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At Gu La's command, his avatars moved like precision war machines.
"Alice—handle the abyssal monarch. Everyone else—eliminate Possession Demons at maximum speed. Deliver their energy cores to Bai Yuan for devouring. Yin Wansheng, Ming Baixue, Mu Yi—you three will preliminarily refine and purify the chaotic energy he harvests. Begin!"
The order was crisp and clear. Within Qing Liuli's Pure Land, the avatars swiftly dispersed.
Mu Yi's Platinum Awakening and Ultimate Wood manifested as countless vines—binding and crushing Possession Demons with surgical precision. Liu Niandao's blade intent cut through the air; where his saber flashed, even ethereal demons were shredded.
Bo Xi commanded Ultimate Water, unleashing torrents that swept across vast areas. Yin Wansheng moved like a ghost, his shadow power eliminating isolated demons with pinpoint strikes.
The pure spiritual and life energy from slain demons was swiftly gathered, converging around Bai Yuan, Yin Wansheng, Ming Baixue, and Mu Yi.
Bai Yuan's Devouring Domain became a bottomless pit, voraciously absorbing raw energy. Yin Wansheng's Yin-Yang power carried unique erasure properties. Ming Baixue's Netherworld Eyes discerned energy essence, channeling it into her underworld for purification. Mu Yi's Ultimate Wood life force served as the perfect neutralizer and purifier.
Together, the four transformed torrents of chaotic abyssal energy into relatively gentle, absorbable life essence.
Gu La himself was far from idle.
His Celebi soul rings flared. The fourth soul skill—Myriad Forest Avatar—activated repeatedly, splitting off clones imbued with time-space power.
Under his control, these clones morphed into Bai Yuan's likeness, joining the devouring horde. The life energy they harvested was temporarily stored within the clones, ready for Gu La's later absorption.
In moments, the once-desolate "Layer of Illusions" became unnaturally "lively."
The shrill psychic shrieks of Possession Demons, the annihilation of energy being stripped away, the whistling of avatars' attacks—all merged into a symphony of destruction.
Millennia of accumulated life energy was being drained at a terrifying pace!
The hidden ruler of this layer—the Possession Demon Monarch—could no longer remain passive.
It had planned to let its minions wear down the invaders before seizing their powerful bodies through possession.
But it never expected their efficiency or the perfect counter to its kind. If this continued, the very foundation of its plane would be drained dry.
"KEEEE—!!!!"
A soul-piercing shriek echoed as the demon monarch finally revealed itself.
Unlike its kin, its body was solid as dark-purple crystal, features blurred and twisted. An aura rivaling a Level 98 human Super Douluo radiated from it.
It lacked the weakness of its kin—it had deliberately engineered that flaw across its entire race, sacrificing their combat prowess to perfect its own dominance!
It didn't call for aid from other Abyssal Monarchs.
Between abyssal layers, suspicion and mutual consumption were the norm. Trust and assistance were fairy tales.
Alice—the strongest avatar present—stepped forward without hesitation, intercepting the demon monarch.
Her flawless beauty, bathed in Pure Land light, stood in stark contrast to the monster's grotesque form.
The Possession Demon Monarch sneered, refusing human speech. With a hiss, it transformed into a purple-black stream of light, lunging at Alice. Countless psychic tendrils lashed out, attempting to breach her mental defenses for possession.
But Alice was no ordinary soul master.
Even without full divine inheritance, she wasn't suppressed enough in the Abyss to lose her martial soul.
Moreover, her Love God's Heart was both a super-divine weapon embryo and a top-tier Bodymartial soul. Her physical strength and bloodline power surpassed even apex soul beasts of her level.
Beneath her feet, seven radiant crimson soul rings ascended.
Simultaneously, her magnificent and sacred Four-Word Battle Armor—Love God's Eternal Heart—manifested, radiating warm yet formidable light matching her martial soul's name.
First soul ring's second skill—Heartthrob—triggered passively!
Her heartbeat thundered. Power surged through her body. All attributes doubled instantly, becoming her new baseline.
This terrifying amplification allowed her—a mere Soul Saint—to forcibly activate Four-Word Battle Armor through Body Sect techniques and martial soul uniqueness, even surpassing Gu La in achieving a complete set earlier.
The demon monarch's lunge seemed certain to succeed—until the second soul ring's first skill flared:
Love at First Sight—a causality skill.
The enemy's first attack would inevitably miss.
The purple-black stream struck an invisible barrier, sliding past Alice's side. The monarch's guaranteed strike failed.
Before it could react, the third soul ring's first skill activated:
Mind Link!
