Mara

"Oh?"

"Is Your Highness truly willing to accept this?"

The Holy Spirit Cult were not angry when they saw Xu Tianran's appearance; they were merely sarcastic.

"Without Abundance's Blessing, the old emperor should have suffered from illness and passed away, and Your Highness should have inherited the throne."

"Now that the old emperor has been cured, he is still clinging to the throne. He is only older than you and has more supporters."

"But Your Highness, you are younger than your father, more powerful than your father, and more ambitious than your father..."

"Are you truly content to be just his son? Or... do you really have no ambition for the throne?"

"If he hadn't been cured, all of this should have been yours."

The Holy Spirit Cult continued to mock and patiently persuade them.

As Xu Tianran listened, his previous arrogance and indifference vanished, and his face grew increasingly dark.

"It seems His Highness the Crown Prince was very ambitious before, but now it seems he's nothing special. He turned into a spineless coward because of a little external force. Alas, it seems even this saint can misjudge people sometimes."

The Holy Spirit Cult shook their heads helplessly, their tone full of disappointment towards Xu Tianran.

"Sower, let's go. Since His Highness the Crown Prince has already degenerated so much, he's probably no longer of any use to us. Let's go find his other brothers and sisters instead."

The Holy Spirit Cult called out to the white-robed man who had remained silent until the end, then turned and walked towards the door.

"Etc!"

Seeing that the two were about to leave, Xu Tianran immediately called them back anxiously.

Willing?

How could I possibly accept this? Because of the throne, I was crippled by an assassination attempt when I was young. I endured for more than a decade to clear away numerous obstacles and finally managed to heal my legs. But then my father and his ministers all regained their youth and seized control of the court once again.

How can you expect me to accept this? If I were truly willing to accept it, what would my years of forbearance have meant?

Just as he was about to leave, the Holy Spirit Cult, with his back to Xu Tianran, curled up the corner of his mouth slightly, looking as if his plan had been successfully executed.

Xu Tianran said with a gloomy face, "You've come to me, do you perhaps have a way to break their Immortal Body?"

"And what is this Abundance's Blessing' you just mentioned? Does it mean that everyone on the continent is immortal now because of this so-called Abundance's Blessing?"

"Hehe, Your Highness, please don't be in a hurry."

The Holy Spirit Cult stopped in their tracks and returned to Xu Tianran.

"Currently, the known methods to kill Immortal Body are to reduce it to a blood mist or to directly absorb it and make it one's own..."

"Of course I know all this. Do you think I have the power to turn them all into a bloody mist? Or do you think I can devour them and turn them into those inhuman, monstrous Aberrant?"

"Furthermore, even if I could do all that, do you think the people in the Consecration Hall are just sitting around doing nothing?"

Before the Holy Spirit Cult could finish speaking, Xu Tianran interrupted him sharply.

"Hehe, Your Highness, look at you, you're in such a hurry again."

"Who said we were going to kill or devour them? If that were all, we wouldn't dare to bother Your Highness here."

The way this Holy Spirit Cult spoke made Xu Tianran want to punch him, but he held back in order to hear their methods.

The Holy Spirit Cult coughed lightly and said in a sinister tone, "Ahem, Your Highness, what we're about to say is difficult to explain in a short time. Let us demonstrate it for you ourselves, hehehe."

"Your Highness, please bring just anyone, whether an ordinary person or Soul Master, as long as they are Immortal Body..."

"Oh, look at my brain! I'm afraid there's no one on the continent who isn't Immortal Body now, hahaha."

Upon hearing this, Xu Tianran beckoned to his trusted aide, signaling him to bring someone over. He wanted to see what these two were up to.

Five minutes later, the confidant brought in an ordinary person wearing a sack.

Once the sack was removed, it became clear that this was the ordinary person Xu Tianran had previously used to test the blood of Soul Beast. Having consumed such an expensive substance, Xu Tianran naturally wouldn't let him leave.

"This guy's got some skills, let me see what you're really up to."

Xu Tianran stared coldly at the two of them.

"Of course, now let His Highness the Crown Prince see the masterpiece I've researched for over half a year."

As he spoke, the Holy Spirit Cult slowly walked up to the ordinary man and raised his hand to place it on the man's head.

In the past year, this ordinary man gained immortality by consuming the blood of Soul Beast, while Xu Tianran took his anger out on him a lot because of the old emperor. Now, he has become numb to Xu Tianran's torment.

Upon seeing the outstretched hand of the Holy Spirit Cult, he instinctively flinched, the next second...

"Ugh!!!"

The Evil Soul Master's hand emitted a black aura, and then slowly pulled the person's soul out.

Even Soul Master would experience immense pain from a mental attack, let alone an ordinary person whose soul was directly pulled out.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

A piercing scream echoed throughout the Crown Prince's palace.

Xu Tianran's expression was complicated, while his trusted confidant beside him trembled with fear at the shrill scream.

As an organization of Evil Soul Master, the Holy Spirit Cult is quite familiar with the ways of the soul. After the cultist extracted the soul, he did nothing else but continued to gently attack and torture him.

It hurts a lot, but it's not fatal.

"Ughhhhh!!"

Originally, the soul was merely miserable while still in the human body, but after being pulled out, it became not only miserable, but also possessed an ethereal and penetrating quality.

Xu Tianran's trusted confidant was Soul Sage of over level 70. Even he felt his soul tremble when he heard the scream. If there were any other ordinary people present, they would definitely be scared to death by the ethereal scream.

When the soul became delirious, the Holy Spirit Cult stuffed it back into its original body, and the screams stopped, and the hall fell silent.

"So, what you want to show me is that you pull this person's soul out, torture it, and then stuff it back in?"

Xu Tianran himself was decisive and ruthless, and he was not moved by the scene of this Evil Soul Master destroying other people's souls, showing only disdain.

"Do you intend to use this tactic against my father and his courtiers?"

As he spoke, Xu Tianran glanced at him and said, "If that's all you're good for, you can just get lost."

"Hehe, Your Highness, you're in such a hurry again."

The Holy Spirit Cult chuckled.

"And see how he changes next."

Upon hearing this, Xu Tianran paused for a moment, then turned his gaze back to the ordinary person.

The person was writhing in pain, his body contorted from the agony of having his soul extracted and tormented.

The next second.

Click!

A sound of joints grinding together rang out, followed by a series of crisp cracking sounds.

Click!

Click!

Then, golden leaves began to grow on the person's body.

"Aaaaaah!!"

The ordinary person who had been unconscious suddenly started shouting again.

Brown vines began to grow continuously from his body, gradually wrapping around his skin and forming something resembling armor.

The golden leaves continued to grow uninterruptedly, gradually covering the entire body, with hooks sprouting from its hands and horns growing from its head.