Almost simultaneously, Fei Lie raised his hand and flung it toward his right.
A sharp, long spike—the limb of some unknown insect—shot from his hand. It whistled lowly as it accurately pierced the tall female insect-man’s brain, punching straight through her skull.
In less than three seconds, Fei Ming, who had been vibrant and alive just moments before, was now a lifeless corpse.
But the room did not fall silent.
Where Fei Ming and the female insect-man had died, the air began to vibrate violently. A surging aura of flame radiated outward from the ripples in the air.
With their deaths, the Contracted Soul Beasts in their Soul Beast Spaces were about to be released back into the world.
Fei Lie narrowed his eyes, his tone urgent. "Master, an Insect Master’s Soul Beast Space takes some time to collapse. This is the perfect opportunity."
"I know. Go keep the people outside calm. Don’t let them come in for a while."
Han Ning didn’t need Fei Lie to tell him; he had already summoned Yin Yi and Egg Pancake.
His eyes narrowed. Activating his Spiritual Surge Talent, he felt his Spiritual Power burn intensely. He looked up at the ripple with the most powerful aura—where the hideous head of a giant centipede was emerging—and sent a telepathic command to the two Soul Beasts beside him, "Use your full power. End its life."
"Ling!" "CHIRP CHIRP!"
After Han Ning’s recent allocation of attribute points, the strength of Yin Yi and Egg Pancake had grown considerably. Sensing the powerful aura emanating from the ripple, they didn’t dare to hold back and immediately unleashed their most powerful attacks.
Yin Yi let out a sharp cry. A massive amount of Wood Type Spiritual Energy rapidly converged before her, forming a thick, rapidly spinning pillar of light more than five meters in diameter. It crashed down violently upon the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede, which had only just emerged halfway.
As expected of a powerful Soul Beast on the verge of breaking through to the Lord Level, even with only half its body exposed and caught in Yin Yi’s surprise attack, the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede merely tilted its head. Terrifying, deep purple flames instantly formed a highly condensed shield to block the attack.
BOOM!!
The pillar of light slammed into the Fire Shield, creating a monumental blast of Spiritual Energy that instantly enveloped the entire hall in a violent storm of particles. The resulting shockwave pulverized the surrounding walls, and the floor buckled and sank.
Meanwhile, the moment Egg Pancake appeared, its enormous body smashed through the stone ceiling above. Its colossal form towered among the low stone houses, so large that even the insect-men walking on the crude streets in the distance could see it clearly.
But as Egg Pancake threw back its head, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm wasn’t idle. It shot into Egg Pancake’s body. Inch by inch, its purplish-red segments enveloped and rapidly transformed Egg Pancake, reshaping it into a terrifying centipede that bore an eighty-percent resemblance to the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede.
This was the territory of the Red Centipede Tribe. If the general population of insect-men saw Egg Pancake’s distinctly different form, no explanation from Fei Lie would matter; it would immediately become a public enemy. Only by altering its appearance could they have any hope of explaining the situation.
Unlike Yin Yi, Egg Pancake didn’t use a direct Spiritual Energy technique. Instead, it used its recently mastered Red Lotus Armor to form a Molten Rock Spear. Lowering its body, it took advantage of the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede’s restricted movement and savagely thrust the spear, its tip crackling with Red Lotus Flame, deep into the creature’s exposed head.
With its body still trapped by the collapsing Soul Beast Space—its upper half in the real world and its lower half still inside—the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede had no way to dodge. The spear struck true.
The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm’s supplementary Dissection Soul Technique effortlessly tore through the creature’s tough Insect Armor, allowing Egg Pancake’s spear to plunge unimpeded, skewering the giant Insect Beast and pinning it to the ground.
"SKREEECH!!"
Grievously wounded, the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede fell into a frenzy. It let out a deafening, agonized roar as the flames erupting from its mouth surged with even greater intensity, engulfing the entire stone house in a towering inferno.
In an instant, everything within a several-hundred-meter radius was engulfed by the deep purple heatwave, transforming the area into a flaming hellscape.
