Battle Through the Heavens: Reap the Red Lotus Karmic Flame at the Start

Seeing this, Xiao Yan naturally noticed the abnormality. He glanced around and saw that Qing Lin and Zi Yan had almost exhausted all their strength in the previous battle and were no longer suitable to fight.

So Xiao Yan instructed the two women, "Qinglin and Ziyan, you two rest here. Huozhi, let's go again!"

Qinglin wanted to say something, but a wave of exhaustion washed over her, making her body go limp. Xiao Yan gently patted Qinglin's head and softly comforted her, "Rest well, don't push yourself!"

Upon hearing this, Huo Zhi nodded without hesitation and flew out with Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan's original plan was to add the Void Devouring Flame Sub-Flame to the Fire Lotus attack just now, which would be the strongest form of Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.

However, Qing Lin then offered to help Xiao Yan, and she was certain she could deliver on her promise. This resolved Xiao Yan's initial concern about the insufficient power. Xiao Yan readily agreed to Qing Lin's suggestion. After all, he wasn't sure what would happen if he fused Huo Zhi's Crimson Lotus Karmic Flame with the original Fire Lotus, so he didn't want to gamble everything.

In the previous battles, Xiao Yan had been deliberately holding back his strength. With the Void Devouring Flame Flame continuously absorbing and replenishing his energy, and with the Fire Child constantly providing assistance, Xiao Yan was no longer exhausted after releasing the Fire Lotus as he had in the past. Instead, he still maintained considerable combat power!

Time waits for no one, especially for Soul Hall's Soul Radiance. He was the first to charge into the heart of the battle, and also the fastest.

Although the power of that earth-shattering strike was formidable, it had lasted for quite some time and was now visibly weakening. Neither the strange fire nor the chilling energy left behind by the Azure Scale could stop this peak four-star Dou Sheng expert from moving.

As he charged forward, Hun Mang could even clearly hear his own heartbeat; he hadn't felt this uncontrollable excitement in years. His overwhelming excitement stemmed primarily from what he was about to do—take a risk!

Once in position, his gaze quickly swept across the core area of ​​the explosion, his soul perception working in tandem to meticulously scan the area, as if afraid of missing anything.

He made a discovery very quickly!

"Haha, found it!"

Soul Brilliance clearly sensed the soul fluctuations, soul fluctuations that were like a lighthouse amidst the flames and cold energy!

With a slight raise of his hand, Hun Mang spread his fingers, and a condensed, jet-black battle aura, like an extended tentacle, locked onto the object Hun Mang had discovered. The hand formed from the battle aura swiftly bound it, then dragged it to Hun Mang's front.

It was a milky-white object, about the size of a human fist, radiating a faint spiritual light, as if it were made entirely of the finest mutton-fat jade. If one got close enough, one could sense an ancient, chilling spiritual fluctuation emanating from it.

Hun Mang stared intently at the object in his hand, his eyes filled with undisguised covetousness and greed, his face devoid of any of his usual pretense and politeness.

"As expected, it's you, the fragment of a Dou Di's remnant soul! Spirit Emperor, you still left me something good after all!"

"Those Spirit Race fellows may seem useless, but they do possess some wisdom. They protected this Emperor Soul so well, ensuring it survived the impact so well, ultimately doing all the work for me!"

The milky-white, materialized soul fragment held by the Soul Radiance was part of the remnant soul of a Dou Di. To be precise, it was the broken part of the remnant soul of the Spirit Clan's Spirit Heaven Emperor Dou Di after Xiao Yan and others joined forces to defeat it.

Unlike ordinary, somewhat illusory souls, this is the soul power left behind by a Dou Di, which has become substantial, just like a human body.

Although the Spirit Emperor was defeated by Yan Jin, and his consciousness may have dissipated, rendering him unable to continue helping the Spirit Race, his remaining power still originated from a Dou Di (Battle Emperor). He possessed the unique power of the Dou Di Laws, and in the Dou Qi Continent where Dou Di has become a legend, such an existence is an irreplaceable and immeasurable rare treasure!

Those who are most enthusiastic about manipulating souls are naturally the powerful members of the Soul Clan's Soul Palace. The allure of these soul fragments is doubled in their eyes.

The reason why the Soul Clan didn't completely break ties with the Spirit Clan, and why Soul Mang, as the Soul Clan's representative who should have controlled the entire Spirit Clan, always maintained considerable politeness towards the Spirit Clan, was mainly because this was what he truly cared about.

Soullight received instructions from the Soul Clan's higher-ups to find the location of this remnant soul of the Dou Di by any means necessary.

Soullight was already working on this, and had even made some progress, but the alliance's surprise attack came so suddenly that he didn't have time to react at all.

After that, he had no choice but to join the battle and did contribute to it. He even tried to capture Yao Lao, Xiao Yan and others to add another merit to his record.

However, the situation gradually spiraled out of control. In particular, under pressure from various aspects, Ling Yuan finally decided to use his trump card. From that moment on, Hun Mang's goals underwent a subtle change.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were his targets, but he also coveted the remnant soul of the Spirit Emperor.

Between the two, the power at the Dou Di level is more important.

It was precisely because of this that he always preserved his own fighting strength, so he was even more unwilling to fight Yao Lao to the death. It looked as if he was holding back Yao Lao, which made the situation of the Spirit Clan even more embarrassing.

He originally only hoped to weaken the Spirit Clan's power, giving himself a chance to kill two birds with one stone in the end. At that time, he could not only control the remnant soul of the Spirit Emperor, but also lure the Soul Clan's reinforcements to completely annihilate them all.

However, he was only a four-star Dou Sheng, and things didn't go entirely according to his plan. Soon, changes occurred that were completely beyond his control.

He never expected that Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Yan Jin would unleash their power and directly crush the Spirit Clan's last trump card in one fell swoop.

The remnant soul of the Spirit Emperor failed to break through the great formation's seal and was directly destroyed, shattering the Soul Brilliance's plan to completely seize the remnant soul of the Battle Emperor.

Hun Mang quickly suppressed his disappointment and made a decisive decision: a complete fragment wouldn't do; even a broken piece would suffice. Although the fragments of the Spirit Emperor's remnant soul he had found were far weaker than the whole thing, they were still an unimaginable tonic for the Soul Clan.

"If I can collect them all, the improvement I will receive will be unimaginable! Not to mention the five-star bottleneck, even six-star and seven-star are highly likely!" Soul Brilliant grinned, completely revealing his true colors.