"Who do you want dead?"
The Evil Emperor didn't directly answer whether he would cooperate with Su Ming. Instead, he expressed a willingness to help Su Ming deal with the three Holy Spirit Cult members.
He didn't say this through the mental link but asked aloud.
The expressions of Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Zhongli Wu changed drastically.
Damn it!
The teammate they'd brought over was turning traitor.
"Evil Emperor, the agreement you had with the Holy Emperor—"
"Save your breath. If the Holy Emperor has any objections, I will speak with her personally."
The Evil Emperor cut off Ye Xishui's words.
This statement made Ye Xishui's pupils contract.
What did that mean?
Was the Holy Emperor still alive?
How was that possible?
Nearly a thousand years had passed since the Holy Spirit Cult's founding. The Holy Emperor had long since vanished without a trace. How could she still be alive?
Du Busi's pupils also contracted.
Did the Holy Spirit Cult still have such an old monster?
Su Ming, however, remained calm, having long guessed at the Holy Emperor's origins.
The Evil Emperor was a decisive individual. Without another word, he took action.
"Senior, leave Ye Xishui for me to kill!"
Su Ming reminded him.
The Evil Emperor paid no heed, directly unleashing a Soul Shock.
Ye Xishui's face contorted in pain, instantly turning deathly pale.
"Outrageous!"
Long Xiaoyao let out a dragon's roar, shouting in anger. He entered his Black Dragon True Body, and the Black Dragon's Claw swiped directly at the Evil Emperor's massive eyeball.
Zhongli Wu's aura was extremely unstable, on the verge of dropping from the Limit Douluo level.
Su Ming was in the same state.
Seizing the opportunity, Zhongli Wu directly attacked Su Ming.
Ye Xishui, also deliberately showing weakness, landed and erected her Death God Tower, firing a Death God's Light at the fastest speed she could muster.
Although not at maximum power, it was the fastest she could activate it.
Just as the Death God's Light was about to hit Su Ming, his Spirit Power fluctuations finally dropped below the Limit Douluo level.
However, Su Ming wasn't panicked at all.
His figure vanished, reappearing behind Ye Xishui.
"Hmm, you might have the misconception that I only know how to throw punches."
Su Ming smiled.
His punches had integrated many different systems.
Now, he demonstrated his mastery over spatial power.
Absolute mastery!
Mastery at the Limit level!
Both Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu were shocked and furious.
Even though Su Ming's aura had dropped, he could react instantly and perform a teleport.
Not only that, he appeared completely at ease.
"How is this possible!"
How could a teleportation-type Spirit Skill have no wind-up or cooldown?
Su Ming didn't explain.
"Senior, another mental-type Spirit Skill, please."
As he spoke, his sixth Spirit Ring shone with a rosy-golden light.
"Sixth Spirit Skill, Soul Severance!"
Soul Severance: upon hit, all of the enemy's spiritual defense is rendered ineffective and cannot be blocked, only dodged. Since Su Ming was right behind Ye Xishui, his Spirit Skill locked onto her directly, giving her no chance to evade.
Sensing the effect of Soul Severance, the Evil Emperor showed wariness.
This Spirit Skill countered him quite effectively.
He excelled in spiritual attributes, but if the formidable spiritual defense he constructed with his vast spiritual power became useless, it would be like cutting off his retreat.
While wary, his mental assault didn't slow in the slightest.
Ye Xishui had already taken a direct Soul Shock, forcibly activated the Death God Tower, and now had her spiritual defense stripped away. How could she withstand another mental impact?
Her gaze immediately went vacant, her mind a blank. She began to fall from the Death God Tower, her Spirit Rings retracting into her body, her Spirit Power dissipating.
"Xishui!"
Long Xiaoyao roared in rage, ceasing his struggle with the Evil Emperor and flying towards the ground.
But if he stopped pestering, the Evil Emperor didn't. He kept up the pressure.
After all, this concerned an opportunity for godhood; he still needed to put on a good show.
The Evil Emperor was cunning, and precisely because of that, he knew how to read the situation.
Even if he had his own schemes, he wouldn't expose them for now. Up to this point, he would play his part well.
Was nearly 800,000 years of cultivation equivalent to an opportunity for godhood?
No.
So he needed to invest a bit more.
Like now, putting in some effort in the fight. For him, it was just a trivial matter, yet it would put Su Ming in his debt.
The Evil Emperor truly lived up to his name, exerting absolute suppression against a Limit Douluo.
Du Busi gasped, watching as the Evil Emperor cooperated with Su Ming to instantly kill Ye Xishui and then easily handle Long Xiaoyao. He felt grateful he had survived his earlier encounter.
How on earth had he managed to escape from the depths of the Evil Eye Forest back then?
Long Xiaoyao seemed to have gone mad, his eyes bloodshot, fighting frantically against the Evil Emperor's main body.
The Evil Emperor's eighty-one tentacles were incredibly agile, engaging Long Xiaoyao in close combat with give and take. Of course, his tentacles were coated with a layer of spiritual power and enhanced by Spirit Skills.
Seeing he didn't need to fight Long Xiaoyao, Du Busi turned his attention to Zhongli Wu.
A burst of light energy erupted from Ye Xishui's corpse-like body on the ground.
Everyone looked over.
They were all curious about what the Light Martial Soul of Ye Xishui, this utterly wicked, pure Evil Spirit Master, was.
Long Xiaoyao's heart inexplicably clenched.
He stared fixedly at the sphere of light surrounding Ye Xishui.
This fluctuation...
"Light Phoenix!"
Her second Martial Soul was the Light Phoenix!
Long Xiaoyao's blood-red eyes grew vacant, the earlier ferocity gone.
He replayed the recent events in his mind.
Ye Xishui had said there was no escape.
Earlier, Su Ming had said if he really needed Light Origin, he could go hunt Yan Shaozhe.
His breathing became labored, tears welling in the corners of his eyes.
How could this be?
Did Xishui have other descendants?
His eyes flickered imperceptibly towards Zhongli Wu.
Long Xiaoyao had already forced himself to accept Zhongli Wu's existence, but for Ye Xishui to have had other descendants... and it seemed they weren't with the old ghost Zhongli...
Light Phoenix...
Was it Mu En's descendant?
No wonder Yan Shaozhe could become Mu En's disciple, treated as his successor.
Long Xiaoyao let out a bitter laugh.
After all these years of effort, he had been nothing but a clown.
Reduced to this state, even labeled an Evil Spirit Master by Su Ming.
His legacy was completely ruined.
"An untrained Light Phoenix is too weak. Only after this phoenix rebirth does it become somewhat respectable," Su Ming said. "The Dark Origin has also weakened. Your Light and Darkness Origins have reached balance."
As he spoke, he landed on the ground, killing intent radiating from him.
"Now, you can die."
He raised his hand.
Within his palm, the four essences of Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind manifested.
The four elemental essences formed a perfect cycle, evolving into a miniature world within Su Ming's hand.
A wisp of Space Origin naturally coalesced within it.
Earth, Fire, Water, Wind creating heaven and earth.
The Five Elements Origin appeared within the small world, stabilizing its operation.
Su Ming's current Spirit Power fluctuations weren't at the Limit Douluo level, yet the miniature world he manifested exuded an aura of grandeur.
Boom!
The small world came crashing down. Ye Xishui, who had just undergone her phoenix rebirth, had her life force extinguished.
A black and a white orb of essence were also stripped away under Electrolux's control.
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