I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 467. Cutting the Soul
In that instant, the flow of time around us seemed to slow down a thousand times.

Xia Feng clearly sensed that his soul was cracking like porcelain, with strands of pink light flowing out along these cracks, filling his eyes and submerging his slightly narrowed black pupils.

"Ants." The indifferent pronouncement rang out.

With a soft hum, his soul completely disintegrated, turning into specks of spiritual light that overflowed from his empty body.

His lifeless, dark eyes gazed up at the dim sky as his corpse fell heavily onto the long iron chain bridge in free fall.

As the corpse fell, a glow shone from between its brows, and specks of light spilled out, like treasures dropped after slaying a monster. These light transformed into various spiritual materials scattered all over the ground around the corpse, including the body of the Enchantress Princess Yinanxi.

The luminous form of Peach Blossom Star Lord quietly condensed above Xia Feng's corpse, his hands behind his back, hovering in the air. He glanced disdainfully at the state of the corpse, then closed his eyes and quietly sensed the surrounding environment.

After receiving the humiliating memories of Hanazawa Taku before his wedding, Peach Blossom Star Lord realized that this human possessed a B-grade spiritual artifact capable of resurrection, but the scope and time of resurrection were limited.

Based on his experience, magical artifacts of this level have very strict limitations. Not only are the number of uses limited, but they will also revive within ten seconds at most.

"Rumble!!!" Peach Blossom Star Lord waited quietly, observing the surrounding situation, while the entire Candlefire Rock was still trembling.

The magma surged up like a tsunami, covering the sky, and then quickly vaporized into wisps of red mist, dissipating into the air.

The red threads that intertwined with the blood throne on the rocky ground also broke one by one. As the man raised his Nuo mask and slowly stood up, countless cracks appeared directly on the rocks of the entire rocky ground, as if a terrifying ground collapse was about to occur.

"Buzz—!!!" Ri Nuo stepped forward and stepped down from the throne. A dark black wave suddenly spread for thousands of miles, as if breaking free of shackles. His aura began to rise steadily. His messy white hair, which covered his back, danced in the air, and a strange red light shone in the eyes of his ferocious Nuo face.

Peach Blossom Star Lord ignored Ri Nuo and waited quietly for ten seconds, scanning the entire vast Sea of ​​Calamity with his mind, but did not sense any signs of the birth of a new soul.

With his powerful abilities, he doesn't even need to see it with his own eyes; as long as a new soul is born within his sensing range, it cannot escape his scan.

No matter how well an ant hides, it can be detected the moment its soul is resurrected, leaving it nowhere to hide.

However, more than ten seconds have passed, and there has been no movement whatsoever. That oblivious ant must truly be dead, with no possibility of resurrection.

Thinking of this, Peach Blossom Star Lord glanced suspiciously at He Jianzhu in the distance, then looked down at Yi Nanxi beside Xia Feng's corpse.

Yi Nanxi's eyes were still rolled upwards, and her cold and beautiful face maintained the state of pleasure she had before her death.

The shameful memories flooded Peach Blossom Star Lord's mind, but his expression didn't change much.

To overcome this final tribulation of love in his lifetime, revenge is only the first step. Next, he must learn to accept and understand suffering. Only by seeing through this tribulation of love can he achieve something.

As he pondered, Peach Blossom Star Lord looked up, his indifferent gaze falling upon the towering, dark tower that pierced the clouds, and the still-forming blood of the Calamity Heart Demon at its base.

Having endured nine lifetimes of hardship, he had collected a considerable amount of blood from the Demon of Calamity, but he never expected that someone here would have collected even more.

Moreover, it not only contains demonic blood, but also divine artifacts like the Divine Refining Tower.

"What, does Your Excellency intend to break the contract?" Ri Nuo's deep, calm voice rang out.

The luminous form, suspended in mid-air, slowly turned around, its face shimmering with light, its divine eyes slightly narrowed.

