#458 - Bloodbath
In the slightly distorted space, there is a vast black land. Occasionally, some white spots are exposed on the surface of the land. These are some broken bones, which are a bit weird and cold.
In the center of this vast area, a huge black palace stands silently, like an ancient ferocious beast crawling on the ground. An eerie and terrifying smell slowly spreads, rippling in this blocked space.
In the huge black palace, there were countless extremely thick black chains extending out and inserted deep into the ground. Above these chains, there was a cloud of black mist swirling around, faintly gathering into the shape of a human. From time to time, the chains also flashed some light, and finally swept into the black mist, making the black mist more condensed.
The whole area seemed unusually quiet, and a strange atmosphere shrouded the place, making people feel creepy.
“Wow!”
I don't know how long this silence lasted. Suddenly, more than a dozen black mists stood up from the chains. The black mists shrank and turned into more than a dozen cold-faced figures. They looked at each other, moved their bodies, and gathered together.
"Let's go, it's time for us to go out on a mission. I hope we can bring back enough souls this time."
Among these people, a figure who looked like a leader spoke in a hoarse voice.
"There has been some unrest in the palace lately, everyone, be careful!"
One of them reminded grimly.
"Humph, with the Great Celestial Master and dozens of Celestial Masters personally in charge, that person wouldn't dare to come to our Human Palace to die easily!"
The leading figure also smiled grimly, nodded slowly, and waved his hand. A dozen figures turned into a ball of black mist and rushed towards the outside of this space like lightning.
"Bang!"
However, just as this group of black fog was about to break through the space barrier, the space around them suddenly solidified, and then collapsed violently. More than a dozen figures were squeezed into nothingness by the terrible force of space without even uttering a scream.
"laugh!"
When this group of figures turned into annihilation, the space barrier slowly cracked open a big hole, and a figure in white walked slowly through it, and then stepped on the dark ground.
“Woo!”
As soon as Xiao Yuan stepped into the space barrier, a shrill humming sound was heard from the huge hall. Immediately, sinister gazes burst out from the black fog above the chains and stared at Xiao Yuan.
"How dare you break into my Soul Palace? You're seeking death!"
A series of eerie shouts suddenly broke the silence of the space. Many figures stood up from the chains and without waiting for any orders, they turned into black light, brought up eerie gusts of wind, and rushed towards Xiao Yuan.
Heavenly fire burns the soul!
Xiao Yuan still gave face to the Soul Palace.
"You bastard, you dare to run wild in my Soul Palace, you must be tired of living! All the Heavenly Lords, capture him!"
When the sea of fire filled the entire sky and earth, a slightly old and angry roar suddenly came from the huge palace. Immediately, more than a dozen figures flashed out of the huge palace like lightning, and finally floated in the sky, looking at Xiao Yuan behind the sea of fire with gloomy eyes.
"A few Dou Zun scum dare to act so arrogantly in front of me? Great Compassion Wind Tearing Hand!"
Xiao Yuan sneered, and his laughter was like thunder, rumbling into the huge palace. While sneering, he took a step and slapped those Soul Palace Heavenly Masters who were still trying their best to resist the golden sea of fire. At the same time, the space solidified instantly, and a green handprint fell from the sky, making the fire in the sea even more intense!
"Bang!"
As Xiao Yuan slapped his palm, the bodies of more than ten Soul Palace Heavenly Lords exploded into balls of blood in an instant. Even their souls were turned into nothingness by the terrifying space compression and extreme high temperature.
Just as Xiao Yuan was about to continue slaughtering the Heavenly Masters of the Soul Palace, an angry roar was heard from the huge palace. Immediately, a black shadow rushed out, and a huge black chain that was a hundred feet long, like a black poisonous dragon, pierced through the void and rushed towards Xiao Yuan.
"With the strength of a mere two-star Dou Sheng, I can't protect your Soul Palace today!"
As for the chain, Xiao Yuan shook his head slightly, snapped his fingers, and the terrifying physical strength penetrated the space, smashing the huge chain away, and finally crashing heavily on the huge palace.
"Xiao Yuan, this place today will be where you will die and be buried!"
In mid-air, thick black fog surged out. In the black fog, an old figure with a skinny body like a skeleton, also with a gloomy aura, shouted.
