Chapter 606: Chapter 599 Shadows and Statues

Fan Tong’s strength was on par with Wu Renxin’s; they were not much different overall.

At this moment, faced with Chen Hai’s attack and having just castrated himself, his breath was uneven. He sat down on the ground with a thud, wanting to counterattack, but he could not muster much force.

With a cry of agony, his chest collapsed. He had been half-sitting on the ground but now was completely overturned.

After twitching a few times, he stopped moving and died on the spot.

“In the past, the Supreme Danding who died by my hand was considered a top-notch powerhouse in the West Barbarian Mountain territory.”

“The likes of Wu Renxin and Fan Tong, their abilities are just the norm amongst the True Immortal and True Demon ranks of Medicine King Valley and Heavenly Extreme Holy Sect.”

“With my current strength, dealing with this kind of True Immortal or True Demon doesn’t seem to present much difficulty…”

Chen Hai withdrew his fist and muttered to himself in secret.

Whether there were higher-level powerhouses within the entire West Barbarian Mountain territory, he didn’t know.

He only knew that the strongest individuals of the renowned Medicine King Valley and Heavenly Extreme Holy Sect were those True Immortals and True Demons.

As the number of True Immortals and True Demons who died by his hand increased, Chen Hai grew even more confident about his own power.

Once he had confirmed that Fan Tong was indeed dead, he crouched down and searched his body.

“Fan Tong was truly ruthless.”

“Even if he didn’t want to be a man, did he have to strike himself so viciously?”

“To castrate himself and become a eunuch, couldn’t he have found a more secluded place? Did he really have to do it here in Heavenly Origin Palace, thinking he was invincible and without equal?”

…

As for spoils of war, Chen Hai didn’t find much, but out of curiosity at the sight of Fan Tong’s bloodied trousers, he looked a few more times and inspected them closely.

After this examination, Chen Hai’s face twisted oddly, and he couldn’t help but curse inwardly.

When he had entered the Heavenly Origin Palace, although Fan Tong’s presence had drawn much of his attention, he couldn’t have failed to notice the statues inside.

Only now did he stand up and begin to take a closer look at the statues around him.

Zhang Tianci had only told him that the Spirit of Cave Mansion was hidden within a certain statue, but he didn’t seem to know which one exactly, and hadn’t elaborated to Chen Hai.

There were as many as twenty statues in the hall, all with different shapes.

Which one concealed the Spirit of Cave Mansion was a mystery that Chen Hai would have to discern for himself.

His gaze swept over each statue in the hall and finally rested on the statue of a woman at the front.

Walking up to it, Chen Hai’s hand had barely touched the statue when all the statues in the hall suddenly began to emit a dazzling array of colors.

This situation was nearly the same as the one Fan Tong faced before.

Unfortunately, at that time, Chen Hai was not in the hall.

The ordinary-looking statues suddenly shining with light took him by surprise.

“To stand before my true self and not kneel in worship!” A phantom formed of the colorful lights barely took shape when an imposing voice came from its mouth, reaching Chen Hai’s ears.

Then, the sensation that the very heaven and earth were pressing down upon him returned, weighing on his body.

Sadly, he was not Fan Tong.

Even if Fan Tong was not injured and still in his prime, he probably wouldn’t withstand three punches and two kicks from him.

Chen Hai endured the immense and invisible pressure that had bent Fan Tong, relying on his own sturdy physique.

Standing erect, his gaze fixed on the phantom.

“Make me kneel, you say? What are you exactly?”

“You have two choices: either you willingly acknowledge me as your master,”

“Or, I will strike you down and forcefully refine you!”

With discernible disdain, Chen Hai sneered as he spoke.

Without the information provided by Zhang Tianci, had he encountered this phantom suddenly, he might have truly been baffled and at a loss.

However, he now felt that the phantom in front of him was likely to be the so-called Spirit of the Cave Mansion.

