Chapter 417 Fierce Battle in the Woods (Part 1)

In legend,冥火 (Ming Huo) was a flame originating from the underworld. This flame did not possess high temperatures, only a few hundred degrees Celsius, similar to the flame of a lighter. Such a temperature posed no significant threat to Ling Tian.

However, once this flame touched one's body, it directly burned one's vitality!

Furthermore, this冥火 (Ming Huo) was also highly destructive to a person's soul. Even if one wore fire-resistant clothing, coming into contact with this flame would sear the soul, leading to extremely severe consequences!

Ling Tian felt a chill of fear, realizing that if he had been overconfident and touched this冥火 (Ming Huo), he would likely be severely injured now!

Ling Tian now understood that he had to go all out when facing such an opponent, otherwise, he would truly have nowhere to be buried!

With this thought, he took out an entire book of爆裂火符 (Bao Lie Huo Fu), infused it with spiritual energy, and then flung it directly at Oyamatsumi!

Immediately after, Ling Tian drew his鬼切 (Gui Qie) long saber, his figure flickered, and he also charged towards Oyamatsumi!

Oyamatsumi was extremely enraged. Nearly a thousand years ago, it was sealed into another dimension by a person named Abe no Seimei, along with other Onmyoji.

However, at that time, one Onmyoji, harboring selfish intentions, secretly recorded the coordinates of the dimension where Oyamatsumi was sealed.

He recorded this coordinate information on a勾玉 (Gou Yu), which was the same勾玉 (Gou Yu) on the jade dagger that Abe no Hatsunobu had used to stab himself in the heart earlier!

Later, this item fell into the hands of Abe no Seimei. Abe no Seimei also had selfish intentions and thus passed down this jade dagger from generation to generation.

And today, Abe no Hatsunobu, who had already resolved to die and wanted to perish with Ling Tian, used a secret technique, sacrificing his own soul, to summon Oyamatsumi again from another dimension!

However, Oyamatsumi never expected that after leaving this dimension for a thousand years, upon its return, it would encounter such a troublesome human!

Had humans become so monstrous after a thousand years!

Oyamatsumi had no time to ponder further, as the ten fireballs were now only a few meters away!

In a flash, a blue light flashed across Oyamatsumi's twin horns. Immediately after, centered on Oyamatsumi, a blue halo violently shot outwards in all directions.

This blue halo quickly enveloped the fireballs, detonating them in mid-air.

The power of the fireballs' explosion was also significantly weakened by this blue halo. The volume of the exploded fireballs was even less than one cubic meter!

Only then did Ling Tian notice that the blue halo was actually an ice ring! Within the area covered by the ice ring, the ground was covered in a thick layer of frost!

Ling Tian quickly halted his advance, not daring to press his attack, and instead leaped to the side.

This creature before him was too bizarre. Ling Tian did not know what other trump cards it possessed and dared not make a rash move.

Oyamatsumi let out a strange roar, as if saying something. Although Ling Tian could not understand it, a message was conveyed into his mind.

"Human, you have angered me, and you will pay the price for your actions! I will devour your soul and make you disappear from this world forever!"

"Bah, you want to devour my soul? You think you're worthy?"

Ling Tian spat directly and then took out a fire talisman from his spiritual realm, ignited it, and threw it out!

Another ten fireballs flew out. Oyamatsumi was helpless and unleashed another ice ring from its body, detonating these fireballs!

It was truly annoyed by this human. After all, it had just been summoned from another dimension, and most of its power remained in that dimension.

It would need a long time to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to recover its former peak strength!

And now, by continuously releasing spells, more than half of its internal energy had been consumed.

With this thought, Oyamatsumi suddenly spread its hands, chanting words. The next moment, the three long swords strapped to Oyamatsumi's back suddenly flew into the air and circled above its head.

Two of the swords, one on the left and one on the right, slowly descended and fell into its hands, while the other sword floated in mid-air, its tip aimed at Ling Tian!

"Holy crap, what is this? Flying swords?"

Ling Tian had no time to think further before the sword floating in mid-air shot directly at him!

This long sword was nearly two meters long, with a hilt close to half a meter – it was a greatsword!

The long sword flew through the air at an extremely high speed, comparable to a bullet!

Ling Tian gripped the鬼切 (Gui Qie) long saber with both hands, concentrated his internal energy onto the saber, and slashed out fiercely, striking the long sword directly.

"Clang!"

A fierce collision occurred. Ling Tian felt a tremendous force transmitted to his hands. He could barely hold onto the saber, and his tiger's mouth was almost split open.

His internal true qi churned uncontrollably, and his body suffered a great shock. Ling Tian was inwardly greatly alarmed; the power of the flying sword's attack was even greater than his own full-power strike!

However, Oyamatsumi also did not expect Ling Tian to be able to block its attack!

The flying sword flew back, circled above Oyamatsumi's head, and then aimed at Ling Tian once more.

Ling Tian did not dare to let it attack again. He immediately took out another fire talisman and flung it out. Following that, Ling Tian released four fire spirits, preparing for a group assault!

Seeing the fireballs approaching again, Oyamatsumi's head felt as if it would explode. It could not understand how this human possessed such immense magical power!

In its memory, some Onmyoji did use talismans, but after releasing a few fire talismans, they would have no more magical power.

Yet this fellow Ling Tian threw fire talismans as if they were free, causing it to develop a psychological shadow.

Oyamatsumi immediately controlled the flying sword. The sword circled in mid-air and directly collided with the approaching fireballs.

"Boom boom..."

A series of fireballs exploded in mid-air, forming a wall of fire.

Oyamatsumi let out a sigh of relief. However, at that very moment, four figures suddenly burst out from within the wall of fire and lunged directly at Oyamatsumi!

Oyamatsumi, as a ghost or deity, was quite sensitive to energy and immediately sensed that these four things were extremely dangerous! The ones lunging at Oyamatsumi were the four fire spirits!

Oyamatsumi dared not let these four fire spirits get close!

Therefore, blue halos flashed continuously around it. In almost an instant, it unleashed five ice rings consecutively!

Indeed, these things were the bane of fire spirits. The four fire spirits, unable to dodge in time, were hit by several ice rings!

The temperature of these ice rings was extremely low, greatly weakening the fire spirits' energy. Ling Tian felt the pain emanating from the fire spirits and felt a pang of heartache. He immediately recalled these fire spirits into his spiritual realm and placed them in the Burning Heaven Cauldron for nurturing.