Chapter 403: Death Crisis
When the peculiar pupils cast their gaze into his eyes, Xia Feng clearly felt a slight stinging pain in his spirit, and in his vision, a giant divine hand seemed to break through the clouds, smashing towards his forehead.
It was an illusion!
However, luckily, his mental power was already at the Venerable level even without any enhancements. This spiritual attack was completely powerless against him.
As the illusion dispelled, a thought crossed his mind.
He reappeared behind Yue Hongli and simultaneously raised his hand, passing through Yue Hongli’s ethereal form, and slapped Ye Li Helian’s still ferocious face!
Buzz—The remnant spirit, only half of its body remaining, wailed and shrieked, flipping in the air.
The peculiar pupils in the distance instantly turned cold, and a seven-colored small sword shot out like lightning, but its speed could not match the teleportation speed of the Four Symbols Array.
Xia Feng quietly appeared outside the Angel Cage.
The seven-colored small sword continued its charge unabated, piercing directly through Yue Hongli’s forehead. Yue Hongli blinked her cold eyes and, unharmed, floated to the rear of the remnant spirit while the K-Masked Man flickered and delivered a whip kick to the side of the remnant spirit’s head.
Ye Li Helian tumbled, letting out another wail. His spirit base collapsed, his spiritual light scattered, and the remnant spirit intermittently dissipated.
The seven-colored small sword seemed enraged and turned to pursue again, but Xia Feng flickered back and forth like this with impunity nearly ten times, Ye Li Helian’s screams echoing through the heavens.
Freya’s eyes twitched as she watched this scene. So? Is this my only purpose?
She had thought that Xia Feng, by having Miss Q cover their retreat and bringing her along, valued her Dragon Transformation ability and that it might be useful in combat.
But she didn’t expect her role to be merely a teleportation coordinate!
After ten times, Xia Feng stopped his actions with a frown.
That seven-colored small sword had actually split into two more, hovering around the remnant spirit. Although its power had weakened due to the splitting, it still possessed a terrifying deterrent force.
Xia Feng looked down from above and said calmly, “Ye Li Dongjun, give up. Your son can’t be saved.”
Those red and blue peculiar pupils seemed to be eyes that had opened in space. As they looked up, their gaze was cold and calm.
These eyes could provide Ye Li Dongjun with an ordinary view and hearing of his surroundings, but he could not see the scene outside the cage. He could only hear the arrogant and mocking words of the K-Masked Man, who was practically inviting death.
In the Holy City, on a tree-lined path, the young man in the wheelchair raised his hand.
The tall woman behind him stopped and pulled the wheelchair to a halt.
“What is it, sir?” Jian Xin asked with a puzzled look, her phoenix eyes wide.
The young man leaned to the side, rubbing his temples. He closed his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.
“Heh heh~ What a good show,” a teasing voice suddenly spoke from not far away within the cage. It was the black bead that had been silent all along.
The blood-red eyeball within the black bead rolled and narrowed its gaze. “Ye Li Helian, I have fulfilled my agreement with you as promised. But what about you? Where is my Calamity Spirit Pearl?!”
Ye Li Helian’s consciousness was already unclear. Cracks like dense bloodlines spread across his ferocious, semi-transparent face; these were dense bloodworms that had invaded his spirit substance, gradually devouring his last vestiges of life force.
He was about to die.
But Ye Li Helian was not reconciled.
He was not reconciled!!
“Shou Ling!”
Ye Li Helian roared with a ferocious face, “You spoke of deep cooperation before! I agreed!”
On the ground, red lines that had converged from all directions, like the blood vessels of the human body, densely intertwined. They were stagnant in place, in a state of disorder. However, with his desperate cry, these red lines suddenly turned and rapidly spread towards the black bead!
Infinite red lines soared into the air, merging into the blood-red pupil of the bead.
As Ye Li Helian’s remnant soul twisted, it followed the densely flying red lines in the air and was drawn into the black bead.
