Chapter 769: Battle of the Aspects (Part Two)
The Death God's Law Aspect raised its third hand. This sight caused the Great Spirit Caller's face to contort drastically, and he couldn't help but inwardly curse Xu Meijing.
While the Spirit Aspect possessed two heads, it only had two hands. Conversely, the Death God's Law Aspect, despite having only one head, wielded three hands.
Presently, both of the Spirit Aspect's hands were occupied fending off the Death God's Law Aspect's assault. Faced with the incoming third hand, he was momentarily dumbfounded.
The event unfolded abruptly. Before he could react, the Death God's Law Aspect's third palm struck the Spirit Aspect squarely in the chest.
Boom! ! !
The Spirit Aspect took the Death God's Law Aspect's palm strike head-on. Its massive body was sent flying a considerable distance, a palm print deeply indented its chest, and cracks spread across the sunken area.
Although the Aspects summoned by the two were not corporeal, they appeared quite solid. Now, having taken a palm, the Spirit Aspect's chest was not only indented and cracked, but its entire massive form had also become somewhat translucent, no longer as solid as before.
Having succeeded with one strike, Xu Meijing did not rest. She manipulated the Death God's Law Aspect to glide horizontally through the air, rapidly approaching the Spirit Aspect.
It wasn't that Xu Meijing didn't want the Death God's Law Aspect to stand; rather, with her current abilities, she simply couldn't make it stand. Thus, to approach the Spirit Aspect, she had no choice but to opt for this gliding method.
Not only was Xu Meijing unable to make the Death God's Law Aspect stand, but the Great Spirit Caller was also incapable of making his Spirit Aspect stand. Without sufficient power, it was simply impossible.
This was akin to how, after Yang Haoran successfully summoned the Death God's Law Aspect, his control over its speed was far from reaching the level of Xu Meijing or the Great Spirit Caller.
Once the Death God's Law Aspect drew near, its three arms simultaneously launched an assault on the Spirit Aspect.
After the Spirit Aspect took a palm strike, the Great Spirit Caller immediately spewed a mouthful of fresh blood. Now, seeing the Death God's Law Aspect press forward, relentlessly attacking the Spirit Aspect he had summoned, how could he possibly tend to his internal injuries? He hastily manipulated the Spirit Aspect to parry.
However, his parries were strained; he simply couldn't withstand the Death God's Law Aspect's fierce assault, and the Spirit Aspect's massive body was forced to continuously retreat.
The thunderous roars erupting from the clash of the two Aspects were incessant, and the powerful waves of energy they unleashed never ceased. Wherever they passed, the mountain peaks below could no longer withstand such intense destruction; they collapsed with a deafening crash, and all vegetation turned to ash.
The Great Spirit Caller, controlling the Spirit Aspect, consecutively spat out several mouthfuls of fresh blood. His face instantly turned ashen, devoid of any color. The Yin Qi emanating from his body grew faint, and his power fluctuations weakened accordingly. His situation was dire.
Several minutes later, the area where the two stood was leveled. The Spirit Aspect controlled by the Great Spirit Caller, after taking the Death God's Law Aspect's final palm strike, could no longer endure and exploded with a crash.
The instant the Spirit Aspect shattered, the Great Spirit Caller again spewed a mouthful of fresh blood. His expression was crestfallen, and his body swayed, nearly causing him to plummet from the sky.
Intense unwillingness showed in his eyes. He had not expected to be defeated; this outcome was truly unacceptable to him.
But reality stood before him. Even if he refused to accept it, he had no choice but to, for such was the truth of the matter.
He knew his momentum was spent. If he continued to stubbornly fight Xu Meijing here, there would only be one outcome: death. Judging by his current physical condition, there was no possibility of him turning the tables.
Understanding this, he decided to retreat. Seizing the moment before Xu Meijing turned her attention to him, he suppressed the intense pain and weakness wracking his body and fled into the distance.
His Guardian Spirit's Spirit Body was still dissipating, but at this moment, he could barely protect himself. How could he possibly care about the Guardian Spirit's fate? Although he had poured immense effort into this Guardian Spirit, what did that effort matter compared to his own life?
During his battle of Aspects with Xu Meijing, the Guardian Spirit's Spirit Body had remained dispersed, failing to recondense. This indicated that his Guardian Spirit had most likely fallen into a deep slumber due to severe injuries, which was why the wisps of Yin Qi floating in the air showed no response.
