Devouring Soul Emperor

While Chu Qingyun and Lord Ming were locked in battle, Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai were fighting over a dozen Level 6 Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall.

Following Chu Qingyun’s advice, they didn’t get tangled up with the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts. Instead, they did their best to avoid them and target the members of the Martial Soul Hall.

However, those people from the Martial Soul Hall were incredibly cunning.

After a brief exchange with Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai that cost them a few men, they understood that both Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai had the power to kill them in an instant.

So, taking advantage of the fact that they wouldn’t be attacked, they hid among the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts, focusing on pinning down and ambushing their opponents.

Even when Mu Xiaoxiao used her Extreme Ice Ghost Lotus Soul, they were able to use the massive bodies of the Mutated Demon Beasts to completely hide themselves.

If Chu Qingyun were the one controlling this Soul Technique, he could have definitely made the icy flower petals change direction mid-air to blast those Martial Soul Hall members.

However, Mu Xiaoxiao clearly wasn’t capable of that yet.

"Haha, come and kill us if you’ve got the guts."

"Hey, little chick, come and chase your granddaddy! If you catch me, I’ll show you a good time, eh?"

"Hey, moron, come hit me! Aren’t you supposed to be tough? Come and get me if you can!"

The members of the Martial Soul Hall hid one by one among the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts, constantly taunting Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai.

Mu Xiaoxiao was so angry she ground her teeth, and Dai’s eyes were wide with fury.

But while it was easy for the two of them to beat back the surrounding Mutants, actually killing them was very difficult.

Therefore, as long as they couldn’t take down those incredibly resilient Mutants, they couldn’t even reach the Martial Soul Hall members, let alone attack the six who were destroying the Array Base.

’They’re really getting cocky...’

Seeing this, Chu Qingyun let out a cold laugh. He controlled the ten vines of his Iron Wire Ten-Star Vine, making them grow rapidly along the ground. They soon wove, silent and unseen, into the crowd of people over there.

Once all ten vines were in position, with a single thought from Chu Qingyun, they all shot up in an instant, binding ten of them.

"Mu Xiaoxiao, Dai, they’re all yours."

As he spoke, Chu Qingyun controlled the vines, sending the ten Level 6 Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall over to Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai.

"You damn bastards, so cocky are you? Die!"

Mu Xiaoxiao let out a sharp cry. The Sword Qi from her Treasure Sword surged, and with a single swing, she sliced four of the Martial Soul Hall members in two, along with Chu Qingyun’s vines.

Dai also let out a grunt. He swung his hammer, and the Earth Power erupted, pulverizing three members of the Martial Soul Hall.

With the support of a Control-type Martial Soul, the ten Level 6 Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall, who had been so arrogant just moments before, were all slain by Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai in less than ten seconds!

This wasn’t to say that the Iron Wire Ten-Star Vine Martial Soul was stronger than Mu Xiaoxiao’s Extreme Ice Ghost Lotus Soul; it was simply a matter of specialization.

Ten people were effortlessly slaughtered without any chance to fight back.

The remaining three were instantly scared witless.

And when they looked over at Chu Qingyun and saw that not only had Lord Ming vanished, but even the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts had all fled, they were terrified to their very souls.

Flee!

Without a moment’s hesitation, the three of them turned to run.

However, the vines of the Iron Wire Ten-Star Vine were even faster. The ten vines surged forward, wrapping all three of them from head to toe, layer after layer.

"Devouring Power!"

This time, Chu Qingyun unleashed his Devouring Power to consume the Primordial Power of the three men.

Bound up like mummies, the three had no chance to even scream before their Primordial Power was almost completely devoured. At that moment, all the vines suddenly tightened, completely crushing the three men who had lost all power to resist.

The vines retracted, leaving only three masses of Martial Soul Power on the ground.

Mu Xiaoxiao, of course, also noticed that over on Chu Qingyun’s side, not only had Lord Ming been dealt with, but even the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts had all fled.

Moreover, she keenly observed that there was now some deathly white ash and a few bone fragments on the ground over there.

But she only glanced at it and didn’t say anything more.

Everyone has their own secrets.

She and Chu Qingyun had been together for some time now. She knew that Chu Qingyun’s progress, whether in his Realm or his Sword Dao Enlightenment, was incredibly fast, and that there was definitely more to him than met the eye.

"Mu Xiaoxiao, you and Dai go deal with those six. Leave these Mutants to me."

Chu Qingyun rushed over, taking on the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts for Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai, allowing the two of them to deal with the six people around the Array Platform who were still diligently trying to destroy the Array Base.

"Thunder Sword!"

This time, however, Chu Qingyun didn’t use his Devouring Power. Instead, he unleashed the Thunder Sword, blasting the Mutants with one strike after another.

Executing such a powerful move naturally consumed a great deal of Primordial Power.

Dai, for example, would often seize any free moment to replenish his Primordial Power by Refining Primordial Spirit Liquid.

For Chu Qingyun, however, this wasn’t an issue at all. Unleashing a move like the Thunder Sword a hundred times would barely affect his Qi Sea, which spanned ten thousand meters.

Besides, even if he did use some up, he could just replenish it by casually devouring the Primordial Power of a Level 5 or Level 6 Martial Spirit.

None of the Mutants or Mutated Demon Beasts present had surpassed the Earth Spirit Realm.

With every sword strike Chu Qingyun unleashed, the lightning would inflict numerous wounds on their bodies, leaving behind significant injuries.

Moreover, Chu Qingyun constantly looked for opportunities to pierce their heads with his Thunder Light Sword Qi, then he would leave his sword embedded in their skulls to unleash the Thunder Sword.

As he continued to fight the Mutants, Chu Qingyun discovered that this was the most efficient way to kill them.

There were nineteen Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts besieging Chu Qingyun.

After Chu Qingyun took down eleven of them, the eight remaining, tattered Mutants finally couldn’t take it anymore. They turned, fled the valley, and disappeared into the mountain forest.

Seeking advantage and avoiding harm is the basic instinct of all living creatures.

Although the Mutants were more savage than the most savage of beasts, they still knew to avoid the strong and escape death.

With the strength of Mu Xiaoxiao and Dai, dealing with a mere six Level 6 Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall was naturally no problem at all.

Long before Chu Qingyun had finished with the Mutants, the two of them had already turned those six people into six masses of Martial Soul Power.

With all the Martial Soul Hall members slain and this Array Base still functioning normally, a smile of immense relief appeared on Mu Xiaoxiao’s face.

After driving back the Mutants and Mutated Demon Beasts, Chu Qingyun wiped clean the eleven pale red, diamond-shaped crystals that had fallen to the ground and stored them in his Storage Ring.

Then, he walked over to the Array Platform and began to examine it closely.