Chapter 3621: Life and Death
The battle between Lin Moyu and the giant python continued. The python's attacks were dense and numerous, while Lin Moyu used the Time Great Dao to constantly avoid attacks as if teleporting, occasionally launching counterattacks.
His counterattacks enraged the python, provoking even more frenzied retaliations.
Although the python feared the Great Dao Essence Fire, it also realized that it would take a long time for Lin Moyu's Great Dao Essence Fire to burn it to death.
It could completely endure the pain and kill Lin Moyu.
Employing the Power Great Dao, Lin Moyu appeared evenly matched with the python, but gradually, a trap targeting the python had been laid.
A moment later, Lin Moyu shouted: "Explode!"
Boom, the death force that had been previously laid down but not activated instantly erupted.
Large amounts of death force surged from all directions, drilling into the python's body.
The python's body was covered in numerous wounds, all inflicted by Lin Moyu's fists.
The python was a soul body, and behind its wounds was not flesh but soul - its soul was its flesh.
The outer scales were armor evolved from its Great Dao.
Now the armor had been cracked, and large amounts of death force poured in, reaching directly to the soul.
As its soul was corroded, the python screamed incessantly, its soul power surging frantically while absorbing massive amounts of Great Dao power, trying to expel the death force.
The death force was more difficult to deal with than the World-Burning Fire, hard to drive out.
It wasn't that the World-Burning Fire wasn't strong enough, just that the current World-Burning Fire wasn't strong enough yet.
The death force grew stronger as Lin Moyu's realm increased, but the World-Burning Fire did not.
The python roared angrily, its huge mouth suddenly inhaling, and numerous giant python illusions appeared in the void.
These python illusions frantically absorbed the mist, large amounts of mist were sucked away by it, then the mist was spewed out from its body again.
The mist was like water, extinguishing the death force.
Lin Moyu was slightly stunned, "It can be manipulated like this?"
He hadn't expected that the mist in the Soul Void would have such an effect.
But clearly, this mist wasn't anything good, otherwise the python wouldn't have waited until now to absorb it.
The mist extinguished the death force but not the World-Burning Fire. However, after fighting until now, the python clearly lacked its previous ferocity.
Lin Moyu sensed its intention to retreat and opened his storage space, releasing 100,000 skeleton god generals.
The skeleton god generals' combat power was slightly inferior to the python's, but not by much, completely making up for the difference in numbers.
The 100,000 skeleton god generals surrounded the python, and endless sword qi engulfed it.
The python frantically counterattacked, shattering large numbers of skeleton god generals, but they instantly revived and rejoined the battle, appearing fearless of death and unkillable.
The attacks of the skeleton god generals were like scratching an itch, each strike not causing much damage, but added together, the damage became extremely shocking.
Soul power continuously scattered from the wounds, flowing like fresh blood. The python's aura grew weaker and weaker.
In just a few minutes, the python had been beaten to near death.
The python finally realized it was about to die. The instinct for survival made it call out weakly: "Please, spare me..."
Lin Moyu willed it, and the skeleton god generals stopped. The World-Burning Fire also weakened considerably.
"If you want me to spare you, you should give me a reason, right?"
The python said: "What reason do you want?"
Lin Moyu said: "It's simple. Accept me as your master, and I'll spare you."
The python instinctively cried out: "No way!"
Lin Moyu chuckled: "Such backbone for a soul body, very good. Then you can just die."
The skeleton god generals attacked again, another barrage of sword qi slashing wildly. The python immediately became even weaker, barely clinging to life.
Its soul was collapsing. It murmured weakly: "Don't want to die, I still don't want to die."
Its eyes slowly closed, seemingly resigned to its fate.
At this moment, Lin Moyu flicked out a strand of life force. The life force enveloped the python, and it, which had been on the brink of death, breathed again.
The python reopened its eyes, confused: "I'm not dead?"
Lin Moyu smiled: "You're about to die."
With a thought, the World-Burning Fire blazed fiercely again, once more sending it to the brink of death.
Amidst screams, the python lost consciousness, its soul becoming ethereal.
At this point, the World-Burning Fire was withdrawn, and several strands of life force fell on it, forcibly pulling it back from the edge of death.
"Wake up!"
Hearing Lin Moyu's call, the python woke up again, "I'm not dead?"
Not only was it not dead, but its condition was even slightly better than before.
But it clearly remembered that it was about to die.
Lin Moyu said, "Mm, congratulations, you're not dead yet, but you're about to die again."
The World-Burning Fire blazed up again, causing intense soul pain and endless screams.
This time, the soul fire burned slowly, simmering on low heat, letting it deeply experience what soul wounds felt like.
The screams gradually weakened, its consciousness becoming blurry: "This time I'm really going to die, right?"
In a daze, it saw a ball of white light fly out from Lin Moyu's hand, landing on itself.
"This hateful fellow, he won't even let me die in peace." The python thought viciously. In the white light, it felt itself recover a bit.
The python wondered strangely: "Is he healing me?"
Suddenly, the intense pain arose again, and it screamed incessantly once more.
This time the python knew that Lin Moyu wasn't healing it at all, but torturing it.
Even if it wanted to die, it couldn't. Every time it was about to die, it was forcibly pulled back, then burned again, then pulled back again.
The pain continued endlessly, without stop.
It wanted to truly die each time, but couldn't die even when it wanted to.
The python tried hard to self-destruct, but failed. Under the World-Burning Fire, its consciousness was difficult to focus, unable to self-destruct.
After repeating dozens of times, the python finally broke down: "...Stop, please stop, I was wrong, I agree, I'll agree to anything."
There is great terror between life and death. After experiencing this terror dozens of times, plus the torture of the World-Burning Fire, the python finally compromised.
Lin Moyu chuckled: "That's more like it. Hand over your true spirit."
The python had no choice but to give its true spirit to Lin Moyu.
A spirit flower flew out. "Don't resist!"
Before setting out, he had brought quite a few spirit flowers with him. Spirit flowers were the best choice for healing wounds.
Now they came in handy.
The spirit flower bloomed, enveloping the python.
After entering the Great Dao realm, the effect of the spirit flowers greatly increased, now able to heal injuries of Great Dao realm beings.
The healing needed some time. While the spirit flower was healing, Lin Moyu drew a divine rune, using the divine rune to wrap a ball of World-Burning Fire, then implanted it into the python's true spirit before returning the true spirit to the python.
If the python had any ill intentions, he could detonate the divine rune at any time, and the World-Burning Fire would burn its true spirit to ashes.
Once the true spirit was extinguished, it would be impossible for it to live.
After repeatedly experiencing life and death dozens of times, the revived python would surely cherish its life.
If this were the real world, it wouldn't be so troublesome. He could just kill it and use Resurrection of the Dead.
Unfortunately, this was the Soul Void. After killing it, besides leaving a trace of soul essence, nothing else would remain.
Even using the World-Burning Fire would only leave behind a soul crystal.
Lin Moyu had tried. Whether it was the remaining soul essence or soul crystal, neither could be revived using Resurrection of the Dead, which was why he had to use this method.
The skeleton god generals brought over the barely alive shark. Lin Moyu looked at it with a smile, "You saw everything just now, right? I'll ask, and you'll answer. Understand?"
The shark nodded its head frantically, how could it not understand!
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