Demon Taming: Start by synthesizing a Lantern Ghost with Divine and Demonic Talents

Chapter 131: Heavenly Soul Devourer, Ghost Doesn't Believe You Can Defeat Me

Li Chunfeng entered the blessed land of the Dark Abyss Ruins.

Complete the final soul fusion.

Previously, the Soul-Merging Lantern Ghost's 'Soul Devouring' talent was upgraded from Earth-Rank Low to Heaven-Rank Low.

1.43 million units have been synthesized, and 2.44 million units are still needed.

After more than a month of soul fusion, the subsequent 6.33 million lantern ghosts have finally all completed their soul fusion.

The lantern's appearance has changed significantly; its facial features are no longer illusionary, and it now possesses a pair of eerie green demonic eyes. Its internal attributes have also undergone a major transformation.

[Burning Lamp]: Yaksha Level 8 (Tier 3)
【talent】:
1. Soul Devouring (Low-grade Heaven Rank)

(Soul-Capturing Whip, Soul-Devouring Fang Armor, Nine Netherworld Demon Eye, Death Soul Curse Mark, Living Soul Perception)
II. Heart Lamp (Mid-grade Celestial Rank)

(Heart Light Halo, Heart Light and Shadow Embryo Great Barrier, Dawn Halo)
[Spell]:
鬼魅影遁（地阶5级）、灵魂火弹（天阶5级）、念力护盾（天阶4级）、念力拳头（天阶1级）、幻影分身（地阶9级）、烽火狼烟（地阶1级）。

Li Chunfeng secretly observed the new attributes of Randeng, and with a thought, he immediately merged with Randeng to transform into a demon.

All of a sudden.

With the Heavenly Rank 'Soul Devouring' activated, boundless black shadows spread across the void behind him.

Deep within Li Chunfeng's pupils, a rich, eerie green emerged, radiating an aura of madness.

[Nine Nether Demon Eyes, a low-grade Heaven-rank pupil technique. It is a secret inheritance from the Soul-Devouring Beast's innate spiritual pupils. At its highest level, it can reach the Nine Heavens and traverse the Nine Netherworlds. It can see through illusions, identify spatial rifts, and penetrate formations. An opponent who looks directly into the Nine Nether Demon Eyes will involuntarily experience hallucinations of fear, as if their soul is being stolen, causing them to flinch before the battle even begins. Even in places where divine sense is severely suppressed, the Nine Nether Demon Eyes can play a significant role.]

With this eye technique, once combined with two demonic pets, the theory of double pupils seems to be becoming a reality.

[Death Soul Curse Mark, a secret innate curse mark technique inherited from the Soul-Devouring Beast, a Heavenly Rank curse mark spell. It silently etches a Death Soul Curse Mark within the enemy's soul. Once unleashed, it binds and suppresses the opponent's soul. When your soul's pressure surpasses that of your opponent, it can directly destroy their soul, causing severe damage, or even annihilating them.]

Soul perception, as the name suggests, is the talent of perceiving the existence of a living soul.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Soul-Devouring Beast, no matter where a living soul hides, it cannot escape its perception and devouring.

These are all secondary talents; the most important one is 'Soul Devouring'.

The Heavenly Rank 'Soul Devouring' can already be used as a primary offensive method to directly attack the opponent's soul. If the opponent has no soul defense methods and no advantage in cultivation level, they will immediately be taken advantage of.

Li Chunfeng felt the urge to give back to his family again.

Fortunately, he managed to endure it. His cultivation progress was not slow, and slow cultivation was a good way to consolidate his foundation.

Moreover, lighting the lamps is not yet the optimal condition.

He still has 60 million Daogong (merit points) invested, which haven't been credited to his account yet.

In theory, it takes 1,162.26 million lantern ghosts to upgrade 'Soul Devourer' from low-grade Heaven Rank to mid-grade Heaven Rank.

He has already merged with over 3.89 million spirits, and still needs 7.73 million more lantern ghosts.