The insect-men who couldn’t escape in time were instantly vaporized. Houses were scorched black, and the dim sky was lit as bright as day. The entire Red Centipede Tribe was drowned in the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede’s furious, pain-filled roars.
Although Egg Pancake’s base stats weren’t as high as Yin Yi’s, there was no Attribute disadvantage between it and the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede. Combined with Han Ning’s Spiritual Power Talent, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm’s Demonization amplification, and the superior Spiritual Control Power granted by its own high Talent, the sheer attack power it unleashed was already beginning to eclipse Yin Yi’s.
All of this had happened in just a few seconds. Standing at the rear, Han Ning was protected by Yin Yi within an Ice Crystal Shield that resisted the fiery onslaught. Seeing several other insectoid figures beginning to emerge, he shouted urgently:
"Faster! The other Soul Beasts are about to break out of the Soul Beast Space! We don’t have much time! Yin Yi, use Ice Crystal Bomb on the others! Freeze them in place!"
If Fei Ming’s other Soul Beasts managed to break free, they would lose the initiative.
"Ling~"
With one hand, Yin Yi maintained the torrent of Cyan Wood Radiance. The dazzling cyan pillar of light relentlessly bombarded the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede’s upper body, blasting its tough Insect Armor into a bloody mess.
With her other hand, she conjured crystals of sub-zero ice and sent them exploding toward the other Soul Beasts that were just beginning to emerge.
BANG!
The exploding Ice Crystals filled the air with spreading frost, freezing and hampering the other Soul Beasts. But the ice was quickly melted by the waves of fire from the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede.
"CHIRP!"
Egg Pancake let out a ferocious roar. Finding the centipede armor cumbersome, it flexed its dragon claws and shattered a section of it. With one claw, it gripped the Rock Spear, while with the other, it began to form a Star Core made of molten rock.
Within two seconds, a sphere of molten rock formed, emitting bizarre gravitational waves as it floated before Egg Pancake.
It thrust out its claw, shooting forth a dense net of purplish-red tendrils. They wrapped around the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede’s massive, bleeding maw, and with a powerful tug, pulled it wide open.
The Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede’s mouth was wrenched open. Seeing its chance, Egg Pancake quickly tossed the molten sphere into the creature’s mouth.
RUMBLE!
A moment later, an explosion that shook the very heavens thundered out.
A powerful shockwave erupted from the epicenter, surging madly in all directions.
A greyish-black mushroom cloud rose into the air.
Where Egg Pancake and the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede had fought, the ground had caved in, forming a crater over ten meters deep. The depression spread outward for nearly a full kilometer, gradually shallowing from its deepest point at the center.
All the stone houses within that radius had collapsed.
As for the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede at the epicenter of the blast, its entire upper body was gone. Only its charred, carbonized lower half remained, still twitching and wreathed in flames—a testament to its incredible Life Force.
Having dealt with the most powerful of them, the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede, Han Ning had Egg Pancake dig out its Crystal Stone and absorb the Spiritual Energy within. He then let it consume the empty husk.
[Energy +12675]
A powerful existence at the War General Limit, the energy it contained was almost comparable to that of three War General III Soul Beasts.
Han Ning converted the Energy into Attribute Points, allocated them to Egg Pancake, and then directed Yin Yi and Egg Pancake to kill the other Soul Beasts that had fully emerged.
Without the strongest among them, the Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede, leading the charge, the other Soul Beasts were significantly weaker.
When combined with the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, Egg Pancake could already fight opponents above its level. These other Soul Beasts were either on par with or even weaker than its combined form.
Without their Insect Master to command them, the Soul Beasts fought without any coordination.
Soon, Fei Ming’s five remaining Soul Beasts were defeated and killed through the coordinated efforts of Yin Yi, Egg Pancake, and the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm.
As for the slain female insect-man’s Soul Beasts, they were merely a few creatures at the Extraordinary Level and were blasted to pieces by a few shots of Yin Yi’s Cyan Wood Radiance.
Once all the enemy Soul Beasts were dead, Han Ning looked around him.
As far as the eye could see, every stone house had been reduced to rubble.
The air carried the faint, agonized wails of the insect-men, the sound of somber weeping, and Fei Lie’s sharp, urgent shouts.