"Dodge!"
The elders of the Holy Spirit Cult immediately scattered in all directions.
As for those who couldn't escape in time, they naturally turned to dust.
Five streaks of golden light descended like the blades of a heavenly guillotine, slicing vertically downward!
As Bear Lord's most proud Sky-Tearing Claw, its power was enough to injure Di Tian. Just how terrifying it was went without saying. How could a mere linked defensive barrier of the Holy Spirit Cult possibly withstand it?
After the barrier was shredded, the surface camouflage was destroyed along with it, completely exposing the Holy Spirit Cult's main base.
"Who is it!?"
The elders left behind to guard the Holy Spirit Cult abruptly raised their heads to gaze into the sky. But in the very first moment, expressions of sheer horror appeared on their faces.
A terrifying giant bear stood towering in the sky, giving off the impression of a fiendish god capable of tearing the sky above and shattering the earth below!
"Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!"
The surviving elders of the Holy Spirit Cult blurted this out.
Now, no one thought they were a match for this giant bear.
That previous strike had possessed the aura of an Ultimate Douluo!
"Scatter, run!"
One of them roared, suddenly accelerated, and sprinted toward the depths of the Evil Soul Great Forest. Although the other elders did the same, they indeed charged inward from various different directions.
They knew very well that right now, probably only the overlord of this forest—the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord—had the ability to save them.
And when the other Evil Soul Masters at the headquarters saw the elders choosing to flee for their lives, they naturally scattered as well!
But...
"Escape? Can you really escape?!"
A furious roar mixed with excitement rang out, accompanied by the cry of a phoenix. "Screech—"
"That's right, hand over your lives!"
"Roar—"
A dragon's roar echoed through the heavens, and a terrifyingly high temperature swept over the area!
Amidst the cloud-filled sky, flames suddenly erupted.
Domains deployed. Ultimate Fire.
The Blazing Dragon King opened its massive jaws, roared at the sky, and sprayed an incomparably thick pillar of crimson flames from its mouth. Like a blazing meteor, it crashed toward the crowd of Evil Soul Masters.
The fire dragon struck first, and the fire phoenix naturally wasn't left behind.
Eight soul rings shone as a pair of wings unfurled. Countless flaming feathers rained down like sharp arrows toward the ground, igniting a sea of fire wherever they passed. A sky full of fiery rain poured down like a descending doomsday.
In an instant, the flames swallowed the forest. The vegetation was instantly ignited, and the fire spread rapidly. The Evil Soul Masters struggled desperately within the sea of fire, letting out miserable screams.
Some were directly engulfed by the flames and reduced to ash. Even if they tried to resist, such efforts appeared utterly powerless in the face of the mighty heavenly fire.
Under the wanton destruction by Wu Feng and Ma Xiaotao, when quite a few fire rains and fire meteors landed on the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters, "Boom, boom, boom—"
Explosions suddenly erupted within the base.
Obviously, this fire had struck the Holy Spirit Cult's armory.
The explosions lasted for over ten seconds before gradually stopping, leaving behind a messy blast zone in their wake. Many rare metals were melted down, and other resources vanished without a trace.
This scene...
Made Chen Junting, who hadn't made a move, inwardly curse them for being wasteful.
These two didn't run the household, so they didn't know the price of firewood and rice!
In this explosion, a large number of mid and low-tier Evil Soul Masters who were too late to escape also lost their lives. Under an attack of this magnitude, they had absolutely no chance of survival.
And such massacres were not isolated incidents at this moment.
With moonlight shining, giants trampling, sword qi filling the sky, and ice rampaging... in the face of the surprise attack squad led by Chen Junting, not a single Evil Soul Master had much ability to resist.
With Ning Tian's amplification, their strengths were even further boosted. It could be said that most of them were silenced after just a few exchanged moves.
Even most of the Evil Soul Master elders ended up the same way...
"Satisfying! So satisfying!"
Bear Lord raised and swung his claws, his movements clean and crisp.
Many of the Holy Spirit Cult elders, whose courage had been shattered, had no ability to resist at all. The majority of them were effortlessly sliced into strips.
Even if some tried to resist using soul tools, "Ziip—" with a simple motion, their soul tools were sliced into scrap metal.
Even if some Evil Soul Masters were fast enough to escape by luck, the moment they fled the attack range, the previously quiet forest suddenly grew restless. The surrounding trees seemed to come alive. Thick branches, as if possessing consciousness, stretched out toward the Evil Soul Masters like giant arms trying to grab them.
Seeing the situation turn bad, the Evil Soul Masters immediately fought back.
But once they were entangled, the branches wrapped tighter and tighter, threatening to snap their bones. Furthermore, aside from Soul Saints and above, the attacks of the other Evil Soul Masters yielded very little effect.
