LWGP - Chapter 260
Chapter 260: Long Aotian
There is a limit to a person's power. Even Primordial Spirit-level Spirit Emperors could die, let alone Xing Yao. He was not above the law; when it was his time to die, he would die.
Wu Geng had already made preparations to have the others lock onto Mo Ran after killing Xing Yao, and had sent a private message to remind them.
For the time being, they had no way to completely kill Wang Jiu. But as long as they killed Mo Ran, Wang Jiu would be without support and would be absolutely unable to contend with them.
However, just as the others locked onto Wang Jiu and Mo Ran, the third eye on the Spirit Child Daoist's forehead suddenly noticed something strange about Wang Jiu.
Her body had originally been undetectable because her soul was special and couldn't be perceived or inspected. The Spirit Child Daoist's special eye had tried before. But just now, when it captured both her and Mo Ran simultaneously, Mo Ran was fine, but Wang Jiu's body had appeared.
Why?
"Her soul is gone!"
When the Spirit Child Daoist discovered that Wang Jiu's body was just an empty shell, which exploded into pieces of flesh and blood under Huai Ying's attack, Wu Geng's attack accurately struck Xing Yao at the same time.
In an instant, Xing Yao was severely injured, his body covered in wounds. His black royal robe was stained dark with blood, and his handsome, cold, pale face was also bloodied. But his HP... only dropped by 4238 points.
Xing Yao had a full 30,000 HP!
Wu Geng was stunned, but he reacted extremely quickly—Wang Jiu's soul was in Xing Yao's body and had seized control of it. Therefore, the damage of the HP-slaying attack was greatly reduced.
What kind of move was this?
Obviously, this was a move that exploited the game's rules.
Who were they? They were ancient immortal cultivator experts from the first spacetime, the most experienced first-generation players. But they were still just players, and as long as they were players, they had to follow the rules.
The so-called rules dictated that a player's death was determined solely by their HP, and there were only two ways to reduce HP.
1. The soul or spiritual body.
2. The physical body connected to the soul or spiritual body.
The commonality between 1 and 2 was the soul or the body. As long as the soul or spiritual body was not destroyed, HP would not be depleted.
But the key point was that its ownership—the dominance of the soul or spiritual body over the physical body—had to be consistent.
When Xing Yao's spiritual body defaulted to allowing Wang Jiu's soul to have dominance over his body, Wu Geng's attack on him would also default to damaging Wang Jiu's soul. As a result, the HP reduction was primarily based on the damage dealt to Wang Jiu.
In simple terms, it was demonic possession.
4238 HP. Xing Yao wasn't dead!
However, Xing Yao, temporarily occupying a secondary position in his own body, had a strange feeling. Wang Jiu's soul was too close to him. He could feel her soul's... very subtle presence. A woman was so close to him, almost fused with him.
But what was even more subtle was that he could sense Wang Jiu was thoroughly inspecting his body.
Every inch, every part, down to the smallest detail, was being roamed and touched by her soul.
There was no intimacy deeper than this.
In a "Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me" novel, this would be a hundred thousand words of smutty, unpublishable content.
Xing Yao was even dazed for a moment by this sensation.
"Don't just stand there!" Wang Jiu suddenly reminded him, and the usually calm Xing Yao finally snapped out of it.
Wu Geng was experienced. After his instantaneous judgment, the Spirit Child Daoist and the other two reacted with extreme speed, turning to surround and kill Mo Ran.
Meanwhile, Wu Geng chose to continue attacking "Xing Yao." Attacking Xing Yao now was equivalent to attacking both Wang Jiu and Xing Yao at the same time.
Wang Jiu, capable of possession, was indeed formidable. This technique was beyond imagination, mysterious and difficult to deal with. But it also had a drawback—it was like turning the combat power of two people into one. This was because Xing Yao's spiritual body didn't know the soul secret arts of the Witches like Wang Jiu did. After all, Wang Jiu had devoured the Witch Emperor, while Xing Yao merely had the bloodline of a Primordial Spirit expert; his soul talent wasn't as pronounced.
