Chapter 45: A Conspiracy? The Curtain Falls

Zhang Peng did not notice that Huang Jinxu and Wang Xian'er were intentionally or unintentionally shielding Xiadie behind them.

"That Jin Chan Tuo Qiao just now must have consumed quite a bit of your soul power, right?"

Wang Xian'er sized up Zhang Peng, who was a hundred meters away, and could clearly feel the fluctuation of his soul power dropping.

"Hmph! I was careless." Zhang Peng did not refute, "However, it won't be so easy for you to take me down."

"Once I deactivate the ninth-rank defensive Soul Guidance Device, I can still leave safely."

"That's not necessarily true."

"What?" Zhang Peng frowned.

"You really thought we didn't discover you hiding in the shadows earlier?" Wang Xian'er said casually.

"Right, Heavenly Fiend?"

"Uh..."

Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu's expression froze.

"See, Heavenly Fiend has already tacitly agreed."

Wang Xian'er's lips curled up, "Before coming here, I already had someone go notify His Majesty."

"If we haven't gone to the Huang Gong for a period of time, then he will bring people over."

"You..."

Zhang Peng's expression was terrifyingly gloomy.

"Even if we are both level 96, I have a Soul Guidance Device to conceal myself; you shouldn't have been able to discover me."

"If you want people not to know, you must not do it."

The life energy on Wang Xian'er's body surged and then quickly vanished, the lingering aura changing into a pure Death Attribute.

In fact, it was Xiadie who told her about Zhang Peng's existence; Xiadie told her there was a Title Douluo with a Dark Attribute nearby, though his strength was temporarily uncertain.

Because of this, after passing a checkpoint, she used a code word with the guard to have him go call Xu Jiawei to assemble Title Douluos and take action depending on the situation.

What she hadn't expected was that the opponent actually possessed a ninth-rank barrier-type Soul Guidance Device.

If a fierce battle didn't occur here and go unnoticed by the outside world, I'm afraid Xu Jiawei would be late in rushing over here.

"Good, very good!" Zhang Peng's voice was stifled; he was clearly angered.

"I originally wanted to take the three of you to the Holy Spirit Cult, which would count as fulfilling the favor the Holy Cult showed me, but I didn't expect you to set an ambush in advance."

"However..." Zhang Peng's voice turned cold, "Do you really think I have no way to deal with you?"

"It seems I have no choice but to do something that goes against my principles."

Purple soul power swirled around Zhang Peng, and the aura on his body carried a chaos that infected everything.

He attacked Wang Xian'er once again.

"Hmph, a deathbed struggle."

Huang Jinxu noticed the abnormal Death Element on Wang Xian'er, but now was not the time to consider such things.

He used his martial soul, Heavenly Fiend, once again; the surrounding soul power shone like stars, and he casually condensed a meteorite and smashed it toward the opposite side.

"Stubborn and unyielding." Zhang Peng roared,

"Eighth Soul Skill—Twelve Beast Envoys."

One could see twelve phantom images of Spirit beasts condensing near Zhang Peng; they were Spirit beasts.

Each Spirit beast had a ferocious face, and the aura they emitted was at the level of a Spirit Douluo.

The two of them used soul skills to resist the clawing and snapping attacks of the twelve Spirit beasts.

One of the Spirit beasts was hit by a meteorite, and another immediately filled its place.

Wang Xian'er stripped the Death Element from the air and exerted her ability, but as soon as she touched the souls of those Spirit beasts, a chill surged directly up.

Bloodthirst, devouring, and other negative emotions spread toward her body and spirit along the direction of her soul power release.

Her mind was surrounded by the angry, roaring, and violent negative emotions of the Spirit beasts.

"What an overbearing soul skill." Wang Xian'er bit the tip of her tongue, and a mouthful of blood sprayed from her mouth.

Utilizing the direction from which the Spirit beasts were pouncing, she flew backward from the recoil.

"Return my life..."

"Die, die."