Shou Ling’s blood-red pupil narrowed into a crescent, forming a bizarre smile. “As expected of Lord Helian, truly decisive.” “Rest assured, I will avenge Lord Helian and send that human to hell to accompany you.”
Shou Ling chuckled strangely, then sharply raised his blood-red pupil, his intense killing intent directed straight at the K-Masked Man.
Xia Feng frowned. He felt a death crisis even more terrifying than that of the seven-colored small sword.
He hadn’t expected Ye Li Helian to have a contingency plan.
Xia Feng had, of course, noticed the black bead long ago. It exuded a faint aura of calamity force, clearly belonging to the Shouling Great Calamity, who had been secretly cooperating with Ye Li Helian.
The bead didn’t seem to pose much of a threat, so Xia Feng hadn’t paid much attention to it before.
However, looking at it now, it was perhaps not so simple.
At the same time, the three seven-colored small swords suddenly merged into one and rushed directly towards the Angel Cage. As the sword tips touched the branches of the cage, the seven-colored light abruptly dissipated, permeating and integrating into the cage’s body like light mist.
The Angel Cage seemed to have received a massive energy boost. The already giant birdcage expanded outwards for a thousand meters in an instant, and the membrane separating Xia Feng and Freya passed through them, easily engulfing them within the cage.
Further away, the Q-Masked Man and Dao Kui, who were chasing each other, were also enveloped.
Once the Angel Cage is activated, it will only shrink and deactivate automatically when its energy is depleted; otherwise, it will exist indefinitely.
!
After transforming the seven-colored small swords into pure energy and transmitting them into the Angel Cage, the peculiar pupils seemed to have exhausted their energy and quietly vanished into spiritual light, leaving behind only a cold, indifferent voice:
“Shou Ling, I have only three requests. First, the K-Masked Man and the Q-Masked Man must die miserably. Second, you cannot touch any of the property in Dong Sheng Fortress. Third, Ye Li Helian must be alive, even as a remnant spirit or a slave soul.”
“Your requests are reasonable, as you wish.”
As Shou Ling smiled lightly, the young man in the wheelchair on the tree-lined path slowly opened his eyes. His peculiar pupils, calm and without any ripples, looked up, his thoughts drifting towards the distance.
Ye Li Helian was his most favored son, the one to whom he had pinned his greatest hopes.
But he never expected him to fall at the hands of a mysterious masked man.
This had severely disrupted many of his plans.
The K-Masked Man was now certainly doomed.
As for Ye Li Helian, by sacrificing himself, he aided Shou Ling Great Calamity’s promotion. Given the special nature of the Shou Ling race, Helian could temporarily preserve his life, but he would also be controlled by Shou Ling, which was ultimately not a long-term solution.
However, for now, he could only cooperate with Shou Ling Great Calamity to preserve Helian’s life.
Ye Li Dongjun tapped his knuckles on the armrest. The wheelchair, pushed by the tall woman, slowly slid out of the tree-lined path, and his vision suddenly opened up.
Ahead, the majestic, tall gate of the Holy Spirit Hall stood like a divine gate of heaven on earth.
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Angel Cage.
On the ground, the invisible red lines of light grew more bloody, like countless capillaries, densely connecting from all directions to the black bead’s blood-red pupil in the center of the sky.
A pungent bloody scent began to permeate the air. The two hundred Spirit Masters under Lord Helian’s command all changed color, their expressions stiffening as they warily retreated.
“Roar!!!” Upon the black bead’s blood-red pupil, Lord Helian’s spirit body’s ferocious face distorted, roaring in pain, yet also letting out a venomous laugh. “K-Masked Man! You are dead!!”
Xia Feng looked up at this eerie scene, his brows furrowed.
He could clearly feel fluctuations, like cracks appearing in the space around the black bead’s blood-red pupil, as if something was about to break free.
