Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 280 The Extraterritorial Battlefield Shakes
"kill!"

Qin Ming transformed into a streak of light, unleashing the Soul Domain of the Myriad Soul Banner. In an instant, the souls of 20 immortal gods from the demon and insect races who were engaged in battle were completely annihilated.

The Star Tower houses hundreds of thousands of King-level experts, including many at the peak and limit of the King-level realm.

But most of them are powerful figures who come here to try their luck.

The powerful peak-level and limit-level Kings often hunt alone or with three or five friends, but the weaker Marquis-level Kings cannot do so.

They must travel with powerful kings, otherwise they could easily perish among them.

For example, the two teams Qin Ming encountered at this moment were both led by powerful kings and were exploring in small teams.

In fact, this is the standard equipment for exploring the Star Tower.

The strong go it alone, the weak band together.

This principle applies in most places.

However, it is obvious that even if a team of more than a dozen powerful figures who have been granted titles of king or marquis were to encounter him, it would be like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and the number would be of no significance whatsoever.

A wave of soul attacks will strike; if you can't withstand it, you'll die!

If the Soul Domain of the Myriad Soul Banner and the Thousand Illusion Mirage Pearl were unleashed at full power, only an invincible king with a soul defense treasure would have a chance to contend with him or escape.

For some time now, Qin Ming has rarely used soul attacks.

The main purpose is to train myself.

But since he entered the Star Tower to hunt down alien kings, he naturally did whatever was most efficient.

There are certain nuances to this.

Qin Ming's primary target is the demon race, a type of flesh-and-blood life form with a soul!
Ideally, they should be like the royal family of the demon race, or be enfeoffed as kings by a large alien race.

After the soul is destroyed, its divine body becomes the best fertilizer for the World Tree.

Souls can also be recycled, refined, or used as soldiers of the Soul Clan.

Other races, such as the Machine Race and Rock Life, are secondary targets. These races do not have souls and cannot be targeted with soul attacks.

It can only gradually erode its divine body.

After killing them, you can only gain some resources.

For example, the two peak-level mechanical race kings he killed yielded a massive amount of metal golems, mineral veins, and so on. Not only could they be sold for money, but they also served as food for the mountain giants.

The worst type is energy-based life forms, which are utterly useless to Qin Ming. They turn into energy and disappear after death, without even a soul.

brush!
After collecting the corpses of more than twenty people, all of whom were at least marquises, a violent roar resounded in the Netherworld, and one by one, divine kingdoms were pulled out of the spatial turbulence by the Netherworld, which was in a higher dimension.

Enjoy!

The souls and remains of the living beings that poured out of the divine realm caused the underworld to operate at full speed.

The area of ​​the Netherworld Blood Sea is expanding at a visible rate.

Such opportunities don't come often.

He has just entered the Star Tower, and most of his opponents are instantly killed, with many dying before they can even send a message out.

However, as time goes on, they will inevitably come into the view of other ethnic groups.

Once the target is on guard, it becomes much more difficult to hunt them down.

It's just like being on the Yanji Continent.

They won't fight you at all; once they realize you're out of the way, they'll burn their divine power and flee far away.

"Master, the target, the Ba Yi Clan's 'Skull Needle King,' has been spotted at coordinates xxx."

Suddenly, a voice reached Qin Ming's ears.

The moment that sound came, the soul aura of this Soul Clan King weakened drastically, and then he perished.

died!

Qin Ming's gaze sharpened, and a hint of interest finally appeared in his eyes.

Like the Soul Clan, they possess souls and lives, and they die when killed.

What excited Qin Ming was the discovery made before the Soul Clan King fell.

The Ba Yi tribe, the Skull Needle King.

This name is very famous in the Star Tower, but its fame does not come from the fact that he is a King-level expert or from the powerful 'Ba Yi Clan'.

It's because he is a servant of the soul!

The Zerg Queen Immortal—servant of 'Southern Punishment'!

Unlike other races, the Zerg have no concept of bestowing titles or ranks.

When a peak-blooded star beast breaks through, it can often reach the strength of a marquis, while once the Zerg Queen breaks through, even the weakest among them will be a king.

And they are generally able to reach the peak or limit of the King title.

Each Zerg Queen is a top-tier Soul Master, capable of spawning massive Zerg swarms, making their overall strength terrifying.

