In the second round of the battle, Meng Xiang chose the flat ground at the foot of the mountain. The Kaio-ken, with its 12% effect, gushed out aura, completely enveloping Meng Xiang's body, like a shining light source, as he pounced on the evil body of the former ghost.
"Looking for death." The ghost in front chopped towards Meng Xiang's head with an axe. Meng Xiang was already prepared. He used the "Shave" move to rush along the back of the ghost in front and raised his fist to hit the ghost's back.
The ghost in front reacted very quickly. He turned around, and the axe blade of the Diamond Axe blocked the oncoming iron fist.
"Bang!" Meng Xiang's iron fist had hit the axe of the front ghost. The pressure exerted caused the mud on the ground to sink, making a "crackling" sound. The front ghost swung the diamond axe at Meng Xiang, but Meng Xiang would not confront him directly. He rushed away like a ghost and hit the front ghost from the other side, trying to find the front ghost's flaw.
However, the axe blade of the diamond axe was too large, and the front ghost only needed to move slightly to block all of Meng Xiang's attacks with the axe blade. It seemed that all of Meng Xiang's attacks were in vain, but he was not in a hurry. Meng Xiang was enjoying the battle at this moment. The side storyline had been completed, and he could just walk away. Even though the front ghost's speed was not weak, if Meng Xiang really wanted to escape, the front ghost could not do anything to him.
However, how could Meng Xiang let go of such a rare opportunity for confrontation? The more times he fought, the more he put himself in danger. This was a shortcut to unlocking his potential and improving his strength.
"Boom!" The diamond axe hit the ground, the whole ground shook, then shattered, and a big pit was smashed out. When the ghost in front swung the diamond axe to gather strength, Meng Xiang had already flown away, standing not far away safely.
Gradually, Meng Xiang also realized that the power of the Vajra Axe was extraordinary, but the previous ghost's power still seemed to be unable to exert the full power of the Vajra Axe, so he was able to escape safely at the critical moment.
Meng Xiang was like a ghost, entangled with the former ghost. The former ghost had a powerful diamond axe, but it was useless if he couldn't hit Meng Xiang. But at the same time, Meng Xiang couldn't do anything to the former ghost. The two of them sometimes intertwined, making a "clang clang" sound of fists and axes hitting each other. Sometimes the former ghost burst out with unmatched power, smashing the ground. In the blink of an eye, the foot of Ikoma Mountain was already full of rubble and chaos.
This is like a war of attrition. Whoever has stronger endurance and can hold on to the end will be the winner. But it was at this critical moment that Meng Xiang, as a human, gradually showed his physical disadvantages. Despite the hellish training, Meng Xiang's physique is already 5 or 6 times that of an ordinary person. When he unlocked the potential lock to the limit of level 2, his physique is even stronger. Under the aura defense, even the bullets from an ordinary pistol cannot cause fatal damage to him. However, compared with the body of a shikigami, Meng Xiang's physique is nothing to mention. At this time, Meng Xiang already felt a little overwhelmed. On the one hand, it was due to the excessive consumption of physical and spiritual power. On the other hand, the long-term unlocking of the potential lock to fight had almost reached the limit of unlocking the potential lock.
On the other hand, even though the ghost in front had already swung his heavy axe more than ten times, he fought more and more courageously, with no sign of his physical strength decreasing. Moreover, as the fight progressed, his strength seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, and every time he swung his axe, it had the power to split mountains and crack rocks.
Despite being at a disadvantage, Meng Xiang did not give up, and did not even have the slightest desire to escape. As the battle reached its climax, Meng Xiang gradually realized the limits of his body and tapped into his hidden strength, an experience that he could never obtain no matter how much he practiced.
The wind was howling, causing the broken sand and stones on the ground to roll, and there seemed to be a hidden danger.
The effectiveness of Kaio-ken has reached 13%, but Meng Xiang's body does not have any sequelae of spiritual energy backlash, indicating that after this round of fighting, Meng Xiang's strength has increased again.
"Swoosh!" The spirit sword appeared, Meng Xiang's left fist hit the front ghost's diamond axe, and his right hand unexpectedly cut its wrist. The front ghost seemed to be prepared, and retreated violently, and was about to raise the axe to hit it, but suddenly, its body trembled, and its steps back stopped, as if blocked by some force. At this time, Meng Xiang's spirit sword had already cut off the front ghost's right arm holding the diamond axe at the shoulder.
