And the Evil Emperor, facing Lin Xiao directly, even with its cultivation, felt in this instant a fear it had not experienced for a long time.
It had nothing to do with power or cultivation; it was the fear of death engraved in its instincts as a soul beast.
Lin Xiao's face was solemn, the muscles beneath his skin tightly tensed. The ordinary clothes on his body had long been completely torn apart by this violent force, revealing the original appearance of the River of the Underworld Embrace.
On the River of the Underworld Embrace, blood-red light encircled his entire body, illuminating the sky that had been darkened by the Evil Emperor's influence. For a moment, it was impossible to tell whether it was the glow of the soul tool or the light of his soul rings.
Lin Xiao knew clearly in his heart that his eighth soul skill originated from the Great Elder and was originally capable of attacking both spirit and body simultaneously.
However, with the Evil Emperor's spiritual strength, he was not certain how much damage this attack could inflict on his spirit. Therefore, what he wanted to utilize was the eighth soul skill's destructive effect on the body.
Spiritual power and soul power are completely fused. Lin Xiao could even feel his spiritual sea continuously resonating with the Plane of the Dead. The aura on his body suddenly surged upward. In the next moment, Lin Xiao slowly pushed his hands forward.
It looked slow, but in reality, it was extremely swift. Lin Xiao's eighth soul skill was unleashed under the enhancement of his battle techniques and soul tool. With him at the center, the entire world fell completely silent at this moment.
Chen Haisheng had rarely seen soul tools before, so he did not understand exactly what kind of effect the River of the Underworld Embrace had on Lin Xiao's body. He only knew that it contained a power that even surprised him.
What surprised him even more was the deathly aura that permeated the surroundings when Lin Xiao unleashed his soul skill.
Peaceful, violent… no, it was none of those. Unlike Lin Xiao's previous battle techniques, the pinnacle battle had allowed Lin Xiao to completely merge the three battle techniques into one. There was no need to deliberately activate them; every move and every form embodied the purest death.
The space enveloped by death grew smaller and smaller. Soon, it only covered the Evil Emperor's massive body.
Blood Soul Shared Sorrow was originally a ranged attack soul skill, but when it landed on the Evil Emperor, its enormous body instead allowed it to take this solid hit head-on.
"No, no—"
Whether it was because the Evil Emperor sensed the aura of death contained in Lin Xiao's attack or because it truly felt a crisis under this attack, its voice carried a few traces of panic. Dozens of its tentacles waved continuously, splashing the blood overflowing from its wounds everywhere.
"No, I promised you, I agreed to your terms. I want to live, no, I must live on—"
The Evil Emperor's voice spread far into the distance, like incoherent ramblings at the brink of death. For a moment, it was impossible to tell who it was actually speaking to.
Chen Haisheng watched the Evil Emperor's reaction. The shock in his heart was now fully displayed on his face. He glanced complexly at Lin Xiao's back, then suddenly stepped across the waves and arrived beside Lin Xiao.
"Brother Lin, it—"
Before Chen Haisheng could finish, Lin Xiao shook his head. "Soul beasts inherently have strong vitality, and the Evil Emperor's cultivation is profound. It won't necessarily be defeated so easily."
There was a second half to the sentence that Lin Xiao did not say out loud. The Evil Emperor's words just now had left him somewhat uneasy, as if there was another person present besides the two of them.
Upon hearing this, Chen Haisheng, although not as vigilant as Lin Xiao, still turned his head to look at the Evil Emperor.
Under Blood Soul Shared Sorrow, everything on the sea surface welcomed "death" at this moment. Even the seawater that had been affected disappeared without a trace, and the surrounding seawater rushed in to fill the gap, forming a massive vortex.
Above the sea surface, the Evil Emperor had completely stopped moving. Its dozens of tentacles were motionless, as if it had thoroughly lost its life. Yet its body did not fall and still floated in the air.
"At this point, if you agree now, my conditions will have to change—"
A low voice suddenly rang out. It sounded as if it came from the Evil Emperor's mouth, but it was somewhat different from before.
"Careful!"
In that instant, Lin Xiao suddenly pushed Chen Haisheng beside him away. In the next moment, a blinding light pillar shot out from the Evil Emperor's enormous eyeball. Wherever the light pillar passed, space continuously twisted and collapsed.
On Lin Xiao's body, the River of the Underworld Embrace lit up with radiance. A semi-transparent shield appeared in front of him. His arms crossed in front of his chest, emitting two different colored lights.
On his left arm, it was as if a galaxy flowed, with countless points of light shifting positions to form a shield.
At the same time, pitch-black light also seeped out from the position of the soul bone beneath his skin.
Layers of scales began on his arms. In just a few breaths, they completely enveloped Lin Xiao's entire body.
Soul bone skill: Scale Transformation.
This was the second soul skill granted to him by the right arm bone. It was a defensive-type soul skill.
After obtaining this soul bone from Long Xiaoyao, Lin Xiao originally thought he would rarely have the chance to use this soul skill. But now, feeling the attack released by the "Evil Emperor," he subconsciously activated it.
"Boom—"
The attack that seemed to tear space apart first penetrated the shield formed by the soul tool and the left arm bone, then heavily struck Lin Xiao's body.
The dragon's scales all over his body immediately glowed. Lin Xiao felt as if a heavy hammer had smashed into him. Although his defense was not broken under the protection of the soul bone skill Scale Transformation, that heavy force still shook his internal soul power into turbulent waves.
His figure was sent flying backward by this blow, retreating violently.
"Brother Lin!"
Chen Haisheng cried out in alarm. Before he could make any move, he saw the "Evil Emperor" in front of him floating up again. However, it was different from before—the dozens of tentacles showed no reaction at all and simply hung down limply.
"Oh?"
The "Evil Emperor" looked in the direction from which Lin Xiao had been sent flying from afar. Its tone seemed rather surprised.
However, it did not say anything more. It simply turned its eyeball and glanced at the damaged tentacles on its body.
"How ugly."
The "Evil Emperor" simply uttered a few words. It was unclear whether it was referring to the injuries on its body or the body itself.
"Who are you?"
Lin Xiao stabilized his figure and stepped across space to arrive. Looking at the "Evil Emperor" before him, his brows immediately furrowed deeply.
With just one strike, Lin Xiao knew that this was definitely not the Evil Emperor's own attack method.
Although it indeed contained some of the power to destroy time and space that the Evil Emperor used when attacking, there was also a particularly obvious power within it that Lin Xiao was not entirely unfamiliar with.
In just a few breaths, the Evil Emperor seemed to have become a different person. Or rather, it was no longer the original Evil Emperor.
The "Evil Emperor" looked at Lin Xiao with interest. "You ask who I am? You will know in the future. You only need to know that others revere me as the Spirit Monarch."
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