Chapter 821: [Hundred Lanterns]

Gu Qing Shan followed the wind as he flew.

The iceberg was still standing in the ship’s way.

Compared to his flight, one of the other powerful evil creatures was faster.

The devil whose body was clad in grey flames flashed in the air a few times, went past Gu Qing Shan, and quickly stood above the iceberg.

「 Move away! 」

He roared.

The attacking evil creatures quickly stopped their offenses and retreated.

They have also noticed, despite causing the humongous sea snake to bleed from its head, their attacks were unable to make the monster even flinch, its entire body was still completely stationary.

It was as though their attacks weren’t even an issue.

As the evil creatures stopped their attacks, the humongous sea snake’s wounds visibly healed and closed.

Dark Devil looked down at this 30-million-year-old sea snake from above.

Immense dark flames began to rise from his body to completely swallow his figure up.

He then leapt upward, raised a dark flame that made the sky dim and threw it downwards.

The dark flame shot towards the sea snake like a falling star.

Noticing the danger of this flame, the sea snake abruptly raised its body from underneath the sea and unhinged its jaws to swallow the ball of dark fire coming down from the sky.

Seeing this shocking scene, the other evil creatures quickly backed away even further.

None of them wanted to be caught in this battle.

Judgement who carried a guillotine on his shoulder, the mouthless Silent Ruler as well as Gu Qing Shan were all standing in the sky, observing the results of this decisive attack.

Judgement sighed: 『 Using the [Life Siphoning Grey Flame] from the very start, seems like this is going to end soon 』

Noticing both the Silent Ruler and Xie Qi Ruler staring at him, he explained: 『 Dark Devil’s signature ability is the [Life Siphoning Grey Flame], as long as the one being burnt is still alive, it would absorb its target’s life force to continue burning. The grey flame would only extinguish after no more life force could be absorbed, which is when the target is dead 』

Gu Qing Shan trembled slightly.

That certainly is a very troublesome ability, using that, it wouldn’t be hard to defeat a stronger opponent.

Mystic-type abilities were all this way, through the random mix of World Origin and a living being’s Soul Essence, these mysterious and unpredictable powers were born.

In a battle, Mystic-type abilities were the most unreasonable of them all.

The grey flames had just crashed into the humongous sea snake.

Hoh——

Intense burning grey flames immediately spread all over the sea snake’s body.

The flames rose all the way to the sky.

The humongous sea snake let out a pitiful but world-shattering cry.

It writhed and struggled within the flame, apparently enduring unbearable pain.

Standing in the sky, Dark Devil smirked.

It actually didn’t dodge.

What a fool.

Once it is touched by the life siphoning flames, it will only keep burning until it ran out of life force

Dark Devil just watched as the humongous sea snake continued to struggle until its last breath, then he slowly descended.

I heard demonic sea creatures over 10 million years old always carry precious treasures on their bodies, I wonder what kind of thing this one has.

I killed it by myself so no one would be able to compete with me.

I’ll take that treasure for myself, then dedicate it to the master and receive his praise.

Indeed, just like that——

Those were Dark Devil’s final thoughts.

Among countless gasps of shock, a deep grey flame suddenly shot from the sea snake’s body and hit Dark Devil straight on, burning him to a crisp in less than a single breath’s worth of time.

At the same time, the humongous sea snake suddenly woke up and became lively.

The burning grey flames from before could no longer be seen.

Neither was its wounds.

At a glance, the monster had just fully recovered.

The evil creatures were all stunned.

What just happened !?

The humongous sea creature’s eyes showed a hint of cruelty and ridicule.

It used telepathy to speak directly into the minds of every creature in the vicinity:

「 Burning my life? Fools, I still have over a million years’ worth of lifespan left 」

The evil creatures finally realized.

That’s right, this was an ancient demonic sea creature!

Its lifespan was exceedingly long.

To completely burn its life away, the flames would’ve had to burn for at least several more years.

But why did the flames disappear from this sea snake’s body?

How was Dark Devil killed by his own ability?

None of the evil creatures understood at all.

Judgement roared in anger: 『 Despicable! I don’t believe it, how could Dark Devil have been killed by his own flames! 』

He took the guillotine off his back.

