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Sun Moon Continent, Evil Demon Forest.
Evil Demon Forest lay in the northwest of the Sun Moon Continent, stretching behind the Jingyang Mountain Range. It was the largest gathering place for Spirit Beasts on the continent.
The entire forest was shrouded year-round in thick black fog, through which sunlight could barely penetrate. It was widely recognized as one of the continent's most forbidden places, its danger on par with the core region of Star Dou Forest.
The forest was mainly covered in dark coniferous trees. The plants were black and dark purple throughout, lacking the vibrant green of an ordinary forest. The air was perpetually saturated with darkness and sinister energy that eroded the mind.
The Spirit Beasts that lived here were mainly of the mental type or dark mutations. Their leader was the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign, the Evil Emperor, who was approaching eight hundred thousand years of cultivation. The entire forest belonged to him.
A gigantic single eye floated in midair, measuring over three hundred meters in diameter. Its base was a dark, blood-red color, its sclera a murky silver-gray, and its pupil a bottomless, ink-black slit. Twisted crimson mental mists swirled within it as it turned.
Surrounding the giant eye were eighty-one fleshy tentacles. Each one was over five hundred meters long, the same color as the eye and covered in fine patterns resembling miniature Evil Eyes. They could lash, pierce, and coil at will, or spread out into a Mental Barrier. (The above is the original novel's description.)
"Human powerhouse, why have you trespassed into this emperor's territory?" The Evil Emperor's giant eye warily watched Qian Xunji as he issued his warning.
The aura radiating from the human powerhouse before him was formidable—so formidable that even with the advantage of home ground, the Evil Emperor had no certainty of victory.
A powerhouse this close to godhood would never come alone to Evil Demon Forest just to hunt Spirit Beasts and obtain Spirit Rings.
If he wasn't here for Spirit Rings, then he had come to hunt Spirit Beasts for their Spirit Bones.
The Evil Eye Clan was naturally endowed with powerful spiritual strength.
When an Evil Eye Tyrant with a hundred thousand years of cultivation died, it was bound to drop a Head Soul Bone. There was also a very small chance it would drop an Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone.
"So you are the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign, leader of the Evil Eye Clan."
"Sacrifice yourself to me and offer up the Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone. Otherwise..."
Qian Xunji rubbed his hands together, forming a dazzling red orb. This was a fusion technique he had devised using the spiritual power of the Divine Origin Realm, combined with the Asura Domain and Soul Shock, as well as light and judgment attributes.
It was named Asura Law. Its effect was similar to the monster-clearing effect of Fairy Law from Fairy Tail, but it targeted only souls, destroying the soul while leaving the body intact.
The Asura Domain spread from beneath his feet, extending across the core region of Evil Demon Forest, where the middle-tier members of the Evil Eye Clan lived.
Any living being within the Asura Domain whom Qian Xunji judged to be an enemy would be subjected to the attack of Asura Law.
"Human, are you threatening this emperor!" The Evil Emperor was furious.
The human before him had demanded that he sacrifice himself and offer up the Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone the moment they met. He was even using the lives of the entire clan to threaten him, forcing him to submit meekly.
This was too much! He was treating the Evil Eyes like pushovers!
Faced with Qian Xunji's show of force, the members of the Evil Eye Clan who had cultivated for more than a hundred thousand years rose into the air and surrounded him.
"Human, we admit that you're strong, but don't think you can make our Evil Eye Clan submit through force!"
"We would rather be shattered like jade than bow and scrape, become slaves, and cling to life!"
"You're threatening us with our lives? Then we'll blow up with you!"
"If you want the External Soul Bone that our clan might drop after death, don't even think about it!"
The Evil Eye Clan's fierce response surprised Qian Xunji.
He praised them inwardly: No wonder they're outsiders. They really are different from the vast majority of foolish Douluo natives.
For outsiders to establish themselves and grow strong in a foreign land, they really couldn't be cowards.
For a mental-type Spirit Beast to grow stronger, it had to have an unyielding will and fear no powerful foe.
Qian Xunji clapped his hands, dispelling his self-created fusion technique, Asura Law.
He didn't want all the Evil Eyes with over a hundred thousand years of cultivation to blow themselves up along with him.
His goal in coming to the Sun Moon Continent was the Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone in Evil Demon Forest, not to wipe out an entire clan.
Qian Xunji clapped his hands. "I admire your clan."
He took out the Level 12 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball, "Eternal Kingdom," and held it in his hand, his gaze blazing as he locked onto the Evil Emperor.
"As long as you, Evil Emperor, sacrifice yourself to me and offer up the External Soul Bone I want..."
