novelraw Chapter 621: Don’t Dismiss the One-Eyed Stone Man—He’ll Stir Rebellion Across the Land by the Yellow River
Chapter 621: Don’t Dismiss the One-Eyed Stone Man—He’ll Stir Rebellion Across the Land by the Yellow River
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Since [Call of the Seized Soul] was effective, he would keep using it relentlessly. There was no such thing as fighting honorably—what worked was a good technique!
Lu Ding's voice transformed into blood-red characters, as if freshly emerged from a sea of blood, still dripping with fresh blood as they flew forth, continuously sweeping across the Black Jade Crystal Coffin.
Chen Jun, who was parasitizing inside, was battered again and again with each surge, his mind going blank over and over.
His soul suffered severe damage, immediately showing signs of fading consciousness and imminent dispersion.
Boom after boom after boom......
Coupled with relentless, continuous cannon blasts, the already overwhelmed Crystal Coffin and Chen Jun now had no ability to fight back at all.
The Black Jade Crystal Coffin could be seen tumbling uncontrollably in the air, struck repeatedly by the [Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon], completely unable to stabilize itself.
Debris and fragments fell amidst screams and cries of pain.
From the damaged sections of the Black Jade Crystal Coffin, corpse fluid dripped, emitting a foul stench carried by the fierce winds across heaven and earth.The owner of the Crystal Coffin could endure no more.
Chen Jun had been in control until now, but this madman relentlessly firing cannons and shouting was clearly Chen Jun's natural counter.
If he continued to let Chen Jun remain in control...
Not only would Chen Jun die, but he would perish as well.
The Crystal Coffin suppressed Chen Jun's consciousness, partly to protect him, and partly to take over.
As corpse fluid gathered into clouds churning in the sky, resembling the turbulent waves of the muddy Yellow River, numerous rotting corpses mechanically and numbly repeated eerie dragging motions. Thick ropes connected them to the Corpse-Fluid Yellow River.
Then, behold.
A one-eyed stone man was slowly dragged out, revealing its true form.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of voices cried out in unison, grinding their throats, vibrating their vocal cords, emitting a bizarre, harmonized shout.
"Do not say the stone man has but one eye—it stirs the Yellow River to rebel across the land!!!"
The Crystal Coffin's aura surged violently: "Now, I will take control of the situation."
Clang!!!!
Within the raging Yellow River converged from torrents of corpse fluid, the stone man's single eye opened.
The colors of the sky were replaced by a putrid yellowish-brown hue representing decay.
High in the firmament, a crimson eye hung, its flesh textures intertwined, gazing down upon the earth.
Wherever its gaze passed, all things decayed, flowing with corpse fluid.
The one-eyed stone man fixed its gaze upon the spot where Lu Ding stood.
Only to discover...
No one was there!!!!?
A sound of tearing wind.
Whoosh!!!!
A dark cloak pulled darkness along, trailing black smoke that swayed, stretching thousands of meters, tens of thousands of meters, straight up into the heavens.
In that outstretched, claw-like palm.
Flesh transparent as jade set off pitch-black points of light that devoured the surrounding rays.
Spinning!!!
Expanding!!!
Like a black hole vortex, its edges blurred, destroying everything.
This was the Black! Devours! Sun!!!
A point-blank strike, pressed directly against the Black Jade Crystal Coffin.
As it slowly rotated, it pulled the light of heaven and earth toward itself—streak after streak, pillar after pillar, stream after stream—all converging into the [Black Devours Sun].
Crack....
A crisp sound rang out as cracks erupted from the [Black Devours Sun]'s spinning point of contact on the Black Jade Crystal Coffin.
Lu Ding's aloof face was divided by the contrasting light and dark pulled toward him.
The sinister patterns of [Call of the Seized Soul] on his face and those bizarre eyes were particularly striking.
Pupils dark as ink, irises red as blood, the pupils blurred into darkness, interwoven with the blood-red irises.
Madness, arrogance.
A smile emerged, revealing ferocity.
He exerted force in his hand, his apertures wide open, fleshly evil energy spewing from his shoulder blades like fighter jet afterburners, adding thrust!!!
