North of Kanak, inside Rahman's royal tomb, taking advantage of the opportunity when the Sand Giant Lizard's physical form was completely blown apart, Nefelnis leaped down from the beam of the underground palace, attacking Chabakunka's main body from above, intending to assassinate him from the air. However, Chabakunka reacted quickly to this. He directly controlled his chicken-shaped Wilderness Spirit and once again let out a soul shriek.
In an instant, the intense soul shriek immediately swept through the entire underground palace. Shahabu's severely injured disciplinary guardians directly collapsed under the impact of this second wave of soul shriek. In an instant, both he and his subordinates were affected by the shriek, their souls violently shaken, and their entire bodies stiffened in place, their eyes appearing dull and confused.
The piercing shriek directly hitting the soul came from the mouth of the Wilderness Spirit, instantly penetrating Naifnis's soul. The stinging torment originating from the soul, which she had just experienced, immediately made Naifnis feel immense pain. Since she was closer to Chabakunka at this time, she felt this pain more clearly than before.
Naifnis, in the process of falling, couldn't help but cover her ears. However, this not only failed to stop the piercing sound from the soul but also made Naifnis lose control of her body's balance. It seemed she would not only fail to successfully assassinate Chabakunka but might also fall directly to the ground and be severely injured.
At the critical moment, Soul Xu controlled Neff's body. As a fellow Wilderness Spirit, it had stronger resistance to the shriek. Under its control, Neff readjusted her posture in mid-air, with her limbs downwards, landing lightly in a cat-like posture, without suffering any damage, just like a real cat.
With a low growl, Neff, on all fours, like a beast, bared her teeth and lunged fiercely towards Chabakunka. Seeing this, Chabakunka's expression remained unchanged. He calmly waved his hand, and a normal spirit summoning array appeared out of thin air beside him. From the array, dozens of hideous-looking undead creatures charged out, howling, and attacked Naifnis. They burrowed into Naifnis's body, vying with Soul Xu for control of Neff's body. For a time, Neff stiffened in place, unable to move. Under the interference of these dozens of vengeful spirits, Soul Xu was unable to freely control Neff's body.
Seeing Naifnis standing still not far in front of him, Chabakunka made no unnecessary movements. His gaze calmly swept over Naifnis in front of him and Shahabu and his subordinates not far away, and he spoke with a calm expression.
"I am the Beacon, your Beacon..."
As soon as Chabakunka's words fell, Shahabu and his Savior Sect soldier subordinates immediately opened their mouths and spat out balls of soul fire from their respective mouths. After leaving the bodies they relied on, these soul fires flew directly towards Chabakunka, gathering together one by one, and were inhaled into Chabakunka's mouth. After their souls were extracted, Shahabu and the others' bodies fell straight to the ground, their eyes and mouths wide open and unmoving.
On the other side, Naifnis, whose soul was once again shaken by Chabakunka's words, also became spiritually unstable. She was directly drawn out of her body by Chabakunka's soul words. The translucent Neff spirit body turned into soul fire, leaving the stiffened flesh, and floated directly towards Chabakunka. It seemed she was about to be swallowed by Chabakunka along with the souls of the other Savior Sect soldiers.
Just then, from within Naifnis's physical body, a lynx spirit body directly drilled out. Soul Xu's lower body remained inside Neff, while its upper body stretched out extremely long, becoming an incredibly slender cat-like strip. Soul Xu's elongated front part grabbed Neff's soul that had left her body, resisting Chabakunka's pulling force and directly pulling it back. Neff's soul was thus pulled back into her own body.
"Mrow!"
After successfully pulling Neff's soul back, Soul Xu let out a roar inside Neff, immediately roaring out all the vengeful spirits gathered inside Neff that were affecting its operation. Under Soul Xu's cat howl, the vengeful spirits inside Neff fled in terror, and Soul Xu's cat howl also allowed the originally dazed Neff to barely regain some consciousness.