The only thing that other races can be thankful for is that the number of Zerg Queens is extremely small, far fewer than the number of Star Behemoths, and breakthroughs are extremely difficult.

Otherwise, there would be no need to fight other groups; they wouldn't be a match for them at all.

For example, this Queen Mother 'Nan Cheng' has several subordinates who control the limit and peak of the King-level realm, among whom the Skull Needle King of the Ba Yi Clan is the one with the strongest defense.

The only drawback of the Zerg Queen is that she is relatively fragile, so she usually hides in the nest.

This "Southern Punishment" is the one who controls the Skull Needle King's actions outside.

"Nan Cheng's strength is already close to that of an invincible king; this is a big fish,"

A glint of light flashed in Qin Ming's eyes.

Killing one Nan Cheng is more rewarding than killing 100 Feng Wang!

However, being close to invincible is ultimately not the same as being truly invincible as a king.

Compared to the level of the truly invincible 'True King' who is comparable to an ordinary universe venerable, it is still slightly inferior.

Beings like True King Yan, comparable to Venerables, are extremely rare among billions of races.

True King and his companions almost never enter the extraterritorial battlefield. Instead, they cultivate diligently or fight in certain cosmic secret realms, striving for that slight possibility of breaking through to become cosmic venerables.

"Irina, you need to hurry up. If you don't break through soon, your strength will fall behind and you'll be eliminated."

The gates of the underworld have opened.

Qin Ming held the Heavenly Dragon Star-Breaking Halberd upside down in his hand, surrounded by the Heavy Prison Peak. With a slight flap of his wings, he flew into it.

Irina was the strongest under his command for a long time, and she had also received the inheritance of the Necromancer God, making her extremely promising.

But which of those who reach the pinnacle or limit of the King title doesn't have all sorts of extraordinary encounters?

A mere divine general's inheritance is really nothing special. Her only advantage is that she followed Qin Ming the earliest and absorbed a large amount of soul essence, causing her life level to surge a thousandfold.

brush!
Spacetime shifts; this is a swampy space.

As soon as Qin Ming stepped out of the Netherworld Gate, he immediately saw an alien immortal with an exceptionally powerful aura, an ugly face, a height of about three meters, and a body covered in black keratin.

Black tentacles dangled from the edges of his狰狞 face, and his cold gaze looked at the shattered Soul Clan King.

wow——

The moment Qin Ming appeared, the Soul Clan King, whose body was shattered and whose soul had turned into countless fragments of imprints, was devoured by the Myriad Soul Banner.

Broken souls begin to coalesce and revive in the underworld!
Soul Clan soldiers can indeed die.

However, if it is taken into the underworld, it can be resurrected!
at the same time.

The surrounding spatial fluctuations were instantly sealed off, the soul domain unfolded, and the secret runes of the Thousand Illusion Mirage Pearl lit up.

A powerful soul shock surged toward the direction where the Skull Needle King was located.

Bang!
The Skull Needle King rolled his eyes, and as the strongest defensive King Limit under Nan Cheng's command, he actually perished on the spot!
"King Yuanyue!"

A voice of shock and anger emanated from a world ring carried by the Skull Needle King. The world ring shattered suddenly, and a Zerg hive with a diameter of about 10 kilometers appeared in mid-air.

The moment the mother hive appeared, more than ten soul slaves at the limit and peak of the King-level realm, along with tens of thousands of golden insectoid immortal warriors, each a hundred meters tall, formed a battle formation and launched a simultaneous attack in the direction of Qin Ming.

This is not a coordinated attack.

While the Zerg's Soul Strike is powerful, concentrating all attacks into a single point requires some preparation time.

In a battle against a strong opponent, that little bit of time can be fatal.

"Soul shock!"

Qin Ming snorted coldly, and the Flowing Cloud Wings on his back flapped rapidly, easily dodging most of the attacks. Even the few that he couldn't dodge were easily blocked by Chongyue Peak.

He knew about his movement technique problem a hundred years ago, so how could he not try to fix it?
In the midst of dodging and weaving, the soul treasure 'Thousand Illusion Mirage Pearl' within his sea of ​​consciousness suddenly erupted with dazzling light, and a near-tangible soul impact swept across.

