SWNOVELXO Chapter 471 Evil Possession
[Heavenly Merit +557]
The information that flashed before Wang Chen's eyes left him stunned.
Because the Heavenly Merit points provided by this Evil Cultivator were exceedingly high which, based on his experience, indicated that the opponent's cultivation level must have reached the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion.
An Evil Cultivator of the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion, taken down so easily by him?
Wang Chen found it hard to believe.
However, data does not lie, and the display on the immortal cultivation panel would definitely be accurate.
"Ao～"
Just then, the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net Wang Chen held tightly in his right hand suddenly contracted, and the trapped Evil Wraith let out a deep, sorrowful cry, before exploding into pieces.
The powerful Evil Power within it was instantly and completely absorbed by the Demon-Slaying Net.
Not a single scrap was left!
Wang Chen yanked his right arm back, and the Demon-Slaying Net swiftly rolled back and re-solidified into a protective arm guard.
Wang Chen touched this treasure and a guess began to form in his mind.
Entity Symbiosis!
The so-called Entity Symbiosis referred to mutual parasitism between Evil Wraiths and Evil Cultivators, sharing prosperity and decline.
Usually, Evil Cultivators desire to gain more powerful strength and would carefully select an Evil Wraith to reside within their body, nourishing it with their own essence blood and Mana.
Once the Evil Wraith grows, it leaves the shell to hunt Cultivators or Martial Artists to extract their essences and souls to feed back to the Evil Cultivator.
The requirements for Entity Symbiosis are extremely stringent; the parasitizing Evil Wraith must have a close kinship with the Evil Cultivator before its death, the relationship between parent and child is best, and it must also be a Cultivator.
Even if the conditions are met, the success rate of Entity Symbiosis is very low.
Additionally, in very rare cases, a powerful Evil Wraith might actively seek to reside within an Evil Cultivator without destroying or assimilating the latter's consciousness, forming a bond similar to a blood pact.
Wang Chen was not sure which type the Evil Cultivator he had just toppled belonged to.
But if it was Entity Symbiosis, that would explain it.
This Evil Wraith had first been severely injured by him, and then got trapped in the Demon-Slaying Net and had its Evil Power drawn out, leading to a great loss of strength.
The Entity Symbiosis Evil Cultivator was in for a huge misfortune, which would explain their poor performance!
If Wang Chen's guess was right, then he was quite lucky; if he had faced the simultaneous attack of the Evil Wraith and Evil Cultivator at the start, he might not have withstood it.
Let alone take it down so swiftly!
Regardless, the truth was now obscured, and the final victory belonged to Wang Chen.
With the fall of this BOSS-level Evil Wraith, the concentration of yin energy in the entire Yin Wind Cave greatly decreased, no longer as gloomy and bitingly cold, and the surrounding ruins appeared much more normal.
Wang Chen thought for a moment and then sat down cross-legged on the ground.
He activated his Innate Five Elements Skill to draw Spiritual Power from the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net to replenish his Mana in the Dantian.
In the battle just now, Wang Chen had expended a considerable amount of Mana.
Especially when casting Nine Heavens Divine Thunder at Great Perfection level with full force, taking up nearly one-tenth of his Mana in one move.
If not for the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net acting as a "super mana vial," Wang Chen wouldn't dare to be so profligate.
In fact, in battle, being able to calculate Mana consumption precisely is a Dharma Technique that Cultivators must master. Not many can cheat like him, able to endlessly unleash powerful spells without restraint.
The Spiritual Power contained within the Demon-Slaying Net was incredibly pure and, after transformation through the cultivation technique, quickly filled his Qi Sea.
Having nearly fully recovered, Wang Chen stood up and then leaped into the hole ahead.
This hole was exactly where the Evil Wraith and Evil Cultivator had been hiding before, and it was still continuously emitting yin energy.
Wang Chen fortified his entire body with Mana, descending slowly like a feather.
After descending a distance of about thirty feet, his feet touched solid ground.
It was pitch black all around, and he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
Sounds of rustling whispered through the darkness, as if someone was muttering under their breath, but it was impossible to make out what was being said. It also sounded like some creature gnawing on bones, with the proximity of the noises varying, making it difficult to pinpoint their origin.
Enveloped by an endlessly chilling breath imbued with Evil Power, Wang Chen was completely surrounded.
Wang Chen flicked his hand, releasing a talisman.
A burst of spiritual light exploded before him in an instant, its bright radiance dispelling the darkness and allowing him to see clearly where he was.
At that moment, Wang Chen stood in an underground cave that was about thirty or forty zhang across.
Where he stepped, he found it covered with bones!
Bones were piled densely, layer upon layer, filling the cave and even stacked up along the surrounding rock walls.
The surfaces of the rock walls were covered with numerous stone holes of varying sizes, their destinations unknown.
Some of the stone holes had broken skeletons hanging from their openings.
Wang Chen recognized at a glance that all the skeletons belonged to humans!
Right beside his feet lay a fairly intact skeleton, its skull facing upwards with its mouth wide open, its dark eye sockets seemingly looking up at Wang Chen, silently telling of its once painful fate.
Wang Chen could not begin to count how many such skeletons were accumulated here.
Thousands, tens of thousands?
The Yin Wind Cave definitely didn't have this many residents in the past; even all of them combined wouldn't be enough to fill this place.
But where did these skeletons come from?
As he pondered, the spiritual light from the talisman that had bloomed was eroded by the Yin energy, and once again, the cave plunged into darkness.
The next moment, small dark purple flames appeared around Wang Chen.
A surge of malevolent energy increased sharply.
"Seal!" Wang Chen shouted, and mana surged out.
Streaks of thunder appeared out of nowhere, weaving a dense network of thunder in the cave, its utterly rigid and positive destructive aura instantly purging the darkness and the evil power.
It also mercilessly shredded and obliterated the evil wraiths!
[Human Virtue +35], [Human Virtue +29], [Human Virtue +47]...
The evil wraiths that appeared this time were of a much higher "quality" than those encountered in the Yin Wind Cave before!
With the help of the lightning, Wang Chen could easily see their forms.
The newly emerged evil wraiths looked like lizards that had been skinned, standing on two legs and flailing their sharp claws, their bodies pitted and ugly as if they had been doused with sulfuric acid.
These evil wraiths crawled out from hundreds of stone holes, and after being destroyed by the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, more continued to emerge in unending waves like the tides.
It seemed as if they were infinite.
Wang Chen formed hand seals and continued unleashing divine thunder.
With the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net at his disposal, as long as the spiritual power contained within was not exhausted, he could continue fighting like this.
Wang Chen truly didn't believe these evil wraiths would never cease!
Wave after wave of evil wraiths were blasted to death, with new waves emerging one after another, like moths to a flame.
Wang Chen's Human Virtue points, amid the constant flashing thunder, piled up at an alarming rate.
The flood of information in his field of vision had completely numbed him.
Suddenly, a crisp resonance rang near his ear, and a striking prompt flashed across his field of vision.
But it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Wang Chen didn't pay it any attention, or rather, he had no time to care.
Because right now, he was on a killing frenzy!
Come on.
Let the storm rage with even greater ferocity.
His eyes sparkled with blue-purple thunder, as if he had become the legendary Thunder God himself.
Submerging everything around him in an endless sea of thunder and lightning!