Chapter 123: The Battle Of The Life Vitality
The refiner's face was distorted because of the attack. He wanted to run his life vitality to break through these chains. But when he tried to do that, he found that his life vitality couldn't be formed.
He was then bound up to the Oceiros' Pillar, falling rapidly.
This was just one of the special functions of Oceiros' Pillar. Anyone who was bound to it would be unable to use the life vitality. The Pillar could lock the life vitality, and even the powerful men of Illuminating Soul Realm could not overcome it. They had to rely on their physical strength and fight like ordinary warriors.
There were also two other refiners being trapped by the powerful Oceiros' Pillar and falling toward the ground one by one.
Only Spencer could pound the Oceiros' Pillar to pieces with his brute strength. There were also two other powerful men of Illuminating Soul Realm that were able to avoid the attacks from Oceiros' Pillar by their special and agile moves.
“In addition to the Oceiros' Pillar, Oceiros is also very strong. Only we three are here now and we must do everything to stop Oceiros!” cried Spencer. And then he raised his mighty hammers and bravely met Oceiros head-on.
The other two refiners were also good at physical combat. Together with Spencer, they successfully subdued Oceiros' ferocious attack.
While the three men were fighting closely to ward off the attacks of one of the demon kings, Zen kept absorbing the demon's holy fire.
He absorbed it faster and faster and finally he had taken almost half of the demon's holy fire into his body.
The existing black mist was getting thinner. And one could see the figures of Aldrich and Yolande from time to time.
Aldrich's face looked dreadful amidst the black fog.
He was holding his strongest card and that was the demon's holy fire. As long as it was there, he was unbreakable. The holy fire not only could intensify his speed and strength but also could help him restore his evil spirit three times faster.
These were all the reasons why Aldrich wanted to use the life vitality to compete with Yolande with reckless abandon.
Inside the demon's holy fire, Aldrich's power and strength had been enhanced greatly like an immortal.
But now! It turned out to be much different from what Aldrich had expected. That human boy had consumed almost all of the demon's holy fire!
The demon's holy fire could be used to improve the physical strength of a demon. If a demon general could cultivate in the demon's holy fire, the possibility of progressing to a demon king would be increased ten times compared to when he refined in the normal world!
However, there was never a demon who could absorb the demon's holy fire intensely. Even Aldrich, the demon king himself, could not do such a thing!
Aldrich had used some special methods to lock up the demon's holy fire in his demon core. If he absorbed so much holy fire in one breath like Zen had done, his body would explode. He would definitely die, but this human boy was still alive now.
'Is he a real human? Oh, no... Who is this boy? How could his body endure so much demon's holy fire?'
Aldrich could not understand that. Compared to the shocked and confused look of the demon king, Yolande looked calm. Although she was also a little surprised to see Zen absorbing the demon's holy fire, she did not pay much attention to think about this strange phenomenon. On the one hand, she did not have too strong curiosity about anything, and on the other hand, her understanding of demon's holy fire was far less than Aldrich. She did not know how strong and terrible the demon's holy fire was. For Yolande, it was just a fire from the demon She kept summoning her life vitality from her body and fighting against Aldrich, life vitality to life vitality.
But the consumption speed of her life vitality was much faster than Aldrich's. At this moment, her face was pale because of excessive extraction of life vitality.
When Aldrich saw Yolande's pallor face, he formed a plan in his mind. After all, he was a demon king and he thought that his evil spirit must be more than the life vitality of this human girl.
Even in the absence of demon's holy fire, Aldrich was confident to win.
Spencer and the other two refiners who were combating with Oceiros felt elated to see that the demon's holy fire was getting thinner.
But when they realized that Yolande was competing with Aldrich on life vitality, their happiness disappeared.
The evil spirit of a demon king was far greater than the life vitality of a human.
Even though Yolande was special from the rest of the refiners of Illuminating Soul Realm, and her life vitality which was stored in her body was several times more than that of a normal refiner of Illuminating Soul Realm, she was no match to a demon king. Not to mention to compete with Aldrich, which ranked as one of the strongest demon kings.
“Go help her!” Spencer once again raised his sledgehammers to turn back an attack from Oceiros and then he took avail of such a short break time to ask the refiner of Illuminating Soul Realm beside him to help Yolande.
Once receiving the command, this refiner soon summoned his life vitality to generate a fire beneath his feet to quicken his speed, and then he was about to rush toward Yolande. All these refiners of Illuminating Soul Realm knew clearly that it was a critical moment for both parties who were competing with their life vitality. At this moment, Yolande and Aldrich were afraid of any outer distraction and could not spare any other life vitality to face the attacks from the others. Any distraction might lead to serious injury.
And the refiner who planned to intervene was known for his agility. That was the reason that Spencer had asked him to help Yolande. He could move faster than a speeding bullet. Just now he had bravely dodged the attack from Oceiros' Pillar because of his speed.
But just as he was about to make a dash, Oceiros also moved faster and stopped him from flying to Yolande.
