The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 492

Chapter 492: Chapter 490: Dragon Soul Chapter 492: Chapter 490: Dragon Soul Shen Luo immediately noticed the situation with the middle-aged scholar, he had personally experienced the power of the Golden Sword Array. The scholar was able to face this Sword Array head-on, his strength incomparable to Shen Luo.

But the dignified Golden Formation in the river was suppressing the Dragon Head, which should be an evil entity, and it must not be taken away.

He looked towards the direction of the Great Tang Dynasty Government, no one from there had noticed the situation here yet.

With a slight grit of his teeth, he hastily pulled out a green short axe and swung it at the middle-aged scholar.

A series of thick green thunders shot out from the short axe, instantly converging into a water bucket-thick column of green thunder. It resembled a roaring thunder dragon, baring its teeth and claws at the middle-aged scholar.

Shen Luo, now advanced to the Soul Condensation Stage, could fully stimulate the power of the green short axe.

But a dark figure flashed in front of the middle-aged scholar, a spectral ghost over twenty or thirty feet tall materialized, opening its mouth wide.

The thick green thunder disappeared into the ghost's mouth in a flash, swallowed in one gulp, seemingly without causing any harm to the other side.

“What!” Shen Luo's eyes slightly widened.

The green thunder and lightning contained in the short axe may not be as powerful as Red Lotus Karmic Fire, but it should have effectiveness against ghosts, yet this ghost swallowed it whole.

This slight delay allowed the two black dragon claws to forcefully break through the countless sword shadows within the light pillar, grabbed the dragon head inside the Sword Array, and was about to pull out.

With a resonant 'hum', a gigantic golden Sword Shadow, extraordinarily shaped and tens of feet tall, emerged from the Sword Array, gleaming golden, Sword Qi soaring to the sky.

The huge Sword Shadow also radiated an overwhelming Demon slaying Qi. The moment it appeared, it slashed through the air, striking the two black dragon claws.

With a sizzling sound, the two black dragon claws were effortlessly cleaved like paper and turned into black Qi which was vaporized by the golden Sword Radiance.

The middle-aged scholar was also be sent flying by the sword and landed on the wooden bridge.

Seeing this, Shen Luo was gleeful, mulling over for a moment, he also landed on the wooden bridge.

However, he didn't get too close to the middle-aged scholar, landing twenty or thirty feet away.

The black spectral ghost also flew down and landed next to the middle-aged scholar, staring at Shen Luo with blood-red eyes, full of warning.

“Wei Zheng is indeed formidable, even though he has been dead for many years, this Golden Sword Array is still incredibly powerful forcing me to stay away. Seems like I have no choice to proceed according to those people's idea, letting these greedy humans sacrifice their lives for me to break the Array.” The middle-aged scholar looked at the golden light pillar in the river, and even though he was sent flying, he was not discouraged, and quietly said to himself with a calm expression.

“Who are you, to resort to such cruel means to unravel this Array? You showed compassion and confidence about a brocade carp, yet you disregard human lives so much, aren't you afraid of retribution!” Shen Luo, hearing the other side's monologue from a distance, displayed an angry expression and said in a deep voice.

“Hmph! When Wei Zheng decapitated me and then suppressed my dragon's head under the river with the Golden Sword Qi, were we from Jing River Clan supposed to lie on the chopping board just because the Li family rises to power in accordance with destiny?” The middle-aged scholar said coldly.

“Beheaded? Dragon Head? You are the ghost of the Jing River Dragon King! No, that day in the Underworld, we clearly sealed you!” Shen Luo finally understood the identity of this person, but still found it hard to believe.

“Human child, I have a big task today, considering that you once helped me get out of trouble, I will not take your life today. If you know what's good for you, retreat quickly, or don't blame me for not being merciful.” The middle-aged scholar did not answer Shen Luo's words but coldly said.

Then the middle-aged scholar ignored Shen Luo, sat cross-legged on the bridge surface, and muttered spells.

He released a strong black Qi that soon engulfed his body completely and started to churn like turbulent waves.

