In the darkness, five figures walked out from different directions.
They wore gray-black robes, and their hoods covered most of their faces, leaving only their pale, paper-like chins and chapped lips.
Everyone's body is Entanglement covered with a faint gray-black mist, which has the same origin as the filth in that person's body.
It's not the contaminated villagers, it's Evil Soul Master.
Chen Jieqi stood where he was, not moving.
His eyes swept over the five people one by one, and he quickly assessed in his mind that there were four Soul Ancestor and one Soul Emperor.
The Soul Emperor's aura is a bit strange - empty, like a balloon that has been inflated too full and bursts when poked.
"Chen Jieqi."
The leader opened his hood, revealing a skinny face with sunken eye sockets and turbid gray pupils, like two dead stones.
"We've been waiting for you for a long time."
"Wait for me?" Chen Jieqi raised his eyebrows, "Do you know who I am?"
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy's genius, Dugu Bo's grandson, Prince Xue Qinghe's guest." The man grinned, revealing his blackened gums.
"More importantly - you are the key."
Chen Jieqi's heart moved, but his face remained calm.
"What key?"
"You know it in your heart." The man did not answer directly, but slowly raised his hand, and gray-black Soul Power condensed in his palm.
It turned into a twisted spear that squirmed like a living creature, with two yellow, two purple, two black and six lines at its feet Soul Ring,
"The things after Stone Gate were discovered by us first. You were just... the one who opened the door."
Before he finished speaking, he waved his hand violently. After First Soul Ring on his body lit up the amplification itself, the fourth Soul Ring shined.
The gray-black spear shot through the air, with a sharp hiss, like a poisonous snake rushing toward Chen Jieqi's face.
Chen Jieqi did not retreat, and the silver-white Soul Ring shined brightly.
[Fifth Soul Skill·Sacred Heart] Passive trigger - all holy and light Soul Skill have double effects.
Then First Soul Ring lights up [First Soul Skill·Holy Blessing of Light]
Golden holy light gushed out from Heart of the Naaru, and the silver-white and golden flames of the Ashbringer sword in his hand suddenly surged, and then he raised his hand and slashed forward,
"Cross Light Blade Slash!"
A crescent sword blade intertwined with silver and gold directly split the gray-black spear from the middle.
The spear that was split in two made a harsh scream in the holy light, and then began to burn and dissipate from the crack like a piece of ignited paper.
After splitting, the light of the sword was greatly reduced, but it still carried the remaining power to kill Soul Emperor Evil Soul Master.
The Evil Soul Master's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately lit up the third Soul Ring to counteract it. After taking a few steps back, he canceled out the light blade.
His face changed, not surprised, but happy - as if he was expecting something.
"Come together!" he shouted in a low voice.
Four figures rushed towards him at the same time, the gray and black Soul Power intertwined into a filthy net, covering Chen Jieqi.
Chen Jieqi lights up the third Soul Ring 'Holy Blessing' first, amplifying itself and accelerating its recovery at the same time. This is his usual habit.
Then, light up the fourth Soul Ring again,
[Fourth Soul Skill·Holy Storm]
Silver-white and golden holy light burst out with him as the center, forming a pillar of light that reached the sky.
In the light pillar, countless light flames swept outward like a storm, and the range was accurately controlled within a radius of 5X10 meters, which just covered the four Soul Ancestor surrounding circles.
The bodies of the four Soul Ancestor were frozen in the storm of holy light. They were not immobilized but stunned.
The shock wave of light instantly overwhelmed their consciousness, and their eyes became blank at that moment, and they didn't even have time to scream.
Then, the light fell on them, and they froze, their eyes blank,
Then it melted and purified like a candle, turning into four clouds of gray-black ashes, which were blown away by the night wind.
Just two breaths, four Soul Ancestor, all destroyed.
Soul Emperor Evil Soul Master looked at it, not angry, not running away, he was smiling.
"You..." Chen Jieqi holds Ashbringer tightly,
"I said it." Evil Soul Master's voice became softer, as if he was relieved.
"You are the key."
He activated all Soul Power and lit up Sixth Soul Ring. Suddenly, gray-black light condensed into a thick layer of armor all over his body.
His Martial Soul appeared behind him, a twisted black monster with countless tentacles, exuding a disgusting aura of decay.
"Do you think you can defeat me by killing a few losers?"
He was still laughing, "I am the Soul Emperor"
Chen Jieqi didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, he stepped forward with his sword, and the flames on Ashbringer skyrocketed again.
The silvery-white-gold sword light drew arcs in the night, and every slash carried the pressure of purifying everything.
