Chapter 1016: Crooked Sects (1/2)

“Nether Bridge Soul Captivation!” The late Saint domain expert from the Nether Spirit Society bellowed.

His bellow somehow resonated with the nether spirits’ sharp screeches.

The eight bridges formed by nether spirits instantly thrummed with nether power.

Immediately afterwards, the illusory bridges condensed into solidity.

The net of golden light formed by the Golden Light Tribulation Formation could no longer stop any of the nether spirits. The eight bridges then extended directly through its defense.

As this happened, every Qi warrior who was standing in the spell formation experienced anomalies.

Images of the eight bridges suddenly appeared in the depths of their eyes without any exceptions.

It was as if eight bridges from the netherworld pierced into everyone’s souls at this moment.

A cry escaped Huang Jinnan’s mouth.

He suddenly realized that he was losing control of his true soul, and that wisps of soul awareness were leaving his true soul and floating away, following the bridges.

His originally distinctive true soul started to grow blurry.

Of the Qi warriors gathered in this place, Nie Tian’s cultivation base was the lowest. His came before Pei Qiqi, who was at the middle Soul realm, and was the second lowest.

They all jerked their heads towards Nie Tian, panic filling their eyes.

Nie Tian, however, let out a cold harrumph as a shiny cyan pearl suddenly appeared in his palm.

Then, as soon as he held the pearl to his forehead, his pain-distorted brow relaxed, as if the pearl solved the problem his soul was having just like that.

At the same time, Pei Qiqi stood beside him motionlessly. However, Nie Tian had a strange feeling that she was actually shifting among different spaces at a fast speed.

She didn’t seem to be affected by the Nether Bridge Soul Captivation either.

Only Huang Jinnan struggled in pain as wisp after wisp of his soul awareness floated away, following the bridges that had invaded his mind.

“Come on out!” He suddenly activated the golden lotus he was sitting on. Numerous golden petals rose and sheltered him.

Branded with profound power, the closed golden petals formed a curious glowing shield. Things finally started to change.

One bridge after another gradually grew faint, until they eventually vanished completely from his sea of awareness.

Letting out a sigh of relief, he glanced around at the others, and discovered that several of his Void domain subordinates were in a state of bewilderment, their eyes sunken deep, as if the bridges had infiltrated their seas of awareness and were stealing their soul awareness as well.

“Uncle Zhao!” Huang Jinnan called out.

Zhao Heng, who was at the late Saint domain, rose high above the spell formation.

SPLASH! SPLASH!

Rivers started pouring out of his domain with an unstoppable momentum.

Each and every river carried his lifetime understanding of water incantations. Some of them moved in an ethereal fashion. Some of them were extremely heavy, while others were incomparably sharp.

The leader of the Nether Spirit Society disciples, whose cultivation base was the same as his, let out a low chuckle, and his grayish cyan domain suddenly expanded at an alarming rate, like an inflating balloon.

“Summon nether deities!” As he exclaimed, a human shape gradually appeared within his domain.

In the next moment, the frigid aura scattered in every part of realm number nine seemed to be channeled by some force, and started to converge on it from all directions.

The surging frigid aura froze the rivers Zhao Heng had shot at him before they could reach him, turning them into long, winding pillars of ice.

Ling You from the Void Spirit Society gasped with astonishment. “That’s Elder Xiao! You! You actually refined Elder Xiao’s soul into a nether deity!”

Nie Tian’s expression also flickered as he realized that the human shape that had appeared in that Nether Spirit Society expert’s domain was none other than Elder Xiao Xihe from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

It was just that it had clearly become a puppet, without a shred of Xiao Xihe’s conscience left in it.

Even the more powerful nether spirits the Nether Spirit Society made had the ability to wield power from their previous life, not to mention a nether deity like this one.

Xiao Xihe had perished in realm number nine. The residual power of his shattered domain had already shown signs of merging with this heaven and earth.

This had allowed experts from the Nether Spirit Society to form a Heaven Freezing Spell successfully.

At this moment, the Nether Spirit Society expert was manipulating his soul to summon the residual frost aura in this realm to freeze Zhao Heng’s water-attributed attacks.

Standing on the other seven bridges, the other seven Nether Spirit Society disciples also bellowed, “Summon nether deities!”

Human shapes appeared in their domains one after another. Each and every one of them was distinct, as if they were true souls that some human experts had sent out of their seas of awareness.

It was just that they all thrummed with nether power, which gave them a gruesome, scary look.

Seeing this, Huang Jinnan and all of his subordinates had deeply grim looks on their faces.

Most of the so-called nether deities were their sect seniors who had fought to death in the Domain of Nether Heaven.

The nether deities then started wielding the residual power of their shattered domains, and engaged in a fierce battle against Huang Jinnan and his subordinates.

Face ice-cold, Ling You said, “Three of our sect members have been turned into nether deities. Even though these nether deities don’t have a shred of memory of their previous lives, they’re capable of using the secret magics and incantations they learned in their previous life. Also, since the residual power of their destroyed domains hasn’t dissipated into heaven and earth yet, they can still wield that power.”

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The five evil spirits whizzed out one after another.

At the same time, the Spirit Pearl floated above Nie Tian’s head, emanating an uncanny cyan light.

Baring fangs and brandishing claws, the five evil spirits swooped directly towards the bridge that was the closest to them.

Standing on that bridge was a middle Void domain Nether Spirit Society disciple. His expression flickered with shock as he watched the evil spirits fly towards him. “Those evil spirits carry intense negative emotions. This is simply...”

He suddenly noticed the Spirit Pearl that was floating over Nie Tian’s head. His face turned pale with fright as he exclaimed, “A Spirit Pearl!”

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