"You can also communicate... with the spirits of the homeland..." Seeing the strange phenomenon displayed by Naifnis before him, Chabakunka couldn't help but say with a slight frown. Immediately, his face began to turn serious, and he began to make exaggerated movements, gesticulating wildly. He started turning in circles while performing some kind of ancient sacrificial dance and music.
"Ah... All souls are wandering wind... All deaths have a place to return... Wilderness spirits... This is not where you belong... Obey the great will... Return!"
Singing a song in Spirit Seal Language, Chabakunka performed a Shamanistic sacrificial dance. Upon hearing the other party's lyrics, Soul Xu's expression turned grave. It immediately controlled Neff to get on all fours and directly lunged towards Chabakunka again.
Just as Neff's claws were about to reach Chabakunka, Chabakunka's brief dance reached its final section. His last movement was to push out a palm towards the attacking Neff. This palm did not directly hit Neff but stopped about a meter in front of her. However, Neff seemed to be struck by some invisible force, her charge interrupted, and she was sent flying backward. At the same time, a translucent spirit body was struck out of Neff's body by this invisible force and floated in mid-air. Looking closely, it was none other than Soul Xu.
Soul Xu was struck out of Naifnis's body by Chabakunka. It tumbled several times in mid-air before barely stabilizing. Then, it swam in mid-air using all four limbs, trying its best to swim back into Neff's body, but Chabakunka would not give it this chance.
"Return!" muttering, Chabakunka waved his hand. Immediately, a magic array appeared out of thin air on the floor beneath Soul Xu. This array was somewhat similar to a spirit summoning array, but slightly different in details. After the array appeared, Soul Xu, who was swimming in mid-air, immediately seemed to hit an invisible wall, covering its nose and retreating. Instantly, it could no longer swim forward even an inch.
Subsequently, the magic array began to emit a stronger glow, and a dark black hole also appeared within the array. A tremendous suction force came from the black hole, and Soul Xu was irresistibly sucked into it. At the last moment, it still tried to grab the edge of the black hole and struggle, but ultimately it could not resist the black hole's attraction and was forcibly sucked down. After this, the black hole disappeared, and the magic array also vanished. Soul Xu was thus directly banished from the present world by the spirit summoning counter-measure.
"Then, it's time to end this..."
Watching the scene of Soul Xu being banished, Chabakunka slightly raised his arms. Then, the suspended sand and dust scattered throughout the air began to gather rapidly. This time, it gathered directly around him, enveloping his entire body. As the sand on Chabakunka grew thicker and thicker, the Sand Giant Lizard, which had been blown apart and dissipated, began to reappear. Before long, the massive Sand Giant Lizard, over ten meters long, reappeared on the scene. At this time, Chabakunka's main body was completely wrapped and protected inside this sand beast, in the safest place.
Controlling the Sand Giant Lizard, Chabakunka lunged directly towards Naifnis. Naifnis, who had just barely managed to stand up from the ground, faced the approaching sand beast. Having just managed to stabilize her mind, she struggled to dodge. However, under the wide-area attack range of the Sand Giant Lizard's massive body, this attack was not so easy to dodge.
Just then, beneath Naifnis, from the loose sand, a stream of dark, dense "black water" suddenly surged out like petroleum. This strange "black water" actually lifted Naifnis, carrying her entirely into the air, allowing her to float up and quickly move away. With the help of this "black water," the floating Neff successfully dodged the sand beast's attack.
"This is..."
Seeing the "black water" that was currently lifting her, Naifnis looked around strangely. Sure enough, in the sky not far away, she saw Dorothy, wearing a long robe and a mask, sitting on a magnetic levitation steel plate flying carpet. She had now emerged from behind the scenes and chosen to personally come to the battlefield!
After seeing Chabakunka's actual strength, Dorothy immediately realized that this was not an enemy that could be dealt with by Naifnis alone over there, or by herself providing remote assistance. If things went badly, not only might they fail to defeat the enemy, but Neff herself could fall into danger.
