utter hatred.
Because he could no longer feel half of his body.
Even his right hand, which he had just extended,
From his wrist down, had lost all sensation and control.
Just as the man was about to erupt in anger,
Chu Tian was also preparing himself for his next attack.
He secretly lamented that the power of the Profound Magnetic Light he could mobilize was still too little.
However, at that very moment.
A loud roar suddenly erupted.
"Stupid... watch me capture you... Qiankun Pagoda, grow!"
This shout startled Chu Tian.
The one who had spoken was none other than his clone.
This fellow, it seemed, was about to unleash its power.
The nine-story pagoda behind him.
From bottom to top, layer by layer, it began to glow.
In the blink of an eye, it flashed up to the fourth layer.
Then the pagoda seemed to become solid.
It grew rapidly against the wind... in an instant, it covered Zu Yunxi's head.
A vortex appeared beneath the pagoda.
A beam of light shot out, finally trapping Zu Yunxi within.
"Ah... what?"
This time, Zu Yunxi was truly startled.
Chu Tian was also immensely shocked.
He hadn't expected that the nine-story pagoda, which looked like mere decoration,
Could be used in such a way.
And it appeared to be quite powerful.
As they spoke, the pagoda descended.
Zu Yunxi, unable to move, was naturally enclosed within.
The pagoda then shrunk in that instant.
In a flash, it returned to float behind the clone.
"Let's see you act up now! I'll refine you for you!"
...
Chu Tian watched all of this.
This scene had unfolded too suddenly.
Although that fellow's body had been crystallized by one-third,
His combat effectiveness didn't seem to have decreased significantly.
How did it...
The moment Zu Yunxi was captured,
The bodies of the red heroic spirits exploded into clouds of red mist.
These weapons were not pure soul energy.
But they were quickly absorbed by Ya Ya.
Zu Yunxi, inside the pagoda, was still struggling.
But it was merely struggling.
The nine-story pagoda was incredibly sturdy.
Though it appeared to be just a transparent shadow,
No matter how he thrashed inside, it had no effect.
The clone also began to embrace the pagoda, channeling streams of magnificent and imposing light into it.
Chu Tian felt speechless.
It seemed his clone was quite capable.
He had underestimated him!
His Dantian, it seemed, was truly formidable.
Chu Tian knew that the nine-story pagoda was a manifestation of his Dantian.
It had been drawn out of his body by his mother and sealed in the Antarctic region.
Eventually, it developed sentience and produced this fellow.
This resulted in him being unable to reclaim his Dantian, and it had to be refined into a clone.
Looking at it now, he felt like he had suffered a loss.
"I say, if you could capture him, why didn't you do it sooner?"
Chu Tian thought this with some anger, because he felt that if his clone had used the Nine-Story Qiankun Pagoda earlier, he wouldn't have been in such a predicament.
And Ya Ya wouldn't have been harmed.
"You didn't ask me either, did you? You just told me to help you beat him! And I did, right?"
The clone shot Chu Tian a dismissive look.
Chu Tian was rendered speechless by the retort.
What the clone said was entirely true; he hadn't asked.
"You little brat, you just wait!"
Chu Tian harbored resentment in his heart.
He watched as the other party strenuously refined Zu Yunxi.
Faint wisps of soul energy emanated from the tower.
It seemed it would take a long time to completely refine the man.
However, the trouble was finally resolved.
Ya Ya also slowly retracted its branches at this time.
Many wounds on its branches were slowly healing.
Chu Tian's Divine Platform was currently filled with mist.
It felt like being unable to see one's hand.
This was all soul energy, and with time, it would settle and flow into his Soul Lake.
Once the clone completely refined Zu Yunxi, there would be even more soul energy to supplement.
This was a massive gain.
Chu Tian felt that after absorbing this fellow entirely,
His soul power would definitely skyrocket.
The reincarnation in this life began with soul power.
It was also the ability he had always relied on for survival.
No matter how powerful other abilities were,
Soul power was his own.
Even the enhancements from the Druid's transformation skills.
Chu Tian felt they were external forces imposed upon him.
"Eh? What is that thing the guy took out? How can it resist the refining power of the Nine-Story Qiankun Pagoda?"
Just then, the clone, almost pressed against the pagoda, peered inside.
His pagoda was only about half a meter tall.
It was imaginable that Zu Yunxi, trapped in the fourth layer, was incredibly small.
Hearing the clone speak, Chu Tian also leaned closer to observe.
Zu Yunxi was no longer struggling.
Instead, he sat cross-legged.
Between his hands, he held a dark, dull object.
When the clone spoke, Chu Tian's attention was drawn.
He saw the man spitting out such an item from his mouth.
The object emitted a faint glow.
It did not appear to be a complete item.
It looked like a fragment of a shattered crystal.
"What if it can't be refined?"
Chu Tian wasn't concerned about what he was holding.
He was concerned that if the Nine-Story Qiankun Pagoda couldn't refine him, he wouldn't be able to obtain the dense soul energy from him.
"Tch... What's in the pagoda is mine! Absorb!"
The clone replied to him.
With a casual grab of his hand towards the Qiankun Pagoda,
A giant hand appeared above Zu Yunxi's head within the tower.
The clone's external grab was mirrored within.
*Swoosh...*
Zu Yunxi's crystal fragment was,
Directly seized by the clone and retrieved.
In a flash, it was brought back.
When the clone opened his palm,
The fragment was held in his hand.
Zu Yunxi, inside the tower, instantly stood up and let out a skyward roar.
His expression was as grim as it could be.
However, his voice did not emerge.
"What kind of trash is this?" The clone casually tossed it aside.
Streams of magnificent, imposing energy were poured into the tower.
Zu Yunxi, who had been slowly refined moments before, was instantly pressed to the ground.
"Haha... I knew it!"
The clone laughed triumphantly, winking at Chu Tian.
As if to say, if not for that item protecting him, he would have refined the man in minutes.
Meanwhile, Chu Tian hurried towards the fragment.
This item could resist the power of the Nine-Story Qiankun Pagoda.
It was definitely no ordinary object!
He reached out his hand...
[Ding... System prompt: Item discovered: Godhead 4/1.]
The moment he touched it,
A voice sounded, and Chu Tian was stunned.
He looked around, finding that no one else, not even the clone, reacted.
They were all doing their own thing.
It seemed only he could hear the system prompt just now.
"Godhead? Sounds incredibly powerful... 1/4? Does collecting them all allow one to become a god?"
Thinking this, he then recalled the four Divine Soul Halls.
Perhaps each Divine Soul Hall contained a fragment?
And this Divine Soul Hall's fragment just happened to be obtained by Zu Yunxi?
However, just as Chu Tian placed the fragment in his palm,
A dispassionate voice emerged.
"Submit! And be granted supreme power."
"Submit! And be granted longevity equal to heaven and earth."
"Submit! And coexist with my divine being."
...
A series of words continuously echoed in Chu Tian's mind.
At the same time, the object in his hand began to emit a strange aura, wrapping around Chu Tian.
That aura...
Chu Tian's eyes widened, for he found it remarkably familiar.
"It's actually..."