Xu Tianran was furious.
He didn't know why.
The operation, which had already been planned with the Holy Spirit Cult, suffered a devastating setback tonight.
This even caused his previously good relationship with Jing Hongchen to collapse at this moment.
It can be said that all of Xu Tianran's plans were disrupted.
To make matters worse, Xu Tianran had no idea why Jing Hongchen, who had previously been kind to him, had changed her attitude today.
Just as Xu Tianran was cleaning up the mess left by this battle.
Toji and his group have already left Mingdu.
In the desolate wilderness, all was silent except for the howling night wind.
The surviving Ghoul Evil Soul Master was tightly bound by iron chains, lying limp on the ground like a dying wild dog.
His face was a sickly grayish-white, his fangs were exposed, and his cloudy eyes were filled with fear and resentment.
"Speaking of which, why did we have to bring this Evil Soul Master along? Wouldn't it have been better to just kill him?" Jing Ziyan, standing beside Ji Juechen, couldn't help but ask.
Ji Juechen shook his head. "I don't know."
Jing Ziyan nudged Ji Juechen with her elbow:
"Look, that little angel, after this battle, she purified countless Evil Soul Master whose cultivation was stronger than hers. I estimate that her cultivation has greatly increased after this."
"Um."
Ji Juechen looked at Ye Guyi, who was radiating a sacred aura, and his eyes ignited with fighting spirit.
"I'll find her and have a friendly match then."
"We're far from Mingdu now, and all traces have been erased. Those Soul Engineer in Mingdu shouldn't be able to detect us."
Toji, who was in charge, gestured for everyone to rest where they were.
No one had any objections.
If everyone present were Titled Douluo, they could all return to the Heaven Dou Empire in one go, but there are still some with weaker cultivation levels.
Of course, the most important thing is Ye Guyi's change. Otherwise, everyone could have taken the weaker Soul Master with them and left together.
Toji also turned his gaze to the captured Ghoul Evil Soul Master.
Do you remember me?
"... Who are you?" The Ghoul Evil Soul Master weakly raised his gaze and fell on Toji.
"It doesn't matter if you forgot. Anyway, you guys couldn't suppress the instincts of your Martial Soul, so you wantonly killed others. It's only right that you deserve retribution."
Toji stood before him, doing nothing.
"Huh, it seems I've hurt you before?" The Ghoul Evil Soul Master chuckled sheepishly. "Then I shouldn't have left anyone alive, especially someone with such delicious Bloodline Power as you; I definitely wouldn't have let that opportunity pass me by."
"You finally escaped to Mingdu, it must have been tough, right?" Toji squatted down and smiled slightly at him. "That night when we escaped the Heaven Dou Empire, you ran pretty fast, I couldn't catch you."
Upon hearing this, the Ghoul Evil Soul Master trembled all over, and painful memories of the past uncontrollably flooded back.
That day, they were chased by people from the Shrek Academy, and then, in order to replenish their Soul Power, they slaughtered an entire village.
However, in that massacred village, they encountered a child they absolutely must not mess with.
The child chased them relentlessly, scaring them so much that they fled the Heaven Dou Empire.
If the child hadn't been stopped by the Shrek team, they would probably be in grave danger.
"It's you?"
The Ghoul Evil Soul Master couldn't help but shrink back at the thought of that child.
The Ghoul Evil Soul Master's pupils contracted sharply, and his rotting lips trembled uncontrollably.
"No, it's impossible... How could you...?"
Toji slowly stood up, the moonlight casting a cold shadow on his sharply defined profile.
"So you've remembered?"
He turned to look at Ye Guyi and kicked the Evil Soul Master in front of Ye Guyi.
"He's in your hands now. Let him enjoy himself."
Ye Guyi's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul had already been released. Golden holy light flowed around her, illuminating the night as if it were daytime. She looked down at the Evil Soul Master at her feet, her eyes filled with no pity, only a cold sense of judgment.
"In the name of angels."
