Chapter 99: Chapter 100: Happy and Surprised
Blood splattered, and within the light column, Ye Xin could clearly see a hand covered in fresh blood, protruding from Lin Qian’s lower back—the hand belonged to Nan Xin.
“Whoosh!” Lin Qian looked at Nan Xin in disbelief as a mouthful of blood sprayed out.
Nan Xin sneered as he withdrew his hand, while Lin Qian clasped his abdomen and staggered backward a few steps, collapsing to the ground.
“This is absolutely impossible,” Zhang Juncheng, from within the light column and atop the base, was also at a loss due to the scene unfolding before his eyes, “Your soul was sealed within your own body by me; it simply shouldn’t be possible for you to take action.”
Initially, it was his own body that he had used to seal Nan Xin’s soul.
Since Nan Xin’s soul was still sealed within the body of someone from the Human Clan and not his own, he couldn’t exert much strength—his combat power was even less than that of someone in the Shape Origin Realm.
It was only because Zhang Juncheng’s body was used for the sealing that the body of the ancient strong was exceedingly sturdy and was, moreover, capable of flight.
But to engage in combat? That was definitely not possible.
It was for this reason that Zhang Juncheng had no worries whatsoever when Lin Qian had left earlier.
However, he could never have imagined that Nan Xin, who clearly shouldn’t have been able to act, possessed such incredible speed—clearly that of the peak of the Sky Breaking Realm.
Obviously, Nan Xin now had the strength of the peak of the Sky Breaking Realm.
Although the strength of the peak of the Sky Breaking Realm was nothing to speak of compared to Nan Xin’s original power, it was impossible under his current seal for Nan Xin to be wielding such strength.
“No!” Tears welled up in Ye Xin’s eyes as she was about to rush forward.
“Don’t come over!” However, Lin Qian, as if he had eyes on his back, shouted explosively.
Lin Qian’s roar seemed to carry an invisible force, causing Ye Xin’s body, originally lunging forward, to come to a halt.
“After all these years, I’ve come to understand quite a lot about your body, and unleashing such trivial power is, of course, effortless,” Nan Xin said with a proud smile, looking at the stunned Zhang Juncheng, “Zhang Juncheng, if you had realized this earlier, you wouldn’t have let this foolish child walk out to face death.”
“Damn it!” Zhang Juncheng clenched his teeth, looking at Lin Qian, his eyes filled with guilt.
Lin Qian, kneeling on the ground with blood seeping through the gaps between the fingers of his hands that covered his abdomen, gradually became weaker.
Despite this, he struggled to stand up from the ground and grabbed Nan Xin in front of him: “I thought you didn’t take action because of Elder Zhang’s seal, but I didn’t expect you to be so patient, not lifting a finger even when the zombie army was wiped out clean… It’s just too bad…”
“Hmph, what do you know, kid?” Nan Xin didn’t seem to mind that Lin Qian on the brink of death was holding onto him and coldly scoffed, “These zombies are merely crafted from the lowest ranking servant disciples of the Dangyuan Sect. So what if they’ve been wiped out? There’s nothing to regret.”
This layer of ruins above was where the servant disciples once resided. Their collapse into the Small World resulted in numerous deaths of the servant disciples.
As for these zombies, they were nothing more than a boring project Nan Xin had crafted for amusement during the years of his sealing; and now that they were obliterated, he simply didn’t care.
Furthermore, even though Nan Xin couldn’t possess Lin Qian’s body, he had secretly resolved to kill him nonetheless.
After all, Lin Qian had torn away a significant portion of his soul and had thoroughly refined it, allowing Ye Xin to absorb it, making it impossible to reclaim it.
Therefore, Nan Xin harbored a profound hatred towards Lin Qian.
“What I meant by ‘what a pity’ was not that your army of walking corpses was pitiful, but that you failed to kill me,” Lin Qian said as his voice fell. Suddenly, his entire body melted into a stream of light, rushing into Nan Xin’s body.
The sudden change left the three people present utterly astonished.
In front of Ye Xin, there appeared a disturbance, and under the flickering of the stream of light, Lin Qian’s figure emerged.
“Little Qian!” Seeing Lin Qian appear unharmed, Ye Xin joyously threw herself into his arms.
A moment later, Lin Qian smiled and pulled Ye Xin out of his embrace, carefully wiping away the tears on her face. “Sorry for not explaining beforehand and making you worry,” he said.
“Impossible, I clearly killed you, how can this be?” Seeing Lin Qian reappear intact within a pillar of light, and the previously dying ‘Lin Qian’ turning into a stream of light and merging into his body, Nan Xin couldn’t understand at all.
“What’s so impossible about that? Because I also wasn’t sure if you really couldn’t strike, I didn’t actually go out but instead used a Substitute Light Sphere.”
As his words fell, Lin Qian opened his palm, and lo and behold, there was a sphere flickering with light.
On the sphere, a light suddenly burst forth, conjuring an image of a body.
This body was the very one that had sealed Nan Xin’s soul, belonging to Zhang Juncheng.
The image revealed every detail within this body, allowing the three people present to see everything clearly.
Not only that, but on the Tactical Mirror in front of Zhuge Ming from the Heavenly Art Department of the Huaxia Empire, the same image also appeared.
“Begin research immediately!” Zhuge Ming ordered upon receiving this valuable information.
Meanwhile, inside the light pillar at the center of the Array, the light sphere in Lin Qian’s hands slowly turned into a stone sphere, which abruptly shattered, vanishing into a wisp of blue smoke in the air.
“This thing, I guess you could call it a Soul Device. Back when the official website had an event, I spent three hundred thousand Huaxia Coins to open loot boxes and got three of these things.”
“Of course, you all won’t understand what I’m talking about. Simply put, I had the money and the willfulness to get this interesting item, known as the Substitute Light Sphere. I’ve already used up two, and this was the last one.”
“After using it, the original body will enter an invisible state, while the Light Sphere will form a light clone, completely replicating the strength, aura, and so on of the original. And when it’s destroyed, it will invade the enemy’s body, understanding everything about their physical condition.”
“So what you just killed was my clone, do you understand?”
They didn’t understand what Lin Qian was talking about with the official website or loot boxes, but they did grasp the effects of the shattered Substitute Light Sphere.
“So that’s how it is, to have such a miraculous Soul Device,” Zhang Juncheng remarked in realization from atop the base, amazed.
On the other hand, Nan Xin’s face turned so dark that it seemed like it could drip water. When had he ever been toyed with by such a youngster to this extent?
“By the way, let me give you some good news, you foreigner,” Lin Qian said with a grin to Nan Xin, “I already have a way to grind away your soul and flesh, and to let Elder Zhang take his body back. I bet you’re feeling both surprised and happy, right?”
Lin Qian’s words brought an eerie silence to the surroundings. After a long pause…
“Surprised and happy my ass!”