Chapter 1518: Eliminating One

Chapter 1518: Chapter 1518: Eliminating One

Pei Yan pressed down on Hu Jiu’s shoulder while unleashing the power of the Divine Artifact he seized from Delacuri, using the chance to transfer damage for the second time. Subsequently, Hu Jiu’s chest wounds and the corrosive acid damage surrounding him completely healed, and Hu Jiu’s spirits instantly lifted.

Though Hu Jiu’s injuries healed, Pei Yan’s spirit remained somewhat exhausted. At the critical moment of Hu Jiu’s crisis, the two exchanged bodies through soul swapping. Pei Yan’s soul, though strengthened through trials in Soul Hell and fragmentation restructuring, still suffered some damage from the soul purification of the Holy Sword and the forbidden curse cast by the Mage Association President, as the damage transfer puppet could only transfer physical damage, not soul damage.

However, as he told Hu Jiu, all these losses were worth it!

When he looked up again towards Urban not far away, he noticed Urban’s body had rapidly shriveled up, causing him to hunch over. The elegant and wide bishop’s priest robe loosely draped over him, and now Urban seemed unable to bear even that weight, tottering as if he could fall from the sky at any moment.

"Don’t touch me!" Aleister and others naturally wanted to approach upon seeing Urban in such a pitiful state, but they were stopped by his hoarse, angry shout. When Aleister saw Urban barely able to lift his head, revealing a neck that had become as dry and wrinkled as dried orange peel, with no visible muscle and skin covered in age spots, with some areas beginning to rot and emit a foul odor, she finally realized the severity.

"Death energy! I am now completely invaded by the purest form of death energy. Pei Yan has infused all the death energy gathered in the battlefield into me. Stay away from me! Once I die, the death energy will burst out, and everything around will be invaded by it." After saying this, Urban glared at Pei Yan with a venomous look and, without saying another word, handed the slightly damaged Holy Sword of Light and his equipment to the Holy Knight who came forward to take them, and then flew slowly towards an uninhabited area of the battlefield.

Pei Yan did not intercept Urban’s departure; his goal had been achieved, and the possibility of Urban surviving was very slim unless the hidden supreme figure intervened to save him now. Otherwise, with his soul invaded by death energy, Urban would face complete annihilation once the Light Power within him was fully depleted.

"Were you gathering death power by rampaging on the battlefield?" Aleister asked, turning her head towards Pei Yan after watching Urban leave with a face full of unwillingness and despair.

"Yes! For every being killed by my abilities, I collect a multiple of death energy from them. The higher the realm of the killed person, the greater the reward for me. Therefore, not only the Temple Knights killed by the Mechanical Legion, but also the Mage Witches I killed on the city walls, their deaths all gave me a reciprocal benefit." Pei Yan said as he opened his right hand, gathering a mass of black energy in his palm.

"This is the Power of Origin of the Hell Demon Race! You previously didn’t possess this power! Is this a new endowment from the Demon God?" Aleister had seen Pei Yan’s battles in the past; at that time, although Pei Yan used the power of the Demon Race, most often, he used Demon God Transformation to strengthen his body. Even when using death energy attacks, because it didn’t contain pure Power of Origin, its power was limited.

Pei Yan shrugged at this question, indifferent; after all, he had completely torn his face with the Magic Plane, and he was more than happy to see relations between the Magic Plane and the Hell Plane worsen with mutual suspicion.

"Were you so sure we would target Hu Jiu?" Aleister, seeing Pei Yan unwilling to answer, did not press on but instead voiced her inner doubt.

Pei Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Wasn’t sure! My original plan was to absorb death energy, provoke you guys to pursue me! Then I would seize the moment of your disintegration to inject death energy into any one of you, but you seem to have seen through this point and didn’t fall into the trap, instead attacking my companion. That’s when I realized my idea was too naive! After transferring Wang Wenze away, I began considering your next move. In my view, there were only two potential targets left for you to attack: my sister or Hu Jiu! Because you see, attacking either of these two would immediately make me return to assist them! Given this, your chances of targeting Hu Jiu were higher, so I focused on ensuring their safety accordingly, and sure enough, you settled on Hu Jiu. However, you only considered that killing Hu Jiu equals killing me without realizing the level of tacit understanding and operable means our symbiotic contract affords us exceeds your expectations."

"Since you’ve exchanged souls, you wouldn’t be affected by Hecate’s mental interference afterward, so your failure to dodge being stabbed by the Urban Holy Sword was merely an illusion! It only gave Urban the misguided belief he could use everything in one desperate gamble!" Aleister now felt true fear towards the young man before her—the kind of fear not only based on strength but also mental and psychological resilience! His ruthless determination to achieve his goals could disregard everything to destroy all obstacles in his path, not hesitating to use his own life as bait, all for hastening the downfall of his enemy—Aleister was now deeply questioning whether Council City truly needed to provoke such a madman for someone who accomplishes little and causes much trouble?

"Very worthwhile, isn’t it? He was a top expert at the peak of Heavenly Dao. Without some risk or sacrifice, how could one expect to kill someone like him in such a short time? Only when he believed victory was within reach would he choose to die with me, and only at this moment could I inject the death energy accumulated from nearly 20,000 people gathered across the battlefield into one person. Such pure and vast death energy infused, even the Archbishop of the Bright Church probably could not survive it."

Pei Yan said as he gazed at the slowly departing figure in the distance, understanding this was why Urban left. Infusing so much death energy into his body meant that once he succumbed to total death energy invasion, his Heavenly Dao Peak Realm energy would only make the death energy even more potent. Once he died, the uncontrolled death energy would spread, transforming the surroundings into a dead zone. Unless someone dispels the death energy with Holy Light, it can only be slowly diluted and dissolved by the Power of Nature. Meanwhile, any creature entering this zone will be invaded and killed by the death energy, becoming its sustenance and prolonging its existence.