Scourge Messenger

Chapter 469 Clearance
【Royal Sun Chariot】!
【Bingsaichuan】!
【Sword Gallant Ash】!
All weapons were unleashed in an instant, and all offensive divine powers engulfed the Sorrowful Taoist in a flash. The attached 'Great Bright Tathagata Fire' almost set the Sorrowful Taoist ablaze, and his massive body melted and disintegrated like snow in spring, but the dark divine soul hidden within became even more solid.

His body simultaneously showed signs of life and death, like the Buddhist Nirvana or the Taoist ascension to immortality. The messengers were less of an attack and more of a way to help him shed his earthly shell!

"The body is as vibrant as blooming flowers, the heart as undisturbed as an ancient tree. Joys and sorrows, partings and reunions are all but fleeting clouds, the supreme being transcends emotions and sees the true spirit."

The Daoist of Sorrow and Joy could no longer be seen; only a blazing white soul remained. His voice was devoid of sorrow or joy, distant as if a god were chanting an ancient testimony. The [Unending Feast] began to twist and transform. The ceiling resembled delicious melted ice cream, the floor fluffy like a cake, and a greenish-yellow liquid was squeezed out of the air. The light stung everyone's eyes like needles!
"The Tribulation Position is wondrous..." Wei Bai murmured, "But this is not any existing Tribulation Position... He is proving a new Tribulation Position in the void!?"

"Empty certificate?" Deng Jin's eyes widened. "But he's just a fourth-level Extreme Realm Demon King!"

Regardless of whether he had reached the Void Realm or not, everyone realized that when the Daoist of Sorrow and Joy completely shed his flesh and blood, that would be the moment he reached his peak! However, the Daoist of Sorrow and Joy was currently in a state of near-invincibility, and the Great Bright Tathagata Fire alone could not interrupt his ascension!
"As expected, they did come here. Please wait a moment."

When Yan Qing was struck by the Boundless Light of the Sorrowful and Joyful Daoist, Deng Jin and the others all thought he had fallen into a near-death state and triggered the [Unbreakable] debuff. Only now did they realize that he was still standing perfectly fine in the River of Boundless Light, still enduring the Sorrowful and Joyful Daoist's death sentence. His body was as if it were an illusion, completely unharmed!
Yan Qing could tell at a glance that the weakness of the Sorrowful Daoist had changed, or rather, Yan Qing had never asked about the weakness of the Sorrowful Daoist in the first place, because he and Miao Bi had asked about the weakness of the 'Extreme Sorrowful Daoist'. But who knew that the Sorrowful Daoist would become a new character after his karma bar was reduced to zero?

But it's not too late now; Yan Qing needs time to replenish his spiritual energy anyway. He reached into his ear, pulled out a writing brush, and, gazing at the Wounded and Joyful Daoist, asked with flowing strokes, "What is the weakness of the person before you?"

With a stroke of the pen, the answer to "love" is revealed.

Yan Qing raised an eyebrow. The fact that the 'Extreme Sorrowful Daoist' needed the Light and Flame attribute to counter it was already troublesome enough, since Light and Flame was only one branch of the Flame Dao, far inferior to other branches in both destructive power and burning efficiency, only proving effective against undead enemies. Now, the Sorrowful Daoist needed the Bewitching attribute, an even more niche attribute. The Bewitching attribute itself didn't deal extra damage; it only activated when the Bewitching attribute gauge accumulated to a certain level, causing the enemy to become confused and unable to distinguish friend from foe for a short period.

Almost no one would specialize in using the Bewitching Destruction skill, since Bewitching Destruction is only useful in low-level secret realms—in high-difficulty secret realms, there is only one enemy, the Demon King. Even if the Demon King is confused by Bewitching Destruction, he has no allies to attack him—therefore, Yan Qing naturally did not prepare any items with the Bewitching Destruction attribute.

Most teams that reach this point either reset the dungeon and go back to prepare, or they have no choice but to fight the Sorrowful Taoist head-on. But among Yan Qing's teammates, there happens to be someone who can handle this kind of tricky attribute advantage.

