Chapter 858: Emanations of the Soul (1/2)

GDK 858: Emanations of the Soul

Those followers of Salas’ on the peak of the mountain looked at Han Shuo with cold gazes. They were around three hundred strong and many of them were late-stage highgods. They were the most elite troops Salas commanded!

However, instead of exiting the barrier and attacking Han Shuo, these experts sat calmly where they were and watched Han Shuo coldly.

These experts did not recklessly attack Han Shuo because they had seen the mad power Han Shuo demonstrated as he ascended the Mountain. They were greatly intimidated after seeing Han Shuo butcher mid-stage highgod experts in just moments and that barrages of divine energies landing on his body had caused him no harm.

It was clear to them that Han Shuo’s strength had exceeded the realm of highgod. No one was about to chance with his own life when it came to facing an expert of great, unfathomable strength, not even these powerful and influential characters!

They thought themselves fortunate that Salas had deployed a powerful lighting energy barrier around the Empyrean Peak. They watched Han Shuo attentively and quietly to see if Han Shuo was strong enough to break this lighting energy barrier personally deployed by Salas!

Han Shuo stood coldly and motionlessly as he expanded his consciousness and carefully sensed the fierce energy contained on the barrier. He could even sense elements of lightning actively leaping about the dazzling electrical barrier.

The dense elements of lightning were moving around the massive barrier in a trajectory that Han Shuo could not comprehend. The elements seemed as though they were alive as they happily fluttered about, not allowing a single molecule to move across the barrier.

“Master, this lightning barrier is extremely harmful to demon generals. I cannot tear this barrier apart,” transmitted Cauldron Spirit.

Although demon generals were invulnerable to physical attacks and immune to most divine energies, the energy of lightning, however, was very destructive to demon generals. This barrier of lightning energy was simply the Achilles' Heel of demon generals. Cauldron Spirit was, therefore, unable to destroy the barrier using its demon generals like before.

Han Shuo thought for a moment and withdrew the Cauldron of Myriad Demon back into his body. Then, he deployed the domains of divinity of his avatars of death and destruction. The two highgod domains of divinity gradually started fusing as the three souls started to link up.

A destructive energy started emanating and expanding from Han Shuo. The elements of death within the several hundred mile radius suddenly began to converge towards Han Shuo. The energy towers and rocks on Empyrean Peak were carried into the air.

The massive amount of the element of death was circulating in an orbit conforming to the edict of destruction. The destruction divine energy in Han Shuo’s avatar condensed into Orbs of Destruction. No sooner than they appeared inside the hybrid domain of divinity were they sucking in elements of death like blue whales engulfing krill patches.

As logic would have it, the energy of destruction and the energy of death should not have been able to fuse together, and the Orbs of Destruction should not have been able to absorb the element of death. However, inside Han Shuo’s hybrid domain of divinity, those rapidly revolving Orbs moving in the trajectory of destruction edict were doing just that.

After filling themselves with the elements of death, the Orbs of Destruction expanded in volume and grew to the size of a human head. The Orbs gave off a faint emerald-green glow as greyish liquid circulated within.

Han Shuo realized that that greyish fluid flowing inside the Orbs of Destruction was, in fact, the element of death condensed to several thousand times its natural concentration! The Orbs of Destruction revolved around him and accelerated. They seemed to be gradually hypnotizing Han Shuo as he let his mind get carried away.

Then, a strange sensation leapt into Han Shuo’s consciousness. He suddenly felt as though thousands of avatars had manifested in those Orbs of Destruction, as though he and the Orbs were one…

The strange but wonderful sensation lasted for just a moment before Han Shuo came to his senses. He suddenly discovered that the Orbs of Destruction orbiting around him were just like extensions of his body and soul. The Orbs seemed to carry a piece of his soul energy, or perhaps a drop of his blood essence…

More surprisingly, he sensed something similar to self-awareness from those Orbs. He could instruct the Orbs using simple, daily language with his mind and they would carry out his orders like sentient beings. It felt very peculiar and unreal.

While the Orbs continued to revolve in Han Shuo’s hybrid domain of divinity, he turned his attention back to the barrier of lightning energy ahead of him and thought about how to get rid of the barrier. Those bizarre Orbs of Destruction seemed to have read Han Shuo’s thoughts. They started talking to each other like thousands of little Han Shuos having a discussion in squeaky voices. Then, all the Orbs swarmed towards Salas’ lightning energy barrier.

“Enemy spotted.”

“Ouch! That’s some powerful lightning!”

“We need backup! We need backup!”