804: Soul banished!

"Great Sun Star Crusher!" Yao Delong let out a long cry that could pierce gold and crack stone!

At this moment, his right fist condensed an unimaginable and terrifying power! The space around his fist was not just shattered; it was crushed by pure force until it collapsed and was annihilated, forming a small black void!

A beam of pale gold fist light, condensed to the extreme and as scorching as a stellar core, struck like a world-ending meteor cutting through eternal night. Carrying an indomitable will to crush everything, it slammed ruthlessly into the center of Nine Infant's toughest metal head, which was shining with a blinding golden glow!

Bang! Crack! Rumble!

That metal head, larger than a hill and as hard as a top-tier Spirit Treasure, actually... exploded on the spot under Yao Delong's pure punch! It shattered into countless giant fragments burning with golden flames, which shot out in all directions like a destructive rain of metal fire, knocking over the beast tide below!

"Aowuuuu—!" Nine Infant Chen let out a shrill, miserable howl that pierced his very Soul! His remaining eight heads twisted frantically! Intense pain and horror washed over his entire body like ice water!

However!

The regeneration ability of the Nine Infant race was indeed peerless!

At the wound on the severed neck, countless pieces of flesh writhed frantically, and dark gold demonic blood, thick as mercury paste (containing his lifeblood essence), gushed out! Dense light from the Law of Metal shone! Amidst the tooth-aching sound of bone growth... a new golden head, shining with a dark gold luster and looking slightly immature but no less ferocious, grew back out!

"Hiss..." On the city walls, the Human Race Cultivators who saw this scene all sucked in a breath of cold air! Too terrifying! He could regenerate instantly even after his head was blown apart?

Yet!

The stormy waves churning in Nine Infant Chen's heart were far more violent than what outsiders could see!

His eyes were filled with unbelievable horror!

Why?!

Why was this Human Race kid's Physical Body so powerful? He could actually blow up his golden head, which was famous for its defense, in a head-on collision?!

Why could he completely ignore the disruption of Laws caused by "All Things Return to the Void"?!

And those three divine wheels spinning frantically behind him... they could actually devour his Demonic Power and pressure? What on earth were those things?! They were practically perpetual motion machines born for combat!

What made his heart turn even colder... was that punch just now! Although the head had regenerated... but! It had consumed the lifeblood Demon King essence he had accumulated for hundreds of years! That was his foundation for breaking through to the Demon Emperor Realm! Regenerating one head was equivalent to burning a century of his bitter cultivation's essence!

If he let this guy blow up his head a dozen more times... even without the boy doing anything else, his demonic source would suffer irreversible damage due to the depletion of essence! He might even drop in Realm on the spot!

Fear! Anger! And a hint of humiliation at being driven to a dead end by a low-level Cultivator! These feelings grew wildly in Nine Infant Chen's heart, completely igniting his madness!

"Yao Delong!" His remaining eight heads let out a Soul-tearing roar simultaneously! The sound waves were so strong the sky trembled! "Good! You are very good!"

"Now... die!"

The next moment!

On Nine Infant Chen's remaining nine heads, including the new golden one, the eighteen vertical pupils of various colors—each containing the destructive power of a different attribute—simultaneously erupted with an unprecedented, terrifying light!

Golden glow! Emerald light! Eerie blue! Scarlet flame! Muddy yellow! Green wind! Purple lightning! Ghastly green! Deep darkness!

Eighteen beams of light, condensed to the extreme and containing the tribulation power of nine different Laws, instantly wove into a terrifying giant net that covered the heavens and earth! It locked onto Yao Delong firmly!

Nine Abyss Gaze: Divine Soul Banishment!

The strongest forbidden secret technique targeting the Primordial Spirit currently mastered by the Nine Infant lineage!

