Within the Hall of Ten Thousand Souls, time seemed pulled and twisted by an invisible force. Xu Zhan's resolute figure pressed closely with the Soul-Controlling Jade. The reversed demonic Yuan within his body, his burning soul, and the abundant demonic energy origin nurtured by the demonic entity for a hundred years, like a breaking dam's flood,regardless of cost, heedless of consequences, frantically poured into the Soul-Controlling Jade's most core restriction nodes.
This was not scattered explosive destruction but the most extreme energy focusing and soul annihilation. All destructive force was forcibly constrained and compressed by Xu Zhan's tough-to-the-point-of-heartbreaking will, precisely striking the key structure maintaining the Soul-Controlling Jade's operation, imprisoning countless souls, connecting the demonic entity fragment.
The Soul-Controlling Jade's originally deep as abyss, seemingly able to devour all light pitch-black jade body, interior as if having burning branding irons thrown into it, let outthunder-like rumble. The fine white cracks on the jade's surface, just appearing from Xu Zhan's impact,as if injected with life,abruptly expanded and deepened. Crack edges flickered with unstable energy arcs, making buzzing ears-piercing sounds.
"Ugh ah ah."
The demonic entity fragment let out a mournful cry turned to an altered tone. That fuzzy black shadow inhabiting the jade tablet, as if having grease thrown into flames, violently tumbled, distorted, evaporated. The black shadow visibly became fainter and more translucent. Its cold pressure and controlling thoughtdissipated and rapidly declined like an avalanche.
Xu Zhan's self-destructive impact was the most direct, most tragic destruction attacking the Soul-Controlling Jade's foundations from the inside. This shook the demonic entity fragment's existence foundation.
However, the Soul-Controlling Jade was after all a supreme treasure refined by the demonic entity with painstaking effort, also connected to the Hall of Ten Thousand Souls' blood pool and underground demonic energy. Its toughness exceeded imagination. Though the internal structure suffered serious damage and cracks spread everywhere, black light was chaotic, it still did not immediately shatter. That powerful imprisonment force still struggled, attempting to repair and suppress the destructive energy Xu Zhan poured in.
Just at this moment of fierce confrontation between internal and external forces, with the Soul-Controlling Jade at the brink of shattering yet still stubbornly resisting.
Tang Xiaoqi arrived.
He held that jade pendant on the brink of destruction, burning with final light. Like fulfilling a final pact with his father, he poured all desperation and hope, fiercely pressed it onto the densest center point of cracks on the Soul-Controlling Jade's surface where energy conflict was most intense.
"Four Symbols rotate, purification returns to origin. Break for me."
Hum.
The Four Symbols Jade Pendant let out its ultimate limit mournful cry. Green, white, crimson, black four light flows condensed to the extreme, containing the origin dao of the four poles of heaven and earth, were no longer gentle nourishment and protection but transformed into the mostthe domineering destruction power. Like four keys condensed from dao, they precisely inserted into nodes on the Soul-Controlling Jade's interior that had become fragile and vulnerable from Xu Zhan's impact.
Azure Dragon Wood, decomposing material structure.
White Tiger Metal, severing spiritual seals.
Vermillion Bird Fire, burning all yin and demonic energy.
Black Tortoise Earth, suppressing energy backlash.
Following closely, Xiaoqi's pure purification origin, like silent tide, flowed over the Four Symbols force's "passages," penetrating every inch of the Soul-Controlling Jade's "flesh and skin," neutralizing and purifying the resentment, demonic energy, and soul remnants accumulateddid not know how many years.
Combined attack from inside and outside.
Xu Zhan's self-destructing Golden Core and demonic energy origin conducting destructive blasting from the inside.
Xiaoqi urging Four Symbols force and purification origin launching dao-level disintegration and purification from outside.
These two forces, one inside one outside, one violent one precise, one destructive one purifying, yet at this moment formed acruel yet perfect complement and superposition.
"Crackle. Crackle crackle."
The shattering sound transmitted from within the Soul-Controlling Jade instantly became dense like a violent rainstorm. Those originally only expanding white cracks now like possessing life, wildly extending, intersecting, deepening. Cracks were no longer simply white. Edges began to emit the green, white, crimson, black four-colored light halo eroded by Four Symbols force, and wisps of black smoke neutralized by purification origin precipitating out.
The jade tablet trembled violently. The amplitude was so great it seemed it would explode in midair at the next moment. Its emitted black light had completely lost stability. Like a poorly contacted lamp wildly flickering and intermittent, that powerful spiritual fluctuation was being choked, giving offintermittent filled with pain and fear shrieking, rapidly weakening.
"No. No."
The demonic entity fragment's cry had brought despairing wailing tone. Its black shadow was faint to almost transparency, like a candle flame in the wind,could extinguish at any moment. It could clearly feel that its connection with the Soul-Controlling Jade was being forcibly severed. Its strand of soul fragment that was the foundation for this fragment's existence was crumbling.
"This Lord's Soul-Controlling Jade. How could it. Ah."
Within its final full of unwillingness andan unbelievable lament, the intersecting cracks on the Soul-Controlling Jade's surface finally reached the limit of what they could bear.
Accompanied by a sound like glass shattering, clear yetchilling.
Clang.
The Soul-Controlling Jade, that had imprisoned Xu Zhan's soul for a hundred years, controlled countless living beings, served as the demonic entity's important piece on the board, this demonic supreme treasure, under the inside-outside cooperation of father and son Xiaoqi paying with life and soul, could no longer maintain its form. Above the altar, it violently exploded.
Countless fragments, mixed with scattered demonic energy, purified soul light, and Four Symbols force's residual glow, likemournful yet beautiful fireworks burst outward toward all directions.
The invisible shackles imprisoning Xu Zhan's soul, at this moment, thoroughly broke.
The demonic entity fragment let out a final, full of hateful shrieking. That faint black shadow, like blue smoke, thoroughly dissipated into nothing within the Soul-Controlling Jade's shattered impact wave.
Success.
The Soul-Controlling Jade shattered.
However, the cost paid was also extremely heavy. Xu Zhan's figure, within the Soul-Controlling Jade's shattered light, like burned-out ashes, slowly dissipated. Only a faint like star-fire soul light,the faint soul light that could extinguish at any moment, drifted toward where unconscious Tang Xiaoqi lay. And Xiaoqi, the instant the jade pendant thoroughly shattered and energy backlash hit his body, had also lost all consciousness. Blood spurted profusely as he fell backward.
Within the Hall of Ten Thousand Souls, only shattered treasure fragments floated down, and the blood pool still churning below,an unsettling gurgling sound.