Chapter 150: The Great Heavenly Dipper Soul-Shifting Technique

"Fireball!" Finally, Lin Yanghao made a desperate dash to the edge of the first layer of heaven. At this distance, casting a fireball would hit the cloud layer precisely.

A heavy pressure now descended upon Lin Yanghao, making even taking a deep breath difficult.

"Hahaha, it worked! It worked!" The moment the fireball came into contact with the clouds, they instantly turned into a mist of water, dissipating into the sky in the blink of an eye.

"How on earth did you come up with this method? I never would have guessed you could be so clever," Ling'er said sincerely. Intelligent though Ling'er was, if it had been left to her, she would never have thought of it, no matter how desperately she tried.

She had previously assumed that Gushi was beyond saving, never expecting that Lin Yanghao would actually devise such a method.

"Of course I'm clever. Let's stop wasting time and go save Gushi quickly, or it will be too late and we'll be doomed." Lin Yanghao was plummeting from the sky at a speed of several miles per second.

"Right," Ling'er said with a serious expression, daring not to delay any further.

"Lin Yanghao, this Heaven-Stealing Soul-Shifting Great Art has one drawback," Ling'er mentioned just then.

"What drawback?" Lin Yanghao asked in bewilderment, not expecting this secret technique to have any flaws.

"The drawback is that the person upon whom the spell is cast will lose all their cultivation, while the cultivation of the person whose body is possessed will be transferred to the spell-recipient. Simply put, after possessing the body, Gushi will drop to the Nascent Soul stage," Ling'er explained, knowing in her heart that such a reality was difficult for any cultivator to accept.

Let alone Gushi?

An ordinary cultivator required at least a millennium to reach the Tribulation Transcendence stage, and for a zombie like Gushi to cultivate to the Drought Demon stage was even harder. Therefore, whether he could accept this reality upon waking remained to be seen.

"Is that so..." Lin Yanghao was momentarily indecisive.

"Cast the spell on him. As the saying goes, a wretched life is better than a fine death," Lin Yanghao said through gritted teeth. Cultivation levels lost could be regained through re-cultivation, but once life was gone, truly everything was gone.

Therefore, Lin Yanghao believed that if Gushi knew, he would make the same choice.

"You don't understand the heart of a powerhouse. Even if you save him, he will only suffer in endless torment; he might as well be dead," Ling'er sighed, after which she began preparing to cast the Heaven-Stealing Soul-Shifting Great Art on Gushi.

Ling'er's spiritual form flickered as her hands formed hand seals.

"Yin and Yang boundless, souls interchange! The Heaven-Stealing Soul-Shifting Great Art is complete!" Under Ling'er's single point, Gushi and Leng Ya floated up, actually beginning to spin around each other in a way that amazed even Lin Yanghao.

"Switch!" At Ling'er's command, the two bodies slowly came to a halt. A spectral phantom floated out from Gushi's body, while a Nascent Soul floated out from Leng Ya's body.

Lin Yanghao was naturally very familiar with this sight; back in the Longwu Continent, he had almost lost his life at the hands of True Immortal Muyu, whose form at that time was precisely that of a Nascent Soul.

And the other phantom was, of course, Gushi's primordial spirit.

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At that moment, under the illumination of the moonlight, nether Qi from all directions surged toward them.

"Wuwuwu~" Gushi's primordial spirit let out an eerie wail, causing a chill to run through Lin Yanghao's heart.

Gushi's primordial spirit abruptly lunged forward and took a bite out of Leng Ya's Nascent Soul. Leng Ya attempted to flee, but how could he possibly escape under Gushi's grasp?

He was instantly clamped in Gushi's jaws and swallowed whole.

The scene was truly shocking to behold for Lin Yanghao.

"Ling'er, this... did you do this too..." To be honest, doing this was indeed somewhat cruel, and the consequence was that Leng Ya would never again have the chance of reincarnation.

This was true soul scattering; not even a trace of Leng Ya was left in this world.

"This... I didn't know either. This is probably related to his zombie nature, but things turning out this way might not be a bad thing after all." Even Ling'er had not anticipated such an occurrence.

"How is this a good thing?" What worried Lin Yanghao now was that Gushi might suffer some complications from eating it. He had just swallowed Leng Ya's Nascent Soul, but given his current condition, how was he to digest the true essence within that Nascent Soul?

If it ended up bursting him to death, everything he had done would truly be in vain.

This was something Lin Yanghao was unwilling to see.

"After possessing the body, Gushi naturally needs to consolidate his primordial spirit. I was originally worried about what to use to help him consolidate it, but now it's all settled—by devouring this Nascent Soul, he won't have any problems at all," Ling'er said, wearing an expression of complete relief.

"So that's how it is. That's good then." Hearing this, Lin Yanghao's mind was put at ease. The only thing left to do now was to wait for Gushi to wake up.

Gushi's primordial spirit had also successfully entered Leng Ya's body.

After the turmoil of the entire night, morning had arrived.

...

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Thousand Saints Marsh.

"By now, that old fellow should be thoroughly dead. Go retrieve his corpse; I want to use his remains to pay tribute to the fallen souls of our Dan Sect," True Monarch Yuding said viciously.

"Understood, Supreme Elder. We will certainly not fail our mission." Although they had felt uncertain when Gushi was still alive, now that Gushi was supposedly dead, who could possibly stop them?

Lin Yanghao?

You must be joking; he was merely an upstart kid in the Core Formation stage.

...

"What happened to me?" To Ling'er's surprise, Gushi woke up bright and early that morning. She had originally estimated that Lin Yanghao would take at least three to five days to wake.

She never expected him to wake up so soon.

It seemed this was inextricably linked to his consumption of Leng Ya's Nascent Soul.

"You're perfectly fine now." Lin Yanghao was currently wondering what expression Gushi would wear once he realized the changes in himself.

"Wasn't I dead? What is going on here?" As for Gushi, he surprisingly had not noticed even the slightest change in his own body.

"Of course you're not dead. Not only are you alive, but you've also been reborn and granted a new life," Lin Yanghao continued.

"What do you mean?" Gushi understood less and less of what Lin Yanghao was trying to say, finding it increasingly inexplicable.

"Take a look at what you look like right now..." Lin Yanghao said with a guilty conscience. He had helped him change bodies without obtaining prior consent, but after all, he was doing it for his own good.

If not for him, Gushi surely would have kicked the bucket long ago.

"What the hell! What kind of ghost is this!" Gushi was instantly dumbfounded, staring in sheer shock, unable to believe everything before his eyes.

Could all of this simply be a dream?

How could this be possible? How could he possibly be inside the body of this kid Leng Ya?

"You aren't seeing things; all of this is real," Lin Yanghao nodded heavily, telling Gushi with absolute certainty.

"What on earth is going on here?" Gushi felt that his brain could no longer process it.

Everything he had experienced was so surreal and defied all logic.

Such a thing was simply unheard of.