Infinite Slaughter System: I Kill, Therefore I Ascend!-Chapter 223: The Finals, Li Ling versus Bai Yegui! 3

"Eh?" Li Ling muttered a split second before the place he stood shifted, elongating into a sharp spike that pierced him from tailbone to mouth!

For the second time in mere minutes, Li Ling's body was lifted, pinned like a grotesque ornament on the Hungry Ghost Avatar's shoulder, except this time, nobody screamed.

After all, the first time this happened had caused disbelief and shock, but the second time…?

The crowd was left speechless.

This Li Ling fellow really liked to play with his food!

Yet, a cold smile flickered at the corner of Bai Yegui's lips.

"Predictable, you always choose the highest vantage point. You always choose the most insulting course of action." He said calmly, voice echoing within the avatar's chest.

The spike suddenly expanded greatly slightly, as if to explode Li Ling's body from within!

Li Ling's eyes bulged for a moment… then he laughed, his typical annoying laugh that made its targets feel anger coursing through their veins.

"Old Bai, if you're going to skewer me, at least do it with a little romance! You're making this feel like a carpentry lesson!" Li Ling teased, turning into a pool of blood and slinking down the tendril that was now as thick as a tree trunk.

The crowd's hair stood on end, because Li Ling wasn't using his absurd healing ability, and when he came off, he showed no sign of damage whatsoever!

Thinking back to his earlier words of wanting to 'test' his natural durability, it made many understand that he had a way to completely negate damage to his body!

Thinking back to the fight with Wang Feng, where Li Ling was stabbed in the chest and everyone thought he was dead, it suddenly all made sense!

Li Ling could elementalize his body into blood, which made him almost immune to all forms of physical attacks!

What the heck!

How was anyone supposed to fight against something like that?!

Bai Yegui saw this and didn't waste words as he commanded the Hungry Ghost Avatar to attack, causing its spear to shift, the tip stabbing toward Li Ling!

"Indeed, it will not be easy to take you down." Bai Yegui admitted calmly, his hand seal changing inside the avatar's core to activate a new art that was likely beyond his level.

"Avatar Arts: Ghost Flesh Burial!"

The skin and muscle of the avatar's shoulder rippled, the spike turned tendril that previously held Li Ling suddenly softened, becoming less like bone and more like living mud, then spread outwards rapidly, crawling along Li Ling's body like a hungry tide while trying to seal him inside.

The stadium erupted in alarm.

"Now what in the heavenly dao is that?!"

"It can't be? He's going to entomb him in the avatar!"

"Ah? But can Li Ling even be trapped with his level of power?"

Suddenly, the Asura Reaper Spear that was still fighting off countless other tendrils trying to tear apart Li Ling exploded with power as it released a metallic screech of anger!

It spun in a tight orbit, slamming into the encroaching flesh again and again, spear-light flashing in rapid, merciless stabs that tore holes through the burial attempt.

Yet even that wasn't enough as the flesh kept regenerating while closing in on Li Ling, who made no move to defend himself.

For the current Asura Reaper Spear, the Ghost Flesh Burial was like trying to stop a flood by stabbing the river.

Li Ling clicked his tongue. "How annoying!"

His eyes flashed, and for the first time since the match began, the air around him changed!

A pool of inky blackness manifested beneath him in midair as if the world had developed a stain, and from that stain, ten thin strands surged up like threads pulled from the void itself, spreading in a circular pattern around Li Ling's body. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Ten points pierce the world."

Li Ling's voice was casual, even bored, as if he were reciting a proverb.

The ten strands snapped outward at the avatar itself and the sinister Hungry Ghost flesh that was trying to swallow him suddenly lost its coherence!

It simply broke down, as if its 'idea of being flesh' had been denied, its structure unmade and scattered into the basic elements that comprised it.

Bai Yegui's expression finally shifted because he felt it, that strange dismantling power that Li Ling had used earlier to disintegrate Shi Feng.

As for Li Ling, he simply opened a portal and walked through it, landing lightly atop the avatar's other shoulder, rolling his neck as if he'd merely stood up from a chair.

Li Ling patted the shoulder of the Hungry Ghost Avatar like it was a mount.

"Okay, okay, now we're talking!" He said brightly, his smile charming.

Bai Yegui's gaze cooled. "So you finally decided to use it."

Li Ling shrugged. "I gave you your moment. Don't be greedy, Old Bai!"

Bai Yegui's eyes narrowed because that word - greedy - was a subtle jab in this fight, especially with the betting table still running and the whole sect watching the odds like it was a joke.

But Bai Yegui didn't fall for it.

Instead, he raised his hand again.

"Avatar Arts: Divine Equipment, Second Form!"

