Chapter 23: Remnant Dream Blade
The remaining two clones formed an encirclement with the main body against Huo Yuhao.
Yu Hongzhi stared intently at all of Huo Yuhao’s vital points.
Searching for a method to kill with one strike.
Soon the two clones began to launch attacks, one using the Soul Bone Skill Shadow Seal Curse to lock down the enemy’s movements.
The other repeated the old trick and directly struck fiercely at Huo Yuhao’s heart.
But the result was still no change; the clone’s hand passed straight through the opponent’s body, as if the opponent was just a projection.
After these two tests, Yu Hongzhi could already confirm that the opponent had an ability similar to the Phasing Soul Skill.
Phasing Soul Skill, Yu Hongzhi had seen it once when participating in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
However, that opponent only temporarily turned their body into Void, with a short duration, and unable to interfere with the outside world.
Whereas this one-eyed mask man in front of him demonstrated Spatial Distortion while maintaining Phasing.
Troublesome.
Sweat continuously dripped from Yu Hongzhi’s face; he was already drenched in sweat.
He confirmed that this one-eyed mask man possessed an extremely rare Space Attribute Martial Soul.
Martial Souls of this attribute were Rarely Seen, even rarer than Darkness attribute or Light attribute.
No one with this type of Martial Soul would be a weakling.
Having roamed the Continent for many years, he had only fought against Soul Masters of this attribute at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
But at that time, he was mainly in a support position; the one truly facing this ability was the former team captain.
Even though the captain’s Martial Soul was the top-tier True Dragon Martial Soul Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
It still took considerable effort to defeat the opponent.
His own Dream Eater Martial Soul was very good, but compared to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, it was still far inferior.
However, he was not without advantages; Space Attribute Martial Souls were destined to have inferior Spiritual Power to his own.
As long as he seized the opportunity and used the first and second Soul Skills to affect him, preventing him from entering the Phasing state, he could kill him.
“The two clones can use a total of three more Soul Skills; must find a way to let Spiritual Power affect the opponent’s brain.”
Yu Hongzhi’s fifth Soul Ring was hunted from a ten thousand year Mirror Beast in the Extreme North, granting a Soul Skill that could summon three clones; the clones synced in Level but had only one-third of the main body’s Soul Power.
Moreover, each clone could only use two Soul Skills including Soul Bone Skills, and only the first three Soul Skills.
This ability could only be used once every twenty-four hours.
As for the fourth Soul Skill that had not been used, Yu Hongzhi gritted his teeth; if possible, he never wanted to use this Soul Skill in his lifetime.
His fourth Soul Skill was called Remnant Dream Blade, hunted from a mutant Demon Eye Magic Tree.
Once this Soul Skill was used, his body would inevitably begin transforming toward Dream state, simply put, gradually turning into bubbles.
Just like Huo Yuhao’s little mermaid from his previous life, completely turning into nothingness.
The entire process was irreversible; once used, there was no turning back.
So no matter what competitions he faced before, he had never used this Soul Skill.
The effect of this Soul Skill matched its overbearing side effect.
Drawing a blade from the Dream, this Remnant Dream Blade would ceaselessly cut reality, turning reality into Dream, substance into Void.
Yu Hongzhi transmitted his Will to the two clones.
Receiving the main body’s Will, the two clones began an all-out fierce assault on Huo Yuhao regardless of cost.
Huo Yuhao was somewhat doubtful at this moment; the opponent should know such actions were futile.
But he could only continue maintaining Kamui; his body couldn’t withstand a Soul Emperor’s attack.
Not only did Yu Hongzhi want to find an opportunity for a killing blow, Huo Yuhao thought the same.
During the time maintaining Kamui, he could clearly feel the Pupil Power consumption; only because his Pupil Power reserves were still ample did it not affect his vision.
To conserve Pupil Power, Huo Yuhao had to find an opportunity to end the battle quickly.
Otherwise, once Pupil Power was excessively consumed, he would be the one in trouble.
Therefore, this time Huo Yuhao did not simply passively take hits; his figure moved like a ghost, directly passing through the two clones straight toward the opponent’s main body.
