"You can still laugh? Good, I like this stubborn look of yours!"
Ashiya Doman's voice echoed from the void.
The sound reverberated in all directions, making it impossible to determine Ashiya Doman's position or distance.
It was as if he was everywhere and nowhere, not in this world or this dimension.
Clearly, this was one of Ashiya Doman's ultimate moves.
This technique was a natural counter to martial arts masters!
Imagine, if a martial arts master couldn't even sense the opponent's location or shadow, how could they attack?
If the opponent were also a martial arts master, it would be fine, as at least the opponent would need to approach to attack, and would reveal weaknesses by channeling their fist energy or intent.
But what if the opponent was a master of magic?
Remote attacks could be carried out without needing to get close!
It could be said that under Ashiya Doman's technique, Ying Chen was in an absolutely passive position!
And countless martial arts masters had died under this technique of Ashiya Doman's over the years!
This was why Ashiya Doman couldn't understand why Ying Chen could still laugh.
"Tsukumogami! Banishing Ten Thousand Ghosts!"
"Pact!"
Ashiya Doman's voice boomed from the void.
The next second, rolling black mist rose from the lake surface, rapidly engulfing the entire sky and earth.
The lake water seemed to boil, and a massive splash erupted.
Ripples spread across the lake surface, as if dense raindrops were falling.
From the center of these ripples, one withered arm after another, like bird claws, extended.
Then, large heads emerged!
Following them were bodies as thin and small as children.
In the blink of an eye, the lake surface was covered with towering, gaunt fanged ghosts, each as large as ać (dou)!
And from the giant splash at the center of the lake, a grinning doll, like a roly-poly toy, appeared.
However, the smile on the doll's face carried a chilling aura, and its eyes were like twin vortices that absorbed souls, clearly reflecting Ying Chen's figure!
"Insolent fool, let me show you the terror of my Tsukumogami!"
Ashiya Doman declared.
It turned out that the doll in the center of the lake was a very famous Tsukumogami in Japan!
Legend had it that abandoned utensils, after a hundred years, would transform into yokai, deceiving and fooling humans.
However, Tsukumogami were generally not extremely malevolent creatures; at most, they would use tricks to toy with humans.
Rather than calling them yokai, they were more like spirits.
Therefore, the Japanese people did not fear Tsukumogami; instead, they were quite fond of them. In bustling commercial streets in Japan, various Tsukumogami dolls were often displayed at shop entrances for people to admire and photograph.
But this Tsukumogami of Ashiya Doman was clearly different from the legendary Tsukumogami!
Ashiya Doman's Tsukumogami seemed to have been cultivated specifically using objects filled with resentment and misfortune!
For example, cars that had caused fatal accidents, knives that had killed, ropes used for hangings, mirrors that the deceased had looked into, chairs they had sat on, beds they had slept in, and clothes they had worn.
As a result, this Tsukumogami had gathered a large amount of resentment and malevolent energy, becoming exceptionally ferocious upon its formation!
Its heart was filled with nothing but the desire to kill!
"Deal with him!"
"But pay attention: don't damage the body! I have other uses for it!"
Ashiya Doman gave the Tsukumogami its orders.
The Tsukumogami grinned, revealing rows of dense, sharp teeth.
Then, its roly-poly-like body swayed.
The next second, the swarming ghosts with oversized heads transformed into a locust-like swarm, densely surging towards Ying Chen!
The scene was terrifyingly horrific, like a plague of locusts passing through!
Yet Ying Chen remained unmoved throughout, his eyes showing even more mockery.
It was as if he didn't take these Tsukumogami seriously at all, nor Ashiya Doman who had entered a state of invisibility!
The ghosts with oversized heads swayed their massive skulls, opening their mouths and pouncing on Ying Chen with greedy, famished expressions.
*Crack!*
They bit down without hesitation.
But the next second, a series of wails, like those of infants, were heard.
As the oversized-headed ghosts bit onto Ying Chen, his skin radiated a golden light, instantly turning the ghosts into grilled squid on a hot plate, emitting steaming vapor!
In a short while, the entire swarm of oversized-headed ghosts evaporated, leaving only wisps of smoke drifting in the air!
The Tsukumogami in the center of the lake saw this, and the smile on its face visibly stiffened.
"Sorry, I almost forgot about you."
"Since you all came out together, you should go back together."
Ying Chen said to the Tsukumogami with an apologetic expression.
The Tsukumogami seemed to understand Ying Chen's words, and could no longer smile. It turned and began to burrow into the lake bottom.
It intended to escape!
But where could it escape from Ying Chen?
With a crackling thunderous sound.
Ying Chen, from a distance, made a clenched fist gesture, and instantly the Tsukumogami was torn apart, exploding into dust!
Only a circle of ripples on the lake surface slowly undulated, proving it had once existed!
"How is this possible? Has your fist intent cultivated to the point of an indestructible golden body, impervious to all evil?"
"Damn it! If I had known this earlier, I would never have released these spirit orbs that I painstakingly nurtured for decades! Decades of effort wasted!"
Ashiya Doman's voice was filled with shock, as well as regret and heartache.
"It seems I can't play around with you any longer! I have to use my ultimate killing move!"
Ashiya Doman gritted his teeth and said.
Facing an expert of Ying Chen's caliber, ordinary moves were useless and only resulted in losses.
Only by using his ultimate killing move to kill Ying Chen in one blow was the only correct choice!
As Ashiya Doman's voice fell, the sky and earth suddenly turned as black as ink.
Boundless malevolence descended, as if the entire world had become a ghostly underworld, devoid of living beings, only evil spirits and vengeful ghosts.
Ashiya Doman, seated in the Yellow Springs, commanded all the ghosts as a Ghost King.
Chains forged from human heads flew out from the depths of the darkness. Each human head on the chains possessed its own consciousness, staring at Ying Chen with ferocious and menacing eyes.
*Clatter...*
Dense, boundless.
One, two, three, four...
Later, it became impossible to count the number of head chains; the entire sky was obscured by them.
Everywhere one looked, there were human heads with varying expressions and ferocious visages!
"Chien E Zhao Hun! Ling Sha!"
"With my blood, I shall form..."
Ashiya Doman, hidden in the void, chanted an obscure and lengthy incantation.
However, before the incantation was even halfway through, Ying Chen suddenly flashed and vanished from his spot.
When Ying Chen reappeared, he was holding someone in his hand!
It was Ashiya Doman!
Ashiya Doman's eyes widened, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "How is this possible! How did you guess I was here?"
Ying Chen revealed an undisguised sneer: "Guess?"
"You seem to not know that this so-called 'Void of White' of yours was actually created by me!"