The instant the flames rose, the beast souls frantically tearing into the Shrek group seemed to sense something utterly terrifying. With a mournful cry, they fled in disarray.
Electrolux took up the Barbarian Elephant Staff. The second Soul Ring beneath his feet lit up, and he tapped the staff against the ground with a thunk.
The black flames burning around several pale spectral figures rippled out across the ground like a shock wave, spreading in every direction.
The ripples of black flame traveled so fast that they spread out almost instantaneously.
Any beast soul along their path needed only to brush against the black flames for terrifying black fire to engulf its body, reducing it to ash in an instant.
The members of the Shrek Inner Court, meanwhile, felt as though a massive hammer had struck their Seas of Consciousness. Unable to resist at all, they lost consciousness.
Chen Ping's heart jolted at the sight.
The black flames Electrolux was using now were by no means the purifying flames he had taught Huo Yuhao to wield in the original story. They were some more overbearing form of soul fire that could be applied to weapons.
Just as Chen Ping worried about how they would deal with the still-struggling Zhongli brothers if Electrolux burned all these beast souls to nothing, the black flames had already ignited on Zhongli Tian.
"No, no, no! This is something only the Supreme Pontiff possesses! Spare me!"
After only an instant of contact with the black flames, the beast souls on Zhongli Tian were actually burning together with him.
Within mere seconds, he had become an enormous torch seven or eight meters long, rolling through the cave in agony as his Aura of Life rapidly faded.
At the sight, Zhongli Di was almost scared out of