Pang Chicheng flew farther and farther away until he vanished from everyone’s sight.
Cries for help that came from within the Spirit Pearl pierced through Nie Tian’s sea of awareness like sharp arrows.
However, there was nothing Nie Tian could do to stop it.
“The portal!” A shudder suddenly ran through Nie Tian, whose sea of awareness was being violently stirred.
It struck him why the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society wanted the Spirit Pearl: he wanted to reopen the portal!
Last time, the five evil gods had pulled the portal open together.
Once the five of them broke free from the Illusory Ancient Talismans that were sealing them in the Spirit Pearl, they would be able to open the portal again without resorting to Pei Qiqi’s Voidspirit bloodline.
He also realized that awakening the Ripper Behemoth and letting it devour Grand Monarch Blood Axe, Grand Monarch Dark Nether, and numerous Ancientspirit grand patriarchs to refill the Seven Stars Realm Sea had also been part of the effort to reopen the portal.
“What lies on the other side of the portal?” This thought made Nie Tian insecure and uneasy. He suspected that something might have happened to Mo Heng, who was guarding the portal from the other side.
Perhaps Netherspirit, Bonedrude, and Devil armies were gathering in front of the portal, ready to swarm into the human world.
Since the Seven Stars Realm Sea was located in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, if they actually made it through the portal, the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries would be the first to fall.
“I can’t allow a sub-soul of Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits to run amuck under my nose!” Nie Tian bellowed.
“Bloodline: Lifeblood Wheel!”
Drop after drop of Blood Essence that looked like sparkling blood diamonds were separated from Nie Tian’s heart.
They sprayed out and formed a blood-colored wheel that looked like a bloody sun.
“Spin!”
The Lifeblood Wheel started spinning slowly.
As it did, rays of blood-colored light shot out from within the wheel, carrying a power that could suppress all living beings’ bloodlines, making their bloodline power weak and sluggish.
FZZZ!
Many of them pierced into Nie Tian’s sea of awareness.
RUMBLE!
The power from the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society, which was having a significant impact on his sea of awareness, started ebbing away.
As that happened, he regained contact with the Star Behemoth bone and the Flame Dragon Armor.
Through his true soul, he sent the Spirit Pearl a soul call. “Come back!”
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Soul strands shot out of his eyes and instantly entangled the Spirit Pearl like invisible strings.
The moment his soul strands made contact with the Spirit Pearl, he shrewdly sensed that even more strands of power that didn’t belong to him or the Spirit Pearl were also wrapped around the pearl.
That power was dark, cold, and very resilient.
“Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’s soul power!”
As he let out a cold harrumph, and the star souls within his sea of awareness suddenly burst forth with dazzling light. At the same time, the soul strands that were wrapped around the Spirit Pearl turned visible and started emanating blinding light.
At the same time, the black tortoise expanded, its bloodline power engulfed Dong Li in the blink of an eye like a pitch-black cloud.
Power that belonged to the black tortoise infiltrated Dong Li’s body through her every pore, as if to stimulate her potential.
“Dark Aureole!” Dong Li’s voice echoed from within the endless darkness. In the next moment, an ink-black aureole that looked like a black sun slowly rose from the utter darkness.
FIZZ! FIZZ!
The soul voice the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society had used to bewitch Dong Li was suddenly snapped by the dark power.
Dong Li instantly regained her senses.
“Darkness Devours!”
Regaining control of the dark stone, Dong Li used it to further power the Dark Aureole, which released dark power that instantly devoured all light around it.
Even the Blackout Soul Curtain released by the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society was engulfed by darkness.
The numerous soul spell formations in the Blackout Soul Curtain ceased operating.
As that happened, the unusual soul magic that was suppressing everyone’s souls failed.
WHOOSH!
The Spirit Pearl that was slowly floating towards the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society suddenly broke free from his control, and returned to Nie Tian’s hand.
