Chapter 513: Outnumbered
Yang Haoran forcibly tore off the tongue, and it immediately dissipated into a wisp of Yin Qi.
But then, a new tongue, identical in form, reformed within the head's mouth and attacked him again.
Faced with this situation, Yang Haoran lost all interest in grabbing the tongue. With a flick of the hand gripping the head, he directly shattered it, turning it into a wisp of Yin Qi.
As the head shattered, the tongue it had spat out naturally vanished with it. However, the Yin Qi formed from the shattered head showed no signs of dissipating; instead, it churned, preparing to reform.
While Yang Haoran wasn't surprised by this outcome, it still left him feeling a little helpless.
The human heads conjured by this Spirit Medium Ghost Tree were indeed extremely bizarre. It was his first time encountering such a Spirit Medium secret art, so he didn't know how to counter it.
He believed there must be a way to deal with this secret art, he just didn't know it. However, in the current situation, he had no intention of researching the matter. In his eyes, the woman was an arrow at the end of its flight; taking her down in one go was the priority.
As soon as the woman died, this strange Spirit Medium Ghost Tree would undoubtedly vanish as well.
After the head reformed, it opened its mouth, intending to spit out another tongue. Seeing this, Yang Haoran's smile returned, and he kicked the head away.
"Do you really think sticking out your tongue makes you look cute?"
The head, kicked away by Yang Haoran, landed surrounded by numerous chains. Since these heads couldn't be completely destroyed, he would let the chains continuously deal with them.
Thus, Yang Haoran's body continuously flickered across the area. Each time he appeared, a head would be kicked away by him. In a short time, all the heads that had broken through the encirclement were sent back by his kicks, including the ones currently attacking Tang Shi and his two companions.
"Lord Underworld Official! The heads conjured by the Spirit Medium Ghost Tree are immortal and indestructible; continuous attacks will only hasten the depletion of your own power. The best approach is to avoid them. Once the caster's power is exhausted, the Spirit Medium Ghost Tree will naturally dissipate. If you can trap all the heads, that would be best!"
Tang Shi's shout came from behind. Hearing this, Yang Haoran's smile deepened.
In contrast, when the woman heard Tang Shi's words, her face, which had been quite pretty, instantly contorted with rage!
"Tang Shi! If I had known you would betray me, I should have let your soul scatter and disperse then! ! !"
The woman's voice was filled with killing intent. If she hadn't been fully occupied at that moment, she would surely have found every way to attack Tang Shi!
As the woman's Guardian Spirit, it wasn't strange that Tang Shi knew some secrets of the Spirit Medium Ghost Tree. And his words indeed gave Yang Haoran a valuable hint.
Yang Haoran paid no mind to the woman's unsightly expression. With Tang Shi's reminder, he changed his method of dealing with the heads.
He still controlled the chains, continuously attacking the heads. He violently shattered these heads directly, preventing any from breaking through the encirclement.
At the same time, he made the chains rapidly converge. Under his control, a large number of chains wove together into a sphere, trapping all the heads within it.
Although the sphere formed by the chains had gaps and holes, these gaps and holes were not large; given the size of the heads, they were completely unable to escape.
"Do you think this will be enough to trap them inside?"
The woman's cold voice rang out. Then her hand seals shifted again, forming a new one.
"Disperse! ! !"
With a roar from the woman, all the heads encircled by the chains suddenly exploded. They turned into wisps of Yin Qi. From the looks of it, she intended for these Yin Qi wisps to squeeze through the gaps and then reform.
However, the next moment, the woman's facial expression froze.
Although all the heads had transformed into Yin Qi, they couldn't escape through the chains' gaps and holes. Whenever these Yin Qi wisps approached the gaps and holes, black light would flicker, forming a protective barrier of light that blocked their escape.
"Heh heh, I already anticipated this happening, so, you see, I came prepared. " Yang Haoran said with a smile.
"Don't get cocky. Controlling so many chains consumes a considerable amount of your Yin Spirit Power. It's still uncertain which of us will last until the end! " the woman replied coldly.
"Oh? Is that so?"