The spectral armor on the avatar darkened as the patterns grew denser, like veins across a corpse.

And then, the spear and shield in the avatar's hands changed, the spear's tip splitting into three faint afterimages, like three spearheads stacked in the same line but existing half a step out of sync, while the shield's surface became glossy, like polished obsidian, reflecting the very light that fell on it as if it were an enemy.

Li Ling's eyes gleamed with interest now.

"Oh? Upgrading your weapons? That's cute!" Li Ling remarked teasingly.

Bai Yegui didn't answer as he moved the avatar's spear, thrusting at a speed that wasn't fast by human standards, but was fast by reality's standards.

After all, the first spearhead wasn't the real one, and neither was the second!

In fact, it was the third spearhead which arrived a fraction later, when Li Ling had already shifted his body to avoid the "first" strike, that pierced his torso cleanly.

It was a delayed strike hidden inside a false timing and as Li Ling glanced down at the spearhead in his chest, he almost looked offended.

Then the flesh around the hole trembled and clamped down as a pulse of corrosive Blood Power surged onto the weapon.

Bai Yegui's eyes widened with horror as he felt the spearhead's connection to the avatar waver for an instant, as if Li Ling's blood was trying to 'dissolve' the spectral weapon.

Li Ling's smile widened. "Hehe, got you!"

His palm shot out into empty space, bypassing the spearhead and somehow striking toward Bai Yegui himself, toward the core point where Bai Yegui stood within the avatar's chest.

The distance between the two was great, but it seemed as if space didn't exist between them as Li Ling created a portal in front of his hand which linked to where Bai Yegui was located, but outside of the avatar's flesh.

However, the moment his palm extended, the air became sharp and the Asura Blood Path disciples from the middle layer and up's expressions changed greatly, because that wasn't a normal palm strike of the Blood Asura Descent!

Bai Yegui's pupils constricted as he sensed a dangerous aura and raised the shield instinctively, but it was too late!

Li Ling's palm didn't collide with the shield, rather bypassing all defenses and striking Bai Yegui's body with a loud thud!

Bai Yegui's face turned faintly pale and his Hungry Ghost Avatar trembled as he felt a sudden ripping sensation internally, like something inside him had been seized and drained.

The crowd went silent in horror while Li Ling's tone became playful, though his eyes were sharp.

"Does your blood hurt? I know mine did a few seconds ago." He asked maliciously.

Bai Yegui's jaw clenched, because he instantly understood that the palm daoist art Li Ling just used was a rare and absurd plunder technique, one that didn't care about armor, or flesh, or resistances, as long as the target was within the scope of the strike.

Bai Yegui exhaled slowly, feeling his remaining power and gritting his teeth as his hands moved again into a new seal.

"Avatar Arts: Ghost Veil Shift!"

The entire Hungry Ghost Avatar flickered, sliding into nothingness like it had stepped half an inch into another layer of the world.

The spear and shield in its hand shimmered, then disappeared and even Bai Yegui's presence became hazy, as if his location had become encrypted!

Meanwhile, Li Ling's eyes narrowed because he could feel and see it clearly.

The Hungry Ghost Avatar had entered the lightest layer of subspace and was roaming around him, looking for a point to strike!

It was crude compared to the Tai Xu method, but it was still effective and showed Bai Yegui's talent. Against anyone not conversant with spatial elements, they would be rendered helpless and defeated!

Bai Yegui's spear thrust again, but his time it didn't aim for Li Ling's body, but rather aimed for the air around him!

A ring of spear shadows formed—three, six, and nine—each thrust leaving behind a faint afterimage of yin power, creating a cage of piercing lines.

Then the cage contracted, forming a net of spear intent closing from all directions, turning the space around Li Ling into a killing zone.

Li Ling's eyes lit up with interest, feeling that this had finally become somewhat fun.

He whistled sharply and the Asura Reaper Spear spun once, then stabbed downward at the arena itself!

A potent domain pressure exploded into place like a lid being slammed shut and the air within Li Ling's range changed greatly!

The Hungry Ghost Avatars spear cage's contraction suddenly went of course, the timing skewing and the angles becoming warped!

It was as if the cage had entered a space where the rules of 'attack arrives when thrust completes' were no longer reliable!

Bai Yegui's eyes hardened as he realized that this was it, this was the real foundation of Li Ling's spear weirdness.

It was his weapon attainment realm grown into a field, a zone where Li Ling's spear intent shaped the entire flow of combat!

Bai Yegui's voice was calm, but there was a thin edge of worry now.

"Fine then, I'll break your damn field, Li Ling!" He roared as his hand seal changed again, faster and with more complex movements.

"Avatar Arts: Yin Thunder Baptism!"