Evil Soul Master resisted desperately, but his gray and black Soul Power shattered layer by layer in front of the holy light, being suppressed, eroded, and melted with every collision.
His Soul Power consumes three times as fast as Chen Jieqi, and Chen Jieqi becomes more stable as he plays.
"Impossible..." Evil Soul Master roared, madness flashing in his eyes.
He suddenly took a few steps back, put his right hand on his waist, and pulled out a gray-black dagger.
It was engraved with twisted runes and exuded an even stronger smell of filth than before.
"This move..."
With a flick of his wrist, the dagger flew out of his hand, not in a straight line, but turning and accelerating in the air like a living creature, stabbing from the blind corner of Chen Jieqi's field of vision.
In Soul Ring, the fluctuations of Sheng Hui suddenly became hot. It was not a warning, but excitement, like a dog seeing the tail of its kind.
Chen Jieqi was stunned for a moment, just a moment.
The dagger grazed his right arm, cut his sleeve, and left a shallow blood mark on his arm.
At the blood stain, gray-black lines spread rapidly, crawling up the arm like a poisonous snake.
A cold, decaying feeling poured into his body along his meridians, trying to pollute the origin of his holy light.
Soul Emperor Evil Soul Master grinned, but the smile was not one of pride, but relief.
"Do you think the holy light can restrain everything? This is a cursed blade tempered with the residue of ancient darkness.
Stained with flesh and blood, contaminating the meridians, the stronger your holy light is, the faster it spreads..."
He paused and his voice became lower,
"You purify me, I pollute you, it's fair."
Chen Jieqi didn't panic. He raised his injured right arm, closed his eyes, and the Naaru Brand between his eyebrows shone crazily.
The silver-white halo of 'Healing Heart' burst out from the brand. It was not a scorching, destructive flame, but a warm, moonlight-like flame.
It went all the way down along Chen Jieqi's eyebrows, bridge of nose, lips, and chin, passed through the neck, shoulders, and finally converged on the wound on his right arm.
The gray-black lines receded, and the flames were relentless, forcing out inch by inch, and finally condensed into a drop of black liquid at the wound and dripped.
"Tsk--"
A small pit was carved out of the ground.
Evil Soul Master's smile completely froze. It wasn't that he was surprised that the cure was effective, but that he didn't have enough time.
"You..." He looked at Chen Jieqi's right arm. The lines were faded but not gone. It was like the ink had been washed, but the foundation was still there.
"Ancient dark residue?" Chen Jieqi opened his eyes, moved his right arm, and the silver-white flame slowly extinguished.
"Do you know what my fifth Soul Ring is?"
He didn't wait for an answer, Second Soul Ring[Holy Light Praise] lit up, and the holy light all over his body was condensed into substance, like a "Little Golden Man".
Evil Soul Master wanted to run, but Chen Jieqi didn't give him a chance. Ashbringer, with full amplification, slashed out again, with two consecutive swings that were more condensed and purer than before.
"Cross Light Blade Slash"
Evil Soul Master tried his best to resist, but when the last sword fell, his body was penetrated by the silver-white gold light blade.
The filth gushed out, struggled and dissipated in the holy light. His body quickly withered and shrank as if it had been drained.
Chen Jieqi walked to her, squatted down,
"How many of you are there?"
Evil Soul Master looked at him, his pupils were dilating, but he was still smiling.
"You... already are."
"What?"
"Curse... not pollution..." His voice burst like a bubble,
"It's... mark..."
The body turned into gray-black powder and scattered.
Chen Jieqi stood there, with the lines on his right arm still there. He looked down and remembered Evil Soul Master's words,
"You already are."
He penetrates the remaining filth with the Holy Light and purifies it.
Fragments emerged: underground palace, twisted runes, gray and black statues, scarlet eyes, men in black robes knelt down and chanted.
The voice echoed, "Find the key... open Stone Gate... take out the core of Temple of Light..."
The screen is broken.
"The core of Temple of Light..." That's what comes after Stone Gate.
He looked at his right arm again. The wound had healed, but the gray and black lines were still there, like scars.
"Sheng Hui." He muttered silently in his heart.
Unicorn responded, a wave of warm heat gushed out from the fifth Soul Ring, flowing towards the lines, and faded a bit, but did not disappear.
"Keep it." Chen Jieqi whispered, "Just keep it in mind."
Then he walked to the stone monument at the entrance of the village, sat down, and sat cross-legged to adjust his breathing.
In Soul Ring, Sheng Hui turned over, his consciousness came out, glanced at his right arm, and then retracted it.
It's like sighing, but there's no sound.