Centipedes and toads, like scorpions, are classified among the Five Poisons.
The middle-aged man's Heavenly Centipede martial soul, while not comparable to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion that possesses the ultimate ice attribute, was still a powerful existence on the same level as Meng Hongchen's Bright Jade Ice Toad martial soul.
Of course, the Ice Emperor, with her cultivation close to four hundred thousand years, had long abandoned her own deadly poison in pursuit of the ultimate ice attribute.
Yet even the owner of such a top-tier poison-attribute beast martial soul, while using Martial Soul True Body, still suffered irreversible injuries under Ye Guyi's strongest strike.
Moreover, his soul power was as high as level seventy-eight.
This clearly demonstrated the terrifying power of Ye Guyi's Holy Angel martial soul.
After killing two Evil Soul Master Soul Emperors, Ye Guyi's momentum was at its peak thanks to the characteristics of her Holy Angel martial soul. She showed no signs of being affected by forcibly raising her martial soul to the Seven-Ring True Body state using a secret method.
The golden-red Sun Holy Sword in her hand dimmed and reverted to the platinum-colored Angel Holy Sword.
With a light lift of her jade-like hand, the sword tip pointed at the middle-aged man. A trace of disdain appeared in her golden eyes that were filled with a holy and sacred aura.
"If you have the ability, feel free to try. Not just you, but also that so-called Holy Church behind you. Don't think that just because you're now colluding with the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, you can rest easy."
"What exactly do you know?" The middle-aged man's heart sank, and the killing intent in his voice became almost tangible.
However, he was destined to receive no answer.
After saying those words, Ye Guyi gripped the Angel Holy Sword with both hands, raised it high above her head, and launched another attack.
Her second soul ring shone, and a light shadow appeared behind her. The shadow was an enlarged version of the Six-Winged Angel. Three pairs of wings formed from holy light unfurled behind the shadow. A cold glint flashed in Ye Guyi's eyes as she shouted clearly:
"Angel, Judgment."
Her crisp voice carried a faint ancient divine murmur, like ethereal Sanskrit chanting.
The platinum sword light on the Angel Holy Sword surged violently, the dazzling blade shining brilliantly in the dim underground hall.
Immediately afterward, a massive sword beam over three zhang long and more than one zhang wide descended from the sky, slashing straight toward the Heavenly Centipede True Body of the middle-aged man.
Holy Angel's martial soul's second soul skill, Holy Spirit Slash.
Unlike the sword beams casually released earlier with her fifth soul skill, the Holy Sword, this second soul skill, Holy Spirit Slash, had a locking effect on the enemy. It could not be dodged—only blocked head-on.
The middle-aged man felt as if his very soul had been locked. Not daring to be careless, he immediately lit up his third soul ring.
The dark green light suddenly solidified. The carapace covering his Heavenly Centipede True Body gained a metallic texture, and his hundred-segmented body coiled section by section.
Under the pull of qi, the Holy Spirit Slash fell like a rainbow piercing the sun.
"BOOM—" With a tremendous explosion, the entire underground hall trembled.
The shockwaves from the colliding soul powers whipped up dust from the surroundings, with Ye Guyi and the middle-aged man at the center of the clash.
The platinum sword light and the dark green glow blooming from the carapace were clearly divided, locked in a stalemate.
With the amplification of his Martial Soul True Body, the middle-aged man ultimately blocked Ye Guyi's second soul skill, Holy Spirit Slash.
He once again personally experienced the terrifying foundation of Ye Guyi's Holy Angel martial soul.
Despite the gap of more than ten soul power levels between them, he did not hold a clear advantage.
"If you had kept a low profile and cultivated until breaking through to the Title Douluo realm, you might indeed have caused some trouble for the Holy Church in the future," the middle-aged man said with a sinister smile.
"But you dared to expose your Holy Angel martial soul before your wings were fully grown. I don't know whether to call you ignorant or brainless."
Although Ye Guyi was strong, he still had his own trump cards. He was at least eighty percent confident he could leave her here forever.
Killing a Holy Angel martial soul possessor in advance would be a great merit.
"Talk is cheap." Ye Guyi snorted coldly. The two pairs of angel wings behind her flapped, and she held the Angel Holy Sword horizontally in front of her, taking the initiative to attack the middle-aged man.
The ferocious Heavenly Centipede True Body and the holy angel—these two opposite images formed a striking contrast.
Facing the horizontal slash from Ye Guyi, a human-like, ruthless smile flashed in the single dark green eye atop the Heavenly Centipede True Body's head. It first coiled backward violently, then opened its massive jaws and spewed out a large cloud of ink-green poisonous mist.
This poisonous mist was the innate ability of his Heavenly Centipede martial soul—extremely powerful. No soul power could disperse it; one could only evade it.
This time, he even consumed his martial soul's origin, allowing the mist to easily cover a vast area. It was his strongest escape method, but in this underground hall of only three hundred square meters, it had an unexpected annihilating effect.
Because this was a sealed space, there was nowhere to escape.