The close-range contact with negative emotions caused Wang Xian'er, whose Death Element energy was already unstable, to have her mind echo with scenes as if she were being harassed by countless vengeful ghosts seeking her life.

"Wang Lao." Huang Jinxu clearly also noticed the change in Wang Xian'er.

That originally pure death aura was gradually emitting inexplicably negative emotions.

This feeling was hair-raising.

"Ninth Soul Skill—Star Fall Firmament."

A dense rain of meteorites descended from the sky, and the twelve Spirit beasts were blocked by the meteorite rain.

Huang Jinxu took the opportunity to knock away the Spirit beast soul bodies in front of him and turned into a streak of light to arrive at Wang Xian'er's side.

At this moment, Wang Xian'er was gasping for air, beads of sweat seeping out on her forehead.

"Hoo, hoo—"

Wang Xian'er's expression was indignant, "You are polluting my power."

Upon contacting the souls of those Spirit beasts, the Death Element within her that was in balance with life actually began to devour itself, and the Death Attribute even gained the upper hand.

"That's right." Zhang Peng did not attack again, but instead spoke eloquently,

"Soul Masters with the Death Attribute are easily influenced by the outside world and are usually called natural Evil Soul Masters by the world, let alone someone like you who awakened the Death Attribute halfway."

Zhang Peng's voice paused, "Your martial soul was already tainted with the power of death, but you didn't discover it, and you have no way to master it."

"To tell you in layman's terms, while you are gazing into the abyss, the abyss is also gazing into you."

"Stripping the Death Element from the air to use as power will ultimately affect your martial soul."

"Regarding martial souls—no, more accurately, souls—I understand them deeper than you do."

The twelve defeated Twelve Beast Envoys condensed once more at Zhang Peng's side.

"You are despicable!"

Wang Xian'er gritted her teeth.

"I have already obtained the answer I wanted."

"Goodbye."

The barrier in the sky began to fade, a Soul Guidance Device resembling an incense burner fell into his hand, and immediately after, Zhang Peng transformed into a streak of light and flew into the distance.

"Ahhhhh!"

Wang Xian'er screamed as her vast life energy began to convert into the Death Element.

"The balance has been broken."

Xiadie watched all of this quietly.

This terrifying aura of death also drew the attention of Xu Jiawei, who brought five Titled Douluo and approached this side rapidly.

"Wang Lao..."

Huang Jinxu was at a loss.

The intense, negative-aura soul power fluctuations on Wang Xian'er made him tremble with fear.

Compared to its previous purity, it now carried a turbid, bloodthirsty sense of oppression.

"Don't, don't come near me."

Wang Xian'er took a few steps back, putting distance between herself and Huang Jinxu.

Huang Jinxu possessed the Heavenly Fiend Lone Star martial soul and had even been called a candidate for an Evil Soul Master by Zhang Peng.

If the Death Element on her body caused Huang Jinxu's martial soul to mutate and sacrifice the Star Luo Empire, that would be a massive disaster.

"Xiadie..."

Wang Xian'er could feel her consciousness beginning to blur, and she couldn't help but look to the side with anticipation.

"My teacher might have a way." Xiadie was silent for a long time.

"Is that so?" Wang Xian'er's voice was bitter, "As expected, I was still too greedy."

After the battle with Chi Wang, Wang Xian'er had vaguely discovered something wrong within her body.

She only had herself to blame for gritting her teeth and swallowing that medicinal pill after breaking through to level 96.

Powerful strength is indeed intoxicating; what Support Soul Master doesn't have a heart that yearns to deal damage?

Several figures approached from the distant sky, with Xu Jiawei in the center, and the remaining elders of the Elder Hall arriving in succession.

Aside from Xu Jiawei and the others, Xiadie also sensed the presence of two other Titled Douluo.

It was Yan Shaozhe's soul power fluctuation, and accompanying him was another Titled Douluo.

The two factions converged.

Xiadie's eyelids fluttered slightly, and she sighed in her heart: "Things are becoming more and more troublesome."