Fighting: I am Han Feng, I respect my teacher

It sounded like crystal shattering, or like the muffled thud of a heart being crushed.

The tip of the Star Demon-Slaying Spear, carrying unparalleled sealing power and the burning power of strange fire, pierced deeply into the blood crystal in the chest of the Soul Emperor Blood Soul Emperor, and countless spider web-like cracks instantly spread out!

"what--!!!"

The Soul Emperor let out a heart-wrenching scream, and the Blood Soul Emperor's body was like a punctured balloon, with terrifying scarlet energy leaking out and collapsing uncontrollably!

The enormous phantom of the Dharma body flickered violently, and finally exploded and dissipated completely with a resentful roar!

At the same time, Han Feng paid a heavy price.

He forcibly activated the Four Symbols Sacred Beast Technique to resist the giant handprint, and then used all his strength to unleash this desperate spear strike. His fighting spirit was almost completely drained in an instant, his meridians were on the verge of bursting, blood gushed out from his seven orifices, and his aura was extremely weak.

The Star Demon Slayer Spear also let out a mournful cry, and the starlight on the spear body dimmed.

In the void, the raging energy turbulence gradually subsided, revealing two disheveled figures.

The Soul Emperor revealed his true form, his face as pale as paper, with a terrifying wound on his chest that ran from front to back, the edges of which still bore silver sealing runes and charred flame marks—the very spot where the Blood Crystal had been broken.

His blood-stained robe was shattered, and his aura plummeted, dropping from the peak of the half-step Dou Di realm to the late stage of the nine-star Dou Sheng realm, and becoming extremely unstable. Clearly, the backlash from the destruction of his Dharma body was extremely severe.

Han Feng, leaning on the Star Demon-Slaying Spear, knelt on one knee on the void fragment, panting heavily. Each breath brought excruciating pain to his entire body. The light of the strange fire flickered on his body, clearly indicating that he was also at his limit.

The two sides' strongest reliance—the Blood Soul Emperor's Body and the Star Demon-Slaying Spear's peak sealing power—almost perished together in a fierce collision!

“Ho…ho ho…”

The Soul Emperor clutched his chest, panting heavily like a broken bellows, his eyes filled with disbelief, horror, and boundless resentment.

"Very well... what a Star Destroyer! It actually managed to break through my Dharma Body... I underestimated you!"

He suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing with a blood-red light once more. Though weak, they held a mad, all-or-nothing rage: "But do you think this is the end?! The Soul Clan's millennia-old foundation—how could you, an ant, possibly comprehend it?!"

He pressed his hands violently against the wound on his chest, drawing upon the remaining power of his blood soul, and roared, "Soul Devouring Annihilation Array! Activate!!!"

In an instant, the entire Central Continent seemed to tremble!

The next moment, countless invisible yet real blood-red threads rose from every corner of the continent, converging into an indescribably vast torrent of evil energy that crossed space, ignored distance, and frantically poured into the Soul Emperor's body!

This is his ultimate trump card, which he has been preparing for many years at the cost of sacrificing the life essence of hundreds of millions of living beings—the Soul Devouring Life-Severing Array!

The Soul Emperor's aura began to recover at a visible speed, and the wound on his chest began to heal forcibly under the infusion of crimson energy. A ferocious and twisted smile appeared on his face: "Do you see that? This is the true source of my power! The billions of living beings on this continent are all my resources! What do you have to fight me with?!"

Sensing the terrifying and evil energy sweeping across the heavens and earth, Han Feng's heart sank slightly.

As expected, the Soul Emperor still resorted to this last trump card.

Once the Soul Devouring Life-Severing Array is fully activated, the Soul Emperor's power will surge again, and may even temporarily surpass his previous state when he possessed the Blood Soul Emperor Body!

However, just as the Soul Emperor was laughing wildly, enjoying the power infused by the great formation, and preparing to completely crush the ant before him who had brought him endless humiliation—

A cold and resolute smile slowly curved Han Feng's blood-stained face.

"Soul Devouring Life-Severing Array... Soul Emperor, do you think you're the only one setting this up?"

Han Feng's voice was soft, yet it subtly revealed a sense of confidence that he had the overall situation under control.

Chapter 493 The Soul Emperor Falls!

The Soul Emperor's maniacal laughter faltered, his heart leaping in his throat: "You... what did you say?!"