Therefore, with Mo Ran being besieged alone, it was her turn to be killed again.
Having regained his senses, Xing Yao cooperated with Wang Jiu's soul to launch a soul shock—targeting the Spirit Child Daoist with the special eye!
In that brief moment, the Spirit Child Daoist's debuff skills were very powerful, completely immobilizing and weakening Mo Ran. Mo Ran couldn't escape; many of her skills were silenced at once, and she could only brace herself to endure the powerful attacks of the other two.
Suddenly, all the debuffs vanished. The Spirit Child Daoist let out a scream, his eyes rolled back, and the special eye on his forehead exploded in a spray of blood. His head lolled to the side, and he collapsed with a thud.
Insta-kill!
Xing Yao indeed had no direct soul attack abilities, but his talent allowed his spiritual body to be used as support for Wang Jiu.
This wasn't a witchcraft technique he had ever heard of, so Wu Geng hadn't anticipated it.
This was the Ghost Dao, a path Wang Jiu created herself during her 46 days in the Ghost World.
This wasn't a simple 1+1 effect. In essence, Wang Jiu's soul was already a 3, while their spiritual bodies were still at 1.
So, the Spirit Child Daoist was KO'd.
Mo Ran broke free and dodged. She didn't rush to attack but instead retreated into space to purge the status effects Huai Ying and the other had placed on her, while simultaneously outputting spirit power to cast several powerful buffs on Xing Yao's body.
Xing Yao's strength surged. Just as he was about to use Wang Jiu's unique possession ability to seize the opportunity to kill Huai Ying, Wu Geng rejoined the other two. The three of them immediately joined forces for a purely physical combined attack—directly targeting Xing Yao's body.
Since they couldn't destroy the soul, they would destroy Xing Yao's body, leaving them without a flesh-and-blood vessel!
Just as both sides' attacks were about to land...
"Xing Yao" had to abandon his attack and choose to dodge, while Huai Ying broke free from the lock-on and returned to Wu Geng's side for protection.
The two sides seemed to be in a temporary standoff, but their skills were on cooldown.
At that exact moment, both sides suddenly felt it—they were being watched. They had been glanced at.
That glance... They subconsciously turned their heads and saw the small mountain of gold coins beside them shifting, revealing a pair of enormous—dragon eyes.
This was a dragon, an ancient Primordial Spirit-level dragon.
Majestic and divine, just as described in all the novels and movies.
The Primordial Spirit Race had various Daos. The Dao of Beasts was the mainstream, with the strongest close-combat power, earning them the title of War God. This person was Aotian.
Aotian was actually a dragon!
Long Aotian?
What a trashy name.
A comical thought flashed through Wang Jiu's mind at that moment.
A mountain of wealth, a dragon lying in wait. The coiled dragon held a treasure chest, its body slumbering for millions of years. When it opened its eyes, a deathly dragon's roar still echoed.
But with just that one glance, everyone, including Wang Jiu, instantly felt their souls/spiritual bodies and physical bodies being devoured by boundless flames. A ceaseless dragon's roar filled their ears, and their bodies were surrounded by endless fire.
Insta-kill.
They were killed.
If a person feels they have died, but then awakens from a hazy dream to find they are still alive, they would surely be extremely bewildered, grateful, and feel incredibly weak, because they have just experienced a nightmare.
This was how Wang Jiu felt right now.
Since her return from the Ghost World, her strength had increased too much. With her Ghost Dao and fully formed soul, she didn't even fear experts like Wu Geng and dared to face the overlords of the Eternal Night Race head-on. Only now did she feel a sense of weakness and heart-pounding fear.
She had been caught in an illusion.
A death illusion. It dealt heavy damage to the soul/spiritual body and could even directly hypnotize a person into a self-induced state of death.
Anyway, if it were Qing He and the others, they would have died for sure, let alone Wang Shu's group. But...
