Chapter 528: Stand to die at 528, kneel to live?
Contract! He unexpectedly signed a contract with the Qiongqi’s Beast Soul.
Like the Barrier Technique, this type of contract with Exotic Beasts had also been lost, or perhaps not completely lost, but it was incredibly difficult to use and entailed great risks, so it was nearly equivalent to being lost.
Who would have thought that Xia Youchen would be able to use such a Contract Technique to sign a contract with a Divine Beast, and not just any Divine Beast, but the Wandering Soul of one.
Mu Hanyan recalled once again the Contract Technique Xia Youchen had chanted, and suddenly realized she only understood his intent, as his use of word order was clearly flawed. Could it be that he hadn’t fully learned the Contract Technique?
Of course, this was just Mu Hanyan’s speculation—whether he had fully learned it or not, the contract had still taken effect.
A beam of light descended from the sky, linking Xia Youchen and the Wandering Soul of the Qiongqi.
The Heaven and Earth Contract. On Wenren Qingqiu’s body, Mu Hanyan had also seen a similar Heaven and Earth Contract.
A stream of blood-red qi also followed the light, surging from the body of the Qiongqi into the skeleton body of Xia Youchen.
Silent red threads of blood appeared on the grey-white skeleton, spreading in all directions, and a layer of skin began to form, albeit dark and tinged with blue, lacking any hint of vitality, but it still looked much better than the original skeleton. Beneath the skin, a thin layer of muscles slightly twitched and formed.
Soon, an old man appeared before their eyes, his complexion dark and as thin as a dried corpse.
Such a powerful Contract Technique, able to rebuild a flesh body by leveraging the power of a Divine Beast. Had Mu Hanyan not seen it with her own eyes, but heard it from others, she would have believed she was listening to a myth.
"I’ve revived, I’ve finally revived," Xia Youchen looked down at his body, saying with tears streaming down his face in excitement.
"But, it seems like there’s still a bit of Life Spirit Qi missing," he soon muttered discontentedly to himself.
His gaze slowly swept across the faces of Mu Hanyan and the others, a gleam flashing in his eyes.
"I originally intended to spare your lives for aiding my revival," Xia Youchen said gravely. Perhaps due to just recovering his body, his voice was still very hoarse, which made it seem even more chillingly cold.
"What!" everyone exclaimed in unison, gripped the hilts of their swords.
Though the scene before them was too bizarre, and Xia Youchen’s reputation too frightening, the young swordsmen had been roused by the previous continuous bloody battles to possess a fierce determination deep in their veins and they were not about to be slaughtered without a fight.
"Do not do this, senior, I am a descendant of the Qu family, didn’t you know my ancestor?" Just as they were all ready to react, Qu Fengting suddenly knelt down with a thud.
He wasn’t a fool, of course he understood the implication behind Xia Youchen’s words. Although he had regenerated his body using the Beast Blood Pearls formed from his own essence qi and that of the Exotic Beasts, the bloodline of the Exotic Beasts was slightly insufficient, so he subsequently targeted them. Humans, known as spirits of all beings, have proven their superior bloodline by becoming the rulers of the entire Holy Court Continent, even after the Ancient Divine Beasts had disappeared for ten thousand years.
Qu Fengting did not want to die, especially not in an unknown and inexplicable way—the first reaction was to kneel and beg for mercy.