"I guarantee I won't lay a finger on anything in Evil Demon Forest!"
The Evil Emperor's enormous body trembled with rage.
The human before him was hardly human at all!
He was actually threatening him with a Fixed Soul Guidance Shell in hand.
Instinctively, the Evil Emperor sensed that this thing was more dangerous than the self-created Soul Skill his opponent had used earlier.
The Evil Emperor possessed time, space, and mental attributes.
He actually saw the scene that would follow the explosion of the Fixed Soul Guidance Shell in front of him: a massive fireball spawning a shock wave that would destroy all of Evil Demon Forest.
The Evil Emperor stared fixedly at Eternal Kingdom, deeply alarmed. "Compared to this thing, the Fixed Soul Guidance Shells made by those Soul Engineers are nothing but firecrackers."
It wasn't only the Evil Emperor. When Qian Xunji took Eternal Kingdom in hand, the powerful members of the Evil Eye Clan all felt an even more deadly threat than when he had used Asura Law.
Asura Law targeted only their souls, while Eternal Kingdom made them feel that both their bodies and souls were under threat.
"Human, you want an Evil Eye Tyrant External Soul Bone? I'll sacrifice myself to you." An Evil Eye Tyrant with nearly two hundred thousand years of cultivation, who knew he wouldn't survive the two-hundred-thousand-year Heaven's Tribulation, volunteered.
The Evil Emperor was the strongest member of their clan. The Evil Eye Clan couldn't afford to lose him.
As one of the Evil Emperor's many-generations-later descendants, he had grown up under the Evil Emperor's protection from the moment he was born.
Now that the Evil Emperor was in danger, it was time for him to repay that kindness.
"Too weak. You don't even have time and space attributes. No." Qian Xunji only glanced at him before speaking coldly, his voice full of disdain.
He could settle for second best and accept the sacrifice of a Ferocious Beast-level Evil Eye Tyrant in exchange for an External Soul Bone.
But it had to possess time and space attributes.
Otherwise, no deal.
"Human, I won't let you insult my people. Your target is me, so whatever you have to say, say it to me!"
The Evil Emperor couldn't stand seeing one of his descendants humiliated.
"Sacrifice yourself to me and offer up the External Soul Bone. I don't want to repeat myself!"
Qian Xunji drew the Asura Demon Sword. Holding the sword in one hand and Eternal Kingdom in the other, he delivered his final ultimatum.
If the Evil Emperor could take human form, his mouth would have been twitching with rage by now.
Just what kind of person was this human? How could he keep bringing out god-slaying Fixed Soul Guidance Shells and divine weapons one after another?
"This emperor has his pride!"
"If you want this emperor to sacrifice himself to you, you can't rely on outside objects. Soul Tools, divine weapons, divine power—you must defeat this emperor with your own strength!"
"If you can't do that, then you have no right to make this emperor sacrifice himself!"
Seeking a sliver of hope for survival, the Evil Emperor took a step back and advanced by retreating, laying down his own condition.
As long as Qian Xunji didn't rely on outside forces, the Evil Emperor didn't believe he would lose to him.
The Evil Emperor thought: My Light of Time and Space might yet prove invincible!
"You're going to accept his terms?" The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed Qian Xunji's interest and spoke up.
As the strongest Spirit Beast in the sea, it had lost its body, but it could still sense that the mental-type Spirit Beast before them was no ordinary creature.
It didn't want Qian Xunji to take a risk against something dangerous enough to make it feel threatened.
After all, the two of them were partners in pursuit of their interests now. It didn't want anything to happen to Qian Xunji.
Besides, his wife and daughter were now living in the Ten Thousand Beast Platform Sub-dimension. They were safe from the Heaven's Tribulation and spent every day happily thinking about what delicious food to eat.
As a husband and father, it didn't want his wife and daughter to lose their safe, happy lives.
"Mr. Demon Whale King, you don't know me well enough yet."
"I never do anything unless I'm certain. The moment I sense that my life is in danger, I'll definitely be among the first to run."
Shui Ping never walked into a dead end.
"If you're sure you can handle it, then I'm reassured." Seeing how confident Qian Xunji looked, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King finally relaxed.
This guy had dared to face the Sea God Divine Sense with his sword and refused to back down an inch.
He had even dared to go to Sea God Island and fleece the Sea God, slimming down the divine weapon Trident right in front of the Sea God Divine Sense.
He seemed to believe that he was the greatest under heaven, bold and reckless beyond measure.
But when Qian Xunji said, "The moment I sense that my life is in danger, I'll definitely be among the first to run," the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's opinion of him changed.
This man was no reckless fool.
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