Chapter 539: Celestial Seal (1/2)

The attacks that Xue Wei was releasing did pose some threat to this young-looking ghost, but it was not to the point where he had to be so careful that he could not fight back.

The difference between the strength of the two sides was not something that could be removed merely by using some elemental Qi, but it did make things trickier for the young-looking ghost.

At the same time, it also managed to help them delay for a longer time. The ghost could not help but begin considering his options. He was unwilling to leave with no benefits.

If he left like this, he would become a wanted figure. Xue Wei would undoubtedly inform the branch leader of his betrayal, and he would have lost both his stable position, but also the benefits that had tempted him to do so.

The struggle was clear in his eyes, and he did not manage to launch an intensive attack, spending most of his time dodging the lightning bolts that Xue Wei sent his way.

”Argh!” A scream reverberated through the courtyard as Lan managed to hit the young-looking ghost straight in the back with an attack that was inherent to the Mingshe race.

It was a pearl-white crescent moon that had been launched from his body and contained an incredible amount of Qi. Both Lan and Xue Wei had spent a sizable amount of time cultivating and unraveling the seal since they had arrived in the Ghost Realm. While it was indeed true that many of the prominent ghosts were stronger than the two of them, their strength had already grown rather drastically.

Xue Wei was on the verge of breaking into the King rank. It had been a smooth journey to this level, but he had encountered a bottleneck. Breaking into the King rank was not something that could be solved with merely cultivating normally.

Lan, on the other hand, did not encounter any bottlenecks that slowed down his speed of unraveling the seal. Even so, it did take a rather long time for him to slowly let his strength return to its former glory, and he could not rush it.

The seal he had used was a very extreme method of sealing one's own strength. This seal was not made by the Ghost Realm, but by Lan himself.

The seal was known as the Celestial Seal. It was a straightforward name, but as the name implied, even deities were incapable of reversing this seal.

The Celestial Seal was a seal that one could place on oneself, and the strength would then be limited until the seal had slowly been unraveled. It was not possible to break it forcefully; neither by the sealed person nor anyone else, as the body would explode the moment one tried to do so.

Lan had used this seal before entering the Ghost Realm, and thus the seal would not be lifted just because he left the Ghost Realm again. In a way, even if they managed to survive the time in the Ghost Realm, and return to their normal world, then Lan would still have to slowly unravel the seal to regain his strength.

Xue Wei had not known of this initially, but upon hearing the truth of the Celestial Seal, he felt a surge of extreme respect towards Lan.