Bang!
The soul impact crashed heavily towards the mother hive where 'Southern Punishment' was located, instantly annihilating the souls of all the Zerg warriors it touched along the way, before colliding with the mother hive.

An equally astonishing surge of soul power erupted, intertwining with the soul impact.

"how is this possible?"

The Zerg Queen Nan Cheng's incredulous voice rang out. She was the Zerg Queen, yet she had fallen into a complete disadvantage in a soul attack.

As someone who is close to being invincible and destined to become a king, she naturally possesses great treasures.

Moreover, it's a treasure of the soul type!

With her own talent and the powerful soul treasures, even a powerful expert at the limit of the King level cannot withstand her soul attack and will be forcibly enslaved by her soul.

Soul attacks are just that domineering.

If they cannot stop them, they will be killed directly, or even enslaved, unable to even self-destruct.

This made her invincible on the battlefields beyond the borders, with almost no rivals.

Even when encountering soulless beings like the Machine Race, they can defeat their opponents or leave with ease thanks to their numerous soul servants at the peak and limit of the King level.

But this time, she was defeated in the battle of soul attacks?

Amidst a piercing roar, Nan Cheng directly burned his divine body to barely withstand this wave of soul attacks.

"Burning the divine body is indeed a bit troublesome, but that alone is not enough to stop me."

Qin Ming's expression remained unchanged; as a realm lord, he naturally could not burn divine power.

But he possesses the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls!

"Soul Tsunami!"

Wow! Wow! Wow!
In the Netherworld, hundreds of Soul Clan Kings and thousands of Marquises surged forth like a tsunami, instantly crushing the Insect Queen Nan Cheng.

Boom——

The Zerg Queen Nan Cheng let out a mournful howl.

The bell-shaped soul treasure emitted a crisp sound, attempting to protect her soul, but it was powerless to resist the soul tsunami controlled by Qin Ming.

"Do not--"

"The one who killed me was the human King Yuan Yue! He possesses a soul treasure and will avenge me!"

"go to hell!"

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Sensing the impending doom, a ruthless glint appeared on the beautiful face of the Zerg Queen Nan Cheng within the hive. She left a message among her horde and instantly self-destructed.

It wasn't just her who revealed it.

Her tens of thousands of immortal Zerg warriors, along with more than a dozen king-level soul slaves, all self-destructed simultaneously!

What terrifying power would be from the simultaneous self-destruction of a dozen peak-level Kings, King-limit level Kings, and tens of thousands of immortal Zerg warriors?
Even Qin Ming felt a sense of impending death!

brush!
An ancient-looking bronze palace appeared. The moment Qin Ming entered, a world-destroying impact slammed heavily into the bronze palace.

"That was close! This self-destruction could even harm the Universe Venerable."

Feeling the continuous expanding sounds, Qin Ming sighed with a sense of relief, but also felt somewhat fortunate.

The invincible king is not so easy to kill.

Even if one is close to becoming an invincible king.

He used all his methods, including the Myriad Soul Banner and other soul treasures, to achieve this.

If it weren't for the palace treasure bestowed by the Dark Teacher, even if the Mountain Giant's clone had taken the hits in this self-destruction, it would probably have been injured.

The power of the self-destruction was amplified in that instant, increasing exponentially.

This forced him to use the palace's most precious treasure to save his life for the first time.

Even with the immense power of a king's self-destruction, it was insufficient to shake the supreme treasure of the high-level palace, the 'Sky Rift Palace'!
As the impact of the waves of self-destruction gradually subsided, Qin Ming flew out, and the Soul Domain of the Myriad Soul Banner swept across the entire battlefield, collecting all the soul fragments.

As for the other treasures, apart from the soul treasures he had been eyeing for a long time, almost all of them rushed into the depths of the spatial turbulence and could not be found at all.

"go!"

After putting away the precious bell, Qin Ming stepped into the Netherworld Gate and disappeared.

But the turmoil caused by this battle has only just begun.

The Zerg camp was shaken, and the news spread.

He had previously killed more than ten experts at the peak and limit of the King-level realm, which had already attracted the attention of many powerful figures in the Star Tower area.

However, the killing of the Zerg Queen 'Nan Cheng', who was nearly invincible and had been crowned a king, completely ignited the extraterrestrial battlefield!
(End of this chapter)