The Love God's Heart pulsed with strange rhythm. All targets within range whose physiques were inferior to Alice's would have their hearts or energy cores uncontrollably accelerate, causing chaotic blood flow.
The demon monarch possessed no true heart—but its core energy source violently contracted and expanded, tearing with agony.
The original Love God had fallen because her divine body's strength was insufficient. This inheritance as a Body martial soul might well be meant to correct that weakness.
Enraged and terrified, the demon monarch's form blurred, turning truly ghost-like—immune to all physical damage.
In this state, even energy core fluctuations couldn't truly harm it.
Alice's breathtaking eyes shimmered with pink light. The third soul ring's second skill—Single-Minded Devotion—activated!
An invisible thread bound her to the monarch.
This skill could share soul power and life force with lovers—but used on enemies, it meant: Alice's attacks would inevitably hit her target, even through intangibility.
Sixth soul ring's first skill—Vow of Mountains and Seas!
Alice invoked her authority over "love" as witness, judging her target!
As an abyssal abomination, the Possession Demon had no connection to pure, sincere love. It triggered punishment—power doubled!
Yin-yang energy coalesced in her hands, forming interwoven black-and-white divine lightning imbued with essence-erasing power. It struck the locked-on monarch.
BOOM!
The lightning pierced intangibility, slamming into the monarch's energy core.
It shrieked horribly. Its primordial power burned away like ignited fuel.
Driven mad, the monarch split into a dozen near-identical clones. They attacked Alice simultaneously from all directions—psychic blasts and energy claws weaving a net of death.
Yet Alice stood motionless. Her slender fingers flicked out, deflecting attacks with casual grace.
Fourth soul ring's first skill—Heart to Heart!
A divine skill effect: neutralizing any "observable" physical attack.
Though weakened by world laws, its mechanism remained unimaginably potent in certain contexts.
All clones' physical strikes disintegrated against her fingertips.
The monarch despaired. It felt its life force draining—a terror it hadn't known in millennia.
It unleashed a ghostly wail—a summons and command.
Instantly, the remaining tens of thousands of Possession Demons unleashed their signature psychic shrieks.
Countless intangible mental blasts converged into a destructive torrent capable of stunning even human Limit Douluos, creating perfect possession conditions.
Facing this soul-rending assault, Alice remained unmoved. Her crimson soul rings flared again.
Fourth soul ring's second skill—Endless Affection!
Effect: Splits elemental and psychic attacks into multiple weaker strikes. Split count equals soul ring count +1. Alice's seven rings allow eight splits!
The terrifying psychic flood targeting Limit Douluos was forcibly divided into eight streams as it neared Alice. Each carried only one-eighth of the original power.
Such weakened mental assaults were negligible against her Four-Word Battle Armor and Golden Awakening-level Body martial soul. She deflected them effortlessly.
Alice glanced at Gu La's progress. Sensing the life energy nearing critical mass, she exhaled lightly. Her voice, ethereal yet final, echoed:
"This ends now."
She finally grew serious. The pink Love God's Heart martial soul blazed with sacred golden light.
Body Martial Soul Second Awakening—Gold Awakening!
All attributes surged threefold!
Combined with Heartthrob's doubling effect, Alice's baseline attributes now stood at six times her normal state.
Next, her sole red seventh soul ring ignited.
Martial Soul True Body—Love God's Descent!
Sacred radiance enveloped her. Alice's aura became profoundly noble, otherworldly—as if a true deity had descended.
Effect: All soul skills became passive. Partial Love God divine position essence could be channeled!
Simultaneously, the first soul ring's first skill—Budding Love—auto-activated: All negative statuses reset; consumed soul power instantly restored.
Her earlier exhaustion vanished. She stood at peak condition once more.
Her gaze locked onto the terrified monarch.
Eternal Love's power flowed as a passive instinct. No complex skills needed—mere thought summoned divine power imbued with time and Yin-Yang mysteries. Invisible shackles materialized, freezing the monarch and all its clones mid-air. Not a trace of energy could be mobilized.
She could crush the monarch like an insect now. But she held back.
She knew: when an abyssal monarch died, its controlled plane would begin collapsing. Gu La still needed a moment to complete the final energy harvest and third martial soul fusion.
She waited calmly—like a goddess of fate—awaiting the sacrificial moment's arrival.
The completely immobilized Possession Demon Monarch could only watch in endless terror and despair as bizarre humans devoured and transformed the abyssal plane that had once been his domain. Bound by mysterious power, he couldn't even send a warning.
At last, it spoke in broken Federation tongue:
"You dare devour abyssal power? The Sage King will kill you... turn you into new abyssal creatures!"
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