Instant Kill!

Looking over, the Fire Evil Tyrant was a gruesome sight. Its massive eye had directly burst apart, blackish-red blood streaming down its tentacles as a black Spirit Ring condensed over its body.

The Fire Evil Tyrant had been instantly killed by Xiao Jinchen. The Evil Eye clan's innate soul skill—the Mental Field—had not even had time to be unleashed. A high-tier battle skill was truly terrifying!

"You're quite formidable." Ice Empress appeared beside Xiao Jinchen at some point and spoke softly. She had actually arrived long ago, but she wanted to see whether Xiao Jinchen could defeat this fifty-thousand-year Fire Evil Tyrant, so she had not intervened.

"Just luck." Xiao Jinchen smiled faintly, slung the Heavy Profound Ruler over his back, and slowly walked toward the Fire Evil Tyrant's corpse.

Beside the Fire Evil Tyrant lay a diamond-shaped crystal on the ground. The crystal was dark red, covered in streaks of green patterns.

"The Fire Evil Tyrant's crystal core." Xiao Jinchen beckoned with his hand, and the Fire Evil Tyrant's crystal core flew into his palm.

Xiao Jinchen sent his spiritual power into it. Just as he had expected, traces of spiritual power remained within the crystal.

"Ice Empress, get ready. The takeout is coming." Xiao Jinchen gave Ice Empress a reminder as Emperor Flame rose from his hand, casually burning away the Fire Evil Tyrant's crystal core.

"Takeout?" Ice Empress asked in confusion. "What is that?"

"It means we just wait for the Soul Beast I want to deliver itself to our door." Xiao Jinchen smiled lightly, then simply sat down and closed his eyes.

Although Ice Empress was somewhat surprised, she still sat down nearby beside Xiao Jinchen.

Time slowly passed. Everything around them became illusory and began twisting violently, transforming into countless phantoms of powerful Soul Beasts that crazily lunged at him.

"Oh? They're here?" A smile curled Xiao Jinchen's lips as his eyes abruptly opened. Powerful spiritual power spread outward from the center of his forehead. Wherever it passed, the violently distorted phantoms shattered one after another like smashed mirrors.

Xiao Jinchen rose from the ground, only to find that Ice Empress was already standing in front of him.

"Good, very good! An interesting human. No wonder you dared enter our territory—you actually specialize in spiritual abilities. It seems you intend to hunt my clansmen specifically. Unfortunately, even if you are a spiritual-attribute Soul Master, you are doomed to die today."

A powerful spiritual thought reverberated from ahead of Xiao Jinchen.

Xiao Jinchen raised his eyes and looked ahead. Before him was an Evil Eye, a strange and powerful Evil Eye.

Judging by its color alone, it was far more ostentatious than the Fire Evil Tyrant from before. This Evil Eye's body—or rather, its enormous single eye—was silvery white.

Even more terrifying was its size. Its diameter was a full three meters. The Fire Evil Tyrant from earlier looked like a child in comparison.

Sixteen tentacles dangled beneath this Evil Eye.

"Huh? You're... a ferocious beast!" Sensing the terrifying aura emanating from Ice Empress, the Evil Eye Tyrant's enormous pupil visibly contracted, and it cried out in alarm.

"Ice Empress! This is the one. I want it as my sixth Spirit Ring." Xiao Jinchen pointed at the huge Evil Eye Tyrant before him.

The instant Xiao Jinchen's words fell, Ice Empress vanished from where she stood.

Ice Empress's terrifying pressure, born of nearly four hundred thousand years of cultivation, swept out from her body without the slightest restraint.

Crack!

The Evil Eye Tyrant did not even have time to release its pride and joy, the Mental Field. Its sixteen thick tentacles had not even had time to move before it was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture by Ice Empress's terrifying chill.

Then, Ice Empress lightly tapped with her slender jade finger.

Bang!

The Evil Eye Tyrant's indestructible Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast body shattered explosively into a sky full of icy fragments like glass struck by a heavy hammer. Before its blackish-red blood could splatter, it was frozen by the cold.

