OOC? Elder Xuan Zi Still Came Through

Ye Ming and the other six crept down the slope and immediately spotted six bandits guarding the cave entrance.

Scattered around the bandits were bleached bones.

Clearly, they belonged to passing merchants who had been casually discarded there after their deaths.

Dai Yueheng lowered his voice. "Ye Ming, Chen Zifeng, two each!"

"Finish them quickly, then charge into the cave!"

Ye Ming nodded lightly, while Chen Zifeng quietly summoned his Soulchaser Sword.

When Dai Yueheng curled down three fingers, the three of them moved at once.

In an instant, Ye Ming crossed more than ten meters.

A Golden Dragon Claw appeared on his hand, and he threw a punch at the bandits who were still stunned.

The air howled as a golden dragon tore forth.

Bang!

The golden dragon exploded. The two evil soul masters standing together did not even have time to unleash their martial souls before they were blown into a cloud of blood.

Ye Ming felt not the slightest pity for evil soul masters who extracted the souls of soul beasts and even humans.

Whoosh!

Bang!

As Ye Ming's punch struck true, the White Tiger Radiant Wave and the Soulchaser Sword followed close behind, each taking down two bandits.

In the blink of an eye, all six bandits had been decapitated.

Dai Yueheng looked at the two pools of blood, then at the expressionless Ye Ming. After swallowing hard, he snapped back to his senses. "Charge in!"

Ye Ming, Dai Yueheng, and Chen Zifeng led the way, while Ling Luochan, Di Ruiqiu, and Gu Yuena protected Gongyang Mo at the rear.

The cave entrance was small, but the interior was remarkably spacious.

After advancing several dozen meters, they ran headfirst into a middle-aged bandit walking toward them.

Before Dai Yueheng could act, Ye Ming raised his hand and blasted out a Golden Dragon Phantom!

With a bang, the bandit immediately used a blood escape technique.

His decisiveness made Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochan, and Gongyang Mo shudder.

Good thing this kid showed mercy in the arena! Gongyang Mo thought. Otherwise, that punch would have turned me into a bloody mist!

Impressed as they were, no one slowed down.

The moment they passed around a bend, the sight before them made the seven of them go numb with fury.

More than a dozen sheets of human skin hung from the walls on either side, drifting through the air.

Rows of human skulls, along with the heads of various soul beasts, had been embedded into the rock walls as decorations!

Human bones and beast bones lay scattered all over both sides of the cave.

"Bastards!"

Dai Yueheng cursed under his breath, his eyes reddening with bloodlust.

Most of these people had been his fellow citizens of the Star Luo Empire!

Gu Yuena was burning with rage as well.

Humans hunted soul beasts for soul rings. That was a conflict between opposing sides.

She would resist. She would seek revenge.

But the Death's Hand bandit group extracted souls and stripped bones. This was nothing but naked slaughter and torture!

"Ye Ming, kill every last one of them!" Gu Yuena said viciously.

This was the first time Ye Ming had felt such overwhelming fury emanating from Gu Yuena.

"Understood!"

Ye Ming exhaled a breath of foul air. "None of them are leaving today!"

After they advanced another dozen meters, the terrain ahead suddenly opened up.

A group of evil soul masters saw them rush in and immediately shrieked as they unleashed their martial souls and charged at them.

"Attack!"

Dai Yueheng roared as he directly activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation and White Tiger Demon God Transformation.

Gongyang Mo stood in the center as streaks of colored light continuously shot from his body and landed on the others.

"Senior Ling, use your ice mist. I'll send every one of them to the afterlife today!!"

Facing the hundred-plus evil soul masters charging toward them, Ye Ming directly switched to the Silver Dragon King martial soul.

As two soul rings, one silvery white and one red, appeared, Ling Luochan had already summoned her staff and activated her ice mist skill.

Dense ice mist instantly spread forward, enveloping all the evil soul masters.

Seeing this, Ye Ming's silvery-white soul ring lit up as he unleashed the Ice God Phantom once more.

The moment the exquisite blue figure appeared, the temperature within the cave plummeted.

Amid fluttering snowflakes, the Ice God lightly pointed a finger, sending an icy-blue ripple spreading through the cave ahead.