Seeing that, Gu Qing Shan tried to convince him: “Wait, it seems to know a sort of unique damage reflection ability, don’t attack it arbitrarily”

Judgement scoffed: 『 I already noticed. Its skin can reflect any attack back to the attacker, but that is useless against me 』

He threw the guillotine out.

『 Sacrifice—— [Nine Lives Soul Taker]! 』

Judgement shouted.

Then 9 other fiends in the sky abruptly moaned in pain.

They turned into streaks of blood-red glow and quickly flew into the guillotine.

『 They were my subordinating fiends, I just sacrificed them to avenge Dark Devil. Rulers, I hope you won’t interfere 』Judgement told them.

After that, he didn’t bother to see how the Silent Ruler or the Xie Qi Ruler reacted and simply activated his Mystic-type ability.

The nine blood-red glows on the guillotine jumped out and manifested as a bloody skeleton that quickly flew towards the sea snake.

“A soul attack magic…” Gu Qing Shan muttered.

He could sense the amount of damage this Mystic-type attack could inflict on a soul.

When it saw this bloody skeleton, the look of ridicule in the sea snake’s eyes became even deeper.

It opened its mouth wide to inhale, then exhaled.

The skeleton’s head immediately vanished.

Almost instantly, the skeleton’s head appeared again.

But this time, it was in front of Judgement.

The skull immediately entered Judgement’s body.

A moment of silence.

A faint figure emerged from Judgement’s body and flew up.

———-it was Judgement’s soul!

The bloody skeleton then turned around, quickly caught up to Judgement’s soul, and grabbed him tightly.

『 NO! 』

Judgement’s soul screamed in desperation.

The bloody skeleton transformed into a guillotine and slashed down!

Judgement’s soul was cut in half and vanished from the sky.

His body fell into the ocean and caused a small ripple before disappearing completely.

All the evil creatures that were sent out had been wiped out by the humongous sea snake.

Only the Silent Ruler and Xie Qi Ruler managed to survive for now because they haven’t attacked it.

“It can reflect even soul magic, do you have any ideas?” Gu Qing Shan asked in a low voice.

The Silent Ruler also realized that the situation was a lot more dangerous than it initially appeared, she used telepathy to talk to Gu Qing Shan: 『 I have many Mystic-type techniques, but I’m a bit afraid to attack it now 』

“Can you restrain its movements?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

700 flying swords appeared behind him from the void of space.

Sensing the razor-sharp cold sword qi coming from Gu Qing Shan’s body, the Silent Ruler’s eyes shined.

That’s right, if this sea snake can reflect all Mystic-type abilities and magic, the best choice would be to use physical attacks!

『 Restraining… I have a few of them 』the Silent Ruler replied.

“I’ll face it directly, you can restrain and distract it from the back” Gu Qing Shan said.

『 Got it 』the Silent Ruler immediately agreed.

Gu Qing Shan moved his swords.

All the flying swords soared through the air and slashed the sea snake with sharp sword phantoms.

The sea snake snow turned its attention towards the two remaining people.

Seeing the numerous flying swords in the sky, the snake’s eyes showed a faint sense of surprise.

Pure, basic physical attacks.

I didn’t expect there to be an evil creature who still used this simplest mean of attack within this ocean of Mystical abilities.

The sea snake rose its head again.

Soon enough, the flying swords clashed with the sea snake!

As the flying swords struck the humongous sea snake’s body they disappeared.

These flying swords would then suddenly appear in front of Gu Qing Shan and slash him.

Gu Qing Shan just stood still.

The flying swords all hurriedly stopped and vibrated angrily.

These flying swords all had spirits, they would not attack their master.

“The power is increased by two-fold, and it could even reflect physical attacks… seems like this is a Mystic-type ability that could reflect twice as much damage to the attacker”

Gu Qing Shan felt a bit emotional—— because he had already seen through what it was.

What a ridiculously powerful ability.

No wonder it lived to be 30 million years old.

As the Silent Ruler was preparing her spell, she hesitated a bit when she saw what happened.

“It’s fine. Keep going, I’m going to try something else” Gu Qing Shan told her.

He started flying towards the humongous sea snake.

The sea snake was shocked to see him do that.

He’s still approaching me?

The snake’s iris turned briefly. It then pulled back and coiled its body up, preparing to lunge forward.

Gu Qing Shan felt a bit heavy.

