The crisp sound of the Soul-Controlling Jade shattering, like a trumpet announcing victory, yet carrying the grief of infinite sacrifice, echoed within the empty Hall of Ten Thousand Souls. Fragments like black ice crystals, mixed with scattered demonic energy and purified soul light, floated down. Xu Zhan's nearly transparent figure that had burned everything was like exhausted ashes, slowly dissipating. Only a faint like star-fire soul light stubbornly drifted toward unconscious Tang Xiaoqi. Mu Qingfeng and Liu Yun forcefully supporting their injured bodies, their gazes closely following that beacon of hope, their hearts filled with brief joy from destroying the Soul-Controlling Jade and enormous worry for their companions' life or death.
However, this hard-won, purchased with life "victory" did not last even a moment.
The instant the Soul-Controlling Jade thoroughly shattered and the demonic entity fragment let out a mournful dissipation.
Boom.
Aa terrifying sound so muffled it could not be described, as if from the deepest part of the nine netherworlds, yet also as if from the heart of the earth, suddenly came from beneath everyone's feet. This sound was not transmitted through air but directly acted upon the soul. It made Mu Qingfeng and Liu Yun's already seriously injured souls nearly leave their bodies. Even unconscious Xiaoqi's bodyviolently twitched unconsciously.
The entire Hall of Ten Thousand Souls trembled.
Not a slight shaking butas if the most intense earthquake occurred. The altar built from dark red crystals beneath their feet madean ear-piercing creaking sound, surface instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks. The surrounding towering obsidian walls and stone pillars imprisoning countless souls began to shake violently. Some fragile parts even started collapsing, gravel falling. Those imprisoned souls within let outan even more mournful and painful wail, phosphorescent light flickering chaotically, making this ghost domain even more chaotic.
That dark sky above filled with countless suffering faces, now likeboiling ink sea, wildly churning and rotating, forming a huge, seemingly able to devour everything vortex.
An spiritual pressure vastly more expansive, more ancient, more pure, filled with infinite violence, hatred, and destructive will, like a fierce beast sleeping for ten thousand years being thoroughly enraged, from the deepest part of the blood pool altar, from the entire underground energy core upon which this Hall of Ten Thousand Souls depended, exploded outward.
This spiritual pressure was so powerful, so evil. Simply being swept by its edge, Mu Qingfeng and Liu Yun felt as if falling intothe ice hell between hells, blood nearly freezing, spiritual energy operation sluggish to the extreme, even thinking became slow. They did not doubt that if this spiritual pressure's owner completely descended, one thought alone would be enough to make them body and soul annihilate.
It was the demon entity's body. The demon entity's body sealed beneath the Nine Heavens Demon Sealing Formation.
The Soul-Controlling Jade's destruction, and that important soul fragment's dissipation, clearly caused unprecedented serious damage and stimulation to it. It was desperatelyassault the seal.
Rumble.
More fierce, more denseimpact sound, likethe ceaseless thunder from the nine heavens, constantly transmitted from the earth's depths. Each impact made the entire Hall of Ten Thousand Souls tremble violently. Cracks spread. It seemed at any moment it would completely collapse. The huge blood pool at the altar's center, now like a boiling cauldron. Dark red blood churned and sprayed violently. The soul shadows floating within collapsed inin large areas due to the extreme power impact.
That terrifying demonic might like a substance tsunami, wave after wave stronger, swept the entire great hall, impacting everyone's body and mind. Mu Qingfeng and Liu Yun had to pour all remaining spiritual energy to protect themselves and Xiaoqi. They struggled to stabilize their positions within that overwhelming demonic might, faces pale as paper, eyes filled with unprecedented gravity and terror.
They could feel that the ancient and powerful Nine Heavens Demon Sealing Formation beneath their feet was letting outgroans of being unable to bear under this desperate assault. The sealing's light flickered uncertainly in the blood pool's depths. The formation's glyphs became dim, distorted from demonic energy erosion.
"Ants. Ruining my grand scheme. Destroying my soul fragment. Shattering my soul jade. You all deserve death."
Agrand intent filled with infinite fury and hatred, as ifmixed with the screams of countless wronged souls, like a destructive storm, directlypoured into everyone's sea of consciousness. This thought no longer carried any pretense or playfulness. It retained only the most pure desire to thoroughly destroy all.
The demon entity's body became completely insane.
Itregardless of cost desperately assailed the seal, even if it would accelerate its own consumption, even if it would cause greater backlash. It wanted to break the seal and emerge, to drag these ants bold enough to destroy its important layout, along with this world, into eternal darkness together.
The Hall of Ten Thousand Souls groaned. The earth quaked. Demonic might was like hell. The brief hope just rising from destroying the Soul-Controlling Jade was instantly overwhelmed by thisan even more terrifying scene of despair. They had not only failed to thoroughly solve the problem but instead prematurely triggered the final, also most terrifying crisis.
Mu Qingfeng looked at that altar constantly cracking, felt the increasingly violent impact beneath his feet, looked again at unconscious Xiaoqi and that faint soul fire nearly arriving, and Aunt Su in the distance with unknown life or death. His heart sank to the bottom.
If the demon entity's body broke the seal, everything would be finished.
They must immediately take Xiaoqi and Xu Zhan's remnant soul away. Also find Aunt Su.
"Yun'er. Take Xiaoqi and Senior Xu's soul fire. We must evacuate immediately. Go find Aunt Su." Mu Qingfeng decided promptly, his voice hoarse from tremendous pressure and injuries.
Liu Yun did not hesitate in the slightest. Enduring the discomfort from demonic might's oppression, she grabbed unconscious Xiaoqi with one hand, while carefully using spiritual energy to wrap around that drifting over, belonging to Xu Zhan's faint soul light. Mu Qingfeng forced himself to summon strength, rushing toward where Aunt Su had fallen.
However, just as they prepared to evacuate this soon-to-collapse demonic hall, another sudden change occurred.
That boiling blood pool's center, due to the demon entity's body desperately assaulting the seal, thepure to the extreme source demonic energy, as if attracted by something, transformed into several thick black qi pillars. Like possessing life, they fiercely wound around unconscious Xiaoqi, and that soul fire of Xu Zhan wrapped by Liu Yun's spiritual energy.
The demon entity, even in its desperate state of assaulting the seal, still did not abandon its greed and evil intentions toward these two father and son. It wanted to devour and fuse this body containing purification origin and Four Symbols force, along with that soul remnant fire that had broken free from the Soul-Controlling Jade and become "pure."
Ahead was the demon entity's body about to break seal's world-ending disaster. Behind was thethe source demonic energy that wound around again like flesh-burrowing bone. The desperate situation seemed not to end with the Soul-Controlling Jade's shattering. Instead, it pushed them toward an even morean abyss of eternal doom.