Chapter 43: Amaterasu Brings Warmth
Lu Xinjin looked at the advisor in front of him with a bewildered expression, the advisor so frantic he couldn’t speak clearly.
“Hiss, Marquis Mansion? This thing can still stand up?”
“Don’t panic, I’ve been City Lord for decades, what scene haven’t I seen.”
“You as my advisor, facing a little thing and you’re all flustered!”
“I’m starting to question the correctness of letting you join the City Lord’s Mansion!”
Lu Xinjin casually grabbed a coat from nearby, draped it over himself, and walked to the watchtower barefoot to see what was really going on.
He originally thought it was some Soul Master causing trouble, but the scene before him shocked him directly.
A giant with the head of the Marquis Mansion, blue flames burning inside the two doors, which should be the eyes.
The body was made of jade, this kind of jade was White Spirit Jade, extremely expensive, with excellent Soul Power conduction properties, many Soul Engineers liked to use this material to carve Core Formation Arrays.
Also because this jade had a warm and moist feel when held, and its pure white color gave a sense of elegance, it was sought after by many nobles.
Lu Xinjin opened his mouth wide, looking up at the giant before him, he recognized at a glance that it was indeed the Marquis Mansion.
After all, the splendor of the Marquis Mansion was unmatched in the entire Xilu City.
This giant before him also didn’t emit any Soul Beast aura, not even Life Aura, just a pile of moving stones.
“I’ve lived this many years, this is really the first time I’ve seen this thing.”
Wherever Lu Xinjin’s gaze reached, many Soul Masters were already attacking this eerie giant.
The strongest was a Soul King, with two yellow and three purple Soul Rings, which was top-tier configuration for a wild Soul Master.
Watching this Soul King able to tangle with the giant before him, Lu Xinjin roughly gauged the strength level.
“Strength and defense reach Soul Emperor, but speed is too slow.”
“Just looks intimidating!”
“Watch me break it with brute force!”
“Martial Soul Possession!”
Lu Xinjin threw off the coat on his body, directly activated his Martial Soul, his body muscles bulged, directly growing to two and a half meters, then covered in brown fur.
Two yellow, two purple, three black optimal configuration Soul Rings circled around his body.
His Martial Soul was the Mighty Vajra Bear, the same as Zhao Wuji from ten thousand years ago.
Then the fifth Soul Ring began to shine, the eerie giant directly bound in place, unable to move.
White Spirit Jade began to emit a tooth-grinding cracking sound.
This was his fifth Soul Skill, Gravity Compression.
Then his sixth Soul Ring suddenly shone, his legs began to gather power, then he leaped fiercely into the sky, the powerful impact force directly collapsing the entire watchtower.
Countless dust drifted with the west wind toward the urban area, while Lu Xinjin turned into a brownish-yellow meteorite in the high air hundreds of meters up, smashing fiercely toward the eerie giant.
This was his famous Soul Skill, Meteor Fall.
No Soul Master of the same level dared to take this move head-on!
The bright yellow meteorite directly passed through the top of the eerie giant’s head, countless precious woods and rare jades from the Marquis Mansion shattered and flew across the entire city.
With this strike, that Marquis didn’t even have a corpse left.
The meteorite smashed a pit on the ground hundreds of meters wide and ten meters deep, the core urban area of the entire Xilu City seemed to have experienced a Level 8 earthquake and directly turned into ruins.
Lu Xinjin shook the dust off his shoulders in the pit, without even turning his head, he was certain that the eerie giant’s head and most of its body had been directly destroyed by him.
If this thing could still move, he’d eat all the jade on the ground right then.
But he didn’t know one thing, the eerie giant was a pseudo-living thing made by Huo Yuhao using Spiritual Endowment Soul Skill.
What drove it to move wasn’t the brain, but the Spiritual Power inside the body.
So even if the head and most of the body were shattered, the eerie giant still didn’t stop moving.
It used its remaining single large hand to smash fiercely toward Lu Xinjin.
Lu Xinjin’s Spiritual Power wildly warned him, his pupils suddenly contracted.
He hurriedly activated his first Soul Skill, Immovable Bright King Body.
Golden light erupted on his body, both palms facing upward, firmly resisting the eerie giant’s large hand.
