Chapter 2536  Soul Defense

Lin Mo was enjoying his time slaughtering the Chimeric Beasts and was keeping Yao Changying for the last, knowing that he'll need a lot more power to kill her.

'Killing their souls will need all my strength at once.' Lin Mo knew and as such was focusing on accumulating the needed souls first.

He also knew that Yao Changying would not be able to attack him easily right now as she was doing multiple things at once and her focus was divided. She was not only focusing on absorbing the Soul Fragment, but also controlling the Arrays of the Bridge Plane and using them to react Spatial rifts, but also to maintain the Spatial Folding Barrier around them.

If she were a Spatial Master, she would be able to do a lot more and wouldn't have to divide her attention this much. But since she was not, all she could do was to use more of her focus to do the same.

Having her hands tied meant that Lin Mo could take his time.

But what he didn't expect was for the woman to suddenly move.

~HUALA~

She disappeared in a puffs of Withering Energy and appeared right in front of Lin Mo!

"Can't wait to die from my hands?" Lin Mo was unfazed by it though and teased her again.

"Quite the opposite." The woman spoke, in two voices. "I'm here to end you instead!" she screamed.

"Withering Spirit Death Art: Soul Pike!" The woman chanted.

A dark grey symbol formed on her bountiful chest before a spiked tentacle rose from it!

Lin Mo who saw it couldn't help but narrow his eye and blocked it with Afternoon Pine.

~SHA~

But much to his surprise, the spiked tentacle passed through the sword as if it were air! It directly reached Lin Mo and pierced his chest. The man's expression turned dark as he frowned. "A Soul attack…" Lin Mo uttered before his vision turned dark.

Yao Changying was in a similar state too, and her eyes had rolled back into her head, showing only the whites. The two were connected by the spiked tentacle which pulsed nonstop, emitting an eerie aura.

Lin Mu who was watching from his mind was taken aback by the sudden change of events. Yao Changying had suddenly come close and used an attack that bypassed their defenses with ease.

~SHUA~

In his mind, Lin Mu felt a foreign presence intruding.

"UGH!" he felt his head ache as if someone was stabbing a needle through it.

~RIP~

A moment later though, a tearing sound was heard and Lin Mu's consciousness opened its eyes. Looking around he could see a vast empty expanse which he recognized to be his consciousness.

"I'm in my soul form?" Lin Mu looked at his hands that looked rather ethereal.

~RIP~

The tearing sound was heard again, pulling his attention and making him look at it. "That…" He saw ripples appearing in the walls of his consciousness before a tear opened up from which a spiked tentacle appeared!

It was the same tentacle that had attacked Lin Mo earlier.

"It managed to enter my consciousness?!" Lin Mu hadn't expected that.

He didn't get to think much though as the spiked tentacle attacked in a flash, directly heading towards Lin Mu's head!

Lin Mu couldn't react fast enough in this form and could only watch as the tentacle came towards him.

~HONGLONG~

But just before the Spiked tentacle were about to reach him, a sonorous sound was heard.

~SHUA~SHUA~SHUA~

In the next moment, three broad rings surrounded Lin Mu's True Soul blocking the Spiked Tentacle.

~CLANG~

The spiked tentacle collided against the rings and was blocked from progressing. The three green rings hummed loudly and Lin Mu could faintly here some whispers coming from them.

Knowing what was happening, he smiled. "Litany of the Verdant Forests." He whispered.

~SHALALALA~

His whisper seemingly beckoned a distant presence, summoning it to his side.

One by one, green wisps appeared around Lin Mu circling him in a protective manner. The green wisps bobbed up and down, and seemed to be dancing in a specific manner. Their numbers grew rapidly and soon there were hundreds of them surrounding Lin Mu.

~HUALA~

The green wisps then moved towards the Spiked Tentacle, covering it and restraining its power. ~HISS~

But that wasn't all as a hissing sound was heard, the spiked tentacle leaking dark gas from it.

