Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 463 The Three Souls Military Strategy, Mysterious Divine Blade
Bless me! Teach me!
Pei Dongcheng stood up as he said this.

The longsword with a black hilt and scabbard and an apricot-yellow tassel on the table suddenly sprang to life, its hilt being delivered into his hand.

kill! !
Pei Dongcheng was like a great general who had been awakened from a dream in the middle of the night. He suddenly waved the command flag that commanded thousands of troops, and with a flick of his wrist, his long sword pointed straight forward.

The word "kill" did not come out of his mouth.

But everyone felt that there should absolutely be a shout of battle at this time and place.

The scabbard disintegrated in an instant, like a layer of black ash weathered over a thousand years, or like a thousand flying snakes eager to escape their cage.

The smoke, as fine as a hair and as fast as a startled dragon, drifted haphazardly throughout the courtyard.

But in the blink of an eye, all the smoke rose, darting through the air with incredible speed and silence, hurtling towards Chu Tianshu.

This scabbard was never a physical object.

When the sword was placed on the table, it seemed to breathe on its own, constantly absorbing the yin energy from the outside world.

The large amount of yin energy in the ancient city ruins was transformed inside the sword and then expelled, condensing on the surface of the longsword to form a black shell.

When Pei Dongcheng's sword intent was poured into this longsword, the sword spirit unleashed its divine power.

All the essence of Yin energy shot out in mid-air, following the trajectory of the master swordsmanship.

When Chu Tianshu looked over, although all he saw were wisps of smoke, it seemed as if hundreds of ghostly figures were dancing with swords, arranged in formation, flying through the air to attack.

Some of the smoke, without anyone noticing, even appeared above Chu Tianshu and refracted downwards.

The sword formation penetrated everywhere, both in the heavens and on the earth, leaving no opening or flaw.

"Ah!"

Chu Tianshu chuckled softly, and emerald ripples instantly appeared beneath his feet.

The surface of the rabbit lantern is coated with a layer of jade-like luster, as hard as diamond.

The next moment, Chu Tianshu turned slightly, his left foot was in the air, and his right foot kicked the end of the bamboo pole.

A small section of the bamboo pole, about three feet long, broke off on the spot and flew away with the lantern.

As the lantern crashed to the side, a dozen wisps of smoke suddenly appeared, piercing and intercepting it.

However, these wisps of smoke only sparked at the surface of the lantern before being scattered by the lantern.

In a corner of the ancient city ruins, a weasel that came out to hunt for food in the middle of the night looked up.

A single emerald lamp was seen speeding through the sky, disappearing into the distance.

Just as the lights were flashing away into the distance.

Chu Tianshu's figure had already split into two, then four, then eight... as he spun around.

In the blink of an eye, sixteen Chu Tianshus simultaneously plummeted from the height of a seven-story building, crashing into the black smoke rising from the courtyard.

Each wisp of black smoke was originally as tough as black iron wire and as sharp as an ancient divine sword.

However, after being touched by these sixteen Chu Tianshu, the black smoke spun rapidly, sticking to the body surface and drawing in even more black smoke.

When he was off the ground, he was only three stories high.

The black smoke in the courtyard had all been pulled out, leaving only sixteen rapidly spinning black cocoons in the air.

The illusion created by one's own efforts in martial arts is often just that—an illusion.

Chu Tianshu created the fake bodies using his profound internal energy, so each fake body could continue to exist after coming into contact with the black smoke, stirring up even more smoke.

Now, the smoke has become a kind of cover, making it even harder to tell which of the sixteen black cocoons is the real one!
Wu Chunlei, who was the first to spot Chu Tianshu, did not look up but instead stepped back.

As he retreated with the golden bowl, the wall behind him was empty, revealing a hole.

This action was as simple as a thousand-pound iron spear piercing through a windowpane.

Wu Chunlei had already passed through the wall and retreated into the tall building, disappearing from sight.

In the next instant, all the wood on the entire surface of the high-rise building sprouted and budded at an incredible speed.

This scene looks like the entire surface of the skyscraper has grown long hair.

The tiny vines, with each movement, created a series of subtle sonic booms.

Numerous thin vines rapidly twisted into two giant vines, the roots as thick as calves and about ten zhang long, becoming thinner towards the end, and the speed also increasing towards the end.

boom! ! !
It was as if a burst of scorched thunder suddenly erupted in the sky.

The afterimages were so numerous and the speed so fast that no one could see all the traces in that instant.

Of the sixteen black cocoons, fifteen were immediately burst.

Chu Tianshu's true form also fell down, landing on the orange tree with his feet on two thick branches.

The orange tree remained as stable as a mountain even after he stepped on it.

Chu Tianshu had already flashed his hands, reaching out to grab at the air, when he suddenly stopped.

He gripped the ends of the two giant vines tightly with both hands.

