Unexpected Change

Win over the Spirit Pagoda!

To achieve a state of peace between the two sides.

This amounted to two factions: one remaining independent, the other openly pledging allegiance to the Federation.

In Legend of the Dragon King, everyone knew that the Tang Sect sold weapons. The Federation merely removed the Heartless Douluo, Cao Dezhi, from his position as Blood One of the Blood God Legion.

After carrying out a series of superficial crackdowns, the matter was brushed aside.

"Let's go take a look. I have a bad feeling about this."

Gu You moved swiftly, running in the direction where the mushroom cloud had vanished, and his figure disappeared.

"In your heart, which is colder—despair or darkness?"

The surrounding space rippled faintly. Strangely enough, the brightly lit town from moments ago lost all its light in an instant.

It became old and dilapidated again...

A figure emerged from the darkness. A wide black robe and long hood concealed the person's face. A child stood beside him.

When he lifted the hood, Gu You saw a face he knew well—it was the middle-aged man from earlier.

The child beside him was also the one named Holly.

Holly stared in the direction Gu You had gone, his eyes filled with longing.

"Don't worry, child. Everything he has will eventually be yours, and everything you have will eventually be his. Those old fools of the Holy Spirit Cult simply do not understand how to create a god. Did they really think slaughtering a million people and forming an array would make it possible?"

"To create a true god, the road ahead can no longer be traveled. A self-created godhood? Even the current master of the Sea God Pavilion is a fool." The middle-aged man raised both hands toward the heavens and muttered.

At the very moment he raised his hands, the outline of an enormous formation appeared in the sky.

A gigantic purple eye slowly opened at the center of the formation.

This was the true Evil Soul Mark of this world!

Only by breaking this mark could this world be completely erased.

Put simply, what Gu You had destroyed earlier was merely a minor formation node.

Although destroying a minor node would affect the grand formation, the effect was negligible. Even if Gu You truly destroyed every minor node, it would still be useless.

Because the one truly controlling this spatial Evil Eye Formation was him! A genuine peak Soul Sage!

A four-ring Soul Ancestor, even if he used every trick at his disposal, could never escape his grasp!

His palm was like a world contained within a domain. Countless threads within it led to a person in that domain—Gu You. He could not escape, never, ever...

"Help! Help!"

The crowd scattered in panic as an enormous rift was torn open across the dim sky.

More than a dozen dark figures flashed out.

At the same time, more than a dozen beams of destructive light shot out from the spatial rift.

On closer inspection, they were all fourth-grade soul-guided artillery shells, with even a fifth-grade one among them!

Gu You knew exactly what that meant—the full-force strike of a Soul King!

He immediately ducked into cover.

"I want to go home! I want to go home!"

Just then, cries rang out one after another.

Gu You poked his head out and looked toward the crying. He discovered that it was a child, their face blackened with grime, making it impossible to tell whether they were a boy or girl.

Soul-guided artillery shells streaked chaotically through the sky, and one fourth-grade missile was heading straight for the child.

"I want to go home, I want to go home..."

The child's tender voice kept crying out those same four words.

No one knew where their parents had gone.

Buzz—!

The shell flew so fast that it would show no mercy.

At the sight of this, scene after scene flashed through Gu You's mind.

He viciously bit his tongue, and the pain brought him back to his senses.

At the same time, his gaze sharpened. Ice elements covered his body, forming a suit of ice armor.

Then, his body turned into a black shadow. Four soul rings flashed beneath his feet, the first one glowing brightly. Using the water element from Creation Conversion, he condensed an enormous ice shield between his hands.

"Don't be afraid!"

Buzz—boom!

The fourth-grade shell exploded, and Gu You was instantly blasted back more than ten meters.

Boom!

He crashed into a wooden wall, leaving behind a human-shaped imprint before finally sliding down to sit on the ground.

"It really did hurt a little. A cannonball was a cannonball after all—more powerful than that Evil Soul Master's attack just now." Gu You touched his chest. His ice armor and ice shield had blocked most of the damage, but the shockwave's power could not be underestimated.

"Big brother? Are you okay...?"

Gu You looked up and smiled.

"Big brother will take you home and find your family."

"Big brother, it must hurt a lot, doesn't it? You're bleeding." Seeing blood trickle from the corner of Gu You's mouth, the child began wiping away tears again.

This...

Gu You helplessly wiped the blood from his mouth. "Kid, hide well. Big brother still has a lot to do. Wait for me to come back, then I'll take you home."

In the skies, "Are these living souls still not enough? Are you planning to kill everyone here?"

"Not enough! Nowhere near enough! Kill them all. Leave no one alive."

"You!" One of the men in black glared furiously. "Fine! You'll bear all the consequences yourself."

Soul rings lit up one after another: nine Soul Ancestors and one Soul King.

All of their soul rings had the optimal configuration: yellow, yellow, purple, purple.

This represented one hundred-year soul spirit and one thousand-year soul spirit.

At the same time, that Soul King's configuration was even more terrifying: three purple and two black, with a ten-thousand-year soul spirit!

After hiding the child away, Gu You observed from afar and saw this scene. His heart turned several degrees colder.

Inside the Spirit Pagoda, he had experienced the feeling of invincibility for far too long. He had never undergone real training or encountered truly powerful experts. Only now did he realize just how insignificant he truly was.

The world was so vast, and I...

Gu You slapped his own face, dispelling the sense of despondency in his heart.

That was no good thought. In the future, he had to trample Tang Wulin beneath his feet, smash Tang Hao with a single punch, and ascend to the true peak of the continent in an invincible stance!

More than a dozen black figures in the sky turned into streaks of black light and flew toward every corner of the town.

Screams and cries for help rang out without end...

Only the Soul King in the sky remained unmoving.

Gu You studied him carefully while devising a countermeasure.

Hm?

The Soul King Evil Soul Master in the sky seemed to have sensed something.

Not good!

Gu You hurriedly released his spiritual power to conceal his aura.

Normally, someone capable of housing a ten-thousand-year soul spirit and a thousand-year soul spirit would likely possess spiritual power at the initial stage of the Spirit Abyss Realm.

He feared that his spiritual power would not be enough to conceal him. If he were exposed, things would become troublesome.

"I must have imagined it. How could there possibly be a soul master in a place like this...?"

The Soul King Evil Soul Master withdrew his gaze.

Gu You breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the Soul King had not gathered all his spiritual power to inspect Gu You's location.

"I have to leave this place first. These guys splitting up has given me an opportunity—take them down one by one." Gu You slipped through the winding alleys of the town, dodging as he moved.