Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me-Chapter 180 - 175: Divine Ability Backfires, Mutual Destruction
Chapter 180: Chapter 175: Divine Ability Backfires, Mutual Destruction
Jiang Chen had a knack for coaxing people in his past life, he was quite skilled at it.
Divine abilities, while seemingly unimportant, are not to be dismissed lightly. Without them, one wouldn’t even make it halfway up the Dao peak before being knocked down.
Divine Abilities, especially the powerful ones, are quite handy as they at least assure one of their safety. To a cultivator, the Dao, while fundamental, is not as important as life itself.
After all, with life, comes every other possibility.
Otherwise, everything else is just empty talk.
Upon hearing Jiang Chen’s words, Sun Wukong appeared deep in thought, "You sly fox, you’re quite knowledgeable despite your young age."
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Without mentioning how they interacted further, with the deployment of the Seven Nails Arrow, the residual soul of the gray wolf on Langjuxu Mountain gradually began to feel the effects.
Chanyu energetically shielded the five elements with his sword over a period of three to five days, making the remnant soul of the gray wolf feel like it was on fire and had nowhere to go. Confused, it started pacing back and forth beneath the Innate Kun Mu.
After half a month, the remnant spirit of the gray wolf felt a severe headache and a growing desire to sleep deeply, unaware of its own condition.
Under the influence of the divine ability, the residual soul of the grey wolf fell into a deep sleep. If it couldn’t wake up in time, it might never wake up at all.
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The situation didn’t look good for either the gray wolf’s residual soul or for Chanyu.
Although the technique hadn’t been achieved, the backlash had already arrived. If not for Jiang Chen’s timely diversion of the rebounding force onto the Golden Sacrifices, Chanyu would have been dead. This backlash had cost him half his life and destroyed his fate.
Crack crack...
After two or three more days, the sound of rupture suddenly came from inside the camp, delivering an endless echo.
Jiang Chen looked towards the source of the sound and saw a number of cracks, big and small, appearing on the body of the three Golden Sacrifices, and half of their Fate was gone.
Upon sight of this, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but be shocked, "Damn, with the grey wolf having fallen to such low ebb, the divine ability hadn’t exhausted its energy but was still powerfully protected. The fate on these three golden figures might not be enough to curse him to death."
The Seven Nails Arrow requires a constant casting over twenty-one days to curse the opponent to death. But as of now, only eighteen days have passed, and the person performing the technique is about to give out. From this, it seems like the divine ability might fail.
Without hesitation, Jiang Chen decided to trigger the divine ability directly. Even if he couldn’t kill the gray wolf, he should be able to inflict serious injury.
Although generally speaking, the technique needs to be carried out for twenty-one days, that isn’t a hard and fast rule. If you start the technique in advance, it may not necessarily lead to the death of your opponent; perhaps it can only cause severe injury.
However, considering the current situation of the remnant soul of the gray wolf, even suffering another severe injury would be tantamount to death.
Jiang Chen entered the camp and handed a small mulberry bow and three mulberry arrows to Chanyu, "At the beginning of noon today, shoot with these arrows."
Chanyu, whose mind was captivated by Sun Wukong’s divine ability, had no intention of denying Jiang Chen’s commandment. Taking the mulberry bow and arrows, he responded, "Yes, sir!"
Naturally, without saying, the little mulberry bow and arrows were crafted by Jiang Chen using Fusang wood.
Both of them waited in the tent until the sun reached its zenith. At that moment, Chanyu cleansed his hands, picked up the bow and aimed the arrow, Jiang Chen instructed, "Aim for the left eye first."
Following his command, Chanyu shot first at the left eye.
The moment a shot was fired towards the straw man in the Han camp, on the Langjuxu Mountain, the grey wolf’s residual soul let out a cry and closed its left eye.
Then, under Jiang Chen’s instructions, Chanyu fired two more arrows, hitting the right eye and heart of the straw man.
After the three arrows were shot, the remnant soul of the gray wolf suddenly let out a mournful cry and woke up. Simultaneously, his body began to disintegrate, fading into flickering points of light.
However, at this moment, a dazzling light burst out from the Innate Kun Mu, gushing out an extremely rich life essence, forcefully framing the collapsing soul of the gray wolf.
However , the gray wolf was already a remnant soul, extremely weak. Now, being subjected to the Seven Nails Arrow, the injury had worsened. Even with full salvation from the Innate Kun Mu, its destiny was irreversible.
It could be seen that even though the life essence was trying hard to maintain the illusory figure of the gray wolf, its residual soul was still disintegrating continuously and dissipating in points of light.
His aura was dropping, and his body was becoming more ethereal. He was about to die.
Even with the Innate Kun Mu at hand, death was merely delayed but the eventual outcome could not be altered.
The ancient gray wolf, which had been surviving since ancient times, was reaching the end of its life at this moment.
At the same time, the Gray Wolf finally understood why he had fallen into this predicament.
It was the Seven Nails Arrow!
Given his status, he naturally recognized the origin of this divine ability. So, he let out an angry roar that shook the whole plains.
Ah!
Seven Nails Arrow!
You rats, how dare you harm me with such wicked techniques!
Having said that, a layer of blue flames suddenly ignited on the body of the gray wolf’s residual soul, and even more life essence gushed out from the Innate Kun Mu into the body of the gray wolf’s residual soul.
All or nothing!
Knowing he was doomed, the gray wolf decided to make a desperate gamble, sacrificing everything to get a chance to hit back and drag his opponent down with him.
If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me!
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Meanwhile, back in the camp, after Chanyu had fired the three arrows, Jiang Chen hastily turned and left. He had barely stepped out when the powerful backlash force arrived.
An invisible force swept through the place, reducing the three Golden Sacrifices to dust that scattered with the wind.
Next was Chanyu, who seemed to be robbed of time, who rapidly aged and decayed, turning into flying ashes.
In the end, the force destroyed everything within the tent from the lantern crafted by the Great Sun God, to the puppet made of Ghost Grass, to the Mulberry bows and arrows. Then, it disappeared.
"The wolf didn’t die!"
Looking back at the scene, Jiang Chen deduced.
The backlash from the Fate alone couldn’t have had this much destructive power. This was the backlash that came after the failure of the divine ability. The stronger the divine ability deployed, the stronger the backlash.
For a moment, Jiang Chen felt a wave of relief wash over him. It was a good thing he hadn’t perpetrated the divine ability, otherwise, the trouble would have been much greater.
However, even if the gray wolf hadn’t died, he wouldn’t have been any better off being hit like this.
Having reached this conclusion, Jiang Chen called out to the Monkey, "Monkey, let’s go check on that gray wolf."
But in the middle of his words, the Gray Wolf had already turned into a silver rainbow, rushing towards their direction.
Die!
Far away, the voice of the Gray Wolf, filled with hatred, echoed through heaven and earth.
Whoosh...
The gray wolf was fast, at one moment, it was on the horizon and in the next, it was right in front of everyone.
PS: 7000 words are up, begging for monthly passes.
By the way, this plotline is finally coming to an end, and the next Chapter will have a recap.
