"You can do it, can't you?
A Super Douluo-level flying Soul Master, with the highest-grade phoenix Martial Soul, and the boost from Four-Character Battle Armor. If you use your Martial Soul Avatar and burn your blood essence to fly, you should be able to make it in an hour."
"Use my Martial Soul Avatar to fly for an entire hour? Ghost Emperor, that brat's life matters, but mine doesn't?"
"Correct. Your life matters less than his. You can die, but he has to be saved."
"Damn it, I've got a short fuse, but even I know better than to talk like that, you old fossil!
Our Four-Character Battle Armor is fake, not the real thing. It's made by upgrading Three-Character Battle Armor with an evil transformation technique, piled up with human lives. You know perfectly well it's nowhere near as good as genuine Four-Character Battle Armor forged with heavenly materials!"
"Then I'll give you at most another half hour. You must arrive within an hour and a half and save that boy.
If you arrive within an hour and a half and he's dead, you'll still have done your duty;
if he's dead and you haven't arrived within an hour and a half, I'll kill you. I'm not joking."
"Then let me ask one last thing. Why do you value him so much? Give me a reason to burn my blood essence. I don't want to burn half of it for some complete stranger!"
"That boy has Twin Martial Souls. His Martial Soul bloodline had only just undergone an evil transformation when it devoured a Titled Douluo with a cultivation of ninety-three levels.
"Unfortunately, after devouring him, the newly transformed Martial Soul couldn't withstand that much energy or the backlash from the transformation. He could die at any moment, without even leaving a corpse. Is that reason enough?"
When Leng Yulai heard Ghost Emperor's words, she froze in shock.
"Interesting, very interesting. Now I'm interested in that boy. I won't need an hour and a half. I'll be there in one hour, but whether he survives is up to fate."
With that, the graceful Leng Yulai instantly donned her Battle Armor and released her Martial Soul Avatar, then burned her blood essence. A string of black holes appeared in the air, allowing her to travel through them.
"What on earth is..."
Feeling Leng Yulai's fading presence, the Underworld Emperor let out a cold smile and immediately flew out of the Holy Spirit Cult. Ghost Emperor followed right behind.
The Underworld Emperor gave Ghost Emperor a cold glance.
"What happened?"
"Something good."
At that moment, on Blood Island, Lin Tian lay in a pool of blood, one hand resting on a table as he fiddled with a Soul Tool screen. It was playing everything that had just happened in the secret chamber.
With his practiced editing skills, Lin Tian cut and deleted all the footage from after Blood Fiend had been devoured, leaving only the footage of Blood Fiend being devoured. Then he put the Soul Tool surveillance device back where it had been.
Once he'd done all that, he used Martial Soul Possession to slash open his own veins. After flooding the entire chamber, he used a Soul Tool to collect the blood.
Perfect!
After his Martial Soul's evil transformation and its devouring of Blood Fiend, the blood had spread wildly, flooding the whole chamber and wrecking the Soul Tool surveillance device. Only the footage from before remained. No one would notice anything wrong!
Only after finishing all that did he start acting again.
Playing the madman!
Who couldn't do that?
His eyes had to be red, his body had to look out of control. He had to hurt himself, look miserable, and drink blood. It was his own blood, anyway. A little wouldn't hurt, and it wasn't too disgusting.
His chance at wealth and status depended on this one performance!
Lin Tian had considered hiding the news of Blood Fiend's disappearance and taking over the entire Blood Island, then trying to fool the Holy Spirit Cult.
But he'd nipped that idea in the bud as soon as it occurred to him. It was far too implausible. One lie would take countless more to cover it up, until eventually there was no hiding the truth.
Besides, he didn't think a kid of just a few years could outplay a bunch of old foxes who were hundreds of years old!
Better to stick to the truth. After all, anything was possible once a Martial Soul underwent an evil transformation. Anything he couldn't explain could be blamed on the transformation.
He was a genius with Twin Martial Souls, and his Martial Soul had devoured a Titled Douluo right after its first evil transformation. That would inevitably draw the Holy Spirit Cult's attention.
He could make good use of the Holy Spirit Cult. He was already an Evil Soul Master, so sooner or later he'd have to deal with them anyway.
As for whether he'd reform the Holy Spirit Cult after using it, or destroy it outright, that would depend on just how vile the cult turned out to be.
For now, he'd just finish the act.
An hour passed in a flash. Leng Yulai burned her blood essence furiously and tore through space, guided by precise coordinates. After an hour, a streak of purple-black light plunged down onto Blood Island like a falling meteor, crashing heavily into the ground and sending shattered rocks flying in every direction.
Leng Yulai staggered to her feet. Her Wind Phoenix Wings slowly faded as she gasped for breath. Her blood and energy roiled, her Soul Power was nearly spent, and she was utterly exhausted.
The moment Leng Yulai arrived, several Soul Douluos on the island noticed her. Blood Butcher and the others immediately surrounded her.
But after sensing the evil aura emanating from Leng Yulai and the terrifying strength she possessed, none of them dared approach.
Leng Yulai didn't take the group seriously at all. They were just a few Soul Douluos. Even at her weakest, she could wipe them out with a wave of her hand.
She simply headed straight toward the coordinates. In moments, she reached the secret chamber's entrance.
Seeing the door, Leng Yulai immediately summoned purple-black flames in her palm and slammed them against the metal.
With a deafening boom, the sturdy Soul Tool door was blasted to pieces. Metal fragments flew everywhere as Leng Yulai entered the chamber, immediately spotting Lin Tian, covered in blood and raving like a madman.
Her pupils contracted. She could clearly sense the dense aura of evil transformation around Lin Tian. Just as she'd thought, his transformation had spiraled out of control.
Leng Yulai was about to act when her communicator rang.
She frowned and answered at once. A projection appeared, and Ghost Emperor had called by video.
Leng Yulai had been a little impatient, but when she saw who appeared on the screen, a look of shock crossed her face. Alongside Ghost Emperor were the Underworld Emperor and the Holy Sect's supreme ruler—the Supreme Sect Leader, Demon Empress.
"Greetings, Your Majesty Demon Empress!"
Leng Yulai's face filled with reverence.
"Never mind that. Do everything you can to save him."
Demon Empress's icy voice rang out.
Leng Yulai didn't dare disobey. She immediately took a large quantity of sacred and secret medicines from her Storage Soul Tool, along with all kinds of rare treasures. These were the Holy Spirit Cult's most precious resources, things even core members rarely got to see. Ghost Emperor had dispatched them to her at the last minute.
Leng Yulai took out the sacred and secret medicines one by one and stuffed them straight into Lin Tian's mouth. Worried he might hurt himself, she locked an arm around his neck and held his whole body against her.
Lin Tian struggled wildly, but against the overwhelming strength of a Super Douluo, he couldn't fight back at all. He could only swallow the medicines helplessly.
As Leng Yulai worked to suppress the backlash in Lin Tian, Ghost Emperor's orders came through the communicator: "This is a Soul Guidance Secret Chamber. There must be a Soul Tool surveillance device. Get the footage out. We need to see what happened. Besides, you don't want him to suddenly devour you, do you?"
Leng Yulai froze, suddenly feeling a little afraid.
Although she still found it hard to believe that someone as weak as Lin Tian could devour a Titled Douluo, they Evil Soul Masters knew better than anyone how strange Evil Martial Souls could be. Nothing was impossible.
So Leng Yulai, who was no novice with Soul Tools, quickly found the secret chamber's Soul Tool storage card. She read its contents and transferred the footage to the screen. Everyone's attention immediately turned to what was playing.