Evil Eye

Madam Wang returned shortly afterward.

On the bed, Dai Cheng's breathing had grown extremely faint.

"Elder, please, we ask you to help."

Madam Wang's expression tightened as she brought out the Heavenly Soul Flower.

In an instant, even the royal elder was stunned.

"I never expected you really to have such a precious medicine." The elder gazed at the flower, which glowed with a soft white light, and felt a surge of desire.

This was an opportunity even he could hardly refuse.

But after only a moment, the elder suppressed the restlessness in his heart and walked over to Dai Cheng, whose breathing was faint.

Seeing this, Madam Wang breathed a sigh of relief.

She knew how tempting the Heavenly Soul Flower was. No one in the Primordial Spirit Realm could refuse such a treasure; even the Spirit King had kept it in his collection for a long time.

The elder looked at the young man on the bed and poured all his spiritual essence into the Heavenly Soul Flower.

Gradually, the Heavenly Soul Flower gave off an extraordinarily rich, fresh fragrance. Everyone who smelled it felt their spirits lift.

The flower's petals swayed, and a mist flowed under the elder's guidance toward the space between Dai Cheng's brows, entering his sea of souls.

As time passed, the black Qi on Dai Cheng's face finally dissipated, and a faint spark of life quietly began to grow stronger.

The process was extremely slow, but it was much better than before.

Finally, the elder cast a pained, regretful glance at the Heavenly Soul Flower and sent it into Dai Cheng's sea of souls.

The Heavenly Soul Flower enclosed and protected what little remained of Dai Cheng's soul, which was already riddled with holes, and continually emitted a soft white light.

"All right."

"With such a top-grade spiritual medicine, his condition should ease."

With an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude, the elder nodded to Madam Wang and disappeared.

Everyone left behind looked at one another, at a loss for words.

Madam Wang gave Dai Cheng one last, solemn look, then dismissed everyone, and they left the side hall together.

Not long afterward.

On the bed, Dai Cheng, who had been unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes.

Horrifyingly, his eyes had undergone a tremendous change. The whites had turned black, and a ghastly green light seeped from the depths of his pupils, covering his entire eyes in an instant. They were chilling to behold.

"Uh... uh..."

Dai Cheng's body began to struggle instinctively. His mouth gaped wide, but he could barely make a sound.

Deep within his sea of souls, a terrifying evil eye suddenly appeared.

The evil eye looked almost exactly like Dai Cheng's eyes outside. Both burned with green flames and radiated an ominous evil.

"Hahahahaha..."

"The Heavenly Soul Flower! It's actually the Heavenly Soul Flower."

A shrill voice rang through the entire sea of souls. Under its onslaught, what remained of Dai Cheng's soul utterly collapsed, vanishing like smoke.

"The Spirit King's Manor has given me a priceless treasure; my heart cannot rest easy. Since that is the case, let the Spirit King's Manor vanish from this world starting tomorrow, hahahaha!"

The shrill voice rang out in unbridled glee. The next moment, the emerald-green evil eye unleashed a terrifying suction force, and the Heavenly Soul Flower instantly withered beneath it.

At the same time, the evil eye absorbed every last trace of the extraordinarily concentrated medicinal power, making it its nourishment.

Before long, the evil eye disappeared, and Dai Cheng's sea of souls had fallen utterly silent.

His eyes returned to normal, stretched so wide their corners seemed about to split. Saliva still dripped from his gaping mouth, and his body had been twisted by his struggles.

Dai Cheng died in that pitiful struggling posture. The light had gone out of his eyes, yet they remained fixed on the roof beam.

"He's dead!"

Watching everything through the Heavenly Eye Spell, Ling Yun was horrified to discover that Dai Cheng's life force had completely faded.

"How is that possible?"

Ling Yun could not make sense of it. When he saw Madam Wang bring out the Heavenly Soul Flower, he had thought the matter was about to come to an end.

Who could have imagined that the Heavenly Soul Flower, which was meant to nourish the soul, would become Dai Cheng's death warrant?

