Behold My Holy Light

Xu Jie reached out and tore up the sheet of paper, then turned to Huo Yuhao. "Yuhao, how should we deal with him?"

Huo Yuhao said nothing. White fluorescence shimmered in his eyes as he fired a Soul Shock at the unconscious Si Guang. His control was excellent. This Soul Shock would absolutely not kill Si Guang, but his brain had already been damaged.

Once Si Guang woke up, he would probably become an idiot. The effect would be much like those patients at St. Elizabeth Hospital who had undergone frontal lobectomies.

"Alright, let's go, Brother Jie." Huo Yuhao raised his head, refusing to look at Si Guang, who had fallen into a coma.

"Mm." Xu Jie nodded and did not ask what Huo Yuhao had done. "Yuhao, lead the way."

"This way." Huo Yuhao chose a direction and led Xu Jie onward in pursuit of the burly men.

Just five minutes later, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao had already left Shrek City through the east gate. It had to be said that those burly men were not worried about being followed at all; they swaggered straight out through the east gate.

After leaving the east gate, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao did not immediately rush over to stop the burly men. Instead, they followed from afar, keeping them within the range of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection.

In this way, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao walked and paused for another ten minutes. Within Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection, the burly men finally stopped. As they did, Huo Yuhao shared his Spiritual Detection with Xu Jie.

The two carefully moved through the forest, steadily drawing closer to the burly men. Through the detection, they could sense that the men had all knelt before a black-robed figure, fearfully saying something.

"Trash, where are the people I wanted?" The black-robed figure spoke in a hoarse, urgent voice.

"My lord, we were just about to succeed, but three Shrek Academy students suddenly appeared..." The leading burly man lowered his head and explained cautiously.

"Hmph. Useless trash like you should die." The black-robed figure clearly had no interest in hearing his explanation. A white metal staff inlaid with a black gemstone appeared in his hand, and four soul rings—white, yellow, yellow, purple—rose from beneath his feet.

What shocked Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao, who were secretly watching from nearby, was that the black-robed figure's soul rings differed from ordinary ones. Several streams of black energy coiled around each ring, giving off a chilling feeling.

As soon as the black-robed figure finished speaking, the purple soul ring wreathed in the densest black energy lit up. A black ray shot from the staff and pierced straight through the head of the burly man kneeling before him.

At the same time as the burly men fell to the ground, the black-robed figure raised his staff. The black energy on the fourth soul ring gathered around the staff before spreading out and drifting toward the corpses.

The streams of energy passed through the bodies, wrapped around the burly men's souls, and flew back to the staff. The instant the first soul touched the black gemstone, it immediately began struggling, and a shriek belonging solely to the soul rang out.

"Rustle."

Caught unprepared, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao were jolted by the soul-piercing sound. Every muscle in their bodies suddenly tensed, and they involuntarily made a noise.

"Who's there?!" The black-robed figure reacted swiftly, firing a Death Ray straight at the bushes where Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao were hiding.

Fortunately, the sound came quickly and vanished just as fast. The two immediately reacted, hurriedly rolling in opposite directions and narrowly dodging the Death Ray.

After rolling away, Xu Jie sprang to his feet with a kip-up. At the same time, three soul rings rose beneath his feet, and his martial soul appeared in his right hand.

Huo Yuhao also rose to his feet beside him, staring intently at the black-robed figure. At the same time, he asked Electrolux in his mind what exactly that aura of death was.

"What aura of death? Isn't that one of your human Evil Soul Masters?" Before Electrolux could answer, the awakened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke first.

"I have never heard of Evil Soul Masters. It is only that the aura on that person feels familiar to me. Though it is somewhat disgusting, I still feel a trace of affinity toward it," Electrolux sighed.

Before Huo Yuhao could ask for more information, Electrolux's aged voice rang out. "Use light."

Xu Jie, who had been preparing to fire a Fireball Spell at the black-robed figure, instinctively raised his martial soul upon hearing Electrolux's voice. In an instant, a powerful radiance suddenly erupted.

Bathed in the intense light, the black-robed figure abruptly halted. His entire body began trembling. At that moment, both Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao could sense the black-robed figure's excitement.

"Doesn't light restrain death? Why is he excited?" Having lived for a million years, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had some insight. He immediately saw the issue.

"There are two different, mutually conflicting auras of death within him," Electrolux explained.

"Auras of death can conflict too?" Huo Yuhao was puzzled.

"Even light comes in different colors, let alone death."

Xu Jie, who had not joined their mental conversation, could not help feeling confused. He's scared, isn't he? Then why do I feel like he's excited? Did I sense it wrong?

As though answering Xu Jie's inner doubts, the black-robed figure removed his robe, revealing a peculiar face. More than half of his face had no flesh at all, only a layer of skin tightly wrapped around his skull. In the areas covered only by skin, the shape of his bones was vividly visible.

The black-robed figure stood where he was as faint green gas seeped from his face and dispersed into the air. From the expression made by the remaining flesh on his face, it was clear that he was enjoying himself.

This black-robed figure was using the power produced by Xu Jie's light-attribute martial soul to drive out the death energy that conflicted with his own attribute. That was why he had used those burly men to try to abduct Qian Qin from the city. After all, angels, regardless of how many wings they had, represented light and justice and naturally restrained Evil Soul Masters.

Moreover, the black-robed figure stood there without any intention of attacking. It seemed he wanted to use Xu Jie's martial soul power to completely purge the force that opposed him.

Having understood the black-robed figure's intentions, Xu Jie naturally would not let him have his way. He was about to control his martial soul and stop releasing light when Electrolux, seemingly seeing through his thoughts, spoke through Huo Yuhao's voice. "Continue. Don't stop. The aura of death also needs to be pure."

Pure? Pure in what sense?

Upon hearing Electrolux's voice, Xu Jie ultimately stopped releasing the light. Judging from Electrolux's words, he seemed to want something from the black-robed figure before them, and the prerequisite for obtaining it was for the other party to maintain the purity of his own death aura.

Whatever it was, given Electrolux's current state, it would most likely be for Huo Yuhao, and less likely for Xu Jie.

Thinking this, Xu Jie shouted at the black-robed figure, "Behold my holy light!!!"

As his words fell, the light released by the martial soul in Xu Jie's palm suddenly intensified.