Published at 19th of March 2025 5:10 pm

Chapter 1241: Battle Between Selves

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Han Li was cackling with glee, and it was difficult for Lan Yan to fathom that this twisted and malicious abomination of a man was actually Han Li.

Weeping Soul cast aside the blood that she had thrown up into the palm of her hand with a look of mixed emotions in her eyes.

Lan Yan cast her gaze toward Weeping Soul, and she was just about to say something when the latter suddenly yelled, "Look out!"

Lan Yan immediately sprang into action at this warning, moving over a thousand feet horizontally in the blink of an eye.

She had only just moved from her original spot when an enormous crater was blasted into the ground there amid a resounding boom.

"He seems to have grown even more powerful in this state," Weeping Soul yelled.

"The Corpse Severance Talisman has already taken effect. His wicked corpse soul has taken over his body, and if he's unable to sever it, then it will sever him and completely claim his body," Lan Yan said in a horrified manner as she rushed to Weeping Soul's side.

"We have to do something. At the very least, we have to restrict his movements," Weeping Soul said in a grim voice.

"How do we do that?" Lan Yan hurriedly asked.

"Help me keep him occupied for a moment, I'll think of a plan," Weeping Soul replied with a solemn expression.

Before Lan Yan had a chance to ask any further questions, Han Li erupted out of the crater up ahead, launching himself high up into the air before swooping down upon them at an incredible speed.

Even with over a hundred feet still separating them, Weeping Soul and Lan Yan could feel tremendous wind pressure sweeping over them.

Weeping Soul had already closed her eyes with her hands clasped into a hand seal, seemingly preparing some type of secret technique.

Hence, Lan Yan had no choice but to oppose Han Li on her own, and she took a step forward as a blue pouch appeared in her grasp.

The sound of splashing waves rang out as ten blue water dragons erupted out of the blue pouch amid a flash of radiant, blue light, and they broke through the tremendous wind pressure up ahead to pounce at Han Li.

Han Li let loose a wild roar as he threw a punch forward, and the two water dragons at the forefront instantly exploded upon impact, while the other eight flew past his fist before wrapping themselves around him.

Immediately thereafter, countless arcs of water lightning erupted out of their bodies in unison, and Han Li let loose an agonized roar as the arcs of lightning exploded around him.

All of a sudden, a dark red aura erupted out of his body, and it was as if he had instantly activated all of his bloodline power, forming bursts of incredibly formidable shockwaves that scattered all of the surrounding water lightning.

"Are you ready on your end?" Lan Yan yelled as blood began to trickle out of her mouth and nostrils, but Weeping Soul displayed no reaction to her frantic question.

Right as the eight water dragons were about to be overwhelmed, Lan Yan opened her mouth to release a globule of blood essence, which splattered onto her blue pouch before seeping into it.

The blue pouch instantly began to glow brightly, while the eight water dragons opened their mouths to release a translucent ball of blue lightning each, all of which were sent hurtling toward Han Li.

The eight balls of lightning reached Han Li in unison before exploding into an enormous pillar of lightning, and with that, the eight water dragons faded away, seemingly having expended all of their power.

As a result, Han Li was revealed, and his entire body was charred black, but he remained standing.

He cast his gaze toward Lan Yan, then bared his teeth in a malicious grin as a burst of baleful qi and tremendous malicious intent locked onto her at once, sending a chill running down her spine.

A look of despair appeared in her eyes as she slumped to the ground, while Han Li launched himself at her.

However, in the next instant, a peculiar gleam suddenly flashed through his eyes, and his body instantly became completely rigid. His momentum was still carrying him forward, and as a result, he began tumbling end over end like a wooden plank.

Immediately thereafter, a figure arrived by his side before pressing a palm down onto the top of his head, and Lan Yan was very relieved to see that Weeping Soul had finally intervened.

She was standing directly in front of Han Li with a hand pressed down upon the top of his head, and waves of rippling, dark red light were surging out of the palm of her hand.

Somehow, she had managed to completely immobilize Han Li, forcing him into a seated position on the ground.

However, blood was trickling down from the corners of her eyes, and it was clear that unleashing this secret technique had taken a significant toll on her.

With her other hand, she was making a rapid string of hand seals, following which she pointed a finger at her own glabella, and the skin and flesh there instantly split apart to reveal a vertical, crimson eye.

Immediately thereafter, a series of translucent, crimson threads emerged from the vertical eye like a mass of vines before piercing directly into Han Li's glabella.

