179 Breaking Through the Crisis!

The Three-Eyed Demon Ape unleashed a second attack in concert with his first,shooting a golden beam of light from its third eye at Wu Zhangkong’s head.

This… is a spiritual attack?

Wu Zhangkong’s eyes flashed open the instant the third eye attacked. A goldenviolet light, far more resplendent than before, burst from within his eyes.This was clearly the full strength of his Purple Demon Eyes.

Purple and gold clashed mid-air, fighting for dominance as they released wavesof spiritual power that rippled outwards.

Tang Wulin was still hit by the energy waves while watching from afar. Withoutany methods to defend himself against a spiritual attack, pounding nauseaassailed his mind before his eyes went blank and he lost his grip on reality.

Tang Wulin had been perched atop a tree when the spiritual wave swallowed himand amidst his confusion, he fell to the ground.

Back on the battlefield, Wu Zhangkong raised his head. His complexion waspale, blood flowing freely from his nose and ears. He had taken some damagefrom that spiritual confrontation just now.

The moment the dust from their spiritual battle settled, the violet energyarrived before him.

In the split second before it arrived, Wu Zhangkong closed his eyes. Then hefinally made his move.

His jet-black sixth soul ring rose into the air, enveloping his entire bodybefore flaring with a resplendent white light that flew into the Skyfrost Sword.

Both Wu Zhangkong and the Skyfrost Sword appeared to be as white as snow. Hisfigure vanished an instant later, becoming a white blur that flitted across thebattlefield.

Ice bloomed behind the blur’s wake as it shot forth and froze the light inplace when it swept past it. Cracks formed at the core of light as it struggledwithin its icy prison.

Then the frozen casing split open and that radiant violet light exploded inall directions.

The white blur flashed by once more. Clad in white and armed with a whitesword, Wu Zhangkong appeared behind the Three-Eyed Demon Ape.

The ape’s smug expression froze in place.

A vertical white line appeared on top of its head, slicing through its thirdeye and all the way to its crotch.

“Wulin, the third eye!” Wu Zhangkong’s booming voice sobered Tang Wulin. Hishead was still splitting from the spiritual shock-induced headache when heheard his teacher’s call.

It felt like a thousand needles were stabbing his brain, a pain thatoverwhelmed his senses to the point where he wanted to smash his head into awall.

Although his vision was fuzzy, he still managed to send out his BluesilverGrass with a thought.

Goldlight slithered out of his body and bore into a strand of BluesilverGrass. The strand seemed to breathe into life as it transformed from azure togold and hardened. It pierced through the Three-Eyed Demon Ape’s third eye likea spear before penetrating into the ape’s brain.

Tang Wulin collapsed in exhaustion as dark spots darkened his vision and sweatpoured from his body.

At that moment, an immense wealth of energy flowed into him through the goldenvine.

While it wasn’t his first time absorbing spirit energy, this time was the mostunique. The energy was split into two; Goldlight was rapidly absorbing one partof the energy as it rested within the grass, while the other was flooding intoTang Wulin’s brain. It was this latter energy that was the cause of thestabbing pain in his brain. Releasing a muffled groan, Tang Wulin immediatelylost consciousness.

Wu Zhangkong silently stood there, pale-faced as he took notice of TangWulin’s situation. He appeared beside his disciple like a bolt of lightning,brows furrowed and eyes bewildered.

He had been so focused on obtaining this ten-thousand-year soul beast’s spiritenergy for Tang Wulin, that he forgot a crucial fact; the beast was of theten-thousand-year level that could range from the beginning of the realm allthe way to the peak. If it was more than the maximum age, just how much excessspirit energy was Tang Wulin absorbing?

During the previous evaluation, it was determined that Tang Wulin’s spiritualpower was strong enough to endure little more than two-thousand-years worth ofspirit energy. Any more than that would risk his mind and body crumbling apart.

Tang Wulin’s spirit soul had reached about 1,300 years after absorbing theenergy of the previous soul beasts. Currently, he was absorbing the spiritenergy of this ten-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Ape—a minimum of 1000 yearsworth. The question now was whether Tang Wulin’s body was strong enough toendure this magnitude of spirit energy!

Furthermore, this Three-Eyed Demon Ape was different from ordinary soulbeasts; it possessed a tremendous amount of spiritual power. Although there wasno method to obtain soul power in the spirit ascension platform,spiritual-attributed soul beasts possessed a special characteristic. Should aSoul Master absorb their spirit energy, they would be faced with a spiritualattack.  

Wu Zhangkong’s eyes held a trace of rarely seen worry. His mind had beenmuddled after the spiritual clash with the Three-Eyed Demon Ape, thus leadingto his thoughtless decision of having Tang Wulin absorb its energy and endingup in this perilous situation.

There was nothing he could do now but wait. The moment a Soul Master began toabsorb spirit energy, it would fuse and evolve the spirit soul. No externalinterference was possible once this process began; even a Title Douluo couldonly be forced to watch on helplessly as Tang Wulin absorbed the energy.

Not only did the spirit ascension platform increase the age of spirit souls,it also influenced the soul power and spiritual power of Soul Masters. WuZhangkong could only silently wait and pray for Tang Wulin’s success. ShouldTang Wulin fail, it would end up as more than just a major problem.

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Waves of dizziness slammed into Tang Wulin. Though he felt no pain, he wasnumb to any other feeling as well. Chaos reigned in his spiritual world.

After some time, a sliver of his consciousness woke. He opened his eyes, onlyto find himself floating in a pitch-black space. In its wake came endless,torturous, pain.

“Wher-where am I?” The pain drilled into his head, making him tremble.

The darkness gradually waned and a pale gold appeared. He watched as Goldlightslowly grew stronger, but then, so too did his pain. The pain was so unbearablethat he seemingly yearned for the release that only death provided.

Nothing could alleviate his agony, so he surveyed his surroundings. Cracksappeared within this golden world soon after, numbing his pain.

An idea struck him. Could this be my spiritual world? The space of myconsciousness?

“Old Tang!” Tang Wulin screamed in panic. He could sense that as the cracksgradually widened, his impending death was also likely to become a reality.

“Hah…” A sigh resonated throughout the space, announcing the arrival of thegolden light before him. The golden light possessed a shape similar to that ofa weapon with a long shaft, but that was all Tang Wulin could discern.

Golden rays of light blossomed from the long-shafted weapon and entered thecracks of this golden world.

The cracks paused before slowly beginning to repair itself and restoring theworld to its original pristine.

His piercing torture also eased as warmth filled Tang Wulin, healing hissuffering mind.

“My powers are limited, you know. You absorbed more energy than you couldhandle, forcing me to use some of my power to aid you in this crisis. While youshould be fine for now, the problem is that I won’t have as much power to helpyou break the next seal anymore. The pressure you will have to face will beseveral folds higher than what it should have been. Prepare yourself. Eventhough you received a large upgrade this time, you absolutely must not do thisagain, otherwise I will run out of power needed to help you and you will riskyour life each time you break a seal.”

Old Tang’s voice resounded throughout this golden world. Tang Wulin felt as ifhe had reunited with a long-lost relative, but in the next moment the goldfaded away and darkness returned. He lost consciousness once more.

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A fit of dizziness unlike anything before hit Tang Wulin when he woke up andleft him paralyzed, unable to move a finger or raise his head. It was one ofthe greatest struggles of his life just to simply open his eyes.

It’s cold!

The first thing he noticed was the chill in the air. Sensation returned to hisbody, but it was still as heavy as lead and uncontrollable.