The howlings carried the White Bone Divine Lord’s voice across the land, stunning everyone into silence.
Standing in his coffin, the White Bone Divine Lord angrily glared at Tang Jie, the only thought in his mind being that Tang Jie was shameless. If he hadn’t used a weapon, how could he have possibly broken his Bone Realm?
However, he had a Dao armament of his own.
This golden coffin, which he had soaked in Yin energy and painted with spiritual blood, and which he had gone to great lengths to catch a Void Ghost for, was a Dao armament. Although it was an artificial Dao armament, it was a Ghost Dao treasure of immense power. It was just that using it placed a severe burden on him. His two legs were the result of the last time he had used it, and he was still recovering.
But it was worth it if he could get rid of this brat.
Thinking this, he slapped the coffin lid.
The Void Ghost on the lid seemed to come to life, sucking at the air.
When other people cast arts, they exhaled, and they expelled clouds, flames, or waters of various colors.
But the Void Ghost inhaled, and while there was no momentous shift in the world, Tang Jie suddenly felt like his life was in grave danger.
Little Three’s voice arose from Tang Jie’s body. “Father, watch out! This Void Ghost is a master at seizing vitality and converting life to death. If it can successfully perform the conversion, you’ll be converted into a ghost attendant under his control. But considering the power of this coffin, it should only be able to convert Violet Palace cultivators, not Immortals. This was probably how this old man got those four Violet Palace ghost attendants. As this treasure can control ghosts, I can’t do anything about it.”
“So that’s what’s going on.” Tang Jie understood.
This treasure bore some similarities to the deceased Origin Defender’s jungle chess board. It was just that while the chess board could only summon and had no offensive powers, the Void Ghost Coffin was a lethal weapon in its own right, with the creation of ghost attendants merely being a bonus.
As the Void Ghost inhaled, Tang Jie’s immense vitality began to convert into death energy, and his face began to gain a green complexion. This was a sign that his nature was being turned into that of a ghost.
The cultivators below cheered at this sight.
Tang Jie wanted to resist, but he found that the Void Ghost had paralyzed him.
Little Three frantically said, “The Great Dao is restraining you! You can’t escape unless you use a Dao Art of your own.”
“Understood.” Tang Jie used Nearby Horizon, which interrupted the Void Ghost’s inhaling. But the moment he reappeared, the inhaling restarted, and Tang Jie’s nature resumed its transformation.
“Shit, you can even resume the upload?” Tang Jie complained.
Little Three didn’t understand what he was saying, anxiously warning, “Father, don’t be careless! This Void Ghost is being empowered by the Dao Runes, so there’s no way to avoid it. Only the Daos of Life or Reincarnation can fight back. Unfortunately, Reincarnation isn’t Father’s strength, and you chose life creation in the Dao of Life, which is of limited help here. You have also yet to achieve the Great Dao Body, so you can’t resist the conversion of the Great Dao, so it’s best if you hide away for now.”
His advice was for Tang Jie to use Nearby Horizon to create some distance. While the Void Ghost Coffin was powerful, it didn’t have an infinite range.
Tang Jie pursed his lips. “Wouldn’t that mean that I had to run after not being able to beat him? I would lose face.”
Little Three was stunned. You were fine with running when you couldn’t beat somebody before, and you never talked about face before. Why do you suddenly care about losing face?
Tang Jie paid no attention. In the end, the real reason was that he was looking down on his opponent.
A man could yield to the strong, but it was very hard to bow to the weak.
The White Bone Divine Lord was a weakling in his eyes, and when facing this sort of person, even the most materialistic person would want some face. Or perhaps one could say that maintaining one’s face in front of this sort of person was for one’s own good.
As the Void Ghost Coffin changed Tang Jie’s nature, his face began to turn green and ghastly.
Tang Jie tried a few more things, but he found that they didn’t work.
The Infinite Palace could only block tangible attacks and was useless against this kind. The Reflections of Floating Life couldn’t deceive this sort of automatic lock-on. Law Speaking worked against people, but it had no effect on this Dao armament ghost. He had also tried the Realm of Insight, but the Great Daos were the laws of the world, and they possessed no weakness to speak of. The weakness only existed in the user, but the White Bone Divine Lord was in the coffin, which protected him and made his weaknesses hard to target. Slaughter and Destruction could be used, but that would probably destroy the coffin.
Tang Jie was looking down on his opponent, so he was thinking about the problem in a way which would maximize his gain, so he momentarily lacked good choices.
After some thought, given that he didn’t have time, he used Split-Second Youth.
He used it on himself, slowing down his flow of time.
The rate at which the Void Ghost Coffin converted his life force instantly slowed down.
Tang Jie said, “Since it converts life to death, it should belong to the Yin Yang Dao. Let’s see what secrets this Void Ghost Coffin has.”
He activated his Celestial Eye.
But rather than weaknesses, he sought out the operating principles of the coffin.
