"Born an orphan, you don't even deserve a name. Your life is truly tragic."
Mu Ming suppressed Jiang Wuming's soul with the supreme secret technique, 'Primordial Spirit Coffin,' simultaneously using the golden coffin as a link to obtain all information about Jiang Wuming.
Upon learning of Jiang Wuming's tragic birth, he couldn't help but sigh.
There was no answer.
After his soul was suppressed, Jiang Wuming completely lost control of his body. He could only hear and smell; he could do nothing, say nothing, like a puppet.
"You lost your parents at birth, lacking paternal and maternal love. Deep down, you have an extreme sense of insecurity, which is why you value loyalty and righteousness as you grew up. But for the sake of loyalty and righteousness, to save a subordinate, or perhaps your secret crush, you didn't even spare your own life. Truly foolish—is there anything in this world more important than one's own life?!"
"To think that you're so foolish, yet my spiritual consciousness clone still needs to control your body and act according to your style. It's truly a headache."
Mu Ming spoke again, his tone filled with disdain. He utterly disagreed with Jiang Wuming's actions, but since he would be controlling Jiang Wuming with his spiritual consciousness clone, he had to perfectly impersonate the real Jiang Wuming, lest outsiders detect anything amiss.
Only then would Jiang Wuming, this puppet, hold any value!
"Tsk tsk, so your father was the most powerful martial artist in this world. He killed many people from our world. In fact, our world's defeat in the war twelve years ago was all because of your father—your father is a hero of this world! What exhilarating news this is!
And you are the most powerful martial arts genius in this world!
To have you become my puppet and control your life is simply the best gift bestowed upon me by heaven, destined to make me forge brilliance in this world!"
Upon learning information about Jiang Wuming's father, Jiang Zhan, Mu Ming became as excited as if he had been injected with stimulants. He felt as if he could already see himself dominating this world.
At the same time, Jiang Wuming's soul, suppressed within the golden coffin, felt the burning sensation disappear, replaced by a drowsy feeling.
Jiang Wuming forced himself to stay awake and then mobilized his spiritual power to attack the golden coffin, but it was utterly useless.
"Don't struggle, you can't break free. Stay inside obediently. Once I master everything about you, you will sleep permanently in the coffin. My spiritual consciousness clone will act as you and live out your life. You will become the most powerful being in this world, and also my most capable puppet, Mu Ming..."
Mu Ming detected Jiang Wuming's struggles and said mockingly.
However—
This time, he stopped abruptly midway through his sentence!
Because he detected an abnormal fluctuation within the golden coffin, and then he could no longer sense Jiang Wuming's soul aura.
Jiang Wuming's soul had vanished!
Bang!
In the real world, Jiang Wuming's body lost control and fell heavily to the ground. He was still breathing and his heart was beating, but his eyes were tightly closed, his expression vacant, like a living dead person.
"What happened? Why did his soul aura disappear?"
Mu Ming's expression changed. He immediately used his spiritual consciousness clone in Jiang Wuming's spiritual world, opened the golden coffin, and searched for Jiang Wuming's soul. To his surprise, it was empty, with nothing inside.
This discovery made Mu Ming's face turn exceptionally grim. He continued to attempt to sense and locate Jiang Wuming's soul but still found nothing.
"The Primordial Spirit Coffin has no offensive capabilities. Why did his soul dissipate? Did he destroy his own soul?!"
Mu Ming asked himself inwardly, then thought of the only possibility.
The Primordial Spirit Coffin was a top-tier spiritual power secret technique from the outer realms. Through this technique, spiritual power cultivators could suppress the target's soul within the coffin, obtain everything about the target, and finally use a spiritual consciousness clone to act as the target and roam the world.
There was an extremely crucial point here: the target's soul must not die!
If the target's soul died, the connection with the physical body would be severed, and the Primordial Spirit Coffin's puppet technique would fail.
This was also why spiritual power cultivators imprisoned the target's soul in the coffin, causing the target's soul to sleep forever.
Mu Ming knew that besides being a martial artist, Jiang Wuming was also a spiritual power cultivator!
And spiritual power cultivators could destroy their own souls through secret techniques, just as martial artists could activate their inner energy and true qi to destroy their physical bodies.
"Foolish wretch, how could you destroy your own soul?!"
Upon realizing the only possibility, Mu Ming cursed in utter fury.
Just moments ago, upon learning information about Jiang Wuming's father and combining it with some of Jiang Wuming's own details, he had become exceptionally excited, even starting to sketch out his grand blueprint for this world.
As a result, Jiang Wuming's self-destruction of his soul had rendered Mu Ming's Primordial Spirit Coffin puppet plan futile. It was like a cooked duck flying away, and how could he not be furious?
At the same time.
Jiang Wuming's soul entered the mysterious space.
Although he had thought of using the mysterious space to avoid Wusa's spiritual attacks when he fought Wusa before, he hadn't tried it at that time because he wanted to temper his spiritual will.
When he encountered Mu Ming and was attacked mentally, he was initially hesitant to try it without understanding the opponent. It wasn't until his soul was suppressed in the coffin with no other recourse that he entered the mysterious space!
As usual, the mysterious space was filled with floating white mysterious energy, but Jiang Wuming did not absorb the mysterious energy as he normally would.
Yes.
Even though his soul had been burned before, absorbing the mysterious energy could heal him, but he did not do so.
This was because he feared exposing himself.
He had heard Mu Ming's words just now and knew that the mysterious space completely isolated the real world from the spiritual world, making it impossible for Mu Ming to detect.
In fact, Mu Ming mistakenly believed that Jiang Wuming's soul had died!
This put Jiang Wuming completely at ease, and he also knew that his chance to turn the tables had arrived—as long as Mu Ming's spiritual consciousness clone left Jiang Wuming's spiritual world, Jiang Wuming's soul could return to the spiritual world and regain control of his body, catching Mu Ming completely off guard!
Although Mu Ming concluded that Jiang Wuming had destroyed his own soul, he still did not give up. He continuously attempted to use several secret techniques to sense and search for Jiang Wuming's soul aura, but all efforts were in vain.
Consequently, Mu Ming had to withdraw his spiritual consciousness clone from Jiang Wuming's spiritual space and then walk towards Jiang Wuming's physical body.
"Foolish wretch, since you destroyed your own soul, what use is your physical body to me? Die!"
Mu Ming strode to Jiang Wuming and said in annoyance, simultaneously raising his right foot, intending to stomp Jiang Wuming to death.
Swish!
Just then...
Jiang Wuming abruptly opened his eyes!
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