What followed was either them being tripped to the ground by the branches and instantly drowned by even more of them, or being swept up into the air by the branches and then heavily smashed onto the ground, leaving them battered and bloody. After that, many slender but tough vines would sprout from the ground. Like agile poisonous snakes, they rapidly wrapped around the Evil Soul Masters' legs, then their entire bodies, completely burying and destroying them.
As for those with higher cultivation, the Myriad Demon King would take care of them personally. Coupled with Huo Yuhao's illusions, every single one of them was caught.
Furthermore, with Huo Yuhao's Mental Detection Sharing, even if some sneaky bastards managed to escape the Myriad Demon King's sensory blockade, they would still be exposed through Huo Yuhao's "Spirit Eyes" and ultimately perish in the Myriad Demon King's forest-sea tactics, leaving not even a complete corpse behind.
With things like this, not a single person managed to escape.
Seeing that they were completely dead-ended, one of the Holy Spirit Cult elders who hadn't been killed by Bear Lord yet had eyes that turned completely bloodshot.
Make no mistake, this wasn't out of grief.
He was purely terrified of dying!
He wanted to live!
The only option was to seek help from a stronger existence!
Thus, in the next instant, a cluster of brilliant golden fireworks surged from this elder's hand. It exploded in the air, turned into a streak of golden light that shot higher into the sky, and exploded again, turning into a massive golden umbrella that lingered for a long time.
This scene was caught by Chen Junting and Di Tian.
"He's summoning the Evil Emperor."
Chen Junting looked at Di Tian, his tone exceptionally calm.
Right now, he needed to preserve his condition for the very end; if he didn't have to make a move, he wouldn't. Of course, the Evil Soul Masters below didn't require his intervention anyway. More importantly, absorbing the Evil Emperor's soul ring later wasn't a joke; it brooked no margin of error.
"Perfect."
Di Tian hadn't looked down at the battlefield from start to finish.
Because there was no need.
"I am actually curious about what progress that old Evil Eye has made."
During their brief encounter last time, they hadn't actually fought.
This time, they were going to definitively decide life and death.
Chen Junting remained silent, simply looking downward.
He was a bit curious about what else was hidden within the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.
For example... existences like the Holy Emperor.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield below, it was precisely this elder's cry for help that drew Bear Lord's attention to him.
"Hehehe—there's still one here!"
Under this elder's terrified gaze, the horrific claws entered his field of vision. Immediately after, he completely lost consciousness.
On the ground, only a puddle of blood and strips of flesh remained.
"Pfft—"
Bear Lord spat, disdainfully shifting his gaze away.
That ferocious face covered in bloodstains made the remaining Holy Spirit Cult elders tremble with fear, feeling a chill run down their spines.
If things continued like this, they would undoubtedly die!
However, just then, "Gurgle, gurgle—"
From beneath the ruined Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, a sound like boiling water suddenly echoed out. The vaguely converging energy immediately attracted the attention of everyone and all the spirit beasts present, naturally including Chen Junting and Di Tian who were watching the battle from above.
"This is..."
Chen Junting frowned slightly as four streams of sword intent radiated from him.
With the opening and closing of the Heaven's Eye on his glabella, the Immortal-Slaying Array Diagram had already appeared in his hand, ready to seal off the ruins at a moment's notice.
The next second, "Wuuu, wuuu—"
Ghostly wails and wolf howls echoed endlessly. The patch of ruins was violently blown apart as countless wraiths, like a swarm of hornets, madly darted out from underground, wreaking havoc in all directions!
After doing all this, in an unknown location, the stone statue of the Holy Emperor completely fell silent. If anyone were to come here now, they would only see an utterly ordinary stone statue.
Obviously, this could be considered the Holy Spirit Cult's death throes.
The rampage of these wraiths couldn't really be considered a threat to the surprise attack squad's strength, but they were undoubtedly being hindered.
"These wraiths are truly disgusting."
Although many of them were transformed from innocent people and spirit beasts, these wraiths could only be purified right now. And this kind of purification was of the forcibly destructive kind. Because they had no chance of being saved, meaning it was impossible to revert them back into innocent souls.
Chen Junting was about to make a move, asking Elder Electrolux to purify these wraiths. But in the end, he chose to hold back.
Because right at this moment, a clear, resonant cry rang out.
Immediately after, a pure white figure rushed out from the group in the sky, emitting a burst of purifying light.
As soon as this white light appeared, the wraiths illuminated by it let out piercing shrieks. The moment they touched the white light, the wraiths immediately dissipated. They didn't have the slightest power to resist, as if they had encountered their natural nemesis.
The person who made the move was none other than...