With the ice mist gathering ice elements from the surroundings, the Ice God's skill became even more potent.

Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng trembled and hurriedly retreated to the front of the group.

Having been turned into ice statues once before, they knew exactly how terrifying this skill was!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The ice mist froze, and a massive, crystal-clear ice sculpture appeared vividly before them.

The Ice God Phantom, combined with Ling Luochan's ice mist, had forcibly turned the hundred-plus charging evil soul masters into ice statues.

Most of those hundred people were ordinary people without soul power.

But from the day they joined Death's Hand, they should have known this day would come sooner or later.

After witnessing that scene in the cave, none of them felt even a shred of sympathy.

Dai Yueheng had once managed to break free from an ice sculpture with his White Tiger true body, but these evil soul masters, none of whom had even reached Soul King level, did not possess such strength.

Just as everyone let out a sigh of relief, a gray-robed figure at the deepest part of the cave actually shattered an ice sculpture.

"Bastards!"

"You destroyed my foundation! I'll take your lives!" the gray-robed figure roared. "Explode for me!!"

Strands of gray mist seeped out from the corpses inside the ice sculptures and from the evil soul masters.

Cracks began appearing across the ice sculptures.

Just as the sculptures were about to explode, the icy-blue figure lightly waved a hand, and the temperature throughout the cave dropped sharply once more.

Ice elements danced through the air, reinforcing the cracked ice sculptures!

The corpses and evil soul masters inside could not even move, much less self-destruct.

Ultimate ice froze everything!

A corpse explosion technique from a mere Soul King could not possibly shake ten-thousand-year ice.

"Gah?"

The leader froze on the spot.

When he came back to his senses, fury surged through his heart. "My corpse slaves, crush them for me!!"

Deathly aura radiated from his body and burrowed into the frozen ground.

One carefully refined corpse slave after another struggled up from beneath the earth.

At that moment, Ye Ming's arms transformed into Golden Dragon Claws once again!

Golden Dragon's Strength!

Golden Dragon Phantom!

And the crimson power bestowed by Gongyang Mo!

"You still want to summon corpse slaves? Go talk to my blood escape technique!!"

Ye Ming roared, drawing back as if pulling a bow before throwing his punch.

Roar!

The golden dragon howled, carrying the fury in everyone's hearts as it passed through row after row of ice sculptures and slammed into the bandit leader.

The corpse slaves the bandit leader had placed such hopes on exploded instantly, but they failed to hinder the golden dragon in the slightest.

With a bang, the Soul King-level bandit leader immediately used a blood escape technique!

As the golden dragon exploded, the ice sculptures shattered one after another.

Along with the more than hundred frozen evil soul masters, they were all reduced to fragments.

"Th-that's it?" Gongyang Mo looked at the empty cave and suddenly felt that this had been the easiest inspection mission he had ever taken part in.

Dai Yueheng gave Ye Ming a deep look, then tossed a sixth-grade delayed soul tool bomb into the depths of the cave. "Mission complete. Let's go!"

Halfway back, they ran into Bei Bei and the other six and hurriedly told them to turn around.

When they emerged from the cave, Xuan Zi was already waiting there.

With a thunderous explosion, evil was buried deep beneath the earth for good.

Ye Ming secretly glanced at Xuan Zi, who was quietly breathing a sigh of relief. The Holy Spirit Cult's grand elder actually didn't make a move this time?

Something's not right!

He's acting out of character!

Just as Ye Ming was feeling relieved, Xuan Zi suddenly looked up at the sky. His brows furrowed as he hurriedly shielded everyone behind him.

The next moment, five figures shot out from the depths of the forest and blocked their path.

"Xuan Zi, it's been a long time!"

"If we hadn't cast some bait, we really wouldn't have hooked a big fish like you!"

Zhongli Wu looked at Ye Ming and the others behind Xuan Zi, ecstasy filling his heart.

This transformed soul beast was his!

Looking at the five figures in the sky, Ye Ming's heart sank.

The Holy Spirit Cult's five Titled Douluo!

This was a trap aimed at them!

Xuan Zi had not acted out of character. He was the Holy Spirit Cult's grand elder!!