The King of Curses

Chapter 273: Death of the Dragon Slayer, End of the War
A faint white light emerged from the sky. At first, it was just an inconspicuous light, like the faint glow of dusk, but in an instant it expanded into a huge blow spanning a thousand meters.

Zhang Shidao was nearly beheaded, but luckily he had prepared enough clones to block a fatal attack for him. He could only return to the defense circle formed by the gods in disgrace.

Now he understood.

That girl didn't seem like someone with whom she could communicate in human language. No wonder she turned hostile so quickly and killed people as if they were grass on the roadside. It wasn't because she was decisive, but because she was crazy enough.

Once such a person makes up his mind, there is no possibility of persuading him.

Zhang Shidao had encountered this type of guy before, and he had no choice but to use the method of "personal destruction" to deal with him. But if this kind of paranoid guy became the top powerhouse in the world of curse masters, then it would simply be... a scourge to this world.

In comparison, although the leader of the Super Working Committee was a difficult woman to deal with and had just attacked him without hesitation, which was simply the definition of despicable, she was at least someone he could communicate with.

"Counselor An, can we talk?"

"You're going to surrender, aren't you?"

He heard the woman's words, and then she sighed.

"Although I should consider your proposal from the perspective of interests, the revenge for the murder of my husband must be avenged."

"Kill, kill my husband..."

Zhang Shidao finally reacted and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Stop pretending, Cen Dongsheng...that man is not dead at all."

"I didn't expect you to still care about other people's lives."

"You have already got the stuff, and the Dragon Slayer is dead. You have no losses. I have lost completely this time."

Zhang Shidao sighed.

"If you have any other requests, you can ask for them. But if you just want to kill someone or humiliate me, then do it directly."

"If you plan to give up, then it doesn't matter whether you live or die?"

"I will not die in this place. If I am killed, I will definitely take revenge afterwards."

Zhang Shidao chose to give up. To show his attitude, he drove away all the gods and spirits surrounding him.

"Is this a threat?"

A cold voice came from the side.

"Come on, don't you want to kill me?"

Zhang Shidao spread out his hands and his expression calmed down.

——He is not lying.

An Zhizhen saw through it at a glance that the other party was not pretending to be calm.

He must have really left a backup plan for himself. Even if he was killed, he would still find a way to resurrect him.

With greed and desire, even a strong man like a special-class spell-binding master will reveal his weaknesses; and as the saying goes, "no desire means strength", at this moment he is more difficult to deal with than before.

She weighed the pros and cons silently.

Although it is unclear what the principle of Zhang Shidao's "backup plan" is, if she uses all her strength, even if she cannot kill this person, she will most likely cause serious damage to his spirit and soul.

If he could cause irreparable damage to Zhang Shidao, causing his strength to weaken and he would never be a threat to him again…if he could eliminate a competitor in advance, then the deal could still be done.

But according to Dongsheng's information, Zhang Shidao is one of the members who will become the "ancestor" in the future. In other words, in addition to the life ban of heaven, he has other adventures. Unless he can make up his mind to crush him and the "Ten Thousand Immortals Meeting" together after this incident...

As for sister Qingyan, although her ability was so powerful that even the special-class spell-forbidden masters could only avoid the sharp edge, there was nothing she could do if she couldn't hit anyone with the space slash. The opponent had already keenly noticed this and was now forcing her to take action.

"it is good."

Yi Qingyan didn't care about that and raised her hand, ready to cut her opponent into pieces.

but……

"Ugh...!"

She suddenly covered her forehead, frowned her slender eyebrows, and turned her head away abruptly.

“An Zhizhen…!”

Yi Qingyan called out the name word by word, and this time she really wanted to disregard everything and start the second war between sisters.

"Whether you want to seek revenge in your own way, let's listen to the person involved's opinion."

An Zhizhen said.

"Whether to kill or compensate, it's up to him to decide."

*
The situation became tense again. After receiving the message from his elder sister, Cen Dongsheng's heart was lifted again.

"Dongsheng, you might have to come over."

"I understand."

Cen Dongsheng actually didn't expect that his sister would lose control at this time.

It’s okay that his two teammates don’t understand his abilities, but his sister definitely knows.

It was under the pressure she brought that he awakened the extraordinary power of "immortality"; in addition, it was also thanks to his sister that he experienced the feeling of death for the first time.

