In the east, a few rays of sunlight pierced through the sky.
The Myriad Beast Lair was covered in lush greenery and spirit grass. Fragrant flowers bloomed, and tens of thousands of beasts cried out in unison.
Outside of the Myriad Beast Lair, everything within a few thousand meters was blasted to smithereens. Countless trees and spirit grass were scattered, and several mountains were flattened.
The battle between three Emperor-class powerhouses was terrifying!
Huang Linggu consumed a large number of medicinal pills and fought against Lu Buwei and the Demon Emperor.
After a few hours, his body finally couldn't take it anymore. Blood began to seep out of his skin and trickle out of his orifices. It was as if an evil spirit had been reborn, and it was quite terrifying.
Lu Buwei and the Demon Emperor weren't much better off. Both of them were injured, and their battle prowess had plummeted. It seemed like they wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
"No, I can't let this go on. I must make Huang Linggu disappear completely," Lu Buwei thought to himself. Suddenly, he wanted to take Huang Linggu down with him.
He roared at the Demon Emperor, "You retreat first! I'll take him down with me!"
Although he didn't know who this Zhao Shiren was, he knew that he was related to Ling Xiao. He believed that Zhao Shiren wouldn't make things difficult for the Lu family after he died, which was why he made this decision.
The Demon Emperor's expression flickered. In actuality, it would be more suitable for him to self-destruct. After all, this body didn't match his element, and it wasn't suitable for him to recover to his peak state.
It was just that he hadn't obtained a physical body for long, and he didn't want to continue living as a soul.
Just as Lu Buwei was about to take Huang Linggu down with him, Ling Xiao turned into a few afterimages and appeared 100 meters away from the three of them. He roared, "Senior Lu, retreat first. Let me deal with him."
Lu Buwei didn't understand why Ling Xiao was so confident, but he still obeyed and retreated 100 meters.
The Demon Emperor knew that Ling Xiao had something to rely on, so he also retreated.
Huang Linggu roared, "Come! Didn't you want to kill me?
What, are you afraid? "
He glared at Ling Xiao and said, "Who are you, you little bastard? How dare you act so arrogantly in front of me? I'll kill you first!"
Huang Linggu shouted. His broadsword transformed into a hundred-meter-long earthen yellow blade shadow that chopped towards Ling Xiao.
"Careful!" Lu Buwei exclaimed. Igoras helped Ling Xiao block the attack.
The Demon Emperor, who was closest to Ling Xiao, did not make a move. After seeing Lu Buwei block that attack, a look of pity appeared in his eyes.
Ling Xiao didn't have time to care so much. He mobilized all the mental energy in his sea of consciousness. The hundreds of drops of mental energy liquid emitted a bright divine light and formed an Ice and Fire Sword. Finally, it flew out from between his eyebrows.
Sword Meteor!
The traceless sword gleam and sword qi slashed towards Huang Guling's consciousness!
How could Huang Guling have expected Ling Xiao to use such a method to destroy his sea of consciousness and soul?
Huang Guling was a mid-tier Earthly Sovereign, and his soul force was quite solid. He was actually able to resist Ling Xiao's mental strangulation without dying!
Ahhh!
Although Huang Guling wasn't instantly killed, the damage to his soul still caused him to scream in pain. All the profound artifacts in his hands fell to the ground.
Ling Xiao's face turned much paler, and he exclaimed to Lu Buwei and the Demon Emperor, "What are you waiting for? Hurry up and kill him!"
Only then did Lu Buwei and the Demon Emperor recover their divine power. They quickly gathered the last of their energy and attacked Huang Linggu.
Without any suspense, Huang Linggu was blasted into a puddle of blood. An Emperor Stage expert had finally fallen.
Ling Xiao finally heaved a long sigh of relief when he saw Huang Guling die. He felt dizzy, and he almost fell to the ground.
Ling Xiao hurriedly landed on the ground, sat in meditation, and circulated the Soul-Controlling Art to recover his mental energy.
