Soul Emperor Martial God

Chapter 58: Chapter 57: The Ice Phoenix Sword Reveals Its Might Again

From a distance, several figures were rapidly approaching.

It was none other than Murong Shan and several elders of the Murong Family, along with two unfamiliar middle-aged men, all Innate Martial Artists.

Murong Mo waved his hand with ease, breaking the Spiritual Energy Cage and said with disdain, ”Xiao Lihuo, a half-step is still just a half-step, your control power over Spiritual Energy is far inferior to mine.”

Having said that, Murong Mo struck out with a palm from the air.

All members of the Xiao Family, including the Great Elder, were instantly severely injured.

At that moment, Murong Mo glanced at Xiao Yi, who was quickly fleeing, gritted his teeth, and muttered to himself, ”Once this kid gets away, he will be a boundless threat in the future.”

”Murong Shan, the Xiao Family’s members are all severely injured now, I leave them to you.”

Without any hesitation, Murong Mo took to the sky immediately and chased after Xiao Yi with great speed.

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Far ahead, Xiao Yi’s speed soared to its ultimate limit.

Bang, bang, bang...

A series of intense sky-breaking noises came from behind, much faster than Xiao Yi by dozens of times.

Xiao Yi suddenly smiled, he had known all along that after he dropped those harsh words, Murong Mo would spare no effort to chase after him immediately.

His intent was precisely to attract Murong Mo’s pursuit.

If they left Murong Mo to deal with people like the Great Elder, they would undoubtedly perish.

But by leading Murong Mo away, even if the Murong Family sent pursuers, the Great Elder and others might have a slim chance of survival.

”Spiritual Energy Cage.”

Xiao Yi had already run several miles away, but was quickly caught up by Murong Mo, who was flying through the air, and trapped in place by a Spiritual Energy Cage.

”Damn it,” Xiao Yi tried to struggle, but it was futile.

Furthermore, to prevent any mishaps, Murong Mo had expanded the range of the Spiritual Energy Cage to tens of meters.

This meant that within tens of meters, Xiao Yi couldn’t move an inch, and with just a thought from Murong Mo, he could be killed without doubt.

In that critical moment of escape, Xiao Yi didn’t have much time, he could only think of leading Murong Mo away so that the Great Elder and others might have a chance to survive.

He had no time to think about how he would escape himself.

Whoosh, Murong Mo descended from mid-air and stared coldly at Xiao Yi.

”Kid, quite the runner, aren’t you? Keep running,” Murong Mo said with a smug smile, ”A mere Postnatal Realm, trying to escape from my grasp? What a joke.”

Xiao Yi gritted his teeth and secretly used Rising Dragon, boosting his strength to the utmost limit, in an attempt to break free from the Spiritual Energy Cage.

Alas, his full-force struggle was in vain, unable to move the Spiritual Energy Cage in the slightest.

”Such a young age, yet possessing such talent and cultivation, I’ve lived a good half of my life and have never seen such a prodigy,” Murong Mo exclaimed admiringly, but his expression quickly turned icy cold.

”Such a genius, any strong cultivator would covet you and want to take you as a disciple, to nurture you, and I am no different. Unfortunately, you are an enemy of my Murong Family, and you must die,” Murong Mo said.

Xiao Yi sneered, ”You knew all along that I’m incompatible with your Murong Family, destined to kill me today, so why bother with such sanctimonious words?”

Xiao Yi tried to delay, hoping to think of a way to escape.

Murong Mo saw right through Xiao Yi’s intentions and sneered, ”Kid, put away your pathetic thoughts, you can’t escape. Don’t think I don’t know your objective, isn’t it just to lead me away, so that your Xiao Family’s elders have a chance to escape?”

”Since you’re so eager to die, I’ll oblige you.”

Murong Mo was brimming with confidence in himself and wasn’t in a hurry to kill Xiao Yi; instead, he wanted to torment this supreme genius he had never seen before in his life.

In his younger years, he had been overshadowed by Xiao Lihuo for a lifetime.

He did not expect that now, having broken through to the Mysterious Profundity Realm and returned to Purple Cloud City, the Xiao Family had produced another supreme prodigy with even more terrifying talent.

He wanted to make Xiao Yi despair, to satisfy his twisted jealousy.

Within the Spiritual Energy Cage, Xiao Yi clenched his fists, his defiant gaze fixed on Murong Mo, ”Murong Mo, you old ghost, don’t be too smug. The only thing you’re better at than me is living those extra decades. If I’d reached your age and was only at the Mysterious Profundity Realm, I’d probably be so ashamed that I’d kill myself.”

”You...” Murong Mo was immediately infuriated. He intended to demoralize Xiao Yi with his words, to make Xiao Yi despair, but contrary to his expectations, he was provoked instead.

A person becomes more prone to making mistakes and revealing flaws when angry or irritated.

Xiao Yi did not believe that even if Murong Mo showed a flaw, he would be able to escape; but at least, by delaying with his words, he could avoid seeing that triumphant look on Murong Mo’s face.

”Good, very good, we’ll see if your strength is as tough as your mouth,” Murong Mo said with a cold face, ”I heard from Murong Xie, you seem to be capable of breaking the power of my Black Ink Mantra Martial Soul.”

”Heh, I would like to see if you truly have what it takes.”

”Whether it is you breaking my Martial Soul Power, or you being corroded by the Black Ink Mantra, with your skin, bones, and organs turning into a miserable pool of blood and water.”

Murong Mo waved his hand.

A burst of black energy shot out from his hand.

In an instant, the transparent cage within the radius of tens of meters was filled with a layer of black energy.