Calculated this way, 60 million Dao merits are still not enough.

Li Chunfeng immediately realized that he needed to invest more and make more money.

Furthermore, as the 'Heart Lamp' talent advanced to the mid-level of the Heaven Rank, a 'Dawn Halo' inheritance was also derived.

[The Dawn Halo, a Heavenly Rank inheritance, originates from the breath of the soul, simulating the life light of the primordial dawn. Bathing in this halo can heal wounds of the soul.]

This talent is exactly what Li Chunfeng needs right now.

He immediately cast 'Dawn Aura' on himself.

Within the ruins of the Dark Abyss, a ray of light, like the first ray of light born at the dawn of creation, pierced through the dense darkness. Behind Li Chunfeng's head, a heart lamp rose, its light ringing and constantly changing colors, radiating a rich aura of life.

Bathed in this halo, Li Chunfeng felt the cracks in the inner wall of the small inner world begin to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He decided to focus on recovering from his injury.

When he emerged from seclusion again, Xiao Neijing Tiandi's injuries had been completely healed.

After being destroyed, the inner wall of this divine aperture became even thicker.

He was in top form and ready to dominate the battlefield.

They then entered the Sword Debate Platform.

match!

Hundreds of spectators immediately entered the venue.

At this time, Li Chunfeng's popularity was not as great as it had been at the beginning, but he still had a group of viewers who would watch him whenever he entered the arena.

Their true intentions are obvious without even asking.

To this day, everyone on the Super God Zed leaderboard has lost, including Sha Lairu, who was number one last season.

This demon is a rare sand spirit demon, and its strange innate abilities have been analyzed by humans many times before.

His talent is questioned, and it involves the Way of Time.

The Sands of Time!
It allows for some degree of rewinding of time.

As his opponent, he sometimes had the upper hand but would inexplicably lose, but the demons and monsters of the Ghost Clan were precisely his nemesis. In all the battles that Sha Lai Ru encountered with the demons and monsters, he never won once. His Mad Sand was helpless against the Void-body Ghost Clan.

Others such as the 'Nine-Headed Golden Lion' Yuan Sheng, the 'Vermilion Bird' Zhu Xiao Hong, the Azure-Eyed Golden Crystal Beast, and the Ghost Clan's Kui, Wu Chang, and Du E Ghost Monk have all failed.

Li Chunfeng is the only one who remains undefeated to this day.

Of course, it's also possible that Li Chunfeng hasn't encountered a supreme expert yet.

New talents emerge in every generation, but the most popular contestant recently is not Li Chunfeng, but a newcomer from the demon race whose human alias is 'Leihou'.

Its true form as a demon is a cub of the bloodline of the ancient divine beast Thundercloud Lion.

The Ancient Thundercloud Lion is a legendary divine beast. Its fur is as white and flawless as clouds, flowing gracefully like an immortal. Its eyes are as deep as the sky, containing hidden lightning that seems to radiate wisdom. Most strikingly, its entire body is constantly surrounded by pale blue lightning, a symbol of its control over the power of lightning.

The Thundercloud Lion lives in the sky, accompanied by thunder and lightning. It is regarded as the messenger of the sky god and possesses boundless wisdom and power.

Even today, little is known about the majesty of the ancient mythical beasts. But through the battle of Thunder Roar, the beings of the Three Realms seem to have witnessed what the ancient Thundercloud Lion looked like in battle.

This is also why Leihou is favored by the demon race.

Since his debut, he has also been on a winning streak, showing a similar momentum to Li Chunfeng in the past.

Li Chunfeng's first opponent today is a famous demon, Ao Wen of the 'Dragon Lice Clan'.

This was their first time facing off, but they were not strangers to each other.

Ao Wen was ranked thirty-sixth, far higher than Li Chunfeng. But when he saw he was matched against Li Chunfeng, he was filled with frustration. "Human, do you dare not summon that wretched lantern and fight me fair and square?"

Li Chunfeng gave him a look, letting him figure it out for himself.

