Chapter 5736
“It’s…it’s him? How could he possibly be here? No! Impossible!”
The Soul Devourer’s voice trembled with despair, as if he had seen something more terrifying than death.
Chen Ping stared dumbfounded at this sudden reversal, the dazed feeling of surviving a catastrophe almost making him unsteady on his feet.
He forced himself to endure his injuries and looked up at the endless starry sky beyond the crack. In the dazzling starlight, a blurry yet majestic figure slowly materialized.
The figure seemed to be composed of endless starlight, its body flowing with vast stellar laws. Its specific face was indistinct, but the majesty and holiness it exuded
made all the living beings present, including the raging vengeful spirits, feel a profound awe and insignificance from the depths of their souls.
“It’s…Fire Spirit Star Lord?” Chen Ping’s heart trembled.
He sensed that aura; it was indeed the aura of the Fire Spirit Star Lord. He
hadn’t expected the Fire Spirit Star Lord to make a move again at this crucial moment.
As the starlight figure coalesced, a gentle yet supremely majestic voice seemed to emanate from beyond the heavens, resounding throughout the Burial Abyss:
“Soul Devourer, you have violated the Heavenly Rules, stolen the Soul Source, disrupted the order of the lower realm, and even attempted to devour the chosen one destined for tribulation… Your crimes deserve death.”
The voice was calm, yet like a final judgment; each word carried the power of law, striking the remnants of the Soul Devourer’s soul, causing him to tremble even more violently.
“No… Star Lord, spare me! I know my mistake! I am willing to accept any punishment, I only beg the Star Lord to spare my life!”
The Soul Devourer no longer cared about his dignity as a Heavenly Lord, like a grotesque dog wagging its tail, frantically kowtowing and begging for mercy towards the figure in the starry sky.
His soul twisted in the starlight, appearing utterly comical and pathetic.
The Soul Devourer knew he was no match for the Fire Spirit Star Lord.
Seeing the Soul Devourer, who had been so arrogant and had beaten them to a pulp just moments before, now so humble and terrified, Chen Ping’s pent-up frustration and anger found an outlet!
He forcefully suppressed his injuries, straightened his back, and despite being covered in blood and looking utterly disheveled, his face once again radiated that infuriatingly mocking smile. He unleashed a torrent of abuse at the Soul Devourer, who was wailing in the starlight:
“Isn’t this the arrogant old dog who calls himself a Celestial Venerable? How come you’re so weak after just a few minutes? Weren’t you just about to extract my soul and burn me for ten thousand years? Weren’t you calling us worms and ants?”
“What’s wrong with you now? Why are you trembling? Ugh, your soul is so thin, like a tattered rag, it’ll fall apart in a gust of wind!”
“Where’s that arrogance you had earlier? Show it to Senior Fire Spirit Star Lord!
Oh, I forgot, you only dare to bark a few times in front of us ants. When you see a truly important person, you immediately become a spineless coward! You’ve truly disgraced your Celestial Venerable status!”
“Begging for mercy? You know how to beg for mercy now? Where were you before? Let me tell you, it’s too late!
A wicked old bastard like you, who has done countless evil deeds and is utterly devoid of conscience, should be caught by Senior Fire Spirit Star Lord and burned in the sky! No, burned in the soul lamp! Burned for ten thousand years!”
Chen Ping cursed with unrestrained fervor, his spittle almost splattering onto the Soul Devourer’s face.
He poured all his frustration from being beaten to the point of questioning his existence, his anger at seeing his companion injured, and his relief at escaping death into this barrage of sarcastic remarks.
The Soul Devourer’s soul was in turmoil from the insults, his ghostly green flames flickering wildly, clearly on the verge of exploding with rage.
But under the purifying light of the starry sky and the supreme majesty of the Star Lord, he didn’t dare utter a single word. He
could only lower his head, enduring the humiliating insults, his hatred for Chen Ping something that even the waters of the Netherworld River couldn’t wash away.
Old Black struggled to lift his head from the deep pit. Seeing this scene, he grinned, his mouth stained with blood, wanting to laugh but aggravating his wounds, only able to utter strange “hoarse” sounds.
The other injured dragons also felt incredibly relieved; Mr. Chen’s words were truly a weapon of mass destruction!
The Fire Spirit Star Lord’s figure in the starry sky seemed unaffected by Chen Ping’s vulgar verbal sparring. His blurred face was expressionless, but he spoke again calmly, pronouncing the fate of the Soul Devouring Celestial Venerable:
“Stubborn and unforgivable. In the name of the stars, purify!”
As his words fell, the pillar of starlight piercing the heavens and earth suddenly became even more dazzling and solid!
The purifying power surged more than tenfold!
The Soul Devouring Celestial Venerable let out a final, desperate wail. His soul, like an ice cube thrown into a steel furnace, rapidly shrank and faded, on the verge of being completely purified and returning to nothingness!
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief; this arduous and brutal battle was finally about to end in this unexpected way.
However, just when everyone thought the outcome was decided—
“BOOM—!!!”
Above the Burial Abyss, beside the crack opened by the pillar of starlight
, without warning, another spatial rift, even deeper and more violent, burning with raging black demonic flames, was forcibly torn open by an incomparably savage force!
A terrifying pressure, scorching, violent, and filled with an aura of destruction and chaos, swept out from the newly appeared crack like a tsunami, instantly diluting the sacredness and purification brought by the pillar of starlight!