"Snake, I need love potion!"

"as you wish!"

Shang Xinlei manipulated the flying rings, which shimmered with a cherry blossom pink light, like two bright moons dreaming of a young girl lying on a soft bed—both romantic and lovely. But the Daoist of Sorrow and Joy was utterly shaken upon seeing these two flying rings, like a small animal encountering a ferocious predator! [The Formless Slaughter]!
Shang Xinlei's Dao Foundation Divine Ability, [Formless Slaughter], has only one effect: adding different attribute damage to her own tokens. Although the value isn't low, it seems too ordinary compared to destructive divine abilities like [Life and Death Together] and [Sword's Gall]. However, after Yan Qing's Quadrennial Calamity transformation, the destructive power of Shang Xinlei's divine ability has almost jumped to the top ranks of the team, and its potential is unimaginable.

Because the [Formless Slaughter] supernatural power can be stacked multiple times without limitation!
In short, as long as Shang Xinlei is willing to expend spiritual energy, she can add multiple attribute damage such as fire, lightning, water, earth, poison, etc. to her tokens. Natural disaster karma is the highest level of additional damage. Simply put, every time Shang Xinlei deals damage, she can trigger true damage. If [Formless Slaughter] is stacked ten times, it can trigger ten additional true damage!

There are over a hundred types of elemental damage in "The Messenger". The fire element alone can be divided into dozens of types such as light flame, ice flame, demon fire, karmic fire, and void devouring flame. However, the higher the level of the flame, the more spiritual energy it consumes. The same applies to other elements.

Once Shang Xinlei reaches the sixth level of the Golden Core realm and her spiritual energy reaches its maximum, she can use [Formless Slaughter] dozens of times. With her two wheels spinning fast, attacking seven or eight times per second is no problem, and her instantaneous damage per second will definitely exceed 10,000, including several thousand true damage. Even Ying Rushi's [Sword Gallant Ash] is far behind, and Yan Qing's hand aches from all the attacks.

It can only be said that natural disasters and karma are incredibly versatile; whoever gets them can undergo a qualitative change. Yan Qing had already planned out the career paths for the thieving women: Shang Xinlei was responsible for single-target burst damage, Ying Rushi was responsible for single-target sustained burst damage, Yao Shiyuan was responsible for group burst damage, and he only needed to be responsible for cawing.

Is the BOSS waiting for his transformation to complete? What a coincidence, I'm also waiting for my spiritual energy to be fully restored.

Yan Qing only realized this now: even in the [Epitaph] state, he could still activate [Life and Death Together]! A third piece of yellow paper appeared in his hand. This piece of yellow paper cost him nearly 250 spirit yuan, which was very close to his spirit yuan limit. He almost couldn't use it!
Yellow paper danced in the air as Shang Xinlei's flying circles swept past, the cherry blossom-pink light severing the yellow paper. The Sorrowful and Joyful Taoist let out a shrill wail, his soul exploding like a punctured balloon, all the strange phenomena of the [Never-Ending Feast] vanished into thin air, returning to its original state.

The Taoist of Sorrow and Joy, is dead!
Yan Qing felt a surge of heat throughout his body, and he couldn't even suppress the restlessness of his Dao Foundation. The Dao Foundation actively manifested some images. Ying Rushi, Yaoshiyuan, and Shang Xinlei were in a similar situation, and in the blink of an eye, the images of the four Dao Foundations overlapped!

upgrade!

They leveled up at least three levels by perfectly clearing the ultimate difficulty dungeon. Someone like Shang Xinlei, who hasn't run a dungeon since reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, might even have leveled up four levels!

Yan Qing immediately deactivated the sharing of the Four Phases of Heavenly Calamity. He could clearly feel his karmic power of Heavenly Calamity surge. The sharing characteristic of the Four Phases of Heavenly Calamity Dao Foundation could be revealed, but the usurpation characteristic still needed to be hidden for the time being.

(End of this chapter)