If he really couldn’t touch him, then Huo Yuhao could only grit his teeth and use high-consumption Pupil Techniques like Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, or long-range Kamui to kill the opponent.
Just as Huo Yuhao was still a short distance away from him.
Yu Hongzhi suddenly moved, vast Spiritual Power assaulting Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
Yu Hongzhi’s first and second Soul Rings emitted yellow Light in the dense night.
Huo Yuhao realized the opponent seemed to have misunderstood something, making a wrong judgment by using Spiritual Power to attack him.
“Good come!”
The Spiritual Power in his Sea of Consciousness, having reached the Spirit Sea Realm, instantly blocked the assault; the extremely high quality Spiritual Power even counter-eroded the opponent.
Yu Hongzhi clearly had not anticipated this situation and widened his eyes.
“Damn it, you’re also a Spiritual Attribute Soul Master!”
Yu Hongzhi had no time for regret; only two minutes had passed, the sixth Soul Skill cooldown had not ended, and he couldn’t swap.
Seeing this, the two clones immediately used the Soul Bone Skill Shadow Seal Curse to pursue Huo Yuhao, trying to buy time for the main body.
Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao was one step faster.
Ink Black pupils reflected a large hand slowly approaching.
“Ah!”
“In that case, let you be the first to experience my fourth Soul Skill!”
“Remnant Dream Blade!!!”
In the face of death crisis, he erupted with his final courage, activating that fourth Soul Skill emitting noble purple Light.
In an instant, Huo Yuhao’s entire body Spiritual Power rioted; the strongest sense of crisis since transmigration surged in his heart.
The last time he felt this sense of crisis was in his previous life facing a large-scale geological collapse.
Huo Yuhao watched as Yu Hongzhi drew a Long Saber from Colored bubbles; the blade reflected various bizarre images.
The hilt and handle were interwoven changing Colored Ribbons.
As soon as that blade appeared, the surrounding Space emitted a shrill sound; as the blade slashed the ground, the stones and Soil on the ground disappeared tracelessly as if erased by an eraser.
Yu Hongzhi’s eyes flashed with ferocity; his hand merely gripped the hilt, and his body had already begun entering the Dream state.
His own death was certain, but he still wanted to take one down with him.
“Getting hit by that will definitely mean death!”
This thought suddenly imprinted in Huo Yuhao’s mind.
Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth; his left eye’s Pupil Technique Land of Roots began to prepare; if he couldn’t dodge and got hit, he would use Land of Roots to save his life.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao finally stopped skimping on Pupil Power.
“Amaterasu!”
Pitch Black flames instantly appeared on Yu Hongzhi, flames from Hell licking every inch of his flesh.
Yu Hongzhi let out a miserable scream and hurriedly used Soul Power to resist, but the ultra-high temperature burned not only flesh but also Soul Power.
When he realized he couldn’t extinguish the fire, he looked toward Huo Yuhao and turned his wrist holding the blade, wanting to throw the blade.
“Tsukuyomi!”
Blood tears flowed from the corner of Huo Yuhao’s eye, stopping his action.
Amaterasu’s black flames crackled burning, but Yu Hongzhi made no more sound; his Will had fallen into Tsukuyomi.
Just like that, his body had turned to charred remains in the Blazing Fire.
Huo Yuhao closed his left eye, removed the Mask, wiped the blood tears, and said:
“Thank you, for letting me know I’m not yet worthy of being called a Strong Person.”
“I’m just a stinky cheater.”
“My own magnanimity, Will, and determination are far inferior to yours.”
“You taught me one thing: even a lion fighting a rabbit must use full strength, or else the rabbit in desperation will bite back.”
If Huo Yuhao had used Amaterasu when he first discovered him, he wouldn’t have had a chance to struggle.
“Really quite pathetic.”
Huo Yuhao smiled helplessly; from the start of the battle, he had been thinking of conserving Pupil Power, but because of that thought, he ended up consuming a large amount of Pupil Power.
He had just wanted to leave when he suddenly noticed that the blade was still in the Blazing Fire and had not disappeared with its Master’s Death.