Han Feng did not answer. He simply raised his left hand with difficulty, and in his palm, a faint but extremely pure milky-white flame, seemingly capable of purifying all the filth in the world, burned quietly.

Purifying Lotus Demon Flame!

"Summon!" Han Feng shouted, forcefully slamming the seed of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame into the void beneath his feet!

At that very moment, the torrent of crimson energy that was converging from all over the continent and surging wildly into the Soul Emperor's body suddenly underwent a strange change!

At the core nodes of the energy torrent—the altars secretly set up by the Soul Clan as the foundation of the formation—straight, faint yet incredibly resilient milky-white fire lines were ignited without warning from the depths of the earth's veins and from the void!

These fire lines were the backup plans that Han Feng secretly laid out after he learned about its core nodes!

He secretly altered the formation and buried his soul power like a seed deep within the key nodes of the Soul Devouring Life Formation, cleverly disguising and concealing it.

After doing all this, Han Feng had been waiting for this moment—the instant when the great formation was fully activated and the energy transmission reached its peak!

“Sizzle, sizzle—!!!”

The pure Lotus Demon Flame clashed and annihilated with the evil blood energy containing the resentment and life essence of billions of living beings, just like fire and water!

The entire Soul Devouring Life-Severing Array instantly became chaotic! The energy surging into the Soul Emperor's body was no longer pure life essence, but mixed with violent purification power and chaotic annihilation energy!

"puff--!!!"

The Soul Emperor's maniacal laughter froze instantly, replaced by extreme pain and horror!

His body trembled violently, and his newly healed wounds burst open again, even more horrifying than before!

The energy flowing into his body was no longer nourishing, but turned into a deadly poison!

The power of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame, like a maggot clinging to a bone, frantically burned and purified his remaining blood soul power and life essence!

"No! Impossible! How could you possibly... Ahhhhhh!!!"

The Soul Emperor let out a shrill scream that was inhuman, and huge blood blisters swelled up on the surface of his body, which were quickly burned through and purified by milky white flames.

His power not only failed to recover, but instead collapsed and dissipated at an even faster rate!

The Soul-Devouring Life-Severing Array, which should have been his trump card to turn the tide, has now become the noose that takes his life!

"Now! Farewell, Soul Emperor!"

A final glint of light erupted in Han Feng's eyes—a resolute determination to give everything and burn his life away! He abruptly straightened up, ignoring the lacerations all over his body, and formed hand seals in front of his chest at an incredible speed.

The remaining fighting spirit within his body, under the operation of the "Burning Technique," activated the fifteen sources of different flames.

"The heavens will be scorched and the seas boiled, all fires will return to nothingness!"

Han Feng let out his final roar.

A pillar of flame, whose color and terror were beyond description, burst forth from between his palms!

This beam of light did not attack the Soul Emperor's physical body, but instead directly targeted his soul essence, which was completely exposed and violently fluctuating due to the backlash of the formation!

Wherever the beam of light passed, the void was completely transformed into a chaotic void.

In the despairing pupils of the Soul Emperor, the flames that devoured everything were reflected.

"This emperor... is not... willing..." The final roar was swallowed by the flames.

"boom--!!!!!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only silent annihilation.

The Soul Emperor's body and soul, under the influence of the Ultimate Fire Lotus which had absorbed all of Han Feng's last strength and triggered the backlash of the Soul Devouring Life-Severing Array, melted away like ice and snow, turning into the most primitive particles and completely dissipating into nothingness.

The source of the shadow that had lingered over the Dou Qi Continent for countless years, the Lord of the Soul Clan, the half-step Dou Di Soul Emperor, has fallen!

At this moment, Han Feng stared blankly at the blank space in front of him, and the inner demons in his heart were finally released.

Won.

He defeated the Soul Emperor.

The shadow that had haunted him for his entire life vanished in that moment.

Han Feng felt the depleted fighting spirit in his body and the overloaded meridians. At this moment, pain surged like a tidal wave.

The final, all-out attack not only destroyed the Soul Emperor but also ruthlessly exploited him.

"If only things could end here."

Han Feng murmured to himself.

The next instant, Han Feng crushed a spatial rune and disappeared from the spot.

Only a wisp of the weakened Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame remained, lingering in the air for a moment before flying towards Gu Xun'er's direction.

Upon seeing the Golden Emperor's Burning Heaven Flame return, Gu Yuan immediately stopped recovering and flew back towards the direction of their battle.

