Chapter 776

Fankun fell silent.

Bailu fell silent.

Xiyao fell silent.

Bailu's two junior disciples, Baihe and Baiji, looked at Wu Tie with gleaming eyes.

Wu Tie stepped back a few steps, clasped his hands toward Fankun and Bailu, and said: "Gentlemen, do you still have any advice? If not, I won't keep you for a late-night snack. Hehe, though Wuguo is vast, it may not be able to accommodate you all."

Fankun pressed his palms together and uttered a low murmur: "Excellent, excellent."

Bailu furrowed his brow, gazing thoughtfully at the sea bowl on the ground: "How strange, the precepts of my White Lotus Palace are also quite strict. My White Lotus Palace disciples never take part in frivolous pastimes or gambling; why, then, have I broken the precepts today?"

Fankun also nodded slowly, saying in a deep voice: "Senior Brother Bailu is right; I, too, usually observe the precepts, as for this gambling matter..."

The two simultaneously raised their heads and looked toward Qingfeng.

Qingfeng stared at Fankun and Bailu with astonishment: "What? What? You agreed to abide by the wager; even if you want to renege on the debt, you can't come after me, poor Daoist. I have even lost the secret Dao arts pressed into the bottom of my Azure Lotus Temple's chest."

Fankun's and Bailu's faces twitched at the same time.

Bailu said softly: "What you lost are the three Dao scriptures; though precious, the Martial King can only cultivate them himself and cannot pass them on. As for these copied scriptures, to your Azure Lotus Temple, you can have as many as you want..."

Bailu's voice grew louder: "Having cultivated your Azure Lotus Temple's three supreme Dao arts, one naturally becomes inseparably tied to your Azure Lotus Temple... Wuguo, the Martial King, likely can only stand on your Azure Lotus Temple's side."

Bailu, somewhat exasperated, shouted: "But we, we lost genuine gold and silver treasures..."

Qingfeng hastily said: "I, too, lost a fragment of a holy sword; that is a supreme treasure."

Fankun shouted angrily: "What use is a holy sword fragment to you? Can you use it to slay enemies? Can you use it to recast holy weapons? That fragment must be constantly guarded against its invisible sword intent, which might accidentally wound you... This, this, this is useless junk—how dare you wager it!"

Fankun slapped his head hard, producing a crisp 'pak' sound; he glared at Qingfeng, furious, and shouted: "Qingfeng, where is the Mysterious Yellow Pendant? That pendant is one of your Azure Lotus Temple's guardian holy artifacts... It can secretly control divine souls and influence outsiders' minds silently... Have we been secretly schemed against by you?"

Wu Tie raised his eyebrows!

Mysterious Yellow Pendant?

There's also such a marvelous holy artifact?

Able to secretly control divine souls and influence people's thoughts invisibly?

If they were ordinary mortals, countless divine soul secret arts could achieve this effect. But who are Fankun and Bailu? They are Heavenly God–level mighty beings; how powerful their divine souls are, how steadfast their wills.

If even they were silently struck by a scheme, then this Mysterious Yellow Pendant is truly terrifying to the extreme.

Beside him, Xiyao's eyes flashed with a sinister, vicious light; a powerful divine soul impact turned into a visible white bone figure clad in armor, charging at Wu Tie. Xiyao shouted furiously: "Wu Tie, my treasure, how could you..."

Xiyao wanted to retract—how could he allow the three supreme divine artifacts of the Dark Soul Divine Clan to fall into Wu Tie's hands?

But as Xiyao just made his move, the True Oath Sage Statue placed by Qingfeng beside the sea bowl emitted ring after ring of faint spiritual light; this seemingly gentle light swiftly swept over everyone, and all felt a tingling, numbing sensation brush their bodies.

Wu Tie, Fankun, Bailu, and the others were unharmed, but Xiyao, who had just attacked, let out a miserable howl.

