Inside the Holy Spirit Cult main hall, it was already empty at this moment; to be precise, only three figures remained.
Supreme Patriarch Ye Xishui sat upon the highest seat, her withered and thin hands tightly gripping the armrests.
Zhongli Wu stood by her side, his complexion pale, and the aura on his entire body was trembling slightly.
Meanwhile, Feng Ling stood on the other side of the main hall, her eyes surging with complex light.
Just a moment ago, there were still quite a few people inside this Holy Spirit Cult main hall—those Elders, Protectors, deacons, and those arrogant and domineering Evil Soul Masters from ordinary days were all still standing here.
Yet in just a fleeting moment, they had all transformed into blood mists.
At this moment, large swathes of dark red bloodstains still lingered on the floor of the main hall, and a thick smell of blood permeated the air, making one retch upon smelling it.
Zhongli Wu's gaze swept across those bloodstains and quickly pulled back.
Looking at death from within the light screen and having it appear directly before oneself were completely two different matters.
When looking at the light screen, he could still maintain a bit of composure, calculate gains and losses in his heart, and think about whether that fellow Nangong Wan could find a way out for the Evil Soul Masters.
But when those blood mists exploded right beside him, and when those subordinates who were still living and breathing right before him a moment earlier turned into minced meat before his eyes, the string in his heart directly snapped.
Fear engulfed his entire body like a tidal wave.
Zhongli Wu's lips trembled twice before he finally spoke.
"Mother... What... what should we do next?"
Dark clouds hung thickly over Supreme Patriarch Ye Xishui's withered face. She glanced at Zhongli Wu, a fierce look flashing through her gaze.
"The method has already been told to you long ago."
Her voice was icy cold, carrying not a trace of warmth.
"That is to fight to the death."
"If we don't fight to the death now, then we can only wait for death."
Her sharp eyes swept past Zhongli Wu and landed on Feng Ling.
"Have the two of you prepared yourselves?"
Being asked thus by Supreme Patriarch Ye Xishui, the fear within Zhongli Wu's heart intensified even more.
Having lived for so many years and stained his hands with the blood of countless people, he had also experienced life-and-death crises, but never had there been a time when death was so close like now, especially with nowhere at all to escape.
That light screen could even cover the entire Douluo Continent, locking onto the locations of all Evil Soul Masters. Where could he hide?
Zhongli Wu clenched his teeth tightly, and after a moment, he slowly spoke.
"We will listen to Mother."
A trace of venomous malice flashed through those eyes.
Since there was no way to avoid it and nowhere to retreat, they could only fight to the death.
Anyway, death was certain either way; at least they had to bite off a piece of flesh from the opponent before dying.
And right at this moment, upon the competition stage, Lin Feng slowly spoke once more to announce the upcoming rules.
"Next, the sixth to fifteenth places."
"Evil Soul Masters below Limit Douluo may issue challenges."
Zhongli Wu's gaze subconsciously fell upon Feng Ling. He knew that according to this order, both Feng Ling and he would have to take the stage in the upcoming matches.
Feng Ling was also well aware that whether going up first or later, she would ultimately have to face this crisis herself. Besides, the cannon fodder of the Holy Spirit Cult had all died out completely at this moment, and she was the weakest one, so she could only go act as cannon fodder herself.
Right beneath the light screen, Feng Ling's figure and appearance were displayed within everyone's sight at this moment.
She was a rather beautiful woman with fair, delicate skin and an exquisite, bewitching face, radiating an eerie and perverse charm all over her body.
She possessed a pair of peculiar eyes—not large, but full of spirit—with dark red markings at the corners extending all the way to her temples. Matched with a black robe, standing there, she looked like a poisonous Datura flower.
Beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, Yan Shaozhe looked at Feng Ling through the light screen, completely dumbfounded. That was his ex-girlfriend.
Back then, the two had dated for three months. Although the time wasn't considered long, for Yan Shaozhe, it was a rather special experience.
Later, Feng Ling's evil Qi suddenly acted up, and after the two fought a great battle, Feng Ling disappeared without a trace.
But now she appeared here, standing on the competition stage of that Sky Shrek Academy. If it weren't a matter of life or death, presumably Feng Ling would not go up there. Therefore... after he let her go back then, she still walked the path of an Evil Soul Master. It truly chilled his heart considerably.
