"Filthy maggots, receive the baptism of holy light!"
"Holy Light Illumination!"
Ye Guyi gave a sharp cry.
The four Soul Rings beneath her feet-two yellow, one purple, and one black-lit up.
She raised the Angel Holy Sword high, and searing golden holy light enveloped the entire village.
Those Evil Soul Masters had already had their legs broken and were barely clinging to life.
When that sacred light shone upon them,
the utterly evil mist roiling around their bodies sizzled as though it had met a raging fire.
"Ah! It hurts! Ah!"
"Aaah, my soul!"
"Spare me! I never wanted to become an Evil Soul Master! I was forced into it!"
"We weren't the ones who slaughtered this village! It was those lords... aaah!!!"
The Evil Soul Masters let out heart-rending screams, crawling across the ground with their two still-functioning hands as they desperately tried to escape into the shadows.
But even when they reached the shadows, it was useless.
The Angel Holy Light continued to scorch their flesh and souls like a blazing sun.
In just a few minutes,
the screams in the village vanished. Not a single Evil Soul Master escaped; all were purified by the Angel Holy Light.
Seeing that all the Evil Soul Masters had been purified, Ye Guyi withdrew her Soul Skill and slowly descended from the sky.
She walked into the ruined village.
The villagers' corpses lay strewn across the ground, every one of them having died a gruesome death.
Many had their eyes wide open, unable to rest even in death.
Ye Guyi sighed, then buried all the bodies.
Over the past few years, she had traveled the continent with her teacher and seen scenes like this many times.
Even so, her heart still could not find peace.
"Evil Soul Masters..."
Ye Guyi murmured,