Without hesitation, Nie Tian returned it to his ring of holding to end any possibility of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society reestablishing a soul connection to it.
The sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society looked up at the Dark Aureole, disbelief filling his unfathomable eyes. “The Dark Aureole! I can’t believe it’s the Devils’ Dark Aureole! That mighty tool of the Dark King was lost for ages!”
He was well-aware of how overwhelmingly powerful the Dark King had been when he had led the Devils.
As someone who had transcended the tenth grade, he had plunged vast areas of the Void World into eternal darkness with his Dark Aureole, making them a paradise for the Devils and all other creatures of darkness.
After his demise, none of the other Devil experts had been able to manifest the true might of the Dark Aureole, nor could the following generations of Devil experts.
Therefore, the Devils had carefully guarded it as one of their most precious treasures, until it had somehow disappeared one day.
No one had known where it had gone.
For a long period of time, the Devils had almost gone mad trying to recover it. However, they had searched through the entire Void World, but failed to find it.
Who would have thought that such a mighty devilish tool would be in the Mortal World, in the possession of a female human?
More importantly, this woman with a rich dark aura could actually wield it, and had fused the dark stone, an eye of the Dark King, into herself, using it as the source of her dark power!
Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits, who had possessed the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society with one of his sub-souls, was deeply confused by these young humans he faced in the Seven Stars Realm Sea.
“A young woman that carries a Voidspirit bloodline, a young woman that can wield the Dark Aureole and has absorbed the dark stone… And a young man who has imprisoned Grand Monarch Heavenly Spirit’s five mighty subordinates inside a Spirit Pearl.
“If every one of the humans’ younger generations is as extraordinary as they are, won’t we, the three higher races from the Void World, be bound to lose to them?
“No! That can’t be it!”
Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’s sub-soul let out a furious roar, refusing to believe this.
Then, he glanced around in every direction with his cyan eyes and released more of his bewitching soul voice.
Nie Tian’s Void domain subordinates that were scattered around the Seven Stars Realm Sea were the first to be stricken by his bewitching soul voice.
Pupils turning cyan, many of them seemed to be possessed by wisps of Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’ soul will as they charged madly towards Nie Tian, Pei Qiqi, and Dong Li.
“Nie Tian! Don’t kill them! They’ve lost control of themselves!” Yue Yanxi shouted anxiously.
At the same time, he held his head with an agonized expression, as if he were struggling to prevent the infiltration of Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’s soul will. “It’s Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits. He’s plagued their minds with his soul will!”
Before he could say more, Nie Tian realized that this was an evil soul magic cast by Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits.
He could achieve a similar effect by influencing his enemies with power from the five evil gods that were currently sealed within the Spirit Pearl, plunging them into fear, despair, or bloodlust.
“Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits is the one that’s behind all this.”
As Pei Qiqi spun her Space Boundaries Crystal to lock down the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society, Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits was distinctly reflected in one of its facets.
To her surprise, his reflection seemed to be illusory and semitransparent, and the true soul in his sea of awareness looked completely different from what the true soul of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society should look like.
It appeared that his true soul had been transformed into something completely different: a strange soul form made of multiple souls.
At first glance, it looked like a bunch of grapes, each grape being a soul cluster. This seemed to be what Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’ true soul looked like.
“Nie Tian, the true soul of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society has been assimilated, and is the same as that of Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits now,” Pei Qiqi whispered to Nie Tian. “But it doesn’t really matter. They’re both our enemies anyways.”
With these words, Pei Qiqi took a milky-white jade-like finger and poked it towards Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’ reflection in the Space Boundaries Crystal.
PUFF!
Her finger went into the Space Boundaries Crystal effortlessly.
Many of the grape-like soul clusters on Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits’ sub-soul were crushed and burst.
Grand Monarch Thousand Spirits, who was releasing his bewitching soul voice, instantly let out a miserable wail. Wisps of cyan smoke flew from the eyes, nose, and mouth of the sectmaster of the Nether Spirit Society.
