Chills ran up the deities and celestials' spines. Rage or satisfaction; from beginning to end, Harun's face showed no emotion. It was almost as if the matter had nothing to do with him, as if he just passed by to clean up the trash, then move on to more pressing matters. Despite his empty, bleeding eye sockets, the Fla Spirit King's face kept that sa stupid smiledrooling to no end.
A step behind the Gods, Jiyan observed the developnt with a keen interest, nodding and clapping several tis to show her support. "Oooh...how protective. You've just been promoted from lifeti boyfriend to lifeti husband material. Though, for future references, you will have to work on that volcanic rage explosion. Cute, but almost scared to death," Jiyan said in a ntal ssage, half-serious, half-jesting. Though she could stand up for herself, she knew that there were tis where she had to show so restraint and give her partner the opportunity to remind the world that she always had a shoulder to lean on.
But with the Karmic Link and proximity, she could feel things others couldn't. Harun plucking out the Fla Spirit King's eyes was just the tip of the iceberg. If he could rip him to shreds, he would. However, the Heavenly Qi sheltering a fifth-level Ascending God's life wasn't sothing Harun could break at the mont. Even if the Fla Spirit King stood utterly powerless, Harun couldn't kill him. Needless to say, he didn't take that well.
"Sure. Next ti, I will prepare unparalleled Lineage Cutting Pills and solve the problem with Plaguebringer diplomacy," Harun jested. But then Jiyan's odd words pealed, and ignoring the Fla Spirit King, he spun to face her. "Wait, wait. Lifeti boyfriend to lifeti husband? There's a difference?"
"Nah, I just needed sothing to promote you to. Can't let you get too conceited and think that you're at the top already...even if it's true," Jiyan straightforwardly replied.
"That was strangely smooth," impressed, Harun blurted out.
"I learned from the best."
But as the two's ntal exchange carried on, dark-purple flas blazed in the Fla Spirit King's eyes. A spontaneous combustion followedsetting the fallen God's body ablaze. "No!" The celestials raged, but by the ti the nearby deities made their move, a child-sized purple fla version of the Fla Spirit King had escaped from the body and shot into the distance.
"Damn it!" One of the Gods slamd his fist against the cavern wall, sending tremors throughout the ground. On the contrary, it was Harun who remained stoic.
"You let him escape?" Jiyan asked in another ntal ssage to which Harun calmly nodded. "That man is rather resourceful. I already knew that he possessed a secret technique that let him sacrifice the body to take control of the soul and ensure his survival in desperate tis," Harun started. Without secret arts, the Heavenly Dream Land's cultivators had very little control over their souls. Even an Empyrean Monarch couldn't escape death by relying on the soul only. "Escape is a big word, though. Since he succumbed to the venom, his existence is ruined. We can use what little juice he has left to ss with Weeping Soul's plans."
Although the Space Mysteries pervading the atmosphere ssed up his tracking abilities, by relying on the nearby Karmic Threads, Harun could see what road Weeping Soul took. Was it the right one? He couldn't tell yet. But as long as the weakened Fla Spirit King and Weeping Soul restrained one another, he could profit from their strife. Activating his Eye of Luminous Treasures, Harun sought and located the mine's treasure troves and now no longer doubted that both the Fla Spirit King and Weeping Soul headed for a disaster. But perhaps that was precisely what the latter sought.
In this purple fla spirit form, the fallen God put as much distance between Harun and himself as he could. Fear shone in his overstretched eyes, but as he neared the cavern road's end, his soul weakened, forcing him to stop and pant on the ground. "Damn...damn it all! I...hate won!" The Fla Spirit King raged against his fate. With all the secret arts and the few Forbidden Techniques he cultivated, he didn't doubt that he'd soon rise to prominencebecoming an entity at Silav's level. At that ti, how could Dilnaz resist him? Perhaps she'd offer herself willingly and satisfy his darkest fantasies. Then they'd hold hands and whisper love in one another's ears.
Alas, the sane man in the Fla Spirit King's mind realized that he'd gone insane for that woman, and lost himself a long ti ago. Thus, as love and hatred intertwined in his depraved mind, he blad his fate on the opposite gender.
"I don't think they like you, either." But as the fallen God grumbled, a mocking voice ca from the infinitely high ceiling. Alard, he raised his eyes, seeking the voice's origin, "And who could bla them," but that sa voice now ca from underneath him, and right below his chin, the head of a red-eyed doll of a youth watched him with mild interest. "Boo."
"Aaaargh!" If the Fla Spirit King still had a heart, it would have stopped now. Leaping back, the flaming soul attempted to rush out of the red-eyed youth's range, but no matter how fast he flew, he still stood in the sa spot. "Don't bother. Unlike those incompetent Colossi, we Sanguine Dolls are true masters of Space. Even without that, I'd be damned if a re little tiny God like you could escape from my hands.
But Lucky you! Your soul is the second most potent of all the dimwits that rushed into this graveyard. Worth more than a billion mortal ants. Give your aningless life purpose by helping sweet mother's recovery," the 20th Landgrave said and popped out of the ground. With a nonchalant grab, he seized the Fla Spirit King's neckdragging him down an invisible space portal.
Though gravely injured, the fallen expert still possessed 5% of his original strength, more than enough to defeat a fourth-level Ascending God. But in that doll's hold, all strength left his body. "Path Suppression? How can this tiny world have so many monsters?!" The Fla Spirit King wailedseeing through the genuine problemforever too late.
anwhile, the nine Gods and their Knights faced Harun with vigilance. On the one hand, they owed him their liberation from the Fla Spirit King's grasp. On the other, they were competitors aiming for the mine's resources and wished nothing more than to see a rock squash him into at paste. Dreading the abilities and ruthlessness he showed, they dared not make a move, but at the sa ti, Harun knew that with their cultivation bases' protection, the non-hedonists among those Gods didn't have to fear his Attachnt Venoma stalemate thus settled in.
"Brothers, please accept my apologies. As you know, the Fla Spirit King stops at no evil, engineered countless tragedies and is scorned by billions. My beloved wife almost beca his victim, so in a mont of indignation, I lost myselfresulting in this grueso show." Harun flashed a polite smile and bowed to express sincere "regrets." Seeing this, the Gods and celestials breathed out sighs of relief and imdiately changed their stances.
"Nonsense, you sir are a model of our generation. If only one-third of this world's n had such a righteous spirit, how could peace not reign?"
"With an expert of your moral standard overseeing it, the First Range is blessed indeed."
Flattering words succeeded one another while the deities masked their antagonism and fears under friendliness. Seeing this, Jiyan shook her head, foreseeing the disaster the fools couldn't see.
"Poor fellows. Whenever Harun bows, soone's life is ruined."
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