"If you were the only one here, I would have slaughtered this palace of humans today."
Xiao Yuan raised his head and spoke indifferently to the Great Heavenly Venerable.
He had just sealed the spatial fluctuations in this area. Even if this guy had a spatial jade slip that could summon a powerful Soul Clan member, it would not work.
"Just a junior like you?!"
Hearing this, the Great Celestial Venerable suddenly laughed out of anger. After all these years, Xiao Yuan was still the first person who dared to threaten to massacre his Soul Palace with blood.
In the swirling black fog, a hunched figure as dry as a skeleton finally appeared in Xiao Yuan's sight. He was dressed in a black robe, and his old face looked extremely dry. His eyes were sunken, and two balls of ghostly fire were flickering in his eye sockets, exuding a hint of weirdness.
The old figure slowly raised his head. His withered face looked slightly scary under the light. The ghostly lights in his eyes flickered slightly, and a hoarse and creepy voice rang out quietly:
"Xiao Yuan, I didn't expect you to have the courage to come to me on your own initiative. Originally, the clan decided to let you live a little longer, but since you came to me on your own initiative, I can only help you take your life first!"
"Just you?"
Xiao Yuan grinned, then stretched out his arm with his palm facing down, his fingertips pointing in the direction of the Great Heavenly Venerable, and pressed down suddenly.
“Crack!”
In an instant, the space collapsed, and the Great Celestial Master was horrified to find that he was suppressed and unable to move by an extremely overbearing force!
"How can you have the chance to attack me?"
Xiao Yuan clenched his palms suddenly, and nine fire dragons rushed out from the surrounding golden sea of fire, carrying the extremely high temperature and terrible destructive fluctuations unique to the strange fire, and slammed into the Great Heavenly Venerable who was imprisoned in place.
Skyfire Burning Soul is a heavenly intermediate fire-attribute fighting skill. After compressing one's own fighting spirit with a special method, some special flames are refined into it. It is a large-scale explosive fighting skill.
After the sea of fire begins, the temperature is enough to ignite the enemy's soul, and will also keep one's own soul in an explosive state similar to spontaneous combustion, which can comprehensively enhance one's own attributes and strengthen the intensity of fire attribute attacks.
However, based on its explosive power alone, it has reached the level of an intermediate heavenly fighting skill, so its power is naturally quite terrifying.
Although Xiao Yuan did not use his full strength, he just released a sea of fire with the ability of an ordinary one-star Douluo, which was enough to turn the world into a scorched earth.
There are no living people in the sea of fire at this moment. In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, the Great Celestial Venerable should be the only one left in the Soul Palace and the Human Palace.
But now he couldn't care less about what was happening around him!
Because he felt an extreme destructive force from the nine fire dragons.
He had only felt this destructive power in Lord Void before.
"Xiao Yuan, I will fight you."
The Great Venerable was just about to use all his strength to break through Xiao Yuan's blockade, but he was completely swallowed up by nine fire dragons that exploded on his body after traveling through space.
boom!
Under the violent explosion, a huge hole was blown out in the sea of fire, and the space was torn into pieces.
"Fight with me? Do you have the strength to do that?"
Xiao Yuan clapped his hands, then turned his head to look at a certain space. With a thought, a golden fire dragon spear flew out from the sea of fire and pierced through the space.
"Xiao Yuan, you are so brave!"
The spear tore through the space, but was blown away by a huge force and fell back into Xiao Yuan's hand. Then, an extremely powerful energy wave suddenly came from that space, and then a figure slowly emerged from it.
At the same time, an extremely powerful aura swept through this enclosed space.
Hearing the deep voice, Xiao Yuan also smiled and looked at the ghostly figure. He seemed not to be surprised by the sudden appearance of the figure, and said in a calm voice:
"After hiding for so long, you still can't help but take action? A three-star Dou Sheng in the late stage. This kind of strength shouldn't be the Soul Hall Master, right? The deputy?"
The black fog slowly rippled, revealing an extremely pale face. That face did not look old, but rather like a young boy. However, Xiao Yuan could see through his soul directly. This guy was also an old ghost!
The deputy master of the Soul Hall had a cold smile on his face:
"Originally, the clan was planning to let you live a little longer, but it seems that you don't cherish this opportunity."
