Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 477: The Heavens Follow the Wishes of People

The Corpse-Devourer Nymph leaped into the air, and the figure that appeared behind it followed suit, almost instantly pursuing.

The "ball" spun in the air, and simultaneously, it opened its mouth, spewing a cloud of yellow mist. The mist carried an indescribable stench, enveloping the figure that followed it.

Corpse miasma! And a highly toxic one at that!

The Corpse-Devourer Nymph's corpse miasma accumulated as it grew and kept consuming corpses over time. The more corpses it devoured, the higher its cultivation, and the more toxic the miasma became. It had a terrifying corrosive power, enough to melt even gold and iron. Moreover, the Corpse-Devourer Nymph could blast the poison across a large distance and cover plenty of space—in this case, the battle stage.

However, within the large cloud of corpse miasma it had spewed, the figure that should have been enveloped had silently vanished again.

A jade-white hand suddenly appeared in its path, blocking its way.

The changes happened very quickly, but being at the ninth order, the Corpse-Devourer Nymph had a keen sense of danger. It didn't hesitate to turn in mid-air, facing its opponent. This time, it didn't hold back. Its body suddenly burst like an overinflated balloon, with a dull pop. A dense yellow mist spread out in all directions.

Since it was now at the center of the arena, it was perfectly positioned to envelop as large an area as it could with its poison.

At that moment, a fierce platinum flame rose, suddenly enveloping the exploding corpse miasma. It was as if a platinum light sphere had appeared in mid-air, forcefully containing the miasma within a five-meter radius, preventing it from spreading outward.

The corpse miasma was contained, and as the platinum flame swirled around them, both opponents disappeared.

It took less than two seconds until the light sphere receded, and a figure fell to the ground out of nowhere. It was Asura.

Asura's left hand held an array disc, while the Corpse-Devourer Nymph had completely disappeared, leaving no trace behind.

At this moment, the battle on the other side had also concluded.

The Spider Tree Nymph's eight limbs were incredibly sharp. It launched a powerful attack when it emerged from the shadows in front of Mei Gongzi. However, what awaited it were numerous spatial rifts.

The dense spatial rifts, with terrifying cutting power, instantly enveloped it, locking out any possible paths of escape

The Spider Tree Nymph tried its best to counter with its speed and attack power. However, when it actually encountered a spatial rift, it realized that all its power was useless. Just a moment of contact and one of its limbs was severed.

Just like when Mei Gongzi underwent her inheritance test, silver rays shot out, and all the space around the Spider Tree Nymph seemed to shatter into fragments, leaving it with no place to hide.

The remaining limbs simultaneously pierced the ground, not to attack but to allow it to escape, turning into shadows to flee. It needed to reunite with its partner before launching another attack.

But at that moment, the surrounding space suddenly seemed to solidify, forcibly blocking the shadow. In the next instant, countless silver rays surged from all directions.

The Spider Tree Nymph's body was simply cut into bits. There was no blood, but neither was there any large piece left intact.

The match is over!

At this moment, the nymphs’ miraculous nature became apparent. Although the Spider Tree Nymph was cut into pieces, the black fragments rapidly moved toward each other, seemingly trying to reassemble.

Mei Gongzi frowned slightly but did not do anything to stop it. They had already won; insisting on killing the opponent would turn this into a beast-fighting, not a competition.

Looking up into the distance, she saw Asura silently landing; the Corpse-Devourer Nymph was no longer.

Asura gave her a thumbs-up, and Mei Gongzi nodded back at him.

This battle had been essentially effortless.

"Group One, Number Eight wins," the referee announced the result.

Asura approached Mei Gongzi, waving his hands to gather the black fragments—the Spider Tree Nymph's pieces were struggling to merge.

He stepped forward, took out a fruit filled with life energy, crushed it, and infused the life energy into the opponent.

At the same time, he flicked his other hand, and with a flickering silver light, a shriveled body flew and landed on the ground. Well, it looked more like a desiccated skin; the Corpse-Devourer Nymph's once-golden body had turned earthy yellow and was twitching on the ground.

The Spider Tree Nymph barely pieced together its cracked body. Looking at Asura and then at the twitching Corpse-Devourer Nymph on the ground, it rasped, "Thank you."

Asura raised his hand to support it and said lightly, "It's just a competition."

After saying that, he called out to Mei Gongzi, and they walked off the stage together.

The first round of the doubles match, victory!

They fought separately, but both easily defeated their opponents, suppressing them throughout and giving no chance to fight back.

In the eyes of the audience, Mei Gongzi's battle was no different from the previous one. It was a bloodline suppression, using the Peacock Demon clan's powerful control over space to crush the opponent, leaving no room for a counterattack. If it weren't for the nymphs' strong vitality, if it had been a demon or a human instead, they would have died instantly.

Even so, the Spider Tree Nymph was severely injured and would take a long time to recover.

What truly caught the audience's attention, including the VIP spectators, was Asura. Once more, no one understood how he had defeated his opponent.

The white-hot light sphere contained immense bloodline power, but no one could tell what happened to the Corpse-Devourer Nymph after being enveloped by it. They could only vaguely sense the bloodline was at least at the top of the second tier, or even first tier.

Then the match ended. Those who remembered Asura's performance in the individual match were the most astonished. Asura's victory over the Golden Mammoth had looked strange, as if the Golden Mammoth had intentionally thrown the match. But what about this match? Was it also a fake? If it was not, then how had this supposed human accomplished it? And if it was... then all the more reason to be curious as to how he had accomplished it.

Mystery piques curiosity, of course. Sharp-eyed observers noticed the array disc in Asura's hand: it was the famous and expensive teleportation disc.

It seemed he had used the teleportation disc to instantly reach the Corpse-Devourer Nymph, teleporting twice to get close enough for an attack. In other words, close combat was his forte. If his victory over the Golden Mammoth in the first match had also been genuine and based purely on strength, then it followed that his close combat abilities were exceptional.

This was the audience's perception of Asura's combat abilities.

Walking off the arena, Mei Gongzi couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "How did you do it? What about the corpse miasma?"

Asura replied, "The Corpse-Devourer Nymph is pretty dirty and smells too bad. I didn't want it to contaminate you, so I got rid of it."

In truth, his combat method was simple: he had used the Lion-Tiger Golden Force to prevent the corpse miasma from spreading. During this time, he silently opened spatial rifts, using them to vacuum out the miasma within the Golden Force. He then sealed the Corpse-Devourer Nymph with spatial sealing while absorbing a significant amount of the Corpse-Devourer Nymph's bloodline power.