Chapter 490

Ilex once said that, in his life, he was only one step away from becoming a true god; as long as he wished, he could become a god at any time.

So the question arises: if he becomes a god, what divine position would he attain?

The answer is exactly as Huo Yutong is now demonstrating.

A black coat enveloped her whole body; the staff in her hand transformed into the shape of a scythe; her hair and eyes both turned deathly gray; a pure white purifying light shone from around her.

She stood silently in the sky, her lovely face filled with icy coldness, yet her petite frame gave Ye Xi Shui a pressure like a mountain.

Ye Xi Shui instinctively stepped back, her body trembling uncontrollably.

She could feel that her own martial soul was actually afraid.

How could that be? Her martial soul is a Blood Soul Devil Puppet, one of the supreme Evil Martial Souls, its quality even not much inferior to ordinary Ultimate Souls; how could she feel fear before the battle even began? She let out a terrified shriek, stamped her foot fiercely, and a huge spatial rift appeared behind her.

No fighting! Against this enemy there is simply no chance of victory! Not even a sliver of hope to win!

However, before she could jump into the spatial rift, Huo Yutong raised her hand, and a white small tower quickly expanded from her palm, instantly enveloping everyone present.

The space within the giant tower's range instantly solidified, also isolating everyone from the outside world, preventing Xuanzi from continuing to absorb soul power from the battlefield below.

"Tsk!"

Kong Deming dared not stand idly by any longer; one after another, huge cannons began to appear beside him, their silver barrels shining in tandem with the silver moon behind him, emitting a dazzling light.

However, at that moment, a figure whose afterimage flashed swiftly appeared before his eyes, and a long spear thrust viciously at him.

Kong Deming forgot that just now Huo Yutong and Tang Wulin had difficulty approaching him because Ye Xi Shui and Xuanzi, two Ultimate Douluo, were covering for him; only after bearing Kong Deming's support and defeating those two Ultimate Douluo‑level Evil Soul Masters could Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong possibly get close to him.

But now, Xuanzi and Ye Xi Shui can't even help hold back Tang Wulin; they themselves are barely holding on, and with Tang Wulin's current speed, which surpasses even Song Lao's, it's natural that he would close in as soon as he can.

In great alarm, Kong Deming hastily deployed the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, relying on spatial isolation to barely block this strike.

But this was merely the beginning.

Countless golden spear shadows thrust at him, forcing him to deploy multiple shields, or else he would have suffered severe damage in this barrage.

On the other side, seeing that using spatial power to flee had failed, Ye Xi Shui unhesitatingly placed her hand on Xuanzi's head; as a large amount of blood‑red light poured in, Xuanzi's body began to tremble violently.

Although Ye Xi Shui forcibly used the right leg bone of the Dark Dragon King to smooth Xuanzi's consciousness, after all, an Ultimate Douluo puppet is not something you can just have; to avoid damaging him too quickly, Ye Xi Shui had never truly activated the evil nature and power contained within that Dark Dragon King right leg bone.

But now she can't worry about that anymore; she only wants to buy time to escape, even if it means sacrificing Xuanzi here, to get away from this Evil Soul Master's god of death before her eyes.

"Ao——"

Xuanzi raised his head again and let out a painful roar; boundless black qi began to emanate from his body, wildly corroding the surrounding space.

This black qi is highly concentrated dark power and evil energy, the crystallization of power gathered over centuries by the Holy Spirit Sect pooling the strength of its entire faith; even a slight touch can cause soul masters below rank ninety‑five to lose their reason and fall into madness.

At this moment, releasing such a terrifying amount, even the Dragon King Douluo Long Xiaoyao, upon seeing it, would have to admit defeat and avoid its sharp edge.

Of course, the cost of unleashing such a level of attack is also enormous; it is clearly visible that, as black qi erupts from Xuanzi's body, his aura keeps surging, but his physique rapidly weakens with the passage of time.

This round of eruption consumes not only his soul power, but also his life force and spiritual power.

Ye Xi Shui stared fixedly at Huo Yutong, while continuing to force Xuanzi to expend his life force for the burst, she watched his every move with trembling apprehension.

Under her gaze, Huo Yutong, facing the oncoming dense black qi, raised the hand holding the scythe and gave it a light swing.

In an instant, the black qi surrounding her vanished completely, as if swept away like smoke and dust.

Huo Yutong's expression remained calm, as if she had just done something utterly ordinary, and she turned her gaze toward Ye Xi Shui.

"!"