However, by the time he arrived, the space had already been swept away by turbulent currents, and both the Soul Emperor and Han Feng had disappeared without a trace.

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On the other side, Han Feng took a ninth-grade pill to repair his injuries.

At the same time, he also obtained the ancient jade belonging to the Soul Clan.

At this point, seven of the eight ancient jade pieces had been collected.

The remaining piece belongs to the ancient tribe.

Han Feng took a deep breath, pieced together the seven pieces of ancient jade, and set them aside.

With the Soul Emperor dead, the continent will not face destruction again in the short term. The only thing to worry about now is when the extraterrestrial evil race will make a comeback.

Han Feng has made up his mind to cultivate the "Three Corpses Slaying Dao Scripture", but he doesn't know what changes might occur when he cultivates this technique.

If a problem like the White Tiger were to occur, turning it into a monster that would kill its former companions, Han Feng could not accept it.

In that case, I'll have to find someone who can stop me.

Gu Yuan is the best candidate right now.

His strength is closest to that of a Dou Di. Once he breaks through to Dou Di, he will be the one who can stop him should anything happen in the future.

However, before that, I need to recover from my injuries.

Negotiating with Gu Yuan is still negotiating.

Although their interests were aligned, Han Feng did not want to completely relinquish the initiative.

Moreover, the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave is not so easy to enter.

Han Feng had no idea what risks were involved.

Han Feng's current plan is to first gather all the ancient jade pieces and then release Zhu Kun.

With these two nine-star Dou Sheng in charge, the Dou Qi Continent is not without the power to fight back.

The invasion of evil spirits will be suppressed. People like Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan, who are both nine-star peak Dou Sheng and have one foot in Dou Di, are powerful. If they unleash their full power, they may not be able to defeat those evil race powerhouses.

Of course, once a true peak powerhouse like the Heart Demon Emperor descends, neither Gu Yuan, nor Zhu Kun, nor even Han Feng now, will stand a chance.

Thinking of that enormous, chasm-like gap, Han Feng knew that if he didn't cultivate the "Three Corpses Slaying Dao Scripture," he would have no chance of winning.

Therefore, no matter how great the cost of practicing this technique is, Han Feng still wants to take the plunge.

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In Zhongzhou, with the "disappearance" of the Soul Emperor, the Soul Clan was completely defeated.

Most of the clan members with the bloodline of the Dou Di have been killed by Hun Tiandi and Xu Wu Tun Yan, and those who remain are those with little fighting power.

Just like when Xiao Xuan gathered the power of his entire clan's bloodline to break through the bottleneck of the Dou Di realm, he met the same fate.

At that time, Xiao Xuan's strength must have reached the level of a half-step Dou Di, infinitely close to Dou Di.

However, because he rashly attempted to break through the barrier of his realm, he suffered a backlash after failing, which led to him being surrounded and killed by Soul Emperor and others.

If Xiao Xuan had merely remained at the level of a half-step Dou Di, he might have been able to slaughter the entire Soul Clan.

Unfortunately, he failed to do so, which led to the Xiao clan members, who later lost their bloodline power, being nearly wiped out by the Soul Clan. They were forced to leave Zhongzhou and seek refuge in various places.

The Soul Clan now faces the same predicament as the Xiao Clan.

Some members of the Soul Clan attempted to leave the Central Continent and travel to remote continents to live in anonymity.

However, they did not know that Han Feng had ordered the people of the Soul Slaughtering Division to hide outside the Soul Clan long before.

Those who tried to escape were captured by the puppet army.

Although these were not key figures in the Soul Clan, since they had enjoyed the benefits brought to them by the Soul Clan, they naturally had to bear some of the sins.

Han Feng did not order a complete extermination, but these people would not have a good life in the years to come.

Zhongzhou, a battlefield outside the eight clans.

Among the many powerful figures in the Soul Palace, those of the Soul Clan's direct lineage were also affected by the previous devouring power.

Their bloodlines were absorbed, greatly reducing their strength, and they were quickly killed by the powerful figures led by the Starfall Pavilion.

While those Soul Palace experts who did not possess the bloodline of the Soul Clan's Dou Di were not affected by the bloodline devouring, the Soul Clan did still place contingency plans within their bodies.

The moment the Soul Devouring Life-Severing Array was activated, it immediately detonated the hidden power within their bodies, and these people were the first to have their life force drained.