Thick, viscous blood kept gushing from Xiyao's seven apertures; his body convulsed as he collapsed to the ground, thrashing violently like a struck water snake.

In a place unseen by Wu Tie and the others, the vast and ferocious divine soul of the Illusory Soul was being attacked by wave after wave of unknown strange power. Pale gold spiritual light turned into heavenly thunder, lashing the Illusory Soul's divine soul like a storm.

On the Illusory Soul's divine soul, large amounts of black qi were continually shattered by the thunder, transforming into strands of pure, mighty divine soul power that scattered in all directions.

Within the Illusory Soul's divine soul, a point of dim spiritual light suddenly brightened.

That was Xiyao's Primordial Spirit, the quintessential core of his divine soul. Xiyao's divine soul had been devoured by the Illusory Soul via secret art, yet only this Primordial Spirit survived—the Illusory Soul had left Xiyao's Primordial Spirit behind, unknown for what purpose it was kept.

But at this moment, the Illusory Soul suffered a backlash from the oath; Xiyao's Primordial Spirit seized the opportunity, immediately gulping down the divine soul power that had split off from the Illusory Soul's divine soul.

Xiyao's Primordial Spirit grew rapidly, and soon he recondensed his divine fetus.

Moreover, Xiyao activated an innate secret art inherent in his divine soul; his divine soul power turned into invisible arrows, swiftly threading through the void into a wondrous space somewhere obscure.

In that space, year-round there exist more than a dozen clusters of divine souls as fierce as blazing suns.

These divine souls are powerful to the extreme, even exceeding the current Illusory Soul by hundreds or thousands of times.

The strand of divine soul power that Xiyao sent into this divine soul space quickly condensed into a strange, spiral-shaped divine sigil resembling two snakes intertwined.

The dim divine sigil exploded, and Xiyao roared: "Save me!"

More than a dozen clusters of divine souls, mighty beyond imagination, instantly noticed Xiyao's feeble strand of divine soul; surging like a tsunami, their quality extraordinarily pure—thousands of times purer than the Illusory Soul's current divine soul power, and their quality superior by thousands of times—rushed forth in a mighty torrent.

Before these ten or so streams of divine soul power, Xiyao's divine soul was like a transparent crystal shard, with no means of defense whatsoever.

His brief lifetime of memories was instantly read by those ten or so streams of divine soul power.

Afterward, those ten or so formidable streams of divine soul power followed the fine divine soul arrow Xiyao had shot, crossing an unknown vast distance, and directly descended from that immeasurable divine soul space onto Xiyao's true form.

It was as if ten or so grinding stones, each weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, came crashing down; the Illusory Soul's divine soul, like a tiny quail egg, was pulverized by those stones in a crude, violent manner.

The Illusory Soul emitted a shrill, miserable howl; a point of black spiritual light shot from Xiyao's brow, flashed, and instantly rushed up to the highest heavens.

Above the firmament, strands of black qi curled downward, wrapping that point of spiritual light—transformed from the Illusory Soul's Primordial Spirit—and swiftly fled.

Above the continent, seven-colored thunderbolts suddenly appeared from all directions.

Thunderbolts surged like a tide, wildly attacking the black qi that was pouring down.

Faintly, Wu Tie and the others heard the shrill cry emitted by the illusory soul: "You wait, I will return, I will return…… I will lead the great army of the Dark Soul Divine Clan, devouring all of your souls completely, making you suffer endless pain for eternity."

Xi You suddenly opened his eyes, and from his pupils shot out a divine soul radiance several zhang long; then he slowly rose to his feet.

Xi You gave Wu Tie a cold glance, then said in a deep voice: "Wu Tie, our score isn't settled…… If it weren't for you imprisoning me, how could that evil demon have possessed my body, nearly bringing about eternal calamity?"

"Wu Tie, wait…… I will come back to find you!"

A powerful surge of divine soul energy enveloped Xi You, then swept up Xi You and the dazed Wa Zhao standing nearby, instantly transporting them away through empty space.