Chapter 104: Emperor Sword·Ice Extremity Peerless! Star Light Goddess

At the moment the old man's voice fell, over ten evil soul masters surrounding the girl all stirred at once.

The Holy Spirit Church boasts countless experts, but that doesn't mean they don't need to recruit talents from the outside; a sect's development requires not only enough powerful elders, but also outstanding young talents, and the Holy Spirit Church is no exception.

In this era, the original Douluo Three Kingdoms have near-zero tolerance for evil soul masters; when a child awakens their martial soul at age six, if that martial soul bears even a hint of evil, they may be slain outright. Many are innately good-hearted, but the times leave them no choice, and they are ultimately forced onto an evil path……

But having said that, in this era, even more people actually fail to awaken a martial soul…

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The green‑haired girl lowered her brows and eyes; she didn't know how these evil soul masters had learned of her existence, but at least after her parents' painful passing, she had been living in seclusion on the outskirts of the Sunset Forest. Even when she went to Tian Dou City to sell herbs and buy daily necessities, she did so discreetly. Even so, it seemed fate had never once favored her. Recalling her parents' anguished faces before they left, and thinking of the strange looks her ancestors had endured, as well as her own current situation, Dugu Yan couldn't help but feel moved.

Even if falling into the path of an evil soul master seemed like a very bad thing?

But just as she was making her final considerations, a sudden change arose.

The leading evil soul master old man's figure suddenly vanished, and in the spot where he had been standing, countless ice spikes shot up from the ground; a freezing chill spread with the breeze, followed by a burst of brilliant starlight.

From her perspective, this was undoubtedly a shocking sight.

But from Shu Yan's perspective, things were clearly different.

Evil soul masters' strength is generally higher than that of other normal soul masters of the same rank; although many reasons cause this difference, it cannot be denied that this strength gap is not enough to match the boost brought by extreme attributes.

This old man is not young; his strength is around rank eighty‑three. His martial soul is a nauseating skull, with rotting, maggot‑infested flesh still hanging from it, and his soul ring configuration is the normal set. Faced with Shu Yan's relentless fierce attacks, the old man was clearly shocked and angry, and for a moment he was completely suppressed.

Seeing the six unusual soul rings beneath Shu Yan's feet, the old man's pupils contracted, but he also realized a problem: the youth before him was certainly not someone he could easily defeat, and even in the midst of their clash, more than one strand of cold energy had already pierced his skin, affecting his muscles and meridians; the boy's strength was clearly beyond what a Soul Emperor could possess.

Give it his all!

This was the last word that flashed in the old man's mind; to have risen to the rank of Soul Douluo among the sinister, vicious evil soul masters, his intellect must be sound. After assessing the situation, the seventh soul ring beneath his feet suddenly blazed, a blood‑colored halo spreading over a radius of a hundred meters; blood‑colored skulls slowly rose from the blood pool beneath his feet, accompanied by hundreds of rotting skulls.

「Go! 」

After unleashing his martial soul true form, the old man's originally gaunt body rapidly swelled, blood‑red patterns etched across his face and exposed skin; mournful soul wails echoed incessantly from the blood pool below, disturbing the mind and giving rise to a feeling of hopeless desolation. Boom——

Accompanied by one rotting skull after another flying out, a series of massive explosions followed. Unlike the tremendous power of a corpse burst explosion, the power of each skull blast was even less than half of that, but due to their numerical advantage, the skulls in the blood pool seemed endless—when one exploded and flew out, another would immediately burst from the pool, and as time passed, the destructive force of these skull explosions grew ever more terrifying.

The Ice Emperor sat on the roof of the wooden hut, looking somewhat surprised at this scene; then she clicked her tongue softly and said:

「Just how many people has this old man killed? Every skull he summons still retains a trace of soul, obviously from human soul masters, and there are even many soul beasts among them…」

The Snow Emperor remained calm; frankly, her attitude toward humans had improved a little, but only in front of Shu Yan and his companions—toward anyone else, she simply didn't care at all.

Blood‑colored mist spread among the trees; due to the explosions, the trees inevitably became coated with nauseating blood‑colored slime, white smoke hissed upward, and before long, more than a dozen large trees were corroded, split straight down the middle, and crashed to the ground.

A flash of silver‑white light, Shu Yan remained unharmed; he held a deep‑blue longsword that seemed forged from condensed ice crystals, and then he suddenly slashed at the old man hovering above the blood‑colored skull. An unmatched chill, coupled with terrifying attack power, shot forth at extreme speed, causing the old man's scalp to go numb, as if even his blood were frozen…

Emperor Sword·Ice Extremity Peerless!

The Emperor Sword, one of the Snow Emperor's Three Absolutes, this was also Shu Yan's first time using it in actual combat; his grasp of soul skill usage had never been particularly good, and in principle it was actually quite simple.

His combat power had always far exceeded that of fellow soul masters of the same rank; many times when fighting others, he didn't even need soul skill assistance, relying solely on his formidable strength and attributes to win easily. However, just because he rarely used soul skills doesn't mean they were ineffective.

On the contrary, because his soul rings were almost all obtained from powerful soul beasts carefully selected, each of his soul skills was extraordinarily strong.

Besides, few outsiders knew what his soul skills actually were, so he simply treated them as a hidden trump card, hoping they might someday prove unexpectedly effective. The brilliant sword light flashed like a meteor, shattering plants and freezing everything in its path; the old man's face showed terror, but the sword's speed was truly too great—even if he had exerted his fastest reaction speed, he was still a step too late.

Flesh and blood were directly melted by the sword light; the blood hadn't even time to spatter before being frozen by extreme ice, countless ice crystals shattered, the old man let out a roar, his eyes nearly bursting from their sockets—his entire left arm and forearm had vanished. This deep‑bone‑piercing agony, in just an instant, nearly made him collapse unconscious.

Shu Yan lightly swung his sword again; this time, the old man didn't even make a sound before melting away into the sword light, completely disappearing from the world…

Meanwhile, in the distance, amidst specks of golden light flickering, Xu Jiujiu bathed in starlight, resembling a Star Light Goddess in noble divinity; brilliant meteors like stars fell one after another, and countless starlight turned into beams, locking onto every evil soul master present, finally turning them into pools of flesh……

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(End of chapter)