Ling Luochen's Worldview Shattered! A Three-Ring Chasing Down a Five-Ring?

The smoke within the canyon gradually dispersed, leaving behind a heavy stench of scorched flesh and nauseating blood.

Long Aotian had initially thought the battle was over when the Evil Soul Master's body exploded, but Liu Yuan's stern, cold expression made him wary again.

Liu Yuan stood at the center of the canyon, his Double Pupil pushed to its limit.

In his vision, the world was no longer merely colors and shapes, but a structure formed from countless flowing lines of Soul Power.

He lowered his gaze to the ground. The pus-filled blood scattered between the cracks of shattered stone had not coagulated like normal blood. Instead, it was faintly squirming.

"Something's wrong." Liu Yuan keenly sensed that the blood contained a viscous, icy black energy. It was slowly converging, as though it possessed an independent consciousness.

Liu Yuan had always been cautious. He would not leave any enemy a chance to rise again from the ashes.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Soul Rings beneath his feet flashed. The red light within his Double Pupil suddenly intensified, and two thin Laser beams shot toward the pus-filled blood on the ground.

"Sizzle—sizzle!"

The instant the blazing beams touched the blood, a piercing shriek like the wail of vengeful ghosts echoed through the canyon.

The previously motionless blood suddenly trembled violently, while great clouds of black mist rose from the pools of blood.

Then, something bizarre happened.

Wrapped in black mist, the blood scattered across the ground rapidly gathered and rose up. Within mere seconds, it formed six slightly smaller, entirely crimson Blood Lords.

The blood-colored clones stared fixedly at Liu Yuan, their pupils filled with venomous hatred. When they saw that Liu Yuan's mangled right shoulder and lower back had already healed smooth, they let out furious roars.

"You plotted against me... you damned insects... I'll suck your marrow dry!"

The six Blood Lords attacked at once. Moving with extreme speed, they became six bloody shadows that pounced at Liu Yuan, Long Aotian, and the others from different directions.

Liu Yuan snorted coldly, disdain flashing through his Double Pupil. "As expected of an Evil Soul Master. This bizarre method of dying in another's place and being reborn truly is wicked. But if this is all you can do, then today will be the day you die."

Liu Yuan instantly assessed the situation before him.

Although this Blood Shadow Clone technique was exceedingly rare, the near-fatal ambush earlier had clearly inflicted tremendous damage on this Evil Soul Master.

The Soul Power fluctuations displayed by these clones now were nowhere near as substantial as those of the Soul King-level powerhouse from before. Without the Blood Pool Domain he relied upon, he was merely an arrow at the end of its flight.

"Attack! Smash them completely!"

At Liu Yuan's command, his figure instantly vanished from where he stood.

Enhanced by the Qilin Precious Technique, the explosive power of his body reached an utterly terrifying level.

He met the two bloody shadows charging head-on. Dense Soul Power gathered around his fists, and every punch carried a muffled rumble of thunder.

Long Aotian moved as well, dark golden light covering his entire body. Like a heavy war chariot, he directly smashed through one blood-colored clone, then used the momentum to crush its head completely with an elbow strike.

Chen Lü and Wang Yanfeng worked together seamlessly. Standing back-to-back, they unleashed the Body Sect's combo combat technique.

Every attack that landed on the bloody shadows stirred up large clouds of black mist.

This battle was far easier than the last.

Under the all-out siege of Liu Yuan, Long Aotian, and the others, these severely weakened Blood Lords could not hold out for long.

With Liu Yuan's final sweeping Laser Eye attack, the last bloody shadow shattered completely amid an unwilling roar.

This time, no blood appeared on the ground. Every remnant of its body turned directly into black mist before touching the earth and dissipated into the air.

"This time, it's dead for good, right?" Chen Lü panted, glancing around with lingering fear.

Liu Yuan swept his gaze across the surroundings, his Double Pupil continuously searching every corner of the canyon.

The faint unease in his heart had not faded. Given how cunning an Evil Soul Master like this was, would he really have placed all of his origin within those clones?

Just as everyone was preparing to lower their guard, Vina, who had been standing at the perimeter and using her Spirit Eye to survey the entire area, suddenly went pale.

She abruptly raised her hand, pointed toward a shadow near the canyon exit, and screamed in alarm:

"He's not completely dead! He's escaping! Twelve o'clock direction! Four hundred meters away! A faint origin fluctuation is moving!"