Heavily injuring two Emperor Stage experts in a row was too much for him to bear.
If he hadn't used the 10,000-year Stone Emulsion to strengthen his mental energy in the Secret Realm, it would have been quite difficult for him to heavily injure Huang Linggu.
The strength of an Earth Sovereign Stage expert's soul was definitely not something a Monarch Stage expert could compare to.
Lu Buwei and the Demon Emperor landed next to Ling Xiao, and both of them looked extremely shocked.
Lu Buwei still didn't understand what secret technique Ling Xiao had used to heavily injure Huang Linggu, and he found it inconceivable.
Could it be that he really knows demonic arts?
First, he controlled Zhao Shiren, and now he invisibly injured Huang Linggu. This … this is too terrifying. I can only make friends with this kid, I can't make him my enemy! Lu Buwei thought resolutely in his heart.
The Demon Emperor's expression flickered with uncertainty, and a faintly discernible murderous aura rose from him.
In the end, he didn't make a move.
Four hours later, Ling Xiao stood up again, and his complexion was much rosier than before.
He looked deeply at the Demon Emperor. "You want to kill me?"
Lu Buwei jumped in fright. He thought that Zhao Shiren had lost control of himself, and he immediately wanted to stop him.
Who knew that in the next moment, the Demon Emperor would bow deeply to Ling Xiao. "This old servant wouldn't dare!"
"Hmph, I know what you're thinking. You'd better be obedient, and I might even be able to help you recover your soul. Otherwise … you definitely won't be able to live!" Ling Xiao harshly barked.
The Demon Emperor had left half of his divine soul in Lu Sheng's consciousness, and Lu Sheng could almost sense what the Demon Emperor was thinking. As long as the Demon Emperor had any evil thoughts, Lu Sheng would immediately use the Blue Demon Flame to extinguish that divine soul.
"This old servant understands. This old servant definitely won't have a second time," the Demon Emperor said humbly.
When he thought of Ling Xiao's previous soul attack abilities, he thought of some distant legends. That was the reason why he was so afraid.
Lu Buwei looked at the two of them in confusion, and his admiration for Ling Xiao grew even more.
"This boy is really a dragon among men. Even a supreme master like Zhao Shiren is under his control. In this northwest region, he can sweep away all the younger generation. Even the older generation will have to keep a respectful distance from him," Lu Buwei thought with emotion.
Ling Xiao no longer paid any attention to the Demon Emperor and walked around in a circle before returning in disappointment.
At this time, the Demon Emperor spread out his palm and respectfully asked Ling Xiao, "Master, are you looking for this?"
Ling Xiao was overjoyed when he saw the Space Ring in the Demon Emperor's hand and immediately snatched it, shouting, "Why didn't you take it out earlier? You made this Young Master look for it everywhere!"
Every Earth Sovereign Realm master's Space Ring contained a lot of treasures, so Ling Xiao naturally couldn't miss this opportunity to collect his spoils of war.
Ling Xiao put away the Space Ring and said to Lu Buwei, "Senior should go back and clean up the Huang Family."
Lu Buwei nodded and said, "Yes, it's time to send them on their way." After a pause, he bowed to Ling Xiao and said, "This old man thanks little friend for your kindness. If you need my Lu Family's help in any other way, Lu Buwei will not even frown."
"Senior is too serious, I'm only doing this for myself." Ling Xiao replied humbly as he helped Lu Buwei up.
Ling Xiao's words were the truth. He had only dealt with the Zhao and Huang Families for the transmission array, and helping the Lu Family was just a coincidence.
One day later, under the joint efforts of two Emperor Stage masters, the Huang Family was completely removed from the Thousand Beast City, and the remaining Zhao Family members were also killed by the Lu Family's Patriarch, Lu Zheng, and a large number of experts.
Only a small number of people from the Zhao and Huang Families escaped into the Thousand Beast Lair, and their whereabouts were unknown.
The Lu Family's strong retaliation shocked everyone in the Thousand Beast City.
