King of Assassins-Chapter 596 - 463 Soul Chain_2

Many cultivators were astonished, even Xue Tiejun's eyes were full of surprise.
The battle armor's bizarre and magnificent style could be dismissed as a unique magical artifact. Yet no one had ever seen a divine soul completely merge with a magical artifact.
In artifact refining or alchemy, cultivators' divine souls are used as special materials to enhance spirituality. Once a divine soul merges with an external object, it can no longer maintain its purity. This is a major taboo for cultivators.
A powerful cultivator can refine a divine artifact to arm their own divine soul, but a divine artifact is ultimately an external object.
The Soul-Devouring Hand of the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons specifically targets divine souls. Even if a divine soul is protected by a divine artifact, the Soul-Devouring Hand will only capture the divine soul, not the protective magical artifact along with it.
If the Soul-Devouring Hand cannot break through the protection of the divine artifact, it cannot capture the cultivator's divine soul.
Therefore, many cultivators were very puzzled by the scene before them.
The Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons don't possess such high intelligence. They forcibly extracted Gao Xuan's divine soul, but across the Dark Gold Armor formed by the Mechanical Battle Cicada, they couldn't do anything to his divine soul either.
This perplexed the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons, as they had never encountered such a situation before.
In an instant, Xue Tiejun reacted the fastest. The bizarre state of Gao Xuan's divine soul made him realize things were amiss, and he unhesitatingly initiated the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demon Order's ultimate move: the God-slaying Vortex.
Under Xue Tiejun's urging, the twelve Profound City Celestial Demons spun rapidly, forming a huge black vortex. Gao Xuan was at the center of this vortex.
The God-slaying Vortex could enhance the power of the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons' Soul-Searching Hand a hundredfold in an instant. It was also the most sinister technique of the Celestial Demon Order.
Using the God-slaying Vortex even once would severely damage the primordial qi of the twelve Profound City Celestial Demons, and they wouldn't recover for hundreds of years.
During this time, the twelve Profound City Celestial Demons remained in a weakened state, unable to confront any enemy.
Xue Tiejun realized the anomaly of Gao Xuan's divine soul, giving him a foreboding premonition, so he spared no expense in urging the ultimate technique of the Celestial Demon Order.
When the God-slaying Vortex emerged, many observing cultivators from the Profound Emperor Sect couldn't bear it, and many let out shrill cries of agony.
The terrifying God-slaying Vortex inflicted varying degrees of damage on their divine souls, even if observed through the Extreme Night Spirit Eye.
Many cultivators below the Golden Core level bled from their eyes and fainted on the spot.
Even the Golden Core cultivators turned pale, hastily closing their eyes, not daring to take another glance.
The three Nascent Soul cultivators led by Huang Tao also changed their expressions slightly. For them, directly looking at the God-slaying Vortex was very exhausting. It felt as though their divine souls could be sucked out by the vortex at any moment.
Yet experiencing such powerful secret techniques even once in a lifetime is a valuable opportunity for a cultivator.
Not only does it showcase the power of supreme secret techniques, but it also tests one's cultivation in the aspect of the divine soul.
Xue Tiejun noticed the condition of the sect's cultivators and sneered internally, considering them a bunch of useless wretches.
The God-slaying Vortex deployed by the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons specifically targeted Gao Xuan, and Yuanbao and Shui Qingbo, who were close by, weren't affected. The group couldn't handle even a glimpse of the vortex, truly incompetent to the extreme.
However, this vortex would shred even the divine souls of Mahayana powerhouses. No matter how skillful their opponent was, they would surely die!
Xue Tiejun was very confident in this, as the instant burst of power from the God-slaying Vortex was terrifyingly great. A sect elder had once used this move to kill a Mahayana Dao Venerable.
At this moment, Yuanbao and Shui Qingbo also sensed something ominous. The God-slaying Vortex above them was too terrifying. Even with the protection of the Innate Five Elements Magnetic Divine Light, their divine souls were nearly torn apart.
Though they were on the edge, the pressure on Gao Xuan, who was at the vortex center, must have been immense. Despite their anxiety, they lacked the strength to help. They were nearly losing their self-preservation capabilities.
The vortex spun faster and faster, reaching its peak power in a blink.
At the center of the God-slaying Vortex, Gao Xuan also felt the tremendous threat at the level of his divine soul.
