Chapter 181
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Chapter 181: You’ve Angered Me, Hybrid
“Be careful!”
“Your Highness, hurry and go! Don’t worry about us!”
The terrifying bloody hand had worried Bai Li Xiu Ling, but soon, she could no longer focus on Mu Lin.
Though the corpse monster couldn’t reach Mu Lin in the air, it charged toward the Merfolk group instead.
The creature’s approach overwhelmed the Merfolk, forcing them to halt their rain-summoning ritual. This abruptly halved the range of Mu Lin’s summoned winds and rain.
As the dark clouds thinned, the bloody handprint shot toward Mu Lin and seized him in its grip.
Yet Mu Lin, trapped as he was, did not suffer any harm.
*Crackling…*
Lightning erupted from inside Mu Lin’s body, engulfing him in thunderous radiance. His form swelled into a muscular dragon-man towering over two and a half meters tall.
With lightning-strengthened arms, he strained against the bloody handprint’s crushing force.
A stalemate ensued: Mu Lin channeled lightning to shatter the handprint, while the handprint sought to crush him.
Mu Lin’s Body of a Dragon and mastery of fierce thunder clashed against the Spirit Sea-powered handprint. Neither could overpower the other.
As the struggle dragged on, Mu Lin kept unleashing lightning, but the bloody handprint wielded more tricks.
Alongside its corrosive fluids and tainted energy, the handprint sprouted eyes and mouths to assault Mu Lin’s mind.
The eyes bombarded him with horrific illusions meant to break his spirit. Useless—his extraordinary soul saw through the lies, and his invincible belief banished all fear.
The mouths proved more troublesome. Their ceaseless muttering prodded at Mu Lin’s simmering anger.
Normally, his extraordinary rank would shield him from such manipulations. But what if rage already burned within him?
The Heart Lamp of Will’s invincible belief granted Mu Lin dominion, yet also bred arrogance—a conviction that all lesser beings should kneel.
To him, the corpse monster’s defiance was an insult.
Ordinary observers would excuse his failure to defeat a mid-Spirit Sea foe while still at the early Spirit Pool stage. Surviving such a mismatch was commendable; holding his ground, extraordinary.
But Mu Lin scorned such logic. He, the superior being, had repeatedly failed to crush this wretched creature. Worse, it had humiliated him. Fury festered in his heart.
Just as his anger peaked, the corpse monster’s whispers slithered into his ears:
“Worthless… worthless… worthless…”
“Die… die… die…”
“No one saves trash like you…”
“Why won’t you die?…”
“Kill him! Why not kill him? All who look down on me must die…”
“Your friends will die, your family dies, you’ll save none, protect nothing…”
A hundred overlapping whispers laced with cursed energy amplified the darkness in human hearts, driving victims to madness and corruption.
Though unaffected by this corruption, the endless whispers still grated on Mu Lin’s nerves. Combined with his boiling rage, it pushed him past breaking point.
“Enough!”
*Boom!*
With that roar, the Heart of Thunder in Mu Lin’s chest erupted with savage power.
This temporary boost let him violently tear free from the bloody handprint’s grip.
Yet instead of fleeing, Mu Lin fixed a regal yet ferocious gaze on the corpse monster’s arm and its main body below.
“Bastard. You’ve crossed the line.”
*Hum!*
Rage overriding caution, Mu Lin unleashed another energy from within.
Dark and ancient, this power carried an air of primal dread. As it surged forth, an oppressive aura radiated from Mu Lin’s body.
*Crash!*
The corpse monster froze mid-step, locking all attention on Mu Lin. Nearby Merfolk trembled violently, weaker ones collapsing to their knees.
Ignoring them, Mu Lin channeled his fury into completing the spell—Communicating with Spirits · Ancestral Souls!
Using blood as catalyst and the lord’s altar in his dantian’s Spirit Sea as foundation, he fused the power of Sui Mu from living vitality to reconnect with antiquity. The soul of an evil dragon slain decades ago materialized through him.
*ROAR!*
A 30-meter dragon phantom burst from Mu Lin’s form with heaven-shaking cries. After circling once, it plunged back into his body.
The infusion made Mu Lin’s power skyrocket—Spirit Pool mid-stage, late-stage, then bursting into the Spirit Sea Realm. Having reached Spirit Pool Realm through three metamorphoses of the Black Water Mystic Serpent’s Transformation Technique, this ancestral summoning surpassed all previous attempts.
*Whoosh…*
The corpse monster’s arm struck as Mu Lin completed the ritual. Where before this attack required desperate defense, Mu Lin now casually blocked the bloody handprint with one outstretched palm.
“Weak.”
*Thud!*
Lightning detonated from Mu Lin’s chest, swelling his frame to a 3.7-meter dragon-man. Crackling energy shrouded his form—mortals saw only a lightning-wreathed demigod, electricity blazing from his eyes.
Overload · Thunder Explosion!
Previously unusable without six metamorphoses, the Communicating with Spirits empowerment now let him withstand this mode. Yet even temporary, the strain still damaged him.
He could’ve won without it. But rage demanded more than victory—he’d crush this insect with overwhelming power.
*BOOM!*
The dragon-enhanced Body of a Dragon tripled his base strength. Combined with the Transformation Realm ancestral soul’s amplification and Overload mode, Mu Lin’s might shattered all limits.
The very air grew thick under his crushing aura.
