Soul Tian Di Detonates an Ancient Emperor Soul Phantom, Seriously Injuring Gu Yuan

Seeing that sowing discord was useless, Soul Tian Di's face immediately darkened. He said coldly, "Gu Yuan, keep pretending. If I don't kill you this time, I swear I won't be human."

As soon as he spoke, Soul Tian Di struck directly. With a Hell Nether Palm, he attacked Gu Yuan and the others.

The palm imprint blotted out the sky, covering an area thousands of meters wide.

Lin Yang and the others were slightly shocked. This was Soul Tian Di's strength.

However, Gu Yuan was no pushover either. He took out the Ancient Emperor Shield and directly unleashed the Ancient Emperor Heaven-Covering Shield. A shield phantom that obscured the heavens protected Lin Yang and the others.

The palm imprint struck the shield phantom. It merely trembled before blocking the attack.

Gu Yuan's gaze turned cold. Drawing his longsword, he charged straight at Soul Tian Di and slashed out. A sword beam over a thousand zhang long blasted toward the Soul Clan members.

The Soul Clan members quickly scattered, then each found an opponent and charged forward.

A chaotic battle was about to erupt.

Fixing his eyes on Void Swallowing Flame, Lin Yang charged at him with Lei Ying and Yan Jin.

Void Swallowing Flame sneered and directly unleashed his Devouring Domain, transforming into an enormous black flame demon head that covered the sky. With one inhale from its gaping mouth, Lin Yang and the other two were sucked into the void space within its body.

The void space was a self-contained realm within Void Swallowing Flame's body. It had once suppressed and devoured three Xiao Clan Dou Saints.

The moment the three entered the void space, countless void clones launched a fierce attack against them.

At the same time, an incomparably tyrannical devouring force consumed the Dou Qi within Lin Yang and the other two.

Lin Yang and the others unleashed attacks, destroying the void clones.

Yet the residual energy from the clones' explosions was devoured by Void Swallowing Flame again, reforming into new void clones.

If Lin Yang and the other two could not use an overwhelmingly powerful attack to break open the void space,

they would sooner or later be worn to death by Void Swallowing Flame.

But the three of them were not made of clay either.

"Gentlemen, stop holding back. Let's launch our strongest attacks together and break open this space. Void Swallowing Flame has a limit to how much energy he can absorb. As long as we exceed that limit, the void space will naturally shatter," Yan Jin said.

Lin Yang and Lei Ying nodded. "Alright."

The three no longer held back. Yan Jin directly unleashed a high-tier Heaven Rank Dou Technique, the Ten Directions Fire Emperor Hand.

The strange flames within his body erupted wildly, condensing into countless fiery hand seals that bombarded the void clones and every corner of the void space.

Lei Ying directly unleashed the Thousand Shadow Thunder Illusion Hand, transforming it into a thousand attacks that flooded the entire void space.

Lin Yang also stopped holding back. He used the Saint Sun Heavenly Flame Transformation, raising his strength to the half-step Nine-Star level, before unleashing the Sacred Sun Fire Emperor Finger toward the void space barrier.

The attacks of the three descended.

Void Swallowing Flame let out a miserable scream, but the void space still showed no sign of breaking.

Yan Jin and Lei Ying paused slightly, then continued attacking.

Seeing that their attacks could not break the void space anytime soon, Lin Yang did not want to waste any more time.

Gritting his teeth, he directly took out thirty jade bottles containing Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses.

With a wave of his hand, he hurled them toward a corner of the void space.

The jade bottles exploded, and thirty fire lotus attacks slammed wildly against the spatial barrier.

The void space trembled endlessly, and Void Swallowing Flame screamed once more.

In the end, the void space could not withstand the simultaneous explosion of thirty fire lotuses and was blasted open with a gap.

Lin Yang and the other two hurriedly rushed out through the gap.

Outside the void space, Gu Yuan and Soul Tian Di were already locked in an intense battle.

Soul Tian Di wielded the Emperor Soul Banner, commanding countless soul phantoms to attack Gu Yuan. Gu Yuan continuously defended with the Ancient Emperor Shield, occasionally slashing out with a heaven-shaking sword strike to counterattack Soul Tian Di.

After Lin Yang and the others escaped the void space, Void Swallowing Flame's enormous demon head had already dimmed considerably.

"You little bastard, you forced me to do this!" Void Swallowing Flame roared, reverting directly to his human form.

A black flame blade condensed in his palm as he charged toward Lin Yang to kill him.

Yan Jin and Lei Ying hurriedly moved to block him.