"The back ghost, you..." Before the front ghost could finish his words, Meng Xiang's spiritual sword had already swept across its throat. The front ghost's head flew off its body and fell on the gravel ground with a "bang".
Meng Xiang was also very surprised. Although his sword was unexpected, the ghost in front had obviously dodged it. Why did it stop at the critical moment? He looked carefully and saw that behind the headless ghost's body, an iron rod emerged from the ground and pierced into the ghost's left back, grabbing its heart.
It was this iron rod that blocked the ghost's retreat, forcing him to surrender and die.
"Damn it, the back ghost, come out." The head of the front ghost that fell to the ground was still speaking viciously, as if for these Shikigami, the separation of the head from the body did not mean death.
Meng Xiang didn't care about all that. He picked up the Diamond Axe first. This heavy axe was incredibly powerful when used by the former ghost hand, but the axe was too heavy, at least hundreds of kilograms. Even with Meng Xiang's current physique, it was not easy to wield. However, this was still a treasure, so Meng Xiang would not let it go. He put the Diamond Tiger into the ring, and then he heard a "la la" sound coming from the bottom.
The rubble on the ground was dug up, and to everyone's surprise, the back ghost, who had been blasted into the bottom of the mountain by the front ghost's axe on Mt. Ikoma, actually crawled out from the foot of the mountain.
"The back ghost, why are you hiding underground?" The front ghost's head yelled in dissatisfaction.
"All along, you have been in charge of attack and I have been in charge of defense. Didn't you say that your strength has improved faster than mine? Actually, that is not true. Because you have never seen my defensive power after reincarnation. With my current strength, I can not only withstand your strongest axe, but also shield my breath with a human body. That's why you can't sense my existence and think I have died under your Vajra Axe." After the Hou Gui finished speaking, he walked over and said coldly to Meng Xiang: "Please give me the Sealed Bracelet back." The Hou Gui held the Immovable Dragon Stick in his left hand and stretched out his right hand.
The seal bracelet can summon many shikigami sealed by the servile villain, including Qiangui. If you can tame a powerful shikigami like Qiangui, it will undoubtedly be equivalent to having an extra powerful helper. Meng Xiang was about to refuse, but his left arm suddenly hurt, and his head felt like it was pricked by a needle, and the sky was full of stars. He had to sit on the ground.
Hou Gui ignored his reaction and just stared at Meng Xiang with his inhuman cold eyes and said, "This is your punishment for burning Mt. Ikoma. The snake that bit you is a green demon snake cast by the master. No one can get close to the green demon snake except the master's descendants. Even if a person has a powerful exorcism spell, he will not survive for more than 5 days. Now you can only wait to die."
Meng Xiang knew that what the latter ghost said was correct. If he maintained sufficient spiritual energy and physical strength, he could certainly hold on until returning to the main god space. However, right now, after a fierce battle with the former ghost, his spiritual energy and physical strength were almost at their limits, and he had no energy left to resist the curse of the poisonous snake.
He could tell from Hougui's cold eyes that if he didn't hand over the seal bracelet, Hougui would kill him. Anyway, he had already completed the main god's side story mission, and not having the seal bracelet would not affect his gains.
Meng Xiang took out the sealing bracelet from the ring. The back ghost came over and put the bracelet on his right arm. He did not ask Meng Xiang to return the Vajra Axe. He said quietly: "The front ghost is a man-eating god. Now no one has enough power to control and kill the front ghost, so the front ghost and the sealing bracelet should disappear from the world forever." After that, he connected the front ghost's head and right arm back to his body amid the front ghost's curses, and then put the bracelet back on the front ghost's right arm.
The ghost in front immediately made a "cracking" sound, and his entire body gradually turned into stone, and finally turned into a stone sculpture. The cursing also stopped at this moment.
The ghost behind lifted up the statue of the ghost in front, ignored Meng Xiang, turned around and dived into the dense forest, disappearing without a trace.
Meng Xiang heaved a sigh of relief after seeing the ghost leave. If the ghost really wanted to kill him, he would have no power to resist. He barely used his spiritual energy to suppress the curse of the poisonous snake, but it was in vain. He had to believe the ghost's words, because now the curse had spread, even if his spiritual energy and physical strength recovered, he could no longer suppress the power of the curse.
"I'm going to die of festering all over my body in two days? What a joke. I can definitely make it through this. With such a big commotion, I'm sure someone will come soon. I'm very hungry, so I'll go back to my mother-in-law's house for dinner first." Meng Xiang struggled to stand up, swaying from side to side like a drunk, and took a step, limping towards the village.
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