The Heavenly Luo Ghost King, seeing Tian Yi standing before Ye Ling, felt as if he had swallowed a fly.
It said in a deep voice, "As expected, a wolf that cannot be tamed. When I killed your entire family, I saw you were an infant and felt a moment of softness, thus sparing your life and raising you."
"Your cultivation, including your life, was bestowed upon you by me. How dare you betray me!"
"If I had known this would happen, I should have eaten you back then!"
Hearing the Heavenly Luo Ghost King's words, Tian Yi's pupils contracted sharply, "You!!!"
Tian Yi had always believed he was an orphan, kindly taken in by the Heavenly Luo Ghost King, but he never expected such a past!
Suddenly, an uncontrollable rage surged into his heart!
Tian Yi's eyes turned crimson.
"I thought you were already heartless enough, but I didn't expect the Heavenly Luo Ghost King to be even more shameless!"
Ye Qingyan didn't know how to describe her feelings at the moment, quietly transmitting her thoughts to Ye Ling.
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King was truly something else to be able to say such a thing with such righteous indignation.
"What can you expect from a fiend that refined its own daughter into an evil spirit, imprisoned her for a hundred years, all for the sake of sacrificing her to gain power?"
Ye Ling's expression was calm. "I even think Tian Yi's background is more tragic than what the Heavenly Luo Ghost King is saying now."
"I don't know what to say anymore..."
Ye Qingyan shook her head, looking at the darkening Tian Yi ahead, a flicker of sympathy in her eyes.
"Master, Shu Ya is in the main hall. I know Shu Ya is still useful to you, please be sure to take her out."
"At least let her see the outside world."
Although Tian Yi was consumed by rage, he was still thinking of Xu Shu Ya.
So he and Xu Shu Ya were alike...
Both were pitiable individuals whose lives were manipulated.
Thinking of this, Tian Yi's lips curved into a bitter smile.
Finally, they found a common ground.
Tian Yi closed his eyes, and the lotus mark on his forehead lit up with a dazzling glow. Tian Yi released the demonic sword he held, allowing it to split into thousands of blades!
He burned all the power Ye Ling had lent him.
Sensing the powerful surge of energy from Tian Yi's body, the Heavenly Luo Ghost King suddenly felt a sense of unease.
Not daring to let Tian Yi continue gathering power, the Heavenly Luo Ghost King's arm rapidly enlarged and swept towards Tian Yi.
"Draw Sword..."
Tian Yi whispered, his entire body turning deathly pale. A suffocating aura, even to Ye Qingyan, erupted from Tian Yi's body, condensing onto the myriad flying swords!
Boom!
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King's claw was directly repelled by the flying swords!
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King's expression changed drastically. Realizing something was wrong with Tian Yi, it quickly retracted its attack and fled towards the city.
It chickened out...
As a half-step Red Dust Immortal, the Heavenly Luo Ghost King dared not receive Tian Yi's attack!
Tian Yi floated into the air, the pupils in his eyes having vanished.
In his sight, only the Heavenly Luo Ghost King remained!
"This suicidal madman! He's sacrificing his own life to use a forbidden technique, trying to take me down with him?"
"I won't play along!"
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King roared and fled rapidly, unwilling to face Tian Yi's move head-on.
Tian Yi only had this one chance. As long as it dodged, the world would still belong to it!
"Wu Hua Xin."
Tian Yi's voice echoed in the Heavenly Luo Ghost King's ears. Then, the myriad flying swords instantly appeared around the Heavenly Luo Ghost King, their tips pointed directly at it!
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King's pupils contracted violently. Disregarding everything else, it frantically urged the spiritual energy within its body to form a barrier around itself!
Boom!
The myriad flying swords, like a torrential downpour, rained down ferociously upon the Heavenly Luo Ghost King!
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King was engulfed by the sword rain.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King's shrill screams echoed through the sky above the Heavenly Luo Ghost City.
"So, so strong... what a move, 'Wu Hua Xin'!"
Ye Qingyan watched Tian Yi unleash this move, her heart filled with immense shock, and she exclaimed repeatedly.
