Chapter 438: 198: The Samsara King Falls!_1
Chapter 438: 198: The Samsara King Falls!_1
Chapter 438: Chapter 198: The Samsara King Falls!_1
This sense of fear arose from nowhere, without any discernible source. The Samsara King only felt his Spirit Soul, which had fused with the Dao principles within his body, trembling continuously as if it were a flickering flame that could extinguish at any moment.
Even though he could stand on Mount Tai and suppress the Mount Luofeng 6 Hell Deities with one hand, and even though his position as a Major Heavenly Immortal’s Yama could make lost souls bow in submission and ward off all evil, in the face of this inexplicable fear, the Samsara King felt as insignificant as an ant.
Such fear surged like a tide in his heart, but it was but the blink of an eye before it ended, everything returned to normal as if what the Samsara King perceived had been nothing but an illusion.
His body still halfway in the Void Channel, the Samsara King stood rooted to the spot, seemingly still immersed in the sudden fear, even the oppressive might of the Fengdu Emperor momentarily forgotten.
After several moments, the Samsara King snapped out of it like waking from a dream, inspecting the Spirit Soul within his body which appeared as usual. His eyes widened with a flicker of doubt and confusion.
He was utterly convinced that the great terror he had experienced was no illusion, but a reflection of the innate fear for life and death crisis of his Major Heavenly Immortal Spirit Soul.
That sudden fear was a warning from his Spirit Soul, his True Spirit.
“Who is it!”
His voice exploded in the Void Channel like thunder, the Samsara King’s angry roar shook heaven and earth, waves of invisible sound cascading down from the firmament, transforming into tangible sonic booms that easily tore through vast swathes of space, causing ancient buildings within Fengdu City to collapse amidst the furious howling.
The Samsara King changed his previously overwhelming stance against Fengdu City to utter an angry question, which caused the countenances of the godly incarnations of Yama to freeze.
Having received detailed information from their counterparts in the underworld, they were well aware that the Samsara King had descended in person. As fellow 10th Hall Yamas, they naturally understood what such a descent meant.
The Samsara King’s domineering attitude was as they had anticipated. To be more precise, with the true body of Yama himself present, along with an absolute advantage in cultivation, it would have been strange if he could not suppress everything.
Just as they thought the Samsara King would press his advantage and strike the Fengdu Emperor, he suddenly fell into an irregular state.
The formidable 10th Hall Yamas appeared to be fearing something, which left the other Yamas bewildered.
Only Qinguang King, the moment the Samsara King began to exhibit abnormalities, glanced towards the dark golden Emperor’s Carriage.
In the eyes of Qinguang King, if the Samsara King truly encountered some mishap, only the Fengdu Emperor had the power to take action.
However, during the entire process of the Samsara King’s descent to Fengdu, he had been watching the Emperor’s Carriage and had not noticed any movements from it.
“Could there be a hidden powerful expert?”
Qinguang King’s heart was filled with doubt and uncertainty.
Inside the Emperor’s Carriage, Shen Yuan, who had just prostrated before the straw effigy, straightened himself once more.
He could clearly see that the straw effigy in front of him still looked exquisitely crafted, but compared to its freshly woven state, the straw on the effigy was now somewhat disheveled.
The face it had been given now showed anger, the flames of the Sun-Moon lamps flickering, no longer as bright as before.
The recent prostration, although it hadn’t caused any tangible harm to the Samsara King, was an early demonstration of the power of the Heavenly General Great Divine Power’s Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman. The panicked state of the Samsara King was proof of its efficacy.
Following this prostration, Shen Yuan gradually deepened his understanding of this Heavenly General Great Divine Power.
The description of the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman Divine Power was rather brief, merely indicating how many days of cursing were needed to kill experts of different realms, but it did not explain the true causal linkage involved.
What appeared to be a simple Divine Arts spell involved several crucial steps, any of which if mishandled could invite disaster.
The first step, naturally, was to weave the victim’s causal fate into a straw effigy.
This step, the first in unleashing the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman, may seem straightforward but is far from easy.
If one targets beings below the Immortal Realm to stealthily weave their causality into the straw effigy, those without corresponding Divine Arts may sense something amiss but would find it difficult to trace the origin.
However, beings above the Immortal Realm often have some grasp of causal laws. Once their causality is woven into an effigy, without a method to shield against the probing of Tianji, it would be easy for them to be tracked down.
In such a case, let alone executing the Curse-killing technique, one might not even be able to save oneself.
And this is only in reference to the Immortal Realm. Experts of the Higher Heaven Realm whose thoughts intertwine with the many worlds could easily eradicate anyone who probes their causality with a mere thought.
Although the Samsara King was far from the level of the Highest Heaven Emperor, under normal circumstances, Shen Yuan’s weaving of the straw effigy using his causality would surely be sensed by the Samsara King.
However, the strand of causality Shen Yuan seized did not come from the Samsara King himself but from a fragment of his already fallen Spirit Soul.
With the Great Sun’s True Flaming Sword, Shen Yuan forcefully erased part of his Spirit Soul and established a great causality; hence, seizing this part did not alert the Samsara King who had crossed realms to come here.
The second crucial step then was the act of prostration.
In usual circumstances, three prostrations a day could kill all beings below the Immortal Realm, and seven days of soul scourging could eradicate Heavenly Immortals—such were the rules of the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman Divine Power, but these rules were not absolute.
Because the prostration process required the Caster’s involvement. The Caster would use their own station to flush the enemy’s True Spirit, compelling it to gradually plunge into Turmoil, waiting for the final prostration when the True Spirit would be obscured and the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman could manifest to vanquish the enemy.