"Patriarch of the Evil Eye Clan, This Seat accepts your proposal."
"But remember your promise: if you lose, you will obediently sacrifice yourself to This Seat and offer up your Evil Eye Tyrant external spirit bone."
As he finished speaking, Qian Xunji activated his spirit avatar and donned the Emperor Armor.
Tiny golden flames flickered across the armor from time to time.
In the past, his strength had been insufficient, so wearing the Emperor Armor to conceal his face and maintain an air of mystery had offered many benefits.
Now that he was a quasi-god powerhouse, only two divine trials away from inheriting the Asura God Position, there was no longer any need for such caution.
"You choose the battlefield," Qian Xunji said, raising a hand.
It mattered not where the battlefield lay.
Only the weak suffered a decline in combat power due to their surroundings.
The strong would simply reshape the battlefield into an environment favorable to themselves.
Seeing Qian Xunji don the Emperor Armor, the Evil Emperor realized this was his spirit.
It was the first time it had ever seen a spirit that manifested as a full-body suit of armor.
Feeling the extreme light and sacred flame attributes radiating from the armor, it felt a sudden urge to retract its earlier boast.
This spirit is definitely not simple. It is the first time I have seen a spirit of such high quality; it hardly seems like a thing of the mortal realm, the Evil Emperor thought.
It had lived for an incredibly long time and had seen all manner of spirit masters and spirits from the Sun Moon Continent.
Even the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon, which had mutated from a Sun spirit, did not possess a quality comparable to the armor spirit before it.
"You are not a spirit master from the Sun Moon Continent," the Evil Emperor said, staring straight at Qian Xunji, seeking an answer.
"Let me introduce myself."
"This Seat is Qian Xunji, and if all goes as planned, I shall be the next Asura God."
Qian Xunji did not mention that he hailed from the Douluo Continent or Spirit Hall.
He was a man who had fled Spirit City in a hurry on the very first day he had transmigrated.
Claiming to be a member of Spirit Hall would be no different from telling a bald-faced lie.
Asura God. The Evil Emperor's heart sank.
It did not know what kind of god the Asura God was, nor had it ever heard the name.
But it knew that a successor to a godhood would eventually be able to inherit the position and ascend to the God Realm.
No wonder this man could wield a divine artifact and act with such arrogance.
If it could also become a god, it would certainly be even more arrogant than Qian Xunji.
"We shall fight right here, and settle the outcome in a single strike," the Evil Emperor proposed.
Even though the opponent was a successor to a godhood with the qualifications to ascend to the God Realm, the Evil Emperor was still unwilling to sacrifice itself to a human.
Even if its soul could reside within a spirit ring or spirit bone after such a sacrifice.
Before the battle began, the Evil Emperor issued instructions for its descendants to move away from the core area, with the strong protecting the weak as they retreated to the outer regions.
"So much for the title of Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign," the Deep Sea Demon Whale King remarked with a scoff.
"Gentleness is reserved for one's own kind, while the title of tyrant sovereign is bestowed by one's enemies."
"But then again, being stigmatized by one's enemies is precisely proof that one's actions have broken their defenses."
Qian Xunji's words reminded the Deep Sea Demon Whale King of Sea God Poseidon and the sea spirit masters on Sea God Island.
Even though it spent the vast majority of its time in the Demon Whale Sea Area, they insisted on calling it an evil spirit beast that endangered the ocean.
Above the Evil Demon Forest, the man and the giant beast stood in a tense standoff.
A strong wind blew in clouds, obscuring half of the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign's body.
Its massive eye flickered with a dangerous light.
The Endless Spiritual Domain expanded.
Seeing this, Qian Xunji also unleashed his own spiritual domain.
The two great spiritual domains collided, and the resulting energy fluctuations blew away the clouds surrounding the Evil Emperor.
The Evil Emperor watched as its Endless Spiritual Domain failed to hold its ground for more than a few moments before being pushed back by Qian Xunji's spiritual domain.
How is it that his spiritual power feels even stronger than his spirit power level? The Evil Emperor subconsciously sensed that something was wrong, its mind momentarily distracted.
Qian Xunji's spirit power was at level 99, that of a quasi-god powerhouse who had grasped the rudiments of the laws and was only a step away from godhood.
