CHAPTER 715: CHAPTER 715: COUNTER-KILL

Can I really not win? Ye Shikai refused to just fall like this, up to now, he had never been defeated so miserably, and he couldn’t even manage to severely injure his opponent; he could only watch helplessly as he was beaten to the ground, without any power to fight back.

Damn it, Ye Shikai clenched his fists, pounding the ground with force, a face full of pain, power, he longed for power, the power to defeat his opponent.

Ah, ah, ah...

Ye Shikai roared to the skies, his voice echoing through the heaven, and the cruel battlefield fell into a sudden silence.

Waste, let me take control instead.

This was the last sentence Ye Shikai heard before his consciousness cleared.

His eyes blood-red, his body turned scarlet, Ye Shikai slowly climbed up from the ground. Different from before, he seemed to have forgotten the pain of his wounds, his manners were extremely strange, not only did Mona sense something off, even the nearby beastmen felt the abnormality, a stronger scent of blood rushed towards them, and even a faint smell of blood wafted through the air...

The second personality had already taken control of his body.

"Are you okay?" Mona attempted to get closer, but each step forward made her feel a chill, and a sense of crisis loomed in her heart—if she got too close, would Ye Shikai end up killing her too?

Roar, roar.

The beastmen leader was also shocked by the transformation of this human youth, stepping back, but quickly regained his composure and took a few steps forward, letting out a beastly roar at Ye Shikai, signaling for the fight to continue.

"Ye Shikai, you should come inside and rest for a bit," Mona softly said, but Ye Shikai stood still, unmoving as if he had not heard any sound from the outside world.

Ah, ah.

Suddenly, Ye Shikai let out an enraged roar, a shockwave emerged from nowhere, sweeping across the battlefield, raising dust and smoke, and the beastmen army staggered back a few steps, while Mona didn’t react in time and instinctively closed her eyes.

"Great Elder." When Mona opened her eyes, she saw a green barrier in front of her; turning her head, she saw the Primordial Soul Great Elder standing behind her, with his palm open, a protective shield enveloping the two of them.

"Let’s go." The Great Elder waved his hand, leading Mona up to the palisade.

"Great Elder, what’s going on?" Mona asked in surprise.

"He seems to have been possessed, just now I took the princess back for her safety," the Primordial Soul Great Elder nodded, cautiously watching Ye Shikai.

"What’s going on?"

"It seems that within this human youth’s body, there is a hidden power, I think, it must be this beastman that has awoken his strength," the Primordial Soul Great Elder, battle-seasoned, knew well the immense potential of humans, which although seemed unremarkable at ordinary times, could be infinitely unleashed in dire moments, but what she did not know was that inside Ye Shikai’s body, there was also a demon lurking.

Boom.

Suddenly, a rumble of thunder came from the sky, clouds gathered densely, several bolts of lightning streaked across the sky, and the people looked up one after another, followed by rain pouring down from the heavens.

In Ye Shikai’s hands, a long blade emitting a purple glow faintly appeared, slowly raised above his head...

"It’s actually the Netherworld Blade." A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the Primordial Soul Great Elder, and for the first time in thousands of years, Mona witnessed the typically unflappable Great Elder’s expression of shock.

Boom.

Boom.

A number of purple lightning bolts fiercely struck down from the sky, hitting the center of the beastmen army, electrocuting a swath of beastmen. Not only that, the thunder and lightning in the sky seemed to continue gathering, and faint traces of lightning showed on the Netherworld Blade in Ye Shikai’s hand.

Ye Shikai let out a great shout, forcefully propelled himself off the ground, and leaped into the air, bringing down his sword with both hands in a powerful chop.

Roar.

Not even a high-level cultivator like Zeus could withstand the full power strike from the Netherworld Blade, and now it was the beastmen commander who took it squarely.

Bang.

The fierce collision of the two blades seemed to send the entire Mili Forest trembling. When people came to their senses, the beastmen commander had been sent flying away.

"We did it," Mona exclaimed excitedly. Ye Shikai stood alone among the troops like a War God, with all the surrounding beastmen daring not to approach. After a while, the beastmen commander slowly picked himself up from the ground, his bone armor shattered and tattered. This armor, made from the Essence Bones of tens of thousands of souls, was incredibly durable, yet it could not withstand a single move from Ye Shikai.

The beastmen commander was clearly enraged by Ye Shikai’s actions, and on the other hand, he was also astonished by the explosive growth in Ye Shikai’s combat strength, who had been previously unmanageable but now seemed transformed.

"Again," Ye Shikai’s hoarse voice rose slightly, and in the next second, the eyes of the beastmen commander were filled with Ye Shikai’s sharp sword techniques.

Bang, bang, bang.

Each clash of their blades was earth-shattering. The Netherworld Blade could absorb the power of lightning, turning it into its own strength, and could even directly guide the lightning as a weapon. Moving like a ghostly shadow, Ye Shikai’s swordsmanship was incredibly sharp. The Netherworld Blade, a Soul Device, was even more powerful than a Divine Artifact, and soon the beastmen commander found himself at a disadvantage.

Ye Shikai fought more and more bravely, while thunder and lightning in the sky densely struck down. For a moment, the beastmen troops began to lose their morale, thinking that Ye Shikai was a celestial being capable of summoning thunder and lightning, and their originally tight formation gradually dispersed.

"Great Elder, Your Highness the Queen, the beastmen are starting to retreat," Liruo spoke excitedly; in the rear of the formation, a few beastmen were already breaking ranks and fleeing.

"Fire Element." Ye Shikai held the Fire Element in his left hand, where thunder and fire mingled. This time, he was going all out with his treasures.

"The Netherworld King returns," the Great Elder whispered from atop the fortification wall, a trace of desolation flashing in his eyes as he slowly turned and left...

"FATAL STRIKE." Ye Shikai seized the opportunity, thrusting his sword towards the left chest of the beastmen commander, intent on ending it with one move.

Bang.

Almost instantly, a combat blade moved sideways to block the blow, causing the Netherworld Blade to veer off course and stab directly into the right chest of the beastmen commander.

Roar roar.

The beastmen commander let out a gut-wrenching howl, and at the same moment, the gathered lightning in the sky fiercely struck down, a thunderclap blasting over the ground.

Once the dust settled, the beastmen commander lay on the ground, bloodied and struggling to breathe, with the Netherworld Blade impaled through him and the thunderstrike. Any ordinary cultivator would have been reduced to ashes by now, leaving nothing behind. The beastmen commander was still alive purely because of his Body Refining physique.

Meanwhile, the beastmen ranks slowly began to retreat. They obeyed their leader, and now that the commander had been defeated, they also dispersed in chaos. When a small group of beastmen started to flee, it sealed the fate of the tens of thousands, and soon the vast and mighty formation collapsed entirely.