Spirit Realm

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

A great amount of world spirit energy was surging toward Abrit. Its density caused it to be visible to the naked eye, resembling a white mist. 

The huge drain on world spirit energy caused loud tremors all across the Dragon Realm. A lot of mountains were starting to break apart already.

The earth was also rumbling like it was about to collapse at any moment.

“It has begun!” Qin Lie said darkly. “Too much of the realm’s fundamental energy has been absorbed by your father! If this continues, your realm will be annihilated!”

“Also, are you starting to feel weak?”

“F-father does seem to be absorbing our flesh and blood energy,” Barett said weakly.

Scott and Mitchell looked gloomy as well. They didn’t reply to Qin Lie.

“Leave this to me.” Qin Lie sucked in a deep breath and stared seriously at the three brothers. He said, “We’ve fought together for many years, and I would never try to harm you. Believe me, I will remove the Saint God’s imprint from your father’s soul. Even if your father must enter the ultimate realm, he should achieve his breakthrough somewhere else. The shadow beings’ world is probably a good choice, don’t you agree? Please give me some time to resolve this problem!”

The three brothers watched Qin Lie quietly.

A while later, Scott finally nodded and said, “We’ll trust you one more time, Qin Lie! Warriors, stand aside and make sure you don’t interfere with Qin Lie’s work!”

“Thank you!”

Having obtained  the Demon Dragon Race’s permission, Qin Lie’s Soul Tree immediately emerged from his avatar’s body.

“Swhoosh!”

The Soul Tree transformed into a dark dot before entering Abrit’s head.

“The Thunder Emperor and Shang Mou are also doing the same thing,” Ling Yushi said quietly.

“I see…” The Ice Emperor looked hesitant. “What should we do then?”

Ling Yushi thought to herself for a moment before replying, “I’ve merged with the Geocentric Motherlode, so I probably have the power to stop them from achieving a breakthrough as long as they’re in Spirit Realm. All I need is your permission.”

“Do it!” the Flame Emperor declared.

Qin Shan was the closest one to Shang Mou out of everyone present. He also nodded after some consideration, saying, “Do it, Ling girl.”

“Alright.”

Ling Yushi’s expression changed a little, and her soul figure suddenly split into two and entered a spatial rift each.

Everyone knew that she was going to the Thunder Emperor and Shang Mou.

At the same time, Flaming Sun Purgatory.

Qin Lie’s ten-thousand-meter-tall body slowly emerged from the Origin Sea as he spoke with the seven Devil Monarchs through the soul.

“Zzzt!”

Suddenly, thirty four soul shadows appeared from his giant pupils.

Every soul shadow was a soul of Qin Lie. They were all True Souls with the Imperial Soul Monarchs’ memories in them.

All thirty four subsouls slipped into the Galaxy Mirror.

The Galaxy Mirror refracted thirty four different star realms at once, opening thirty four spatial entrances for Qin Lie.

The subsouls vanished from view after that.

At Winged Race’s Heavenly Wood Realm.

Terry had declared that he would enter secluded cultivation and work toward the ultimate realm not long after his return. He was currently holed up in the Winged Race’s ancestral ground.

“Swhoosh!”

Qin Lie’s soul suddenly flew into the ancestral ground through a mysterious method. No one was able to detect his presence.

Right now, the Winged Race’s experts led by Kermit were guarding Terry outside the Winged Race’s ancestral ground.

But not even they were able to detect Qin Lie’s soul.

“Strange, I felt like Qin Lie was here just now,” Stanca said. He was an Abyss Devil mixed-blood, and his eyes were filled with confusion. He shook his head and said, “Maybe it’s because Qin Lie is so powerful that his soul exists everywhere in the universe.”

“It’s not just you, I also had a feeling. But it only lasted for an instant,” Kermit, the Winged Race’s patriarch, said.

“How unusual.” Stanca concentrated on his feelings a bit longer, but he gave up and threw his suspicion to the back of his mind after sensing nothing. 

The Bone Race, at the declined Eisenberg Family.

Hood’s small skeletal frame was glowing like jade not long after he had returned.

He was currently sitting inside a huge bone burying ground. The burial ground was filled with his clansmen’s remains.

The remains were shrouded in cold, corpse energy.

All the corpse energy of the remains in the nearby bone burying grounds was converging inside Hood as well.

Hood was looking to achieve a breakthrough.

“Zzzt!”

A dark dot appeared out of nowhere, but it lasted for only an instant.

Inside the bone burying ground, Hood trembled before becoming still once more.

Spirit World, at the Satorius Family.

The old Spirit Race clansman who had just returned from the outer realms was holding the Profound Heaven Spirit Orb and drawing wisps of rich world spirit energy into himself.

A soul presence suddenly appeared in one of the white wisps he was absorbing.

However, the old Spirit Race clansman didn’t notice it at all. He didn’t put up any resistance as it entered his bloodline.

Three-Eyed Race.

An old Three-Eyed Race female was cultivating inside a tall stone palace.

A tiny vortex was spinning inside her third eye.

The vortex was pulling streams of world spirit energy into her body.

Although her other eyes were shut, her third eye glowed brighter and brighter until it looked like the brightest star.

“Zzzt!”

Suddenly, a ray of light appeared out of nowhere and entered her third eye.

She subconsciously closed her third eye after the ray of light had invaded her body.

Qin Lie’s subsouls were able to locate all the returnees with uncanny precision despite them being scattered throughout the realms of the Multihand Race, the Star Moon Race, and the Titan Race.

All thirty four subsouls had invaded the minds of the hasty returnees using a kind of unnoticeable secret art.

Qin Lie knew full well that this was the start of the second battle between the Saint God and himself.

At Flaming Sun Purgatory.

“Whoosh!”

Qin Lie’s one-level Soul Altar flew out of his pupils. A strange orb was shining inside it.

It was none other than the Soul Suppressing Orb, the Soul Race’s ultimate artifact.

The Soul Suppressing orb looked like an eye that was embedded into the Soul Altar.

Qin Lie’s True Soul, Soul Altar, and the Soul Suppressing Orb were all connected to one another.

He could feel his subsouls operating in an orderly fashion the moment he concentrated.

The returnees’ powerful souls appeared in his soul as grayish soul balls.

Every ball of soul represented the soul of a returnee.

His subsouls were quietly sneaking their way toward the grayish soul balls.

His subsouls’ every move was reflected inside his True Soul. Their will and intelligence were all connected to one another.

“Boom!”

A huge commotion erupted from the returnees’ souls as they lashed out in fury.

“Who are you?”

“How dare you invade my soul!”

“You are courting death!”

“Get out of my head!”

“……”

All thirty four souls shouted and lashed out at him at the same time. He knew in that moment that his presence had been noticed.

He felt great resistance from them.