Liu Yuan immediately turned his gaze. The dynamic vision of his Double Pupil caught a streak of pus-filled blood rapidly flowing through the shadows along the ground.

Using the canyon's darkness as cover, that pool of blood was silently wriggling outward.

"Damn it!"

Seeing that his disguise had been exposed, the pool of blood stopped hiding. It abruptly leaped from the ground and swiftly reassembled into a human form in midair.

The Blood Lord was now in an utterly miserable state. Half of his body was gone, exposing the pale white bones within.

"Just wait for me! Once I return to the blood pool, I'll slaughter every last person in Yaluo City!"

The Evil Soul Master let out a venomous howl, and his Fourth Spirit Ring erupted with dazzling dark red light.

"Fourth Soul Skill, Blood Shadow Escape!"

In an instant, his body transformed into a translucent crimson streak of light and fled toward his abandoned manor at an unimaginable speed.

Liu Yuan's expression turned incomparably grim at that moment.

They had painstakingly set a trap and plotted against this Evil Soul Master so many times. They had even completely shattered his body within the ambush circle, yet they still had not managed to erase him completely.

This Evil Soul Master's ability to preserve his life was simply inconceivable.

"We absolutely can't let him return!"

Liu Yuan knew perfectly well that if this beast returned to its lair and received supplies from those four blood pools, not only could he instantly recover from his injuries, he might even unleash some destructive Soul Skill and drag everyone down with him.

Then all their previous efforts would have been in vain.

"Chase!"

Liu Yuan gave a low shout. The Qilin Precious Technique fully activated, and an icy blue, sacred radiance surged across his body.

At that moment, his speed broke past its limits. He became like a blue comet tearing through the night, trailing a series of sonic booms behind him.

Two li... one li...

With only a few hundred meters left before the abandoned manor, Liu Yuan finally caught up to the bloody shadow.

"Stay right there!"

Liu Yuan swooped down from the air, the Laser beams in his Double Pupil firing wildly.

"Boom!"

This high-ground strike was incredibly precise. Two scorching beams directly blew apart the Blood Lord's head, which had still been spewing curses.

The Evil Soul Master's mangled body slammed heavily onto the ground and rolled more than a dozen times along the dirt road from inertia.

Liu Yuan descended from the sky and pinned the other party's broken body beneath him like a mountain.

He did not stop just because the other party had lost his head. He had seen far too many Evil Soul Masters regenerate severed limbs.

Liu Yuan's hands pressed tightly against the Evil Soul Master's chest cavity, his Double Pupil nearly touching the other's battered flesh.

"Screech—!!!"

The Laser Eye attack erupted continuously at close range.

Liu Yuan made no fancy movements. He simply used the high-temperature beams of his Double Pupil to burn away every single drop of blood within the Evil Soul Master's body, bit by bit.

"No... spare me... ah!"

A shrill cry from the primordial spirit came from the Evil Soul Master's shattered abdominal cavity. His limbs writhed and struggled frantically beneath Liu Yuan, trying to transform into blood and flee again.

But Liu Yuan's physical strength was simply too great. Combined with the relentlessly burning Laser Eye attack, he firmly suppressed all of the Evil Soul Master's wicked Soul Power in place.

The blood continued evaporating, and the black smoke grew thinner and thinner.

As the final drop of origin blood burned into ashes, the Blood Lord, who had committed countless evils, finally stopped struggling. His life force was completely extinguished.

Meanwhile, as Liu Yuan was finishing him off with all his strength, behind a withered grove at the rear of the manor—

Ling Luochen, wearing Shrek Academy's specially made mask and carrying out a surveillance mission, was hidden there.

She had originally come under Xuan Zi's orders to encircle and eliminate this Evil Soul Master, but when she arrived at the manor, she found that the place was already in ruins.

Following the sounds of battle, she had arrived just in time to witness the final scene.

Ling Luochen hid behind a tree, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.

She saw that young man pinning a Five-Ring Soul King-level Evil Soul Master to the ground and brutally killing him again and again in an extremely violent, primal manner.

The crimson light radiating from the young man's Double Pupil in the darkness not only illuminated his face, but also utterly shattered her worldview.

"Is that him? Has he already become this powerful?"

"A dignified Five-Ring Evil Soul Master was being chased down and killed by him?"