But they had no idea that the Holy Spirit Cult's plan to bomb these two major powers was merely incidental.
The core objective was always to cause more deaths.
Because he knew very well what the ultimate goal of the Holy Spirit Cult was.
The Federation's tacit approval of the Holy Spirit Cult stealing the god slaying missiles was for the purpose of blowing up the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy.
After all, these two major powers were the greatest threats to the Holy Spirit Cult.
Arthur watched intently.
He couldn't help but marvel; this was the wisdom of the old guy. Di Tian had lived for so many years, stuck below the Divine Rank, unable to ascend or descend.
He could only develop horizontally, making him arguably the number one existence below the Divine Rank.
By the end of the fight, the Ghost Emperor had already developed the intention to retreat.
He couldn't delay any longer; after all, this was not a place to linger. The golden-eyed powerhouse before him was of unknown identity but formidable strength, and that kid below was both bizarre and annoying.
There was no point in continuing the entanglement, and more powerhouses could arrive at any moment.
"Hmph! I'll spare you this once today!"
Leaving was one thing, but he still had to say some harsh words.
The Ghost Emperor's skull head suddenly drifted backward, while simultaneously spewing out a large amount of dense Death Qi, which turned into a greyish-black wall of mist that obscured vision, attempting to block Di Tian and facilitate his own escape.
Di Tian didn't bother to give chase; he had long since lost the desire to fight.
After the Ghost Emperor left, Di Tian gave Arthur a displeased glare, let out a cold snort, and then vanished.
"Just like that? No more fighting?" Arthur muttered softly, looking in the direction where Di Tian had disappeared.
He didn't feel disappointed; instead, he breathed a sigh of relief. Di Tian leaving without a word indicated that the Ghost Emperor had indeed retreated far away, and the threat was temporarily neutralized.
Moreover, judging by Di Tian's final look, he clearly had a significant issue with Arthur's previous behavior. He probably just left to avoid further annoyance.
"Fine, I'll go see how things are on Leng Yaozhu's side." Arthur stretched his somewhat stiff limbs. His Soul Power, which had been sluggish due to the Ghost Emperor's death laws, had mostly recovered under the cleansing of the Earth Vein Power and his own multiple attributes.
He looked around; the wilderness was a mess, and the smashed soul tool train lay nearby like a dead giant insect.
Fortunately, this was a special train direct to Shrek City, so there were no other civilians.
Arthur identified the direction. With a flash of golden light beneath his feet, he turned into a flowing shadow and sped toward the sky above Skysea City, where the sisters Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai had been confronting each other.
He was extremely fast, and before long, he could see the silhouette of Skysea City in the distance, along with the energy ripples in the high sky outside the city that had not yet completely settled.
However, when he arrived at the battlefield, the expected scene of the sisters confronting each other or Leng Yaozhu subduing Leng Yulai did not appear.
The sky was clear, with only a few scorched wisps of clouds drifting slowly. Large areas of distorted space and voids indicated that a fierce battle had taken place here not long ago.
The scent of violent Dark Phoenix power and Heavenly Phoenix True Fire still lingered in the air.
Leng Yaozhu floated quietly in mid-air. The Phoenix phantom had long since faded, and her four-word battle armor had been put away.
She stood with her back to the direction Arthur had come from, gazing at the distant horizon where Leng Yulai had escaped, motionless, her back exuding a sense of loneliness and heaviness.
Arthur reached the same height as Leng Yaozhu and stopped behind her to the side.
"Where is she?"
"You'd better tell me you've beaten her until nothing's left, rather than letting her escape."
"Sorry."
After a long while, Leng Yaozhu took a soft breath. She didn't turn around, her voice carrying a hint of imperceptible hoarseness and exhaustion: "She's gone."
Those three simple words seemed to have drained all her strength.
Although he had expected it, Arthur still couldn't hold it back.
"You mean to tell me that you, a Rank 98 four-word battle armor master..."
"...let a Rank 97 Three-Word Battle Armor Master escape?"
"Wait, so I got beaten up for nothing?" Arthur was furious. "What exactly are you trying to do!"
"You were the one frantically looking for your sister, but then you watched me get thrashed when you found her, and finally, you let her go."
Leng Yaozhu turned around abruptly, her beautiful but now pale and weary face showing pain and helplessness.
"Then you tell me what I should do?" Leng Yaozhu's voice suddenly rose, filled with long-suppressed emotion. "Burn her to ashes with Heavenly Phoenix True Fire?! Or suppress her and take her back to the Spirit Conduction Tower, letting her be researched and interrogated in a dark dungeon until her Soul collapses?"
"What else?"
Arthur had a matter-of-fact expression: "She is an Evil Soul Master."
Leng Yaozhu said excitedly, "She must have had some difficulties that forced her to join the Holy Spirit Cult!"
"I don't care about that. Either way, Evil Soul Masters deserve to die."
Why Leng Yulai joined the Holy Spirit Cult and why she hated her sister...
Arthur knew very well; it was because of a ridiculous misunderstanding.
Seeing her sister confessing to Yun Ming behind her back, Leng Yulai couldn't take it and turned to the dark side.
The key was that she didn't even finish watching; she ran away halfway through.
Diagnosis: a Heaven-Defying Divine Being whose brain is filled with nothing but romance.
But that was none of Arthur's business. All he knew was that she was currently an Evil Soul Master, so he had to strike hard.
"You..." Leng Yaozhu didn't know what to say at this moment.
"I just wanted to give her another chance..." Leng Yaozhu's voice was barely audible. "Maybe... maybe there's still hope..."
"Then think it over well before I become strong enough," Arthur said decisively. "Perhaps the next time we meet, Leng Yulai won't be a match for me anymore. At that time, I won't let her off."
"You'd better make up your mind before then—whether to capture her or kill her yourself, figure it out soon."
Leng Yaozhu fell silent.
She understood that Arthur was telling the truth. This young man was growing too fast, so fast that no one had time to react.
However, she was inexplicably angry. She, the dignified Heavenly Phoenix Douluo and vice pagoda master of the Spirit Conduction Tower, since when was it a young brat's turn to lecture her?
But Leng Yaozhu couldn't easily refute him; what happened just now was indeed her fault, and she felt a bit guilty.
She could only make a mental note of it.
She decided to go back and give Agravaine a beating first.
After all, if the son is not taught, it is the father's fault.
"I'm leaving."
Arthur glanced at Leng Yaozhu, who had been silenced by his words, feeling a bit of secret satisfaction.
He didn't know she was planning to take her anger out on Agravaine.
Of course, even if he did know, he would just watch the show.
After dropping his last sentence, he turned and left without the slightest hesitation... A golden light streaked across the sky, and Arthur soon returned to Shrek City, meeting up with Zhuo Shi and the others.
Ya Li personally acted to completely purge the Death Qi erosion from their Souls. This incident caused a massive uproar; the Ghost Emperor was actually already a Quasi-God powerhouse.
One Emperor, Two Sovereigns, Four Heavenly Kings.
This meant the Holy Spirit Cult had at least three Quasi-Gods!
It was a serious incident, almost unheard of.
The Federation's high-level officials were also stunned; they hadn't expected the Holy Spirit Cult to be hiding so deeply, but it was too late for regrets now. The god slaying missiles were gone, and the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.
But afterward, life returned to peace. The Holy Spirit Cult went completely silent and made no more moves.
Arthur usually stayed in Shrek City when he had nothing to do, occasionally wandering to other large population centers.
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