Published: December 26, 2024
Boom! Qin Chen and Shangguan Xi'er collided, both being knocked back.
However, upon closer inspection, Shangguan Xi'er had blood bursting from her body, groaning, with blood at the corner of her mouth, while Qin Chen merely grunted and retreated a shorter distance than Shangguan Xi'er.
Although this advantage could be considered negligible, it indicated that Qin Chen's strength was indeed superior to Shangguan Xi'er's, even if only by a slight margin.
Shangguan Xi'er's face was extremely ugly; no matter how she calculated, she never expected this scene today.
Moreover, the fact that Shangguan Gufeng was in Qin Chen's hands was something she absolutely could not tolerate.
“Qin Chen, do you think that just because you have captured Shangguan Gufeng, everything is fine?”
“I don’t know what methods you used, but it’s useless. Shangguan Gufeng is a member of my Shangguan family; her life and death have always been in my hands.”
Shangguan Xi'er cut open her palm, and immediately a drop of black blood flowed out. This black blood suspended in mid-air, quickly transforming into an evil rune, and an invisible force spread out.
“Bloodline curse?”
Qin Chen was startled.
Buzz! An invisible power descended, this force coming from the void beyond comprehension, and no one knew where it came from or where it would go. Even the Qian Kun Transformation Jade Plate could not stop it, as it rushed into Shangguan Gufeng’s body in an instant.
“Bloodline curse? Shangguan Xi'er, you are ruthless!”
Pfft! Inside the Qian Kun Transformation Jade Plate, a look of terror appeared on Shangguan Gufeng’s face, and in the next moment, her body exploded; her soul extinguished, vanishing into nothingness.
She was dead.
Within Qin Chen's Qian Kun Transformation Jade Plate, she was directly killed by Shangguan Xi'er.
“Shangguan Xi'er, you are truly ruthless, killing even your own aunt. Is there no humanity left in you?”
Qin Chen coldly stared at Shangguan Xi'er. This woman was too vicious; she even killed her closest relatives. If he hadn't struck down Shangguan Xi'er, she would have had no mother and would have been raised by Shangguan Gufeng since childhood. One could say that Shangguan Gufeng was like her second mother, yet as soon as she felt threatened, she showed no hesitation in killing her.
Such cruel methods—could a human even do this?
This was simply beastly.
No, it was even worse than a beast.
“Hehe, so what if I did?”
Shangguan Xi'er wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and narrowed her eyes. “I never expected that three hundred years later, you would reach this point.
But in the end, the one who will win can only be me.”
Pfft! She slapped her forehead, and suddenly a crack opened in her forehead.
A pitch-black eye emerged from her forehead, containing the deepest evil in the world.
“Demon Soul Eye?”
Lao Yuan was taken aback, and the Devouring Demon Lord also showed surprise.
This eye was actually refined from the essence of a parasitic seed, and according to what Shangguan Xi'er said earlier, the seed that was refined into this evil eye was clearly a golden parasitic seed.
Qin Chen refined the parasitic seed into a clone, while Shangguan Xi'er, after devouring the power of the parasitic seed, refined it into a secondary eye for herself.
As soon as this eye emerged, Qin Chen immediately felt a strong sense of danger.
In the next moment, countless black threads shot out from Shangguan Xi'er's forehead. The black threads moved like lightning, completely enveloping the surrounding space in the blink of an eye.
These threads seemed to possess a soul of their own, chillingly staring at Qin Chen, instilling a strong sense of unease in him.
Qin Chen was startled. Before these black threads could actively attack, he directly activated the Qing Lian Demon Fire and the You Kong Ice Flame to burn the black threads. The black threads immediately emitted sizzling burning sounds, yet they remained unscathed.
“Demon Soul Threads!”
The Devouring Demon Lord gasped. Refining the parasitic seed into the Demon Soul Eye was a method rarely heard of even in the Demon Tribe's mainland, yet Shangguan Xi'er possessed such a means.