Then Tai Yi spoke to Purple Brilliant:
"The God King of Destruction just told me that he saw your depleted essence and knew you were about to dissipate. As your master, he couldn't bear to see that happen, so he extracted all your essence from the members of the Xu Family and gathered it on the Sacrificial Altar. Once you've absorbed it, your life will no longer be in danger, and no one in the Xu Family will ever awaken the purple brilliant heaven destroying dragon martial soul again."
"Not that I intended to let the Xu Family live anyway."
Purple Brilliant froze at those words. He had never imagined that his master, who valued the Divine Realm's rules above all else, would personally extract the bloodline from every member of the Xu Family to help him recover.
Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang heard those words as well. How could they fail to understand what had happened? The divine position inheritance their imperial family took such pride in meant nothing before this enemy of their empire.
And that was not all. To restore the Purple Brilliant God, the god they worshipped, a God King of the Divine Realm had actually extracted all the essence of the purple brilliant heaven destroying dragon martial soul from the Xu Family. Not only had everyone carrying the Xu Family's bloodline suffered varying degrees of backlash, but everyone who possessed that martial soul had now lost it entirely.
Purple Brilliant looked toward the violet mass of his own essence on the Sacrificial Altar. He prepared to absorb it, recover some of his essence, and then let his master take him back so he could slowly recover.
Just as Purple Brilliant was about to fly to the Sacrificial Altar, he glanced at Xu Tian and Xu