A series of obscure and unintelligible spell voices came from the black light, as if a secret method was being cast. The dragon head inside the Golden Sword Array stopped roaring, black Qi emerged around its body, intertwining with the blood light.

With a “boom”, like pouring oil onto a fire, the blood light immediately blazed.

The Dragon Head's eyes also flashed with bloody light, as if it had come to life, and started smashing into the Sword Array from the inside.

The dragon head ceased its roars, allowing the people on both banks of the river to resume their actions. Not daring to stay, they scrambled to flee into the distance, quickly disappearing from sight.

Surprisingly to Shen Luo, the middle-aged scholar didn't stop these people from escaping but continued to chant spells.

The black qi wrapping around him suddenly spread over the ground, transforming the nearby area of about ten feet into a field of black qi within the blink of an eye.

The black qi was dense and thick, appearing like a massive black hole had opened up on the ground, causing alarm.

Shen Luo felt an inward shock and immediately retreated a distance backwards.

Within the black qi, countless black runes emerged and quickly converged, forming a pattern of an array within a blink of an eye, flickering continuously.

Several ghost shadows sprouted from within the array. In the blink of an eye, dozens of ghosts appeared, surrounding the middle-aged scholar in a circle.

The aura of these ghosts were all quite powerful, all of them being above the Grain Avoidance stage. Particularly, a few ghosts exuded an extraordinary large ghostly qi, clearly at the Soul Condensation stage, which Shen Luo couldn't clearly decipher.

“The ghosts are increasing in number, with such a commotion here, the Great Tang Dynasty Government can't possibly remain unaware, why has no one come yet?” Shen Luo was anxious.

Alone, he had no way to deal with so many ghosts, let alone stop the middle-aged scholar from retrieving the dragon head from within the array.

Just at this moment, the rushing sound of footsteps echoed from both sides of the river bank, a large crowd of people were rushing over.

“What are you doing? It's dangerous here, quickly leave…” His heart was filled with urgency, and he shouted out loud.

But he could only utter half of his words before his voice halted.

The crowd looked blank and lost, their bodies entwined with streams of black qi that looked like small dragons continuously spinning around their bodies at a high speed, clearly they had been manipulated by an unusual technique.

These people had no reaction to Shen Luo's voice, they just heavily stepped towards the golden sword array in the river.

Shen Luo couldn't stand by and watch so many people die, he cursed inwardly and then hurled his body towards the crowd at a high speed.

But as soon as he moved, a dark shadow flashed in front of his eyes. The spectral ghost appeared quickly, its speed was inconceivably fast, genuine as a ghostly specter, and its black ghost claw directly pierced towards his chest.

Shen Luo's heart startled; moonlight glamour emerged from both of his feet, and he vanished into thin air, causing the spectral ghost to grab at nothing.

The next moment, his silhouette appeared dozens of feet away, the green short axe in his hand struck out again.

The resounding sound of thunder rose high, a thick green bolt of lightning struck towards the spectral ghost.

At the same time, Shen Luo manipulated a sword technique with his other hand and shot out a crimson sword light from his body. It was the Pure Yang Sword Embryo that struck towards the spectral ghost from another direction at lightning speed.

A hint of contempt flashed in the spectral ghost's eyes, and it opened its mouth to suck in, just like before.

A vortex-like black halo appeared in its mouth, emitting a formidable swallowing force, resulting in a great wind that picked up in the surrounding air.

The green thunder and lightning along with the Pure Yang Sword Embryo seemed like two little fishes, they were sucked into the spectral ghost's mouth with a 'swoosh' sound, swallowed into its belly.

Inside the spectral ghost's body was a black space that seemed somewhat similar to the inside of a Qiankun Bag, countless thread-like black qi floated around, swiftly corroded the green lightning and the Pure Yang Sword Embryo layer by layer.

The green lightning swiftly dissipated as if it had melted into the void.

On the Pure Yang Sword Embryo also wrapped around numerous black threads, firmly imprisoned, and the black threads began to corrode the inside of the sword embryo.