Chapter 109 Xu Jingming's Choice

Xu Jingming’s expression changed slightly.

He really didn’t want to provoke an Abyss Monarch. The Final Land was located deep within the abyss, and here, Abyss Monarchs were comparable to invincible Third Realm existences! Xu Jingming was well aware that there was still a gap between them.

Although he had some confidence in saving his life, he had ultimately never truly fought against an invincible Third Realm existence or an Abyss Monarch, so Xu Jingming was somewhat lacking in confidence.

If it were ordinary times, he would have fought.

But now, carrying a treasure, he naturally wanted to protect it.

“Charming Monarch, there are many powerful individuals in this Final Land, and the treasures have all been snatched away by them. Why must you force me, a weakling?” Xu Jingming said.

“Even I want to snatch treasures from invincible Third Realm existences!” Charming Monarch’s eyes were filled with desire. “Unfortunately, everyone’s strength is similar, and I can’t snatch anything. It’s easier to snatch from you weaklings. Well, you’ve survived in the Final Land until now, you’ve probably collected quite a few treasures, right? Hand them all over obediently! As long as you hand them all over, I can spare your life!”

Spare his life?

The lives of the Heart Realm lineage's Third Realm experts were worthless!

Treasures were the most important!

“I have plenty of lives to spare,” Xu Jingming said with a sigh. “As for treasures, I have none!”

As he spoke, Xu Jingming instantly split into more than ten clones, scattering and fleeing into the distance.

“Hahaha…” Charming Monarch laughed upon seeing this, his body releasing a rolling black aura that instantly enveloped a vast area. Xu Jingming’s ten-odd clones felt as if they were surrounded by a seal, unable to break free.

“My luck has been so-so since arriving at the Final Land, but I have obtained a few strange objects,” Charming Monarch laughed. “These strange objects all have some wonderful uses; you can savor them later. One of these strange objects is one that I particularly like, but I’ve never had a suitable opponent. You are the first to taste the power of this strange object.”

As soon as he finished speaking—

“Void Abyss!” Xu Jingming struck first, and the strange object sphere, ‘Void Abyss,’ was instantly activated. The strange object sphere instantly expanded, transforming into a vast, illusory abyss! This illusory abyss naturally enveloped Charming Monarch.

During the time he obtained the strange object, Xu Jingming had modified and improved the strange object sphere ‘Void Abyss’ several times, making the Void Abyss even more vast and powerful, with unfathomable power.

The moment it descended, it dragged at Charming Monarch’s mind and consciousness.

“This is?” Charming Monarch felt everything change before his eyes; he had left the Final Land and appeared in an ordinary abyss space.

“Am I trapped in an illusion?”

Charming Monarch realized this, and his powerful mental consciousness instantly shattered the layer of abyss space before him, but appearing before him were densely packed layers upon layers of abyss space.

“Even knowing it’s a Void Abyss illusion, I can’t break free,” Charming Monarch exclaimed in shock. “This Wu Ming actually has such illusionary methods!”

…

Xu Jingming, controlling the strange object sphere ‘Illusionary Void Abyss,’ trapped Charming Monarch’s mental consciousness, and also felt that Charming Monarch’s mental consciousness was like a massive trapped beast struggling.

“Mental consciousness originates from the physical body. His physical body is too strong, and his mental consciousness is also very strong. He’ll probably break free soon,” Xu Jingming felt somewhat strained. “If I wasn’t using a strange object, my illusion would probably have a negligible effect on him.”

The strange object sphere qualitatively changed the power of the illusion, also giving Xu Jingming another trump card.

“Go.”

With a thought from Xu Jingming, three Xu Jingmings each held a Heart Realm spear, each transforming into a black ray of light.

*Jin Ge* spear technique, Fourth Form—Night!

Three black lines instantly pierced through Charming Monarch’s unresisting body. Two of the black lines were instantly annihilated, and only one black line struggled to persist within Charming Monarch’s body, but Charming Monarch’s body continuously eroded this wisp of black line. After about a breath’s time, this wisp of black line was also completely annihilated.

