Chapter Seven Hundred and Twenty Seven – Ghost Soldier (1/2)
Chapter Seven Hundred and Twenty Seven – Ghost Soldier
A ghost soldier dressed in armor and shrouded by yin energy appeared at the cave entrance. Its empty eye sockets were filled with two balls of black flame.
If Zuo Mo was here, he would be surprised to find that this ghost soldier actually gave off faint shen power ripples.
The ghost soldier suddenly opened his mouth. Like a whale inhaling, the yin energy was sucked in. The black fire in its eye sockets more than doubled in size with a snap. The yin energy around the ghost soldier turned into thin wisps of black flame on its armor.
To A Gui, other than the black fire the ghost soldier didn’t seem to be any different than the ghosts before it.
The purple fire in A Gui’s eyes jumped and her body suddenly disappeared from her spot.
The black fire in the ghost soldier’s eyes also jumped and its body also disappeared at the same time.
Bam!
A black and a purple hand hit in the air.
The black and purple flames shot in all directions but the two did not seem to detect it. Their hands continued to collide. Bam bam bam! It was only possible to see two shadows in the air, and light that would occasionally illuminate the environment. The black and purple flames were everywhere. Once it came into contact with something, it would be burned to ash.
Such enormous noise finally disturbed Zuo Mo who had been in a trance.
After focusing slightly, Zuo Mo immediately understood the situation. At this time, the jinzhi was more than halfway finished. He did not immediately interfere and observed in the shadows for a few moments.
This ghost soldier was strong, and what Zuo Mo hadn’t expected was that it gave off evident shen power. This was the reason that it had been able to fight A Gui for so long. The other reason was that while it looked wooden, it was experienced in combat. Zuo Mo was shocked and intimidated by many of its moves and reactions. It must have been a very powerful expert before its death.
After observing for a few more moments, Zuo Mo understood even more. The ghost soldier was actually slightly weaker than A Gui. The reason that it was evenly matched with A Gui was because of its greater battle experience.
However, A Gui who relied on her instincts to fight was not controlled by her emotions. In a short amount of time, she started to copy the other’s fighting style. A Gui quickly gained the upper hand.
Zuo Mo’s curiosity was piqued by the shen power vibrations of the ghost soldier. Its shen power was filled with thick death energy. It was different from any shen power that Zuo Mo had ever seen before. There wasn’t any record of this shen power on the gold leaf.
A completely new kind of shen power!
Zuo Mo’s mind moved. At present, he knew the value of a completely new kind of shen power.
His fingers flickered and numerous lights entered the ground.
The ghost soldier that was gradually being suppressed by A Gui detected that it was losing and tried to turn and run into the cave. Suddenly, the surrounding yin energy became chaotic. The ghost soldier was surprised. The dense yin energy in the surroundings that he relied on for power, had turned chaotic without any warning. It panicked.
For A Gui whose battle tactics had improved greatly, how could she pass on such a good opening?
Her body flickered, and two images of A Gui suddenly appeared in front of the ghost soldier. The ghost soldier stilled.
Suddenly, it felt a grip on its neck. Its vision blurred, and a hand covered in purple fire raised it up and smashed it hard against the ground!
A Gui had used shen power and the power of the strike was great. The ghost soldier’s entire body was deeply embedded into the ground. The black fire in its eye sockets wavered from the smash.
Before it could regain clarity and struggle to stand up, two fingers covered in purple flames pointed at the two balls of black fire in its eye sockets.
The ghost soldier immediately became docile. That face covered in yin energy showed fear.
Zuo Mo quickly appeared next to A Gui, crouched down and looked curiously at the ghost soldier.
Zuo Mo had killed things like ghosts and fiends before but he hadn’t studied them greatly. Even in the xiuzhe world, xiuzhe of this kind were rare. Because of the yin energy, they were not welcomed by other people.
This ghost soldier’s power was extraordinary to have been able to fight for so long against A Gui. Zuo Mo was even more curious about the shen power it had. Zuo Mo’s fingers flickered. Several streaks of light entered the ghost soldier. The ghost soldier’s body froze and was unable to move.
A Gui moved her hand away and stood at the side. The ghost soldier stared at Zuo Mo with unusual terror. Zuo Mo’s presence was its bane. The sun shen power was the utmost yang and masculine, the natural enemy to ghosts that were born from yin energy.
This was also why while this place was dense in yin energy, Zuo Mo didn’t fear it at all.
After a momentary inspection, Zuo Mo was slightly shocked. The shen power the ghost soldier had was from before its death. Due to some reason, while it was dead, its shen power had not completely dissipated, and been kept. This portion of shen power that had been kept continued to merge with the yin energy to form a new kind of shen power that had never appeared before.
The ghost soldier’s intelligence was not high and it fought based on instinct.
Zuo Mo’s mind moved and he turned to look at A Gui. A Gui’s usually expressionless face showed a rare desire. In a moment, Zuo Mo understood. This kind of shen power filled with the energy of death was very beneficial to A Gui.
A Gui’s shen power was the Undying shen power, and came from the Undying Shen punishment. While it was called Undying, it originated from the same source as death although its expression was of the complete opposite.
In the traditional understanding of death, death was the final destination but also the start. A beginning and ending, they were twins.
The Undying Shen Punishment was to be forever unable to escape, an imprisonment that would be trapped them in an endless, hopeless, and painful death. It was a death of the undying. The endless pain, suffering, hopelessness, those were the sources of the Undying shen power and also were powers that belonged to death. Yet if one could break free of the hopeless death, then it was undying life!
Life forever needed to come from death!
This was the foundation of the Undying shen seal!
Suddenly, Zuo Mo had a great understanding. Yet his emotions were complex. This path was dangerous, and multiple times harder than the system of traditional death.
Life was forever harder than death!
Zuo Mo did not show his emotions. He moved to the side and left the ghost soldier to A Gui.
A Gui did not hesitate. Her hand slapped down and the yin energy shrouding the ghost soldier immediately crumbled to expose the two purest balls of black fire. A Gui opened her mouth and sucked in. The black fires were immediately sucked into A Gui’s mouth and the purple fire in A Gui’s eyes grew.
Zuo Mo immediately took A Gui’s hand for an inspection.