Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

Chapter 884: Chapter 143: A Thousand Battle Merits in Hand, New Surprises Arise!

King Shela was locked in a bitter struggle with True Monarch Tianci; both of them were covered in wounds, and their Spiritual Power was almost completely exhausted.

That scene of the Shadow Howling King’s fall had unfolded right before his eyes!

How is that possible!

That was the Shadow Howling King!

A Tier Four High-Grade existence—even he himself was slightly weaker than the Shadow Howling King in strength—how could the Shadow Howling King have died at Zhou Xun’s hands?

If he was not mistaken, Zhou Xun’s Cultivation was only at the Early-Stage Nascent Soul,

even if he was a Thunder Dao Cultivator and naturally suppressed their Ghost Race to some extent, the gap in Cultivation between the two sides was solid and undeniable.

Hadn’t Zhou Xun been completely suppressed and beaten by the Shadow Howling King at the outset,

when the Shadow Howling King unleashed the forbidden move ”Divine Wail,” Zhou Xun had nearly fallen on the spot, losing his consciousness,

how was it that in the blink of an eye, Zhou Xun’s offense and defense were reversed, and he even slew the Shadow Howling King?

All of this happened in a flash of lightning and fire; even if he wanted to rush to the rescue, it was already too late.

The plight that had originally befallen Zhou Xun had now become his own—how could he not be shocked!

Shadow Howling King, you’ve ruined me!

As his thoughts spun, King Shela made a snap decision—to flee!

He formed a Spell with his hands,

and thousands of feet of Ghostly Mist rapidly converged, shrouding the space before him; then,

his Lifebound Ghost Pearl once again separated out a wisp of Ghost Power Origin,

which fused straight into his own body.

But who was True Monarch Tianci? Seeing Zhou Xun actually turn defeat into victory, he could not help but be overjoyed, while a faint sense of having escaped calamity rose in his heart,

he knew that next it would be him joining hands with Zhou Xun to deal with King Shela,

he immediately turned his gaze toward King Shela opposite him, fixing him in a death stare,

at this moment, he no longer needed to fight recklessly; he need only wait for Zhou Xun’s aid, and with the two of them acting together, slaying this Ghost King would naturally be a certainty,

thus he calmly waited at ease,

suddenly, upon seeing King Shela’s movements on the opposite side, he instantly understood in his heart,

He’s trying to run!

At this thought, he roused his Mana, formed a Spell with both hands, and pointed at himself,

a palm-sized gourd flew out—it was his Lifebound Magical Treasure, the ’Nine Luminaries True Gourd.’

The moment the gourd appeared, it spun rapidly, in an instant swelling to dozens of feet in size,

”Go!”

True Monarch Tianci’s expression turned ruthless as he once again forced out a mouthful of Essence Blood and struck it onto the True Gourd,

with Essence Blood as blessing, the crimson True Gourd swelled to several zhang in size, while streaks of blazing fire rose all around it,

turning into a crimson afterimage that arrived before King Shela in a flash,

in that instant, the sky around the gourd erupted with boundless flames, surging and roaring like a tidal wave of a tsunami pouring back into the heavens,

burning a massive hole straight through the previously gathered Ghostly Mist, then igniting it completely to ashes, dyeing the entire sky a field of crimson,

and at the heart of those endless red flames, a towering, awe-inspiring figure suddenly appeared, standing proudly above the Nine Heavens; upon closer look, it was shockingly a Divine Phoenix, magnificently manifesting in the world.

”Spirit Transformation of a Magical Treasure!”

From afar, Zhou Xun saw this scene and could not help but show a look of astonishment,

he had not expected True Monarch Tianci to have already comprehended even such a top-tier Divine Technique; ordinarily, only a small portion of Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators were able to display this.

It seemed he had still underestimated this Eastern Wilderness’s Number One Cultivator!

”King Shela, you won’t be able to escape!”

True Monarch Tianci chuckled lightly, pointing gently toward King Shela,

the Divine Phoenix raised its neck in a long cry, its voice piercing clouds and splitting stone, deafening to the ears, as if it were a vast sound from the primordial wilderness of antiquity.

With wings spread wide, the sky-covering flames surged like a torrent of molten rock, roaring toward King Shela.

King Shela’s expression changed drastically—not because he could not withstand this strike, but because Zhou Xun in the distance was still watching him like a tiger, heading straight toward him.

”Human Race, must you truly press me to death? Are you not afraid I’ll fight you to mutual destruction?”

King Shela changed his Spell, and streams of Ghost Qi surged out, forming a Three-Headed Flying Winged Dog,

the demonic hound raised its head in a long howl; amid the spreading Ghost Qi, its body instantly swelled to a hundred-zhang giant,

its three heads each flickered with black, pale Qing, and dark purple radiance; from its mouths it spewed a highly corrosive black smoke, Wind Blades a hundred zhang across, and icy, bone-piercing ghostfire, all surging toward the Divine Phoenix.

The Divine Phoenix, however, showed no fear at all; its talons thrust forward viciously, razor-sharp claws tearing through the void, trailing golden arcs of light as they directly met the incoming black smoke, Wind Blades, and ghostfire.

At the point where claws and attacks collided, blinding light and fierce energy waves erupted; space trembled, and concentric ripples spread outward.

Seizing the moment while the Divine Phoenix was held up, King Shela turned to flee; he knew clearly that every extra breath he tarried meant greater danger—now he could only pin his hopes on breaking free of this deadly situation,

yet in the very next instant,

a middle-aged Confucian Scholar, face deathly pale yet still standing ramrod straight, blocked his path,

it was none other than True Monarch Tianci!

On the other side, after Zhou Xun slew the Shadow Howling King, he forcibly endured the tidal wave of searing pain raging through his body, and exerted himself to the utmost to stir the scant remaining Spiritual Power within him, slowly flying toward King Shela’s location.

At this time, King Shela was locked in an arduous and desperate battle with True Monarch Tianci.

Both of their bodies were covered in wounds, their Spiritual Power nearly exhausted, like candles in the wind that might go out at any moment.

King Shela was fighting with all his might to escape, while True Monarch Tianci was fighting with all his might to block him!

King Shela sensed Zhou Xun flying toward him, and a bone-deep panic surged in his heart.

Even so, he still forced himself to remain calm, trying to seek out flaws in True Monarch Tianci’s defenses, hoping to use them to escape!

But how could True Monarch Tianci give him any chance? Things had already reached this point—if he did not kill King Shela, it would be a betrayal of the enormous price he had paid before!