"You rotting flesh hiding its head and tail—how dare you think you can take control!!!?"
Such a long wind-up, such a perfect opportunity.
If not for a sneak attack, then what was it for?
Standing there foolishly, watching it buff itself?
Sorry, but Lu Ding never passed up any hard-won opportunity to strike first.
"When did he move!!!?"
The entity within the Crystal Coffin was shocked—it hadn't detected Lu Ding's movement at all.
It was as if he had vanished suddenly and reappeared just as suddenly.
Though it now knew Lu Ding's position, it was already too late.
Boom!!!!!!!!
[Black Devours Sun] erupted, black light shredding heaven and earth, annihilating everything indiscriminately. Its extreme destructive power tore apart all structures within hundreds of thousands of square meters at the center of Xiankong Town.
And this was with Lu Ding holding back.
Otherwise, given the [Black Devours Sun]'s trait of destroying everything without distinguishing friend from foe...
Likely half of Xiankong Town, or even the entire town, would have been obliterated along with it.
During the earlier bombardment with the [Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon], Lu Ding had already mentally processed a rough assessment of the Crystal Coffin's defensive hardness.
Truth be told, the thing was really quite tough—it had taken so many hits from the [Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon] without completely shattering.
If not for the Reshaper and the earlier evacuation of the surrounding populace, Lu Ding wouldn't have dared to use [Black Devours Sun].
Otherwise, before anyone else could wreck Xiankong Town, Lu Ding might have blown it up first.
The Crystal Coffin, having taken a direct hit from [Black Devours Sun],
Instantly disintegrated in mid-air, shards of black jade and crystal splattering, glittering brilliantly.
The corpse inside was blasted out directly.
Half its body shattered, a gruesome sight.
Only then did Lu Ding realize what exactly was inside the coffin.
The man's body stood straight as bamboo, with fangs protruding outward. The skin on his face was deathly pale, splattered with pus and blood from his exploded body.
Stabilizing his posture in the air,
The master of the Crystal Coffin faced Lu Ding squarely.
Half of his face, stained with pus and blood, twitched in pain while also reflecting a mirror-like gleam. Within it, an elderly, vicious face appeared—none other than Chen Yan's grandfather, Chen Jun, who had just been suppressed by [Call of the Seized Soul]!!!!
Two voice lines merged into one,
Filled with astonishment: "Why are you unharmed!!!?"
"You shattered the Crystal Coffin, facing the curse directly—how can you possibly be fine!!?"
This Crystal Coffin was formed from the master's own corpse fluids seeping out, forming a membrane that hardened—a thing bearing a powerful curse.
Anyone attempting to view the inside from outside the coffin would meet with misfortune.
Let alone shattering the Crystal Coffin.
By all reasoning, Lu Ding should have died a miserable death on the spot, yet he remained unaffected.
Curses crawling through the air, faintly visible, whenever they approached Lu Ding, trying to cling to his body, were shaken off by a strange force.
As if saying:
Trash of insufficient grade, don't even try to touch me.
Lu Ding raised his hand, flicking away a curse drifting toward his shoulder.
He had no obligation to enlighten his enemies.
Seeing the master of the Crystal Coffin's face display Chen Jun's features, his aura instantly surged.
Lu Ding understood.
This thing was similar to two souls sharing one body, but unlike typical cases where both souls awake simultaneously and fight for control, weakening combat power...
This monster before him significantly increased in combat power when both souls were awake simultaneously.
In that case.......
"Chen Jun!! You old dog, if you weren't told to speak, keep your mouth shut."
[Call of the Seized Soul] activated again. Chen Jun suffered a heavy blow, instantly freezing on the man's mirror-like, blood-stained cheek, his soul showing signs of imminent collapse.
The monster with half its body shattered, furious and humiliated, cursed: "Despicable!!!"
Lu Ding laughed: "Despicable?"
When you clearly have a means to weaken the enemy and keep them in an incomplete state, why would you insist on fighting them at full strength?
Is that what counts as honorable?
No, that's just being an idiot.
Lu Ding raised his hand, forming a claw, making a grasping and pulling motion toward the sky: "Now, smash!!!"