Chapter 94 - 81: Sword Severs the Flesh, Mind Severs the Soul

Chapter 94: Chapter 81: Sword Severs the Flesh, Mind Severs the Soul

"Impossible. Absolutely impossible!"

The Jade-faced Saber Mantis stared at Lu Chen, who had just executed the Three Prisons Tribulation Killing Array. It couldn’t believe that a Human Race Cultivator had completely mastered its unique Superpower in just a few short minutes. If this unique Superpower was so easy to grasp, then what was the point of the "evolution" it had barely achieved after surviving countless life-and-death struggles and devouring countless Evil Objects in the Nine Nether?

The Jade-faced Saber Mantis absolutely could not accept this!

"Fake! You must have used some kind of illusion. What you cast is definitely not my Three Prisons Tribulation Killing Array!" the Jade-faced Saber Mantis roared as it lunged straight at Lu Chen. Its frenzied demeanor made it look as though it wanted to tear him to shreds right then and there.

Facing the maddened creature, Lu Chen remained incomparably calm. From the moment the Jade-faced Saber Mantis lost its rationality, this battle was already over.

As the beast attacked, Lu Chen and the two phantoms beside him charged forward to meet it. During this process, the Magic Sword in Lu Chen’s right hand began to vibrate continuously. A surge of oscillating silvery-white Spiritual Power started from his arm and spread all the way to the blade of the Magic Sword.

If it were in a rational state of mind, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis would have definitely noticed the change in Lu Chen’s Magic Sword and understood just how dangerous that silvery-white Spiritual Power was to it. However, completely enraged by Lu Chen’s actions, it only had one thought left in its mind: to expose Lu Chen’s fake Three Prisons Tribulation Killing Array and prove that its unique Superpower couldn’t be learned so easily.

Therefore, all of its attention was focused on the phantoms on either side of Lu Chen, completely ignoring the changes to the Magic Sword. But this delusion was thoroughly shattered when Lu Chen’s two phantoms collided with its own. Upon clashing, the phantoms immediately entangled with one another in combat. This proved that Lu Chen’s phantoms were not illusions at all, but rather possessed a portion of his true Power—just like its own!

Realizing this, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis felt as though something inside its heart had shattered, leaving it in a daze. "I-it really is my Superpower... H-how is this possible..." it thought in disbelief.

Losing focus during a battle was undoubtedly a fatal mistake.

"ROAR!"

Accompanied by a resonant Dragon Roar, the distracted Jade-faced Saber Mantis finally snapped back to reality. But it was already too late to react. Although it saw the silvery-white Flood Dragon flying straight toward its face, there was absolutely no time to dodge.

BANG!

An explosion rang out as the man and the Evil Object tangled together. They smashed through the debris inside the mall and crashed right through the glass doors on the first floor, flying out of the building before slamming violently onto the concrete pavement outside.

BOOM!

Their impact instantly smashed a massive crater into the hard concrete, whipping up a violent shockwave.

When the dust settled, Lu Chen was standing in the crater with one foot firmly planted on the Jade-faced Saber Mantis’s abdomen. His three-foot-long sword was plunged deep into its chest. The blade itself wasn’t what was lethal; the true killing blow was the frenzied Sword Qi that had surged into the creature’s body through the weapon. From the moment that oscillating Sword Qi entered it, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis’s life had reached its absolute end.

Looking down at the Jade-faced Mantis pinned beneath his foot, Lu Chen’s expression showed neither joy nor sorrow. To him, defeating a Foundation Establishment Stage Nine Nether Evil Object like this was nothing to be proud of. After all, he had already fought and emerged victorious against two Foundation Establishment Stage entities prior to this encounter. Defeating a Foundation Establishment Stage Evil Object above his own level simply meant that the number of Foundation Establishment Stage beings that had died by his hands went from two... to three.

On the ground, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis could clearly feel its Life Force rapidly slipping away. The moment Lu Chen’s sword pierced its chest, a violent surge of Sword Qi had wreaked havoc inside its body, shattering all its internal organs in an instant. Even for a Nine Nether Evil Object with immense vitality, such an injury meant certain death.

However, it no longer cared about its own survival. It only wanted an answer from Lu Chen. Struggling to look at him, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis used Telepathy to ask, "Did you... really learn it just by taking one look?"

Lu Chen calmly nodded. In a sense, he wasn’t lying.

Receiving this answer, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis became thoroughly bewildered. With hollow eyes staring up at the sky, it muttered to itself, "Learned it with just one look... Learned it with just one look..."

"The power I went through so much hardship to obtain was actually learned by someone else with just a single glance," it thought. "Then what was the point of all my effort... Is hard work really so worthless in the face of sheer talent?"

With this profound sense of loss, the light in the Jade-faced Saber Mantis’s eyes completely faded away. If Lu Chen’s sword had slain its body, then his feat of learning a myriad of techniques at a single glance had thoroughly shattered its spirit. This was the epitome of not just killing the body, but destroying the mind.

[You have slain a Nine Nether Jade-faced Saber Mantis (Foundation Establishment Second Level). You have gained 1,500 Experience Points and Soul Crystal Fragment (Green) *1]

[Current Experience Points: 2825]

Looking at the information popping up before his eyes, Lu Chen knew that the Jade-faced Saber Mantis was completely dead.