Chapter 490 - The Phantom King (1/2)
With a sudden gust of evil wind, everyone retreated subconsciously. The ghostly voice that came as a shock also gave Ziyun’er a good scare. She hurriedly picked up the Koo-chee beast and retreated to Xiao Chen’s side.
Xiao Chen pulled her behind. Gazing into the imperial palace, he asked coldly, “Who is it? You don’t have to use the spooky voice. Show yourself!”
Before his voice fell, a strong wind rushed towards everyone. They immediately raised their hands to block their eyes from the sand blown by the wind. Abruptly, a dark shadow floated out quickly. It was about 3 meters tall, wearing an imperial robe and a crown. His eyes turned red, red rays coming out from there constantly. Besides, there was a two-meter-long heavy sword hanging on his waist.
“Who are you? Why don’t you kneel when you see me, your honorable king?!” The black shadow yelled. His voice resounded through the skies. Being unable to endure the buzzing sound, everyone shrank back a little.
Xiao Chen could not help feeling surprised. This person looked a bit like the Corpse King that he saw in the Miasma Mountain Rang. By gathering the Malicious Grudge, the Corpse King was reborn to be a Walking Corpse, but this one before him should be the soul body formed by Malicious Grudge. Instantly, Xiao Chen’s expression darkened and he warned these people around him, “Be careful, this is…”
But before he could finish speaking, the Phantom King abruptly threw his sword to them. A fierce gale sprang up and came with extremely violent power, which directly pushed Ziyun’er, Yang Qing and the others into the air in an instant.
After falling back to the ground, all of them managed to stand still after stepping back several paces. Stunned, they thought, “This Phantom King has such a powerful strength!” Yi Tong turned serious and said, “Watch out! This person has absorbed the power from the Dragon Vein for a long time and is very powerful now. I’m afraid he wants to resurrect by the power of the Dragon Vein.”
Yi Tong had hardly finished his words when the Phantom King suddenly pointed his long sword to the sky and roared, “Capture these traitors!”
All of a sudden, chilly wind rose from all around with dark clouds rolling low. From all directions, seemingly came the heavy clatters of horses’ hoofs. And there, coming out on them from the imperial palace, was a swarm of ghost soldiers and their devil rides, their imposing manner surging high to the skies. Then, the whole imperial palace began to rock violently.
Everyone’s face changed. Xiao Chen cried out in a hurry. “Watch out!” Just when he finished speaking, he sent Gui Xian back. As a soul body, Gui Xian would be badly hurt if another soul body attacked him.
After sending Gui Xian to a safe place, Xiao Chen leaped up, summoned his Unsullied Sword instantly and wielded the Storm of Swords in the next second. In mid-air, shadows of swords were everywhere. Tens of thousands of rows of sword radiance slashed at the sea of ghost soldiers and devil rides that was surging toward them.
The wind kept whistling. Both Yi Tong and None-flower used their mystic arts, cutting at those ghost soldiers that moved toward them waves upon waves. However, after all, the power of the three of them was limited. By contrast, those ghost soldiers were incessant as if Xiao Chen and the others could never kill them all. Meanwhile, the rest of them could only try hard to deal with those little ghost soldiers that attacked from the mid-air.
“Let’s go!” Xiao Chen ordered. He knew that these ghost soldiers were inexhaustible. Once these soldiers wounded them, they would suffer great loss. Therefore, Xiao Chen decided on the moment and covered others to withdraw. But before they could reach the steps, the Phantom King yelled, “Ten-directions Icy-hell!”
Everyone on the spot could see dark clouds gather from all sides quickly and block the space in a split second. They were all astounded because the strength of the Phantom King was surprisingly horrifying. “This Phantom King is no weaker than the Corpse King in the Miasma Mountain Range,” Xiao Chen thought to himself. More importantly, it seemed that normal attacks could not do any harm to him.
At the moment, all of them were trapped while ghost soldiers were coming to attack them from all directions. Beyond that, ordinary flying swords, including some magic spells, could hardly injure those soldiers effectively. Xiao Chen couldn’t help feeling a little regret in his heart. He blamed himself for his carelessness, which got everyone into trouble now.
Those ghost soldiers became increasingly powerful, constantly whistling with their sharp voices. Now there was no room for retreat. Suddenly, Xiao Chen had a brainwave and found a good solution: since these ghost soldiers, including Phantom King, were soul bodies, how about using the Spirit-annihilation Halberd to handle them? Thinking of this, he immediately took out the Spirit-annihilation Halberd from the Divine Vessel.
Suddenly, waves of devil howlings sounded. In Xiao Chen’s hand, the entire Spirit-annihilation Halberd was cocooned in a layer of black Qi. Because this halberd was too evil, Xiao Chen found it hard to control it every time. Thus, he would basically not use this halberd.
This time when Xiao Chen held this halberd, he nearly fell into a trance. There were three weapons of him. The Unsullied Sword could quiet him down, so he used it the most frequently. But when he confronted his personal or formidable enemies, he would choose his Blood Lotus Demon Blade for it could make him eager to kill. At this time, if he also ran the Mystic Diabolic Enchantment, he would ultimately go into the devil state. That was why he would not use the Spirit-annihilation Halberd easily.
After he set his mind slightly calm, Xiao Chen whispered the Mystic Cyan Heart-clearing Incantation to prevent himself from being affected by the halberd. Then he waved his long halberd, and it went out fast, whistling. Those ghost soldiers who would never get hurt by ordinary flying swords now couldn’t withstand a single blow. Both their bodies and the spirits were destroyed directly.
In less than a few moments, those ghost soldiers no longer dared to approach. The light in Phantom King’s eyes became much redder, and he glared at Xiao Chen, saying, “Who the hell are you?” After this scream, he flashed and cut right on Xiao Chen’s head.
“Clang!” With a loud noise, Xiao Chen held up his halberd and blocked this attack. But in the meantime, his legs sank, crushing the nearby floor tiles.
“Brother Xiao!” Yi Tong instantly flashed to him like a ray of purple light, but the Phantom King flung his left arm and pushed him into the air.
“Argh…!” With a deep bellowed, Xiao Chen seemed to have used his Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruit’s strength that was put aside in his elixir field. All at once, he pushed the Phantom King’s heavy sword that weighed a ton back and then vehemently stabbed the Phantom King with his halberd.
“Clang!” Another loud sound. This time, the Phantom King raised his sword and blocked Xiao Chen’s halberd. It seemed that he also knew that this halberd could cause fatal injuries to him.