The Soul Screamer looked toward the other end of the battlefield.
A wall formed entirely from condensed tentacles blocked its view.
But it could sense—
That man named Li Jiu wasn't dead.
Not only that, something was gradually emerging from him, something that made it wary.
"Tentacles..."
The Soul Screamer murmured, glancing around.
Every living thing on the entire battlefield had vanished. Not even half a severed arm or leg remained.
A flash of blue-white light streaked across the battlefield at incredible speed.
The Soul Screamer's expression changed. It raised both hands in front of itself again—
BOOM!!!
Lightning many times more powerful than before slammed into it, sending countless arcs of plasma shooting skyward.
"Ahhhhhh—ridiculous!"
The Soul Screamer roared, straining to push the pillar of lightning away.
In an instant, it shot across the sky, tore through the void, and disappeared to parts unknown.
"Even though your power has increased many times over, can you really control it? You're a frog at the bottom of a well—you don't even know how to use this kind of power in a fight!"
The Soul Screamer spoke with utter contempt.
Standing behind the wall of tentacles, Gu Qingshan replied, "You're right. A sudden increase in power like this can make someone lose their way even more easily. Most people would have a hard time using it properly."
"—But I'm not most people."
The moment his words fell, the Soul Screamer suddenly froze.
Hundreds, thousands of tentacles surged up from beneath the earth and wrapped around it in a dazzling blur.
The Soul Screamer's expression changed. "Retreat!"
BOOM—
Its entire body crumbled into yellow sand, scattering on the gale.
The entire battlefield vanished with it.
Only shifting yellow sand remained all around.
The great desert.
Gu Qingshan froze.
He was back again.
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