He sensed that the vines were able to grow so quickly and powerfully not only because they absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, but also because they absorbed another strange energy in the world.

The sky was dark, the stars were sparse, and the bright moon hung high in the sky.

Chu Tianshu rolled his eyelids upward, and for a moment, the sky he saw was pure blood red.

Crimson clouds billowed, and stars as large as dippers appeared.

These vines are absorbing the power of ancient warrior spirits!

Long before the universe was restored to its proper order, besides the orthodox methods of cultivating strength, comprehending techniques, and blood refining, there was something called "Wild Soldier Soul".

That was the war spirit that continued in a distorted form after the death of the war master, and its essence was already that of an evil spirit.

These wild soldier spirits are generally stronger than ordinary soldier spirits, and they can even actively bewitch humans to help them search for essence blood.

However, since the rise of martial arts, martial artists have gained increasingly stronger control over the souls of their soldiers. The old, wild souls of soldiers in the world would be instantly annihilated when confronted by the powerful blood energy of a martial artist.

Therefore, it is now rare to hear of wild soldiers causing trouble.

However, some of the wild soldier spirits did not disappear, but were collected and controlled.

The collectors were not simply looking to collect them; rather, they believed that the essence of ancient weapon spirits in the blood-red starry sky contained immense power.

A possessed soldier spirit cannot directly draw upon this power, while an unpossessed wild soldier spirit is more similar in its situation to that of an ancient soldier spirit.

However, the limited growth potential of Wild Soldier Soul seems far too weak in the face of the new era of martial arts.

Therefore, based on their own philosophy, they created the "Three Souls Strategy".

Humans have three souls, the life soul being the one that controls the operation of various internal organs.

The Earth Soul governs the perception of tangible and material things in the outside world, while the Heaven Soul governs the perception of intangible and material things in the outside world.

The Three Souls Strategy combines the self-cultivated soldier's soul with the earth's soul, and the wild soldier's soul with the heaven's soul.

The three souls cycle and complement each other, putting the "wild soldier soul" in a seemingly uncertain yet orderly state, thus unleashing enormous potential.

Pei Dongcheng and Wu Chunlei are both practitioners of the Three Souls Military Strategy.

The only difference is the effect of the supernatural power.

Wu Chunlei's supernatural ability is to control the growth of plants.

As soon as Chu Tianshu grabbed the end of the vine, he even felt a slight tingling sensation in his palm.

Those were countless tiny tendrils, trying to burrow into his palm and grow into his flesh.

"Catalyzing life force?!"

Chu Tianshu's eyes were like ghostly fire, and his body rippled with countless waves as he shook his arms with all his might.

Two incredibly powerful emerald light waves surged from the ends of the vines, into their roots, and seeped into the wooden building.

Wu Chunlei, who lived on the first floor of the wooden building, suddenly saw emerald light emanating from the interior of the building. Unperturbed, he abruptly retreated again. In the blink of an eye, he had retreated dozens of feet.

The vines on the surface of the tall building swelled up abnormally, turning from tender to stiff, and the entire wooden building became grotesque.

Like a tall, withered corpse that had instantly exhausted all its life force, the entire wooden building remained completely still.

While both are catalysts for life, the force surging from the other side was truly ruthless, even more ferocious than the supernatural power of Wild Soldier Soul!
However, the golden alms bowl possesses supernatural powers, controlling plants and trees, and using the wood to unleash its power. No matter how fast the opponent retaliates, it can only damage the plants and trees.

Just as Wu Chunlei was about to move to another location to launch a second wave of attacks, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

He originally thought that only the seven-story building appeared distorted due to the swelling of the vines.

But now, when he looks at other houses, he finds that they also appear somewhat distorted and deformed in his eyes.

In his eyes, the golden bowl was no longer golden, but rather faintly shimmered with the luster of jade.

Wu Chunlei's heart skipped a beat.

While the golden bowl was still in mid-air, he had already disengaged from it, retreated ten steps, and suddenly slapped his forehead, chest, and other places with both hands to smooth out his meridians and use the power of his fists to suppress the abnormality in his body.

He thought that he had successfully escaped because he had not been touched by the other party's power.

However, Chu Tianshu's skill had reached a level where he could attack precisely by going against the invisible connection between the golden bowl and the plants.

The Three Souls Strategy states that the Golden Bowl is Wu Chunlei's Heavenly Soul, meaning he directly absorbed Chu Tianshu's power with his own three souls.

This is something that only those with "perfect internal skill" can achieve.

Chu Tianshu had already begun to enter the "Mysterious Skill Without Leaks" stage last night by beating the drum in the wilderness, and it was only on the road today that he finally settled into this level.

Kong Tianrui and the others were naturally unaware of Chu Tianshu's progress on the road.

They didn't even know that Wu Chunlei was temporarily unable to participate in the war.