“My Heart Realm spear technique, with a Third Realm weapon, can only barely injure him? He completely recovered in a breath?” Xu Jingming felt a chill in his heart.

Abyss Monarchs, invincible Third Realm existences… represented the ceiling of strength.

The gap between them was already very small; even a ‘invincible Third Realm existence’ of the Heart Realm weapon lineage would find it difficult to defeat Charming Monarch, let alone the current Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming was exceptionally talented, but his cultivation time was too short. Although the *Jin Ge* spear technique, Fourth Form, was powerful, it still wasn't quite at the level of an invincible Third Realm existence!

“They are powerful in all aspects, and also have a particular area of expertise. Charming Monarch is favored by the abyss and possesses a vast life force at the peak of the Third Realm,” Xu Jingming was well aware of this.

For the abyss will, the easiest way to bestow gifts upon a sacrificer was to give them a powerful body.

Therefore, Abyss Lords and Abyss Monarchs generally excelled in physical bodies! Perhaps they appeared somewhat clumsy when fighting at the same level. But when bullying the weak, the weak would despairingly discover… that they couldn't hurt them at all.

“If I am a little beast, then he is a mountain! His body is much stronger than mine!” Xu Jingming understood this even more after the exchange. “Even if he doesn’t resist and allows me to attack, I can’t threaten him.”

Xu Jingming hurriedly observed his surroundings.

The surrounding black aura flowed naturally, and the domain was still maintained, so he couldn’t escape at all.

“He’s clearly trapped in an illusion, so why is this domain still being maintained?” Xu Jingming's clones tried one by one, but they couldn't break through.

“Your illusion is a bit interesting; it actually trapped me for so long,” Charming Monarch opened his eyes, looking at Xu Jingming with a smile that was not a smile. “But your Heart Realm weapon is a bit weak; is it just tickling me?”

Charming Monarch had, after all, become an Abyss Monarch through sacrifice.

Therefore, his physical body was terrifyingly strong, and his mental consciousness only had such strength because it relied on his physical body. It was considered weak among those of the same level, which was why he was trapped for so long.

If he had become an invincible Third Realm existence on his own, Xu Jingming’s illusion with the help of the strange object might not have been able to trap him.

“You can’t escape.”

Charming Monarch shook his head. “My body has its own domain. I deliberately restrained the domain before to be cautious. Releasing the domain… is my most relaxed state; I don’t need to focus on maintaining it at all.”

“Wherever I am, there will naturally be a domain. You will never escape,” Charming Monarch said, flipping his hand. A glimmer of gold appeared in his hand. “I really like this strange object, you…”

“Void Abyss!” Xu Jingming once again manipulated the illusion, and the strange object sphere's illusion once again tried to trap Charming Monarch.

“Buzz.”

A light lit up in Charming Monarch’s left hand, and a transparent long rod slowly transformed, turning into a magnificent scepter.

Charming Monarch’s expression was ugly. Holding the transparent scepter, he could barely stay conscious under the influence of the Void Abyss illusion. He stared at Xu Jingming. “My luck is really good. I just got a strange object; having it is like putting on armor for my mental consciousness.”

“He can stay conscious?” Xu Jingming’s expression changed slightly. This transparent scepter was the treasure that he had personally seen Charming Monarch obtain before.

If he didn’t have this treasure, his clash with Charming Monarch might have gone smoother.

Now it was troublesome.

“Now, it’s my turn, right?” Charming Monarch said slowly, not in a hurry at all, but Xu Jingming had no way to deal with it.

His strongest methods—

Whether it was the strange object sphere ‘Void Abyss’ or the Heart Realm weapon, they couldn’t threaten the other party. What else could he do? He couldn’t escape anyway, so he could only fully control the strange object Void Abyss illusion and try his best to influence and interfere with the other party.