Wang Jiu glanced at the others who were still hypnotized, a glint in her eyes.
At that moment, she could have chosen to seize the opportunity to defeat and kill Wu Geng's trio. But she knew it would take time, and the fluctuations from an attack would wake the others.
Instead of spending time on that, for example...
Without a second's hesitation, Wang Jiu's soul left Xing Yao's body. She used the flesh and blood on the ground to re-form a tiny body, then opened her inventory, took out a powerful spare body she had forged long ago, and possessed it. Next, she shot like a stream of light into the dragon's body within the mountain of gold coins. This series of actions took only the blink of an eye. Then, she transformed into a stream of light and shot inside the body, from the dragon's head to its abdomen!
She saw it. It was there, just as she expected!
Without another word, Wang Jiu wrapped her power around the solid golden sphere that was emitting an aura of pure, terrifying energy.
This wasn't the first time she had encountered such a thing.
A Spirit Emperor's Spirit Core!
Heh, it was countless times more powerful and pure than the one she had obtained before! Worthy of the War God Aotian.
However, as she was forcefully seizing the Spirit Core, she paused for a moment, noticing that the internal structure of this dragon's body was a bit strange.
Is this the anatomy of a dragon? And the smell of its flesh and blood gave her a strange, cloyingly sweet sensation.
Uh, does this War God Aotian like to eat macarons?
Such a sweet smell.
But it was just a feeling, and she had no time to dwell on it, because Wu Geng rushed in and immediately launched a powerful attack.
At this moment, she hadn't completely severed the connection between the Spirit Core and Aotian's dragon body, so she couldn't dodge. After taking the hit, her HP was reduced by several thousand. As her body coughed up blood, she was just about to remove the Spirit Core.
How could Wu Geng be willing to let this happen? He had expended so much effort to find Aotian's remains. How could he let Wang Jiu snatch the most precious Spirit Core?
Moreover, once Wang Jiu obtained the Spirit Core, her strength would absolutely skyrocket many times over. At that point, he would surely be no match for her and would certainly die!
With firm resolve, Wu Geng unleashed a massive amount of spirit power in one go, locked onto Wang Jiu, and activated his strongest trump card.
Wang Jiu had never encountered such an attack and was caught off guard. In an instant, her body was destroyed, and even 90% of her HP was wiped out, leaving only 10%. She was just a sliver of health away from death.
This?!!
As Wang Jiu reeled in shock, she received information from the System.
This was an Order Divine Ability awakened by having all four Martial Dao Orders of the Light faction at level 5—《Void Shattering》.
Just like with basic skills, where four level-5 active skills could awaken a fusion ability and four level-7 passive skills could awaken a barrier, it turned out that if several books within one Order Book system reached level 5, a super skill known as an Order Divine Ability could be awakened.
So terrifying. Wang Jiu had thought Wu Geng couldn't do anything to her, couldn't kill her. She never expected him to have such a move!
With Wang Jiu's personality, she would never risk her life for a Spirit Emperor's Spirit Core. After all, she definitely couldn't withstand a second hit. Logically, she should have immediately dodged and fled, but she didn't.
Instead, she decisively took out a second body, possessed it, and once again wrapped her power around the Spirit Core, completely severing its connection to Aotian's dragon body.
Wu Geng was astonished, but he also gritted his teeth—damn it, this Wang Jiu had guessed that using Void Shattering once would exhaust all his spirit power and consume eighty to ninety percent of his spiritual energy. He was currently unable to use 《Void Shattering》 a second time. That's why she risked continuing to fight for the Spirit Core, while he was powerless to seriously injure her again.
Just when Wu Geng was on the verge of despair.
The Spirit Core pulsed, as if in self-defense, or perhaps as a targeted attack against the "outside intruders." The inside of the dragon's body melted, releasing countless mysterious pink gas clouds that enveloped Wang Jiu and Wu Geng, as well as Mo Ran, Xing Yao, and Huai Ying, who were locked in a fierce battle outside.
They were all enveloped by it.
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