Just as Chu Tianshu shook the vines with both arms, causing the entire high-rise building to swell and deform.

The other three launched their attacks.

Kong Tianrui moved the fastest; in the blink of an eye, he had already moved from his original position to the orange tree.

Despite being just a martial artist who focused on physical strength, he was able to walk on the branches and leaves of the orange tree as if on flat ground, his figure like a floating cloud, striking out with both palms simultaneously.

With his left hand, he pushed towards Chu Tianshu's lumbar spine, and with his right hand, he struck towards the back of Chu Tianshu's head.

Chu Tianshu instantly changed his hands, placing them behind his back. Instead of using his palms to protect himself, he half-clenched his fists with his thumbs sticking out.

He used his two thumbs to counter Kong Tianrui's palms.

If someone else had done this, Kong Tianrui would have been secretly laughing out loud.

Although there are some martial arts practitioners who specialize in finger strength, their hands will show unusual signs. Those with well-proportioned palms are definitely those whose fist and palm strength far surpasses the strength of a single finger.

But Chu Tianshu's hands were as clear as jade, and the tips of his two thumbs were shiny, golden, and red.

There was a strange, unsettling heat.

Kong Tianrui moved with his mind, and even when launching a full-speed surprise attack, he was still able to immediately withdraw his palm.

But he used even more force with his right hand, which was aimed at the back of the head, and it eventually made contact with Chu Tianshu's thumb, which was placed behind his head.

He withdrew his hand immediately upon touching it, but a reddish-brown spot, like molten iron, remained in his palm.

Kong Tianrui arrived quickly and left just as quickly.

Li Ju's speed was originally similar to his, at most a fraction slower, but his reaction time was probably even a fraction faster.

As Kong Tianrui retreated, Li Ju suddenly sensed something was wrong and abruptly stopped.

Only Pei Dongcheng didn't stop.

He actually saw it too; Kong Tianrui seemed to have fallen for some strange trick.

Perhaps it's poison?

But he had a sword in his hand, so he wasn't fighting empty-handed.

Moreover, Pei Dongcheng couldn't stop either.

His celestial soul merged with the sword; the moment he moved the sword, all three of his souls were stirred.

The crimson starlight seemed to pave a path for him, and at the end of the path was Chu Tianshu.

He sped along the road and thrust his sword straight at us.

At the same time, Chu Tianshu turned around and drew his sword.

This turn should have simply been smooth.

However, it was too smooth, creating a bizarre feeling.

Chu Tianshu became like the source of a dream.

The moment he turned around, a dream exploded into existence.

Stars fly and lightning dances, a hundred scenes flash by.

Emerald-like starlight, accompanied by rapid ripples, erupted wildly and shot outwards.

Chu Tianshu was drawing his sword, and he was also unleashing his inner strength in an unprecedented way.

Internal strength is not a power that a person is born with, but rather a complex type of energy.

Even the most orthodox and pure internal energy will still have some rejection reactions with the human body.

For martial artists specializing in internal energy cultivation, this unavoidable rejection reaction is their biggest weakness.

Chu Tianshu's senses were too sharp. Even though he cultivated extremely pure internal energy, he could still feel this rejection. In normal combat, he inevitably had to resolve this weakness in many complicated situations.

Now that's unnecessary, because he has acquired true meridians!

Normally, the "meridians" in the human body are essentially areas with milder rejection; they are not a set of real organs, but rather as faint as air currents, hence the name "qi meridians."

Those who have cultivated "Mysterious Skill Without Leaks" actually have physical meridians in their bodies.

If someone cultivates internal energy alone and reaches this stage, it's even possible that after death, their bones will be cremated, but their meridians will not be cremated.

With this meridian, Chu Tianshu could disregard any unnecessary and cumbersome self-restraint.

His internal energy was able to flow so smoothly that it was transmitted to Wu Chunlei's three souls in an instant.

Only then can it be as smooth as it is now.

He turned around and drew his sword.

One cut can create a dream!

Pei Dongcheng discovered that the crimson starlight around him had suddenly been dispelled, and the deep and beautiful dreamlike night sky had expanded before his eyes.

In that dream, apart from the dark tone, there were only flashes of blue lightning and scattering of emerald starlight.

That slash landed diagonally on the tip of his sword.

The sword, several feet long, suddenly exploded with hundreds of small holes, and Pei Dongcheng's arm and body were also blasted with such holes.

A pale blue, icy aura emanated from the hole, causing his body to tremble repeatedly.

"Ying'er, so she actually died at the hands of this kind of person..."

A bizarre thought flashed through Pei Dongcheng's mind, who was riddled with wounds.

"Okay, it's not a loss!!"

The next moment, the blade's energy had too many holes, and it blasted him and his sword into powder.

All three souls were annihilated!

(End of this chapter)