Yang Haoran chuckled, retorting, then a flash of light passed through his hand. A Soul Pill appeared in his grasp, and then, under the woman's astonished gaze, he swallowed it in one gulp.
In truth, given Yang Haoran's current state, it wouldn't have mattered even if he hadn't consumed the Soul Pill. He still had plenty of Yin Spirit Power remaining within him, not yet reaching a point where he absolutely had to take a Soul Pill.
The reason he took out a Soul Pill and consumed it in front of the woman was purely to crush the last sliver of hope in her heart.
"Now, who do you think will last until the end? " Yang Haoran continued to ask with a smile.
Although he didn't explain what exactly he had swallowed, judging by the woman's reaction, she seemed to recognize the Soul Pill.
"You! ! !"
The woman trembled with rage. However, at that very moment, her expression abruptly changed, and she looked down at the ground beneath her.
At this moment, the ground beneath her trembled violently, as if experiencing a powerful earthquake. Under the intense trembling, cracks instantly appeared in some places on the ground.
The woman seemed to recall something and abruptly looked up towards Yang Haoran's rear.
There, the three Guardian Spirits had reformed their Spirit Bodies from their previous Yin Qi forms. Their eyes glowed with blood-red light. As their hands waved, large quantities of stones were pulled out piece by piece from underground, and various debris from the ground also rose into the air, all floating suspended above their heads.
Aside from setting up illusions and possessing bodies, Evil Spirits also possessed the ability to manipulate external objects. The methods currently being employed by these three Evil Spirits were precisely the manipulation of external objects.
Seeing the stones of varying sizes and miscellaneous objects above the three Guardian Spirits, the woman's expression drastically changed. She hastily changed her hand seals again, and the Communication Power within her body surged out, merging into the Spirit Medium Ghost Tree in front of her.
Bolstered by the massive infusion of Communication Power, the Spirit Medium Ghost Tree seemed to come alive, swaying violently. It was as if a tree demon that had gained sentience was brandishing its claws and fangs.
The Spirit Medium Ghost Tree, having received a massive infusion of the woman's Communication Power, and the trapped heads were consequently strengthened in their abilities. They reformed into gory, blood-soaked heads, then opened their mouths to spew out tongues, relentlessly striking the chains formed by Yin Spirit Power. From the looks of it, they intended to forcibly break open the sphere of chains.
Under the heads' fierce assault, the sphere formed by the chains swayed violently, actually becoming unstable.
Yang Haoran watched this scene, a smile on his face. He likewise injected a large amount of Yin Spirit Power into the sphere formed by the chains.
Bolstered by the Yin Spirit Power, the sphere formed by the chains stopped trembling and regained its stability.
Seeing that this move was completely failing to achieve its desired effect, the woman grew frantic. She wanted to once again activate the means derived from their contract to deal with Tang Shi. But such a method only addressed the symptoms, not the root cause, and offered no real help to her current predicament.
"If I were you, facing such a disadvantageous situation, I would absolutely not prolong the fight. I would find every way to escape this place and save my life first."
Yang Haoran's smiling voice entered the woman's ears at that moment. Hearing Yang Haoran's words, the woman not only didn't choose to escape immediately but instead revealed an expression of unwillingness.
At the same time, the stones and debris manipulated by Tang Shi's three Guardian Spirits targeted the woman's location, raining down overwhelmingly.
Seeing this, a look of madness appeared on the woman's face. She still showed no intention of escaping; instead, she mobilized the sparse Communication Power remaining within her to form a protective barrier diagonally above her body.
From her appearance, it seemed she intended to block all the stones and debris manipulated by the three Guardian Spirits.
With a loud bang, a massive number of stones slammed onto the barrier formed by the woman. In a single encounter, cracks appeared all over the barrier. To prevent the barrier from shattering, the woman could only struggle to hold on.
However, at this very moment, Yang Haoran, who had been watching the scene unfold without immediately making a move, suddenly struck!
The Remnant Moon, which had been rotating around his body, ceased its spin at this instant. It then transformed into a black ray of light and slashed towards the woman!
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