Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 844

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“Black Star Daggers.”

The giant and the youth’s expressions drastically changed upon seeing the five daggers, while Han Li narrowed his eyes, curious.

The owner extended his hand.

Swish, swish, swish!

Black light flashed, and the daggers shot towards the spirit beast’s limbs and heart. The Thunder Beast, bound by black chains, let out an earth-shattering shriek and thrashed, but the daggers pierced through without hesitation.

Instead of blood, spiritual light flowed out, and the four types of lightning on the Thunder Beast’s body disappeared the moment its eyes became hazy. Seeing this, the owner released a white light.

An immense pressure of spiritual energy emanated from a fist-sized, rhombus-shaped white crystal. Han Li involuntarily narrowed his eyes.

Unlike high-level cultivators of the human race, high-level beings of the Spirit Beast race did not have things like Golden Cores or Nascent Souls. Instead, they cultivated something called a ‘Core Nucleus,’ which was similar in nature and importance to the Golden Core or Nascent Soul of humans.

Thud.

The owner’s blood was absorbed into the Core Nucleus, and the white crystal split the air and moved above the Thunder Beast’s head.

“Now!”

The owner shouted. At his command, the youth, the giant, and Han Li immediately unleashed their techniques.

Golden lightning appeared between Han Li’s hands, white lightning surged from the giant’s mouth, and the gentle youth flapped his wings, summoning silver lightning.

Krrrr, crack! Crack!

The three types of lightning struck the Thunder Beast’s body simultaneously.

However, a strange thing happened. The lightning they sent was immediately absorbed into the black daggers upon touching the Thunder Beast’s body.

The five daggers emitted layers of deep light, transforming it into black lightning before injecting it into the Thunder Beast’s body.

The giant and the youth flinched slightly at this, but they did not stop their lightning.

The black light emitted by the five daggers grew increasingly intense, and the tips of the daggers began to tremble.

Han Li glanced at the owner. He was sitting cross-legged beside them, his eyes closed, performing a bizarre hand seal. The white aura emanating from the owner’s body indicated that he was using all his power.

Finding nothing particularly strange, Han Li turned his attention back to controlling the Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning.

Whether it was the Thunder Beast’s body or the ‘Black Star Daggers’ that were strange, even after receiving a massive amount of lightning for an hour, neither the daggers nor the Thunder Beast showed any significant changes.

However, the owner’s complexion grew paler, and large beads of sweat trickled down his neck. His bulging veins showed that he was giving it his all.

When the surrounding spiritual light had dimmed by about 30%, a white shadow of the crystal appeared between his eyebrows and flickered.

“You must inject more lightning.”

After a while, the owner’s voice was hoarse as he spoke, his face completely drained of blood. At his words, Han Li and the others frowned. They had already poured out half of their lightning power, and at this rate, they wouldn’t last long. However, they did not hesitate for long at the owner’s confident words and unleashed even more lightning.

Krrrr! Crack! Boom!

The sound of thunder grew louder, and the Thunder Beast was buried under the light of the three colors of lightning.

As the three cultivators pushed their lightning power to the extreme, the five-colored daggers embedded in the Thunder Beast’s body finally began to change. The entire daggers turned as red as if they were soaked in blood, and their density was so thick that it seemed like blood would drip from them.

At the same time, the phantom of the Core Nucleus that had appeared between the owner’s eyebrows also turned red and gradually expanded. The owner’s eyes snapped open, and he spat out something else from his mouth—a jade-green wooden plaque.

The plaque, covered in layers of complex incantations, was mysterious. As soon as it appeared, it teleported above the Thunder Beast’s head.

Poof!

From it, thin bundles of green threads emerged and seeped into the Thunder Beast’s head. The Thunder Beast, which had been unconscious, convulsed, and the plaque hummed.

Then, a green phantom of the Thunder Beast was being pulled above the Thunder Beast’s head, entangled in numerous green threads. The owner looked pleased and moved his ten fingers minutely, chanting an unknown incantation.

Wooong!

The stronger the plaque trembled, the more forcefully the green threads pulled out the Thunder Beast’s soul. But then, golden light flashed in the eyes of the powerless Thunder Beast, and a thunderous sound erupted.

The black daggers embedded in its body were slightly pushed out, and the four colors of lightning reappeared on the Thunder Beast’s surface. Before the startled owner could do anything, the Thunder Beast’s soul, which had almost been pulled out, returned to its body.

At the same time, the Thunder Beast roared and twisted its body madly.

“Can you increase the power of your lightning?”

The enraged owner hurriedly asked Han Li and the others.

“We can’t. We’re already at our limit!”

The youth looked truly pale.

“I’m already injecting a large amount of lightning power as well.”

The giant and Han Li looked slightly better, but they shook their heads in refusal.

“It seems we have no choice but to take a risk. I will use my technique to summon five-colored heavenly lightning, so the three of you must maintain your current state. We must succeed this time.”

The owner gritted his teeth, looking slightly disappointed.

The others’ expressions changed at his words, but they did not object. The owner left the struggling Thunder Beast and flapped his wings, slowly ascending into the sky.

Stopping about a hundred feet away, the owner spat out another mouthful of blood with a grim face. He then moved his ten fingers rapidly towards the blood, creating a large, blood-colored talisman and sending it towards the five-colored heavenly lightning.

The moment light flashed, the blood-colored talisman had already disappeared into the five-colored heavenly lightning. Soon, the thunder grew louder, and the dark clouds disappeared within the five-colored heavenly lightning.

Now, only the massive five-colored heavenly lightning remained in the sky, revealing its ferocious aura. The owner gritted his teeth at the power of the lightning and spat out more blood, sending another blood-colored talisman.

