The remnant soul shook her head. “Your offer is very tempting, but I’m sorry. When I was at my lowest, it was Lin Tian who gave me a chance to temporarily reside in his body. I swore I would do my best to protect and assist him.”
Ye Chen was slightly surprised. “Over the years, haven’t you already repaid him by helping him upgrade his martial meridians, strengthen his cultivation, and save his life multiple times? That little kindness should have been repaid by now.”
The remnant soul shook her head again. “A drop of kindness must be repaid with a spring.”
The path of cultivation is deep and merciless, and most long abandon all principles.
Yet this remnant soul still held onto her original sense of gratitude—foolish perhaps, but it made Ye Chen see her in a new light.
“If you ever change your mind, you can come to me anytime. Also, I noticed your aura is unstable. You must constantly endure the pain caused by your incomplete soul. I have a spiritual technique that can ease that pain. Recite it regularly and it’ll help.”
Ye Chen passed a spiritual mantra to the remnant soul.
She was visibly surprised—and moved. She had lived inside Lin Tian’s body for years, and yet he had never even noticed her unstable aura or the pain she endured day and night.
She instinctively recited the technique and was astonished by its effectiveness.
“Thank you, Young Master Ye, for this mantra.” The remnant soul, grateful by nature, thanked him sincerely.
Lin Tian couldn’t take it anymore. He turned to the remnant soul, his tone full of resentment. “Enough! Don’t forget who you’re supposed to be helping. I’ll say it one last time—kill that little girl and Ye Chen, or I’m really going to be angry!”
The remnant soul remained unmoved. “This Young Master Ye has shown me kindness. I can’t attack him. I advise you again—while you haven’t yet reached the point of no return with him…”
“Shut up if you’re not going to fight!” Lin Tian snapped, cutting her off. “Don’t forget I still have other trump cards besides you!”
After what happened before, he didn’t dare forcefully open the third level of the Demon-Suppressing Tower again—it housed an even more dangerous and vicious array demon, and he lacked the strength to do so anyway.
Instead, he pulled out a small vial. Inside was a single drop of blood.
It was a drop of black demon blood—left behind when he opened the second level of the Demon-Suppressing Tower a few days ago. The Dan Demon had fled in a hurry and hadn’t taken it with him.
“Lin Tian, what are you doing?” the remnant soul exclaimed, alarmed.
He was confident that if he succeeded, he’d enter a state of berserker madness for fifteen minutes, during which his combat power would explode. Killing Qing’er and Ye Chen would be easy.
He uncorked the bottle, and an immense, overwhelming aura of blood surged out, laced with an eerie cold that sent shivers down the spine.
The remnant soul urgently warned, “You’re insane! I told you before—this drop of demon blood may be powerful, but without purification, the demonic energy inside could invade your body. You’ll fall into demonic deviation!”
Lin Tian dismissed her. “I am the master of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, the chosen one on the verge of awakening a Sacred Body. Just a drop of demon blood—how could it possibly corrupt me?”
He looked at the remnant soul and smirked. “I think you’re not worried about me going mad. You’re afraid I’ll gain power and kill Ye Chen, right? What’s this—already taking his side even though you haven’t joined him yet?”
The remnant soul, wrongly accused, felt bitter cold in her heart and no longer bothered to explain.
Seeing her silence, Lin Tian became even more arrogant. “I hit the nail on the head, didn’t I? Speechless now?”
The remnant soul still said nothing but stepped forward to stand between them, trying her best to stop the fight from escalating.
“I’ve decided. Ye Chen must die. No one can stop me!” Lin Tian roared and swallowed the demon blood.
His body immediately began to swell. Muscles rose like mountains, his black hair turned crimson, and his aura skyrocketed.
“This demon blood is stronger than I thought—stop, now!” the remnant soul cried out.
Seeing Lin Tian’s eyes turn blood-red, she knew he hadn’t entered berserk mode—he was being possessed by demonic energy!
With a wave of his hand, Lin Tian’s soul power surged and dragged the remnant soul back into his body, suppressing her easily.
When she first entered his body, she had lowered her status and signed a storage contract, placing herself in a passive position. It was no surprise she was easily suppressed now.
“Die!” Lin Tian roared.
In his demonized state, his cultivation jumped from 7th stage Earth Martial Realm straight to 5th stage Heaven Martial Realm.
With the boost of his emperor-grade martial meridian and Sacred Body, his true combat power was on par with the 8th or even 9th stage Heaven Martial Realm. This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
He drew a spiritual sword and activated the Saint-grade sword technique the remnant soul had taught him—《Sword Dao Enlightenment》.
Qing’er wasn’t idle. Following Ye Chen’s gesture, she picked up a spiritual sword lying beside him.
She didn’t use Ye Chen’s self-created emperor-level 《God-Slaying Sword Technique》, but rather a mysterious, unknown-grade technique Ye Chen had found in a forbidden zone in his past life—just like 《Limitless》 and 《Shadowless》.
It was a sword technique named 《Invincible》.
The battle erupted.
Both Lin Tian and Qing’er were sword cultivators—one at 5th stage Heaven Martial Realm, the other at 6th stage Earth Martial Realm. Their difference spanned an entire realm.
Yet in combat, they were evenly matched.
Moreover, Qing’er’s aura surged wildly—she could break through at any moment.
Lin Tian felt like crying. He had worked so hard to find a moment when Ye Chen was fully focused on fusing the beast flame and couldn’t interfere—only for Qing’er to show up, proving even harder to deal with than Ye Chen!
“This deadlock won’t do.”
His berserk state would last only fifteen minutes. After that, not only would his cultivation revert to 7th stage Earth Martial Realm, but his body would suffer heavy backlash and become extremely weak for a time.
Worse still, after fifteen minutes, Qing’er might very well finish her breakthrough.
He couldn’t afford to drag this out.
With that in mind, Lin Tian took a brief opening, opened his spatial ring, and pulled out a Sky-Piercing Arrow.
Whoosh!
The arrow soared into the sky, reaching tens of thousands of meters high before exploding into a massive firework over a kilometer wide.
He was calling for backup!