Chapter 490 - The Phantom King

With a sudden gust of evil wind, everyone retreated subconsciously. The ghostly voice that came as a shock also gave Ziyun’er a good scare. She hurriedly picked up the Koo-chee beast and retreated to Xiao Chen’s side.

Xiao Chen pulled her behind. Gazing into the imperial palace, he asked coldly, “Who is it? You don’t have to use the spooky voice. Show yourself!”

Before his voice fell, a strong wind rushed towards everyone. They immediately raised their hands to block their eyes from the sand blown by the wind. Abruptly, a dark shadow floated out quickly. It was about 3 meters tall, wearing an imperial robe and a crown. His eyes turned red, red rays coming out from there constantly. Besides, there was a two-meter-long heavy sword hanging on his waist.

“Who are you? Why don’t you kneel when you see me, your honorable king?!” The black shadow yelled. His voice resounded through the skies. Being unable to endure the buzzing sound, everyone shrank back a little.

Xiao Chen could not help feeling surprised. This person looked a bit like the Corpse King that he saw in the Miasma Mountain Rang. By gathering the Malicious Grudge, the Corpse King was reborn to be a Walking Corpse, but this one before him should be the soul body formed by Malicious Grudge. Instantly, Xiao Chen’s expression darkened and he warned these people around him, “Be careful, this is…”

But before he could finish speaking, the Phantom King abruptly threw his sword to them. A fierce gale sprang up and came with extremely violent power, which directly pushed Ziyun’er, Yang Qing and the others into the air in an instant.

After falling back to the ground, all of them managed to stand still after stepping back several paces. Stunned, they thought, “This Phantom King has such a powerful strength!” Yi Tong turned serious and said, “Watch out! This person has absorbed the power from the Dragon Vein for a long time and is very powerful now. I’m afraid he wants to resurrect by the power of the Dragon Vein.”

Yi Tong had hardly finished his words when the Phantom King suddenly pointed his long sword to the sky and roared, “Capture these traitors!”

All of a sudden, chilly wind rose from all around with dark clouds rolling low. From all directions, seemingly came the heavy clatters of horses’ hoofs. And there, coming out on them from the imperial palace, was a swarm of ghost soldiers and their devil rides, their imposing manner surging high to the skies. Then, the whole imperial palace began to rock violently.

Everyone’s face changed. Xiao Chen cried out in a hurry. “Watch out!” Just when he finished speaking, he sent Gui Xian back. As a soul body, Gui Xian would be badly hurt if another soul body attacked him.

After sending Gui Xian to a safe place, Xiao Chen leaped up, summoned his Unsullied Sword instantly and wielded the Storm of Swords in the next second. In mid-air, shadows of swords were everywhere. Tens of thousands of rows of sword radiance slashed at the sea of ghost soldiers and devil rides that was surging toward them.

The wind kept whistling. Both Yi Tong and None-flower used their mystic arts, cutting at those ghost soldiers that moved toward them waves upon waves. However, after all, the power of the three of them was limited. By contrast, those ghost soldiers were incessant as if Xiao Chen and the others could never kill them all. Meanwhile, the rest of them could only try hard to deal with those little ghost soldiers that attacked from the mid-air.

“Let’s go!” Xiao Chen ordered. He knew that these ghost soldiers were inexhaustible. Once these soldiers wounded them, they would suffer great loss. Therefore, Xiao Chen decided on the moment and covered others to withdraw. But before they could reach the steps, the Phantom King yelled, “Ten-directions Icy-hell!”

Everyone on the spot could see dark clouds gather from all sides quickly and block the space in a split second. They were all astounded because the strength of the Phantom King was surprisingly horrifying. “This Phantom King is no weaker than the Corpse King in the Miasma Mountain Range,” Xiao Chen thought to himself. More importantly, it seemed that normal attacks could not do any harm to him.

At the moment, all of them were trapped while ghost soldiers were coming to attack them from all directions. Beyond that, ordinary flying swords, including some magic spells, could hardly injure those soldiers effectively. Xiao Chen couldn’t help feeling a little regret in his heart. He blamed himself for his carelessness, which got everyone into trouble now.

Those ghost soldiers became increasingly powerful, constantly whistling with their sharp voices. Now there was no room for retreat. Suddenly, Xiao Chen had a brainwave and found a good solution: since these ghost soldiers, including Phantom King, were soul bodies, how about using the Spirit-annihilation Halberd to handle them? Thinking of this, he immediately took out the Spirit-annihilation Halberd from the Divine Vessel.