"Squeak! You wretched humans!"

As the countdown ended, Ao Wen made the first move, instantly revealing his true form, which transformed into thousands of dragon lice, like a cloud of insects, swarming towards Li Chunfeng.

In some ways, their fighting styles are somewhat similar.

One relied on the lantern ghost's clone, and the other relied on the insect cloud dragon louse.

Li Chunfeng calmly snapped his fingers, and the Lantern Ghost appeared above his head.

The light and shadow around him immediately changed, as if he were walking on a dense tree-lined path, with sunlight filtering through the dappled leaves.

The light and shadow of the heart's lamp conceal the great barrier of the womb.

When the water beetle swooped down, it immediately fell into layers of enchanted space, losing its way amidst the light and shadow.

In the next instant, 108,000 lantern ghosts appeared out of nowhere.

A concentrated barrage of fire swept across the entire battlefield. The spectators outside the arena erupted in uproar.

Although this move has been demonstrated in reality, this is the first time Li Chunfeng has used his Phantom Clone technique to its fullest extent on the Yuancheng Sword Tournament stage.

The shock it brought was unimaginable.

Despite the intense artillery barrage, Ao Wen managed to escape.

A tiny water beetle flew out of the Soul Fireball's attack range, angrily pointing at Li Chunfeng and cursing, "You despicable and shameless man, if you have the guts, don't use this lantern ghost, fight me fair and square!"

They keep repeating the same few insults; I wonder if the demon race is too civilized.

As Li Chunfeng pointed his finger, a red light flashed and killed the cursing dragon beetle.

"Heh heh, you think I'm dead? I'm still alive and well. As long as the dragonflies are eradicated, I will never die!" A sharp shout came from another direction again.

Li Chunfeng paused, "Randeng, use your soul perception to find his location and kill all the dragon lice."

Upon receiving the order, the lantern ghost clones instantly spread out in several directions.

While the spectators outside the arena were gloating, wondering what Li Chunfeng would do,...

Then, after the lantern ghost spat out several soul fireballs, its shouts ceased.

The battlefield disappeared, and the group was teleported away.

Li Chunfeng easily won a victory.

"...That's it?"

Li Chunfeng continued matchmaking, his next opponent being the Demon Butterfly Zerg.

The Demon Butterfly possesses aerial superiority and air-to-ground combat abilities, and her illusion magic is so masterful that it's indistinguishable from reality. Those who fight her often find themselves bewildered, as if they're hitting thin air. She enjoys toying with her opponents, whether demons or humans, finding pleasure in making them look foolish.

In the past, Li Chunfeng might have had to use some methods to deal with this kind of opponent, but now...

She had run into a trap, but she summoned the lamp and let it do as it pleased.

Under the Nine Netherworld Demon Eyes, all illusions are mere tricks.

The Demon Butterfly's transformation is a small human form with butterfly wings on its back, somewhat similar to the Mosquito Taoist, but the human form is more complete.

She immediately unleashed her strongest illusion technique, but it was repeatedly seen through by the lantern ghost's clones. Realizing she had met her match, she began to exploit her speed advantage. She flew away on the wind, each flap of her wings creating streaks of azure wind blades, clearly giving her a significant advantage in aerial combat as well.

For most players, she doesn't need any special skills when facing her; she just needs to keep bombarding the opponent, and winning is practically a pipe dream.

Even if the main body of the lamp could not keep up with its speed, the number of its clones was simply too great. When the clones surrounded it in groups, it was trapped without the lamp's knowledge, and it could no longer escape. The defeat was inevitable.

Li Chunfeng won two matches in a row, but did not leave. He then played more than ten more matches.

As more and more spectators gathered outside the venue, everyone realized that Li Chunfeng seemed poised to climb the rankings.

As his winning streak continued to improve, his ranking also slowly rose.

Most importantly, we are not far from reaching two thousand consecutive wins.

The current record is 1890 wins and 0 losses.

