LWGP - Chapter 267
Chapter 267: Digestion
In Wang Jiu's view, while she had certainly attracted the attention of the Eternal Night Race due to some special circumstances (like possessing a soul yet not being restricted by the underground prohibitions), when it came to the Primordial Spirit Race, her level of cultivation was likely nothing compared to the enmity of their old arch-enemies.
In any case, these high-level mecha warriors from the Eternal Night Race couldn't possibly be targeting only her, right? Otherwise, wouldn't the bodies she threw out have been a complete waste?
The Primordial Spirit Race and the Eternal Night Race were the ones locked in a true battle of destiny.
What did she amount to in comparison?
Fortunately, these mecha warriors weren't blind. The moment they saw these "resurrected" Primordial Spirit powerhouses, they immediately shifted their attacks.
Although these members of the Primordial Spirit Race had gained bodies and still bore the psychological scars of their past defeat, they were, after all, the strongest primitive race to have ever dominated Earth's history. They were immensely proud. Seeing the Eternal Night mecha warriors charge at them, and in numbers that weren't absolutely overwhelming, old hatreds and new grievances flared up. They instantly rushed forward to engage in a bloody battle.
Wang Jiu seized the opportunity to flee downward. She was already extremely weak and had no strength left to fight. Yet, she felt a persistent unease, as if something was following her…
Wang Jiu didn't look back. Her eyes darkened, and she suddenly plunged toward the deepest, most shadowy section of the chasm. In her wake, a cloud of black mist clung tightly to her path.
In the dark crevice, at the extreme depths of the cavern, the temperature was already scorching and arid, making one's soul feel an uneasy agitation, as if emotions were spiraling out of control.
The black mist chasing Wang Jiu accelerated, suddenly lunging forward in a flash and surging into her body. At that very instant, Long Aotian, under Wang Jiu's command, launched a fierce surprise attack!
Swish! The opponent dodged, then lunged back to devour them. Comparatively, although they were restricted, Wang Jiu and Long Aotian's consumption of energy had been too great. Wounded as they were, their combined soul strength was inferior to their opponent's.
And this person was no nobody. His soul was exceedingly powerful, and he was decisive and ruthless, clearly intending to swallow both her and Long Aotian's souls in one gulp.
Yes, he knew Long Aotian was inside Wang Jiu's body.
He had been lying in wait for a long time and could sense the lingering pink poison gas from before. How could he not recognize Long Aotian? Thus, he had come prepared and did not underestimate them in the slightest.
Wang Jiu and Long Aotian were already at a disadvantage. Their soul strength was insufficient. If the surprise attack failed, it was basically…
"Aotian, I never thought you'd see this day!"
"It's you! Qin Guang!!"
Just as Long Aotian was about to be "scared out of his wits" once again, he heard a cryptic chanting sound.
Then, in the soul space that should have contained only three people, both Long Aotian and Qin Guang felt as if they had been dragged into a den of ghosts.
The wails of ten thousand ghosts echoed mournfully.
Qin Guang felt an inexplicable terror. Under this fear, his soul weakened. Startled, he realized he had been afflicted with a negative status effect.
【Ghost Fear: The soul body is cowed by the majesty of the opposing Ghost Emperor's dominion over ghosts. Under sustained terror, the soul progressively weakens. This is a continuous soul-weakening attack.】
Fuck!
A Ghost Emperor? Had she unified the Ghost World and achieved the recognition of an emperor? But he hadn't heard any of the emperor-level beings mention sensing a newly born great emperor.
Unless… she had unified a race but not undergone tribulation, created a Dao but also not undergone tribulation. If she never underwent tribulation, she naturally wouldn't have a great emperor's seal, nor would her words become law. As a Dao creator on the path of control, other great emperors wouldn't sense her. But could a Dao without tribulation be this powerful?!!
Qin Guang was horrified and found it hard to believe, but this was undeniably the Ghost Dao, and its laws were in effect. Wang Jiu was indeed a Ghost Emperor.
Although Qin Guang had the advantage in soul strength, and Wang Jiu was no match even with Long Aotian, such a gap was not insurmountable.
Wang Jiu had her self-created Ghost Dao.
