Chapter 536: Can't Beat Him, Time to Leave!
Facing the strike that Qi Han unleashed with the last of his strength, the Evil Eye's crimson pupil instantly contracted. Centered on its body, a spherical domain rapidly expanded outward.
This was the Evil Eye clan's innate spirit skill: Mental Domain.
Just as Qi Han had guessed, the Evil Eye had never fought with its full strength. Its original plan had been to wait until the Three-Eyed Battle Bear killed Qi Han, then launch a surprise attack and kill the bear as well. However, Qi Han's sudden burst of power had far exceeded its expectations, and before it could even react, the Three-Eyed Battle Bear had already been slain.
And now, the strike Qi Han directed at it seemed even more terrifying.
Faced with a life-or-death crisis, the Evil Eye immediately used its strongest innate spirit skill without hesitation.
Mental Domain.
As the domain enveloped the incoming blade-light, the Evil Eye used its spiritual power to communicate with the spirit power and fire attribute energy contained within the attack, attempting to separate and strip them away from the blade-light to weaken its power.
Even though the blade-light was already very close, the Evil Eye remained confident that it could completely dismantle the attack before it reached its body.
Yet at that very moment, a sudden surge of spiritual fluctuations erupted from within the blade-light.
An indescribable terror and intimidation appeared deep within the Evil Eye's soul, as if it had encountered the most horrifying existence imaginable. Its vast spiritual power instantly froze, and its entire body trembled and stiffened.
During that brief moment of hesitation, the blade-light had already arrived.
Like a hot knife slicing through butter, it split the one-meter-wide eyeball cleanly in half.
Plop~
The two halves of the gigantic eyeball fell powerlessly to the ground, all life fading from its pupil.
Crack~
A crisp sound rang out faintly.
As the eyeball split apart, a slender black crystal only the size of a finger emerged from within and shattered down the middle. Vaguely, a strand of spiritual power seemed to escape at incredible speed.
Qi Han never saw any of this.
The moment he entered the training space, he fell completely unconscious.
This coma lasted for two full days. Only after his spiritual power naturally recovered did he regain consciousness and begin actively recuperating.
The reason for his collapse was the severe damage his spiritual power had suffered in a short period of time, followed by the enormous expenditure required to activate the Six-Skill Fusion. Physically, however, he had sustained very little injury. After awakening, it took only another day for him to recover completely.
Under Ru Yi's explanation, Qi Han finally learned what his sixth spirit skill actually was.
The skill was called Blade Might Soul Suppression.
It did not significantly increase the power of his attacks, but during combat it could unleash a terrifying blade aura capable of suppressing the opponent's soul and affecting their mental state.
In battles between experts, a single moment of distraction was enough to determine victory or defeat. Therefore, although this spirit skill lacked any special stacking effect, its practical usefulness was extraordinarily powerful.
In short, Qi Han was extremely satisfied.
This spirit skill was rather unique. Every use consumed a large amount of spiritual power.
Qi Han's spiritual power was not particularly strong. Although a piece of Life Gold was being nurtured within his spiritual sea, he was not a spiritual-type spirit master. As a result, the Life Gold mainly nourished his body, providing only limited enhancement to his spiritual power.
With his current spiritual power reserves, he could only use his sixth spirit skill about twice in succession.
Furthermore, when combined with the Six-Skill Fusion, the sixth spirit skill would also be amplified by the previous five skills, making its suppressive effect even more terrifying—but at the cost of consuming even more spiritual power.
Under such circumstances, Qi Han could only unleash a single strike of complete Six-Skill Fusion.
His spirit power was abundant, but the total amount of spiritual power available to him limited his performance.
According to Ru Yi, the craft bound to his sixth spirit skill was Ingredient Timing.
After learning this, Qi Han finally understood why his sixth spirit ring had reached the ten-thousand-year level the moment it appeared.
So-called ingredient timing referred to adding different ingredients during the cooking process in the proper order.
Don't assume that this was simple.
Getting various ingredients to reach their own perfect state of doneness in the same pot and under the same temperature conditions was anything but easy. To accomplish this, one needed precise control of the temperature inside the pot and exact management of the intervals between adding different ingredients.
The former was heat control.
The latter was ingredient timing.
Thus, ingredient timing and heat control were complementary skills that were closely connected. Since Qi Han's heat-control technique had long since reached the Perfect level, it was only natural that the closely related skill of ingredient timing had also reached the Perfect level.
Including the time he had spent unconscious, Qi Han had already remained in the training space for three days. In the outside world, more than ten minutes had passed.
It was time to check on the Evil Eye's condition.
Holding Pururu carefully in his arms, Qi Han stepped out of the training space. He quickly saw the Evil Eye's corpse lying on the ground, split neatly into two halves. A black spirit ring flickered faintly above the remains.
Phew...
Qi Han let out a slight sigh of relief and skillfully began examining the corpse.
It was said that whenever members of the Evil Eye race produced a spirit bone, it was always a precious spirit soul bone. He wondered whether luck was on his side this time...
Apparently not.
Shaking his head helplessly, he confirmed that this Evil Eye had not produced a soul bone.
With the Ingredient Acquisition Quest completed, Qi Han could now directly open a portal and return to the Douluo Continent. However, he did not do so. According to his plan, there was still one more thing left to accomplish.
He wanted to find a large city and purchase a batch of spirit tools as local specialties to bring back to the Douluo Continent—and, while he was at it, spend the more than one million gold coins he still possessed.
After all, the currencies of the two continents were not interchangeable. Once he returned, the money would become useless.
Opening a map of the Sun Moon Empire, Qi Han quickly found a major city called Cangzhou City. Judging from the map, it seemed no smaller than Banlan City, and it could be reached not long after leaving the Evildemon Forest.
I'll buy the spirit tools in Cangzhou City and then head back to the Douluo Continent.
Having happily made up his mind, Qi Han closed the map and started walking toward the city.
"Get into the system space, now!"
Suddenly, Ru Yi's voice sounded in his mind, filled with unprecedented urgency.
Since meeting Ru Yi, this was the first time Qi Han had ever heard her sound so panicked.
What?
Qi Han froze for a moment.
Then he felt as though the surrounding space had solidified.
A colossal figure descended instantly.
"You were the one who killed my son?!"
The voice was incomparably deep, as if it came from the depths of the underworld itself, sending chills down one's spine.
Qi Han looked up.
The moment he clearly saw the being before him, his face turned deathly pale.
It was an Evil Eye—but vastly larger than the one he had just killed.
This one had a diameter approaching three meters. Behind it stretched seventeen tentacles, each seeming as though it were rooted in the netherworld itself, radiating a darkness so terrifying that merely looking at it threatened to shatter one's sanity.
No.
Calling it an Evil Eye Tyrant would be more appropriate.
This was unmistakably a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant.
The familiar dark attribute it shared with the ten-thousand-year Evil Eye, combined with its words, instantly made Qi Han realize the truth.
Oh no.
This is that Evil Eye's father!
He's here for revenge!
Qi Han had no idea how it had managed to locate him so quickly, but one thing was certain:
Faced with a terrifying spirit beast comparable to a Titled Douluo, he had absolutely no ability to resist.
After two seconds of silence, Qi Han awkwardly smiled at the murderous Evil Eye Tyrant.
Then, in an instant, he dove straight into the training space.
"May we never meet again."
Can't beat him. Goodbye!