The instant Ye Xi Shui's eyes met Huo Yutong's, her soul shuddered violently; she felt that she was not facing a girl under twenty, but a lofty deity.

She couldn't help but recall what Huo Yutong had just said.

"God‑Descent Technique: Death God Descends."

Could it be that this move is for real? Is Huo Yutong truly incarnating as a Death God during the duration of the technique? Ye Xi Shui dare not gamble; she is utterly confused, and under the influence of intense fear, she controls the black qi emanating from Xuanzi's body and launches it at the tower trapping her.

Huo Yutong herself is hard to deal with, but surely breaking her tower must be possible? As long as she shatters this white tower that binds space, she can once again mobilize spatial power and use it to escape from here.

What a lovely thought, but she forgot one thing:

Huo Yutong would never allow her to do that.

Only then did Huo Yutong step forward into the void; in an instant she flickered like a ghost to appear before Ye Xi Shui, raised the scythe in her hand, and with a swing, a tragic scream rang out as Ye Xi Shui was split in two down the middle.

The scythe Huo Yutong now holds is the effect of an attached skill of the God‑Descent Technique.

After performing the God‑Descent Technique, Huo Yutong can take a weapon as a base and transform it into a Death God's scythe.

The Death God's scythe has twice the strength of the base weapon; since Huo Yutong's base is her super‑divine‑artifact level staff, this scythe's quality is thus twice that of an ordinary super‑divine‑artifact.

A surging torrent of blood‑red light quickly rolled forth; Ye Xi Shui, at the cost of consuming one blood soul, successfully revived.

Upon revival, she violently spat out a mouthful of gray vapor from her mouth, her complexion turning extremely unsightly.

She drew a deep breath, no longer hiding her weakness, and a scarlet giant tower covered in cracks appeared behind her.

After her battle with Tang Wulin in the Ming Dou Shanmai, her blood souls were reduced to only five strands, less than half.

Each of her blood souls took decades to condense successfully, and every formed blood soul is backed by mountains of corpses and seas of blood; without war breaking out, replenishing them in a short time is pure fantasy.

Therefore, during this period she has been busy repairing the Death God Tower; fortunately, Kong Deming, in order to gain her support and boost the Ri Yue Di Guo's chances of victory when war breaks out, sets aside time each day to help her repair the Death God Tower, which has allowed her tower to barely recover to a usable state for battle.

However, it now seems that after this battle ends, the Death God Tower cannot be preserved.

A flicker of pain crossed Ye Xi Shui's eyes, yet she steeled herself, spreading her arms wide as strands of blood‑red light emanated from her body and poured into the Death God Tower.

She intends to make the Death God Tower self‑destruct, thereby gaining enough power to break this prison.

While channeling energy into the Death God Tower, Ye Xi Shui also continues to drive the black qi emanating from Xuanzi's body to assault Huo Yutong, in order to prevent Huo Yutong from hindering her actions.

But she never imagined that Huo Yutong had no intention of stopping her from charging at all. Huo Yutong, expressionless, lifted the scythe, and streams of gray‑white light flowed into it, actually beginning to charge it with energy as well.

The Death God Tower is already on the verge of shattering; even if one sacrifices it to pour energy in, the upper limit is quite limited.

Compared to that, the energy condensed on Huo Yutong's scythe has already intensified to a degree that fills Ye Xi Shui with fear.

As for the black qi sent to interfere with Huo Yutong, Huo Yutong doesn't even need to act specially against it; the white purifying light emanating from her surroundings is enough to completely cleanse it.

This won't do!

Ye Xi Shui's intuition frantically warned her that if she continued to let Huo Yutong charge the scythe, something truly terrifying would happen.

Although half‑believing, half‑doubting, Ye Xi Shui still chose to trust her intuition; the Deathgod Tower shattered, red light burst out instantly, enough to instantly kill a rank‑98 Titled Douluo, blasting an Extreme Douluo into serious injury, and in her roar the strike shot toward the gray‑white tower trapping her.

Regarding this, Huo Yutong let out a somewhat helpless sigh, then swung her scythe again.

A flash of gray light passed, and in an instant Ye Xi Shui felt the world tilt.

She took half a second to realize her head had been cut off, which explained the strange sensation.

As for her strongest strike, released at the cost of the Deathgod Tower's destruction, it too was cleaved in two by that terrifying Deathgod Scythe not far ahead of her, and now it is gradually dissipating into the air.

A sense of powerlessness spread in her heart; Ye Xi Shui felt her body and soul were disintegrating, and she had to quickly use blood souls to revive herself, otherwise serious trouble might ensue.

