"Where is this?"
"Wasn't I cultivating in the manor?"
"Such a dense aura of evil…"
Ye Guyi, dressed in white, slowly sat up from the ground. Her golden hair spilled down her back, and confusion surfaced on her fair, delicate face as she held her head with a slender hand.
"Ah! I remember now—it was an evil soul master, an evil soul master with an ultimate evil attribute."
"Then where is this place?"
Ye Guyi slowly stood up, sensing the dense evil aura around her and the black mist permeating the air. Vigilance filled her golden eyes.
"Tap, tap, tap!"
Crisp footsteps rang out. To her astonishment, the black mist ahead of her主动ly parted, opening a path as a black-robed figure slowly walked toward her.
"It's him! That evil soul master!"
Ye Guyi's pupils shrank sharply. She hurriedly activated the soul power within her body. A golden longsword appeared in her grasp, and five soul rings rose rapidly.
This time, she could once again feel her Angel Martial Soul. Though she had no idea where she was, as long as her Angel Martial Soul remained, she had something to rely on.
Death was not something she feared.
"You hate me, yet there's nothing you can do about it."
A calm voice sounded. In an instant, Jiang Jue's tall figure appeared right before Ye Guyi. His eyes were like autumn pools—cold and lifeless.
"Evil! Die!"
Emotions surged in Ye Guyi's heart. The astonishment on her face turned into killing intent as the longsword in her hand, carrying a sharp edge, slashed fiercely toward Jiang Jue's neck.
Clang!
A violent metallic collision rang out. Ye Guyi discovered that her sword could not advance even an inch—it had been caught between two fingers by the evil soul master before her, completely immobilized.
"Judgment of Light!"
Ye Guyi's expression hardened. Her fourth soul ring bloomed with purple light as a rich power of light ignited, transforming into blazing flames that rose from the golden sword and spread toward Jiang Jue.
Holy radiance flickered within it, and the pure white wings behind her unfurled with a beat.
"No matter how strong you are, you're still an evil soul master! Light and holiness are things you can never violate!"
Ye Guyi shouted loudly. The attributes of light and holiness were her sharpest weapon against evil soul masters.
"Is that so?"
Jiang Jue replied calmly, his slender fingers facing the advancing flames without dodging or retreating.
Whoosh!
The flames surged upward, finger shadows flickering. Yet amid the terrifying heat, Jiang Jue's fingers did not move in the slightest.
And the so-called attributes of light and holiness seemed, at this moment, more like a joke.
"That's impossible! You are evil—how can you not be judged by the light?!"
Ye Guyi froze, disbelief filling her eyes. Immediately after, an even stronger power of light transformed into flames and surged upward again.
"There's nothing impossible about it."
"Light—I understand it better than you do."
Jiang Jue smiled faintly, the corner of his mouth lifting.
In the outside world, he was a proper light-type soul master—pure and saintly at heart.
"What?!"
Before Ye Guyi could react, an extremely dense radiance of light burst forth from Jiang Jue's body.
The next moment, the golden holy sword clamped in Jiang Jue's fingers began to melt, turning into droplets of golden liquid that fell through the air.
Freed from the sword and its restraint, Ye Guyi staggered backward a few steps. She lowered her head to look at her hands, her beautiful eyes widening in shock.
"How can you possess such dense light power? Why would the light choose you?"
Ye Guyi stared at Jiang Jue and shouted excitedly. A trace of confusion flashed through her eyes—this completely shattered her understanding.
She had seen darkness and light coexist before, but the coexistence of evil and light—this was the first time. And it should have been impossible.
"There's nothing impossible about it. This childish game ends here."
Jiang Jue lightly waved his hand. The golden liquid scattered in the air was immediately swarmed by black mist and swallowed whole in an instant.
"What are you going to do?"
Ye Guyi frowned and retreated two steps. Her expectations of this strange evil soul master were collapsing.
"To eradicate evil, one needs strength. You're far too weak right now—so let me help you."
Jiang Jue wore a gentle smile. With a wave of his hand, the surrounding black mist surged toward Ye Guyi.
When the angelic phantom behind Ye Guyi reappeared, a crimson light instantly shone upon it.
Black-and-red chains spread upward, and the angelic phantom vanished swiftly, as if it had never appeared at all…
"Again!"
Ye Guyi's heart tightened. Her Angel Martial Soul had once more left her, defeated by evil.
"No—this time, you can't disappear."
As Jiang Jue's voice sounded, the angelic phantom that had vanished was dragged back out by the black-and-red chains.
Angelic Phantom: …
At this moment, Ye Guyi herself was already tightly bound by black mist, tied up in a chaotic fashion. Her originally voluptuous figure now appeared even more striking.
Jiang Jue's gaze shifted slightly. He stepped to Ye Guyi's side and gently placed his hand on her shoulder.
"What are you doing? Take your hand away!"
Ye Guyi struggled constantly, her heavy chest rising and falling.
"Don't move!"
With Jiang Jue's words, the black mist tightened further, rendering Ye Guyi completely unable to move.
Jiang Jue focused his mind. A trace of golden light flashed deep within his eyes as a stream of ashen-gray soul power probed into Ye Guyi's body.
Ye Guyi's body trembled slightly. She felt as though something had entered her body—tingly and numb.
After a long while, Jiang Jue narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Found you!"
What he was searching for was Ye Guyi's Angel Origin. When the Angel Origin sensed an external intrusion—and with Ye Guyi's Martial Soul sealed—it had instinctively hidden itself.
But once Jiang Jue covered it with a layer of rich, pure, ownerless light power, it was gradually lured out.
"Next… we begin."
Jiang Jue said softly.
As one of the few soul masters with an Angel Martial Soul, Ye Guyi would surely serve an extraordinary purpose in his hands in the future.
With Ye Guyi, a soul master of the Angel Martial Soul, he would finally have a trump card to search for the shattered Angel God Position.
Although the Angel God Position was broken, that might not necessarily be a bad thing—only shattered god positions avoided attracting attention…
Before that, however, he had to ensure Ye Guyi's loyalty. And the simplest way to do that was to make the light she once believed in collapse!
"Let me go."
Feeling her origin being discovered, Ye Guyi couldn't help but curse inwardly, "At a time like this, you're still so greedy!"
"Since you want to eat so badly, then I'll give it to you."
With a movement of Jiang Jue's hand, the evil soul power wrapped in light power smoothly entered Ye Guyi's origin.
"It's over…"
Ye Guyi thought to herself, her eyes filled with struggle.
(End of Chapter)