Chapter 767 Ear Sealing
When the piercing shriek suddenly echoed through the area, Xu Meijing's body violently trembled. Then, like a bird with broken wings, she plummeted from the sky, smashing heavily onto the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.
The mouth area of her black mask twisted, revealing her cherry-red lips, and immediately a mouthful of fresh blood spurted from her mouth.
The reason she suddenly spurted blood was not due to physical injury from her fall from a great height, but because the Spiritual Art unleashed by the Great Spirit Caller had inflicted severe damage upon her.
Although her Earth Soul Armor boasted astonishing defense, proving incredibly difficult to breach, it could not provide effective defense against special attacks like sound attacks. Thus, the moment the Great Spirit Caller unleashed his Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves, she suffered severe damage.
Even after spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, Xu Meijing felt no relief; instead, she felt increasingly unwell, for the piercing shriek persisted.
She felt her Qi and blood violently churn within her, her entire body feeling as though it would explode. She didn't know how much longer this deadly shriek would persist, but she was certain that if she didn't find a way to immediately counter this sound attack, she wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
Just at that moment, she spotted Yang Haoran, enveloped within a restrictive barrier not far away.
She had fallen from a great height, and her landing spot was coincidentally not far from Yang Haoran's corpse.
At this moment, Yang Haoran lay motionless and still within the restrictive barrier. This was normal, as Yang Haoran was already dead.
However, the restrictive barrier enveloping Yang Haoran's corpse was also completely motionless at this time, and had not been affected in the slightest by this sound attack.
This discovery caused a sudden flash of inspiration in her mind; she seemed to have realized something.
Before today, she had never witnessed the Spiritual Art, Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves, and thus did not understand this technique.
However, seeing the restrictive barrier around Yang Haoran's corpse remain utterly still, unaffected in the slightest by the Great Spirit Caller's Spiritual Art, a guess couldn't help but form in her mind.
Could this Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves be ineffective against restrictive barriers?
Based on her limited understanding of sound attacks, a special form of attack, they generally fall into two categories. One type only harms the target after the sound is heard; it is pure and simple, yet highly destructive.
The other type differs from the first; once unleashed, even a deaf person unable to hear the sound would still have their body harmed by the sound waves generated by the attack.
Not only the body, but many other materials are similarly within the destructive range of this type of sound attack.
This type of sound attack affects a wide range of targets, but its destructive power is somewhat weaker compared to the first type.
Although she didn't understand the Spiritual Art Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves, she was still aware of these two categories of sound attacks. It was certain that Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves was a sound attack, but which category it belonged to, she had not processed in time due to the sudden, intense damage she had just endured.
But now, seeing that the restrictive barrier enveloping Yang Haoran's corpse had suffered no harm, nor even produced a single ripple, she immediately understood, realizing that the Spiritual Art Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves must belong to the former category.
If it belonged to the former category, then dealing with it would be much simpler. She would only need to use Spirit Power to seal her ears, preventing any sound from entering them, and then the Great Spirit Caller's Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves would no longer affect her.
After such a thought arose in her mind, she did not hesitate in the slightest, immediately mobilizing her Spirit Power to seal her ears, preventing any sound from entering them.
As her ears were sealed, the churning Qi and blood within her immediately calmed down, and the feeling that her body was about to explode also vanished.
Her body's reaction proved that Xu Meijing's analysis was correct.
The Spiritual Art Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves was indeed as Xu Meijing had guessed, belonging to the type of sound attack that only harms the body if the sound is heard.
However, there was one exception to this technique: after a ghost's Spirit Body was dispersed, though it could still hear the sound, it would not continue to suffer damage. This was because the Spirit Body, having dispersed into threads of Yin Qi, was no longer within the attack range of this technique.
Only when the Spirit Body was condensed would this technique cause harm to it, and the damage was far less severe than to a physical body.
Not only was the current Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves like this, but most sound attacks of this type were also similar, with only a very few special sound attacks being exceptions.
Unable to hear the piercing shriek, Xu Meijing finally felt much better. However, the sudden, immense damage inflicted by the technique moments ago caused her to spurt another mouthful of fresh blood at this moment.
Ignoring the blood at the corner of her mouth, she immediately stood up from the ground and looked up at the Great Spirit Caller in the sky.
While looking up at the Great Spirit Caller, she held her blade in one hand, and with the other, retrieved a small, exquisite porcelain bottle and a Soul Pill from her independent space.
Spirit Power shattered the porcelain bottle, revealing two drops of medicinal liquid that floated above her palm along with the Soul Pill. Without the slightest hesitation, she directly put all the medicinal liquid and the Soul Pill into her mouth and swallowed them in one gulp.
Just now, when her body plummeted from a great height, the Great Spirit Caller did not seize the opportunity to attack her. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but because he had other, more important matters to attend to immediately.
Having fought Xu Meijing until now, the Great Spirit Caller's Communication Power had been greatly depleted, and his physical body had sustained numerous injuries from her. He had just unleashed the Spiritual Art Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves and then dispersed Xu Meijing's blade energy, causing his already scarce Communication Power to be depleted even further.
His physical body was injured, and his Communication Power had been severely depleted, rendering him weak. Thus, he urgently needed to recover his physical body and his Communication Power.
Earlier, Xu Meijing's fierce onslaught against him had given him no time to recover; even unleashing a Spiritual Art was an opportunity he had waited for with great difficulty.
Xu Meijing was affected by Howling Ghosts and Wailing Wolves, her body plummeting from the sky. The reason he didn't attack her was precisely because he needed to use that time to recover his own body.
Besides this, there was another very important reason.
The defense of Xu Meijing's Earth Soul Armor was simply too strong. Even if he seized the opportunity to attack her, it wasn't certain that he could inflict much damage.
He had been unable to breach Xu Meijing's Earth Soul Armor before, and after becoming weak, ordinary attacks would be even less likely to breach it.
Rather than wasting time and his Communication Power, it was better to seize this opportunity to unleash stronger methods. Such an approach, in his view, was the most rational and most effective.
Therefore, while Xu Meijing's body was plummeting towards the ground below, he used this time to do two things.
First, he retrieved two Dānyào from his independent space. These two Dānyào were not the same type: one could rapidly heal his physical injuries, while the other could quickly restore his depleted Communication Power.
These two Dānyào had been difficult for him to acquire, and he had always treasured them. Yet today's battle forced him to use them. Although his heart ached with reluctance and regret, after a brief hesitation, he still forced himself to endure the pain and swallowed both Dānyào together.
After swallowing the two Dānyào, in order to achieve the fastest recovery in the shortest amount of time, he closed his eyes and fully focused on refining them. This method could accelerate the Dānyào's release of its medicinal properties, both in speed and potency, with far better results than simply letting them be. This was the second thing he did after consuming the Dānyào.
When Xu Meijing stood up from the ground and looked towards him, he sensed it. His tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open, then fixed upon Xu Meijing below!
Their eyes met. Xu Meijing's dark Ghost Eyes held only cold killing intent, devoid of any other emotion.
While in the Great Spirit Caller's eyes, besides cold killing intent, there was also a strong surge of rage, a part of which stemmed precisely from his reluctance to part with those two Dānyào.
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