Soul Stripping
As soon as Ye Zichen called out the technique's name, boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered around him.
The ground outside Dragon City began to crumble, sending rubble flying into the air.
Countless veins of the earth appeared before everyone's eyes. The spiritual energy of the veins seemed to transform into tangible water that flowed into Ye Zichen's blade.
"Split the Heavens!"
Boom!
Ye Zichen swung the Xuan-Yuan Sword viciously. Unlike the first strike of the Heaven Plundering Strike, this one didn't emit a blinding golden light. All the onlookers felt was a ripple in space, then saw the surrounding space split open.
A gash appeared in the sky. Through it, they could see darkness and desolation that didn't belong to this world.
"He really split heaven and earth in half."
The people above Dragon City could no longer express their shock with words. The only thing they could do was gulp. They looked at the gaping hole in the sky, and also paid attention to the Fierce Beast Denglong's fate.
After unleashing the second strike of the Heaven Plundering Strike, Ye Zichen covered his mouth with his left hand. When he opened his palm, he saw a pool of golden-red blood.
Given his current strength, unleashing such a technique was clearly beyond what he could endure.
Denglong, who'd just crawled out of the crater, sensed the spatial ripples in front of him, and his pupils constricted.
However, the Plundering the Heavens style had already caused damage to his internal organs, and his movements were very slow. By the time he tried to retreat, it was already too late.
"Roar!"
Denglong roared in fury. When the onlookers heard it, they instantly fell into a daze. Their ears rang.
Sword light pierced through his body.
Denglong watched unwillingly as the sword light pierced through his body. To his surprise, the sword light didn't do any actual damage to him. It merely pierced through his soul.
After the people in Dragon City calmed themselves down, they were shocked to see this scene.
The sword technique that could split heaven and earth in half had no effect on Denglong at all.
"How is this possible?"
Both the experts of the Beast Region and the Immortal Region paled. They couldn't believe this was how things had turned out.
Denglong looked up into the sky in a daze. When he noticed the blood seeping out of Ye Zichen's fingers, he let out an incomparably savage, maniacal laugh.
"Ye Zichen, I already warned you not to be too full of yourself."
Denglong laughed maniacally, then walked out of the crater indifferently. As he stepped through the air, he looked at Ye Zichen with disdain.
"Really?"
In response, Ye Zichen merely smiled coldly, then looked at Denglong with the contempt of a king.
"Look at your feet."
"Hmph, trying to act mysterious. Even if I wanted to see, I could …" The arrogant Chi suddenly couldn't speak. He stared blankly at the ground below him. Beneath his feet was his real body, and the one standing in the air was only his soul.
"You didn't expect it, did you? That sword of mine was for the sake of Soul Stripping."
The people from Dragon City also saw this scene. Only now did they understand why the sword didn't cause any substantial damage to Denglong. It turned out that the sword's target was the soul.
But they didn't understand. So what if Denglong's soul was stripped away?
Denglong's three souls were still an unparalleled existence. Could it be that Emperor Ye had a spiritual technique specifically designed to deal with souls?
Denglong was the same. When he saw Denglong's soul being stripped away, he was only slightly shocked. His body's defenses were indeed astonishing, but what truly affected him was his soul.
By stripping away his soul, Denglong had indeed lost his body's supreme defensive abilities. However, in his soul form, he was invincible. Only soul-targeting techniques could harm him. Furthermore, with his three souls together, ordinary soul-targeting techniques were completely useless against him.
From the looks of it, Denglong had the absolute advantage.
"I'm afraid you've made the wrong move."
Denglong's soul body laughed disdainfully. He could already sense that victory was in his grasp.
"Is that so?"
Ye Zichen's reply was as indifferent as ever. Then, to everyone's astonishment, his soul emerged from his body.
"Emperor Ye, what are you doing?"
The people of Dragon City couldn't understand Ye Zichen's actions. He'd gone to great lengths to strip away Denglong's soul, but now he'd taken the initiative to extract his own soul. Not only had he gained no advantage at all, but he'd even suffered the backlash of his sword technique.
No matter how they looked at it, it seemed like a loss.
Denglong's soul body froze, but there was always a reason for everything. He felt like there were some details he hadn't considered.
"Kid, are you really going to do this?"
Xuan-Yuan Xiang transmitted into his sea of consciousness. The second stance of the Heaven Plundering Technique was supposed to be an offensive sword technique, but Ye Zichen had changed it in the process of unleashing it.
When he stripped Denglong's soul, she'd realized Ye Zichen's true intentions.
"Yes."
Ye Zichen's reply was firm. He waved his right hand, and a pearl tore through the air and landed by his side.
Soul Pearl Yiyuan.
This pearl had always been protecting Tiantian, but now he'd summoned it here. Everyone was even more confused. The vicious beast Denglong furrowed his brows. He had a bad feeling about this.
"Big Sister Xiang, Tenner, I'm not the type to act arbitrarily. If you don't want to, you can say it. I can erase my imprints with you right now and let you go. "
Tenner blinked and shook his head. Xuan-Yuan Xiang glared at him.
"Who do you think I am? A good colt doesn't serve two masters, and a good wife doesn't serve two husbands. I've been with you since your first life, and we've been through so many obstacles, big and small. When have I ever abandoned you? Tenner doesn't even need to mention it. It's a protective spiritual artifact for you, and now you're saying such things to us? What's more, if we leave, do you think you can seal Denglong's soul on your own? "
Xuan-Yuan Xiang kept rolling her eyes as she walked out of the Xuan-Yuan Sword in her soul form. Tenbucks did the same. He stood by Ye Zichen's side in soul form.
Ye Zichen smiled at them, but didn't say anything else. He simply nodded.
"Thank you very much."
In the blink of an eye, Ye Zichen's expression froze. He pointed at Denglong's soul body.
Yu immediately sensed that his soul, which had been split into three, was on the verge of collapsing again. He tried his best to stabilize his soul, but he saw Xuan-Yuan Xiang and Ten Bucks converging on him from the left and right.
By now, Denglong completely understood Ye Zichen's intentions. His eyes were filled with terror as he roared angrily.
"Ye Zichen, you're crazy!"
With that, it ignored its main body and fled into the distance. When Xuan-Yuan Xiang and Tenbucks saw this, they quickly chased after it. Ye Zichen, who'd been standing behind them this entire time, muttered indifferently.
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