“Savor the power of my favorite strange object,” Charming Monarch casually flicked the glimmer of gold in his hand.

In an instant, the glimmer of gold transformed into thousands of golden flying knives, then transformed again into even smaller, countless ‘flying knives,’ and then transformed again into a hazy golden mist! It was an immeasurable number of ‘tiny flying knives’ flying together.

They were too small, smaller than the smallest unit of Heart Realm power. Xu Jingming couldn’t stop them at all.

“It can be divided to the extreme, smaller than my thought,” Charming Monarch said. “It’s too incredible. The strange object left behind by an ultimate existence is truly miraculous. With such a strange object, Wu Ming, can you block it?”

*Chi chi chi~~~*

A hazy golden mist swept over, and when it touched Xu Jingming’s first clone, all the other clones merged with it.

“When it’s small to the extreme, smaller than a thought, it can’t be stopped at all; I can only endure it.” Xu Jingming’s other clones hid, leaving one clone to endure. His body was made of Heart Realm power, vast like the Void Abyss. When the golden mist swept over, his body naturally became illusory, but three-tenths of his body’s strength was still destroyed in an instant.

Xu Jingming instantly replaced his body, replacing it with a new clone. The injured clone hid and began to recover.

“I feel like you’re having a hard time manipulating this strange object?” Xu Jingming observed the other party. At their level, their perception was extremely sharp.

“Humph.” Charming Monarch held the transparent scepter, barely staying conscious under the influence of the Void Abyss illusion.

“How is his illusion so powerful? I can barely stay conscious, and my mental consciousness can’t control Third Realm weapons at all,” Charming Monarch also had a headache. This kind of Abyss Monarch, who had been elevated through external forces, had a relatively weak mental consciousness.

“Only the strange object ‘flying knives’ is the easiest to control; I can barely use it,” Charming Monarch manipulated the hazy golden mist, attacking Xu Jingming again and again.

Xu Jingming couldn’t dodge, so he could only endure it again and again!

*Rumble~~~~*

The hundreds of hidden Xu Jingming clones began to work together, frantically devouring the energy from the outside world. This was him absorbing energy to the greatest extent possible! Replenishing his consumption. Energy vortexes had already begun to form around him.

“Absorbing so much energy?” Charming Monarch said upon seeing this. “How many clones are absorbing together to absorb so quickly?”

“My rate of consumption isn’t as fast as his rate of absorption, right?” Charming Monarch felt that this Wu Ming was very difficult to deal with.

While more than five hundred Xu Jingming clones were fully absorbing energy, preparing for a protracted battle, he was also controlling the strange object sphere ‘Void Abyss,’ continuously dragging at Charming Monarch’s mental consciousness.

He could feel that Heart Realm weapons were a negligible threat to Charming Monarch, but the illusion cast with the help of the strange object was still very useful.

“Hehehe.” Charming Monarch smiled, smiling madly. “Wu Ming, I admit you have some strength. Your strength is enough to protect yourself, but… can you protect the human race behind you?”

Xu Jingming’s expression changed, and he stared fixedly at Charming Monarch. “Charming Monarch!”

Using a low-dimensional life race behind a high-dimensional life as a threat was a taboo! Any high-dimensional life would go crazy.

“Do you know my greatest hobby?” Charming Monarch looked at Xu Jingming. “My greatest hobby is slaughter. I slaughter a batch of living beings when I’m happy, and I slaughter a batch of living beings when I’m unhappy. Now, I’ve taken a fancy to your human race.”

“Either obediently hand over the strange object treasure, or my clones will arrive at the South Pavilion 3609 Domain and slaughter your human race.” Charming Monarch’s smile was very bright as he looked at Xu Jingming’s expression at this moment.

He liked to admire those desperate, angry, and crazy expressions. He liked it even more when a powerful person was forced by him. This was his greatest pleasure.

“Make your choice, Wu Ming!” Charming Monarch looked at Xu Jingming.