Under this situation, Dorothy resolutely decided to abandon the idea of remote auxiliary combat and personally rushed to the battlefield to join the fight. Without the help of Qiwen Temple, many of her abilities require her to be on the scene to take effect. For example, now, Dorothy is using magnetic force to manipulate the iron sand contained in the soil, gathering it together to drag Neff away. Those "black water" are aggregates of extremely fine iron sand.
'Senior Nefelnis, prepare to chant!'
Looking at the surprised Neff in the distance, Dorothy directly used an information channel to communicate and shout to her. Hearing Dorothy's words, Naifnis was slightly startled, and then immediately understood her meaning.
'Chant… I know...'
Seeing that the attack missed, the Sand Giant Lizard roared and continued its assault on Neff. Dorothy controlled the iron sand mat under Neff to move quickly, dodging the Sand Giant Lizard's approach. While dodging, Naifnis also looked at the terrifying giant lizard and then spoke in the language of the soul, shouting loudly.
"Ah… Great Judge of Heaven… please forgive our sins… degeneration is for continuation… betrayal is for loyalty…"
The 'Poem of the Dead's Repentance', a secret transmission content originating from powerful ancient undead, was now being chanted by Naifnis in the language of the soul. Upon hearing this secret transmission content full of forbidden poisonous knowledge, the pursuing Sand Giant Lizard couldn't help but let out a wail. The two Wilderness Spirits residing inside the Sand Giant Lizard were simultaneously affected by Spirit Sight, and their spiritual bodies began to struggle unsteadily. The chicken-form Wilderness Spirit's charged shriek was interrupted, while the lizard-form Wilderness Spirit began to become unstable, seemingly showing signs of losing control.
Using Spirit Sight against spiritual bodies, this was the countermeasure that Dorothy and Neff had discussed beforehand. And currently, it seemed to be quite effective; both Wilderness Spirits were affected under Spirit Sight. However, as an Old Shaman more senior than Uta, Chabakunka would not be unprepared for this.
Inside the Sand Giant Lizard, Chabakunka's soul, possessing Moen, also opened its mouth and emitted a burst of harsh soul noise. This soul noise was chaotic and highly penetrating. Although it couldn't make souls tremble and lose consciousness like a soul shriek, it was enough to cover the surrounding soul perception, preventing himself and the Wilderness Spirits from hearing sounds other than the noise.
By creating noise to isolate the secret transmission reading, Chabakunka successfully protected himself and his subordinate Wilderness Spirits from the effects of Spirit Sight. After stabilizing the state of the Wilderness Spirits, the entire Sand Giant Lizard recovered and continued roaring towards Naifnis.
'Damn… Spirit Sight is useless, this guy is prepared again…'
Looking at the completely unaffected Sand Giant Lizard, Dorothy thought with a frown. After one round of attack had no effect, she immediately started the next. She pointed her fingertips forward, directly at the Sand Giant Lizard chasing Naifnis, emitting a dazzling current. Accompanied by a loud crack, a flash of electricity cut through the darkness of the underground palace, directly hitting the enormous sand beast. The sand beast let out a wail as a result, and a lot of sand fell off its damaged spiritual body. Chabakunka, located inside the Sand Giant Lizard, also felt a burst of surprise.
"This is lightning… Spirituality lightning… Plus that secret transmission just now… It's the Judge of Heaven!"
Chabakunka suddenly seemed to realize something, and murmured directly. Then he began to split off several of the souls he had absorbed previously and give them to the Wilderness Spirits to devour, also providing them with extra Spirituality. In an instant, the Spirituality damage on Sand Tongue, the Wilderness Spirit constructing the Sand Giant Lizard, was completely restored. The scattered sand re-aggregated onto her body. It roared, shifted its attack target, and rushed towards Dorothy.
