C1690 Soul Booster

The Secular Bird Queen's threat had indeed been effective!

The young beast, inherently cruel and greedy, feared the Secular Bird Queen's ferocity. Worried that she might truly ally with the Origin Deity, it ceased gnawing at the roots of the divine tree.

Thus, the divine tree, having been reborn, narrowly avoided disaster.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

A mysterious vibration emanated from the violet gold pillar propping up the Maw of Oblivion, the sound was thunderous.

Yu Yuan and Taixu, upon hearing this vibration, felt as though their very souls were on the brink of shattering.

They instinctively searched for the origin of the sound and quickly spotted the violet gold pillar underground. It was solidifying at a rate visible to the naked eye, taking on the same violet gold hue as the dragon egg.

The pillar had transformed into a crystalline entity!

It was akin to Yu Yuan's River of Swords, which had solidified into a tangible red crystal.

The buzzing originated from the violet gold pillar, which was causing the Origin Deity, now merged with the Maw of Oblivion, to disintegrate into mere particles of consciousness.

Unable to extricate himself, the Origin Deity was being torn apart by the enigmatic pillar.

The violet gold pillar seemed to possess a soul-pulling force, its peculiar magnetic field ensnaring the Origin Deity.

The pillar's tremors continued to wreak havoc on the Origin Deity, reducing his spirited body to dust.

"Soul Booster!"

The queen, standing upon the Phoenix Ashes, gazed down at the muddy earth as a narrow fissure slowly opened. Surprise flickered in her eyes.

"I never imagined that the old one had found the Soul Booster and secretly stashed it in the Ashlands," she uttered with a cold huff.

The young beast, bathed in a violet gold aura, let out a triumphant dragon's roar upon hearing her mention the Soul Booster.

Following the roar, not just Yu Yuan, but Taixu too heard it crystal clear.

"Soul Booster Stone!"

Taixu inhaled sharply, his eyes igniting with fervor as he beheld the violet gold pillar. "Our Boulderdawn Sect was aware of the existence of a wondrous Soul Booster in the universe. Alas, despite our explorations of every forbidden area across the cosmos, we never managed to find the Soul Booster."

"Soul Booster Stone..."

Yu Yuan murmured as a memory sparkle burst forth in his mind.

Memories of the Soul Booster Stone surged forward!

In ancient legends, the Soul Booster Stone possessed two magical properties. The first was that any spirited body that came into contact with the stone would be firmly bound to it, making escape nearly impossible.

The second property was the stone's ability to release vibrational waves that could pulverize any spirited body drawn to it by magnetism.

With each vibration, the strength of the spirited bodies, ghosts, and vengeful spirits held by the stone would diminish slightly.

This item was considered a weapon of doom against soul spirits and ghosts!

The God of Ghosts Youyu, the Root of the Lunar Meridian, the Origin Deity before him, and even his first life incarnation, all masters of Mind Magic with exceptional skill, would find the Soul Booster Stone a formidable challenge.

The Titan Spinosaurus youth must have located the Soul Booster in the Ashlands, guided by its lineage.

When the Origin Deity attacked, the young creature somehow managed to draw the Soul Booster from its hiding place and embed it within the Origin Deity, now transformed into the Maw of Oblivion.

Most of the Origin Deity's soul fragments, having entered the Phoenix Ashes, were unable to harm the young beast.

Instead, it was the Origin Deity himself who became trapped by the suddenly emerging Soul Booster. He was unable to free himself, and with each vibration of the stone, his spirited body grew increasingly faint.

This fading was a clear sign of the rapid loss of Soul Power.

*Howl!*

The young beast issued an excited roar, as if seeking Yu Yuan's approval and praise.

"Well done."

Yu Yuan smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.

But...

Its triumph was short-lived. The Maw of Oblivion, propped open by the Soul Booster, vanished in an inexplicable manner, as if a specter had been reduced to dust in an instant.

The dragon's triumphant cry abruptly ceased.

Elsewhere, at the location of Eiwrone.

The Origin Deity stood on the luminescent ground, encircled by deep caverns. No longer manifesting as Jessica, it had assumed a spirited body form.