They had never thought that what had been a joyous marriage alliance yesterday would turn into a bloodbath the next night!
No one knew the reason behind it, but they all knew that the Lu Family's iron fist had proven that they would be the future rulers of the Thousand Beast City.
After destroying the Zhao and Huang Families, the Lu Family announced a month of lockdown, and no one was allowed to leave the Thousand Beast City.
They had to take advantage of this month's time to completely consolidate the Zhao and Huang Families' properties, and no one in the outside world must know about this.
Otherwise, someone would take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and disrupt their hard-earned fruits of victory.
Under the arrangements of Lu Buwei and Lu Zheng, the Lu Family was reorganizing the Thousand Beast City in an orderly manner.
Ling Xiao had not left, but was inspecting his spoils in a loft arranged by the Lu Family.
Ling Xiao had three spatial rings in his hands, one from Zhao Shiren, which was the one the Demon Emperor used to wear. Another was obtained by the Demon Emperor when he killed Zhao Shiyi, and the last one was from Huang Gu Ling.
These three spatial rings all came from an Emperor Stage expert, which meant that they must be very rich. Ling Xiao closed the door and studied them carefully.
Ling Xiao threw Zhao Shiren's spatial ring to the Demon Emperor and said, "Open it and see if there's anything good inside."
The Demon Emperor had taken over Zhao Shiren's body, and was the master of the spatial ring, and only he could open it.
The Demon Emperor followed Ling Xiao's instructions and took out everything from the spatial ring.
Ling Xiao looked at the items that occupied half the room, and his eyes were shining, "I'm rich … I'm rich … no wonder so many people like to rob others, what a great harvest!"
Ling Xiao exclaimed and began to inspect the items, "At least two thousand high grade Xuan Crystals, fifteen thousand mid grade Xuan Crystals, two hundred and eighty thousand low grade Xuan Crystals, tsk tsk, they're all mine … all mine!"
Ling Xiao ignored the Demon Emperor and put on a greedy face as he kept all the Xuan Crystals.
The three great families had controlled the transmission array for many years, and their wealth was not something others could imagine.
Following that, Ling Xiao looked at the pills and knew that the highest grade was only Stage 4. He picked out two bottles of healing pills and threw the rest back to the Demon Emperor.
He was an alchemist, so as long as he had spirit herbs, he would not lack pills, unless it was a high grade pill that he could not refine.
Ling Xiao looked at the spirit herbs again. Most of them were Stage 4, and there were not many Stage 5 ones. There were three that were extremely precious.
A Five Star Lotus, a water-attribute spirit herb with an extremely strong recovery ability.
Any severed limb could be reattached within two hours as long as it consumed the Five Star Lotus. It was a rare healing panacea.
A Green Ginseng, a thousand-year-old Ginseng King that looked like a wooden man, had absorbed a large amount of wood attribute essence, and was a top-grade spirit herb for wood-attribute martial artists.
Not only could it increase one's lifespan, it could also strengthen the defense of wood-attribute martial artists and increase the number of top-grade spirit herbs that could comprehend wood-attribute energy.
Even Lu Weng, who was in Ling Xiao's sea of consciousness, wanted to take it for himself.
The other stalk made Ling Xiao the happiest.
It was actually a Soul Grass, a rare spirit herb that could strengthen one's sea of consciousness and strengthen one's soul.
A stalk of Soul Grass could greatly increase his spiritual force.
To the Demon Emperor, it was also an extremely important spirit herb.
Absorbing it could recover a lot of his soul force.
However, that would only waste a large portion of its essence and would not be able to display its true use.
Only by gathering other spirit herbs and refining a Stage 5 Soul Mending Pill would it be able to display its true divine effects.
Ling Xiao held the stalk of Soul Grass and said to the Demon Emperor, "Be loyal to me, and I can refine a Soul Mending Pill that will allow you to recover another quarter of your soul."
The Demon Emperor took a light breath and respectfully said to Ling Xiao, "This old servant is already Master's most loyal servant!"