Tian Yi's current cultivation was only slightly stronger than hers, and his raw power was definitely not comparable to the Heavenly Luo Ghost King!
Yet, he could suppress, and even kill, the Heavenly Luo Ghost King with a single sword technique!
Ye Ling said, "He can't kill the Heavenly Luo Ghost King. Instead, he will die himself."
"He still can't kill it?" Ye Qingyan was stunned.
Ye Ling calmly watched the Heavenly Luo Ghost King, surrounded by sword rain in the distance, his eyes deep.
"It's almost time."
Ye Ling took a step forward, and the lava outside the Heavenly Luo Ghost City was stirred by his spiritual energy, transforming into thirteen flame needles in the air.
"Go!"
Ye Ling controlled the thirteen flame needles, precisely piercing Tian Yi's thirteen vital acupoints and sealing all the spiritual energy within his body.
The rampant sword rain on the other side instantly dissipated!
"Master?"
Tian Yi regained his senses and looked at Ye Ling with surprise and uncertainty.
He felt an incredibly scorching aura pouring into his meridians from thirteen key acupoints along his cultivation path, blocking all his meridians!
He could no longer fly and fell straight from the air, landing before Ye Ling.
"Hahaha..."
At this moment, the Heavenly Luo Ghost King's laughter echoed in the air again.
Ye Qingyan looked over and saw the Heavenly Luo Ghost King, riddled with countless holes, gasping for breath, with spiritual energy constantly converging towards it.
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King's injuries healed rapidly, and at its neck, a corpse dragon's head had actually grown!
Its power had broken through again!
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King mocked, "Trash is always trash. Even after using a forbidden technique, you are still no match for me!"
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King had escaped death. Not only did it survive, but it had also inadvertently digested the residual corpse dragon essence within its body, completely merging with the corpse dragon!
"Why?"
Tian Yi looked up with difficulty, gazing at Ye Ling in confusion.
He didn't understand why Ye Ling hadn't fled, and even interrupted him at such a critical moment!
Ye Ling stood with his hands behind his back, calmly looking at the half-corpse dragon transformed Heavenly Luo Ghost King hovering above the Heavenly Luo Ghost City, and said faintly, "The Heavenly Luo Ghost King has absorbed the dragon脉. This Heavenly Luo Ghost City is equivalent to its capital."
"It has the fortune of the nation, and its cultivation was already stronger than yours. Even if you exhausted all your life force, you couldn't possibly kill it."
"I am saving you."
"How could this be?"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, the light in Tian Yi's eyes rapidly dimmed.
That move had already depleted all his strength. Now, he didn't even have the strength to stand. To resist the further empowered Heavenly Luo Ghost King was simply impossible!
The corpse dragon at the Heavenly Luo Ghost King's neck rapidly grew larger, then flew out from its body. Its hundred-meter-long body coiled in the sky above the Heavenly Luo Ghost City, roaring at Ye Ling and the other two!
The aura of a near Red Dust Immortal swept over, filling Tian Yi with even greater despair!
"I will not die!"
"I will eventually become a god!"
The Heavenly Luo Ghost King tilted its head and laughed heartily. Its two-meter-long body was truly minuscule compared to the hundred-meter-long corpse dragon, the proportions were extremely exaggerated!
"This is bad, has it become a Red Dust Immortal?"
Ye Qingyan stared at the giant corpse dragon, her expression grave, and asked Ye Ling with a trembling voice, "Do you have any other way?"
The corpse dragon, while seemingly with the Heavenly Luo Ghost King, possessed an independent soul and power!
This meant that they were now facing two half-step Red Dust Immortals!
One Heavenly Luo Ghost King was already difficult enough to deal with, and now there was a corpse dragon...
Ye Qingyan felt like she was going crazy!
"What do you mean, 'any other way'?" Ye Ling chuckled, looking at the corpse dragon coiled in the sky above the Heavenly Luo Ghost City, the smile in his eyes growing stronger.
"Mere two half-step Red Dust Immortals..."
"Killing them is a simple matter of pushing through."