
Wu Tou Gui roared furiously at Yan Xu.
"Defamable man! The shameless man who dared to hide behind a woman! Do you think that just by lowering my cultivation realm, I can't kick the tail that's between your legs?!"
Various serial insults had been thrown out by a Wu Tou Gui who was furious at Yan Xu's cheating.
However, Yan Xu did not take heart and laughed out loud.
"What's so funny?" wu Tou Gui asked in a cold deep voice.
"Aiya!— See how you nag! Do you still deserve to be called a ghost general, Wu Tou Gui? Oh? Don't you have a skull? Looks like Wu Tou Gui is no longer suitable to be a name—"
"Close your mouth, you wicked man!"
Before Yan Xu finished his sentence, Wu Tou Gui lunged forward with a huge sword and slashed at him with all his might towards Yan Xu.
Yan Xu used a soul-chasing technique to quickly move to the side and attached a talisman paper to Wu Tou Gui's greatsword.
When Wu Tou Gui retracted his sword, the talisman paper mounted by Yan Xu shone then exploded.
Duars!
A thick black smoke was created from the explosion, removing Yan Xu from the perception of Wu Tou Gui's skull eyes. However, Wu Tou Gui's divine consciousness could still sense Yan Xu's erratic presence being around him.
A slash came from beside Wu Tou Gui.
Ting!
He easily repelled it and counterattacked to the origin of the slash, but Wu Tou Gui found himself cutting through the air.
The second strike came from under his feet, a powerful tree root wrapped around both ankles of Wu Tou Gui tightly. He could not move for a while, before destroying the obstructing tree roots.
Before Wu Tou Gui could break free, Yan Xu had already made three milks and a deadly attack formation from the west, east and north.
The divine consciousness of Wu Tou Gui felt a sensation of danger residing from that direction. He took out a shield artifact then activated it without a second thought. An energy shield enveloped Wu Tou Gui's entire body, protecting him from all attacks for a while.
"Unfortunately it's just a trap" said Yan Xu not far from Wu Tou Gui.
He canceled the activation of the deadly formation array, then took a quick step towards Wu Tou Gui from the air.
Yan Xu performed a rotating slash while incriminating his body, utilizing the gravity on a special domain that could gain the weight of other creatures other than the ghost race.
Yan Xu's slash could pound Wu Tou Gui's skull from above, yet it was still unable to destroy the shield. Silent in the air as his attack could be restrained, Yan Xu took out another talisman paper.
The three talisman papers had different elemental elements namely, fire, wood and water.
He activated the wood-elemented talisman paper first to snare the entire body part of Wu Tou Gui.
Wu Tou Gui did not remain silent. He swung his greatsword with a round of 360° to break away from the wooden root that was trying to ensnare him then sent a punch to the sky, precisely towards Yan Xu.
"Damn!"
Yan Xu clucked while activating the water-elemented talisman paper to resist Wu Tou Gui's fist wave. However, the wave of water broke into small splinters in the air as it was not strong enough to withstand the fist wave.
Yan Xu quickly used the third talisman paper with the fire element, making the water condense.
"Illusion technique, condensation of the body!"
Yan Xu made his elemental body fuse with the dew he had just created. That way, Wu Tou Gui's fist attack had no impact whatsoever on him.
However, this illusion technique only lasted a few seconds which was why he had to activate it at the right time, before Wu Tou Gui's fist almost touched a body part.
Wu Tou Gui's fist wave streaked into the sky, making a hole between the clouds it passed through. Seeing from the impact of the fist, it was certain that Wu Tou Gui's physique still belonged to a ghost who was in the middle realm of the Divine Realm.
Yan Xu immediately took some distance from Wu Tou Gui, but the other party chased after him as it had already managed to escape the tangle of the wood roots he had made on the previous attack.
Wu Tou Gui increased his speed to chase after Yan Xu.
Meanwhile, Yan Xu who was being chased recited a spell to perform one of his flagship techniques.
"Soul division— two-soul puppet technique!"
The human paper he had prepared turned into the second Yan Xu and had been given a golden core to strengthen it.
"No matter how much you.split yourself, once weak, still weak!— Ghost tread technique, Jiangshi palm!"
Sensing another presence that resembled Yan Xu, Wu Tou Gui did not bother and launched a palm strike towards the two entities.
The phantom palm the size of a triple adult man speeded towards the two Yan Xu.
Both Yan Xu had also already taken the posture of giving a counterattack.
" "Devil Father, Dark Dragon Roar!" "
The two of them strengthened each other, thus being able to realize the devil's tread technique that gave rise to a dark dragon.
The phantom palms and the dark dragon clashed against each other creating a huge explosion and removing the black smoke that originally blocked the view of Wu Tou Gui's skull head.
Opposite him, it could be seen a human paper puppet being torn into pieces and Yan Xu's unmolded golden core coming out from it.
'Come!'
Yan Xu felt the resistance he had been feeling increasingly loosened after receiving various attacks from Wu Tou Gui. Now, he felt that the heavenly lightning would soon come to him. This was the opportunity he had been waiting for his entire life.
After his golden core was forged, Yan Xu was finally able to ascend to the Mystic Realm realm and form an avatar of his golden core.
'Wu Tou Gui, it seems like your fate is too unlucky to have met me today,' Yan Xu smiled widely as if he was already impatient waiting for the opportunity.
The ceiling had now become darker, the black clouds that had not existed before began to appear. The glint of heavenly lightning in the sky gave rise to a deafening sound for the listeners. The immense intimidation of the sky, triggering natural abnormalities such as strong winds and rain that should never have occurred within a special domain.
Realizing that the other party was about to ascend the realm, Wu Tou Gui took the opportunity to attack the golden core that belonged to Yan Xu who was already outside.
"You won't make it when I destroy that golden core!"
Wu Tou Gui darted forward and slashed at Yan Xu's golden core with all his might using the great sword. However, his efforts were thwarted as heavenly lightning struck the golden core, leaving Wu Tou Gui to be hit.
He had been made the protector of Yan Xu's golden core, without him noticing. Yan Xu who had not expected his ascension to come, did not expect this to happen just like that. Indeed, he had deliberately provoked Wu Tou Gui's emotions until the brainless Jiangshi had almost no intelligence, but who would have thought he would fall just as the heavenly lightning struck his golden core?
'This ... I'm not the one who's wrong, am I?'
Yan Xu rubbed the sweat on his forehead using the sleeves of his immortal robe. He looked a little nervous as the second strike from the heavenly lightning never arrived.
The thing he feared the most was that he would trigger the sky court, where the firepower of the heavenly lightning could multiply by hundreds to kill him.
Wu Tou Gui who had become a rotten roast was already dead from the impact of the first swoop, while Yan Xu's golden core cracked ¼ parts.
The crack made Yan Xu worried, whether he should withstand the next heavenly lightning strike using his own body or ...
"No! This is a test for my ascension, Xia'er can't be involved."
Yan Xu had already rounded his resolve. He sent Xia'er a voice transmission to leave her alone.
"Xia'er, leave this special domain immediately. I'll catch up later."
"Okay, take care of yourself."
Xia'er agreed just like that and immediately walked out of the special domain, leaving Yan Xu alone who was face to face with the heavenly lightning.