"It's not just Sister Qingyan. I feel angry too. Even if you won't die, you'll still feel pain, right?"

"…I am a spellcaster and a warrior, not a child. It doesn't matter if I feel pain."

Cen Dongsheng said helplessly.

"Haha, the point is that the other party despises you and has murderous intentions towards you...but knowing that you are not dead, you still want to go crazy like Sister Qingyan. I really can't do that."

The main reason was that he felt very comfortable when he was killed. If you want to say that he looked down on me, then I did look down on him, but Cen Dongsheng didn't have a high opinion of himself.

"After all, she is not an ordinary person."

My elder sister has a keen eye and saw the problem clearly in an instant.

"In my opinion, it is because she killed you first that she doesn't want others to kill you."

Cen Dongsheng thought for a moment and finally came to his senses.

He still remembered the agreement between the brother and sister. When his sister couldn't bear it anymore, she could use him, who couldn't be killed, as a tool to vent her desires;
In other words, killing her own brother was seen by Yi Qingyan as a right that belonged only to her?
Isn’t this logic a bit too convoluted?

Cen Dongsheng scratched his hair. He felt that not only his sister's ideas were novel, but he himself seemed very neurotic for understanding this...

"I'll come over now."

"Wait a moment."

An Zhizhen suddenly stopped him again. The woman's tone showed a rare hint of surprise, which then turned into a faint smile.

"There is also an unexpected guest who seems to be reluctant to leave this battlefield."

Cen Dongsheng reacted quickly.

"The Dragon Slayer is back?"

...The Dragon Slayer is back.

This person's body was cut in half by "Infernal Hell", so he simply gave up his physical body.

But he did not give up his goal and floated into the abyss in the state of soul.

Just as night fell, the pitch-black sky rose from the end of the earth, like a huge curtain, eerie and yet omnipresent.

"Give the sword back...!"

The dragon slayer, who had completely abandoned his physical body, continued to linger in the human world with the "art of returning the soul to heaven and earth", and transformed himself into a giant ghost several thousand meters long.

He looked like a giant, as he was when he was alive, but his pupils were dim. He looked down at the people below and roared in a low voice.

"You are so obsessed with a dead object." Zhang Shidao shook his head and sighed, "How... stupid."

It was clearly a death situation, but he charged forward headfirst, like a madman, trying to take the sword back.

No one could understand the Dragon Slayer’s thoughts at this moment. He didn’t even know that the Kunwu Sword had been moved away and did not exist on the battlefield at all.

The other two would also consider whether the Dragon Slayer had any other cards after transforming into a ghost, but Yi Qingyan's response was always the most straightforward.

In order to deal with Yi Qingyan's indestructible Space Slash, several special-class curse masters who had fought with her came up with different strategies; but Yi Qingyan also accumulated experience in fighting with opponents of the same level and began to learn to adjust her abilities.

For example, in the fight with Zhang Shidao just now, she noticed that the Space Slash had limited killing power against enemies with spiritual existence, so in order to eliminate the opponent more effectively, the girl chose to change the output efficiency.

The essence of "Space Slash" is the dimensional fracture formed when the other dimension symbolized by "Infernal Hell" intersects with the real world. She can manipulate the size of this cross section at will, and it is a special attack against physical existence.

But this does not mean that Yi Qingyan has no way to deal with souls that are not in the physical plane, because her ability is not essentially to act on matter, but on space——

"Go to hell."

The girl snorted coldly, raised a finger, and stopped slashing, instead aiming at the huge figure rising from the abyss.

Following the gaps that intersect with reality, driven by the master's will, the coverage of the other dimension quickly expanded, like a big mouth slowly opening, and then...

——suddenly closed.

If space cutting is a "line", then dimension swallowing is a "circle".

A huge gap suddenly appeared on the dragon slayer's seemingly huge body, just like the strange sight of "the heavenly dog ​​swallowing the moon".

In the eyes of others, it was as if a black hole appeared out of nowhere in reality, swallowing up everything it affected.

The different dimension that can devour everything makes "Infernal Hell" a veritable "hell" - Yi Qingyan is equivalent to throwing all the ghosts that appear in the real plane into another world under her control.

Zhang Shidao felt his scalp tingling as he watched from the side.

