The scene Jiang Yuan had imagined did not appear. Even though there was no death energy in anyone's body, they still did not wake up. Even more so, Little Fatty had no life force left.
"Their lives have become one with the death aura of the undead. When the death aura of the undead disappears, they will also die!" Youhuang said coldly.
"The death energy of the undead is not their power to begin with. Allowing them to continue merging with it will only push them toward utter destruction!" Jiang Yuan shouted sternly.
"Then you have no choice but to kill them!" Youhuang suddenly said.
Jiang Yuan lowered his brows and calmed down. He sent the others flying again, and finally said firmly, "That's exactly what I intend to do!"
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Yuan, filled with resolute killing intent, took Little Fatty's life with a single spear thrust. The weapon in his hand was the bronze spear he had picked up outside earlier.
With the lifeline unable to be activated, Jiang Yuan felt more certain.
"This world belongs to the dead, while we belong to the living. How could we fall into the cycle of the dead?" Jiang Yuan murmured, looking at the bronze spear.
From his initial disrespect for life upon entering the underground palace to his current understanding of the cycles of reincarnation in different worlds, he can be said to have grasped the meaning of the cycle of death for the first time.
"Celestial Technique - Seductive Kill!"
Jiang Yuan had just 'killed' the little dumpling, but Yu Tu was still relentlessly trying to retaliate, even using the celestial technique she had only used once before.
"Women are meant to be cherished! Just like this time!" Jiang Yuan raised his bronze spear as he watched the approaching prey. "I'll cherish you!"
The spear was thrown, shattering all the death energy on Yu Tu's body, and then the sharp spearhead pierced her shoulder.
That wasn't all. Jiang Yuan's icy killing intent surged into her soul and began to tear it apart. Yu Tu almost lost her vital signs in terror, which could be considered Jiang Yuan's warning to her.
If it weren't for her taking matters into her own hands, he wouldn't have needed to 'kill' them as a final gamble.
"You will all die!"
The bronze spears pierced through one after another, and Huoyun and Tianlong perished one after another.
"Youhuang, hand over your deathly aura!" Jiang Yuan pointed the bronze spear at Youhuang. He could sense the enormous energy within Youhuang's body, which was energy transformed from deathly aura.
However, compared to him, the energy within Youhuang's body is insignificant, because the Super Devouring requires the energy of the entire underground palace, and Jiang Yuan has already devoured most of it. Now, the only remaining source of death energy in the entire underground palace is Youhuang and the Tomb Maiden.
However, the Tomb Maiden has disappeared, and even Jiang Yuan doesn't know where she went, so now he can only start with Youhuang.
"This is my power, why should I hand it over!" Youhuang protested sharply.
“You have two choices. First, I will kill you and take it myself; second, you can voluntarily hand over the death energy to me, and I will make it up to you in other ways afterwards!” Jiang Yuan raised the bronze spear and pointed it at Youhuang, his eyes filled with killing intent.
The Phoenix remained silent. It could sense the immense power emanating from Jiang Yuan. If we disregard his cultivation level and simply convert it to soul energy, he possessed at least 500,000 points. Although this number relied entirely on the accumulation of death energy from the undead, in the underground palace, this soul energy was a real and tangible force.
"It seems you've made your choice!" Jiang Yuan saw that Youhuang, who hadn't spoken, had begun to activate the soul energy within her body. Since she disagreed, he would have no choice but to take it by force, since his hands were stained with the blood of more than one person.
As her killing intent reached its peak, Youhuang let out a resentful cry and finally slowly spat out a black bead.
After spitting out the black bead, Youhuang's strength continued to decline, eventually falling to the third tier. It could be said that taking out the death energy of the dead was suicidal self-harm for it.
“I gave you the essence of death energy not because I fear you, but because you once did me a favor. Otherwise, my Youhuang clan would rather die than submit to others!” Youhuang threw the black bead over.
“Sometimes bowing your head is more dignified than death!” Jiang Yuan didn’t think that Youhuang’s choice to give away the essence of death energy was shameful; in fact, he had never humiliated it.
Youhuang remained silent. It was the most special one in the underground palace because, due to its constitution, it would not die even when its death energy was stripped away.
"Now I finally understand why you're so obsessed with the deathly aura of this underground palace!"
Jiang Yuan absorbed the essence of Youhuang's death energy through devouring, and his soul power broke through again, now reaching a high figure of 530,000. Although the spiritual realm barrier in his physical body was only a little over 5,000, this did not hinder his terrifying overall soul power.
"I can already sense the earth sighing!"
At a certain moment, Jiang Yuan stopped absorbing the super devouring. On the sixteenth level, he sensed a very peculiar power in the underground palace, and the only thing that could make him sense it in the underground palace was the sigh of the earth.
"The eighteenth floor!"
He was previously sent back to the sixteenth floor by Bai Qi's finger, but unexpectedly, the Earth Sigh still appeared on the eighteenth floor.
"Walk!"
He wouldn't linger any longer. Every extra moment wasted increased the danger for Little Fatty and his companions, and he couldn't afford to waste any more time.
Inside the eighteenth floor, two figures silently gazed at each other.
"I didn't expect it to be you?" Jiang Yuan's tone was still somewhat uncontrollable. He hadn't expected that the Sigh of the Earth would be related to the Tomb Maiden.
"General, the Tomb Maiden didn't mean to hide it!" The Tomb Maiden opened her mouth slightly, wanting to explain.
“Actually, I should have guessed it sooner. You were able to create a Netherworld Barrier that affected the entire underground palace when you were at the first level, and you could also absorb a large amount of death energy of the dead without any damage. This is not something that ordinary undead can do!” Jiang Yuan shook his head and said.
The tomb maiden hesitated for a moment, but finally took out her weapon—a scepter made of jade and bone. She said to the king, "General, the tomb maiden truly wants to leave with you and see the outside world!"
"Now, you'd rather kill me than leave with me, wouldn't you?" Jiang Yuan asked with a flippant tone.
The Tomb Maiden clutched the jade bone scepter in her arms, saying greedily, "The Soul-Suppressing Stele is shattered, and Zhao Lian's body can no longer allow me to reside there for long. The Tomb Maiden has no other choice!"
Jiang Yuan remained silent. The soul energy within the other party's body was already surging. Moreover, due to the appearance of the Earth's Sigh, at least half of the death energy of the undead in the entire underground palace was given to the Tomb Maiden. The two of them seemed to be evenly matched based solely on the death energy of the undead.
"General, please forgive my rudeness!"
The tomb maiden bowed slightly, and then the jade bone scepter burst forth with dazzling light, a powerful and unparalleled soul energy locking onto Jiang Yuan.
That's the Tomb Maiden's innate Soul Binding Technique!
Moreover, due to the sigh of the earth, the Tomb Maiden's Soul Binding Technique was strengthened once again, especially her absolute suppression.
"Suppress me! Do you think that's even possible?"
The absolute suppression of the Soul Binding Technique came like a storm, but Jiang Yuan's single soul energy was still derived from divine energy. The divine energy possessed the holy attribute, which was the king of attributes and had absolute suppression over other attributes. Therefore, the soul energy that was separated into a single entity was no less powerful.
"Divine Battle Wings!"
"open!"
A pair of golden wings appeared, forcefully repelling the absolute suppression of the Tomb Maiden's Soul Binding Seal; this was a battle of attributes.
"General, let's try the Tomb Maiden's Netherworld Barrier again!"
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