Weapon seller in the world of magic

"haha hahaha… Do you think you are the only one who can do astral projection, Yuanlong?" Leviathan bursts into laughter as he retracts his claws. The large body beneath the sea of lava disappeared and transformed into energy, flowing back to a humanoid-looking Leviathan.

"No…" Chang'e shouted in despair and charged forward with the sword.

Leviathan's other arm was stretched toward her. Yuanlong appeared in between and punched it away.

Meanwhile, Mark's lifeless body reached Leviathan and he grabbed his delicate-looking face, "Poor Houyi… thought he could defeat me with his weird tricks but only get himself by me once again… hahaha… well, satisfying."

"Wha… What do you mean?" Chang'e asked with her gaze on Mark, her voice shaking as her senses no longer being able to sense life in the mortal.

"I never had your husband's soul, Chang'e," Leviathan looked very happy, watching Chang'e fall into despair and Yuanlong frowning too deeply. He rejoiced in their sadness, speaking, "I attempted to imprison his body and soul, but his bow got in the way and let its master's soul escape, replacing him as the prisoner."

Following up his words, he summoned a dazzling bow, burning in eternal flames, Leviathan continued, "I must say it really loves its master. Look at how it was enraged that its master died again. hahaha…" He tightly grabbed the bow as its flames glowed even brighter. "I bet Yuanlong must have also realized it. Is this why he is so interested in taking that mortal away? I wonder…"

Chang'e turned her head in a stiffened manner to look at the divine serpent, the latter responded seriously, "I had suspicions of it from the moment he stepped in my abode. He reeked of Houyi's aura and even Yan Di's aura. That is why I ordered you to test him so that I could confirm that he is the reincarnation of Shengong (The Divine Bow of Houyi, which was also once held by Yan Di).

Unfortunately, I couldn't confirm it before as he never displayed his truest abilities.

But, earlier, after sensing the presence of Shengong inside Leviathan, I realized that he was not Shengong. The only way this could make sense is that he is Houyi's as well as Yan Di's reincarnation. More precisely, their souls were merged for some reason."

"Merged souls?" Chang'e looked at Yuanlong in wonder.

The divine serpent nodded, "Since the dawn of creation, many souls have been merged and many souls have been split into several parts. It is not an uncommon situation." After a brief pause, she added, "Good thing is that his soul is still inside the body. We can resurrect him if we take him to the Altar of Life."

Yuanlong's words returned hope to Chang'e's face. She couldn't help but gaze at Mark's lifeless body once again in worry.

"Hello… did you forget my existence or something? You have been talking with each other for so long," Leviathan cleaned his ear with his little finger. After gaining their attention, he swung his arm away, "Good luck with saving his corpse then."

Mark's corpse flew down to the Sea of Lava at hypersonic speeds.

"No…" Chang'e's panic returned once again.

Yuanlong placed her hand on top of Chang'e. Divine energy flew into the body, recovering her reserves in an instant, "Go and get his body, Chang'e. If his corpse melted completely, there is no way to resurrect him again."

Chang'e dived down while attempting to unleash her ice techniques, but just before she touched the surface of the lava, a barrier materialized all of a sudden, halting her movements.

"Infernal Domain"

A sphere-shaped barrier trapped Chang'e, along with a three-headed demon, which somehow made its appearance there out of nowhere without alerting anyone.

"Ho, you are now helping me, Bael?" Leviathan glanced to the down. Bael, in his three-headed form, appeared below, standing in front of Chang'e.

Bael replied, "Of course, with the death of that human, my contract with him became null. I want a human who is a troublemaker but not the one who constantly brings trouble to me. Moreover, I don't think they are a match for you and neither I'm a Deity to take their side if I was given a choice. Just make sure Yuanlong doesn't break my domain and I will end this little Moon Deity for you."

"Haha, Good… very good…" Leviathan rejoiced even more as he threw his fist at Yuanlong at a sudden increase in speed. "I don't like domains but I'll help you."

As Yuanlong was pushed away, blocking the punch with her arms crossed at her chest, Leviathan's eyes glowed in sapphire blue, unleashing another domain, locking down 100 kilometers on every side while just excluding Bael's domain so that Yuanlong wouldn't interfere.

Yuanlong's divine glow disappeared and so was Leviathan's energy. He then said, "The rule of this domain is simple, Yuanlong. No mana. No elemental control. No true forms too."

"You despicable…" Yuanlong clenched her fist. Her face is filled with anger.

Meanwhile, Chang'e charged at Bael. "Die, you ingrate." Her voice was filled with hatred.

Until a while ago, they were teammates. Now, they suddenly became enemies. After getting to know the truth from Yuanlong and Leviathan, she was even more impatience.

And her impatience increased her rage even more as she was constantly evaded by Bael.

With her cultivation reduced by a whole realm by the Domain, she was indeed not a match for Bael. However, the divine blade in her hands could injure him.

As his intention was just to stall the time, he focused on dodging it, and her attack speed wasn't enough to hit him.

The time passed slowly. She was getting tired but her movements remained sharp and killing intent was so high that it would actually make normal mortals pass out.

Evading another set of ice spears she launched at him with his spider legs moving swiftly through the air, he finally spoke, "I think our battle has almost come to an end, Miss Chang'e."

"No… I won't let that happen…" Chang'e halted her movements at once and slowly rose to the middle of the barrier. She resolutely announced, "In that case, I will have to burn my soul essence to temporarily force a breakthrough and destroy this barrier and you altogether."

All of her divine energy running through the body went back to its essence. She put her palms together. "No one can stop me from saving him."

She was about to follow her words, but it was then, Bael hurriedly spoke, "No, wait. If you burn your essence, I won't be able to acquire it. How about I change the terms of our earlier contract? I let you go and save Lu Zhen and you will give me the divine essence soul as promised? Think about it. Even if you cause a sacrifice, you might be able to destroy the domain but you won't be able to kill me.

Not to mention, I could still…"

"I agree." Chang'e didn't even let him finish his words, agreeing with the proposal. Bael closed his eyes and stretched her palm toward her. Visible blood-colored chains appeared on both of their heads. Demonic aura seeped into them and they disappeared.

In the next moment, he snapped his fingers and the Domain disappeared. Chang'e dives into the sea of lava without wasting any time.

Meanwhile, at the bed of the sea of lava, Mark was seen lying motionless. However, inside his mindscape, Mark's spirit was seen walking in the direction screeching of a beast was heard by.

He reached the destination in the end, stopping at an altar-like thing with a bird in flames being imprisoned by chains made of ice.

As he raised his head and looked at the bird, the latter looked back at him and screeched again.

Mark's soul neither questioned it nor backed away. He simply flew higher in a daze, as if he was still in sleep.

Gazing straight into the eyes of the beast without an ounce of emotion, Mark's spirit raised its hand and touched its beak.

The ice chains slowly melted down.

The beast, free from its chains, let out a powerful screech one-time last time and transformed into scarlet energy, merging with Mark's spirit.

A few seconds later, Mark opened his eyes abruptly.

*Ding! Phoenix Bloodline has been unlocked. Bloodline related skills are added to the character

*Ding! You broke through to Rank-10

*Ding!