However, Void Swallowing Flame's figure flickered, splitting into two early Eight-Star Dou Saint clones that held Yan Jin and Lei Ying back.

His main body still possessed early Nine-Star strength, though its source power had diminished somewhat, and it continued charging toward Lin Yang.

Lin Yang's heart shook. He hurriedly pointed out with the Sacred Sun Fire Emperor Finger.

At the same time, he pulled back to widen the distance.

His thoughts were already fixed on the remaining forty jade bottles of Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses in his storage ring, ready to catch him off guard.

Void Swallowing Flame slashed his sword, and a Void Heaven-Swallowing Slash directly blocked Lin Yang's Fire Emperor Finger.

His figure became shapeless and invisible, evading the explosive shockwave as he continued charging at Lin Yang.

Lin Yang knew that Void Swallowing Flame possessed a technique called Formless and Shadowless, which allowed him to evade attacks. However, after using it, there would be a period of cooldown.

In other words, it could not be used continuously.

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Yang condensed a flaming sword in his palm and slashed out. Countless fiery sword blades flew toward Void Swallowing Flame.

Void Swallowing Flame sneered and raised his sword to block.

However, the countless flaming sword blades were merely cover for tossing out the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses.

As Lin Yang's sword blades shot out, forty jade bottles of Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses flew amid them toward Void Swallowing Flame.

The sword blades were too densely packed. Even with Void Swallowing Flame's Emperor Realm soul, he did not notice the large number of jade bottles hidden among them at first.

By the time he noticed, it was already too late.

The jade bottles exploded against Void Swallowing Flame's face.

Forty mushroom clouds intertwined, directly swallowing everything within several thousand meters.

Void Swallowing Flame let out a shrill scream. Faced with power greater than the self-detonation of an Eight-Star Dou Saint, he simply could not neutralize it.

When the flames faded, the fire around Void Swallowing Flame's body had dimmed greatly. He had clearly suffered severe injuries.

"Good lad, well done."

Yan Jin struck back a void clone with one palm and gave Lin Yang a thumbs-up.

Lei Ying also wore a smile.

Lin Yang did not stop. Taking advantage of Void Swallowing Flame's injuries, he immediately launched another Sacred Sun Fire Emperor Finger at him.

Void Swallowing Flame slashed out with his sword to block the Fire Emperor Finger. Glancing across the battlefield, he discovered that the Soul Clan was being steadily driven back.

Thus, he hardened his heart and directly used Formless and Shadowless to flee, not even bothering with his two clones.

Lin Yang could not catch up to Void Swallowing Flame and could only turn to attack the two Eight-Star void clones.

Both clones were early Eight-Star Dou Saints, each containing fifteen percent of Void Swallowing Flame's source power.

Taking down the two clones would still be a worthwhile gain.

With Lin Yang joining them, the three joined forces.

Thirty exchanges later,

they finally captured the two early Eight-Star clones.

After working together to seal the clones,

the three prepared to support Gu Yuan.

Seeing that Void Swallowing Flame had fled, Soul Tian Di immediately grew anxious. "Gu Yuan, you forced me to do this."

As soon as he spoke, Soul Tian Di shook the Emperor Soul Banner, and an ancient Emperor Soul phantom suddenly appeared.

Gu Yuan's expression changed in shock. He hurriedly unleashed the Ancient Emperor Shield and had just finished setting up his defense.

Then the Emperor Soul phantom suddenly exploded.

Gu Yuan bore the brunt of it. The Ancient Emperor Shield was directly cracked by the shockwave, then shattered with a heavy boom. The remaining shockwave swallowed Gu Yuan whole.

The entire battlefield was affected, and every Dou Saint hurriedly raised their defenses.

Those farther away were fine, suffering only a slight churn of blood and Qi.

Those closer were directly sent coughing up blood and severely injured on the spot.

As for Gu Yuan, being closest of all, he spat out three mouthfuls of blood and completely withered.

However, Soul Tian Di did not fare well either. Though countless soul phantoms wrapped around him protectively, he had also been at the center of the explosion. He too coughed up blood and suffered severe injuries.

Lin Yang, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying were farther away and only felt their blood and Qi churn briefly.

Lin Yang hurriedly ordered his puppets to protect Gu Yuan, while Gu Yuan's three puppets also rushed over at once to protect their master.

Soul Tian Di shouted viciously, "Gu Yuan, just wait. My Soul Clan will surely avenge today's blood debt."

As soon as he spoke, Soul Tian Di waved the Emperor Soul Banner. Countless wisps of black mist poured out, sweeping up the Soul Clan's remaining experts and clansmen before fleeing without a trace, abandoning even the Soul Realm.