This spirited body, once vague and insubstantial, suddenly snapped into sharp clarity.

Ensnared by the Soul Booster and gripped by its magnetic force, he realized he couldn't escape its clutches. Resorting to the unobstructed conduit between their two souls, he harnessed the power of both himself and the spirited body beneath the Phoenix Ashes, transporting his counterpart to the spirited body on Eiwrone.

This soul transference allowed him to bypass the pull of the Soul Booster, and he accomplished it swiftly.

"The Soul Booster seems incapable of blocking the connection between the same soul," Taixu observed, realizing that the Origin Deity had transferred to the spirited body on Eiwrone to evade the Soul Booster.

"If the Chronowyrm were still here, it could employ the Chronospatial Lock to prevent his two spirited bodies from communicating. Perhaps then his soul would be extinguished by the Soul Booster," Taixu remarked with a tinge of regret.

Crack!

The violet-golden chunk suddenly fragmented into dragon scales, which flew like numerous shields toward the halo-enshrouded youngling, becoming part of its scale armor.

Once the violet-golden shell was gone, the Soul Booster's true form was revealed—a grayish-brown stone pillar. Though it trembled, it lacked the ripple of light, and its mystical aura faded. Yet the pillar's ability to latch onto souls and annihilate them persisted.

"The violet-golden shell is the solidified blood of the Old Titan Spinosaurus. Each piece is brimming with vast vital energy for the youngling to absorb," the Secular Bird Queen observed with clarity, her tone laced with disdain. "Much like the colorful rocks covering the Phoenix Ashes, the old creature favored bright and lavish hues. It found the Soul Booster's original state displeasing, so it cloaked it in congealed blood."

Her Majesty had always been at a loss for words regarding the Old Titan's aesthetic preferences.

With a howl, the young beast, its dragon form still indistinct within the violet-golden glow, let out a roar at the Secular Bird Queen. In a flash, it enveloped the Soul Booster in its radiance.

Then, right before the eyes of Yu Yuan, Chen Qinghuang, and Taixu, it vanished.

Within seconds, Yu Yuan, tapping into the Solar Spirit's intuition, sensed that the creature had moved far away, now in a different region of the Ashlands, likely in search of something else. It left behind the Phoenix Ashes, the nascent Uxthar Tree, and the battling Chaos Serpent for Yu Yuan and the others to contend with.

"It just left like that?" Taixu, momentarily taken aback, shook his head in confusion. "Wasn't it concerned that the Origin Deity might use Eiwrone to consume all the cosmic energy in the Ashlands?"

"The Origin Deity couldn't handle it, and the Soul Booster failed to kill it. What difference does it make if it's left behind?" the Secular Bird Queen said with an icy tone.

"At least you're unharmed now, aren't you?"

Yu Yuan remained suspended in midair, not bringing the Dragon Slaying Stage down to the ground. He observed that after the Origin Deity and the young creature vanished, the cracked, muddy earth instantly sealed itself.

The branches and leaves of the newborn Divine Tree, which had seemed petrified and immobile, began to rustle again, as if stretching after a long stillness.

It gave him the impression that the Uxthar Tree had breathed a sigh of relief, grateful for having narrowly escaped destruction.

"You won't be safe until you've left the Ashlands and returned to the Shadowkin's domain."

Chen Qinghuang's gaze softened as she looked at her former ally, and her voice grew warmer. "Rest assured, I'll take you back this time. That little spinosaurus is growing rapidly, slowly mastering the treasures left by the Old Titan. It won't let the Origin Deity off easily. Besides, we have allies..." Her eyes shifted to Yu Yuan as she mentioned allies.

The Divine Tree's rustling branches halted abruptly, its cunning soul stealthily scrutinizing Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan felt it and frowned, "I'm here to help you."

"It amounts to the same thing," Chen Qinghuang responded coolly.

Lightning crackled above her head, and the two heads of the Chaos Serpent were smeared with dark green, light purple, and black blood. The glow from their four eyes became even more captivating and intense.

The fiercer the battle, the stronger the power accumulated by the Chaos Serpent, making the victor all the more formidable.

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