If he chose to take the Guardian Spirit with him, he would need to collect all the scattered Yin Qi. While this wouldn't consume much time, it was time he couldn't afford to spare right now.
Moreover, he was still some distance from the area where the Guardian Spirit's Spirit Body had dispersed. Traveling to that area would also consume some of his time.
In his current predicament, he couldn't afford to waste even a second. A single second of delay could plunge him into an abyss of no return. Therefore, to increase his chances of successfully escaping, he could only grit his teeth, abandon his Guardian Spirit, and flee alone.
The instant he turned to flee, Xu Meijing, still on the ground below, immediately sensed it. A cold hmph escaped her lips, followed by a single word.
"Seal!"
As the word left her mouth, a strange power suddenly emanated from the Death God's Law Aspect's massive body. The Great Spirit Caller, who had shot forth like an arrow from a bowstring, was suddenly frozen in mid-air.
The Great Spirit Caller inwardly cursed, knowing things were bad. He quickly mobilized the meager Communication Power remaining in his body to resist, hoping to break free from the restraints this power had imposed on him.
However, the disparity between his current power and the power unleashed by the Death God's Law Aspect was significant. Even when he exerted his full strength, he could only make his body tremble slightly, utterly unable to instantly break free from the restraint.
Before his body could successfully break free from its shackles, the Death God's Law Aspect glided horizontally to appear directly above his head. Its colossal body blotted out the sky, instantly casting the area where he was into darkness.
A fierce gale assailed him, and an overwhelmingly intense sense of crisis abruptly surged in his heart. He looked up, only to see a colossal palm rapidly expanding under his gaze, descending swiftly towards his body.
The terror in his heart made his very own heart stop beating. Before he could even let out a scream, his body was struck by the enormous palm.
Boom! ! !
With an explosive bang, the Great Spirit Caller's body was pulverized by a single palm strike from the Death God's Law Aspect. Nothing remained but a cloud of bloody mist; not even a single bone was left.
Xu Meijing stood rooted to the spot, watching this scene unfold, not missing a single detail.
A gust of Yin wind blew past, dispersing the bloody mist that had been the Great Spirit Caller's body. Xu Meijing's body ascended into the air, flying towards the area where the Great Spirit Caller had been pulverized.
The colossal Death God's Law Aspect above rapidly dissipated at this moment. It wasn't that Xu Meijing lacked the power to sustain its existence, but rather that she felt she no longer needed it, and thus voluntarily dispelled it.
Arriving at the area where the Great Spirit Caller had perished, Xu Meijing waved her hand, forcibly extracting his soul from that space and successfully condensing it into a Spirit.
The Great Spirit Caller's body was utterly destroyed, leaving not even a trace. His soul had naturally dissolved into this space.
For Xu Meijing, whether a soul remained within a corpse, was incinerated into ashes, or dissolved into space, forcibly extracting it was all the same; it posed no trouble for her.
Not to mention her, any Underworld Official could accomplish this.
Gazing at the Great Spirit Caller's still-slumbering soul, intense killing intent erupted from Xu Meijing's Ghost Eyes.
At this moment, a sudden impulse arose within her: an urge to crush the Great Spirit Caller's soul in her grasp.
However, she reconsidered and forcibly suppressed this urge. She took out a blank Soul-Gathering Bead and collected the Great Spirit Caller's soul into it.
After securing the Great Spirit Caller's soul, Xu Meijing's figure flickered, and she reappeared in the area where the Guardian Spirit's Spirit Body had dispersed. Gazing at the wisps of Yin Qi floating in the air, she extended her hand, mobilizing Spirit Power to gather the scattered Yin Qi and forcibly recondense it.
In just a few breaths, the Guardian Spirit's Spirit Body recondensed. However, like the Great Spirit Caller's soul, it was currently in a state of slumber.
Xu Meijing did not spare the Guardian Spirit another glance. Once its Spirit Body had successfully recondensed, she collected it into a blank Soul-Gathering Bead and placed a seal upon the bead to prevent it from being shattered by the Guardian Spirit itself.
Having completed all this, she cast her gaze towards an area below, where Yang Haoran's corpse lay.
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