Judging from the reaction of the other Soul Dao demon cultivator, Yang Lingrui had chosen the target of this ambush extremely well.
The instant he gathered his killing intent and swung his blade, that Soul Dao demon cultivator's body immediately entered an incorporeal, ethereal state.
This should have been a life-preserving technique he had set upon himself. Whenever a tremendous threat capable of endangering his life appeared, the spell would trigger, turning him into a virtual soul to evade the danger.
If Yang Lingrui had greedily sought greater merit from the start and tried to kill two birds with one stone, the likely outcome would have been one unharmed and the other lightly injured, far from the current result of severely damaging one of their body and soul.
After Yang Lingrui heavily wounded that blood arts demon cultivator, the Northwest True Intent Cultivators who had been besieging him all along, Huo Yuan among them, seized the chance and swarmed forward.
They all unleashed the trump cards they had kept hidden away, raining them down upon him in one burst. They meant to use this golden opportunity to utterly strip him of his fighting strength—to strike him while he was down and take his life!
Yet this True Intent demon cultivator truly deserved his reputation as an acknowledged expert within the Demon Soil. Even with his divine soul suddenly gravely wounded, he still had enough strength left to cast a spell and save himself.
Seeing that his cries for help went unanswered, he raised a hand and thrust it into his own chest, then crushed the heart within.
As the heart burst, the divine soul within it exploded in an instant, turning into crimson clouds and bloody mist that filled heaven and earth.
Huo Yuan and the others' Daoist killing techniques