He had deliberately directed the earlier soul power impacts to collapse the passage entrance. At least in the short term, Ye Guyi could not leave.
Ye Guyi also discovered the special nature of this ink-green poisonous mist. As a Holy Angel comparable to an ultimate martial soul, the holy light she controlled could dispel all poisons.
Yet the granular poisonous mist the middle-aged man now spewed actually penetrated her holy light.
However, she quickly responded.
She raised the Angel Holy Sword high once more. This time, it was not the second soul ring that shone, but the fourth.
Fourth soul skill, Holy Light Spirit Formation.
The two pairs of angel wings behind her first rose upward, then flapped downward forcefully. Layers upon layers of even more brilliant holy light surged like spring water, forming ripples that spread outward, distorting the surrounding space.
Yet this powerful fourth soul skill, which combined area attack and knockback effects, completely failed to achieve the result she expected.
As it made contact with the poisonous mist, the platinum rippling holy light gradually became dotted with ink-green specks, like stars in the night sky. Some even seeped into her body.
For the first time, Ye Guyi's expression changed.
The middle-aged man was also startled. Fortunately, there was a cultivation gap between them. If Ye Guyi had been at the Soul Sage level like him, his natal deadly poison might really have been completely neutralized.
This person absolutely could not be allowed to live!
In just that brief moment, the entire underground hall was completely shrouded in ink-green poisonous mist.
The middle-aged man drove his Heavenly Centipede True Body to churn within the mist. His first six soul rings flashed in succession, and hundreds of sharp legs crushed toward Ye Guyi.
Ye Guyi swung the Angel Holy Sword to parry, retreating step by step. Her aura had clearly weakened considerably.
Yet there was not much panic in her golden eyes.
"Guya, you were too careless." An aged sigh resounded in her mind, and a look of shame appeared on Ye Guyi's face.
"Elder Yi."
Just as she steadied herself and prepared to use the method Elder Yi had taught her, Elder Yi continued to warn: "Wait, someone is coming."
As soon as Elder Yi finished speaking, a loud boom rang out. The piled rocks at the passage entrance shattered instantly. A figure wrapped in black-purple thunder light flashed past and stood in front of Ye Guyi.
All the thunder light spread outward at the same instant, and the extremely dense ink-green poisonous mist rapidly dissolved under the ravaging thunder light.
"Ultimate lightning?!" The middle-aged man's pupils contracted, his heart filled with shock and suspicion. In a single night, he had encountered two people whose martial souls completely countered the evil soul masters of their Holy Church.
His first thought was that the two were in the same group.
"You have an accomplice? Very well—then both of you can stay here." The middle-aged man growled. Sensing that the newcomer was only at the Soul King level, the surging emotions in his heart calmed.
A Holy Angel Soul Emperor, poisoned by his natal deadly poison, plus a Soul King with ultimate lightning attribute—what could they possibly do? His Heavenly Centipede martial soul did not possess evil characteristics, so it would not be restrained by either of them.
The source of the black-purple thunder light was a tall, upright young man. His indifferent deep-purple eyes matched Ye Guyi's calm golden eyes indescribably.
"It's you?!" Ye Guyi's shock was no less than the middle-aged man's. However, because of the ultimate lightning attribute, she understood that the youth before her was a friend, not a foe.
Ultimate lightning was the natural nemesis of all evil. A soul master possessing an ultimate lightning martial soul could never collude with evil soul masters.
A martial soul could influence a person's character. The more powerful the martial soul, the more it required a matching temperament to control it. Just like how her own firm and upright heart perfectly matched her Holy Angel martial soul.
Without a doubt, the newcomer was Xu Zihuang. After confirming Ye Guyi's identity, he was naturally willing to befriend her.
Moreover, he himself deeply hated these evil soul masters—to the point of utter loathing. The tragic circumstances of his childhood were, to a large extent, thanks to the evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Church. Whenever his strength allowed it, he would unhesitantly eliminate them.
"Let's deal with him first."
Xu Zihuang narrowed his eyes slightly. With a flash of light, the long sword Shark Tooth and the short blade Whale Fang appeared in his hands.
Standing proudly, he held the long sword Shark Tooth horizontally in his right hand.
In his left hand, he reverse-gripped the short blade Whale Fang. The thunder light flickering on his body extended all the way to these two level-six close-combat soul tools, making them appear extraordinarily divine.
The poisonous mist in the underground hall was completely dissolved by the black-purple thunder light he released.
Gazing at Xu Zihuang's back and feeling the tyrannical and domineering martial soul aura, Ye Guyi's delicate body trembled slightly for some reason.
"The aura of a pure Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul."
There was no mistake—it was the aura of a pure Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul. This feeling was all too familiar to her.
Her mind fell into a daze. Two scenes in her memory began to involuntarily overlap.
Only then did she suddenly awaken. She realized that Xu Zihuang's appearance bore a striking resemblance to a deceased person she once knew. Previously, because she subconsciously believed it was impossible, she had not made the connection when they first met.