If it happens again, he might be able to feel the power of this move personally. The opponent's speed in destroying gods and spirits is greatly improved, and the efficiency may be no less than that of "Tiankui Quanshou".

"Dimensional Devouring..."

Yi Qingyan gave a name to the readjusted ability usage mode.

The "black hole" appeared again and again, and the dragon slayer's spirit was bitten to pieces by the power of the other dimension in just a few breaths.

The remaining body was like a broken membrane, trying to wriggle and piece itself together again.

But another cold and brutal force intervened at this time. The star that illuminates the spiritual world is almost the nemesis of all intangible ghosts. The debris quickly burned until it was completely burned into nothingness.

"Senior, oh senior... you really make me feel sorry for you. You have finally reached this level and are ahead of everyone else. Why do you want to seek death?"

There was a hint of pity in the man's pupils.

……

As a top expert in the field of mental and spiritual interference, An Zhizhen sees everything that is happening more clearly.

At the core of that huge spirit body is the soul of the dragon slayer. However, he is not a "person" there. There are several pairs of arms wrapped around his body, and you can see a broken head and a bloody body.

The soul of the dragon slayer was inside it, with his eyes closed and a look of pain on his face.

His own consciousness was unable to control his own spirit, causing him to fall into the trap.

"There is more than one soul in this person. Is he haunted by an evil spirit?"

Even if the Dragon Slayer is not familiar with the fighting methods after becoming a spirit, with the soul size of a special-class curse-master, he shouldn't be entangled by wronged souls, right?

It is hard to imagine that a special-class spell-binding master who is "possessed by the devil" or a ghost born after death will be controlled by other souls and reduced to the point of having to commit suicide.

The woman had a guess: unless these souls have been lurking in the dragon slayer's body from the beginning and have become a part of him, they are difficult to let go.

This is not just imaginary.

One of the two girls around Dongsheng has a perceptive ability that surpasses that of a special-class spell-forbidden master. From her, An Zhizhen learned about the past between the Dragon Slayer and the old man:

They once studied under the same master, but the Dragon Slayer killed all the members of the same sect for some secret inheritance of the sect, leaving only the youngest one, "Old Seven".

But this was not because the Dragon Slayer was soft-hearted and let this survivor go, but because he had other uses for this survivor...

It was unknown how the Kunwu sword was forged, and it required a blood sacrifice by himself to pull it out; but the dragon slayer was able to pull the sword out by sacrificing a blood sacrifice to his junior brother.

This shows that there is a close connection between him and his former fellow apprentices, and that they can even replace each other. The fact that his soul is so complex after his death is even more proof of this.

As for whether her guess was correct...

An Zhizhen opened her hands, waiting for Sister Qingyan to easily destroy the dragon slayer's spirit, while she took the opportunity to collect the last remnant of this person's soul.

A ball of light fell into the palm of the woman's hand, which recorded the most important memories of the Dragon Slayer before his death.

An Zhizhen took a quick look with his consciousness and found that what was recorded was the secret teachings of the Dragon Slayer's school, including the "Art of Returning the Soul to Heaven and Earth" and the feng shui map of mountains and rivers that recorded the dragon veins of the world, as well as his later in-depth research on these two materials.

This became the prototype of the special forbidden spell "Mountain and River Bone Form", and it also concealed the truth about the Dragon Slayer's soul transformation...

However, this part will have to wait until later to be studied with Dongsheng, she thought to herself as she put away the soul fragments.

……

The special class curse master and dragon slayer died.

His lifelong ambitions and achievements fell into the hands of Cen Dongsheng and others, who crushed his bones and scattered his ashes, and even spared his last bit of soul.

One minute later, Cen Dongsheng arrived at the scene.

He stopped his sister Qingyan from losing her temper, and under the guidance of his elder sister, he signed an unequal armistice agreement on his own behalf with the Super Working Committee and Zhang Shidao.

*
The war is over.

Zhang Shidao left on the second day, and all the people from the Wanxian Chaohui evacuated with him.

Shanyin Ghost Market lost their "big boss", which meant that they lacked a powerful protector from then on. After this incident, it became an unknown whether those folk curse masters would still be willing to come to this place.

This would not be a problem because the Super Working Committee and its leaders are here.

But in this matter, a small accident happened...

"This city belongs to me now."

Yi Qingyan announced this.

(End of this chapter)