With all eighteen eyes open, the Divine Soul of the one being gazed upon would be forcibly dragged into a nine-fold illusion constructed by the caster! Each layer of the illusion corresponded to the ultimate tribulation of an attribute! One would need to rely on absolute will and strength to break through nine Realms in succession to escape! Otherwise... the Divine Soul would sink for eternity, becoming a Soul slave of the Nine Infant!

Buzz!

Yao Delong felt his vision suddenly go black! Those eighteen beams filled with an aura of destruction seemed to turn into eighteen chains binding his Soul! An irresistible and terrifying suction force came from the void in all directions!

His consciousness and Divine Soul were uncontrollably stripped from his Physical Body and violently dragged into a deep, alien space filled with the aura of endless tribulation and destruction!

The Nine Layers of Purgatory... had descended!

However, standing in this place of Soul banishment, Yao Delong did not have the slightest hint of panic on his face. Instead, he showed a trace of... mocking calmness.

"A Divine Soul attack? Nine Infant Chen, is this all you've got?" Yao Delong's Divine Soul projection stood tall and proud in the distorted purgatory space, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly with an indifference that looked down on ants.

If a normal Cultivator were dragged into these nine layers of refining desires and faced the Soul-piercing spears, Soul-freezing ice, spirit-burning flames, heart-corroding poisonous swamps, and the void of annihilation... a series of terrifying illusion tribulations enough to make even a Void Refining Peak expert collapse, they would have likely suffered a Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering long ago.

But was Yao Delong's Primordial Spirit an ordinary thing?

Buzz!

Deep within the eyes of the Divine Soul projection, two points of light suddenly lit up—brighter than stars and sharper than sword edges! The shadow of the Heart Sword appeared!

This was precisely the supreme secret technique from the Void Refining chapter of the "Heart Sword Voidless Scripture" he practiced—Illuminating the Falsehood!

Once the Heart Sword appears, all Laws become void! Where the heart's light shines, all evils are dispelled!

Those overlapping, terrifying purgatory illusions capable of grinding down a Primordial Spirit thousands of times over, the moment the Heart Sword's light swept past, were like a fragile mirror hit by a stone!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The spears shattered! The ice melted! The flames were extinguished! The poisonous swamps dried up! The annihilation receded!

Layer after layer of meticulously constructed illusions, containing the power of Nine Infant Chen's lifeblood demon soul, were like bubbles under the sun before the great power of the Heart Sword that could pierce through all falsehoods. They broke apart one after another, turning into the most primitive Soul Power fragments, which were then instinctively devoured and absorbed by Yao Delong's powerful Primordial Spirit!

Outside, on the battlefield.

Nine Infant Chen's newly grown metal head was held high, and on the other eight heads, hideous mouths curled into incredibly smug and cruel smiles. His massive demonic body was coiled in front of Yao Delong's "dazed" Physical Body. In the center of the nine heads, a terrifying energy orb, formed by the compression and entanglement of nine types of Law power, was frantically gathering!

The light orb grew larger and larger, emitting an aura of destruction. Space collapsed at its core, and even light could not escape!

"Hahaha! Yao Delong! No matter how peerless your Physical Body is, your Primordial Spirit is ultimately food for my Yao Race! Be reduced to ashes!" Nine Infant Chen let out a sky-shaking mad laugh. His nine heads lunged forward, and the destruction orb, powerful enough to wipe out more than half of Bhikkhu City, instantly locked onto Yao Delong's Physical Body and was about to fire!

"Delong!!!" In the distance, Ji Yanshuang, who was being suppressed by Nine Infant Ke's storm-like attacks, felt her eyes nearly burst!

She had already recalled all her Clones. The Star Incinerating Divine Sword danced like a rainbow, and the flames around her body had reached their peak. She even went as far as burning her lifeblood essence to trigger a forbidden secret technique just to barely hold on under Nine Infant Ke's fierce offensive, which was comparable to the Late Void Refining Stage. Seeing Yao Delong in a desperate situation now, her mind was shaken, and a flaw instantly appeared in her defense!