C146 Terra Fiend White Walker!

Lightning and sword light relentlessly assailed the spinning bronze monument.

Yet, as the Stormcrowned Emperor's soul merged with a spark and penetrated the monument, the bronze structure seemed to grow increasingly impervious.

The crackling lightning and hissing sword light now appeared to merely tickle the monument, struggling to exert any pressure on it.

The peculiar bronze monument, as if drawing strength from the soul within, became more formidable.

Within, countless inscriptions flickered and glowed.

The Stormcrowned Emperor's soul and the Indigo Wraith, a Star-Spawned Terror, clashed within, unleashing arcane soul techniques and enduring millions of Soul Power impacts every second.

However, the epic Soul Battle raging inside the monument remained invisible to onlookers.

"Whoosh!"

The throng of alien souls and goasts, once confined within the pit, soared out one by one.

Their liberation—a result of the clash between the Stormcrowned Emperor and the Indigo Wraith—was only relative.

A misty orb of light emerged from behind Yu Yuan, its soul scripts twinkling like vigilant eyes.

One by one, the weaker alien souls were swiftly drawn into the Soul Orb, snatched up in its grasp.

Beneath the Soul Orb, Lee Yu's spirits soared, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

Clearly, the Soul Orb had ascended a level or two, revealing to him its boundless potential.

"Yu Yuan, what about these?"

A weary Qin Yun, observing the swarm of alien souls and goasts escaping like a plague of locusts, called out urgently.

Yu Yuan gave a slight nod, "Go ahead and collect them."

Qin Yun's eyes brightened.

The Lunar Spirit, resembling an aged scholar, emerged from his forehead.

The diminished Lunar Spirit hovered midair, snatching up alien souls and goasts with the ease of a toad catching flies, absorbing them into itself.

Not to be outdone, Lee Yuchan activated her spiritual sense. The Spiritual Sense Spider Web unfolded at her command.

Her Lunar Spirit, spider-like, presided over the center of the web, which undulated, ensnaring the alien souls and goasts.

Under the ancient incantations of the Indigo Wraith, numerous alien souls and goasts, drawn from all directions, found themselves no longer restrained by the monument or the Indigo Wraith amidst the fierce battle.

They all fled in a panic.

Regrettably, just outside the pit, individuals like Qin Yun, Lee Yuchan, and Lee Yu lay in wait, having been on the lookout for quite some time.

The feeble alien souls and goasts ultimately became a source of Soul Power for Qin Yun and the others, either consumed by the Soul Orb or refined by Lee Yuchan using the Shadow Curse.

"Mr. Yu."

The elder from Midnightshields, standing over ten meters away, spoke earnestly, "Are you planning to intervene in the Soul Battle below? In my opinion, the Stormcrowned Emperor might just defeat the Indigo Wraith. If he refines it with the Shadow Curse and gains the bronze monument..."

He paused, then continued, "Can you truly keep him in check?"

Yu Yuan snorted and glanced sideways at him, asking, "What exactly are you suggesting?"

"If possible, it would be best for both the Stormcrowned Emperor and the Indigo Wraith to perish together," the Midnightshields elder advised with good intentions. "Our sect's master has the Blood Oath mark on all four Dawn Arrows, which you can undoubtedly control. But you can't handle the Stormcrowned Emperor or the Indigo Wraith, so..."

Yu Yuan got the message.

The elder from Midnightshields was hinting that he should engineer a mutual destruction between the Stormcrowned Emperor and the Indigo Wraith, paving the way for Qin Yun to reap the greatest benefits.

"I lack the means to alter the battle between the Stormcrowned Emperor and the Indigo Wraith," Yu Yuan stated.

"On the contrary, you are capable," the Midnightshields elder said with a smile.

Yu Yuan was perplexed.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, the Midnightshields elder materialized behind Yu Yuan.

Qin Yun and Lee Yuchan were preoccupied with capturing the alien souls and goasts and hadn't initially noticed the exchange between Yu Yuan and Zhao Jian.

But the elder's movement and the abrupt shift in his spiritual energy immediately alerted Qin Yun and Lee Yuchan that something was amiss.

"Zhao Jian! What are you up to?" Qin Yun bellowed.

Without hesitation, Lee Yuchan's Gutrender sliced through the air.

A streak of green lightning flashed!

"Crack!"

A burst of sharp and explosive green lightning arrived in an instant, threatening to cleave the Midnightshields elder, known as Zhao Jian, in two.

"Phantom Technique!"

The duplicate Zhao Jian vanished, and another Zhao Jian appeared behind Yu Yuan, placing his hand on Yu Yuan's back and giving him a firm push.

Yu Yuan was propelled into the pit.

His face contorted in shock. As Zhao Jian moved, Yu Yuan sensed a brief disconnection from the magical barrier.

The sword light within his arm bone flared with an unusual intensity!

Attempting to move, he was suddenly overwhelmed by an inexplicable, terrifying force that rendered him immobile.

He could do nothing but await Zhao Jian's next move.

As Zhao Jian pushed him into the pit and he crossed the unseen barrier, glyphs and spell symbols etched into the rock transformed into chains, binding him mid-air.

Suspended above the pit, he hovered dozens of meters from the swirling bronze monument.

"You..."

He stared at Zhao Jian, the burning sensation in his arm bone intensifying, his expression grave.

Qin Yun and Lee Yuchan from the Silvermoon Empire had already ceased their pursuit of the alien soul and goast, watching Zhao Jian with the wariness of facing a formidable foe.

Zhao Jian, who should have been a member of the Midnightshields, smiled, gave a respectful bow to Qin Yun, and then turned his gaze to Yu Yuan.

"Like Hantian and Indigo Wraith, I too have been suppressed by this realm," he said with a smile. "My rank is slightly lower than theirs, so the world's suppression of me is less severe. That's why I was able to emerge earlier and happened to encounter Mr. Qin and the true owner of this body."

He revealed the truth with casual ease.

Qin Yun regarded him, recalling the numerous brutal encounters between him and Zhao Jian. After a moment, he asked, "Are you the one who calls himself White Walker?"

"White Walker?" Yu Yuan's brow furrowed, his expression darkening. "In this world, filled with various evil spirits and souls, White Walker is reputed to be among the top ten!"

"That's me. I, White Walker, am not as formidable as Indigo Wraith or Hantian, but I've managed to squeeze into the top ten," said White Walker, his smile growing ghastly as he assumed Zhao Jian's place. "While Indigo Wraith is a Star-Spawned Terror, I, White Walker, am a devil native to the Everlands, what your kind refers to as a Terra Fiend."

In the vast expanse of the Everlands, the three souls of heaven, earth, and man came into being with the birth of humanity.

Devils were categorized into Sky Fiend, Terra Fiend, and Half-Demon. The Sky Fiend resided in the starry void of outer space, the Terra Fiend lurked in numerous dreadful and sinister locations across the three continents, and the Half-Demons, human practitioners of dark arts from the Devil Palace, dominated the northern reaches of the Land of Quiescence.

Among these, the Half-Demons were the most formidable, frequently seizing Terra Fiends across the continent and venturing into the extraterrestrial realms to capture Sky Fiends.

The Terra Fiend was the weakest, confined to survival in the most perilous and fearsome places on the continent.

The Terra Fiend before him, self-proclaimed as the White Walker, was an anomaly, ranking among the top ten in this realm.

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