Once the 2,000-game winning streak is achieved, the ranking will likely soar to single digits.

Everyone ahead of him in line was under immense pressure, wondering how to deal with this eerie lantern ghost.

Some clever players have proposed the "anti-magic field" method.

However, races possessing anti-magic talents are extremely rare. Even among the demon race, the Soul-Dispelling Insect is an extremely precious bloodline remnant, and given its relatively weak nature, not a single Soul-Dispelling Insect has appeared in Abyss City so far. Other races certainly possess similar methods; the question is whether they are effective.

Huang Tianhe had been watching from the stands for a long time. He did want to fight Li Chunfeng, but until he had a way to deal with the Lantern Ghost, he decided to give up.

He planned to study swordsmanship, for once one's swordsmanship reached a high level, one would have methods to counter countless clones. Sword energy and thunderous sound, sword light splitting, sword refining into threads, man and sword becoming one, ten thousand swords returning to their origin, one sword breaking ten thousand laws, and other superb sword techniques were all the nemesis of the lantern ghost clones.

In his view, the lantern ghost clones might be able to wreak havoc when they are at a low level, but they might not be able to be invincible when they encounter high-level enemies.

Li Chunfeng fought fifty-nine matches in a row without ever losing.

In the 1950th match, the opponent was a demon, ranked 9th.

This is also the highest-ranked player that Li Chunfeng has been matched with so far.

Upon receiving the news, the residents of Yuancheng flocked to the Sword Debate Platform and entered the stands.

The top ten contestants are watched by people, and they all get a cut of the ticket sales.

The demons and monsters hope that as many people as possible will watch.

"Man, do you still want the Ghostly Shadow Escape Technique?"

Taking advantage of the countdown time, Li Chunfeng's ghost clan friends, instead of being at each other's throats, started doing business with him.

"…want!"

"Prepare your Heavenly Coins."

"how many?"

"Only more than last time."

Li Chunfeng immediately scratched his head. If the price were the same as last time, he wouldn't have that many Heavenly Dao Coins.

"How about we make a bet? If I win this round, you have to give me a huge discount."

"Gamblers never prosper, and I hate gambling... What's your bet?"

Li Chunfeng said, "...If you lose, I'll give you a low-grade soul crystal."

"Hmm? The Earth-rank Soul Crystal auctioned last time was indeed from your hands. Can you get another one?" A clearly moved divine thought emanated from a shadowy figure.

Li Chunfeng has really gone all out this time, not afraid of failing to lure the shrewd Ghost Clan. "We can sign a fair contract, with Yuan City as the witness." This is one of Yuan City's privileged means.

The demonic flames flickered wildly a few times, "Tell me your conditions."

Thus, their thoughts intertwined, and they began a fierce bargaining match.

"50% off? Has Gui Gui gone mad?"

"Is that a Tier 1 Soul Crystal?"

“But you don’t have the actual item, and if you lose, the delivery will be delayed. If you die in the Abyss, wouldn’t Gui Gui be at a loss?”

"...Hmph, if I die in the Abyss, what does it matter to me if you lose money?"

The demonic flames flickered wildly once more, “…Your lantern ghost techniques are useless against me, but you’re full of morale right now. I don’t believe you can beat me. But… I learned from you humans that you worry about defeat before you even start a battle. I can’t accept a 50% discount, at most 60%.”

"50% off, this is the final price! The countdown is about to end?"

"…make a deal!"

The two parties communicated through telepathy and quickly drafted the contract.

The process may seem lengthy, but it actually only takes a few seconds.

The cunning demon was finally forced to back down.

Outsiders were unaware that this human and this ghost had made a deal in such a short time.

As the hourglass ran out of sand, the demon's divine sense suddenly erupted with a shrill cry, "Human, you're doomed. Today, this ghost will unleash its full power!"

The overwhelming pressure of divine souls swept over him, and Li Chunfeng was also startled.

"Oh no, this guy was hiding his true strength?"

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(End of this chapter)