Death Caused by Not Being Evil Enough

"Gentlemen, if you still won't make a move, I'll be entering Ming Capital soon!"

Jiang Heng halted and smiled toward where the two men were concealing themselves.

Seeing that they had already been exposed, Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng and Dark Cloud Douluo Wu Yun no longer hid.

They had already concluded that this mysterious Title Douluo was certainly stronger than the two of them.

All that remained was to test whether he was Rank 97, Rank 98, or perhaps even a Limit Douluo.

That would be enough to complete their mission.

"Your hand has reached too far!"

Scorpion Tiger Douluo spoke first, his gloomy, icy voice squeezing from his throat as he stared intently at Jiang Heng.

At the same time, his nine soul rings appeared.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.

The standard soul ring configuration: two yellow, two purple, and five black.

Dark Cloud Douluo beside him likewise revealed his soul rings.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.

Like Scorpion Tiger Douluo, Dark Cloud Douluo also possessed the standard soul ring configuration.

That was rather strange!

The Holy Spirit Cult clearly possessed secret techniques for enhancing soul rings. Given the status of these two men, they should have been fully qualified to use them.

Yet their soul rings remained so ordinary, without even a single hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

It was truly unimpressive.

"What a pity!"

Jiang Heng looked at the two men and lightly sighed, shaking his head.

Originally, he had planned to kill only one of them and let the other return to deliver a message.

After all, every additional Evil Soul Master weakened humanity's Soul Masters further, especially Evil Soul Masters at the Title Douluo level.

Judging solely by their soul ring configurations, these two were the sort of people whose conscience had not yet been completely extinguished.

In that case, there was no need to let either of them go back.

Neither Scorpion Tiger Douluo nor Dark Cloud Douluo could have imagined that Jiang Heng had suddenly decided to kill them both because they were not evil enough.

"The Holy Spirit Cult sent only the two of you to assassinate me. Should I say you're arrogant, or that you look down on me?"

As Jiang Heng spoke in a low voice, a cold glint burst from his eyes. His immense spiritual power erupted at once, radiating endless pressure as it bore down on the two men before him.

"This power..."

"A Limit Douluo!"

When Scorpion Tiger Douluo sensed that unfathomable spiritual power, as immeasurable as the Abyss, his expression changed drastically.

At that moment, he no longer had the leisure to ask how the other man knew of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Only one thought remained in his mind: run!

He had to flee immediately. The person before him was absolutely not someone he could handle.

He had only ever felt such formidable spiritual power from the Supreme Cult Master and the Chief Venerable.

As for why spiritual power alone was enough to determine that the other party was a Limit Douluo, the reason was simple. He had never heard of anyone whose cultivation had not reached the limit while their spiritual power already had.

"Zhang Peng, hold him off for a moment!"

Unexpectedly, Dark Cloud Douluo was even more cunning. Before Zhang Peng could react, he had already fled first.

"Damn it, Wu Yun! You faithless bastard!"

Zhang Peng could no longer care about anything else. He hurriedly unleashed his ninth soul skill, Dark Tiger Soul Destruction!

His ninth soul skill came from a ninety-thousand-year Twin-Winged Demon Tiger, granting him an immensely powerful single-target attack. It not only contained the darkness attribute, but also possessed devouring power. Once it struck an opponent, it could devour thirty percent of their Soul Power while damaging and destroying their body, replenishing his own strength.

It was precisely because of this powerful soul skill that Zhang Peng, despite being only Rank 96, dared to fight a Rank 97 Title Douluo.

"Purple Demon Eye, Sacred Light!"

Facing Zhang Peng, who was about to unleash his ninth soul skill, Jiang Heng did not hesitate. He first used a spiritual shock to interrupt the activation of the other man's soul skill.

Ever since obtaining those Tang Sect manuals, he had often studied them.

Of them, he had studied Purple Demon Eye and Mysterious Jade Hand most deeply.

After all, while living in the human world, there were very few methods he could display without exposing his identity.

Ordinarily, Purple Demon Eye required cultivation of the Mysterious Heaven Skill to get started, but that was only true for beginners. Once one's strength reached a certain level and one possessed powerful spiritual power as support, those requirements were no longer an issue.

With the Spirit Origin of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the power of Gold of Life, he had madly elevated the realm of Purple Demon Eye.

If not for the insufficient Sun Purple Qi he had absorbed, his cultivated Purple Demon Eye and formidable spiritual power alone would have allowed him to contend with a Rank 97 Title Douluo.

As for the Sacred Light activated through Purple Demon Eye, it was a method he had only recently developed.

After successfully surviving his third Heavenly Tribulation, he activated the portion of power within him that belonged to the Radiant Sacred Dragon King. By blending light power into his spiritual attacks, he had created Sacred Light, with spiritual power as its core and light power as its supplement.

If his opponent had been another Rank 96 Title Douluo, this Sacred Light might have interrupted their movements and caused them a setback, but it would have been difficult to directly injure their Spirit Sea.

The problem was that his opponent was an Evil Soul Master.

Light power at the threshold of the limit was enough to suppress him and inflict irreparable damage.

In merely one exchange, Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng was severely wounded, not even getting the chance to unleash his soul skill.

Jiang Heng could have seized that chance to kill him in one stroke.

Yet he did not. Instead, he turned his gaze toward the fleeing Dark Cloud Douluo.

Dark Cloud Douluo had indeed acted decisively, but his strength was ultimately somewhat lacking.

If he had possessed Zhang Peng's strength and chosen to flee at the first opportunity, Jiang Heng truly would have found it difficult to catch him.

After all, speed was Jiang Heng's weakness.

Unfortunately, his opponent had not fled cleanly enough, nor decisively enough.

Sacred Light Roar!

He directly unleashed his Innate Soul Skill. Powerful, dense light power blanketed heaven and earth, surging like a burst dam and carrying vast, overwhelming pressure as it swept straight toward Dark Cloud Douluo.

"Damn it! Damn it! What kind of bullshit mission is this?!"

Wu Yun cursed as he fled.

The light power controlled by this man suppressed him far too severely. At most, he could only unleash seventy or eighty percent of his full strength.

What he could not understand most was why the other man still refused to let him go when Zhang Peng had already stayed behind to delay him.

Faced with such suppression, Wu Yun knew perfectly well that if he kept running, there would be only one outcome: death.

They were facing a Limit Douluo.

The other party had not even revealed his soul rings or used a soul skill yet. It was obvious that he was merely playing cat and mouse with them.

"If you keep chasing me, I'll self-destruct above Ming Capital and take more than half the city down with me!"

With nowhere left to run, Dark Cloud Douluo roared a threat in a deep voice!