This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered-Chapter 909 - 695: Morale Collapses (2)

"Hmm?"

Fang Zhi and the others, who had been watching here all along, raised their eyebrows, not understanding what Liang Yi's action meant...

"What a pity, just one step away. A Sword Cultivator's sword sense is truly sharp..."

On the other side, Gongsun Bai'an and his group shook their heads in regret, full of pity. Their attempt to use Liang Yi to unseal failed.

"No choice, I'll do it."

Gongsun Bai'an stepped forward, gazing at Chen Hua from afar.

Chen Hua frowned, his attention gradually focused. The moment Liang Yi withdrew the Disruption Domain, he sensed these people were up to something.

Gongsun Bai'an gave a slight smile toward Chen Hua, reached out his left hand, revealing his pale wrist.

With a gentle swipe of his fingertip, blood sprayed and instantly condensed into a drop of rose-colored, crystal-clear ruby in the air.

Gongsun Bai'an's complexion instantly turned much paler, and there was a hint of fatigue between his brows, as if greatly consumed.

Yet Gongsun Bai'an remained indifferent, guiding the ruby with his fingertip, flicked lightly, transforming it into a red divine light heading straight for the River of Oblivion.

At the same time, a cause-and-effect line entangled the ruby, a silent sword light followed closely!

Chen Hua didn't understand why Gongsun Bai'an forced out a drop of his Origin Essence Blood and threw it into that eerie river, but destruction was the answer.

The inevitably accurate sword wrapped in the cause-and-effect line missed, because someone severed the line the moment it wrapped around the ruby, then summoned the Abyss's Breath, blocking Chen Hua's strike.

Qiu Feng smiled slightly at Chen Hua, waiting for this moment.

Witnessing this, Liang Yi also swung his sword toward the ruby, instinctively knowing he couldn't let it fall into the River of Oblivion.

But in the next second, a dark shadow suddenly appeared behind Liang Yi, enveloping his body, a skeletal hand striking towards Liang Yi's back. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

An alarm rang in Liang Yi's heart, his sword, Yuan Zhou, changing stance, appearing behind like a crescent moon, blocking the skeletal hand's strike.

"Zuo Yongning?"

Liang Yi's pupils shrunk as he looked at the figure who appeared behind him without him realizing.

How did this old schemer get behind him undetected?

Even without the Domain, to evade a Sword Cultivator's perception and get behind them is outrageous!

Glancing sideways, Liang Yi noticed another Zuo Yongning sitting beside Gongsun Bai'an and others!

"Clone? Or did it emerge from here?"

Liang Yi covertly glanced at the River of Oblivion. Without the suppression of the Disruption Domain, the pitch-black water was still bubbling as if something wanted to emerge but was blocked by the surface.

"Hehehe..."

The tattered gray robe fluttered, Zuo Yongning's voice was raspy under the hood but clearly proud, as he already grasped the ruby.

"Get ready to witness... the Abyssal Inferno!"

Ignoring Liang Yi's sword strike, Zuo Yongning casually tossed the gemstone, formed from Gongsun Bai'an's Origin Essence Blood, into the River of Oblivion.

As the sword passed through Zuo Yongning's body, Liang Yi felt no solid impact, just the fading figure of Zuo Yongning melting like ink back into the River of Oblivion.

"Tch, so it's from the river?"

Liang Yi scoffed, looking seriously at the ruby falling into the River of Oblivion.

"This is bad..."

A cold sweat trickled down Liang Yi's forehead as he swiftly retreated!

Boom—

As if countless bombs exploded beside the ears, an immensely powerful roar resounded through the heavens and earth. Those with lower cultivation, both Mystical Mechanism and Abyss Cultivators, clutched their ears or blocked their hearing.

Having fled thousands of miles in an instant, Liang Yi looked at the River of Oblivion in the sky, stunned.

The River of Oblivion, exploded?

But what erupted weren't the dark waters, but endless Lost Souls!

Souls as far as the eye could see blotted out the sky, screaming wildly!

Like Hell's gate opened, the dead returned to the Mortal World! Countless Lost Souls emerged every moment!

The Lost Souls in the Sea of Lost Souls had phantasmal bodies, a hint of confusion in their eyes, as if they hadn't realized what happened, why they saw light again from the eternal night...

Just one look, and Liang Yi's heart sank.

The Lost Souls' strength was meager, but their numbers were overwhelming, making Liang Yi wonder if Zuo Yongning harvested a world of Lost Souls.

"A whole world?"

Liang Yi was stunned, shocked, a flash of inspiration in his mind.

"Are these souls the Divine Souls of cultivators fallen in battles of the last two epochs?"

He Zhiqing turned pale hearing Liang Yi's guess, unable to fathom the enormous numbers...

When he informed everyone of this, they fell silent.

They were reluctant to believe, but seeing the continuous emergence of Lost Souls, it seemed the only explanation.

"The Lost Souls are cultivators' wandering Divine Souls, without bodies, their power diminishes... this is bad!"

He Zhiqing frowned, gazing at the skyful of wandering souls, pondering Zuo Yongning's intent.

The next second, he understood.

When a Lost Soul in the sky spotted a rune on the chest of an Abyss Cultivator on the ground, it suddenly found direction, turning into an arrow, diving into the body of the cultivator.

As one Lost Soul acted, others followed suit, like rain pouring down upon the Abyss Cultivators and corpses below.

"No way..."

Everyone seemed to realize something, slowly retreating to distance themselves from the Abyss Cultivators, filled with dread.

The Abyss Cultivators possessed by Lost Souls froze, and two breaths later, a faint green light flickered in their eyes, suddenly biting, clutching their heads in agony.

Memories flooded their minds, along with a surge of power, making them feel unlike themselves.

"Don't wait for them to merge successfully, strike first!" At this moment, the players reacted the fastest, recovering their state after watching a bit before seizing the moment to earn Merit by striking down their stiff opponents.

Other Mystical Mechanism Cultivators quickly realized and joined in.

"Wait a minute... wasn't this guy dead? How is he alive again? Damn, his name changed too?"

But during the chaos, a player noticed something was wrong, as several enemy NPCs they'd killed already were alive again, and they'd gained experience from them before.

Upon investigation, the names of the "resurrected" Abyss Cultivators had changed.

"A double soul!" Xu Yi of the Blood Control Sect observed coldly. "When the body dies, one soul perishes, the other takes over."

The Blood Control Sect favored killing and bleeding, sometimes encountering such oddities.

But it's rare, once in hundreds or thousands of years, yet now it's artificially manufactured.

"Then those Lost Souls entering corpses..."

Behind Xu Yi, Liu Rouxin, who had been crazily killing just now and was now panting briefly, changed her expression.

"Will be resurrected anew!"

Xu Yi exhaled slowly, turning back.

Liu Rouxin's hand trembled on her spear, her face stiff as she turned, seeing the path they'd forged, countless Abyss Cultivators stumbling, struggling back to their feet.

"..."

Liu Rouxin wasn't afraid of killing, but this eerie sight stunned her, a rare fear arising in her heart.

Many Mystical Mechanism soldiers witnessed this, their confidence crumbling, morale gradually disintegrating.

How could they continue fighting this way?