novelraw Chapter 1018 - 720: The Cause of Soul Loss?
Chapter 1018 - 720: The Cause of Soul Loss?
"Previously, the temperature of Ice Attachment was very low, around minus one hundred degrees, and its cooling speed wasn’t high. For creatures with a certain level of strength, it couldn’t instantly freeze them."
Li Zheng thought to himself, "But now the temperature of Ice Attachment has become even lower, roughly approaching minus two hundred degrees, very close to absolute zero. Its ability to conduct and cool seems to have improved significantly!"
He exhaled a breath of white air, which was instantly frozen into a cloud of ice mist by the surrounding cold, with ice crystals falling to the ground.
"In the past, Ice Attachment definitely couldn’t freeze exhaled air this quickly; it would take at least one to two seconds to transform!"
The current power, this kind of genetic ability, is at least at the super divine level!
Li Zheng added an Extreme Isolation defense to himself, completely isolating the potential impact of the low temperature, and wielded the Black Dragon Spear to create an arc of cold light in front of him.
The ape man’s eyebrows, eyes, and beard were all white, covered in a layer of frost.
His movements were slow, barely using a fiery red spear to block the attack, then opened his massive mouth to spew out a large amount of flames.
"The reason my Fire Ape clan fears the cold is that water, cold, ice, chill, and shadow traits counter my clan." The ape man sneered: "But if the fire in my clan’s belly is upgraded to a certain level, it can crush these counter traits; this bit of cold is insignificant!"
Under his control, the flames moved like limbs, wrapping around his body and forming a flame armor.
The flame armor extended two long ribbons from its neck, and the flames were carried by the hot air, fluttering backward with a crackling sound.
The high temperature from the flames instantly clashed with the ice domain created by Li Zheng.
One side was red, the other blue, one hot, one cold, invading each other.
The cold condensed the moisture in the air into ice crystals, and the high heat waves pushed back the cold, quickly melting the newly formed ice crystals into water vapor, which rose again.
As it rose halfway, the cold hit back the high temperature, freezing the water vapor once more.
This cycle continued repeatedly, and the amount of water vapor gradually reduced until it completely disappeared.
It sublimated in the process!
"The Celestial Will Organization must have studied my data carefully to send such a counter to attack me!" Li Zheng’s heart sank; apart from Nato and the Shadow Controller Leader, this ape man was yet another formidable enemy he encountered in the Outer City.
He glanced at the corner of his eye; Prelis’ Eye had still not detected more weaknesses in his opponent. Continuing in close combat, he wasn’t a match!
Even with the aid of the Bodhi Tree, something akin to a cheat, Li Zheng was just a martial arts student with only two months of practice.
With his martial arts cultivation, how could he be the opponent of those old monsters who had been honing their skills for countless years?
The fact that he managed to hold his own this long was already thanks to the uncanny capabilities of the Bodhi Tree; otherwise, Li Zheng feared he would have been killed at first glance.
"Kid, the leader sent me to capture you, but Nato offered me three hundred Purple Crystal Coins to kill you and bring your corpse back." The ape man noticed he was gaining the upper hand and snarled: "If you can give me more money, I’ll let you go, but taking you to see the leader cannot be changed."
"Your leader’s command should be to capture me alive, right?" Li Zheng replied with a cold smile. "If you take it upon yourself to kill me and bring back a corpse, aren’t you afraid of being punished by your leader?"
"Punishment?" The ape man laughed loudly, "You put up a fight, and I couldn’t capture you unscathed, accidentally killing you. The leader is reasonable and will understand me. Besides, there have been others like you taken back before, and each died on the leader’s research table; alive or dead, it doesn’t matter when taken back."
"A few?" Li Zheng was furious: "That bastard actually caught more than one clone?"
But...
If the assumption is correct, the leader of the Celestial Will Organization should be just like me, a clone.
So why is he collecting more clones, what is his purpose?
And why do clones from the Terminal have such different dispositions, some good and some evil?
It seems I have to question the Terminal; he must be hiding a lot of secrets from me!
Li Zheng lamented, he had poured his heart out to the Terminal, always sharing new things and experiences, yet the Terminal was still keeping secrets from him!
What a piece of work!
"Achoo!"
The Terminal sniffled: "How strange, I’m just a stream of consciousness data in the terminal computer, how can I be sneezing?"
He thought for a while but couldn’t figure it out, so he went back to his own tasks.
"But right now, the urgent thing is to deal with this annoying guy!" Li Zheng’s eyes turned cold; he could already feel his body reaching saturation, as spiritual power from the Dark Realm was beginning to burden his physical body.
"About one-thousandth more than at fifteen times? That’s enough!"
The one-thousandth here isn’t the total amount, but the spiritual power capacity Li Zheng’s body can store at the fifteen times gravity limit.
Compared to the vast ocean of complete spiritual power, this amount is insignificant.
"So, have you thought it through?" The ape man, in the midst of high-temperature flames, wielded his fiery red spear with unmatched vigor. He had fully familiarized himself with Li Zheng’s combat rhythm during this time. As soon as Li Zheng showed a flaw, he could instantly counterattack, reversing the situation.
"I’ve thought it through." Li Zheng suddenly withdrew, retreating swiftly to put distance between himself and the ape man. "Surrendering is impossible, so... it’s your time to die!"
Before his words finished, an immense spiritual power erupted from Li Zheng’s mind.
The supreme pressure caused everyone present to feel the urge to kneel and worship.
But it wasn’t the full use of spiritual power, and the intensity was weakened thousands of times.
"Humph, just that?" The ape man resisted the urge to kneel, curling his mouth in disdain.
"Is that so?" Li Zheng gritted his teeth. Each time he used the maximum amount of spiritual power his body could handle, it was an unbearable burden. Even though he was only beginning to tap into his spiritual power now, the headache was splitting, and his back tore open with countless painful cuts.
"The main event is just starting now!"
Furious spiritual power surged into the ape man’s mind, madly assaulting his spiritual realm, breaking through layers of mental defenses and crudely invading.
The ape man’s spiritual body was in a sea of flowing magma and flames. ’Seeing’ Li Zheng appear in front of him, he was both shocked and angry: "What have you done?!"
"Die!"
Li Zheng didn’t answer, controlling his spiritual power to manifest as a fierce storm in the ape man’s spiritual realm. The ape man’s spiritual body resisted for a brief moment before being swept up, torn apart by the storm, and vanished with a wretched howl.
Li Zheng looked down and discovered five obsidian-like objects floating in the magma of the ape man’s spiritual realm.
"Is that... a node?"
His body was close to complete collapse; he couldn’t hold on any longer and had to retract his spiritual power back into the Dark Realm frantically.
He quickly took out a handful of healing medicines, hastily tossing them all into his mouth, chewing a few times before swallowing them down.
"Li Zheng!"
Mirel flew over and caught his falling body.
"I’m fine..." Li Zheng said, pale-faced, glancing at the ape man also plummeting to the ground from mid-air. He gave a bitter smile, "I think... I know what made Kuimi and the others end up that way."