Chapter 1163: Replacement

The bone and the Void Mirror flew into the Star Behemoth’s skull one after another.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Countless evil spirits rapidly surrounded the bone and Qu Yi’s soul shadows that flew out of the Void Mirror.

Qu Yi’s soul shadows traveled freely through the spirits like fish swimming in water, searching for the wisp of sub-soul that was behind all this.

Nie Tian didn’t intend to kill the Star Behemoth with the bone.

As soon as it entered, a large number of fine, blood-colored veins came to form inside the bone like crimson crystalline lines.

Not just that, but a vague soul awareness also seemed to be born within it.

Through his connection to it that had been established through the infusion of his Blood Essence, Nie Tian vaguely sensed that a large amount of broken soul will was converging on the bone in an attempt to infiltrate it.

Part of the soul will was coming from the Star Behemoth’s regathering soul awareness, but the majority was coming from the evil spirits.

“Soul bodies.” Without much thought, Nie Tian summoned the Spirit Pearl, which he had obtained from the Phantasms, from within his ring of holding.

As soon as he did, Grand Monarch Dark Nether, the tenth grade Phantasm grand monarch, sensed its existence.

The cyan prismatic crystal between his eyebrows immediately lit up.

Beams of blinding cyan light shot out from within it.

Nie Tian’s expression flickered.

The Spirit Pearl was the Phantasms’ lost treasure. Before, when Froste had found out that he had it in his possession, he had tried every possible way to take it back.

However, since Froste hadn’t been strong enough, all of his attempts had failed.

But now, if the tenth grade Grand Monarch Dark Nether was bent on taking it back from him, it would be much easier to achieve.

Ji Yuanquan and Ye Wenhan floated to Nie Tian’s left and right.

Upon sensing Grand Monarch Dark Nether’s strong reaction, the two of them let out a cold laugh and exclaimed simultaneously, “Dark Nether!”

Their domains instantly regathered and morphed into dharma idols.

Ji Yuanquan’s dharma idol was surrounded by glorious hovering spatial blades. With a casual swing of his arm, thousands of spatial blades shot forth, easily neutralizing the incoming cyan light.

He was at the early God domain, which happened to match Grand Monarch Dark Nether’s early tenth grade.

Seeing this, Ye Wenhan didn’t even make a move after his dharma idol came to form.

He continued to focus his attention on Nie Tian.

“Hmm?!” Nie Tian, who had summoned the Spirit Pearl in an attempt to gather the discarnate souls, suddenly stopped.

To his surprise, the bone that he had cast into the Star Behemoth’s head was actually working in a similar way as the Spirit Pearl after the crimson crystalline veins formed in it, as it was gathering soul power from the evil spirits on its own!

All of these countless evil spirits had flown into the Star Behemoth’s skull to help it regather its scattered soul.

Who would have thought that as soon as the bone entered, part of the evil spirits would be taken away?

It was as if the bone was also seeking to regather its discarnate soul that had been scattered into Heaven and earth.

Nie Tian’s expression flickered with astonishment. “Don’t tell me that this bone can also regather its discarnate soul by absorbing soul power from these evil spirits! If that’s the case, does it mean that I’ll be able to help it recover its memories and soul awareness and reforge its true soul with the evil spirits I gather with the Spirit Pearl?

“Body restructuring and soul reforging... won’t this be the true sense of resurrection?”

Nie Tian suddenly saw a possibility for the Star Behemoth to whom this bone belonged to actually come back to life.

The infusion of his Blood Essence had established a profound connection between him and the bone. If the owner of the bone could be brought back to this heaven and earth, it would definitely become his mightiest weapon.

At this moment, rapid soul calls suddenly came from the bone.

Nie Tian was dumbfounded.

In the next moment, an irresistible attractive force was born within the bone, causing Nie Tian to fly towards it like a falling star.

“Bloodline talent: Life Blend!”

Upon reconvening with the bone, he couldn’t help but hold it with both hands and activate his unique bloodline talent, as if the bone was forcing him to do so.

One drop of crimson, diamond-like Blood Essence started burning in his heart, stimulating his bloodline.

An even more profound connection seemed to instantly form between him and the bone, allowing him to sense the existence of a wisp of an ancient but weak soul awareness within it.

A shudder ran through Nie Tian. “Is that its regathering soul?”

At the same time, a curious feeling struck him.

It was a feeling of him somehow becoming a Star Behemoth during the Primal Era.

He felt that he possessed unmatched power, and preyed on titans, dragons, Ancientbeasts, ancient Demons, and all kinds of enormous beings.

As he breathed in various kinds of energy of heaven and earth, one realm after another was drained of their energy, and became dead realms.

A casual sprint would allow him to travel through a domain, and a clash with his unimaginably huge body would reduce a small-scale realm to dust.

Wherever he went, heaven was destroyed and the earth was crushed, and lives that couldn’t avoid him were plunged into misery and suffering.

He felt the domination only the overlords of this starry river that stood at the top of the food chain would enjoy.

“This is what true, unquestioned domination should feel like!” Nie Tian marveled, enjoying this wonderful feeling.

What he didn’t realize was that his Blood Essence was burning continuously.

He also didn’t realize that he had unconsciously activated Life Blend, and that his Blood Essence was helping stimulate all sorts of profound bloodline wonders that the bone carried.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

All of a sudden, thousands of evil spirits within the Star Behemoth skull were attracted by the bone, and pulled towards it from all directions.

While Nie Tian was caught up in the wondrous experience, the bone had replaced the Star Behemoth as the ancient force that madly devoured the evil spirits.

In his daze, Nie Tian heard the remote cries of the tenth grade Stone Golem. “NO! NO!”

It was also at that moment that a violent, frenzied soul will suddenly revealed itself in the Star Behemoth’s spacious skull. “Who are you?!”

As soon as Nie Tian sensed it, Qu Yi’s many soul shadows that had blended into the evil spirits gathered.

Dozens of them rapidly merged and became one, which looked in a direction and smiled coldly. “Got you.”

BOOM!

The Void Mirror suddenly flew towards a place where a large number of evil spirits were swarming. As it did, blinding lights shot out of it, annihilating numerous evil spirits, and revealing a cluster of pale flames.

“It’s the Void Mirror!” A shriek came from within the cluster of pale flames.

Astonished, Nie Tian jerked his head towards it. Then, he discovered that it was almost identical to the cluster of pale flames that he had obtained from the depths of the Bloody Grave Mountain Range, and later given to Li Langfeng as a gift.

He was suddenly enlightened. “It’s the Heavenly Corpse Sect indeed!” 

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In an extremely remote place in the splitting Shatter Battlefield.

CRACK! CRACK!

A floating rock suddenly cracked and exploded, revealing a shriveled old man that looked half-human and half-ghoul.

Wreathed in an intense corpse aura, he shouted in an exasperated voice, “Feng Beiluo!”

His voice seemed to travel to another space.

SHEW!

Feng Beiluo, the current sectmaster of the Heavenly Corpse Sect, flew out of a hidden spatial joint.

Looking frustrated and nervous, he bowed respectfully towards the old man, behaving with the courtesy of a junior.