From afar, the transparent cage looked like a black land of Poisonous Land.

”Ah,” Xiao Yi immediately felt a suffocating sensation, followed by intense stinging on his skin.

”Not good,” Xiao Yi reacted swiftly, immediately mobilizing his True Qi, covering himself with a ’Flame Outer Clothing.’

But the Flame Outer Clothing was almost visibly dissolving at a rapid pace due to the dark aura.

”Damn, I can’t hold it back any longer.” Xiao Yi clenched his teeth in frustration, quickly contemplating a countermeasure in his mind.

Back then, when Murong Mo had simply gathered his Martial Soul Power in advance, and the Fifth Elder diluted it with water, it was enough to completely strip the Fourth and Sixth Elders of their powers.

Now, with Murong Mo personally present, and the Black Ink Mantra strengthened by his substantial True Qi in the Mysterious Profundity Realm, its power was more than a hundred times stronger.

The Taiyin and Taiyang Eyes could indeed absorb this Martial Soul Power, but the absorption rate was tied to Xiao Yi’s own strength.

Previously, it took several minutes to absorb the Black Ink Mantra Martial Soul Power for the Fourth and Sixth Elders in the mine veins.

With the dark aura now directly emitted by Murong Mo, it would probably take two hours to fully absorb it all.

In two hours, Xiao Yi would have already turned into a pool of blood.

In the end, the gap between his own Cultivation and Murong Mo’s was simply too vast.

With a ”hiss”, the Flame Outer Clothing only lasted a few seconds before it was completely corroded.

The dark aura once again began eroding his body.

His clothes had already disintegrated, and his skin was showing signs of melting.

Moreover, within the pitch-black Spiritual Energy Cage, obscured in darkness and suffering from intense pain, this sensation could drive a person mad.

Of course, Xiao Yi’s mental fortitude was exceptional, and he maintained his clarity of mind, continuously pondering what to do.

He hadn’t forgotten about the Ice Phoenix Sword, his greatest trump card for saving his life.

The Ice Phoenix Sword’s strength lay in its sharpness, capable of cutting through anything that stood in its way.

Unfortunately, he was now bound by Spiritual Energy and couldn’t move.

Back in the Meteorite Mountain Range, he had defeated the Silver-Backed Demon Python because it was not adept at speed. Although it was a Third-level Demon Beast with Innate Strength, its speed was only comparable to that of Second Level Demon Beasts, which allowed Xiao Yi to kill it.

But now, facing Murong Mo who was a Mysterious Profundity Realm Warrior, there was no way he could even get close to him.

Even if he could, with the reaction time of a Mysterious Profundity Realm Warrior, he would be restrained again in an instant, leaving him no opportunity.

The Black Ink Mantra’s poison was quickly corroding his skin, turning his entire body black, a sign that his body was on the verge of melting.

The body of a Postnatal Martial Artist was still quite robust; even with severe injuries, as long as one was not dead, there would still be a glimmer of life.

But the dark aura truly was overbearing. It had already penetrated through the skin into his body.

The poison began internally corroding his meridians and organs.

In mere seconds, he would be completely dissolved from the inside out into a pool of blood.

”Am I going to die?” An urgent thought crossed Xiao Yi’s mind as his consciousness began to blur.

In mid-air, Murong Mo was watching his ’masterpiece’ with pleasure. Although the Spiritual Energy Cage was shrouded in darkness, everything was still under his control.

He could clearly see every move Xiao Yi made.

He had seen Xiao Yi fall, bereft of the strength to resist, his life rapidly fading away, death not far off.

”The Xiao Family’s most brilliant genius is about to die, hahaha!” Murong Mo laughed triumphantly.

However, he failed to see that as the dark aura entered Xiao Yi’s body, while corroding his meridians and organs, it also began to corrode Xiao Yi’s Martial Soul.

The Fire Control Beast Martial Soul was being eroded in a daze, completely defenseless.

But when the dark aura approached the Ice Phoenix Sword, the sword suddenly burst into brilliant light.

A tremendous power, exuding an ancient aura, abruptly awakened.

At the same time, the dark aura inside Xiao Yi’s body was instantly frozen by an ’absolute power,’ unable to corrode his organs and meridians any further.

”Huh?” That instant of cold startled Xiao Yi, snapping his muddled consciousness back to clarity.

In mid-air, Murong Mo was letting out a full-throated laugh when suddenly, his laughter stopped abruptly.

”What’s going on? Why is the temperature around here dropping so rapidly?” Murong Mo frowned.

The next second, a chill touched Murong Mo’s forehead.

He reached up to find a snowflake had landed there.

”Is it snowing?” Murong Mo’s frown deepened.

Almost before he could react, a deluge of snow fell from the sky.

Within a few seconds, the area for miles around turned into a world of ice and snow.

”This is a phenomenon, a sign of something extraordinary—what on earth is happening?” Murong Mo’s face turned pale.

He glanced at the Spiritual Energy Cage, which had gone from pitch-black to a white expanse.

His Black Ink Mantra’s dark aura had entirely turned into ice particles.

There, Xiao Yi stood proudly, holding a sword that radiated purple radiance and an intimidating aura—a Divine Sword.

”How can this kid still stand up?” Murong Mo was shocked.

”Spiritual Energy Cage, bind him,” Murong Mo commanded, no longer underestimating the situation. He summoned all his strength from the Mysterious Profundity Realm and launched a palm strike.

That palm, powerful enough to kill ten warriors at the Innate Ninth Layer, convinced him of Xiao Yi’s certain doom.

However, just as he executed the strike...

A cry as piercing as the Nine Heavens erupted from Xiao Yi’s sword.