With a thought, the blood souls stored in her Martial Soul Blood Soul Puppet were mobilized and began to repair her body and soul.

However, her complexion soon changed.

One blood soul wasn't enough?!

She horrifiedly discovered that a single blood soul could not at all stop her body and soul from disintegrating; it could only delay the process.

She needed to expend more blood souls if she hoped to achieve resurrection.

Such a situation could be said to be the first time in her long life; hardly anything could kill her before, let alone require multiple blood souls to repair after a single death.

But the rapid disintegration of her soul told her there was little time to hesitate; if she didn't quickly offer more blood souls, she would truly die here even before exhausting them.

Thus, despite her intense reluctance almost making her grit her teeth to pieces, Ye Xi Shui had no choice but to inject her remaining precious blood souls.

One, two, three… Finally, when the remaining three blood souls were all infused into her body, Ye Xi Shui succeeded in re‑condensing a form and completed her resurrection.

She finally understood why her sense of danger had been so intense just then, prompting her to hurriedly interrupt Huo Yutong's charging.

Judging by the power of that strike, if Huo Yutong had charged a few seconds longer, even if Ye Xi Shui poured all her blood souls into herself, she likely could not have saved herself.

What had been a tolerable margin for error dropped to zero instantly; with all her blood souls lost, Ye Xi Shui no longer had the ability to resurrect again.

No, that's not entirely true.

Ye Xi Shui narrowed her eyes and recalled her second martial soul.

As long as she relied on that martial soul's talent, she had a chance to escape.

She wasn't sure whether Huo Yutong had truly reached the god level after using the Descent Technique, but there was no doubt that the power Huo Yutong exerted had a strong restraining effect on their Evil Soul Master abilities, which was the main reason she and Xuanzi were beaten so badly.

Worth a try! She didn't notice that, in the eyes of Huo Yutong not far away, a look of disgust had appeared.

The Deathgod governs souls, especially the power of those it kills; therefore, after Huo Yutong had just slain Ye Xi Shui, she gained the right to probe Ye Xi Shui's memories.

To prevent this cunning Evil Soul Master from having other life‑saving tricks, she quickly skimmed Ye Xi Shui's memories, only to find that what she saw was nauseating, one thing worse than the next.

The piles of massacres need not be mentioned; they merely told Huo Yutong once again how utterly unforgivable this Evil Soul Master Ye Xi Shui was.

However, the memories Huo Yutong saw concerning Long Xiaoyao and Mu En filled her with intense aversion.

Why would this guy do such a thing to the person he likes, yet still have the nerve to claim he loves him?

Does someone like that even deserve a Bright Phoenix martial soul! Fueled by anger, Huo Yutong fiercely flapped the wings on her back; rings of gray light burst from her scythe and instantly wrapped around Ye Xi Shui and Xuanzi.

"Tsk…"

Ye Xi Shui saw Huo Yutong raise her scythe again, her heart tightening instantly; she glanced at Xuanzi beneath her and forced a cold smile.

The Deathgod Tower being gone doesn't matter; she still has other substitutes!

Ye Xi Shui pressed both hands onto Xuanzi's body; then Huo Yutong saw Xuanzi's massive frame collapse, gradually condensing into two small diamond‑shaped objects.

Soul core self‑detonation! This is the strongest attack an Extreme Douluo possesses; to flee, Ye Xi Shui no longer cared about Xuanzi's life or death.

After doing all that, her body suddenly turned into a sky‑filling blood shadow, scattering in all directions.

The soul‑core explosion of an Extreme Douluo is already near the human limit; it can definitely shatter this tower's bonds.

As long as she withstands this strike, she still has a chance to survive.

Unfortunately, she never understood to the end that the Deathgod governs souls and death, and its power can even act directly upon laws.

Huo Yutong drew a deep breath and began to channel her whole body's strength into the scythe in her hand.

The gray on her body rapidly faded, her gray wings dissipated, her black robe likewise disintegrated, and she returned to her original appearance.

In contrast, the gray light of her scythe grew ever stronger, until its true form became hard to discern.

Finally, as the soul core was about to explode, the last trace of gray on Huo Yutong's body successfully merged into the Deathgod's scythe.

Then she swung the blade down.

In an instant, time seemed to freeze at that moment.

Then, immediately after, a wail and a shattering sound rang out; the sky‑filling blood shadow vanished, and the diamond‑shaped solid that Xuanzi had become also shattered.

The two Extreme Douluo thus fell.

Side note: starting today, chapters will be combined, and the word count will be marked at the end of each.

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