Chapter 112: The Third Heavenly Punishment

Hui Liyi was entangled by the Charm Soul, a dark cyan color swirling around her body.

Xu Lingqing took a deep breath, raised her head, and shouted towards the sky.

“Sect Master Hui!”

“The Charm Soul’s body is impervious to all things. If you want to kill it, you must slit its throat and detonate spiritual energy from within its body to completely destroy it!”

Hui Liyi looked at Xu Lingqing, half-believing and half-doubting her.

Just a moment ago, I wanted to kill her. Why would she help me now?

But the Charm Soul’s power had already merged into her body. If she didn’t resist and allow her own power to permeate the Charm Soul, and if the Charm Soul took the opportunity to seize control, her life would be worse than death.

Hui Liyi didn’t dare to use this method rashly and could only forcefully use the divine might within her body to suppress the Charm Soul’s power.

But the Charm Soul’s power was like a spring. For every three parts of force Hui Liyi used to resist, she would receive three parts of backlash.

Pfft, pfft, pfft…

Hui Liyi spat out a large mouthful of blood. The three-inch centipede sucked it all up without leaving a drop, and it eventually flowed into the Centipede Daoist’s body.

The Centipede Daoist laughed excitedly and ferociously, his expression filled with a wild arrogance.

“Enough, it’s enough!”

“To be able to absorb this power, it feels too good!”

Xu Lingqing immediately realized that something was wrong. Watching the three-inch centipede devour Hui Liyi’s essence blood, the dragon and phoenix deep in her mind stirred restlessly.

The crimson dragon darted about wildly in her mind, and the golden phoenix flew with trembling wings.

The former seemed to want to escape, while the latter seemed to be in fear.

Instantly, Xu Lingqing’s cold voice cried out again, “Sect Master Hui, you can’t let that three-inch thing absorb any more of your essence blood!”

“Nonsense to confuse the public! Can your method really solve the Charm Soul problem?”

Hui Liyi’s face was deathly pale. If her soul hadn’t been injured, she wouldn’t have let the Charm Soul be so rampant.

Xu Lingqing said no more. It was fine if she didn’t believe her. Immediately, her beautiful eyes looked solemnly behind a giant rock in the Giant Min Canyon.

Endless demonic energy was rising at a speed visible to the naked eye. A monstrous, pitch-black baleful aura shot straight into the sky, instantly connecting heaven and earth.

Hui Liyi froze in mid-air, her gaze trembling violently. She clearly felt the world beginning to change once again.

“Is it another heavenly punishment?”

In the sky of the Giant Min Canyon, three heavenly punishments had been triggered in a single day. Such an absurd event had never been seen in the entire history of the Firo Continent.

This day was destined to be recorded in the annals of the Firo Continent.

Xu Lingqing had also never expected such a turn of events. The dragon and phoenix deep in her mind had already frozen.

Violet-gold ripples appeared in her pupils. Through the ripples, she vaguely saw a ghostly figure slowly rising into the air.

Circle after circle, the body of the Centipede Daoist’s shadow stretched ever higher, forming a straight line that blocked half the sky.

“Jie jie jie!”

“I, the Centipede Daoist, have finally stepped into this realm!”

“From now on, I will make the entire Firo Continent submit at my feet!”

The Centipede Daoist’s arrogant words seemed to be filled with a certain magical power, carrying an invisible blood-red curse that spread from the Giant Min Canyon to the skies of the entire Firo Continent.

With that, a strange smile lifted the corners of his mouth. He spread his countless tentacles to face the tribulation of ascending to the Divine Realm.

Hui Liyi roared in anger, “Centipede Daoist! You actually used my power to step into the Divine Realm!”

“Oh? In that case, should I be thanking you?”

The Centipede Daoist gave a mocking smile, lightly stroking his cheek with his right index finger while his left hand tightly gripped the three-inch centipede.

Hui Liyi spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

“Despicable!”

“Hui Liyi! When it comes to being despicable, I, the Centipede Daoist, am not even half as bad as you. For the sake of success, you can even violate a soul oath!”

Hui Liyi suddenly understood. Perhaps all of this was her own doing…

Unwillingly, she glanced at Xu Lingqing, bit her tongue, and released the power resisting the Charm Soul. Then, she controlled her will to sever its neck and detonated her divine power inside the Charm Soul’s body.

At that moment, the power the Charm Soul had left in Hui Liyi’s body was visibly erased.

Hui Liyi couldn’t help but clench her fists in guilt, regretting what she had done.

She pressed her lips together. So Xu Lingqing was telling the truth!

Perhaps she had been wrong from the very beginning. Perhaps Xu Lingqing was naturally kind. Perhaps Xu Lingqing’s mother wasn’t dead at all. Perhaps there would be no revenge.

Everything was the bitter fruit of her own actions!

Cough, cough…

Hui Liyi coughed up a mouthful of regretful blood. With a dazed gaze, she suddenly discovered that the Centipede Daoist, who was breaking through to the Divine Realm, had exceeded her imagination.

It was unknown whether the Centipede Daoist was a favorite sent by the heavens, or if it was because too many heavenly punishments had descended in one day.

The heavens were tired.

As the Centipede Daoist underwent his tribulation to the Divine Realm, no heavenly punishment descended upon him. Instead, an endless baptism of divine power washed over him, making his ferocious appearance even more terrifying.

In an instant, the Centipede Daoist’s entire body emitted a hundred-zhang-long black-red light. The world, with the Giant Min Canyon at its center, became a sheet of darkness.

Less than a hundred breaths later, the black-red golden light all over the Centipede Daoist’s body fed back into his dantian.

Inch by inch, divine power suddenly erupted. The Centipede Daoist had achieved the Divine Realm!

Watching this scene, Xu Lingqing couldn’t help but doubt this world.

Why is it so easy for others to achieve the Divine Realm?

Yet her mother made her forget all feelings and become an extremely cold person.

Is this really fair to her?

Suddenly, Hui Liyi shouted in alarm, “Lingqing, run! The Centipede Daoist is coming for you!”

In the instant Xu Lingqing was lost in thought, the Centipede Daoist had already transformed into a Divine Realm being. Countless tentacles rushed towards her.

The speed was far beyond Xu Lingqing’s expectations. Her pupils instantly constricted, and her body trembled.

The Centipede Daoist’s voice, full of killing intent, sneered coldly, “As expected, the person behind you is no longer here!”

“Since there’s no one to protect you, then offer your delicious soul to the great Centipede Daoist!”

Awooo…

The Centipede Daoist’s bloody maw came tearing down, only a thought’s distance away from Xu Lingqing.

“Invincible Golden Body!”

Clang!

The Centipede Daoist’s tyrannical body directly shattered the Invincible Golden Body’s barrier and swallowed Xu Lingqing in one bite.

At this moment of life and death, a dazzling cyan light shot through the sky, streaking past Xu Lingqing.

Hui Liyi’s sword intent was murderous. The Green Luan Sword chipped one of the Centipede Daoist’s teeth.

Forcibly enduring the backlash on her soul to deliver this strike, Hui Liyi felt a sharp pain in her heart. Her jade hand clutched her chest as she gasped for cool air.

The Centipede Daoist covered his mouth, which was now missing a tooth. His countless tentacles swayed up and down, whipping up a storm.

“Hui Liyi, since you want to die first, then I’ll grant your wish!”

[End of Chapter]