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The shaman's body split in half, like a sack being torn apart, as a pitch-black figure struggled out from within.

"Damn it!" Hong Chu's face was very grim. He hadn't expected this so-called ritual to be just a lure.

The Witch Spirit Race had already summoned their totem, which resided within the shaman's body, making the completion of this ritual irrelevant.

Because their totem had descended right from the beginning.

It's likely that when they prepared to attack An Nan City, they had already summoned the totem and hidden it within the shaman's body.

Seeing the ugly expressions on Hong Chu and An Youwei's faces, the black shadow's face revealed curved crescent cracks, as if laughing, mocking them.

The Witch Spirit Race's totem, Black Spirit, began to speak: "As you see, I had already descended from the start, and there's no need for this ritual ceremony."

"By using you as sacrifices to offer to my true form, I surely can gain quite a bit of nourishment."

An ancient, meaningless sound echoed from Black Spirit's mouth, forming a piercing song, which only revealed its true significance once sung fully.

The altar was activated, and the items atop it quickly withered and decayed away under a strange power, with the sacrifices being offered.

Black Spirit's avatar sensed feedback from its true form, and the power of this avatar grew. To hide the totem's avatar within the shaman's body, this descended avatar was not very powerful.

However, after the sacrifices, it could continuously gain more power from the true form.

The true form could acquire more sacrifices through the avatar to strengthen itself, and the more sacrifices obtained, the more benefits Black Spirit's true form perceived, thus willing to allocate more power to strengthen the avatar and acquire more sacrifices.

The Black Spirit avatar now present before Hong Chu and An Youwei was, in some sense, an avatar manipulated by the shaman, borrowing the shaman's body and the shaman borrowing the avatar's power.

"Such formidable power!" Feeling the unceasing expansion of power within, Black Spirit felt joyous emotions.

Black Spirit's form kept expanding, and Hong Chu and An Youwei could even feel that within the venue, a power was attempting to "ignite" their strength, siphoning away their power.

"An Youwei!" Hong Chu growled lowly.

Spiritual Power surged out from An Youwei's body, activating the array, isolating the peculiar "absorption" effect exerted on them.

Six silver-white light chains shot out from the array, wrapping around Black Spirit, as An Youwei floated mid-air, radiating intense spiritual light, a manifestation of Spiritual Power being used to its limit.

Three light chains bound Black Spirit, while three tried to pierce through its body, attempting to kill it.

Everything went smoothly, as the chains successfully wrapped around Black Spirit's body and penetrated it, interlacing back and forth dozens of times.

Yet this made An Youwei extremely uneasy as he didn't sense any weakening of Black Spirit's aura from the attacks.

These attacks were ineffective against it!

Bang! An immense force erupted from Black Spirit's body, shattering the surrounding six silver-white chains, a Soul Power that only those in the spirit-splitting realm could use.

Black Spirit's Soul Power was extremely chaotic, although it presented an overwhelming stance in dealing with Spiritual Power attacks, it seemed somewhat uncontrollable.

An enormous force crashed down towards An Youwei, and An Youwei sensed changes in the Spiritual Qi in the air, determining the direction of the descending force.

Spiritual Power propelled his body sideways, leaving behind a five-to-six meter deep pit, exploded by the unleashed Soul Power from Black Spirit, with dust settling thereafter.

Bang bang bang- volatile, wild forces struck out, as An Youwei and Hong Chu continued to jump, move, and dodge, clearly unable to withstand such tremendous power.

But the power of Black Spirit is too rough, there's no need to resist it head-on, just dodge is enough.

"Ahahaha- such mighty power!"

With just a raise of its hand and foot, Black Spirit forced two high-tier Martial Cultivators in the Qi Sea realm into a frantic retreat and evasive maneuvers, shouting excitedly.

Soon, it became impatient, as its attacks continuously missed the target.

"Is it done?" Hong Chu shouted loudly, forcing him and An Youwei to opposite ends of the battlefield, between a chaotic mix of Spiritual Qi, intermixed with lingering disordered Soul Power.

A normal spirit-splitting realm's Soul Power is very pure, capable of imprisoning or killing without notice against Qi Sea realm Martial Cultivators.

Previously, when Fei Feng battled the Liang family patriarch, with Fei Feng only barely touching the threshold of Soul Power, she could easily suppress a seventh-layer Qi Sea realm expert.

A real spirit-splitting realm master could kill a Qi Sea realm cultivator with just a thought.

The Qi Sea realm had no resistance, as they didn't even know what Soul Power was, never reaching that realm meant they couldn't contact that force.

With a palm strike, An Youwei unleashed a torrent of Spiritual Power, instantly consuming a third of it, as dense array patterns surfaced on the ground, exerting an invisible force suppressing Black Spirit.

Black Spirit's surging momentum halted as Hong Chu's Spiritual Power swept across the sacrifices on the ground, destroying any yet to be offered ones to prevent Black Spirit's strength from growing further.

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