Seeing the Sand Giant Lizard rushing towards her, Dorothy sent out two more lightning strikes without hesitation. However, these lightning strikes only caused two slight pauses in the Sand Giant Lizard's attack, and it still came towards Dorothy. Although Dorothy's lightning strikes could damage the Sand Giant Lizard's spiritual body, Chabakunka had the ability to consume spiritual bodies and Spirituality to quickly repair spiritual body damage. The damage caused by Dorothy's Spirituality lightning was quickly restored. Dorothy's lightning strikes could only cause the Sand Giant Lizard's movements to pause. Facing the Sand Giant Lizard's assault, Dorothy could only control her magnetic levitation magic carpet to dodge with high mobility.
'Direct lightning strikes aren't very effective either… That guy's main body is inside the sand lizard, don't know where, so it's hard to hit a vital spot… This is troublesome…'
Seeing that the lightning strikes were not very effective, Dorothy immediately felt it was tricky. At this moment, she understood that she could no longer continue to entangle herself with the powerful and strange Corpse Coffin in this underground palace. He also had a large-area AoE soul loudspeaker. Once it was recharged and fired, she wouldn't be able to dodge it. Once her soul was stunned by that loudspeaker, she could only wait to have her soul extracted.
Thinking of this, Dorothy decided to leave the underground palace immediately. It was better to leave first and then make a long-term plan. Outside the underground palace, she could unleash a powerful Dragon Roar to try and shatter this Sand Giant Lizard. However, using that level of Dragon Roar inside the underground palace would definitely collapse the entire underground palace, burying her and Neff alive.
Having made up her mind, Dorothy controlled her and Neff's magnetic levitation flying carpet, flying along the edge of the vast underground palace towards the exit gate. The speed was fast. Dorothy was confident she could shake off the clumsy Sand Giant Lizard's pursuit and successfully escape the underground palace.
Seeing that the prey wanted to escape, the Sand Giant Lizard did not seize the opportunity to pursue. Instead, it stared intently at the exit, then slammed the ground heavily with its claws. Instantly, a surge of yellow sand rose from the ground at the exit, gathering on the exit gate, and in an instant, it converged into a thick sand giant gate, completely sealing off the entire underground palace!
Sand Tongue is a territory-controlling Wilderness Spirit adapted to desert environments, similar to Wooden Hoof. Territory-controlling Wilderness Spirits can control the environment in their habitat or the environment they have invaded. With a continuous supply of Spirituality, territory-controlling Wilderness Spirits can continuously deepen their control over the controlled area, thereby controlling more and more things, gradually turning the entire area into a part of their body.
From the very beginning, Chabakunka had never stopped supplying Sand Tongue with Spirituality, causing her to continuously deepen her control over this area during the battle. At first, she could only gather sand to form a body, but now she could raise sand walls remotely.
Under the blessing of minyin zunzhan, although Chabakunka was in a state of possessing a body for combat, the strength he displayed was very close to his main body, much stronger than other Scarlet avatars! This is the important role blessed items can play in rituals.
Seeing that the path ahead was blocked, Dorothy's expression couldn't help but sink. She immediately stopped the flight of the magnetic levitation flying carpet, avoiding crashing headfirst into the thick sand wall. Then she turned her head and looked behind her, seeing the Sand Giant Lizard roaring and rushing towards her in the underground palace. Her expression instantly became extremely solemn.
The escape route was blocked, trapped in an underground cage with a powerful beast that was almost unkillable. What to do!?
Facing the crisis, thousands of thoughts flashed through Dorothy's mind in an instant. Finally, her gaze sharpened and fixed on one direction.
That was a sacrificial altar behind the underground palace, before the stairs leading to the Stone Gate. There, a ritual was being set up, not yet completed. Behind the altar, Dorothy saw five bronze lamps that were already lit. Beside the five bronze lamps, the flame on the last bronze lamp was not flickering…