An instant kill.

A true instant kill.

Watching the scene before him, Xiao Jinchen could not help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. A hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant had not even lasted a single exchange before Ice Empress.

But on second thought, it made sense. Ice Empress's nearly four-hundred-thousand-year cultivation gave her the strength of a level ninety-eight Super Douluo, while this Evil Eye Tyrant had only just surpassed a hundred thousand years and at most possessed the strength of levels ninety-one or ninety-two. For Ice Empress, dealing with it was effortless.

"Done." Ice Empress flashed and reappeared beside Xiao Jinchen, as though she had merely swatted a mosquito to death. She clapped her hands, her tone as indifferent as if she were discussing something trivial.

Sucking Palm! At that moment, Xiao Jinchen's gaze abruptly sharpened. A powerful suction force erupted from his palm, forcibly pulling back a streak of silver light that had just begun to rise.

It was a silver crystal containing an incredibly dense soul fluctuation.

Emperor Flame rose in Xiao Jinchen's palm, and terrifying heat waves swept out from his hand.

The moment Xiao Jinchen summoned Emperor Flame, the silver crystal began flashing violently.

"Why..."

The Evil Eye Tyrant's voice seemed to squeeze out from the depths of hell, filled with profound incomprehension. "Ice Empress... why are you helping a human?" Clearly, the Evil Eye Tyrant had recognized Ice Empress.

Hearing this, a cold smile appeared on Ice Empress's beautiful face as she slowly said, "The strong prey on the weak. There is no need for further words."

The Evil Eye Tyrant's sinister voice rang out. "Ice Empress! Evil Demon Forest and the Far North Lands have always stayed out of each other's affairs. If you kill me here, you will never leave Evil Demon Forest alive!"

Xiao Jinchen casually stored the Evil Eye Tyrant's body in his Storage Ring, then controlled Emperor Flame and injected its flames into the Exotic Flame Ring on his finger.

The air before them rippled and began to twist continuously.

Crack, crack!

Crack!

Bang!

The moment the Evil Eye Tyrant finished speaking, an expression of shock could not help but appear on Ice Empress's pretty face.

A spatial rift—there was actually a spatial rift before Ice Empress.

Xiao Jinchen suddenly took a step forward, closing the distance between them. Before Ice Empress could react, he raised his arm and naturally wrapped it around her slender waist.

Ice Empress's entire body stiffened. Her normally cold eyes widened instantly, and a blush swiftly flashed across her beautiful face.

"You..." Ice Empress had just begun to speak when Xiao Jinchen's arm around her waist abruptly tightened.

Without saying a word, Xiao Jinchen held Ice Empress and stepped directly into the spatial rift. Naturally, he brought the Evil Eye Tyrant's crystal core into the rift as well.

The world spun.

Ice Empress only felt her vision blur as the scenery around her rapidly receded and distorted. She could clearly feel Xiao Jinchen's hand around her waist, its scorching warmth passing through their clothes and making her heart race.

The next second, the two of them landed steadily on the ground.

Ice Empress instinctively looked around, only to be so stunned by the sight before her that she could not speak.

Just as Xiao Jinchen had brought Ice Empress into the Exotic Flame Space, deep within Evil Demon Forest, an enormous red pillar of light suddenly shot into the sky.

The red pillar was more than a hundred meters in diameter and could be clearly seen even from outside Evil Demon Forest.

The pillar of light soared upward, reaching an altitude of more than a thousand meters. The clouds in the sky swiftly gathered around it.

The enormous pillar pierced through the clouds, dyeing everything around it blood-red. As the clouds gradually dispersed, they revealed a gigantic crimson eye.

That crimson eye hovered more than a thousand meters in the sky, overlooking Evil Demon Forest. An ancient voice rang out: "My child, my child, where are you?"

This call contained an exceedingly bizarre spiritual fluctuation. It spread downward from the thousand-meter altitude, radiating outward from the core of Evil Demon Forest and covering fully two-thirds of the forest.