The pure white figure hovered in mid-air, two pairs of pristine white wings spread out, and a sword of white light appeared in her hand. It was precisely Ye Guyi, possessor of the Holy Angel martial soul.
The Evil Soul Masters and wraiths present were undoubtedly a massive benefit to Ye Guyi, a Holy Angel Soul Master who specifically countered Evil Soul Masters. You have to understand, Ye Guyi could increase her own cultivation by killing Evil Soul Masters and destroying their abilities. With so many wraiths erupting right now, purifying them would directly boost her cultivation. This was also the reason why, after a moment of thought, Chen Junting ultimately didn't have Elder Electrolux purify the wraiths.
At this moment, once Ye Guyi made her move, it was like a blazing wildfire sweeping through. Wherever she passed, wraiths were purified one after another under her holy light. The purified, pure energy then flowed into Ye Guyi's body, continuously and endlessly enhancing her cultivation.
Wielding the holy sword in her hand, she was virtually invincible. With just a few flashes, massive amounts of wraiths in the air were reduced to ash. Quite a few wraiths scattered and fled, not daring to approach her at all.
Until...
"Wuuu, wuuu—"
The howls of the wraiths suddenly became exceptionally fierce. The remaining wraiths actually began devouring each other, merging together, and dove straight down toward a Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Master who was already on the verge of death.
In an instant, this massive wraith merged with the Evil Soul Master.
Rather than calling it a cooperation between two parties, it was more like a desperate, dying struggle.
"Boom—"
Energy surged out, dispersing Zhang Lexuan's moonlight.
Zhang Lexuan knitted her brows, looking displeased. Just as she was about to completely finish off this Evil Soul Master, "Sister Lexuan, leave it to me!"
Holy Angel True Body!
Ye Guyi gave a soft shout. Her seventh soul ring, wrapped in a dense black color, lit up. Black and gold—two completely clashing lights—mixed together. Soon, the black soul ring seemed to be assimilated, transforming into gold.
With dazzling golden light, a phantom silently appeared.
Two pairs of wings flapped, and a third pair faintly loomed into existence.
Immediately after, the phantom behind her moved forward, and Ye Guyi rapidly merged with it. Her entire being, including her skin and hair, was completely dyed in pure gold. Even her clothes vanished within the golden light, purified away.
The next moment, a dazzling golden flame enveloped Ye Guyi's body, making her look like a deity descended from the heavens. Even her other seven soul rings were dyed gold at this moment.
On the two pairs of pure white wings on her back, the golden color began to spread from the roots, extending all the way to the tip of every feather.
The true form of the Holy Angel, on the verge of evolving into a Six-Winged Angel, was fully manifested under the effect of her seventh soul ring's Martial Soul True Body. Ye Guyi's aura suddenly inflated, overwhelming the heavens and the earth. With her Martial Soul True Body released, coupled with Ning Tian's amplification, to the Evil Soul Masters, she exerted the pressure of a Super Douluo.
"Abomination! Die!"
"Angel's Dance! Holy Sword!"
"Eighth Soul Skill—Angel's Judgment!"
The pure white holy light transformed into a sharp sword. The moment the Holy Angel raised the Holy Sword above her head, light and divinity converged upon the sword's edge. Then, descending from the heavens as if to judge evil, it fiercely pierced into the Evil Soul Master's chest.
With just this one sword strike, a massive amount of wraiths madly surged out from the Evil Soul Master's chest, and he let out a piercing shriek. However, pinned to the ground by the Holy Sword, he couldn't move an inch.
As for those wraiths...
As soon as they appeared, they were completely reduced to flying ash.
The four wings on Ye Guyi's back flickered with a jade-like white radiance, while golden streams of light continuously surged from the Holy Sword into her body. The Evil Soul Master pinned to the ground struggled for four full breaths before finally turning into black charcoal under the Holy Sword and vanishing completely.
And this sword strike seemingly represented the finale for the Evil Soul Masters at the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters. Although there were many of them, they were harvested as quickly as weeds in front of the surprise attack squad, and now only a handful remained.
Seeing that only some weakly cultivated Evil Soul Masters were left, Ye Guyi acted.
"Eighth Soul Skill—Angel's Glory!"
Beneath the blood-colored soul ring, there was mostly golden light.
An even more noble and majestic angelic phantom appeared. Its holy light radiated for thousands of miles, enveloping all the remaining Evil Soul Masters.
In just a few short seconds, all the Evil Soul Masters perished. This naturally represented the complete destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters, with not a single person escaping.
And in today's battle, this Holy Angel Soul Douluo absolutely reaped a bountiful harvest. She would probably only need about two months to attempt condensing her first soul core and break through to Rank 90.
If she pushed herself a little harder...
Then the reappearance of the Six-Winged Angel (Seraphim) martial soul would be just around the corner.
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