The green wisps quickly covered the entire spiked tentacle and pushed it out of Lin Mu's consciousness!

A couple seconds later, the spiked tentacle had been repelled and Lin Mu's true soul was safe.

"It was truly worth it to practice the skill." Lin Mu took a breath of relief. The situation had been rather intense and alerted him to the flaws that were still hidden to him. 'Lin Mo wasn't able to defend against the attack either and was forced to take it.' Lin Mu could see that Lin Mo's presence had grown faint, as if he had been forced into a dormant state. 'Since my true soul was attacked was Lin Mo's control removed too?' he wondered.

Just as he was about to resume control over his body though, he felt an anger flowing through his body.

And in the next second, countless nefarious and evil thoughts filled it. "These aren't mine." This time though, Lin Mu could distance himself from them and sensed that their source was different. "They're from, Lin Mo." He quickly understood.

The devilish man opened his eyes in the real world, as a furious expression descended upon his face.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" the woman screamed in pain, as she suffered the recoil from the attack. "How did you do that!?" She was utterly confused.

This time it was the Withered Spirit Daoist who was speaking as she couldn't understand how her skill was repelled. "Even Celestials have died to my Withering Spirit Death Art's Soul Pike!" It was her special signature Dao skill that targeted the True Souls of others, and could kill them directly regardless of their defenses. Of course, this was not a skill without a cost and needed a lot of energy and Dao Traces to use.

The only reason The Withered Spirit Daoist had even been able to execute it was due to the fact that she had improved her state due to consuming more of the last Soul Fragment. It improved her Withering Dao Proficiency and allowed her to use the Dao Skill.

~COUGH~COUGH~COUGH~

She spat out mouthfuls of blood, as her Qi began to flow in reverse!

"YOU DARE TO SILENCE THIS MAJESTY!?" Lin Mo erupted. "I'LL SILENCE YOUR RIVER OF LIFE!" he roared as Yao Changying's body was pushed back even further from the wave of energy that had just emitted from his body.

"Disaster Sword- Fourth Form: Landslide!" Lin Mo immediately used the strongest skill he could at that point and slashed out.

The Dark purple slash flew over Yao Changying and transformed into a massive amount of gravel, rocks and soil. The earth began to fall over Yao Changying as if she were helpless peasant caught in a landslide and was quickly buried in it.

But the skill didn't stop there and kept on going, until Yao Changing was buried a hundred meters under the earth!

And it wasn't just her either, the Chimeric Beasts and Yin Nascent Soul Maggots that were around them were also caught in it, and perished to it.

Despite the fact that there was a literal ocean under them, the earth didn't disperse or was dissolved. It simply floated over the water, as if it simply didn't regard the water with any importance.

Lin Mo's attack definitely affected Yao Changying greatly, as the spatial rifts began to close up on their own. Since there was no one controlling it anymore, they couldn't stay open like this.

But the same couldn't be said for the Spatial Folding Barrier as it was still being held up by the arrays of the Bridge plane.

"AHHHHHH!" Of course, Lin Mo wouldn't be satisfied by just this and slashed out several more times, intending to kill all that was around him.

"Disaster Sword- Third Form- Eruption!" Lin Mu's sword slashes reached the sky and transformed into volcanoes that spewed out purple magma.

It rained down upon the ocean and killed all the foes that were caught in it. The area it covered was massive and Lin Mu's companions that were fighting in the borders were almost caught in it too.

Thankfully they avoided it with the help of the Flood Dragon who raised water shields to protect them.

"Quick! Hit the barrier with all you got!" but this freed the strong cultivators among them and allowed them to attack the barrier.

~BOOM~

Several strong skills struck the Spatial Fold Barrier at once, pushing it past its limits.

~KACHA~

A long crack finally appeared in it, extending from the top to bottom. "It's finally done!" Crown Prince Feng Shun rejoiced.

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