The middle-aged man naturally paid no attention to such things. His task was to kill both of them here.
A Holy Angel soul master and an ultimate lightning soul master—if they grew up, they would inevitably become the Holy Church's greatest enemies.
His sixth soul ring surged with black light. The hundreds of sharp legs beneath the Heavenly Centipede True Body waved, each leg slashing out an ink-green blade of light over three meters long. The crescent-shaped blades swept forth with unparalleled might.
Xu Zihuang's deep-purple eyes instantly turned brilliant gold.
Three purple, two black—five soul rings that would shock anyone rose from beneath his feet. Obscure and complex golden patterns flowed around his pupils, clearly capturing the trajectories of those hundreds of light blades.
Area attacks were powerful, but they could not lock onto targets.
Xu Zihuang continuously swung the long sword Shark Tooth and short blade Whale Fang in his hands. Every time he blocked a light blade, dazzling sparks flew from the two level-six close-combat soul tools.
Ye Guyi also snapped back to her senses, soared into the air, and used the Angel Holy Sword to share the pressure for Xu Zihuang.
Blocking the sixth soul skill unleashed at full power by a level seventy-eight Soul Sage in Martial Soul True Body state was no easy feat.
Even Xu Zihuang felt some pressure.
But while defending, he also began to counterattack.
As a spiritual-attribute control-system Soul Master, the control soul skills he currently possessed were only his second soul skill, Mirror Destruction, and his third soul skill, Time Chaos.
Unlike Time Chaos, which had a brief wind-up, his second soul skill, Mirror Destruction, could be activated instantly as long as his spiritual force locked onto the target.
A dark red ripple flashed past, and in the next moment, the Heavenly Centipede True Body was covered in a layer of angular dark red crystal.
"Shatter."
Against evil soul masters, Xu Zihuang naturally showed no mercy. He unhesitantly triggered the second stage of Mirror Destruction.
The dark red crystal shattered into fragments that scattered through the air.
With the middle-aged man's cultivation, even under the dual control-and-damage soul skill Mirror Destruction, he could not avoid a momentary delay.
The light blades from his sharp legs experienced a brief pause.
Immediately afterward, Xu Zihuang's third soul skill, Time Chaos, took effect.
A brilliant golden halo centered on Xu Zihuang's body instantly enveloped the entire area. This time, the Heavenly Centipede True Body did not merely slow—it froze completely in midair.
The middle-aged man's thoughts were also affected. He felt as if he had entered a bizarre, kaleidoscopic world detached from reality.
Finally, replacing the brilliant golden halo was a rippling silver halo.
His fifty-thousand-year soul ring skill, Mental Storm.
When the silver ripples touched it, the Heavenly Centipede True Body trembled violently. The hard, dark green carapace instantly shattered, turning into specks of light.
It was a collapse that started from within.
The middle-aged man's body emerged from the head of the Heavenly Centipede True Body. He spat out a mouthful of blood, bleeding from all seven orifices, gravely injured.
This was the terror of spiritual-attribute soul skills—if one's own cultivation and spiritual force were not sufficiently strong, it was nearly impossible to resist.
However, compared to that thirty-thousand-year Diamond Mammoth from before, the middle-aged man relied on his superior cultivation and spiritual force and did not directly explode into a cloud of blood mist.
Two powerful consecutive control skills followed by the terrifyingly lethal fifth soul skill, Mental Storm—this was Xu Zihuang's strongest offensive sequence without using his golden-level innate body martial soul second awakening.
Although Monarch Descending the World was also strong enough, its effects were less direct, mainly used to complement close combat and other soul skills. The right leg bone skill Thunder Hell from Thunder Hell Vine required time to gather thunder-attribute elements from the surroundings.
With these three soul skills unleashed together, even among Soul Sages, probably only the most outstanding disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court—like Ma Xiaotao or the senior sister Zhang Lexuan at the Soul Sage level—could manage to resist.
By that measure, this Holy Spirit Church branch elder's performance was already quite good.
Xu Zihuang's sudden eruption and the abrupt turn of events caused Ye Guyi to descend from the air.
It was not only because of the shock in her heart, but also because the Heavenly Centipede poison inside her body had already taken effect.
Still, she persisted and released one final Holy Spirit Slash, filled with hatred, completely ending the life of the Holy Spirit Church branch elder.
Ye Guyi's full chest heaved slightly as her gaze fell upon Xu Zihuang.
At that very moment, just like Xu Zihuang, she alertly looked up toward the entrance of the underground hall.
A tall girl, standing over 1.8 meters, with an anxious expression, walked in. Her looks were not as beautiful as Ye Guyi's, but her wheat-colored skin gave her a very healthy appearance.
Moreover, she wore the same attire as the Holy Spirit Church disciples.
Two yellow, two purple, one black—five soul rings pulsed around her, giving her an illusory feeling.
"Evil soul master?" Ye Guyi's gaze turned cold as she raised the Angel Holy Sword, ready to strike.
To her surprise, the tall girl knelt directly before her and Xu Zihuang.
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