"Idiot, you're going to repeat what the Great Lord said just now, right?"
Xiao Yuan got angry when he saw the people from the Soul Palace. His quality and flexibility dropped a lot and he started cursing directly.
Hearing this, the Soul Palace deputy hall master's eyes suddenly turned cold. He stretched out his big hand and grabbed Xiao Yuan fiercely. The overwhelming black mist shot out from between his five fingers and transformed into five huge chains, which rushed towards Xiao Yuan violently.
"Don't think that you can be arrogant just because you have achieved a one-star Dou Sheng. In my eyes, you are not worth mentioning!"
A ferocious look emerged on the face of the Soul Palace's deputy hall master. His strength had reached the late three-star Douluo level. At this level, it was enough to completely crush Xiao Yuan to death!
However, facing such a fierce attack from the deputy master of the Soul Palace, Xiao Yuan's face remained calm.
"In your next life, remember to call Emperor Soul to talk to me directly. You overestimate your own strength."
Looking at the overwhelming black chains all around him, the soul power surged out from between Xiao Yuan's brows, and actually solidified the surrounding black chains in mid-air, and then shattered them directly.
"!"
Upon seeing this scene, the Deputy Master of the Soul Palace suddenly felt a chill running from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of his head.
His attack was not something that could be easily taken even by a powerful warrior who had reached the late three-star Dou Sheng realm.
This Xiao Yuan has disappeared for two years, how could he have grown to such a terrifying level!
"Arrogant boy, how can you call the clan leader by his name?"
The deputy hall master of the Soul Hall retreated violently. At the same time, a silver jade slip emerged from his hand. He crushed it, and a strong space fluctuation spread rapidly. However, he was surprised that after the space scroll was crushed, no space channel appeared. The diffuse space energy, after floating for a while, slowly dissipated.
"The space of this world has been obscured by the spatial turbulence I used. Any spatial fluctuations cannot be transmitted. Therefore, even if you use the spatial jade slip, you cannot summon reinforcements."
Xiao Yuan looked at the Soul Hall's deputy hall master, whose expression was becoming increasingly grim, jokingly and said with a smile.
The face of the deputy hall master of the Soul Hall trembled slightly, and his heart finally sank completely. Xiao Yuan was obviously well prepared this time.
"Xiao Yuan, the only mistake my Soul Palace made over the years was that we failed to kill you early, which allowed you to grow stronger. But don't be too proud. Although my Soul Clan cannot act rashly due to the rules between ancient races, you wait. It won't take too long before those rules can no longer restrict my Soul Clan. By then, you will find that my Soul Clan is far beyond your imagination."
The deputy hall master of the Soul Hall took a deep breath and looked at the enclosed space full of scorched earth. Even the huge black hall had completely collapsed. Those strong men of the Human Hall didn't even have a bit of their souls left. This time, the losses were really heavy!
"And that will be the time when you, Xiao Yuan, and Xingyun Pavilion will be completely destroyed!"
The deputy hall master of the Soul Hall smiled grimly, and his body suddenly exploded. Black mist filled the air, and he actually tore the space apart, preparing to escape.
"Certainly!"
Xiao Yuan spoke calmly.
The next moment, the world seemed to have been paused, and the figure of the Soul Palace's deputy hall master also froze in place.
"Can you run away?"
Xiao Yuan walked over slowly and looked at the deputy master of the Soul Palace with a grim look in his eyes.
These bastards from the Soul Palace deserve to die!
After being warned by Xiao Yuan, the deputy hall master of the Soul Hall fell into panic.
You know, even with the strength of the Soul Palace Master, he can't be made to stay where he is. He has to stay where he is and wait to die!
Did Xiao Yuan let some ancient Dou Sheng master possess his body? In just two years, he became this powerful?
Xiao Yuan didn't bother to care about what the deputy hall master of the Soul Palace thought. He stretched out his hand and pulled, and the soul of the deputy hall master of the Soul Palace was forcibly pulled out. Xiao Yuan marked the soul with a golden fire seal, restricted it, and then stuffed it into a jade bottle.
As for his body, Xiao Yuan froze it directly and stuffed it into the storage ring.
Then, he put away the sea of fire and looked at the ruins of the huge palace on the ground.
It's time to count the spoils. (End of this chapter)
