Chapter 328 (2/2)

Hu. Another Mirage Avatar appeared, and, once more, the spear attacked with great momentum.

Just another fake trying to slow me down? Lord You Lan waved his hand slightly; he paid no attention to the newly appeared avatar.

Hong! The spear had an aura of destruction, which, together with its revolving force and the gravitational vortex, rendered Lord You Lan completely unable to block it with a casual palm strike. His face paled. It’s real!

This attack had been faster, more forceful, and even more bizarre than Xue Ying’s previous attacks back at the Black White Deity Mountain. Forget his casual palm strike, even if he had wholeheartedly tried to block it, he would still have been unable to.

Pu! The spear passed through Lord You Lan’s chest from the left-hand side, causing his body to instantly split in two.

The attack actually had forcefully separated You Lan’s torso from the rest of his body. Having been imbued with destructive Profound Mysteries, the attack then immediately destroyed the smaller torso area, while the rest had already recovered fully.

Xue Ying’s voice echoed, “Your demonic body is quite quick to separate. Though, I’d like to see just how many times you can do that.”

Surrounded from all sides by visages of Xue Ying, each of them with a spear in hand, Lord You Lan was unable to tell apart the real body from the fakes. On top of that, the Mirage Avatars all had the power of a peak-stage Demigod—not something he could easily destroy using his Laws of Profound Mysteries alone.

“Dong Bo Xue Ying, I can help you. Spare me, and I’ll help you!” Lord You Lan’s hands enlarged, becoming akin to huge shields as they tried to block the attacks coming from all sides.

Hu. The real Stellar Fire Cloud Spear pierced Lord You Lan’s body once more. Once skewered, another part of the body immediately split up. Each time, the parts attacked by the spear would be destroyed, while the rest recovered.

Xue Ying thought to himself, He can split his body as much as he likes, but he’ll still die in the end.

“Without me, there’ll be nobody left who’s able to use Deity scrolls,” Lord You Lan said in desperation. He even shouted, “Chen Jiu, Chen Jiu! Can’t you hold Xue Ying back?”

This time, he could really feel death approaching.

He was terrified yet regretful—he regretted having planned that trap in the first vine leaf world.

Indeed, back during the first vine leaf world, he had been greatly pleased and extremely enjoyed watching Chen Jiu and Xue Ying being toyed with and nearly killed by the Mirage creatures. However, Xue Ying and Chen Jiu had not died in the end! Not only that, it was exactly that danger that led Xue Ying to become stronger, which in turn brought about his current predicament.

Why? Why did I have to provoke him?

Ah, what to do? I don’t want to die. I can’t die like this!

Should I shatter the talisman?

No. No, I can’t do that. Shattering the talisman is equivalent to me giving up. The oath I previously made in the Dark Abyss decreed that, should I fail, my soul shall be scattered.

If I don’t shatter the talisman, though, I’ll just be killed by Xue Ying. Lord You Lan felt miserable.

In truth, as team leaders, Lord You Lan, Chen Jiu, and the Meishan Clan Master had all pledged similar oaths. The World Deities who had sent them over did not leave them any room for retreat; failure of the mission meant death! Their underlings still had some leeway, but if the leader failed their mission, it also spelled the death of their underlings. Uncle Fu, for example, was free to give up and wait outside while Chen Jiu continued the mission, but once Chen Jiu failed, Uncle Fu would die just the same.

“Don’t kill me. I will do whatever you want me to do,” Lord You Lan shouted.

Pu! The last spear attack landed.

Already weak from the previous attacks, Lord You Lan had no way to quickly preserve his body. He could only despair as the spear penetrated his skull.

Hua… The moment Lord You Lan’s body was destroyed, fully annihilated, a pair of transparent gloves and a storage wristband fell to the stone surface of the ground with clang clang sound.

Xue Ying revealed a big smile as soon as he heard the crisp clang sound. He had finally killed Lord You Lan!

Chen Jiu came over and lamented, “All in all, it’s still delightful to see You Lan dead.”

“As long as you don’t hold a grudge on me,” Xue Ying replied.

Chen Jiu sighed. “You were right. I shouldn’t hold on to wishful thinking.”

Xue Ying nodded. Moments earlier, he had convinced Chen Jiu with a single sentence—based on the records, has there ever been someone who relied on Deity scrolls to become a honorary disciple?

The answer was no!

The later trials of the Sky-Reaching Vine needed one to rely on themselves. The further one went, the more they needed to show their own might and potential. Moreover, had they left Lord You Lan live, that might have spelled disaster in the future.