Chapter 723: sKill As Many As You Can!” (1/2)

The negative emotions weren’t vested with soul power, so they didn’t cause any unwanted changes in Nie Tian’s sea of awareness.

However, they were trying to infiltrate his mind, and Nie Tian had to contend against them with his will.

The Phantasm soul was aware that since it hadn’t absorbed enough soul power, it still wasn’t powerful enough to breach the defenses of the fragmentary stars in Nie Tian’s soul. Because of this, it chose to influence Nie Tian through another approach.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Approximately ten soul crystals flew to Nie Tian’s side under the Phantasm soul’s control.

Without much thought, Nie Tian made a grabbing motion in the air, and they disappeared into his ring of holding.

As they did, the mysterious soul fluctuations in the lake vanished completely.

However, the negative emotions unleashed by the Phantasm soul were like an intangible devil that was slowly enchanting Nie Tian. It continued to bring out his darkest side, causing his evil desires to build up inside of him.

Nie Tian knew that he had better not do anything at this moment, and focus on maintaining his positive state of mind, so that the Phantasm soul wouldn’t slowly twist his mind.

At the same time, he raised his hand and hooked his fingers to the prismatic crystal that had embedded itself between his eyebrows.

He summoned spiritual power and flesh power to give it a vigorous pull in an attempt to stop it from bewitching him.

However, the crystal seemed to have taken root in his head. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t tear it off.

It seemed that the prismatic crystal’s soul strings had long since pierced into and clung to his skull.

He had a feeling that if he were to forcibly tear it off regardless of the consequences, it was very likely that the bones in his forehead and brow ridges would come off with it.

This wasn’t what he wanted.

“From the look of it, I can only do my best to defend against its bewitchment first, and at the same time, try to find ways to eliminate the Phantasm soul in the crystal. Only that way will I be able to get it out eventually.”

He took a few deep breaths in an attempt to fend off the negative emotions, yet dark thoughts still came to him from time to time.

Floating underwater, he looked up and saw Hong Xian, Wei Yu, and the other experts standing on the lakeshore, looking down at him with unpleasant looks in their eyes.

Then, he glanced around at the other Qi warriors from the Trisword Sect, the Beast-controlling Sect, and the Chu Clan, and felt that they all harbored evil intentions as they gazed at him.

A strong desire to charge out of the lake and kill them all rose uncontrollably in his heart.

He knew that he would be in huge trouble if he did that, but he just couldn’t suppress the desire to do so.

“No! I can’t leave the lake! If I did, I’d walk right into the Phantasm soul’s trap. That’s what it’s hoping for!”

He did his utmost to calm himself and tell himself that he mustn’t make any rash moves.

However, Hong Xian from the Beast-controlling Sect saw that he was floating right under the lake’s surface, and witnessed him putting ten soul crystals away in his ring of holding.

“Nie Tian!” he shouted.

Upon hearing his unpleasant shout, Nie Tian’s struggling eyes were instantly filled with malevolence.

Hong Xiang let out a cold harrumph. “What are you doing? Are you going to hide in the lake forever? Even though you collected those soul crystals, don’t you imagine that you can keep them all.

“You’d better get out of there now. Give us the soul crystals, and we’ll try to help you get rid of that soul core between your eyebrows.”

Wei Yu chimed in with a cold tone, “That soul core will try to possess you. The fact that it hasn’t succeeded means that it’s not powerful enough. But considering your cultivation base, you clearly can’t eliminate that Phantasm soul on your own.

“So you’d better get out of there and give us the soul crystals in exchange for our help.”

Standing beside Wei Yu and Hong Xian, Chu Xuanji didn’t speak up with a domineering tone like they did, but he also had a strong desire for the soul crystals at heart.

“Senior Hong!” Yin Yanan said anxiously. “We need to get rid of that Phantasm soul first!”

Hong Xian waved at her, showing that he had everything under control, and said, “Don’t worry. That Phantasm soul hasn’t even possessed him. It must not be very formidable. Plus, even if it manages to possess him, so what? He’s only at the Worldly realm. The Phantasm soul won’t be able to cause us much trouble with such a vessel.”

Wei Yu chimed in, “We can help him get rid of that Phantasm soul, but he’ll have to give us the soul crystals first.”

An urgent look could be seen in Yin Yanan’s eyes. After all, she knew that Nie Tian had powerful means at his disposal, including the Spirit Pearl, the Flame Dragon Armor, and the Bone Blood Demon.

Furthermore, Nie Tian’s body was even tougher than hers. If he was indeed possessed by the Phantasm soul, he would definitely cause great trouble to them.

However, Hong Xian and Wei Yu didn’t take her reminders and warnings seriously.

Instead, they threatened Nie Tian and fixed him with cold stares.