Lu Xinjin was truly angry now, the second Soul Ring and fourth Soul Ring lit up successively.
These two were both amplification Soul Skills, under extreme self-amplification, Lu Xinjin directly tore apart the eerie giant’s large hand.
Then he watched wide-eyed as the eerie giant hopped on its remaining single leg and crashed toward the City Lord’s Mansion.
Watching the City Lord’s Mansion he had painstakingly managed for most of his life turn into ruins in an instant, Lu Xinjin felt that he was no different from being dead now.
Some people die at sixty, but are buried at one hundred twenty.
“Ah!!!”
“My herbs, my rare items!!!”
Lu Xinjin knelt on the ground and howled at the sky, his City Lord’s Mansion stored the wealth he had accumulated over the years through repeated exploitation of Xilu City.
There were quite a few live rare medicinal herbs, and treasures like Whale Jelly.
Those stored in Storage Soul Tools should be fine, those that couldn’t fit were probably all gone.
At this moment, Lu Xinjin felt his whole life had been in vain, he didn’t know how long it would take to re-exploit this loss from Xilu City’s commoners.
And the Spiritual Power inside the eerie giant was exhausted, turning back into a pile of dead objects.
Huo Yuhao watched all this coldly from a tall building in the distance.
Then he activated Kamui, arriving behind Lu Xinjin.
Lu Xinjin sensed someone coming from behind, turned his head and roared angrily:
“Fuck, can’t you see I’m in the middle of being pissed off?!!”
Huo Yuhao was too lazy to talk to him.
“Tsukuyomi!”
“Amaterasu!”
Directly Tsukuyomi zero-frame opener, in the spirit world used a knife to finely slice him into minced meat.
In the real world, used Amaterasu to ignite his body.
Black flames of extremely high temperature burned on Lu Xinjin’s body, Soul Power rapidly dissipating, Martial Soul slowly emerging behind him and emitting a mournful cry.
He was now suffering double torment of spirit and body at the same time.
Huo Yuhao deliberately used Kagutsuchi to control Amaterasu to burn his Soul Power first instead of his body, the purpose was to not let him die so quickly.
Lu Xinjin felt he was in Hell, no, compared to here, Hell was simply Heaven.
He didn’t know which pain made him scream.
Maybe spirit or maybe body.
Soon, he couldn’t make a sound anymore, because his Soul Power was exhausted and unable to resist Amaterasu’s burning, Amaterasu began to scorch his body.
The extreme high temperature instantly incinerated his vocal cords, then slowly turned into a lump of charred remains.
Huo Yuhao used Kagutsuchi to extinguish Amaterasu, preserving his remains as a deterrent.
The reason Huo Yuhao wanted to kill him was because this humanoid creature did all sorts of human-like things.
After Enthusiasm was established, many merchants proactively came seeking protection, paying a large sum of money.
Even some commoners paid money wanting Enthusiasm to protect them.
Enthusiasm naturally wouldn’t charge commoners too high a fee, only five Silver Soul Coins per quarter, then had them help Enthusiasm handle some miscellaneous tasks every month, even paying them wages.
Through these merchants and commoners, Huo Yuhao learned that Xilu City’s taxes were such that even the US IRS would send people to learn.
The taxes here had been collected for a hundred years, and there were still a bunch of ridiculous taxes.
Like Rain Tax, Walking Tax, Sleeping Tax, Public Toilet Tax, etc.
Constantly finding ways to sustainably drain the blood and marrow from commoners and merchants.
As for resistance, some had tried, the result was Lu Xinjin’s Gravity Compression was extremely cruel.
So whether for Enthusiasm to thrive here, or his own inner bottom line, this beast couldn’t be left alive.
As for the other three Soul Saints, Huo Yuhao planned to visit them one by one to send warmth.
If sensible, Huo Yuhao could let him be City Lord, Xilu City’s City Lord is whoever has the biggest fist, Heaven Soul Empire is just a certification tool.
Shrek only cares if the new City Lord will continue to pay tribute, if willing, they are too lazy to care.
Lu Xinjin became City Lord by killing the predecessor and being willing to pay tribute to Shrek.
If not sensible, Amaterasu is indeed very warm.
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