Being the Spirit of the Cave Mansion, its ability to use the power of this miniature world within the mansion to suppress him made sense.

“How dare you! I, Miao Zhen, am the master of this cave mansion!” Without anger but with authority, the phantom stared at Chen Hai and bellowed loudly.

“I’ve always been bold, and it looks like you’re unwilling to acknowledge me as your master. You’re forcing me to take action!” With a loud laugh, Chen Hai swept out a sea of fire with a wave of his hand, engulfing the phantom.

Earlier in the canyon, the sea of fire he had ingested, although not fully refined, he had managed to refine about a third of it during the lulls when he worked with the Heavenly Maiden to detoxify.

The sea of fire he casually hurled at this moment was primarily Mortal Fire, but it was also interspersed with tri-colored flames.

Ordinary flames can generally only burn physical objects, but the tri-colored Samadhi True Fire can directly incinerate Divine Souls.

The phantom, enveloped by the sea of fire, burst with a ‘pop’, dissolving back into a sky filled with rainbow light.

No matter how scorching or ferocious Chen Hai’s flames were, they were unable to harm these lights in the slightest.

Not only that, the statues within the hall seemed equally impervious to fire and water, remaining intact and standing tall amid the sea of fire that included Samadhi True Fire.

Furrowing his brow, Chen Hai withdrew the sea of fire.

The next instant, the overwhelming rainbow light filling the hall recondensed into the phantom.

“I am impervious to water and fire, Undying!”

“Submit to me, kneel before me, and I will grant you supreme opportunities and let you inherit my mantle.”

“My Lotus Treasure Manual, once mastered, can lead directly to becoming a Golden Immortal.”

“Just three kneels and nine kowtows to me, and you can receive such an extraordinary inheritance. What are you hesitating for?”

…

Full of majesty, the phantom locked eyes with Chen Hai. She did not open her mouth, yet her voice came from all directions, seemingly omnipresent as it surged into Chen Hai’s ears.

Every word she uttered seemed to strike directly at the heart, exuding an indescribable temptation.

Had someone else with weaker resolve been here, their heart might have already started to waver.

After all, simply kneeling once could grant one an inheritance that leads directly to becoming a Golden Immortal, a deal that seemed overwhelmingly favorable no matter how you looked at it.

Unfortunately, Chen Hai wasn’t buying any of it.

In his mind, he had already presumed the phantom to be the Spirit of the Cave Mansion.

No matter how flowery her speech, it was all likely just to deceive people.

Even if what she said was true, and within this cave mansion lay an inheritance that could lead directly to becoming a True Immortal, so what? Wouldn’t the inheritance still be his after refining the Spirit of the Cave Mansion?

Having such thoughts in mind, Chen Hai ignored the phantom’s words as if he hadn’t heard them, and walked up to a statue. He raised his fist and punched straight at it.

With his strength, Magic Artifacts and Spiritual Artifacts could possibly be shattered with a single punch.

These statues in front of him, made of unknown material, were incredibly tough.

After a dozen or so punches landed on the statue, it was only slightly dented.

“Don’t waste your energy. I am Undying, and you cannot harm me!” The phantom laughed dismissively in a series of taunts.

However, no matter what she said, Chen Hai was unmoved.

His fists, like phantoms, followed one after another in quick succession against the statue.

In just a few breaths’ time, he had thrown hundreds or even thousands of punches.

Although the statue hadn’t sustained much substantial damage, he showed no signs of discouragement.

“You think damaging the statues can harm me? Don’t be so naïve!” said the phantom, her mocking laughter filling Chen Hai’s ears.

Aside from using the Power of Heaven and Earth within the cave mansion to suppress Chen Hai, she seemed to have no other tricks up her sleeve.

Watching Chen Hai pummel the statue, she made no other move but to watch quietly and intermittently sneer at him.

“Crack…” came a sound.

Finally, the statue Chen Hai had been attacking revealed cracks and began to crumble.