In the instant that the crimson threads entered Han Li's glabella, Weeping Soul let loose a pained cry as her eyes sprang shut, and in the next instant, her spiritual sense entered Han Li's consciousness.

This was the first time that she had witnessed Han Li's consciousness, and it was a vast expanse of heaven and earth.

However, at the moment, the entire landscape had been plunged into a state of complete chaos. Gusts of howling wind were sweeping through the air, while countless tornadoes were wreaking havoc everywhere. On top of that, a dense blanket of dark clouds had appeared at a very low altitude, with arcs of lightning flashing incessantly within them.

All of a sudden, a bolt of lightning came crashing down upon Weeping Soul's spiritual sense, and she hurriedly dodged to the side before rushing forward.

However, she had only managed to advance for no more than ten thousand feet when a violent tornado came sweeping toward her.

"Where are you, Master?" she yelled in an agitated manner.

As an intrusive body of spiritual sense, she was only going to be met with more and more backlash in Han Li's consciousness, and once her secret technique ran its course, Han Li would reawaken, at which point there would be nothing more that she could do to stop him.

Right at this moment, Weeping Soul suddenly raised her head and spotted an indistinct figure in the lightning clouds up above. An elated look appeared on her face as she immediately rose up toward the dark clouds, evading bolts of falling lightning as she went.

As soon as she arrived above the lightning clouds, a resounding thunderclap rang out as a giant bolt of lightning exploded, instantly illuminating the entire surrounding area.

As a result, Weeping Soul was able to catch a glimpse of a lonesome figure that was trudging arduously toward an area of dense lightning.

The figure was none other than Han Li, and she immediately yelled out to him.

Han Li instantly stopped in his tracks upon hearing her voice, then turned around to face her, and Weeping Soul couldn't help but be startled by the sight of his face, which resembled two halves of different faces stitched into one, with one half filled with malice and insanity, while the other half wore a grim and serious expression.

Both halves of his face raised an eyebrow in unison at the sight of Weeping Soul, and two voices rang out at once from his mouth at once.

"What are you doing here?"

One of the voices was uttering a surprised enquiry, while the other was conducting a furious interrogation.

His soul is already beginning to split apart!

The dire nature of the situation became even more apparent to Weeping Soul upon seeing this.

She was just about to reply when a burst of lightning rose up from the dark clouds beneath her feet, and she hurriedly evaded the attack before rushing toward Han Li.

More lightning continued to rise up behind her in hot pursuit, and Han Li raised his right arm upon seeing this to scatter some of the lightning.

"Right now, my soul has been split, and I'm unable to completely control my consciousness. Get out of here right now, or you're going to get hurt," Han Li said in a strained manner.

As soon as his voice trailed off, another voice rang out.

"You came at just the right time to see me devour him! How about you serve me instead once I've taken over his body and consciousness?"

Weeping Soul paid no heed to the wicked corpse soul as she said, "Now that the Corpse Severance Talisman has already taken effect, the only temporary solution to the problem is to seal your soul away and place you in a state of slumber, then reawaken you once a permanent solution has been found."

Given that the wicked corpse soul was one with Han Li, it would be able to hear everything that Han Li did, even if she tried to communicate to him through voice transmission, so she didn't bother.

"Is that your solution? That's perfect! Go right ahead!" the wicked corpse soul encouraged.

"That's not going to work. The more time that passes, the more my consciousness will be corroded, and it's an inevitable process that won't stop even if we're both placed into a state of slumber. There's a very good chance that the next time I'm awakened, my consciousness will have already ceased to exist," Han Li said.

Weeping Soul fell into a grim silence upon hearing this.

"I've already made an agreement with him to split ourselves apart using the lightning here, at which point we'll battle each other to see which of us will be able to sever the other," Han Li declared with a look of finality on the right side of his face.

"That's a suicide mission! You're still way too far away from the pinnacle of the early-Great Encompassment Stage to successfully sever a corpse soul!" Weeping Soul exclaimed in an urgent manner.

"I don't really have any other alternatives now, do I?" Han Li sighed in a resigned manner.

"Cut the chit-chat! You're beginning to get on my nerves! If you keep trying to meddle in our affairs, then I'll kill you first!" the wicked corpse soul snapped.

"In that case, I won't try to dissuade you any further. No matter what happens, I'll continue to follow you, even if your body is taken over by your wicked corpse soul," Weeping Soul sighed.

"You've made a smart decision, little girl. Let me show you the power of your new master!" the wicked corpse soul guffawed, clearly supremely confident in its ability to come out on top.

Weeping Soul could only stand by and watch as Han Li continued to trudge toward the lightning.

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