"No... it wasn't the Heavenly Soul Flower. The Heavenly Soul Flower is a genuine spiritual treasure, and it doesn't even have any side effects."

After the initial shock, Ling Yun instantly calmed down.

"Green eyes... it's... Chen Ling?!"

This time, Ling Yun could no longer remain calm.

"Chen Ling is a lowly Qi Refining Realm cultivator. No matter how bizarre her evil arts are, she couldn't possibly destroy Dai Cheng while he was protected by the Heavenly Soul Flower."

"In that case, there's only one possibility: either Chen Ling's power has already far surpassed Dai Cheng's, putting her in the Core Formation Realm at least, or that power doesn't belong to her."

A storm brewed in Ling Yun's mind. Whichever possibility it was, both pointed to only one result-the person behind the scenes wanted the Spirit King's Manor dead immediately!

With Dai Cheng dead, the manor had completely fallen out with his master. They would not rest until one side was dead.

"This is terrible. A great upheaval is imminent, and the manor has been left completely on the back foot, with no choice but to wait for the slaughter."

Ling Yun struggled inwardly. Even he found the situation extremely troublesome.

Everything that was happening now was closely tied to him. Leaving aside the fact that he did not want to see the manor destroyed like this, he was utterly unwilling to lose the royal mausoleum, a place where he could cultivate in peace.

"My Spirit Devouring Spell can only kill one person in the Primordial Spirit Realm. If I use it on that young man's master, I won't be able to deal with the person behind Chen Ling or the one behind the scenes coveting the royal mausoleum."

"The royal elder can only hold off one of them too. Once a melee breaks out, blood will very likely flow like a river through the manor. I don't even know whether the royal family will be willing to send stronger reinforcements."

Ling Yun's head ached.

As he recalled, although the Spirit King's Manor was one of the four great royal manors and belonged to the direct royal bloodline, he did not think the royal family would hold fast to them and offend a major power as a result.

He still did not know what standing that young man's master had in the Moon-Gazing Sect. If she held great authority and called in several more Primordial Spirit Realm experts, what could the manor use to resist them?

While Ling Yun fretted, thousands of miles away, two streaks of light were flying at tremendous speed.

One was red and the other white. The woman in red was like a poppy, beautiful and dangerous, while the woman in white wore a murderous expression and had a bearing cold enough to freeze a person to death.

Suddenly, the woman in white went blank and took something from her robes.

Before their eyes, a soul tablet instantly lost its light and shattered into pieces.

The two characters for "Dai Cheng" broke into several pieces, lying still in the woman's trembling palm.

"Cheng'er... no... no-"

Her face filled with grief and her whole body trembling, the woman in white cried out in anguish.

The woman in red said nothing, but her spiritual essence leaked out uncontrollably. Dozens of miles of land were driven into the ground by that power-a terrifying sight.

"Why? There was still a sliver of hope before. How did it suddenly come to this?"

The woman in white clutched the shattered soul tablet tightly, unable to accept it for the moment.

Her heart was filled with boundless hatred, and her beautiful features were icy cold, as if she had become a rakshasa.

"Whoever killed my disciple, may heaven and earth destroy them!"

At last, the woman in white swore in a cold voice. She exchanged a glance with the woman in red beside her, then flew toward the horizon at a terrifying speed without stopping.

In that direction lay none other than... the capital of the Ling Kingdom-Myriad Phenomena City!

The people of the manor finally discovered Dai Cheng's death, and every face changed color, especially that of the royal elder.

With a trembling hand, he sent his spiritual sense toward Dai Cheng's body, which had already gone stiff. A moment later, he spoke woodenly. "A dignified fifth-tier high-grade spiritual treasure has vanished without a trace, yet the soul it protected has already perished."

"Someone killed him."

At last, the elder spoke.

Behind him, Madam Wang sank to the ground, having bitten her lips until crimson blood appeared.

As they stood there in stunned silence, a disturbance came from afar.