Chapter 1197: Cooperation? (1/2)

BOOM!

A huge greenish-black thunderball bombarded Nie Tian’s head.

Wisps of greenish-black lightning rapidly drilled into his mind through the top of his head.

Yuan Jiuchuan, who was quietly watching him, widened his eyes. He was clearly surprised by this.

“Mind... sea of awareness...” he muttered in a low voice. “His fleshly body might be able to withstand the lightning bombardment, but what about his sea of awareness? If he allows such lightning power to enter his sea of awareness, even his true soul may perish. Given Zheng Yi’s command of lightning power, it should be easy for his lightning power to eliminate his true soul, right?”

As an expert well-versed in lightning power, Yuan Jiuchuan was well-aware of lightning’s subduing effect on souls and spirits.

What experts like him, who practiced lightning incantations, feared the least were outsiders like Phantasms that had mighty souls, or Qi warriors like Nether Spirit Society disciples that commanded evil spirits.

In fact, after he had joined that secret force with Zheng Yi and Han Sen, all of the Nether Spirit Society disciples they had met had shown them respect.

That was because those who were skilled in lightning incantations happened to be the Nether Spirit Society disciples’ bane.

Even though he found the fact that Nie Tian could withstand the bombardment of the lightning bolts and even temper his body with them shocking, it wasn’t so unacceptable.

After all, living beings with truly mighty bodies were known to be able to strengthen their bodies with lightning power.

However, souls...

FIZZ!

As wisps of lightning power poured in through the top of Nie Tian’s head, his mind seemed to be illuminated by multiple suns.

Lightning power that had a strong subduing effect on souls attempted to rip through his soul defenses and flood his sea of awareness in a breath’s time.

Nie Tian finally sensed danger at this moment.

As a thought entered his mind, his nine star souls lit up at the same time. Streams of soul power mixed with the power from his star souls and formed Starchains at an alarming speed in the depths of his mind.

As a soul magic, Starchains were originally meant for imprisoning souls and spirits.

At this moment, however, they linked together and formed a mysterious protective spell formation.

BANG! BANG!

As the fragmentary lightning bolts slammed into it, the Starchains that had interwoven into a profound soul spell neutralized all of them.

Nie Tian’s expression flickered. “It seems that the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s soul incantations are quite handy in dealing with attacks that target souls.”

Then, as he circulated his flesh aura, a faint crimson ward came to form at the back of his head.

It was a ward of condensed flesh aura that was designed to protect his sea of awareness from future lightning attacks.

“He has his mind covered...” Taken aback, Yuan Jiuchuan went blank for a moment before his lighting-wreathed body suddenly vanished.

He flung his arms in an irritated manner as he avoided the lightning bolts that carried Zheng Yi’s soul aura and pursued him relentlessly.

At the same time, he thought to himself, “Zheng Yi is the head of the lightning element sect. The incantations he practices must be much more profound than Mo Qianfan’s. The lightning element sect used to be a major branch of the Five Elements Sect back in the day, and they had produced God domain experts. Many of their secret incantations have long histories and were highly-spoken of across the human domains.

“Zheng Yi has only failed to enter God domain till now because of his mediocre cultivation talent and poor temperament. Even if he gets to refine these thunder pools gathered by the tenth grade Thunder-devouring Whale, along with this heaven and earth transformed from its flesh aura, he might not necessarily be able to enter the God domain.

“However, if he wants to deal with me, Nie Tian, and those with him, he still has a good chance at succeeding...”

Yuan Jiuchuan’s expression changed from time to time as he pondered the matter.

Yuan Jiuchuan suddenly grew excited. “What if I can kill Zheng Yi and use my special incantations to absorb his lightning domain, along with everything here...!”

He was convinced that his cultivation talent and potential were superior to Zheng Yi’s.

Even though his incantations, which allowed him to absorb other living beings’ lightning power, were considered extreme, he was certain that they could get him to the God domain.

WHOOSH!

Yuan Jiuchuan, who was hiding in the dark, suddenly appeared right in front of Nie Tian.