Not only is this humongous sea snake powerful, but it is also smart and cautious.

He gripped the Chao Yin sword.

——-as he was about to activate its ability, his Inventory Bag jerked a bit.

The jade gourd pendant flew out again.

It danced in circles around Gu Qing Shan, constantly letting out a ‘xiu xiu’ sound.

Gu Qing Shan’s fighting spirit deflated.

Thanks to the [Spirit Telepathy] ability he obtained in the Shen Wu world, he could communicate with weapon spirits.

This wasn’t limited to just Chao Yin sword, he could understand what Adorable was trying to say as well.

This jade pendant just woke up and was asking him for more Soul Points…

“Don’t be noisy, I’m fighting right now” Gu Qing Shan sighed and sent his voice to it.

The jade gourd pendant turned around and saw the sea snake right away.

Xiu…

The jade gourd pendant made another sound.

“Attack? You want me to attack with my strongest technique?” Gu Qing Shan asked in surprise.

Xiu! Xiu!

The jade gourd pendant replied.

Gu Qing Shan hesitantly spoke: “Is that really going to——”

He didn’t have time to discuss things with the jade gourd pendant.

As the humongous sea snake saw that he paused in the air, it decided to take the initiative.

The sea snake leapt at him!

Gu Qing Shan couldn’t hesitate anymore.

He summoned all of his flying swords and infused a huge amount of spirit energy into them.

700 swords——-

Secret Art, [Great Tsunami]!

As every flying sword performed the [Torrent] Secret Art at once, the intense sword phantoms filled the sky.

They overlapped with one another to form a great tsunami of sword phantoms!

The humongous sea snake crashed straight into the tsunami of swords and went directly against the flow to attack Gu Qing Shan.

All of a sudden, it noticed that something was wrong.

It was experiencing intense pain unlike never before.

The humongous sea snake finally realized.

——-this meant that the Mystic-type ability that allowed it to rampage as much as it liked up to this point had lost its effect!!!

No, it didn’t lose its effect, it was nullified by another similarly powerful Mystic-type ability of the same essence.

And there was nothing defending it against the razor-sharp tsunami of swords!

The humongous sea snake wanted to turn around——–

But it couldn’t move at all!

When the Silent Ruler saw Gu Qing Shan attacked with his full power, she also triggered the most powerful restraining technique she had been preparing.

A perfectly coordinated attack!

At this point, the tsunami of sword phantoms had completely filled the air, leaving no place for the sea snake to run!

The intense howling swords swept its whole body out from the water——- its humongous body was no different from a thread in the wind. The snake was battered by the swords, slashed to a pulp, then was completely decimated to nothingness.

The terrifying tsunami of swords gradually faded away.

Not even a single bone of the humongous sea snake remained.

Gu Qing Shan was completely stunned.

He didn’t feel at all happy from defeating a powerful opponent.

Because right now, the jade gourd pendant was dancing in circles around him, smugly squeaking ‘xiu xiu’ as if to show off just how hard it worked.

That’s right, it was indeed a Soul Artifact from the Bygone Era.

When it took the initiative to inform him about itself, Gu Qing Shan finally knew one of its abilities.

A notification also appeared on the [Kindling] UI.

[Jade pendant: Adorable has informed you of its secret]

[You now know one of its Thaumaturgies]

[Hundred Lanterns: Temporarily steal one ability from any target. After you use this ability once, to conceal this fact, the ability will be removed from you]

[Description: One lantern passes its shine to a hundred lanterns]

Gu Qing Shan stared blankly at these notifications and couldn’t help muttering: “What [Hundred Lanterns], isn’t this simply stealing other people’s skills…”

Hearing that, jade gourd pendant appeared offended.

It squeaked again and again as if trying to explain something.

After listening for a while, Gu Qing Shan finally understood.

“This is a cultivator’s tradition, how can you call it stealing?”

——–this was what the jade gourd pendant was insisting.

At the same time, the text on the [Kindling] UI was actually changing!

This has never happened before!

New lines of blood-red text appeared.

[Hundred Lanterns: Temporarily take away an ability from a target. After you use this ability once, to conceal this fact, the ability will be removed from you]

[Description: One lantern passes its shine to a hundred lanterns]

[Special note: Thou art is marvellous, I shall carry it forward for thou]