The Demon with Holy Radiance-Chapter 162 - 147: That Old Bastard Misled Me! The Soul is Gone

Five more days passed.

It was about time. Yang An slowly awakened from his cultivation.

After days of continuous absorption, the Celestial Gnomon Light stored within his body was nearly full.

If he delayed any longer, he probably wouldn't have enough time.

"Fugui!"

He called out. The door to his residence opened, and the Corpse Slave Fugui walked in, waiting respectfully for his orders.

SHIING!

A Golden Radiance appeared and instantly pierced through Fugui's head. Fugui collapsed, its body twitching uncontrollably. After a few breaths, it went still.

Yang An stored it in the Meat Burial Talisman. Once his visit to Jiang Hechuan was over, he might be able to find a way to restore it.

After all, having an obedient Corpse Slave that would never defy him was quite convenient.

After taking care of this, he slowly walked out of his residence and headed toward the home of his Seventh Senior Brother, Jiang Hechuan.

If it weren't for the fact that people from the Great Virtue Temple might be arriving soon, Yang An would have first asked the Workshop Master when he could get his Magical Artifact.

Having a life-saving Magical Artifact would give him more confidence, no matter what happened next.

But it was clear he couldn't wait any longer.

Jiang Hechuan's residence was over two thousand meters from his own. The entire Life Crane Sect covered a vast area.

To avoid alerting the enemy, Yang An didn't rush. Instead, he strolled along leisurely, as if taking a walk.

Along the way, he ran into Wen Yin, who had just returned to the Life Crane Sect from outside.

Wen Yin's Cultivation Level had already broken through to the Visceral Stone Realm. When he first joined the sect, she was already at the Late Stage Primordial Feeding Realm. Her breakthrough speed wasn't actually slow.

It was mainly because Yang An's own progress was too fast. Without facing tribulations or bottlenecks, his Cultivation Level shot up like a rocket.

Wen Yin didn't seem to be in good spirits. She had also changed somewhat since the last time Yang An saw her.

Her complexion was even paler, and within her hollow eye sockets, the red-gauze-like blood vessels had become more numerous and longer, now shimmering with an eerie black light.

"Ninth Senior Brother!"

When she saw Yang An, Wen Yin greeted him. Her attitude seemed perfectly natural.

Yang An greeted her back.

"Junior Sister Wen Yin, did you just return from a mission?"

Wen Yin shook her head.

"I've been away for many days, but Master suddenly summoned me back. Does Ninth Senior Brother know what's happening?"

Hearing Wen Yin's words, Yang An's heart skipped a beat.

'Suddenly summoned back...'

'It seems the rumors about the Great Virtue Temple's arrival are almost certainly true.'

"I don't know either. I haven't heard of anything happening in the sect. I have something to attend to, so I'll be on my way, Junior Sister."

Shaking his head, Yang An bid Wen Yin farewell and prepared to leave.

"Senior Brother, where are you headed?"

Wen Yin's sense of direction seemed to have improved, as if she had a premonition. She suddenly asked again as Yang An was leaving.

"Just taking a walk. You should head back, Junior Sister."

Yang An didn't look back and continued on his way, quickly growing distant.

Watching Yang An's retreating figure, Wen Yin stood rooted to the spot for a long time, lost in thought.

About the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Yang An approached Jiang Hechuan's residence. He was about to knock, just as he had in the Secret Seal Space.

But to Yang An's surprise, at that very moment, the door to Jiang Hechuan's residence opened, and Second Senior Brother Fu Ming walked out slowly alongside Jiang Hechuan.

When the two saw Yang An, they both clearly anticipated something. In that instant, the expression on Jiang Hechuan's corpse-like body turned strange.

Under the cover of his Illusion Technique, Yang An was certain Jiang Hechuan couldn't sense his true Cultivation Realm. However, he couldn't be sure if Second Senior Brother Fu Ming had noticed anything.

Unexpectedly, Fu Ming merely glanced at him without a word, then dragged his sickly body away.

"Junior Brother Jiu, you're finally here."

Jiang Hechuan seemed to have known Yang An would come, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Seeing his strange expression, Yang An frowned.

"Senior Brother, you've been waiting for me?"

Jiang Hechuan nodded.

"Master has spoken. If I can kill you, he will grant me an opportunity to perform the Visualization Earth Spirit Stele."

His smile grew wider.

"..."

'That old bastard is so biased.'

Yang An grumbled inwardly.

He had earned his chance at the Visualization Earth Spirit Stele by handing over the Cultivation Technique he had acquired. But in the end, the old monster had still thrown a wrench in the works, making him kill Jiang Hechuan to claim his reward.

And now, he had turned around and made the same promise to Jiang Hechuan, turning Yang An into the condition for *him* to get the technique.

All Yang An could do was scoff at the situation.

Originally, there wasn't much animosity between him and Jiang Hechuan. The only time they'd been at odds was when he killed Xuan Kang and was surrounded by Zi Luan and two others, with Jiang Hechuan among them.

But ultimately, he hadn't attacked like Zi Luan did.

But now, under the old bastard's Rules, they had become mortal enemies. It was a fight to the death.

'How cruel.'

"So, what's your plan, Senior Brother?"

He looked at Jiang Hechuan and asked, word by word.