If his spiritual power were truly stronger than his spirit power level, would that not mean he possessed divine-level spiritual power?
It was not that the Evil Emperor was arrogant, but in terms of spiritual power intensity and application, as long as the opponent was not at the god level and their consciousness had not transformed into divine sense—
As long as they were still at the peak of the Spirit Domain realm, it was an invincible existence within that boundary.
"Self-created ultimate technique: Light of Time and Space!"
The Evil Emperor unleashed his ultimate killing move.
In the original Douluo Dalu, even if the Beast God Di Tian came, he would have to spend a thousand years recovering if he were hit by this attack from the Evil Emperor.
However, Qian Xunji merely unleashed "Sword Separating the World." With one strike to break ten thousand laws, a single infrared laser-guided move severed the Evil Emperor's Light of Time and Space.
"How is this possible!!!"
The scene before him made the Evil Emperor scream in disbelief.
Everything happening before its eyes made it unable to believe such a result.
What made it even more incredulous was that after Sword Separating the World severed its "Self-Created Ultimate Technique: Light of Time and Space," the power remained undiminished, leaving a bottomless chasm in the Evil Demon Forest.
Across the chasm, countless trees were severed, and a large number of spirit beasts suffered casualties. The countless white, yellow, purple, and black lights of spirit rings made the originally thick, dark fog seem less eerie and terrifying.
"Lost, Lord Evil Emperor has lost."
The powerful members of the Evil Eye Clan capable of speech let out mournful cries.
If Lord Evil Emperor lost, he would have to sacrifice himself to that arrogant and conceited human.
"No!" Snowflakes drifted, and the north wind whistled.
They could not accept this outcome.
But the Evil Eye Clan had always valued their promises and kept their word.
"Human, this Emperor will sacrifice himself to you, but you must keep your promise not to harm a single blade of grass or tree in the Evil Demon Forest."
The casualties caused by the previous battle were directly ignored by the Evil Emperor.
After all, before the battle, although Qian Xunji had threatened it with force, he had not acted like other humans who came to the Evil Demon Forest only knowing how to destroy and slaughter.
"This Seat keeps his word."
Qian Xunji's tone suddenly changed: "Your Evil Eye Clan has excellent talent and great potential; I would like to raise a few."
"We will never be slaves!" the powerful members of the Evil Eye Clan refused in unison.
"What a pity." A flash of regret, as well as a touch of pity, crossed Qian Xunji's eyes.
The Evil Demon Forest of the Douluo II era would disappear by the Douluo III era.
In the Douluo III era, there might not even be a few Evil Eyes left alive with flesh and blood.
For Qian Xunji, if a race as excellent as the Evil Eye Clan were to go extinct, it would be a great shame.
Valuable creatures were worth being treated as protected animals and kept in captivity.
And he did not mind being that keeper.
The Evil Emperor did not want more trouble, so it selected ten male and ten female Evil Eye cubs and handed them over to Qian Xunji.
It knew that with the other party's strength, if he really wanted to raise them, he had plenty of ways to do so.
It was better to give them now, lest he come himself or send someone else to the Evil Demon Forest again.
At that time, there might be heavy casualties for the Evil Eye Clan.
The Qian Xunji before it was at least willing to engage in dialogue, whereas most humans were foolish and incapable of communication at all.
When Qian Xunji took the twenty Evil Eye cubs into the Ten Thousand Beast Platform Sub-dimension, the Evil Emperor began its sacrifice.
As the Evil Emperor began to sacrifice itself, all the beasts that witnessed it let out mournful cries.
Qian Xunji took out the Side-Effect-Free Spirit Ring Deprivation Card to strip away his fifth spirit ring.
He could not waste the high-quality spirit ring produced during the Evil Emperor's sacrifice.
His original fifth spirit ring was the Holy Sword, a ten-thousand-year weapon-type spirit skill, which was of no use to him.
His current martial soul was not the Six-Winged Angel, but the Emperor Armor, which came with its own weapon.
As Qian Xunji absorbed and refined the Evil Eye Tyrant external spirit bone and departed, the Evil Demon Forest returned to calm.
And his next target was the Thunderclap Nether Vine, a spirit beast possessing the bloodline of the God of Thunder and the attribute of Destruction.
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