Xu Tianran Tries to Drag Everyone Down with Him; Yuhao Tells Ju Zi He Only Loves Wutong

Before anyone could recover their senses, Ming Du's underground seemed to pulse again like a massive Soul Tool heart.

Xu Tianran began burning all his Soul Power. Soul rings lit up behind him one after another, glaringly bright, and the Ninth-Grade Humanoid Soul Tool Bomb activated with them. He intended to detonate his Soul Rings and Soul Tool core, taking the entire battlefield down with him.

The remnants of the Holy Spirit Cult's formation had already been torn apart by Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong, but after Xu Tianran began burning his Soul Power, the broken formation no longer relied solely on the dead souls to sustain it. The Ninth-Grade Humanoid Soul Tool Bomb on his body, the Imperial City Underground Hub, the energy well beneath the imperial throne, and the remaining detonation runes in the Inner Court Worship Office were all linked together inch by inch by black mist.

Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong knew they could not retreat. If they withdrew, the black mist would sweep through the entire city, devouring the soldiers and civilians still outside Ming Du who had not yet evacuated. If they attacked head-on, Xu Tianran would immediately detonate his Soul Rings and the Ninth-Grade Humanoid Soul Tool Bomb, burying the entire battlefield with them.

Heavier and heavier tremors rose from beneath Ming Du. With every tremor, it was as if Xu Tianran pressed his Soul Rings and obsession into the imperial city's ley lines. Black mist seeped out from cracks in the city walls, stone bricks along the palace roads, and the foundations of the Soul Engineering Towers. Even the Sun Moon border army's cannons were forced downward, as though all of Ming Du were storing power for a self-destructive explosion on his behalf.

As he burned his Soul Power, each Soul Ring