“……”
Chen Shu’s eyes darted around, and he continued,
“What if it’s just the Ancient Emperor’s contracted spirit, and it’s merely trying to use you?”
“You’re trying to sow discord? Too naive.”
Ling Chen scoffed, “You don’t understand my relationship with it. We’re already soul-bound!”
“In other words, would you betray yourself?”
Ling Chen had come this far with his own intelligence, and coupled with his naturally suspicious nature, he wouldn't be easily convinced.
Chen Shu indeed wanted to stir up trouble, but he hadn’t expected the connection between the other party and his contracted spirit to be so profound.
“And another thing!”
Ling Chen narrowed his eyes and said, “Your talent is too terrifying. If I don’t eliminate you early, I will face a life-or-death crisis in the future!”
“Breaking through inner demons, removing bloodline restraints, preventing future crises…”
Chen Shu rubbed his chin. “No wonder you have such a strong killing intent towards me…”
He finally understood now. Ling Chen’s target was indeed just him; everyone else was merely bait.
“However, I also have a reason to kill you!”
Chen Shu’s gaze turned cold. “For Fang Si, for Xie Fengyu, for the Guardian Army that perished because of you…”
“Enough with the nonsense, let’s begin!”
Ling Chen slowly rose from the ruins, simultaneously opening his beast-taming space as three contracted spirits stepped out.
One was snow-white, with a slender body like a fox, its entire form covered in mysterious markings, and a vast life energy emanated from it.
Beside the white tiger was a black hunting dog, but it had wings on its back and a single horn on its head. Its eyes blazed with purple fire, exuding a terrifying aura.
As for the last contracted spirit, its appearance was peculiar – it was a headless humanoid contracted spirit!
It possessed a tall and sturdy physique, clad in ferocious black armor, wielding a blood-stained black spear, and emanating a terrifying aura of death.
At the same time, the man-faced bird-bodied contracted spirit in the sky also descended, instantly filling the air with dazzling lightning.
“Your contracted spirits?!”
Chen Shu frowned, his eyes filled with a hint of confusion and bewilderment.
“Different from the intelligence, aren’t they?”
Ling Chen said with a smile, “In the past, to hide my strength, I had the Purple Soul Emperor seal their bloodlines and disguise them in their weakest forms. Of course, they’re different now.”
“…”
Chen Shu’s expression was calm, but his heart was extremely heavy. This meant he would be facing a Ling Chen with unknown abilities, making the battle much more difficult!
And most importantly, the main force, Er Ha, was still not awake!
“Wait a moment!”
Chen Shu extended his right hand and said, “If I win, how can I guarantee Fang Si’s safety?”
“What do you want?”
“Let me send her back to China. Without any worries, I can then fight you with all my might! How about it?”
“Do you think I don’t know you?”
Ling Chen pouted. “As long as Fang Si is safe, you’ll have no worries and will just run away!”
“…”
Chen Shu’s expression froze, then he continued,
“I have the arrogance of a genius! I promised to fight you, and I will naturally fight!”
However, Ling Chen wasn’t falling for Chen Shu’s trick. He said,
“And by then, it probably won’t be a one-on-one fight. Who knows how many people you’ll call to gang up on me!”
“…”
Chen Shu rubbed his head and said again, “Aren’t you very confident in that soul contracted spirit? Even if I send Fang Si back to China, you can still control her life and death, right?”
Ling Chen shook his head.
“That person’s strength is too terrifying. He killed even the Purple Soul Emperor in his prime. I don’t dare to try!”
The person he was referring to was naturally the old man. That person could even reverse life and death, and could completely freeze Fang Si’s mind, sealing his power.
Chen Shu shrugged his shoulders. “Then I can’t fight.”
“You have no choice!”
Ling Chen said faintly, “Right now, I am in control of everything! Unless you don’t care about her life or death!”
“…”
Chen Shu’s expression turned cold. Seeing that he couldn’t stall any longer, he could only say, “I haven’t recovered to my peak state yet.”
“I’m losing patience!”
Ling Chen’s body was filled with purple light, transforming into his soul form, and instantly merging into the headless contracted spirit.
He didn’t dare to linger in one place for too long, fearing that the old man from China would cross the sea to kill him.
“Damn it…”
Chen Shu frowned and could only return into Xiao Huang’s mouth for now.
At the same time, he gave each of the three contracted spirits a bottle of Berserk Potion. The situation was critical, and it was no longer time to be stingy.
“Gu Ji!”
Xiao Huang’s body suddenly expanded, reaching a terrifying size of over a thousand meters, like an unshakeable mountain!
“Potions, huh?”
Ling Chen’s voice came from within the headless general:
“But my level is already higher than yours. What does it matter if you use potions?”
Boom!
Instantly, the man-faced bird-bodied contracted spirit in the sky moved its wings, carrying endless lightning, and descended in the blink of an eye.
The dazzling lightning tore through space, fiercely striking Xiao Huang’s body.
Its attack speed was too fast. Even with Xiao Huang’s max-level charge, it couldn’t dodge.
However, it had no reason to dodge!
Boom, boom, boom!
The endless lightning struck its body, but Xiao Huang remained motionless, without a single scratch, as if it were taking a shower…
With [Lightning Immunity], it could even withstand any lightning skill below the legendary level.
When Chen Shu saw that Ling Chen’s contracted spirits included one of lightning element and one of fire element, he felt a sense of relief…
“En?”
Ling Chen’s tone held a hint of surprise.
His lightning beast’s attack could even heavily injure contracted spirits of the same level, yet it couldn’t break through this thing’s defense?
In the eyes of others, Xiao Huang could withstand the many attacks because of its terrifying defense and resistance.
But few knew that it possessed pseudo-divine skills like [Fire Immunity], which reduced damage from lightning and fire by ninety-nine percent!
Boom, boom, boom!
The man-faced bird-bodied spirit’s expression turned ferocious. Looking at Xiao Huang’s cute and innocent eyes, it felt as if it were being insulted. Its body surged with lightning, and it attacked again!
However, the result was still the same: it couldn’t break through its defense at all!
“Gu Ji! Gu Ji!”
Xiao Huang shook its body, actually acting as if it were enjoying itself…
At the same time, it glanced at the black dog emanating flames in the distance, making a provocative gesture, as if it felt that one contracted spirit wasn’t enough to be exciting…