Inside the black halo, the beast's remnant soul slowly stabilized after swelling to its limit. Its voice came from the core of the shadow. "Damned insect, you actually used self-destruction to injure this king's soul!"
Its gaze swept through the darkness and quickly locked onto the thirteen soul phantoms still floating in the void.
The instant the beast's remnant soul saw those souls, its originally enraged tone suddenly changed into a low, greedy laugh. "But... fortunately, such a great tonic has come knocking the moment this king emerged."
"Thirteen souls. Judging by the density of their auras, every one of them had cultivation above the Divine Treasury Realm."
"If this king devours them all, not only can I replenish the Vital Energy lost just now, I can also recover much of my strength. What a blessing in disguise."
Its voice carried the scrutiny and calculation of one sizing up prey. Several streams of black aura, like feelers, stretched out from the edges of the shadow and tentatively extended toward the thirteen souls.
Bai Jianzhang stood at the forefront of the thirteen souls, his voice still carrying an unquestionable force. "Everyone, it's our turn. Charge!"
His voice echoed through the dark space like the blast of a war horn.
The eleven souls behind him stepped forward at the same time upon hearing those words.
No one retreated. No one hesitated. In that instant, twelve figures charged simultaneously toward the massive black remnant soul, so enormous it was suffocating.
Their bodies lit up with their final radiance. Against their already weakened souls, those lights appeared especially precious and dazzling, as though they were the last brilliance they could ever bloom in this world.
The twelve figures rushed without hesitation toward that enormous shadow, like a swarm of fireflies hurling themselves at the