A Brief Death

As the two figures collided—

In the next second, the short spear in the old man's hand pierced through Li Moxun's chest, shattering his heart outright.

A terrifying blast of air erupted.

A savage look flashed through the old man's eyes, but as Li Moxun looked at him, his expression was utterly calm.

This was only one of his clones.

But now, he had confirmed it. Unless it was some restrictive high-level Spirit Word, Spirit Words could indeed affect a seven-ring powerhouse.

And if the Spirit Word he had used just now had been Lord Flame, or some other purely destructive Spirit Word, he truly might have been able to kill the old man and escape.

Reaching that conclusion was enough.

The true strength of this Spirit Word did not lie in life, but in death.

Or rather, for him, the truly powerful part of this Spirit Word came after he died.

As his body began to disintegrate, his entire form was actually absorbed by the Black Sun.

His skin shattered and broke apart piece by piece, while his body completely merged into the Black Sun.

The Black Sun, which had already begun to gradually shrink, suddenly swelled in an instant.

Terrifying power swept out wildly.

The surrounding Tang Sect Mechas, jeeps, and Tang Sect members who had not escaped in time were sucked in all at once.

They were like people caught inside a tornado, their bodies beginning to fly uncontrollably toward the Black Sun.

Even that old man was no exception.

By now, the Black Sun had grown enormous. Its scale had far surpassed what a normal Black Sun should have been able to produce.

A terrifying suction force spread out, while elsewhere, deep inside the Tang Sect, Zero stood there in silence.

She watched as the Tang Sect's collections were continuously pulled up and then surged madly into the storage ring, yet her expression did not change at all.

After taking everything away—

Zero's eyes shifted slightly. Then she raised her hand, and space was torn open. A fair hand reached out and directly seized the Soul Guidance Storage Bag.

As the hand completely vanished, Zero stood there calmly.

"If I go back now, I should still have one day left to live. Death? That is somewhat interesting."

Zero's voice was very soft, and her expression was even calmer.

The memories she currently possessed were very few. She had no memories that belonged to herself.

She only had these simple memories related to combat, as well as some basic methods for using Spirit Words.

However, Zero did not care about that. Or rather, she had never thought about it at all.

Because from the moment Li Moxun created her, she had already been a completely independent individual.

And the next time Li Moxun wanted to use the ability of Spirit Pupil again, and was willing to grant it a will, the one born would still be her, possessing the memories of this stage.

So toward this temporary death, Zero did not care much. Or rather, she did not care at all.

As her figure moved away, she looked at the old man who was still desperately resisting the Black Sun.

By now, the surface of the old man's skin had already begun to be scraped away. His skin, along with his flesh and blood, and even the clothes on his body, had all been sucked into the Black Sun.

His martial soul had already begun to shatter, but his body was still forcefully holding on, trying to keep itself from being sucked away.

In the air nearby, a middle-aged man stood there, his brows tightly furrowed.

Behind him was a long cyan sword, and wild winds raged around the blade.

But right now, with his strength, he did not dare to intervene at all. Because the moment he did, his martial soul would likewise be devoured—or rather, dragged in—by that terrifying Black Sun.

For him, it was completely thankless.

Looking at the old man standing there with anger and despair on his face, Zero merely glanced at him calmly.

Her hand lifted slightly. In the next second, a violent wind swept through the surroundings in an instant, and the old man's body was split in two.

This terrifying strike came far too quickly, especially when the old man had no guard up at all.

As his body was split in two, countless wind blades swept past in the next second, cutting apart everyone who was still resisting.

On the other side, the middle-aged man standing in midair abruptly turned his head.

He pointed with one finger, and the cyan long sword thundered out of its sheath. Terrifying gales coiled around the blade.

In the next second, the same howling wind rang beside the middle-aged man's ears.

The two forces collided in an instant.

The ability Li Moxun had given Zero to copy was not some high-level Spirit Word, but Kamaitachi.

Kamaitachi's overall performance was mainly in wide-area detection.

For a battle of this level, aside from being able to ambush and deal with a portion of the enemies, an ordinary Kamaitachi could not achieve much.

And as the violent wind caused by Kamaitachi was torn apart, in the next second, Zero merely looked at him calmly.

Immediately afterward, she lightly tapped the space between her brows, and as Zero's body disintegrated, the man's terrifying wind sword slashed down into empty air.

His brows knitted tightly. When he looked over again, the old man's figure had already completely entered the Black Sun and was crushed into nothing by it.

"Who exactly are these people? That was a seven-ring soul master. Even in my Tang Sect, he already counted as high-level personnel, yet he died here so easily. This simply makes no sense."

The middle-aged man's voice carried anger, but even more than that, there was a trace of panic.

He did not understand why things had turned out this way.

One had to know that in the regional branches of the Tang Sect, a Soul Sage was already the highest level of combat power.

That was because those who had reached Soul Douluo or even Title Douluo rank, aside from those at headquarters, were mostly in the Soul Fighting Hall, responsible for hunts in various places.

Among the personnel left to guard the Tang Sect, Soul Sages were already the very top.

Yet now they had suffered such a terrible disaster. Not only had someone dared to ambush a Tang Sect stronghold, they had even killed a Soul Sage outright.

Most infuriating of all, the man and woman who had invaded the Tang Sect were both abnormal. One had directly entered that Black Sun and vanished completely.

The other was even stranger. After her body disappeared, she was gone without a trace.

The middle-aged man did not believe Zero had died. He only felt that she had used some special method to escape.

After all, that scene of her entire body shattering completely did not look like a real physical body no matter how he looked at it.

Meanwhile, in Heaven Dou City, Li Moxun knew nothing of the middle-aged man's panic, nor of the fact that he had swiftly reported the matter to the Tang Sect.

His eyes slowly opened, his expression as calm as ever.

Unlike what Zero had imagined, he did not intend to summon someone else next. Instead, he planned to continue using Zero.

Because Zero's abilities were very strong.

After Mirror Pupil obtained his White King blood, it had gained even more effects of other types.

Aside from memory, the greater effect was the mental connection between the two of them, which ensured that he could obtain knowledge quickly at the speed of two people.

Compared to other combat-type Spirit Words, the Spirit Word Mirror Pupil, with its support ability and even more amplification effects, suited his preferences better and also matched his current needs.

He glanced at the resources he had just obtained.

With this batch of resources, he would have even less to worry about over the next three months.

At this point, after his strength broke through to three rings, his cultivation speed had not slowed in the slightest. Instead, it was becoming faster and faster.

After all, under the condition of cultivating with pills the entire time, his cultivation speed was several times that of ordinary people.

And now that he had obtained these resources, Li Moxun was also preparing to increase the amount of pills he took.

With the resources of one Tang Sect branch and one Spirit Pagoda branch as the core, he would rely on these resources to quickly help himself raise his strength.

Under these circumstances, combined with Li Moxun's god-level martial soul, the speed at which his cultivation improved would only become faster and faster.