Chapter 788: Divide and Conquer

The Demon Venerable of Extinction stood frozen in place.

Having been a Supreme-level powerhouse in life, he was now actually feeling a trace of terror!

Whether it was the person on the left or the person on the right, both gave him a sense of extreme danger.

The Demon Venerable of Extinction subconsciously threw off the quilt, wanting to leave this place.

But at this moment, the person on the left moved and asked with a strange laugh.

"Where are you going?"

The Demon Venerable of Extinction’s Adam’s apple couldn't help but bob up and down, but he still retorted stiffly.

"When this Venerable acts, why must I explain it to you?"

"Hahahaha! Very good! It has been a long time since anyone dared to speak to me like that!"

The person on the left covered half his face and laughed wildly; the next second, a scarlet blood-pupil was revealed through his fingers!

"Amaterasu!"

Black flames swept toward the Demon Venerable of Extinction. The Demon Venerable of Extinction wanted to fight back, but soon he discovered in horror that he couldn't exert even a shred of power!

The black flames landed on his soul body, and the intense pain caused the Demon Venerable of Extinction to let out a shrill scream.

Since he couldn't exert power and couldn't win, his instinct was to flee.

The Demon Venerable of Extinction, his entire body stained with black flames, fled toward the outside of the room.

But before he had escaped very far, the person on the left raised his hand toward him, fingers splayed.

"Bansho Ten'in!"

The Demon Venerable of Extinction, who had already escaped some distance, suddenly felt a terrifying suction force, as if a black hole had appeared behind him.

He ran with all his might, yet the more he ran, the further back he retreated, until he flew back to the side of the person on the left, who looked at the Demon Venerable of Extinction with a half-smile.

"It seems you aren't being obedient, so I can only find a way to make you obedient."

"Chibaku Tensei!"

Rocks rose from the ground one by one, smashing toward the Demon Venerable of Extinction until he was completely sealed within the stone mass.

Sealed along with him was the person on the right.

The person on the right revealed a meaningful smile at the Demon Venerable of Extinction.

"We were perfectly fine playing Valorant together yesterday, so why are you always thinking about running away when you wake up today?"

"Did you have a nightmare? Then let me tell you some stories to soothe you."

"A long, long time ago, there was a person named Zhu Bajie; he was a big 'mother-zero' (bottom), and the person he liked was Sha Wujing, because Sha Wujing was a round-faced, bearded, white-socked, slightly chubby, burly man."

"A long, long time ago, there was a person named Zhuge Liang; he was captured seven times by Meng Huo at the power supply station, and harboring resentment, he deliberately performed the Empty Fort Strategy to break Sima Yi’s lucky winning streak."

"A long, long time ago..."

Although the person on the right did not attack the Demon Venerable of Extinction like the person on the left, what the person on the right brought to the Demon Venerable of Extinction was mental torture!

Under the bombardment of these unofficial histories, the Demon Venerable of Extinction soon fell into complete madness.

"Ah!!!!!!!!"

The Demon Venerable of Extinction clutched his head and screamed wildly; he felt his brain was like a pair of wired earphones that had been left in a pocket for a day, so tangled there was no way to unravel them.

Ye Lin stood to the side, looking at the remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction with some pity.

A perfectly good remnant soul of a Demon Venerable, how did it go crazy?

Wouldn't it have been fine to just continue the possession? Why did he have to explore what was inside his body?

Even Ye Lin himself dared not say he had fully mastered the power of the Chaos Divine Domain; that power was like a great Cthulhu-esque blob of slime that would assimilate everything it touched into chaos, until extinction.

If the Demon Venerable of Extinction were in his prime, he could have relied on his formidable, heaven-defying cultivation to forcibly suppress Ye Lin.

But unfortunately, the Demon Venerable of Extinction was now just a remnant soul.

Since one has done a good deed, one should see it through to the end.

Although the remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction was already crazy, Ye Lin naturally would not leave him behind.

Ye Lin took out the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, wanting to collect the other party into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

But as soon as the Ten Thousand Soul Banner approached the remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction, there were faint signs of it collapsing.

Ye Lin’s expression changed slightly.

"Is he this powerful even with only a remnant soul?"

With the current strength of the Ten Thousand Soul Banner in his hand, if he were to forcibly collect the remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner would likely explode directly.

Ye Lin was in a dilemma.

This was a remnant soul of a top-tier powerhouse at the Supreme Realm.

What level of existence is a Supreme Realm powerhouse? Second only to the Supreme Great Emperor!

If he missed out on such a soul body, Ye Lin would have to sit up in the middle of the night and slap his own thighs.

But the Ten Thousand Soul Banner couldn't contain it, and if he used the Human Emperor Flag, Ye Lin worried that the Human Emperor Flag wouldn't be able to hold up either.

After all, the Human Emperor Flag was already nearing collapse; if he failed to collect the Demon Venerable's remnant soul and the Human Emperor Flag also exploded, he would truly be losing his wife and his army.

"Heaven does not starve the blind sparrow; treat the dead horse as a living horse!"

A flash of madness crossed the depths of Ye Lin’s eyes.

If one Ten Thousand Soul Banner couldn't hold it, couldn't nine Ten Thousand Soul Banners hold it?

"Forbidden Curse: Nether Ghost Fire!"

Ye Lin used the forbidden curse, condensing the Nether Ghost Fire—which specifically damages soul bodies—into a black ghost-fire blade!

He brandished the black blade condensed from the Nether Ghost Fire and began to directly cut the remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction.

Head, neck, left hand, right hand, left leg, right leg, left torso, right torso, and the Kun.

The remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction was directly divided into nine parts by Ye Lin.

Afterward, Ye Lin brandished the nine Ten Thousand Soul Banners, collecting one-ninth of the Demon Venerable’s remnant soul into each banner respectively.

The nine Ten Thousand Soul Banners vibrated violently, and even quite a few fine cracks appeared.

But fortunately, in the end, the nine Ten Thousand Soul Banners held up, successfully dividing and collecting the remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction into the banners.

This was also thanks to the Demon Venerable of Extinction’s consciousness being driven mad by the Chaos Divine Domain; otherwise, if he had struggled, Ye Lin likely would have had no way to subdue this Demon Venerable remnant soul.

"Demon Venerable remnant soul, wonderful!"

Ye Lin was incredibly expectant; he had personally experienced how powerful the combat strength of this remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction was.

If he encountered danger and released this remnant soul, it would definitely give his enemies a big surprise.

It was just that this thing couldn't be easily displayed in front of others, otherwise it would easily become a target for everyone and lead to being hunted down.

After resolving the Demon Venerable remnant soul, Ye Lin walked straight toward the remains of the Demon Venerable of Extinction.

The skeleton, radiating terrifying pressure, sat upright on the throne; even though he had been dead for who knows how long, and even though his flesh and blood had vanished, leaving only a white skeleton, a Supreme is still a Supreme!

Before Ye Lin could even get close, his body emitted a series of crunching sounds, and tiny beads of blood seeped out from the pores all over his body; if he went any further, he would only have a dead end.

It was fortunate that Ye Lin had already cultivated the Thousand Tribulations Saint Body; otherwise, his physical body would likely have already exploded under the pressure.

Ye Lin finally truly understood how terrifying a real Supreme Realm powerhouse was; the pressure of his remains after death could crush him to death.

That remnant soul of the Demon Venerable of Extinction likely didn't even have one ten-millionth of the power the Demon Venerable of Extinction had in life.

However, Ye Lin was clearly determined to obtain the remains of the Demon Venerable of Extinction today!

"A mere life, I'll give it!"