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Chapter 2075 - 2043: An Empty Shell

"Damn it, damn it!!"

Xivilo was blasted far away by a punch. When he finally climbed back up, his neck was still twisted at a bizarre angle. Only after he barely wrenched it back into place did he let out a roar of sheer, bone-chilling fury.

The many experts watching from the sidelines couldn’t help feeling rattled at this scene.

That neck... should be broken, right?

His neck’s broken and he can still act like nothing happened—what kind of monster is this guy?

Li Chen, on the other hand, looked calm. At this Grade, damage to the body really didn’t mean much. Unless your Dantian was shattered in an instant, or your heart and brain were blown apart, no matter how severe the injury, you could force it down for the moment and heal when you had Time.

Body Refinement Experts were even more terrifying. As long as it wasn’t an instant-death serious injury, or their Soul was heavily damaged, they could maintain considerable Combat Power in the short term.

After being sent flying again by Li Chen’s punch, Xivilo finally couldn’t suppress his rage.

If his opponent were a powerhouse with Heaven-reaching Cultivation, fine—he would’ve run without a second thought.

The dignity of a God was important, but compared to that, his own life was more important.

The damned part was, the youth in front of him didn’t look like any top-tier expert at all; he didn’t even have the slightest Cultivation Aura on him. Being repeatedly smashed around by someone like that was something Xivilo absolutely couldn’t stomach.

"Make your move!" At this moment, Catherine instantly gave the order.

Just now they hadn’t been Xivilo’s match, but now Xivilo was injured. Obviously this was their best window to strike.

However, just as Catherine’s voice fell, another voice sounded right by her ear.

"Wait!"

Hearing this voice, Catherine couldn’t help being stunned. She subconsciously repeated, "Wait."

The group of experts all looked at each other, baffled as to why Catherine had just told them to attack, only to tell them to wait.

"This guy isn’t someone you can handle. Up to now he still hasn’t gone all-out. If he does, even the slightest shockwave will have catastrophic consequences. Have them all fall back. Don’t interfere!" Li Chen’s serious voice rang by Catherine’s ear.

Catherine froze for a moment, then looked toward Li Chen in the distance. Hearing that familiar voice, she gave a slight nod.

"Everyone, fall back!"

The experts all glanced at one another. They didn’t know what Catherine was thinking, but she was the one commanding this battlefield. Since she’d said so, they could only obey.

And at this moment, Xivilo finally made his move.

"Divine Order, Chapter Three: hymn of light!"

As Xivilo’s voice fell, the nonexistent Book of Phantom Shadows in his hand once again burst forth with a world-shaking radiance. This time, it was no longer a blazing light, nor a terrifying sigh, but as if a song from some Interdimensional Space began echoing above the entire Nether Army Base.

The song was incomparably eerie. Though gentle and serene, within the Nether Army Base, every building, even the ground itself, began to faintly tremble under its chanting.

You could see dust and bits of stone constantly falling from the shaking buildings, as though being peeled away by some strange Power.

"Ah!!"

Right then, someone suddenly screamed miserably. In their screams, they clutched their ears with all their might, but blood began seeping nonstop from their mouths and noses, a horrifying sight.

Li Chen’s expression grew dark once more.

This was a Divine Art, a Divine Art from the Divine Realm!

If he still had Cultivation, he’d have countless ways to deal with this kind of incantation.

But right now he had only the Power of the Flesh, without the slightest trace of Cultivation, and no Law he could call upon.

So faced with such a Divine Art, even he had no way to break it.

Yet it was obvious that if this continued, everyone in the Nether Army Base would die in this Bastard’s hands.

Because this was a wide-area Divine Art!

"You’re looking for death!" Li Chen clenched his fist tight. But Xivilo was unleashing his Divine Art high in the sky, and without Cultivation Li Chen couldn’t even stay aloft. Even if he could jump that high, he’d still be at a huge disadvantage fighting in midair.

"Hm?"

Suddenly, Li Chen’s eyes flashed as he looked toward a large pit not far away.

That was where the previous "Li Chen" had been smashed down.

Of course, that Li Chen was only a replica Alice had manufactured based on Li Chen’s genes. Though it possessed a certain level of strength, it had no independent consciousness.

From the perspective of life, it had no Soul—just an empty shell.

Compared to a true lifeform, it was more like a machine.

And right now, Li Chen’s gaze was fixed precisely on that empty shell.

"Alice, this time you’ve really come through for me." Li Chen said in his heart. He knew very well that aside from Alice, no one else could have created something like this.

Since this body had been created from Li Chen’s genes, in terms of structure it was no different from Li Chen back then. You could even say it was practically equivalent to an alter ego of Li Chen.

What it lacked was just a bit of Soul!

No one else could provide that bit of Soul. Even Soul Possession would be extremely difficult, because even for Soul Possession you had to consider the issue of compatibility. Unless you’d reached the Grade of a Daoist Lord, you could forcibly possess and seize it, but after a period of Time the body would still collapse.

But for Li Chen, this body posed no such problems.

If it were the Li Chen who had just returned to Earth, he wouldn’t have been able to do anything even with such a body.

But now, things were different.

The lock of divine consciousness on his Divine Sense had split open a crack!

Although the Divine Sense Li Chen could mobilize was only a tiny portion, to him, that was enough.

"Hmph!"

Just as Xivilo was madly using the holy chants, trying to Blood Sacrifice everyone in the Nether Army Base, a cold snort suddenly came from below.

At first, Xivilo thought it was that terrifying youth finally making his move. But when he came back to his senses, he realized that the one flying into the sky was the guy he’d just pounded into the depths of the earth.

"Just an Earth Level shell. Die!"

With the Book of Phantom Shadows in one hand and a spear in the other, Xivilo hacked down at Li Chen.

Yet at that moment, Li Chen tilted his neck at a strange angle and smiled.

"Even if it’s just an Earth Level shell, it’s more than enough to cut down a Bastard like you."

As he spoke, the blade in his hand, gleaming with cold light, gave a faint tremor.

"Cease Spear!"