Devouring, possession, and enslavement were all extremely domineering and crude methods of the Ghost Dao. There were also less crude and domineering ones. Since Wang Jiu's soul was weak right now, well…
Qin Guang was even weaker. Once weakened, he proved to be quite astute. Not wanting to fight to the death with Wang Jiu and the others, he recognized the danger and decisively tried to escape. But Long Aotian immediately coiled around him like a dragon, forcibly dragging him back. Then… Wang Jiu, holding on by a thread of stamina, bolstered by Long Aotian's soul as support, forcibly devoured him!
"No!!" Qin Guang perfectly embodied the stubborn defiance of a villain about to be finished off.
But no one paid him any mind.
After swallowing Qin Guang, Wang Jiu didn't rush to digest him. Her soul was currently very weak, and swallowing too much at once could easily lead to a backlash.
So, Wang Jiu carefully digested a portion of his soul power, only to suddenly sense that the spirit body taken by those two Primordial Spirit powerhouses had been used.
That Grandmaster of Ten Thousand Arts, Qin Fu, had used her spirit body.
She could sense its existence.
It was approaching.
And it was continuously heading in this direction.
Could it be that Qin Fu knew the spirit body she created could be perceived by her? Was he using it to perceive her in return?
Wang Jiu still needed time to recover and digest this mass of soul. She was definitely no match for him, so she decisively slipped into the shadows and descended once more.
"What's that Qin Guang's background?"
Long Aotian was celebrating his survival. Hearing her question, he replied, "He himself is nothing special. In the past, I could have killed two of him with a single tail swipe. But his brother is formidable. That's Qin Fu, the one who beat the others to the punch earlier. He was the fourth-ranked magus patriarch of our Primordial Spirit Race back then. The only ones ranked above him were the Witch husband and wife, and the Founder of our race."
The so-called magus patriarch was the most badass of mages, encompassing various Daos, including the Witch Dao.
"Husband and wife?" Wang Jiu knew that the Witch Dao was divided into White Witch and Black Witch. The leader of the Black Witches was Yin Lao. Naturally, the White Witches also had a leader, but she hadn't expected them to be a couple.
"Yeah, the story of that couple is both complicated and simple."
"Try me with that nonsense."
"Yes, Master. In the past, Yin Lao and Bai Chi were, since their youth, peerless geniuses in our Primordial Spirit Race, second only to the Founder. However, Bai Chi was stronger and was the first to create the Witch Dao, suppressing Qin Fu and the ancestor of the Undead Race—the Undead Great Emperor. During the period when the Founder was dormant, he could be considered the number one person in our Primordial Spirit Race. Yin Lao was a very ambitious person, and because of this, she fell in love with Bai Chi. The two were deeply in love. But later… I guess it was a case of too much of a good thing. Yin Lao was too ambitious. She was unwilling to be inferior to Bai Chi, nor did she want to submit to the White Witches, so she walked her own path, which was Black Witchcraft. When Bai Chi found out, he felt that Black Witchcraft was too evil and tried to stop Yin Lao from practicing it. The two had a falling out over this and later became mortal enemies… In their final battle, Yin Lao was defeated, and Bai Chi was also severely injured. Not long after, the Eternal Night Race descended. You know the rest. Once the Eternal Night Race appeared, they didn't care about your marital status; they killed everyone. Bai Chi was already badly injured, wasn't he? He was forced into a dormant state. Because of this, Qin Fu, who was clearly ranked fourth, ended up becoming the de facto ruler underground."
In the world of the strong, no man or woman was more important than one's own Dao. Wang Jiu wasn't the least bit surprised that Yin Lao came to hate Bai Chi. However, even if Qin Fu was only ranked fourth, she was still no match for him.
Best to avoid him for now.
After Wang Jiu went into hiding, the territory lords of the third spacetime also arrived below thirty thousand meters. Here, the attacks from the Eternal Night Race's starships couldn't reach at all, and the strength of the mecha warriors was diminished. In other words, their crisis was resolved.
But they also ran into the ancient powerhouses who had just finished dealing with the Eternal Night mecha warriors.
When these two sides met face to face…
Fight? Or avoid?
In one area, a fierce battle raged. In another, a fight couldn't break out because the person was gone.
