Concocting

Chapter 251

He had taken his Death Finger head-on?

How was that possible?!

Curse could barely accept and understand his battlefield Demon Spirit being shattered at the start. Eighty percent of the time, some powerful Spirit Treasure Tool must have been used.

Given his immense reputation, it was perfectly normal for someone who knew his abilities in advance to use targeted skills or items against him.

But the Death Finger that followed might have looked like a casual attack, yet it had actually gathered all the remaining power of his battlefield into a single point!

It was his strongest attack, one that had even exceeded the upper limit of his own abilities!

He could not launch another attack of that level right now!

It looked simple, but its power was immense, its speed was fast, and its accuracy was high. It was absolutely a trump card for turning the tables. Even the future Fifth Mizukage would certainly die if struck by it!

Compared with the Demon Spirit’s initially "gentle" gnawing and attrition, this was a destructive attack that consumed all the battlefield’s power in one go.

It would obliterate every collected vengeful spirit!

But…

But an attack of that level had actually been casually crushed by the other party?

What was going on? What had happened?

Lowering his head to look at the black scar on his palm, which took three seconds to recover, Xu Yue acknowledged the intensity of the other’s attack.

This was barely the first attack in the true sense to break through his AT Field.

If it had been a Wood Clone, it probably would not have been able to take that blow.

Though the black scar brimming with the aura of death was small, it had still taken his fully developed Sage Body several seconds to recover.

It truly was quite a fine, powerful attack method.

The strongest attack he had suffered so far.

"Since it’s so strong, I’ll borrow it, then."

Looking at his palm, now smooth as new, Xu Yue seemed to chuckle softly. Then his ominous blood-red eyes lifted and met the other’s gaze.

The next moment, everyone seemed to hear a crisp sound of something shattering beside their ears.

Curse also let out a muffled groan and staggered back several steps.

The Soul Fire in his eye sockets visibly dimmed, and when he looked up at Xu Yue, his eyes were filled with disbelief.

"What was that attack just now?!"

It was not only him. Even Xu Yue showed a trace of surprise.

Since this fellow did not know his information, Xu Yue had initially thought he could simply finish him with Tsukuyomi. Tsukuyomi enhanced by C World was far more powerful than the original version.

Without extraordinary mental defenses, even a Kage-level opponent would not be able to withstand it!

That was how De Gaulle had been taken out in one move.

As someone who possessed the Force, his mental strength and willpower were not weak.

Yet after being dragged into the C World-enhanced Tsukuyomi space, this man had instantly split and shattered his soul.

Using part of his soul fragments as substitutes, he had directly allowed the main portion of his soul to escape.

And many of those substitute soul fragments did not appear to be from his own original soul, but had been collected from all sorts of miscellaneous creatures.

This fellow was rather interesting.

His aura was clearly not overwhelmingly strong, roughly on par with Wang Zhaoming, yet his various strange abilities were indeed quite distinctive.

But by now, Xu Yue had completely confirmed the other’s traits.

Strong attacks, strong support, a powerful soul, and bizarre methods.

But…

His physical defense did not seem particularly strong.

Xu Yue raised his hand and pointed.

Under the alteration of Shinra Tensei, the AT Field instantly stretched outward in a linear fashion.

The instant his finger rose, the Curse Priest’s gaunt body, along with the bone wall defending before him, was sliced in two.

The cut was smooth.

His body fell to the ground like dry firewood.

"You!"

Though his body had been split into two and he could no longer move, neither half of the Curse Priest’s body bled.

It was as though his soul merely resided within it.

"I never expected such a powerful expert to emerge from Japan. I have remembered the aura of your soul. Prepare yourselves for our endless retaliation!"

The eye sockets containing the flickering Soul Fire glared viciously at Xu Yue’s lower body.

With his physical body so severely damaged, he also understood that he did not have much time left in this Mission Space…

"Wait? Why wait? Now is fine."

Curse had barely finished speaking when he felt that something was wrong. A chain had somehow appeared beside him and completely locked up his body!

The instant that chain wrapped around him, he discovered that his soul had been completely sealed within this body, unable to break free at all.

Sealing Jutsu!

This was bad!

How could this be?

He had destroyed his battlefield Demon Spirit, forcibly taken his Death Finger, shattered his Soul Stone with a terrifying mental attack, and used a powerful attack to pierce through the bone wall and cut him in half.

And now Sealing Jutsu had appeared as well?

Were you kidding him?!

This was cheating!

Where was the Space?

Where was the referee?

Was there no law? No justice?

What kind of monster was this?!

After the Adamantine Sealing Chains completely bound Curse, Xu Yue dragged his two severed halves to his side and said to the laborers nearby,

"One at a time. Everyone stab him once. Don’t worry, his soul has been sealed inside this body by me. He won’t die…"

The laborers looked at one another, but having grown accustomed to following orders, they did not hesitate. Each took out their own weapon.

Some used skinning knives, others mining picks.

They began delivering all manner of follow-up blows.

"Stop! You dare humiliate me like this?!"

The bizarre attacks from the laborers did not inflict much damage on Curse himself, but he felt as though his dignity had been humiliated by the ton.

"I’m just helping them earn some extra points. All right, if these ‘normal’ soul techniques are all you have for preserving your life, then we may really have to say goodbye."

Xu Yue looked down at him, his expression still calm.

This strange priest had many, varied methods for preserving his life. But if he did not possess a high-authority escape method like De Gaulle’s, then this time he could be completely dealt with.

Grabbing his gaunt upper body, Xu Yue reached out and seized that skull-like head. After forcibly turning the hollow eyes containing the flickering Soul Fire toward himself, Xu Yue’s Mangekyo began to spin once more.

Let’s see how many times you can split…

With a thud, Xu Yue threw the corpse, which had become dry bones, onto the ground. Once it completely crumbled into dust, he gained an even deeper understanding of the life-preserving methods of these big shots.

It seemed that no matter how strong his own survival abilities were, after going through so many missions, they would more or less have bound some Authority Items for leaving the Space.

His military rank was still a little too low. Even using a locked Authority Card had been useless.

Unfortunately, he was also a reincarnator, so he could not imitate Infinite Tsukuyomi and actively make the other party reveal information about the Space to plot characters.

After his soul had been destroyed through "normal" means, this fellow seemed to have once again escaped through some mysterious passage, taking his core essence with him as he left this mission.

He had probably barely managed to keep his life.

However, judging from the current situation, perhaps because he himself had many life-preserving techniques, the authority of that escape item did not seem as high as De Gaulle’s.

De Gaulle had returned intact and whole, while this fellow had only brought back some fragments…

The price he would pay afterward was likely much greater than De Gaulle’s as well.

Unfortunately, that endlessly splitting soul trait had also prevented Xu Yue from interrogating him for information…

Two updates today. The next one will be a little later…