Chapter 1394 - Collecting
Liu Wuxie had burned through one-third of his soul energy to inscribe the massive soul rune, and the sheer drain alone showed just how enormous the rune truly was.
The soul rune shot out like a bolt of lightning and slammed into the jiao-serpent's body. The jiao-serpent thrashed about, desperately trying to break free from the soul rune's control.
Right at that moment, Liu Wuxie heard a commotion echoing from the passage, and the murderous intent radiating from the Grand Unity Sect experts seeped all the way into the hall.
The jiao-serpent continued to struggle, and Liu Wuxie still couldn't subdue it in a short time. Only after three full minutes did the jiao-serpent finally condense into a light sphere that streaked into Liu Wuxie's palm.
"Excellent! With this jiao-serpent, I'll have a higher chance to escape this place alive," Liu Wuxie murmured.
As for the other martial souls in the hall, he had already brought them all under his control and sent them out to guard the water curtain, preventing anyone from approaching.
After all, refining the divine avatar would require time, and he was racing against the clock.
When Liu Wuxie turned his gaze back to the center of the hall, he saw a whirlpool, and a body lay within it. That corpse had a serpent's head and a human's body—it was the divine avatar of water, Gong Gong.
The whirlpool exerted powerful suction, and Liu Wuxie knew retrieving the body would not be easy. Even from where he stood, he could hear the whirling roar of the vortex reverberating throughout the hall.
"The body has already formed, and Gong Gong will awaken in another year or two at most," Liu Wuxie murmured in relief. He already knew that the divine avatars could revive. When he faced Shebi Shi in the past, he had nearly lost his life to that avatar.
Perhaps sensing danger, the whirlpool churned restlessly as Gong Gong's body twitched, a clear omen that it was going to awaken ahead of time.
"This is bad! I need to refine it now!" Liu Wuxie pressed his hands together, preparing to step straight into the whirlpool.