Chapter 332 — The Exhausted Shi Jin

The intersecting sword pressure crushed heaven and earth, and the astonishing sword light almost instantly reached a standoff with the Red Lotus Hell; then, as one scapegoat beside Crimson Pupil dropped dead on the spot, at the immense cost of bearing the damage upon itself, the Sword of Intersection erupted with unparalleled power, devouring the Red Lotus Hell in an instant—then the sword pressure gradually withdrew, coiling with menace, and locked onto the three-headed, six-armed giant ape!

"ROAR!!!"

Its move broken, the giant ape staggered back a step in disbelief; staring at the sword light so close at hand, its six arms instantly crossed as it used its proficient-grade super-tier defensive skill, Armor of Divine Flame!!!

Golden flames spread and solidified into armor of golden patterns!!

However.

The sword light swept in, and after devouring the giant ape, the armor upon its body shattered outright; it was sent flying like a kite with its string cut, crashing down in the distance, the dual wounds to body and soul making the giant ape spew a mouthful of saliva—and mid-flight it was even forced out of its three-headed, six-armed form!

BOOM!!!

Another beast was pinned to the wall, leaving every Minghua beast tamer staring wide-eyed in shock and silence.

The whole arena went quiet.

One Minghua contestant after another, and Amy Rui herself, gaped with mouths wide open in utter disbelief.

"Impossible!" the Legendary Katavi blurted out.

"This sword spirit—" In the Minghua contestants' seats, another quasi-Legendary spirit caller shot to her feet, also wearing an expression of incomprehensible shock.

Chairman Xia and Director Zhong, seeing that Crimson Pupil had unleashed such power this time without any item, likewise gaped.

This sword spirit was actually this strong!

"This—" Equally stunned were Zou Tianwang and the others; Zheng Hai and Zou Tianwang, seeing Shi Jin once again, and again, and again this ferocious, were momentarily speechless.

"Crimson Pupil!"

This time, Shi Jin did not choose to quit while ahead, because although that strike had been fierce, it had only just knocked the Crimson Gold Divine Flame Ape back to its normal state without inflicting serious injury—he had to press the advantage!

Across from him, Amy Rui's face was anxious as she tried to make the Crimson Gold Divine Flame Ape enter its three-headed, six-armed dharma-form state again—but Crimson Pupil was simply too fast, and the Crimson Gold Divine Flame Ape was in poor shape indeed, no longer able to withstand the dharma-form's power!

The Crimson Gold Divine Flame Ape had just tried to use a recovery skill when a blade of light and flame arrived in a flash, delivering the finishing blow.

"ROAR—"

With a roar from the Crimson Gold Divine Flame Ape, its body was run through once more, covered in wounds!!

"You—"

At this moment, Amy Rui finally understood what Karen had felt earlier; her mind went blank, unable to fathom why Shi Ying's sword spirit was so strong.

In Minghua she had fought countless undead, and even the undead of her fellow quasi-Legendary Kailuo had not seemed to her as ferocious as this sword spirit.

Furious.

Amirei wanted nothing now but to finish Shi Jin quickly. She drew a deep breath, and the Red-Gold Divine Fire Ape's figure vanished; in its place, planted on the ground, stood a colossal peacock six or seven meters tall, its feathers woven of gold and green, its tail quivering, glimmering, shining with a metallic sheen.

At the swap of pet beasts, the Minghua tamers, still reeling, could now understand exactly what Amirei was feeling.

She had sent out her ace outright.

She meant to teach her opponent a lesson.

Amirei's representative beast, the Golden Phoenix Dragon Sparrow!

[Name]: Golden Phoenix Dragon Sparrow

[Attribute]: Gold

[Racial Rank]: Mid-grade Overlord

[Growth Rank]: Monarch level

[Energy Value]: 5.96 million

"This ends here!" Like Karen, Amirei seemed unable to feel satisfied unless she said something first.

As her words fell, the Golden Phoenix Dragon Sparrow's gaze deepened, and it raised its gold-and-green tail. The instant it fanned the feathers open, Amirei's talent activated as well, granting it the power to unfurl its Dharma Form. Against a sword spirit, they dared not be careless; they went straight to their strongest state.

In an instant, the vast arena went dark.

As though they had been plunged into another domain.

At the same time, within that dark domain a thousand golden eyes opened, and together with Amirei and the Golden Phoenix Dragon Sparrow, fixed upon Qi and Chitong.

Such a change set every spectator in the arena talking.

"Dharma Form, Thousand-Eye Domain."

In an instant, the Golden Phoenix Dragon Sparrow's energy value reached the 20 million mark; in this state it had, in full, the means to contend with a weaker Overlord.

Add to that its mastery of the Undying Golden Body, and this was Amirei's strongest fighting force!

"So it's finally here."

Shi Jin's eyes burned. The next instant, the thousand eyes erupted once more with matchless intimidation; the dread of the Thousand-Eye Domain was plainly many times fiercer than the giant ape's had been, enough to press any Monarch-level creature until it could not breathe.

At the same time, golden light gathered within the thousand eyes, and a super-tier gold-and-light dual-element ultimate move, the Golden Annihilation Divine Light, locked onto Chitong.

Across from them, Amirei pressed her lips together, hoping to finish her opponent right there.

BOOM!!!!

With that, a flood of beams burst from the thousand eyes, golden light blanketing heaven and earth; there was no judging where the attack was aimed—or rather, with such a vast number of eyes locking on, the whole field was the target.

Yet though Amirei had once again displayed matchless power, the arena had gone terribly silent; the Donghuang tamers especially swallowed hard as something occurred to them.

This move of Amirei's was indeed strong.

But what they had just seen... seemed not yet to be the limit of General Mu Huiyin's death spirit!

Everyone suddenly recalled the special state Shi Jin had entered at the National Tournament when he defeated Gao Xuan!!

This sword spirit... could possess Shi Jin again!!!

After Ten Thousand Swords as One! Possess again!

No sooner had they thought it than the scene unfolded before them.

Beneath the flickering golden light, the death spirit Chitong's figure vanished from the arena in an instant!

At the same moment.

Red aura erupted from Shi Jin, flame surging to the heavens; in an instant heaven and earth shifted, and the Thousand-Eye Domain tottered on the verge of collapse.

In the blaze, Shi Jin's gaze seemed to hold fire as well, his pupils gradually shifting toward Chitong's scorching red.

With a "boom," spiritual energy fierce as the sun's own flame wrapped his whole body in aura; in that instant his frame grew gaunter yet somehow more powerful!!

And in that moment, Shi Ying's hair turned fully bright red, and his skin, lit by the fiery aura, grew even paler!

Shi Ying's aura transformed utterly, stepping into the Overlord domain; Chitong's already terrifying power swelled once more, and in this moment, with the second Death Substitute half-dead, their strength completely surpassed the limit of the Monarch level!!!

"Don't forget, a death spirit can possess its host."

"A beast tamer with the telepathy talent isn't entirely useless in battle."

Perhaps he could even be an accessory to his pet beast?

As Shi Ying's voice fell, across from him Amirei's gaze went blank, and disbelief crossed her face once more.

For as Shi Ying transformed, the heaven-surging aura alone was enough to crack the Thousand-Eye Domain in an instant, great and small fissures bursting into flame!!

"Screeee!!!!"