Chapter 514: Vigilant Guardian Spirits
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The woman was doing her best to fend off the attacks from the three Guardian Spirits, utterly unable to block Yang Haoran's assault any longer. Moreover, Remnant Moon was incredibly fast and possessed formidable penetrative power; she simply couldn't withstand it at this point.
Without a shred of surprise, Remnant Moon sliced through the woman's body, cleanly bisecting her physical form.
With her physical body severed, the woman was naturally incapable of resisting the barrage of rocks and miscellaneous debris manipulated by the three Guardian Spirits. Her defenses shattered, and she was buried under a deluge of stones.
As the woman died, the Spirit-Communicating Ghost Tree dissolved into Yin Qi and vanished. The trapped heads let out a series of piercing screams, then also transformed into Yin Qi, disappearing into thin air within the spherical cage of chains, as if they had never existed.
Watching the woman's bisected corpse being buried under a pile of rocks, Yang Haoran breathed a sigh of relief.
His injuries from this skirmish weren't severe. However, the psychological pressure he'd endured was considerable.
If not for his promise that swayed the three Guardian Spirits to switch sides, it would have been hard to say who would emerge victorious from today's battle.
Fortunately, his promise had successfully moved the three Guardian Spirits. Otherwise, it wouldn't be the woman buried under a pile of rubble right now, but quite possibly him.
When Yang Haoran first made his promise to the three Guardian Spirits, he hadn't believed he would succeed. His initial thought was simple: even if it didn't work, he could use this tactic to affect the Guardian Spirits' state, making the situation more favorable for him.
However, the Guardian Spirits' reaction at the time gave him hope. He knew very well that if he truly convinced the three Guardian Spirits to follow him from then on, there would be no question about the outcome of this struggle; victory would certainly be his.
To achieve this goal, he made repeated promises, and to make them more credible, he even revealed that he kept ghosts in Lecheng and swore a venomous oath in front of everyone.
In the end, he successfully swayed the three Guardian Spirits.
His repeated promises and oaths were only one reason he managed to convince these three Guardian Spirits. Another reason was that these Guardian Spirits hadn't been living well with their masters.
If the three Guardian Spirits had been living comfortably under their masters, even if they had betrayed them for profit, the expressions they showed when making their decision wouldn't have been guilt, but certainly not hatred.
From their reactions when they made their decision, it was clear they felt no attachment to their masters; on the contrary, they seemed eager for them to die sooner.
This indicated that their lives under the three masters must have been poor, even terrible, otherwise, how could such deep resentment exist?
With the help of the three Guardian Spirits, Yang Haoran successfully turned a bad hand into a winning one.
In fact, even if Yang Haoran hadn't attacked the woman just now, given her state, she wouldn't have survived the Guardian Spirits' assault. Her Spirit Power was nearly depleted; she was no match for the three Guardian Spirits. Furthermore, with the heads controlled by Yang Haoran, she was an arrow at the end of its flight, completely incapable of stirring up any more trouble.
Yang Haoran understood this, but he still acted decisively, without hesitation, because in a life-and-death struggle, one should resolve the opponent immediately to avoid unforeseen complications.
With a gentle wave of his hand, the spherical cage formed by the chains dispersed with a series of clanging sounds, then dissolved into Yin Qi and vanished.
As for his Soul Armament, Remnant Moon, he didn't put it away for the time being, keeping it close just in case. After all, he hadn't collected the souls of the three Spirit Masters yet, and who knew what unknown variables might arise?
This wasn't his first time killing Spirit Masters. In the past, he had encountered Spirit Masters who left behind contingency plans before death, their souls spontaneously coalescing into spirits and attempting to escape after their demise. To prevent this from happening, he hadn't lifted the barrier.
With the barrier in place, even if these three Spirit Masters knew such techniques, they wouldn't be able to escape his grasp.
For the remainder of the time, Yang Haoran began to clean up the battlefield.
What puzzled him was that none of the three had left any contingency plans before their deaths, nor did their souls spontaneously coalesce into spirits afterwards, not even the most powerful woman.
In Yang Haoran's opinion, if the three knew such a contingency, there was no reason not to have prepared for it in advance. Since they hadn't, it could only mean they probably didn't know this technique at all.
In other words, this technique of leaving a contingency for one's soul to spontaneously coalesce into a spirit after death was not some common, widespread method; not everyone knew it.
It made sense, too. While Yang Haoran's current strength wasn't necessarily top-tier, he could certainly be considered mid-to-lower tier among Emissaries of Death, and he didn't know such a technique either.
Therefore, he believed his speculation was correct: this technique was likely not an ordinary one, but rather a secret art.
Moreover, until now, he had only witnessed this technique being used by Spirit Mediums.
In his view, this technique should be a type of Spirit Medium Secret Art. When Zhao Hong died and her independent space exploded, all of Zhao Hong's collected items became Yang Haoran's. Among these collectibles, perhaps this Spirit Medium Secret Art was recorded.
In the past, Yang Haoran hadn't been interested in these Spirit Medium Secret Arts. After all, he was an Underworld Official, not a Spirit Medium. He had collected all these Spirit Arts simply because he thought they might be useful someday, and it would have been a shame to discard them, so he kept them all.
However, now he found himself somewhat interested in Spirit Arts, especially this kind of Spirit Art that allowed the soul to spontaneously coalesce into a spirit after death. If he mastered it, it would be like having an extra escape route. Although this route might be blocked by an opponent, if it wasn't, he could still rise again even if his physical body was destroyed.
After all, not everyone was as cautious as he was. When encountering others, such a contingency might indeed prove useful.
In any case, practicing this contingency was definitely better than not practicing it; there was no doubt about that.
However, the current situation was certainly not suitable for checking whether his collection of Spirit Arts contained such a technique. This matter would have to be dealt with later.
Successfully extracting the three individuals' souls from their bodies, Yang Haoran didn't forcibly awaken them. Instead, he placed them individually into a Soul-Gathering Bead.
Having completed all of this, he shook his head with a look of regret.
At this moment, the three Guardian Spirits watched Yang Haoran from a distance, their gazes wary, not daring to approach.
They positioned themselves at the edge of the barrier, their purpose abundantly clear: if Yang Haoran broke his word and attacked them, they would have to forcibly break through the barrier and escape.
Whether they could break the barrier was one thing, whether they *should* was another. But if Yang Haoran truly attacked them, they would have no choice but to try, regardless of success.
"When the cunning hare is dead, the hounds are cooked" — this principle was naturally understood by the three. Although Yang Haoran had just made promises and even sworn a venomous oath, their identities were, after all, adversarial. They still held doubts about whether Yang Haoran would fulfill his promises.
Their decision to follow Yang Haoran earlier was essentially a gamble, betting that Yang Haoran was a man of his word.
Furthermore, they genuinely no longer wished to remain with their former masters, so they were forced into making a high-stakes gamble.
For any gambler, it's inevitable to feel nervous and anxious when the results are about to be revealed.
The three were already extremely wary and anxious. Seeing Yang Haoran shake his head with a look of regret at this moment, their negative emotions intensified instantly.
Yang Haoran then turned his gaze towards the three Guardian Spirits, noticing their vigilance and apprehension.
"Why are you three looking at me like that? " Yang Haoran asked, puzzled. Then, as if realizing something, he chuckled, "My regret just now was because I didn't manage to blow up their independent spaces, it has nothing to do with you. " Moonlight Night God
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