parentshiftbook Chapter 175: The Formless Soul - Li Fan
Chapter 175: The Formless Soul - Li Fan
"Li Fan? The Formless Soul?"
Under the cold moonlight, when that face finally appeared before Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping's heart skipped a beat.
The face, half-male and half-female, with male characteristics, was none other than Li Fan, his former friend from the martial arts school. Their last encounter was in the Southern Border Royal City.
As for the woman's face, it was incredibly beautiful, but it was covered with fine lines and cracks like a spider web.
Recalling his past experience in Lingchuan County, Zhang Ping unleashed a flash of sword light without saying a word!
"Wait!" Li Fan spoke, his face half-covered, but before he could stop him, he saw a blade flash towards him.
At that moment, a humanoid phantom suddenly appeared behind him. The phantom had no facial features, but a smooth, black face.
The phantom slowly raised its hand and caught the blade.
"Wait a minute, Zhang Ping, I didn't come to you to fight."
The deafening flash of the blade sent rocks and wood flying everywhere, and Li Fan's long hair, which was draped behind him, danced wildly in the wind.
His face showed no fear; instead, after the lingering power of the blade had dissipated, he took the initiative to speak to Zhang Ping.
Zhang Ping's expression was cold, his long sword poised to strike. He paused slightly upon hearing Li Fan's words.
"Are you still conscious?"
Now that his strength is extraordinary, he can recognize that this formless soul is the same one that once parasitized Anqing in Lingchuan County.
During the great battle outside Lingchuan County, he only destroyed Anqing's physical body, but the Wuxiang Soul escaped. Unexpectedly, the other party parasitized Li Fan's body.
Suddenly, Zhang Ping frowned. Under this premise, it could explain why Li Fan was able to escape to the Southern Frontier alone after the demons destroyed Lingchuan County.
It turns out that Li Fan had already been possessed by the Wuxiang Soul back in Lingchuan.
But strangely, the other party seemed to be able to remain rational.
When Li Fan saw Zhang Ping stop, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the strange phantom behind him also disappeared.
He looked at Zhang Ping and said, "Zhang Ping, we've known each other for a while now, how about we make a deal?"
"You want to know the Demon Lord's secrets, and I can tell you!"
"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Zhang Ping raised an eyebrow and looked Li Fan up and down.
Upon closer inspection, his forehead was slightly raised.
A year has passed, and Li Fan's aura has actually reached the Essence Blood Realm. Moreover, judging from the strange phantom that suddenly appeared just now, his strength should be more than what it appears to be.
"Ha, do you know that I have a grudge against the formless soul within you?"
The two were once disciples of the Sitong Martial Arts School. Back then, they always asked Li Fan to buy medicinal herbs for them. He must know how much the An family had forced him into this situation.
At this moment, does bringing the Formless Soul with her body to find him mean that she thinks he is magnanimous, or that she thinks he can't detect the existence of the Formless Soul?
Seeing Zhang Ping's bad attitude, Li Fan's expression remained unchanged. Instead, he slowly took out a bundle of bamboo scrolls from behind him.
Using his qi and blood, he delivered the bamboo scroll to Zhang Ping.
Zhang Ping took the bamboo scroll, feeling a cool sensation upon touching it. The bamboo's color was unique; it wasn't ordinary green bamboo, but rather a jet-black texture.
It is not jade, but real bamboo.
Looking up at Li Fan, Zhang Ping opened the bamboo scroll without hesitation and read its contents.
He finished reading it quickly, a thoughtful look appearing on his face, followed by some doubts.
Why do you have these records?
The bamboo scroll contains records about the Demon Lord and the Old Zhao, and it also emphasizes the battle in which the Lord of the Old Zhao was sealed away.
You should know that he only learned this secret from the Demon Lord.
The bamboo scrolls contain more details.
Li Fan said, "Zhang Ping, the source of the records is not important; what's important is that they are all true."
"The Demon Lord is neither the former ruler of Zhao, nor Wang Ping. His birth is the inevitable result of the ancient demon corpse. His existence is closely related to the sealed space."
"Plain brute force is no longer enough to kill him. Only by breaking through to the Divine Power Realm and using divine sense to connect with one's blood and qi can one possibly cause substantial damage. Otherwise, the only way to kill him is to go to the sealed space."
Zhang Ping shook his head, somewhat amused.
"These things don't seem to concern you, do they?"
When the two met again, their attitudes toward each other were completely different.
Zhang Ping knew very well that his friend was Li Fan, not the Formless Soul Li Fan. Therefore, he wouldn't easily believe what the other party said.
Li Fan fell silent for a while before speaking with a hint of honesty: "To be honest, although I was possessed by the Wuxiang Soul, I am different from Anqing. It is my master."
"Is that so?" Zhang Ping scoffed, neither confirming nor denying.
"Whether you believe it or not, I can tell you how to prevent the Demon Lord from entering the sealed space, and how to survive safely within the sealed space."
Zhang Ping looked at him and said, "Speak."
As he uttered the word, a gray phantom stood behind him, bathed in moonlight, its two scythes reflecting a cold, clear light.
Li Fan felt a powerful force pressing down on him from a distance, and suddenly the area within a hundred meters was crushed by a force to a depth of one meter!
A piercing voice roared in his mind: "That's... a Dao Xiao...!"
"Walk..."
Ignoring the voice in his mind, Li Fan straightened up with difficulty and said, "The black chain you obtained from An Qing is called the Holy Demon Chain. It is a small part of the chain used to seal the former ruler of Zhao."
"By activating the chains with human blood, we can restrict the Demon Lord!"
Zhang Ping frowned after hearing this: "It's that simple?"
"That's right, but it can only trap the Demon Lord for a very short time and cannot harm him. After entering the sealed space, even though you are wearing chains, you will not be affected by the power of the demon corpse."
Li Fan nodded, and then spoke directly:
"I will tell you how to kill the Demon Lord from the ancient demon corpse, but this chain can no longer be used to repair the seal. I hope you can trade the chain to me after you kill the Demon Lord."
"In exchange, I can use this demon core."
He took out a deep red sphere, and the moment it appeared, a phoenix phantom appeared above it, swirling around, lifelike and divine.
A glint of surprise flashed in Zhang Ping's eyes, and he reached out to snatch it to take a look.
At this moment, the phantom behind Li Fan reappeared, carrying a strange power, and his aura surged!
It faintly carried a trace of power that even those at the Marrow Infusion Realm did not possess.
Upon contact with this power, Zhang Ping's vital energy was divided and disappeared from both sides before any collision could occur.
"Hmm? Interesting."
Seeing that he couldn't directly seize it, he simply gave up.
With his arms crossed, he said to Li Fan, "Tell me your information, and I promise to exchange you after I've dealt with the Demon Lord."
"If we can't defeat the Demon Lord in the end, you can use that thing called the Demon Core to trade for the chains I have."
"In addition, he also explained what divine sense permeated blood and qi, and what the demon core was."
Whew, Whew
Li Fan took a couple of deep breaths and slowly withdrew the illusory figure behind him.
Zhang Ping's three sentences only gave him one feeling.
Overbearing and domineering.
Is this the posture of possessing absolute power?
After a moment of silence, he spoke: "...