By the time Qin Fu and the Poison King arrived, Wang Jiu had long since fled. Qin Fu's expression was extremely grim as he looked at the few wisps of Qin Guang's soul that remained.
The Poison King said, "It would be convenient if we could become game players. At least then we could contact each other and find out who killed Ah Guang."
Qin Fu's face was dark. "The game? You think the game is so great? Just wait. Those players will sooner or later pay the price for their roles."
The Poison King, of course, knew what Qin Fu was referring to and nodded. "What should we do now? Just let that person go?"
Qin Fu stared deeply into the darkness ahead. "The other party is definitely someone from the surface world, belonging to one of the factions. There aren't many people who could take down Ah Guang's soul in such a short time. We'll find out with a little investigation."
"However, for the Eternal Night Race to descend on such a large scale this time, and for the people of this third spacetime to not be wiped out and even escape into the earth in time… they aren't weak."
The two departed. As they flew past a dark valley, they paid no mind to the fact that this was the place where Wang Jiu had fought fiercely with the Eternal Night Overlord.
Here, both the spirit bodies and the Eternal Night Overlord's severed head and torso had been taken by the two of them. There was nothing else of value left.
After they flew past, a faint sound emerged from within the valley. A moment later, swish, the five fingers of a severed arm gripped a rock and pulled itself up.
If Wang Jiu were here, she would have recognized it at a glance as the very hand she had personally severed.
The hand of an Eternal Night Overlord.
Inside the hole in its palm from which it launched soul attacks, an even smaller chip emitted a cryptic, dark light. Then, metal hidden deep within the earth flowed toward it. In the crevices and small caverns, whenever it encountered any subterranean creatures, the metal would envelop them like a cage and then roll before the severed hand.
If Xing Yao, Mo Ran, and Saling were here, they would have had a sudden realization—mechanical gene loading. After the disaster that befell the fourth and first spacetimes, the Eternal Night Race was now beginning its work on the third spacetime.
Three days later, in a recessed cave within a mountain wall bordering a river of lava, seventy thousand meters deep underground, a woman sat cross-legged.
Wang Jiu was digesting Qin Guang's soul. If she finished digesting it completely, combined with her recovered soul strength, her soul would be comparable to Long Aotian's peak soul power back in his day. However, Long Aotian knew that even his past self would have been utterly dominated by her, because his spirit core was in her hands.
This Ghost Dao was just too terrifying. How could its digestion efficiency be so high? Whether it was souls or spirit cores, Wang Jiu devoured them as cleanly as a taotie. Her own strength was also increasing wildly. Her spirit power total alone had jumped to 300,000 points.
But the terrifying aspect of a Spirit Emperor's spirit core lay in its transformative power.
Qin Guang had previously wondered how Wang Jiu, someone who had never undergone tribulation, could possess a pressure comparable to an emperor-level being. The answer was simple: she had devoured an emperor-level soul and eaten a spirit core.
And now, she was about to undergo another transformation.
System: "After digesting all this, you'll probably have to undergo tribulation."
Wang Jiu knew this, of course, and was prepared. But before that, she contacted Wang Shu.
"Are you all in danger right now?"
If not, the Old Lady would have contacted her within these three days. Not contacting her meant she didn't want to disturb her or wanted her to avoid the risk.
Wang Shu was about to lie, but Wang Jiu said flatly, "It's those souls below thirty thousand meters causing trouble, isn't it?"
Alright, Wang Shu couldn't hold it in anymore. He said, "Those old bastards down there are so cunning. They said if we want to temporarily reside thirty thousand meters deep, we have to give them bodies for resurrection. Otherwise, they don't mind the collateral damage. Although the thirty-thousand-meter barrier is in place and it's hard for them to break the restrictions, one of them has a body and can leave the boundary. He's the one who proposed the deal."
Anyone would know that the more bodies they gave to the souls below, the stronger the ancient Primordial Spirit faction would become, and the more danger they themselves would be in.
"But if we don't agree, even Wu Geng was defeated by them. I heard from Qing He and the others' analysis that the Mt. Buzhou Sect seems to be intentionally currying favor with the people below, offering the bodies of some to supply the ancient Primordial Spirit souls, forming the most powerful alliance."
This was an absolute nightmare for the third and fourth spacetimes.
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