"Junior Brother, just give up. You can't kill me. You're too weak. So just let me kill you quietly.

If you die at my hands, I can even let you maintain your body's form. It's another way of living, in a sense. I think it's a pretty good deal."

Jiang Hechuan said with a smile.

As he spoke, a large number of Corpse Slaves began to appear, as if they had been lying in wait. In an instant, they surrounded Yang An.

Yang An had already experienced this scene twice. He couldn't be more familiar with it.

He had thought the Jiang Hechuan from the Secret Seal Space would be different from the real one, but from the looks of it, he hadn't improved much.

He wasted no more words with Jiang Hechuan. A Buddha's Radiant Wheel appeared behind him, and Yang An instantly transformed into a shadow, appearing before Jiang Hechuan.

Countless Corpse Slaves began to charge at him madly, but the smile on Jiang Hechuan's face suddenly vanished.

Before him, Yang An's body erupted with a blinding light, instantly engulfing both him and the surrounding Corpse Slaves.

It was almost identical to what had happened in the Secret Seal Space. Neither the Corpse Slaves nor Jiang Hechuan had any power to resist. Within a single breath, they were disintegrated into dust by the terrifying light.

The instant the Corpse Slaves and Jiang Hechuan were annihilated, Yang An absorbed all the light back into his body. He activated the Qi Guang Technique and flew a thousand meters away in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Hechuan's second body had just appeared when his expression changed drastically. Yang An was already in front of him, seemingly aware that he would appear here.

"You..."

Before he could finish his word, another blinding light engulfed him.

The second body met the same fate. This time, however, Yang An didn't make another move. Instead, he dispersed the light, leaving only a layer of cyan light on his body.

He was waiting, luring the snake out of its hole.

Sure enough, three breaths later, nine massive, one-eyed orbs appeared hundreds of meters away, surrounding Yang An from all directions, including the sky above. Their gazes all converged on him.

At the same time, Yang An's body began to fill with an incandescent white light.

Die!

The cyan light shattered. Countless faces seemed to tear at Yang An's flesh, bursting forth from his body to coalesce into the form of Jiang Hechuan.

This was his strongest and most effective technique. Shi Hu had also died to this very move!

However, when Jiang Hechuan appeared and saw Yang An—still suffused with incandescent white light, radiating terrifying heat, and wearing a smile—his expression changed dramatically.

The next moment, a large hand was already pressing down on his head.

Jiang Hechuan was dead.

It all played out like a well-rehearsed script. He died quickly, in just a few breaths. Everything went according to plan, only faster.

But Yang An's figure remained hovering in mid-air. Although he had returned to his normal state, his brow was tightly furrowed.

'If I remember correctly,' he thought, 'in the Secret Seal Space, Jiang Hechuan used all of his bodies, which was exactly nine—nine one-eyed orbs.'

'In reality, I destroyed his second body, too. That means he only added one more body.'

'It's impossible for him to have made so little progress in all this time!'

Yang An instantly extended his senses to their absolute limit. At his current Cultivation Level, his perception could reach a great distance.

Two breaths later.

'Found him!'

A smile suddenly broke through his furrowed brow. Within his senses, he detected an aura rapidly fleeing toward the entrance of Corpse Saliva Valley.

"Bow Lady, lock onto him! Two times amplification!"

Yang An swiftly took out the Bow Lady. As he drew the bowstring taut, a long arrow filled with a brilliant light appeared in his hand.

In an instant, a trail of fire several meters long flared from the arrow's nock.

The next second, Yang An released his grip, and the long arrow vanished from his hand.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Life Crane Sect, Jiang Hechuan was down to his last body. But as long as this one body remained, he could recover his full strength in the future.

He was currently fleeing out of Corpse Saliva Valley at full speed, his face etched with fear.

He couldn't possibly imagine how Yang An had become so powerful.

Even more terrifying, it seemed Yang An had anticipated his every move. From start to finish, he'd been completely powerless to fight back.

'That old bastard tricked me!!'

'Saying I'd get a chance at the Visualization Earth Spirit Stele for killing Yang An... he just wanted me dead!'

Jiang Hechuan screamed inwardly, but for now, his only option was to escape this place as quickly as possible.

'If I can escape successfully, I can use this body to recover in the future. I will definitely be back for revenge.'

With this in mind, Jiang Hechuan held nothing back, desperately concealing his aura while frantically rushing out of the valley.

But at that moment, before Jiang Hechuan could even react, a dazzling light erupted before his eyes and instantly consumed him.

"Kid! Quick! After him! This lady wants his soul!"

After firing the arrow, Yang An watched the Magic Light explode several thousand meters away, and he felt Jiang Hechuan's aura vanish from his senses.

Before Yang An could even feel happy about it, the Bow Lady's excited voice rang in his ear, practically drooling.

'Seventh Senior Brother is actually a handsome man?'

Yang An processed this, nodded, and flew swiftly with the Bow Lady toward the spot where Jiang Hechuan had just died.

In just a few breaths, Yang An arrived where the long arrow had struck. The area had been razed to the ground; under the destructive power of the twice-amplified Magic Light, everything had been obliterated. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

But when he arrived, before he could say a word, the Bow Lady suddenly burst into a stream of curses.

"Where's the soul? The soul this lady was going to eat! Why is it gone? Which son of a bitch stole it?"