Chapter 725: Titan’s Wrath! (1/2)

In a remote corner of the forsaken region.

Nie Tian suddenly appeared in midair with a meteor a hundred meters underneath him.

WHOOSH!

He plummeted towards the meteor like a cannonball.

The long-range Starshift consumed thirty percent of his star power, causing his whole body to ache.

Fortunately, after expending countless efforts in body refinement, his body had already become tough enough to resist the backlash.

Due to the profound connection between him and the Bone Blood Demon, even though they were very far apart, he could sense it flying towards his location at full speed.

SHEW!

He summoned the Star Boat and jumped on board. A connection instantly formed between his soul and the Star Boat. Then, with great precision, he steered the Star Boat towards the meteor under him.

At this moment, the prismatic crystal between his eyebrows launched another soul attack.

Wisps of vicious icy soul strings rushed towards his sea of awareness and slammed violently into the ward the fragmentary stars had formed to protect his soul.

He let out a muffled groan as an agonizing pain came from his mind.

His expression flickered as he hastily ended the soul connection between him and the Star Boat, and focused solely on defending against the Phantasm’s raging attack.

One peculiar image after another entered his mind. He felt as if he were surrounded by mountains of corpses and seas of blood, which were trying to reach the deepest parts of his soul.

Numerous ghosts were wreathed in green flames as they clung to him and bit him madly.

Meanwhile, images of Nie Donghai, Nie Qian, and Dong Li being killed flashed before his eyes.

All of these illusory images were the magnification of his worst fears, and they were all for the purpose of breaking his mental defenses and forcing him to give up.

“These are all illusory!” Nie Tian struggled to hold onto his mental defense and his sanity.

Through his true soul, he could see countless greenish-black soul strings piercing into the misty, sparkling ward around his sea of awareness. However, they all exploded, and generated even more bewildering images.

He tore his eyes from them and let out a roar from the depths of his soul, “No matter how powerful you used to be and how much strength you’ve recovered, you’ll never be able to possess me!!”

Just like this, an extended battle broke out between Nie Tian and the Phantasm soul.

The nine fragmentary stars in his soul continued to shine dazzling starlight on his sea of awareness, protecting it from being invaded by the Phantasm soul.

The Phantasm soul rapidly consumed its strength, which it had recovered with a few soul crystals.

After some time, the Phantasm soul realized that its soul attacks didn’t seem to have achieved good results, and that it wouldn’t be able to breach Nie Tian’s defenses within a short time. Therefore, it took the initiative to end the battle.

Face covered in sweat, Nie Tian took a deep breath as the fierce soul battle ended.

He opened his eyes and glanced around. He found that there was nothing but meteors wherever he looked. Frowning slightly, he muttered to himself, “The Phantasm soul must have consumed a significant amount of soul power, and can’t afford to lose any more. However, I still have soul crystals that I can use!”

With these thoughts in mind, he summoned a soul crystal from within his ring of holding, hoping to absorb its soul power.

SHEW!

As soon as the soul crystal flew into his palm, it was hooked by the Phantasm soul in some mysterious way.

In the next moment, the soul crystal flew up and attached itself to the prismatic crystal between Nie Tian’s eyebrows, then he experienced a cool sensation from it. Simultaneously, the soul crystal shrank down at a noticeable rate.

Nie Tian’s expression instantly flickered. “I can’t believe it can actually channel power from my soul crystals!”

Nie Tian suddenly realized why the remaining soul crystals had risen from the lake bottom on their own and let him take them so easily right before he had charged out of the lake.

Apparently, the Phantasm soul was able to control soul crystals in mysterious ways. As long as he took out soul crystals, the Phantasm soul would be able to channel power from them to strengthen itself.

“But it seems that the Phantasm soul can only absorb soul power from one soul crystal at a time,” he muttered.

After pondering a few seconds, he decided to test this theory, and thus took out another soul crystal.

As he had expected, the Phantasm soul didn’t channel power from the second soul crystal. It was still busy channeling power from the first one, and didn’t seem to be able to spare enough attention to get the second one.

Then, without any delay, Nie Tian took a deep breath and started channeling power from the second soul crystal to the nine fragmentary stars in his soul, hoping to eventually outlast the Phantasm soul in this extended war.

However, he soon noticed that the speed at which the Phantasm soul channeled soul power seemed to be much faster than him. The soul crystal that had stuck to the prismatic crystal had already shrunk to the point where it was on the verge of vanishing.

Before it did, Nie Tian quickly put the second soul crystal, from which had already been drained of most of its power, back into the ring of holding.

He did it so that the Phantasm soul wouldn’t be able to steal it from him.

WHOOSH!

At this moment, the Bone Blood Demon finally entered Nie Tian’s view and appeared in the distance.