"That's... the noise coming from Ouyang and the others?!"
Bai Hao turned sharply to look at Long Shi and asked in a cold voice, "You have other companions?!"
Long Shi smiled silently and said, "With your companions, there are probably quite a few casualties by now."
"You want to die, but I won't let you die like this!" Bai Hao's face turned icy cold. With a wave of his hand, countless tiny lightning needles shot out from his palm and pierced every acupoint of Long Shi, sealing off all of his meridians and true energy.
"If anything really happens to them, I'll make you wish you were dead!"
With a cold expression, Bai Hao left a single sentence and quickly turned and rushed back...
...
“Boom! Boom boom—!”
The sounds of fighting grew louder and louder, and Bai Hao's pace quickened; the four or five miles were covered in no time.
"Bang!"
A powerful gust of air suddenly swept in, dispersing much of the surrounding fog.
Ahead lay a chaotic battlefield, where Duan Qiyun, Ouyang Yan, and others were forced to scatter, and several corpses lay scattered on the ground.
Upon recognizing the people fighting Duan Qiyun and the others, Bai Hao was startled—because they were none other than members of the Demon Suppression Sect!
Everyone from the Demon Suppression Sect, including Elder Xuan Tong, arrived, but they turned their guns on their own people and launched a frenzied attack, as if they didn't know Duan Qiyun at all.
"This is...they've been infected by soul separation?!" Bai Hao quickly saw through the clues. With his Solar Lightning, he was now very sensitive to soul separation and human nature.
Xuan Tong and those disciples of the Demon Suppression Sect have clearly become souls separated from their bodies, and their humanity has been reduced to less than one-tenth.
As for what exactly happened to them, the situation was so urgent that Bai Hao didn't have time to think about it.
Ouyang Yan and Duan Qiyun are now fighting against Xuan Tong together, but they are clearly at a disadvantage. The two of them are no match for Xuan Tong and are being forced to retreat one after another.
Even after his soul left his body, Xuan Tong's power did not weaken at all; in fact, it was even greater. He wielded his spear to its fullest extent, unleashing the Nine Heavens Coiling Dragon Spear Technique with overwhelming force. Duan Qiyun and Ouyang Yan could only barely hold on, and their defeat was only a matter of time.
Bai Hao didn't hesitate either, leaping forward to forcefully intervene and catching Xuan Tong's spear with his sword. Solar lightning surged out along the sword, forcing Xuan Tong to retreat repeatedly.
"Bai Hao!"
Upon seeing Bai Hao, both Ouyang Yan and Duan Qiyun's faces lit up with joy.
"You go and deal with the others, leave this to me," Bai Hao said, standing with his back to them and facing Xuan Tong.
"You need to be careful too," Ouyang Yan said worriedly.
"Yes, you should be careful too."
Duan Qiyun and Ouyang Yan did not linger and immediately joined the battle against the disciples of the Demon Suppression Sect on the other side.
Bai Hao looked at Xuan Tong, slowly drew his Thousand Scenery Blade, his feelings complicated.
He never expected that everyone in the Demon Suppression Sect would eventually become separated from their bodies and turn their guns on their own people.
Back then, it was Xuan Tong who led everyone in the battle, but now, even he...
"Bai Hao..." Xuan Tong, who had lost his humanity and become a soul separated from his body, actually murmured Bai Hao's name.
"Elder Xuan Tong, you still remember me?!" Bai Hao's face lit up with joy. Was there still hope?
“Kill us…” Xuan Tong looked up at Bai Hao. His face hadn’t changed much, but his eyes had become dull and lifeless, filled with the gray of death—the most obvious sign of the soul leaving the body.
But now, a trace of humanity has struggled to emerge in Xuan Tong's eyes; this is his last moment of clarity and struggle.
"Elder Xuantong, don't worry, I will definitely find a way to save you!" Bai Hao said hurriedly.
But Xuan Tong's last shred of humanity was also overwhelmed. His expression turned ferocious as he charged forward, brandishing his spear without any mercy!
"Solar Thunder!"
Since Xuan Tong still showed a glimmer of humanity, Bai Hao felt this was an opportunity and didn't want to kill him just like that.
The solar lightning in his palm quickly condensed, and chains of lightning shot out, tightly binding Xuan Tong, preventing him from struggling even slightly.
Even though he had become a soul separated from his body, Xuan Tong's power was still only at the Spirit Integration stage. He was difficult for Duan Qiyun and the others to deal with, but it was easy for Bai Hao to subdue him. The solar lightning could easily bind Xuan Tong.
On the other side, the others also subdued the remaining disciples of the Demon Suppression Sect, but many were still killed and fell to the ground. Also lying on the ground were disciples of the Falling Sea Sect and the Pill Sect...
After using the Solar Lightning to bind the other disciples of the Demon Suppression Sect, Bai Hao's first priority was to check on Ouyang Yan and the others.
The corpses lying on the ground prevented Bai Hao from asking, "How is everyone?"
As for the Falling Sea Sect, which originally had five disciples, only Zheng Long remains; the other four are dead.
Three disciples of the Dan Sect also died, and everyone's expressions were shrouded in sorrow.
Although the Demon Suppression Sect didn't have many members, they had the advantage of launching a sneak attack, and with Xuan Tong present, the moment they made their move, it was destined that several lives would be lost; there was nothing that could be done about it.
"Let's all bury the deceased disciples properly. I'll go see if I can... bring Elder Xuan Tong and the others back." After a long while, Bai Hao could only say these words weakly.
Despite his grief, Bai Hao had to step forward to comfort everyone. After assigning tasks, he quietly walked up to Xuan Tong and the other disciples of the Demon Suppression Sect.
But when he turned around, he discovered that they, who had become souls separated from their bodies, were bound by chains of solar lightning. Their power was rapidly draining away, and their bodies were gradually withering away, just like the skin and bones that Bai Hao had seen before, souls separated from their bodies.
He quickly took out his own Sacred Fruit and made Xuan Tong eat it, hoping to help him recover, but it was too late.
Neither Saint Rogo nor the Sun's Thunder could bring back those whose souls had separated from their bodies; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many souls separated from their bodies in this world.
Bai Hao was powerless to help...
After burying the seven deceased disciples one by one, everyone mourned silently; some shed tears, while others remained silent.
But they had to leave. The fight had alerted all the souls that had separated from their bodies, and they were now surrounding them in large numbers.
Bai Hao led the rest of the group towards Long Shi, intending to interrogate him thoroughly. However, upon arrival, they discovered that Long Shi, who had been bound by the solar lightning, was gone, and all that remained where Long Shi had been was a skeleton...
"What's wrong?" Seeing Bai Hao stop, Ouyang Yan turned around and looked at him.
"No, it's nothing, let's go." Bai Hao shook his head and led the group forward...
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