Ye Ling stood on the desolate land, listening to the ringing sounds around him, his entire spirit tensed to the extreme.
The consumption of karma was immense, and he wouldn't wake up for a while. Moreover, his opponent possessed the ability to freely switch between illusion and reality. This not only rendered Ye Ling's own perception of the outside world useless but also turned his own perception into a side effect!
Without the help of karma, Ye Ling was now at a significant disadvantage. A single misstep could send him plummeting into the abyss.
The ringing sounds around him grew louder, yet Ye Ling felt no sense of crisis. In fact, he found the surrounding bells rather pleasant.
However, the calmer Ye Ling became, the closer the danger loomed.
Within Ye Ling's body, the slumbering karma began to stir. Perhaps it sensed the crisis, showing signs of awakening.
"Karma, rest assured. Leave this to me!"
Ye Ling used his spiritual energy to soothe karma, which was trying to forcibly awaken. Simultaneously, he paid a heavy price to condense Origin Text around himself, preparing to use Custom Future.
Karma was a congenital spirit beast ranked third, possessing immense potential. If karma were to forcibly awaken during this battle and suffer damage to its origin, even if Ye Ling defeated the enemy, the gain would not outweigh the loss.
Rather than depleting karma's potential, it was better for Ye Ling to risk his own life force.
After all, for Ye Ling, who mastered the power of creation, he could revive from near death as long as he had a breath left!
The ringing of the bells around him grew more urgent, but Ye Ling felt the danger receding.
"Here it comes!"
Ye Ling dared not be careless. He immediately activated the Origin Text to customize the future, transforming all the illusions around him into reality!
Boom!!!
Ye Ling's aura plummeted. The moment Ye Ling used the Origin Text to customize the future, his spiritual energy was depleted, and he began to frantically consume his life force.
Ye Ling's face grew aged, and his aura weakened.
However, after paying such a heavy price, the Origin Text lived up to its value. The surrounding environment turned dark again, and not far in front of Ye Ling, a girl appeared, manipulating a puppet with one hand and holding a bell with the other.
At this moment, the girl's face was filled with astonishment, clearly not expecting her power to be broken.
"Is that guy?"
Ye Ling recognized his enemy. He immediately noted the girl's position, then withdrew the Origin Text and charged towards the girl at full speed.
The surrounding environment reverted to desolate land. Ye Ling, with lightning speed, condensed a sword with runes and thrust it fiercely into a blank space ahead.
Chii!!!
The sound of a sword piercing flesh echoed, and Ye Ling felt invisible blood splash onto his face.
However, before Ye Ling could make another move, he felt that what he had stabbed had already vanished.
"Gone again..."
Ye Ling muttered, wiping the invisible blood from his face.
Although Ye Ling couldn't see the blood on his hand, nor could he feel its presence, he could vaguely sense that his palm retained the aura of someone else.
"Ink Domain."
Ye Ling activated Ink Domain, breaking down his palm into text. Indeed, among the characters that formed his palm, he found blood information related to the girl.
"Found it..."
Having discovered the girl's blood information, Ye Ling smiled slightly, extracted the girl's blood information alone, and then expanded the scope of the Ink Domain to cover the entire desolate land and the dim sky.
This world was decomposed into countless characters by Ye Ling, who then began to compare them with the girl's blood information to locate her.
Soon, Ye Ling found character information similar to the girl's blood in a blank space in the sky.
Without hesitation, Ye Ling instantly teleported to that location and slashed down with his sword!
The girl, in panic, revealed her true form and quickly manipulated a giant to block in front of her, letting the giant take Ye Ling's sword for her.
At this moment, a gruesome blood hole was visible on the girl's chest.
It was clear that Ye Ling's previous sword had inflicted a substantial wound on the girl.
Ye Ling cleaved the giant in two with his sword. In her panic, the girl vanished again, and Ye Ling once more lost track of her.
However, Ye Ling possessed the girl's blood information, and with the girl now in a state of utter panic, unable to figure out how to counterattack Ye Ling.
She had just hidden in another place and hadn't had time to recover from her injuries when Ye Ling located her again and attacked.
Seeing Ye Ling charging at her, the girl's face turned ashen with fear. She quickly raised her hands and said, "Wait, wait! I surrender!"
The moment the girl spoke, Ye Ling's sword stopped precisely at her forehead. If the girl had spoken even a moment later, the rune sword would have already pierced her head!
In reality, Ye Ling was at the end of his rope. His spiritual energy was completely depleted, and his life force was running low. However, Ye Ling was adept at bluffing, and the terrified girl didn't notice Ye Ling was faking it.
Ye Ling knew very well that he couldn't kill the girl with one more strike and might even expose his weakness. Therefore, he wisely chose not to press his attack. Instead, he coldly told the girl, "If you don't want to die, abandon all resistance and return to your true state!"
"Yes..."
Facing Ye Ling's icy command, the girl dared not examine him closely. She quickly withdrew her abilities, and the surrounding world returned to darkness, with Ye Ling and the girl back in the void.
Ye Ling did not hesitate. After the girl revealed her true form, he immediately enveloped her with his Devour Domain, seizing her power before she could react to replenish his own consumption.
"You!!!"
The girl looked at Ye Ling in shock. While she was stunned, Ye Ling had already devoured all her power with the Devour Domain.
At this moment, Ye Ling not only replenished his consumed life force and spiritual energy but even converted the excess energy into karma power using Custom Future for karma to absorb.
In the blink of an eye, Ye Ling had drained the girl completely, leaving not a drop behind.
By then, the girl had realized that Ye Ling had been bluffing. However, it was too late for her to realize it.
Not only had she lost all her power, but her body had also been broken down into characters by Ye Ling's Ink Domain, with each part sealed by different runes.
After confirming that the girl had no ability to resist, Ye Ling finally relaxed and began to examine her information.
"Let me see, who exactly are you?"
Ye Ling muttered. But as his gaze fell upon the girl's text, his pupils contracted sharply, and he looked at the girl in shock: "You are from the Void Dark Side... a Congenital Demon Spirit?"