Suddenly, waves of devil howlings sounded. In Xiao Chen’s hand, the entire Spirit-annihilation Halberd was cocooned in a layer of black Qi. Because this halberd was too evil, Xiao Chen found it hard to control it every time. Thus, he would basically not use this halberd.

This time when Xiao Chen held this halberd, he nearly fell into a trance. There were three weapons of him. The Unsullied Sword could quiet him down, so he used it the most frequently. But when he confronted his personal or formidable enemies, he would choose his Blood Lotus Demon Blade for it could make him eager to kill. At this time, if he also ran the Mystic Diabolic Enchantment, he would ultimately go into the devil state. That was why he would not use the Spirit-annihilation Halberd easily.

After he set his mind slightly calm, Xiao Chen whispered the Mystic Cyan Heart-clearing Incantation to prevent himself from being affected by the halberd. Then he waved his long halberd, and it went out fast, whistling. Those ghost soldiers who would never get hurt by ordinary flying swords now couldn’t withstand a single blow. Both their bodies and the spirits were destroyed directly.

In less than a few moments, those ghost soldiers no longer dared to approach. The light in Phantom King’s eyes became much redder, and he glared at Xiao Chen, saying, “Who the hell are you?” After this scream, he flashed and cut right on Xiao Chen’s head.

“Clang!” With a loud noise, Xiao Chen held up his halberd and blocked this attack. But in the meantime, his legs sank, crushing the nearby floor tiles.

“Brother Xiao!” Yi Tong instantly flashed to him like a ray of purple light, but the Phantom King flung his left arm and pushed him into the air.

“Argh…!” With a deep bellowed, Xiao Chen seemed to have used his Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruit’s strength that was put aside in his elixir field. All at once, he pushed the Phantom King’s heavy sword that weighed a ton back and then vehemently stabbed the Phantom King with his halberd.

“Clang!” Another loud sound. This time, the Phantom King raised his sword and blocked Xiao Chen’s halberd. It seemed that he also knew that this halberd could cause fatal injuries to him.

Yi Tong and None-flower Dust exchanged glances and moved. They attacked the Phantom King respectively from the left and right sides. Yi Tong formed a sword made of purple radiance on his palm while, and None-flower Dust turned his feathered fan into tens of thousands of rays of cold light.

Following closely, Huangfu Xin’er leaped into the sky, throwing five rays of red light over the top of the Phantom King’s head. The twelve ladies of the Hidden Fragrance Wafting Under the Moon also launched their attacks and besieged the Phantom King from all directions. Aside, Yang Qing and the other six people joined their forces and slashed at the Phantom King with the flying sword.

Facing the siege of more than 20 people, the Phantom King finally stepped back a little. Taking this chance, Xiao Chen moved the heavy sword away and stabbed his halberd into the Phantom King’s abdomen. But unexpectedly, when his halberd was about 15 centimeters away from the Phantom King, it uttered a clear metallic sound, making Xiao Chen’s whole face go numb and pushing him a few steps back.

At this moment, a shield covered by a layer of golden light faintly emerged before the Phantom King’s abdomen. In other parts of his body, the golden light was slightly lighter, which wrapped him like a suit of armor. Yi Tong looked solemn and said, “It is the armor formed by the power of the Dragon Vein!”

“It is my city! Don’t imagine you can take it away!” The Phantom King bawled. Exerting all his strength, he pushed these more than twenty people about twenty meters away.

Falling back to the ground, everyone felt that their True Qi was somewhat in disorder. Secretly, Xiao Chen couldn’t help feeling surprised because this Phantom King was indeed too powerful. He had thought before that he was going to take this city and the Dragon Vein underground. But since he obviously couldn’t win this battle against the Phantom King, he had to put the ideas out of his head.

And suddenly, Huangfu Xin’er silently chanted a few spells. Immediately after that, her ten fingernails grew about centimeters longer. With waves of red light coming from her body, she went to attack the Phantom King again in a flash. Xiao Chen was greatly shocked. “Xin’er! What are you doing?!” While speaking, he rushed up as fast as a flash of lightning.