His already pale face was now completely drained of blood. However, his efforts were not in vain, as the thunder of the five-colored heavenly lightning not only diminished but also became gentler.

Faint, blood-colored threads flickered between the lightning, making it look extremely strange. The owner looked pleased and chanted an incantation, flapping his two wings.

Poof!

Numerous blood-colored threads extended from his wings and connected with the blood-colored threads within the five-colored heavenly lightning. He formed a hand seal and sent out a series of incantations amidst the dazzling white light.

Then, the five-colored heavenly lightning contracted, transforming into a giant lightning orb about a foot in diameter, and blood-colored threads wrapped around it like a net. The gaunt man smiled at the sight.

As he pointed his hand, the five-colored lightning orb surprisingly descended calmly. Those watching from below were dumbfounded.

The owner did not give them time to ask questions and vanished from his spot in a flash.

The next moment, a ripple appeared on the ground, and the owner’s figure appeared strangely next to the Thunder Beast. He quickly extended both hands and shot two thick beams of light towards the lightning orb.

Wooong!

The lightning orb trembled and stopped in mid-air. Now, Han Li and the others could fully feel the immense power contained within the five-colored lightning orb.

It was fortunate that the lightning orb had stopped in the sky due to the owner’s technique; otherwise, they would have abandoned the deal and fled immediately.

The owner ignored them and focused solely on controlling the five-colored lightning orb. The lightning orb began to rotate, and small cracks appeared on the red threads on its surface.

Crack!

Tiny five-colored lightning bolts escaped through the cracks and fell towards the Thunder Beast below.

The moment the five-colored lightning orb appeared, the Thunder Beast seemed to sense danger and struggled even more violently, trying to rise despite being bound by black chains. However, before it could take a step, the five-colored lightning fell onto the Thunder Beast’s head.

Thwack!

The Thunder Beast could not even make a sound and fell back down. The owner was overjoyed and continuously controlled the five-colored lightning orb to strike down lightning, while the jade-green plaque above the Thunder Beast’s head also released bundles of green threads again.

This time, with the aid of the five-colored lightning and the three cultivators’ lightning power, the Thunder Beast’s soul was slowly pulled out and floated towards the plaque.

The Thunder Beast’s soul struggled with all its might, but its lightning power was sealed by the black daggers, and its body was being attacked by the five-colored lightning and the three cultivators, leaving it no way to escape.

In the end, the Thunder Beast’s soul screamed and was wrapped in green threads, being sucked into the plaque. The owner quickly flicked his fingers, sending out incantations. Then, colorful incantations flew into the plaque, thoroughly sealing the soul.

The owner reached out his hand with a happy face and retrieved the green jade plaque.

“Hahaha! Finally, it’s a success.”

“What happened? Is it done?”

As he burst into laughter, the youth stopped his technique and looked back and forth between the Thunder Beast and the plaque. Han Li and the giant also wanted to ask the same thing.

“Hehe, now that I’ve extracted the soul, taming the Thunder Beast is a piece of cake. I’ll take care of the rest, so the three of you don’t need to worry.”

The owner put the soul into a jade box and retrieved it, speaking in a joyful voice. However, Han Li and the other two sensed something was amiss and kept their mouths shut, increasing their vigilance.

“Don’t worry, I said. You helped me with such a big task, so of course, I have to give you the promised rewards. Here, take them.”

The owner flicked his sleeve, sending out a white aura, and the three jade boxes they had seen earlier flew towards Han Li, the youth, and the giant, respectively.

The youth and the black-armored giant were still suspicious, but when the treasures they had been longing for appeared, they reached out their hands without further hesitation. However, Han Li’s eyes flashed with a blue light, and he twisted his body.

Shortly after, a gold and silver robe flew from his body, enveloping the jade box, and he landed on the ground.

‘…’

Seeing this, the gentle-faced youth was startled and tried to throw away the jade box he had just picked up. But it was already too late. A white light flickered, and in the place where the jade box had been, there was a marble-sized bead.

“Lightning-Attracting Bead!”

The shocked youth tried to flick the bead away with his fingertip.

Crack!

However, a thunderous sound rang out, and the bead exploded, emitting a dazzling white light. The five-colored lightning orb that had been in the sky was drawn to the white light and struck down three bolts of lightning.

It was too fast, and by the time they realized it, the lightning had already struck.

Boom! Crash! Bang!

Three loud explosions rang out. The youth and the giant were instantly engulfed in five-colored lightning and white light. When the light subsided, smoke was rising from their bodies, and the two men fell down, their conditions unknown.

However, the white light was absorbed into Han Li’s gold and silver robe the moment the Lightning-Attracting Bead exploded, so the five-colored lightning lost its direction and struck the ground a foot away. A huge hole was created where the five-colored lightning had fallen.

Fortunately, Han Li, who was standing just outside the edge of the hole, was only slightly shaken, but he kept his eyes fixed on the owner with an expressionless face.

“Huh!”

The smile on the owner’s face disappeared, only to be replaced by a smirk. Han Li narrowed his eyes and flapped his wings, disappearing into the blue-white lightning.

Shriek!

At the same time, two giant green hands swiped through the spot where he had been. The Thunder Beast, which had been lying down bound by black chains, had suddenly risen and launched a surprise attack on Han Li’s back.

The Thunder Beast’s eyes were pitch black and full of spirit. The owner looked surprised that the Thunder Beast’s surprise attack had failed. Soon, he shot sideways without a sound.

At this moment, a thunderous sound rang out above the owner’s head, and Han Li appeared from the blue-white lightning, flicking his sleeve towards the surrounding copper pillars.

Dazzling light flashed, and the pillars were shattered, the restrictions broken by Han Li’s hand. The owner stopped his movement and his face hardened.

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