"Master, what are you doing?"
Lu Ren let out a heart-rending roar and was about to rush forward regardless of his life.
However, Empress Fanyin moved her hands through the air as though plucking a zither, as if the void itself were her instrument.
Wave after wave of strange fluctuations enveloped Lu Ren like a cage, leaving him unable to take even one more step forward.
With her back to Lu Ren, Empress Fanyin said calmly, "Death God Banner, with my divine soul as a sacrificial offering, feast and fall into eternal slumber!"
As she spoke, Empress Fanyin's divine soul flew out from her body like a bird escaping its cage.
In an instant, her divine soul twisted violently and shattered like the setting sun, splitting into thirteen portions that shot toward thirteen different directions like arrows.
"Ah!"
Lu Ren threw back his head and howled, breaking through the restraints like an enraged lion. He wanted to chase after them, but with the divine souls scattering in thirteen directions, he was like a man lost in a fog, with no idea where to go.
"Master, come back!"
Lu Ren roared with tears streaming down his face. He frantically reached out, trying to seize those ever-receding divine souls. Yet they had already been devoured clean by the Death God Banners like prey swallowed by vicious wolves.
"Idiot. One person's divine soul is no more than a toothpick for the Death God Banners. Once the banners are deployed, they must devour at least a thousand divine souls before they fall dormant!"
Prince Jue Hen sneered.
The sacrifice of a single person's divine soul should not have had any effect at all.
Yet after the Death God Banners devoured Empress Fanyin's divine soul, their divine radiance dimmed, and the ripples of the formation