“Ugh!” The Phantom King bellowed and swept his sword across. A black beam of sword radiance that was more than ten meters cut the two of them at their waists. Xiao Chen raised his halberd and kept them away from the sword radiance. Once again, the Phantom King lifted his palm. This time, out of the void, he brought out a few black beams of sword radiance and hacked away at them.

“Boom!” With a huge bang, they were sent up into the air by the black radiance. When they fell back to the ground, Xiao Chen supported Huangfu Xin’er, exclaiming in a shock, “Xin’er! What are you doing?!”

Huangfu Xin’er flicked her sleeves, staring at the Phantom King with her cold eyes, and she said in an icy voice, “Anything that you want, I’ll get it for you.” As she finished speaking, she began to run the high-level Heartless Cultivation Method.

This time, the red radiance around her whole body became much redder, and even, her eyes turned red. A red mark between her eyebrows was partly hidden and partly visible. Then with a dip of her toes, she went forward to hit the Phantom King. The sudden fierce wind made the rest of them gasp.

“Xin’er!” Xiao Chen instantly shouted, but it was too late for him to stop her. Huangfu Xin’er had already rushed into the midair, her five fingers slightly bending. She came at the Phantom King, rays of the red radiance constantly surging out of her. She and the Phantom King were now facing out.

The wild wind was roaring. The sudden outbreak of Huangfu Xin’er’s terrifying strength was far more powerful than everyone had imagined. A shower of stones fell and shattered those thistles, thorns, and vines around. Even worse, numerous deep gashes were left on the square ground, which looked as if it were going to collapse.

“Xin’er!” Seeing that Huangfu Xin’er would soon lose to the Phantom King, Xiao Chen unleashed his Immortal-overriding Steps. Holding his Spirit-annihilation Halberd, he rushed up and stabbed the Phantom King in the abdomen. Suddenly, his halberd was wrapped in a dark mist.

“Clang!” With a loud sound, the Phantom King raised the sword and kept Xiao Chen from stabbing him with his halberd. The red radiance in his eyes increased sharply, and he growled, “You can take nothing from me! All things here are mine!”

As soon as he said these words, the entire square shook violently, and in an instant, there appeared numerous deep cracks, from which Black Qi was constantly oozing. Then, the Black Qi quickly crawled to the Phantom King and gathered on him. The scene looked really weird.

“Uh, ah!” The Phantom King cried out loud. With him as the center, an overwhelming force spread around fiercely and fast. Xiao Chen and Huangfu Xin’er bore before others the brunt of his attack and were washed away in an instant. Then the others were also knocked a dozen meters away into the air.

Since the cultivation of Yang Qing and others were slightly weaker, each of them immediately sprayed a mouthful of blood. Xiao Chen steadied Huangfu Xin’er. Seeing that she still tended to come forward and attack again, he immediately stopped her in an anxious voice, “Xin’er, go away! I want nothing now! ”

Levitating their swords, all of them were leaving. However, there came a shout from the Phantom King, “Don’t think about escaping unharmed!” After that, his huge hand reached out. Then, rising from all directions, a layer of black cloud instantly envelope them. The space was blocked again.

Knowing that there was no way to retreat, Xiao Chen gritted his teeth, thinking, “Guifeng is definitely no match for this Phantom King. After all, Guifeng is the general human spirit so that he naturally feared a king.” Thinking of this, Xiao Chen simply jumped up and yelled, “Dragon’s Decimation!”

After shouting, dark clouds rolled in mid-air and instantly covered the whole imperial palace. Two black dragons as long as 300 meters abruptly rushed down from the clouds. When the two dragons came over in full fury, they looked like they were going to destroy the whole world. All of a sudden, the entire imperial palace began to shake as if it would fall.

“Boom! Boom!” Along with two loud explosion sounds, the heaven and earth trembled. And suddenly, the dust was rising in clouds so that all of them couldn’t see anything distinctly.

Gradually, the dust cleared off. The crown on the Phantom King’s head had been shattered, and there were deep cracks that appeared on the heavy sword. Between the tangle of dark-brown hair falling around his shoulders was his pair of eyes, from which red light was seeping out. His breathing grew somewhat labored, and his chest heaved. Now the Phantom King appeared to be even more terrifying.

The Phantom King glowered at Xiao Chen. Suddenly, the entire imperial palace shook violently, and even the city below started to vibrate. Now, even the whole city was quaking violently as if an unsettling force deep under the ground would breakthrough.