The mystical Dao Runes of the coffin were revealed under the Celestial Eye, their profundity enough to dazzle anyone. Even someone as proficient in the Daos as Tang Jie suffered a huge shock to his mind, a thousand times more intense than when he had viewed Dao Runes in the past. Thankfully, his soul had already been deified, so he was able to endure it all. As those Dao Runes shifted before his eyes, he was able to perceive the countless truths regarding the conversion of Life and Death from them.
In just a few moments, his understanding of the Dao of Yin Yang soared.
But in this time, his body began to stiffen, his face becoming like that of a thousand-year-old zombie. An Immortal Platform cultivator like him, even if he devolved to Violet Palace after conversion, would still possess immense energy. At that moment, the cultivators of the White Bone Gate felt like they were witnessing the birth of a supreme ghost and cheered.
Even Yiyi paled. “Big Brother is going to be okay, right?”
Xu Miaoran remained composed. “He’ll be fine. He’s just using this opportunity to comprehend the Great Dao and advance another level.”
“But Big Brother seems to be in danger,” Yiyi replied.
Xu Miaoran answered, “Don’t panic. The more in peril his life is, the deeper he comprehends the Dao. My husband is letting the Dao infiltrate him so that he can experience it to its greatest extent, and his Dao of Yin Yang is bound to benefit greatly from it. If his luck is good, he might even reach the Dao-Controlling level.”
“‘Dao-Controlling’?” A hint of admiration appeared on Yiyi’s face. This was a legendary and supreme level. Was Tang Jie really going to reach it?
Tang Jie’s body was still transforming, his complexion becoming more zombie-like and two fangs sprouting from his mouth.
If one focused on Tang Jie now, they would find that his body was rigid and devoid of life force, essentially completely converted. While his shell of a body had yet to fall away, his strength had already fallen from Immortal Platform to Violet Palace.
The White Bone Divine Lord smugly laughed. “The cycle of Life and Death, the conversion of Yang to Yin! Anyone who tries to mess with my Void Ghost Coffin will become my ghost servant! Obey me!”
Normally, Tang Jie should have flown over and prostrated to him, ready to obey his orders.
But Tang Jie didn’t move.
He simply stood there in silence as if he was really dead.
Finding this strange, the White Bone Divine Lord grumbled, “Is there still a sliver of obsession clinging on? I’ll put it out right now!”
He opened his hand and pulled Tang Jie toward him.
But Tang Jie still didn’t move, resisting his pull and standing there like a wooden dummy.
The White Bone Gate cultivators who had been cheering on their ancestor were silenced by this sight, trying to digest what they were seeing.
The White Bone Divine Lord also realized that something was wrong. Finally, he decided to give up on this ghost servant and swatted at Tang Jie, seeking to obliterate him.
Just when his hand was about to reach Tang Jie, a bony hand rose up and caught it by the wrist.
Tang Jie’s head rose, gazing at the White Bone Divine Lord with his lifeless eyes and croaking, “Is that how it was? I understand now.”
As that icy voice spoke, a light gleamed in his eyes, and then it engulfed his entire body like a spark igniting a wildfire. Tang Jie’s withered and dead body once more regained vitality, even greater and more intense than before.
“This… this is impossible!” the White Bone Divine Lord shrieked.
He had never seen anyone come back from being converted by the Void Ghost Coffin.
But there was no denying what he was seeing right before his own eyes.
The blazing flame of vitality melted away the death energy within Tang Jie and converted it back into life force. It was like a rebelling army, pushing back the way they had come and reconquering lost territory, subduing all the death energy within Tang Jie’s body. In the blink of an eye, Tang Jie had completed the reversal and gone from death to life.
Not only that, after regaining his vitality, Tang Jie turned to the coffin and inhaled.
It was exactly the same thing the Void Ghost had done.
But the moment he did this, the Void Ghost on the coffin lid began to scream in terror, and a white light appeared on the coffin.
Yang energy!
This energy that represented life spread across the Void Ghost Coffin, melting away the Yin energy, and no matter how much the Void Ghost screamed, it couldn’t stop this conversion.
The White Bone Divine Lord cried out in shock, “NO!”
But his cries couldn’t stop reality, and no matter what spell art or Divine Connection he used, he couldn’t stop the Void Ghost from dissolving. The coffin itself began to rumble, the Dao Runes gradually breaking free of the coffin and flying toward Tang Jie. Like moths to the flame, they vanished into Tang Jie’s body, and the moment they disappeared, they seemed to trill in excitement.
Soon, all of the Dao Runes had disappeared into Tang Jie’s body, leaving only that Daoless golden coffin, a Dao armament turned into a divine treasure. And because the Void Ghost was dead, it fell from a divine treasure to an art relic.
The White Bone Divine Lord stared in wide-eyed shock, and then he finally realized something. “Dao-Controlling… Dao-Controlling… You can control the Dao!”