The two had indeed reached an agreement. Peach Blossom Star Lord had said in a telepathic message that he would leave immediately once the human was killed. Ri Nuo naturally had no objections.

But verbal agreements are meant to be broken. A hint of mockery and murderous intent flashed in the peach blossom eyes of the light-formed figure, and an ancient red light also shone in the eyes of the ferocious Nuo mask of the man in black.

"boom!!!"

With just a glance, the area spanning several kilometers was like a car being thrown into a shredder, the spatial form distorted and exploded, creating a piercing buzzing sound.

Multicolored beams of light roamed freely in this distorted space.

However, the nine-chain bridge, the Blood Throne, and the Tower of Divine Refinement remain intact and suspended in the void.

The faceless figures on the long iron chain bridge crouched down, covering their heads in defense, while Bai Nuo muttered things like, "I'm going to die, I'm going to die," and "Father, please be gentle."

Spider Man, Bone Snake Man, and a few other captured survivors hid among the Faceless Ones, their expressions filled with terror.

He Jianzhu hovered in front of the Refining God Tower, her beautiful eyes calmly observing this earth-shattering battle.

As for Xia Feng, he had already exited the Nirvana state of the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor and used the Body-Seizing and Transformation Technique to possess He Jianzhu's soul.

Even though it was just a split stream, He Jianzhu's spiritual power was still vast and boundless. As soon as Xia Feng possessed him, it was as if he had crashed into a city wall that reached straight into the clouds. He couldn't invade Xia Feng's soul at all, let alone possess him.

However, Xia Feng himself did not intend to possess He Jianzhu's body; his purpose was merely to temporarily attach himself to He Jianzhu and prolong the resurrection time.

Based on the information about the spirit garment that Miss Jianzhu had just transmitted, he discovered that the Body-Seizing and Transformation Technique was a perfect match for the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor, which could greatly compensate for the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor's shortcoming that its Nirvana time was only ten seconds.

Under normal circumstances, if he does not choose to revive after ten seconds, he will be forcibly revived on the spot, and his soul and body will be reshaped.

However, with the technique of possession and transformation, one can temporarily attach one's consciousness to the soul of a trustworthy person. When one wants to truly resurrect, one can detach from that person's soul, and the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor will continue to help reshape one's spiritual foundation and physical body.

Of course, if that were all, it would still have escaped the senses of a near-god-like being like the Peach Blossom Star Lord.

So Xia Feng encountered a bug—

When the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor is resurrected, it will rebuild his spiritual essence (consciousness → spiritual power → yang energy) → spiritual foundation → spiritual particles → physical body in sequence.
The moment Xia Feng rebuilt his 'spiritual power' by attaching himself to He Jianzhu's soul, He Jianzhu used his cutting and splicing ability to splice his 'spiritual essence that had not yet formed yang energy' onto his own spiritual foundation, thus interrupting his resurrection. However, Xia Feng did indeed come back to life again thanks to He Jianzhu's yin energy and spiritual foundation.

This is also the most terrifying ability that He Jianzhu has in Xia Feng's eyes. Not only can he cut and splice spiritual clothing, but he can also cut physical body, spiritual particles, spiritual foundation, and consciousness. It is equivalent to being able to transfer a person's comprehensive strength (except for spiritual artifacts) to another person out of thin air.

However, He Jianzhu told him that there was a time limit to this kind of splicing. The limit of the fluid separation energy was thirty minutes, and it had to be restored after the time was up.

With this miraculous method, Xia Feng's resurrection progress of the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor was stuck between rebuilding his spiritual power and yang energy, in a superposition state of being neither dead nor alive.

Xia Feng died because after he formed consciousness and spiritual power, he failed to form yang energy. Yang energy/yin energy is the foundation for maintaining the existence of the soul.

The reason he is immortal is because Xia Feng and He Jianzhu merged, and Xia Feng became the second consciousness within He Jianzhu's soul, thus acquiring Yin energy.
At this moment, he became a woman in a certain sense.

(End of this chapter)