She murmured softly, slowly raising the holy sword in her hand, which ignited with golden flames, and lightly touched the Evil Soul Master's brow with the tip of the sword.
"Purify your sins!"
The Evil Soul Master's body instantly tensed into a bow shape, and holy flames erupted from his seven orifices.
"Aaaaaah--!!"
Unlike ordinary death, the purifying fire burns along the veins of the Evil Martial Soul, scorching every nerve that has been stained with the blood of the innocent.
He struggled violently, letting out hoarse growls.
"Kill me! If you're so capable, just kill me!"
Ye Guyi ignored him, and the golden flames slowly purified him.
This is no ordinary flame, but the purest divine purifying power, specifically designed to subdue all evil.
A piercing scream tore through the night sky.
The Evil Soul Master's panel cracked inch by inch in the holy flames, and the blood evaporated before it could even flow out.
His muscles began to atrophy, his bones twisted and deformed, and his whole body slowly melted away like a wax figure thrown into a furnace.
The most frightening thing is that this purification process is extremely slow.
The sacred flames deliberately avoided vital areas, ensuring he wouldn't die immediately, but rather clearly feel the pain of every inch of his flesh being purified.
"Beg..."
The Evil Soul Master's face was twisted beyond recognition, and his remaining vocal cords managed to squeeze out a few broken syllables.
Ice Empress sat on a nearby rock, swinging his legs as he commented:
"The heat control is excellent; it looks perfectly crispy on the outside and tender on the inside."
The Myriad Demon King covered his nose. "How could you bring yourself to eat something so disgusting?"
"... Don't misunderstand, I'm not interested." Ice Empress explained, then glanced at the Evil Soul Master who was still screaming in agony.
The Evil Soul Master, enveloped in a divine aura, began to gradually carbonize, with black ash falling in wisps.
Strangely, the wound did not bleed; instead, granulation tissue continued to grow, attempting to regenerate.
This is precisely what makes the Ghoul Martial Soul so terrifying.
However, the newly grown flesh was scorched again by the holy flames, and the recurring pain caused the Evil Soul Master's eyes to bulge out.
His rotting vocal cords forced out gasps, and saliva mixed with black blood dripped from between his fangs.
Ye Guyi's face was solemn, and the holy sword lowered by half an inch.
A second light barrier enveloped the Evil Soul Master's torso, and his abdomen suddenly began to writhe violently, with at least a hundred distorted human faces bulging out from under the panel.
Those were the vengeful spirits of the innocent people he devoured.
"How many people have you killed?" Ye Guyi's hatred intensified, and she continued to escalate her attack.
He'll be executed by slow slicing!
Golden ripples spread, and the vengeful spirits turned into specks of light, rising and dissipating. Meanwhile, the Ghoul Evil Soul Master's body rapidly shrank like a leaky sack, losing a portion of his Martial Soul Origin with each vengeful spirit that disappeared.
In the end, the Evil Soul Master was no longer human, resembling a hollowed-out wooden sculpture. But Holy Flame deliberately preserved his central nervous system, allowing his consciousness to clearly perceive every inch of his demise.
The last thing to be purified is the skull.
Holy flames surged into the seven orifices like flowing water; the Evil Soul Master's eyeballs melted first, followed by his tongue, nasal cavity...
As the flames burned through the top of his head, a wisp of black smoke tried to escape, but was crushed in mid-air by Toji.
A morning breeze blew by, and the iron chains clattered to the ground.
Only a wisp of human-shaped ashes remained on the boulder; not even a trace of a soul was left.
"All done?" Ice Empress jumped off the rock, kicking away the ashes with disdain. "Faster than I expected."
Ye Guyi sheathed her sword and turned around. New golden patterns flowed across her sacred wings, clearly indicating that she had purified a Evil Soul Master at the Soul Douluo level, and her Soul Power had improved once again.
Her cultivation level has now advanced by leaps and bounds, directly reaching level seventy.
Toji looked towards the whitening horizon in the east:
"It's time to go back."