Yan Shaozhe felt a pang in his heart, but it immediately turned into a silent sigh. He understood that everything could no longer go back to the past.
Upon the competition stage, Feng Ling had already made her choice.
Her gaze swept across the five students from tenth to sixth place, finally landing on Xu Lizhi.
That was a round, chubby big fellow with a silly smile, appearing exceptionally inconspicuous standing amidst the crowd.
Food System Spirit Master.
Feng Ling was extremely clear in her heart that among the people present, only Xu Lizhi was a Food System Spirit Master; as for the rest, she basically had no great certainty against them.
But a Food System Spirit Master was different. Even if the opponent possessed a Spirit Tool, she had the confidence to maneuver and deal with them.
After all, the shortcomings of Food System Spirit Masters in terms of combat were notorious.
"I choose him."
Xu Lizhi scratched his round head, smiled sillily, and then stepped onto the competition stage.
He stood opposite Feng Ling, his smile still honest and thick, looking just like a harmless neighbor's boy.
"Although I am a Food System Spirit Master, I am not completely without combat power, you know."
Feng Ling did not pay attention to Xu Lizhi. Instead, after the match began, she quickly released her nine Spirit Rings: three purple, five black, and one red.
The nine Spirit Rings slowly rotated beneath her feet, emitting a gloomy, cold light.
She took a deep breath, then suddenly let out a low shout.
"Seventh Spirit Ability, Martial Soul True Body!"
Along with her low shout, her body suddenly expanded and deformed, and a layer of dense purple-black light surged out from within her body, wrapping her entire person within it.
After the light dissipated, a huge purple-black evil Phoenix appeared on the competition stage.
That evil Phoenix was covered all over in purple-black feathers, its eyes scarlet red like blood, and its wings spread to a width of over ten meters. A monstrous evil Qi emanated from its body, sweeping across the entire competition stage.
The intensity and iciness of that evil Qi made even ordinary folks watching across the light screen feel a burst of scalp-numbing chill.
Feng Ling's sharp claws abruptly tightened, and with a shake of her wings, she lunged fiercely toward the direction where Xu Lizhi was located.
Xu Lizhi raised that chubby hand, and a crystal-clear steamed bun appeared within his palm.
The steamed bun presented a crystal-like texture all over, with seven-colored light flowing across its surface, looking extremely pleasing to the eye.
"Fifth Spirit Ability, Mirror Crystal Bun."
He casually tossed that crystal bun into his mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.
Then, the next moment, a layer of dense purple-black light similarly surged out from within Xu Lizhi's body, and his figure also began to expand and deform, likewise transforming into a huge purple-black evil Phoenix.
Two evil Phoenixes.
Identical size, identical color, and identically monstrous evil Qi.
Feng Ling's sharp claws had already swung right in front of Xu Lizhi's face, while the evil Phoenix formed by Xu Lizhi's Incarnation similarly raised its sharp claws, colliding head-on against Feng Ling's claw strike.
"Boom——!"
With a muffled sound, two huge forces collided together, and the shockwave diffused outward from the intersection of the sharp claws, stirring up a violent wave of Qi.
Xu Lizhi's figure remained completely unmoving, and Feng Ling's sharp claws were forcibly pushed back.
Her scarlet red eyes abruptly constricted, and her entire body stiffened because of it.
How could this be?
He, a Food System Spirit Master, how could he possibly release her Martial Soul True Body?
Moreover, that aura, that strength, and that form were actually not different in the slightest from her evil Phoenix Martial Soul True Body!
A wave of incredible shock surged within Feng Ling's heart.
Meanwhile, Oscar in the Divine Realm was likewise dumbfounded seeing this scene.
He widened his eyes, looking at that purple-black evil Phoenix inside the light screen, and then looked at Xu Lizhi's honest and thick chubby face. A sense of incomparable familiarity surged into his heart.
Isn't this just his Copy Mirror Sausage?
But no, Oscar's brows abruptly knitted together.
His Copy Mirror Sausage required the blood of a Spirit Master to take effect; he had to obtain the opponent's blood beforehand in order to copy the opponent's Spirit Ability.
But Xu Lizhi was clearly seeing Feng Ling for the very first time, and the two had never met before this. How did he accomplish this?
That Spirit Ability's effect was even stronger than his own Copy Mirror Sausage?
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