Chapter 618 - 173: Counter-kill in the Desolate Land, the Possessing Ancestor’s Soul Shattered by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner

Chapter 618: Chapter 173: Counter-kill in the Desolate Land, the Possessing Ancestor’s Soul Shattered by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner

Seeing this, Zhang Ling’Er was instantly panic-stricken, her face turning deathly pale.

The Profound Cyan Shield was her strongest defensive Ancient Treasure, but now it was entangled by the Black Dragon...

Without this layer of protection, she had no confidence at all in blocking Chu Fan’s terrifying attacks!

Seeing Tang Yu succeed, Chu Fan twisted his body in a bizarre manner. He slithered like a snake around the Profound Cyan Shield’s blind spot. Raising the Black Abyss Soward in his hand once more, he slashed down at Zhang Ling’Er!

With all her escape routes sealed by the long, blood-red bridge, Zhang Ling’Er had nowhere to run. She could only muster all her strength to raise the Frost Sword and swing it viciously toward Chu Fan’s Black Abyss Soward!

CLANG!

The deafening clang of metal on metal rang out once more. To everyone’s surprise, the wild and unrivaled red Flame Fire Evil Qi from Zhang Ling’Er’s sword actually sent Chu Fan’s Black Abyss Soward flying, spinning through the air before embedding itself in a pile of rubble in the distance!

...

Seeing this, Tang Yu couldn’t help but stare, her face filled with disbelief.

"Hahaha! Is that all you’ve got?"

Zhang Ling’Er’s face was a mask of ecstasy.

Unexpectedly, Chu Fan showed not a hint of panic. The moment his Long Saber was sent flying, he advanced instead of retreating, closing the distance!

He executed the Grapple Hand from the "Twelve True Forms Fist." His right hand, like a steel claw, shot forward. With a sharp SNAP, it latched precisely onto the wrist of Zhang Ling’Er’s sword hand!

CRACK!

Zhang Ling’Er had no time to react.

The terrifying, immense strength of Chu Fan’s "Vajra Undying Body" erupted. He squeezed his fingers, and the crisp, piercing sound of shattering bone echoed.

Without channeling even a shred of Primordial Qi, relying purely on the brute force of his physical body, he had brutally crushed the bones in Zhang Ling’Er’s wrist!

"AHHH!!"

Zhang Ling’Er let out a bloodcurdling shriek. The Frost Sword slipped from her grasp, clattering as it fell.

Chu Fan’s eyes turned cold. He was about to follow up with a punch aimed straight at her head.

BOOM!

At that critical moment, the terrifying aura that had previously made his heart palpitate suddenly erupted from within Zhang Ling’Er!

The clothing on Zhang Ling’Er’s chest instantly exploded, sending fragments flying everywhere.

A black hand, formed entirely of dense black mist and reeking of a pungent, decaying stench, shot out from her chest like a striking viper. With world-destroying power, it blasted a palm strike at the nearby Chu Fan!

The turn of events was too sudden and utterly bizarre, making it impossible to defend against!

WHOOSH!

Fortunately, Chu Fan’s Divine Sense had been locked onto that strange aura from the very beginning. The instant the black hand appeared...

...he pushed his "Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step" to its absolute limit. His body left a faint Residual Image in mid-air as he narrowly, perilously dodged the direct palm strike in a flash, retreating several dozen feet!

Even though he had dodged the vital point, the force of the palm’s wind still roiled his blood and qi as it grazed past his body!

"What... is that thing?"

Tang Yu stared from a distance at the bizarre black hand waving from Zhang Ling’Er’s chest. A storm raged in her heart, and a cold sweat broke out on her back.

’The young miss, Zhang Ling’Er, actually had a foreign object hidden inside her body?’

’With my sharp Divine Sense at the First Heaven of the Bright Heart Realm, I’ve been by Zhang Ling’Er’s side day and night, practically inseparable, yet I never detected this thing at all!’

Immediately after, the large black hand slowly retracted into Zhang Ling’Er’s body like a liquid and vanished.

But Zhang Ling’Er’s entire aura underwent a world-shaking transformation in an instant!

One moment she was screaming in agony from her crushed wrist, her face twisted with venom and madness. The next, her expression suddenly froze, as if her soul had been ripped out.

Then, her facial features began to twist and rearrange. Her venomous gaze turned icy cold, finally settling into a look of supreme, detached indifference, as if looking down on all of creation!

The black, corrupting power swirling around her, as if it had been nourished, instantly swelled by dozens of times. The black qi soared into the sky, inspiring awe and fear in all who saw it!

"You ant! How dare you ruin my grand plan!"

An extremely old, hoarse man’s voice suddenly came from Zhang Ling’Er’s mouth.

The voice was filled with the decay of ages and endless majesty. Her gaze, now like a cold blade, locked onto the retreating Chu Fan.

"That voice... That’s the voice of the Zhang Family Ancestor?!"

Hearing this familiar yet strange voice, Tang Yu felt as if she had been struck by lightning. Her face instantly turned as white as a sheet.

She staggered and shouted in terror, "Master, be careful! The one possessing Young Miss Zhang Ling’Er’s body is that centuries-old ancestor of the Zhang Family!"

’The Zhang Family Ancestor?’

Chu Fan’s eyes narrowed, a grave look flashing within them. Though startled, his mind remained perfectly composed.

’Just a wisp of a Soul Division...’

’If the True Body of the Zhang Family Ancestor—a being even the Demon Suppression Bureau is wary of—had come in person, I would have been turned to ash by now. How could I possibly still be alive?!’

After quickly putting a safe distance between them, Chu Fan flicked his wrist. The Sunset Bow, radiating a faint killing intent, was already in his hand.

The muscles in his arm bulged as he instantly drew the longbow to its fullest extent. The bow formed a full moon, the string taut with tension!

Three arrows loosed at once!

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Three special Black Kite Arrows, carrying the dim glow of a lunar eclipse and wreathed in a faint Soul-Breaking Power specifically designed to destroy a Divine Soul, shot like three bolts of black lightning toward the possessed Zhang Ling’Er!

"An ant trying to shake a tree!"

"Zhang Ling’Er’s" eyes were filled with disdain and contempt as she casually extended her left hand.

A colossal black hand of Primordial Qi, large enough to blot out the sky, instantly materialized in the air. Its five fingers spread wide and grasped forward violently, as if to crush the three arrows and the very space around them!

But the three Black Kite Arrows Chu Fan had fired held a hidden trick.

Aside from the one arrow in the center, which the large black hand was focused on, the other two seemed to possess a Spirituality of their own. They traced bizarre, graceful arcs through the air, cleverly avoiding the hand’s direct interception and curving around from the sides to strike Zhang Ling’Er right in the temples!