Earlier, Oceiros wanted to stop Zen from absorbing the demon's holy fire since it was significant to Aldrich. Now, since the holy fire had been absorbed by Zen, Oceiros looked around, and noticed that Aldrich was actually competing with the little human girl with life vitality.
At that moment, Oceiros was completely certain that the little human girl would lose the fight.
Therefore, instead of fighting against him, the refiners of Illuminating Soul Realm changed their plan and would like to save the human girl. Oceiros had to stop Spencer and other human refiners.
Everyone was so engrossed that they had overlooked one person who was lying on the light curtain, Zen.
Silently lying there, Zen felt a hot mass engulfing his body. It was as hot as the burning lava that he had experienced before.
The golden swirls had absorbed all the demon's holy fire and then converted to such a power that refined his body from head to toe once again.
'Ah, I do not want to feel this again!' Zen cried to himself. He sat up on the light curtain and shook his arms to ease his stiff body. Then, he felt something strange in his chest.
'Wow, what's this? A new spiritual texture is on my chest!' Zen was delighted to see this spiritual texture. Last time when he absorbed the fire of the Earth's core, he also found that a spiritual texture appeared on his chest, which symbolized that he had become the body of spiritual weapon. Now he had two spiritual textures on his chest!
One spiritual texture represented that he was a low-grade spiritual weapon. If he owned two spiritual textures, he had entered the middle-grade.
A smile rose from his face. But on the other hand, he was a little confused. According to the previous experiences, he must absorb the fire to refine his physical body. But how could he receive the same effect after absorbing the black fog?
He felt more confused now. The black fog which he saw was actually the demon's holy fire. It was also a kind of fire, but a special one and few people knew that.
Aside from the new spiritual texture, Zen found some other special things appeared on his body.
Two streak of unique runes had appeared on his arms, and in the middle of each one lay a blank space of the size of an egg. He lifted his arms and studied them for a while but could not find any clue to why they were there and what they were for.
But they looked vaguely familiar to him and he must have seen them somewhere before.
He had just absorbed the black fog, and now he was caught in confusion. He closed his eyes and tried to remember from where he had seen these runes.
After he thought for a while, he gave up and started to look around to see what was happening. He saw two figures above him. And Zen wondered, 'what are they doing?'
Zen still sat on the light curtain and looked up. Aldrich and Yolande were standing not far away, face to face. The way they stood was very strange. A ray of evil spirit was spreading forward and then was stopped by some invisible force.
Yolande's life vitality was formless and colorless. Zen surely could not see it. But due to his strong soul, he could sense Yolande's life vitality.
'life vitality against life vitality?'
Though his mind was still foggy, he finally understood what was happening.
After becoming a nature creature, refiners indeed could rely on life vitality to defeat the other side. Some would even cultivate to strengthen their life vitality. With strong life vitality, they did not need to face directly to an enemy in the battle. Instead, such cultivators would find an opportunity to drag their rivals to the combat with the life vitality. No actions, and no weapons. Just life vitality.
Although it was dangerous, it could maximize the advantage of life vitality.
When he saw the pale face of Yolande, Zen knew that she was in danger. She might lose in life vitality combat.
But Zen wasn't that anxious at all. He smiled and thought that it was safe for him to stay near the curtain of light. He lounged on the light curtain, looking up leisurely.
Yolande took a glance at Zen when he sat down. She then withdrew her eyes. She was focusing on the release of her life vitality and didn't bother to ask for Zen's help.
The first one to turn to Zen for help was Spencer.
Blocked by Oceiros, Spencer and other refiners couldn't help Yolande. But with the power of the life vitality, he could communicate with Zen and transmit his voice even from a distance.
“Zen! Yolande's victory is very crucial. It could impact the survival of White Emperor City. Could you do us a favor and help Yolande?” Spencer was aware of Zen's dramatic recovery and shouted to him for help.
On hearing this, Zen turned over from the light curtain. Spencer's inquire did have some impact on him and it sounded reasonable. In fact, if it was some other human being fighting before Zen, no matter who he or she was, he would have already gone up to help. His current behavior was just something related to what Yolande had done to him. So, he pretended to be an onlooker, crossing his hands before his chest.
However, what Spencer said was true.
If Yolande failed in the life vitality battle with Aldrich, the strength of the human refiners would be much lesser than now. Thus, White Emperor City would be in chaos and taken over by the demon. Zen himself might also die as he would be easily pressed to death by one finger of the demon kings.
With all these factors considered, Zen climbed up from the light curtain reluctantly.
Anyway, his slow move satisfied Spencer and other human refiners. However, their smiling faces didn't last long and soon turned to worried ones.
After all, this was Aldrich, a famous and strong demon king, while Zen was just a young man who was only half-step to the nature level.
They two fighters could not afford to be distracted in a battle of the life vitality as the rival might take the chance to attack.
However, Zen was so weak before a demon king. Aldrich might not need to spare too much of his attention and could kill Zen easily.
Anyway, they never knew the result if they did not try. And now, they could only rely on Zen.
The moment was suspended as all were looking at Zen, who was climbing up to the curtain of light and moving towards Aldrich...