"Lu Ren, you forced my hand! I'll turn you into my heavenly corpse!"
Shi Dingyang roared, and the Evil Soul Pagoda flew from his hand, swelling into a tower more than ten zhang tall.
Pitch-black Evil Souls poured from the pagoda, radiating sinister energy and wailing like ghosts and gods. In an instant, they engulfed Lu Ren.
One after another, the Evil Souls burrowed into Lu Ren's body, trying to seize it.
"Eight Divisions Pagoda Mountain, collect!"
The phantom of the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda emerged within Lu Ren. A powerful pull erupted, suppressing all hundred-odd Evil Souls inside the Eight Divisions Pagoda Mountain.
Nearly all those Evil Souls were Extraordinary Level or Heaven-shattering Level. Bolstered by the Power of Faith, Lu Ren's Immortal Soul rose to late Heaven-shattering Level. The Eight Divisions Pagoda Scripture swept through them, converting every Evil Soul and the Immortal Souls of the Heavenly Corpse Immortal Sect cultivators.
Lu Ren's Immortal Soul level surged from late Extraordinary Level to its peak, then climbed straight to early Heaven-shattering Level—a tremendous leap.
"What's going on?"
Seeing Lu Ren floating motionless in the air, utterly unaffected, Shi Dingyang gritted his teeth and released all the nearly one thousand Evil Souls remaining in the Evil Soul Pagoda.
Shi Dingyang watched them swarm toward Lu Ren, pain crossing his face. He had spent his whole life subduing those Evil Souls.
Now, to kill Lu Ren, he had no choice but to release them all.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The Evil Souls invaded Lu Ren's body in a frenzy, each trying to seize it. But they vanished like clay oxen sinking into the sea, suppressed within his Eight Divisions Pagoda Mountain.
In moments, Lu Ren converted more than a thousand Evil Souls, driving away their sinister energy and turning their faith toward