The transformations created by the Twelve Celestial Demons' vortex were truly exquisite.
Thankfully, his divine soul had been sublimated, completely merging the Undying Golden Cicada, Mechanical Battle Cicada, and Six-winged Celestial Cicada. His divine soul not only had extraordinary spirituality but also the strong sturdiness of the Mechanical Battle Cicada and the stable depth of the Undying Golden Cicada.
Even so, Gao Xuan's divine soul was in excruciating pain, seemingly about to be shredded by the vortex.
However, the Six-winged Celestial Cicada was buzzing, not urgently, but with a bit of joy.
The Six-winged Celestial Cicada seemed to say, this is a great opportunity…
Gao Xuan didn't know where the opportunity lay, and he even doubted the Six-winged Celestial Cicada's judgment. This bug had made a major mistake once, nearly causing his death.
As Gao Xuan was thinking, his divine soul suddenly experienced another wave of excruciating pain, as if it had been torn open.
He was about to initiate the Infinite Godslaying Spear in resistance when he suddenly sensed the Mechanical Combat Body and the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon!
The Mechanical Combat Body and the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon both belonged to the Mechanical Battle Cicada. However, these two were essentially external weapons of the Mechanical Battle Cicada. In essence, they were completely different from the Mechanical Battle Cicada.
While the Mechanical Battle Cicada could completely merge with the Six-winged Celestial Cicada, the Mechanical Combat Body and the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon could never merge with the Six-winged Celestial Cicada. These two powerful weapons could only be placed in Gao Xuan's sea of consciousness, existing on another cosmic level.
Gao Xuan never imagined that the God-slaying Vortex initiated by the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons would forcibly pull out the weapons that his physical body carried.
While this sounds simple, it actually involved crossing two cosmic planes. One must know that the Mechanical Combat Body and the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon are truly physical substances.
Gao Xuan couldn't imagine the amount of energy needed to break through the cosmic spatial barriers to transmit matter, even if it were just one gram of matter!
Let alone the Mechanical Combat Body and the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon, these two were no ordinary entities.
Gao Xuan's confusion was resolved in an instant.
As his divine sense swept over, he instantly established a bizarre connection with Xue Tiejun and the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons.
It seemed as though he had become Xue Tiejun, capable of observing himself from the latter's perspective and sensing the fear that arose in Xue Tiejun from within.
He could also perceive the thoughts of the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons; accurately speaking, these twelve Celestial Demons didn't have true thoughts. He merely sensed the various transformations of the God-slaying Vortex they deployed.
In that moment, Xue Tiejun and the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons seemed to become his extensions.
As Gao Xuan's divine sense continued, Huang Tao and others' emotions, thoughts, and status vividly presented themselves in his consciousness.
Huang Tao and the others were filled with terror because the sudden change went entirely beyond their imagination.
From the center of the God-slaying Vortex, a black mechanical battle armor suddenly emerged.
The battle armor's appearance was rigid and intense, with eight mechanical arms unfolding like wings. A dark red hollow existed on its chest, inside which layers of dark red light rotated in an orderly fashion.
This set of armor appeared even more fierce and menacing than the one encasing the divine soul, with an extremely eerie style.
Crucially, while the God-slaying Vortex deployed by the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons didn't annihilate Gao Xuan's divine soul, it somehow drew forth a bizarre and powerful battle armor.
No one understood what happened, but Gao Xuan suddenly did. The overwhelming power of the God-slaying Vortex, initiated by the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons, damaged his divine soul yet also stimulated the potential of the Mechanical Battle Cicada.
In an instant, Gao Xuan comprehended the secret technique within the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon: Soul Chain.
With the formation of the Soul Chain, Gao Xuan instinctively summoned the Mechanical Combat Body and the Eight Extremes Divine Weapon through his soul connection.
While in the state of the Soul Chain, he established a soul-level connection with Xue Tiejun and others. He perceived all their information. He could even establish a soul connection with the Twelve Profound City Celestial Demons.
Gao Xuan couldn't help but laugh; this was indeed amusing.
Xue Tiejun, Huang Tao, and other powerhouses all felt intense unease in their hearts. Gao Xuan's divine soul enveloped the battle armor, and for some unknown reason, everyone sensed that Gao Xuan's divine soul was laughing, laughing so joyously and easily…