172: Chapter 172 The Bride's Self-Destruction

A Xie followed up with a Spirit Ability.

As she waved her right hand.

A palm that blotted out the sky appeared.

The palm carried the power of spatial cutting and evil erosion.

Wherever it passed, ripples appeared, and space became distorted.

Evil God Claw!

This was A Xie's strongest Spirit Ability currently.

It was an existence that ignored physical defense.

When the palm struck down, a storm of power emerged with it.

The shockwaves formed a blast of air that swept up the surrounding buildings, tearing them apart in mid-air.

People from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy felt the impact of the Soul Power immediately.

Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin rushed toward this side.

The storm caused by the explosion had dissipated, and Bai Baoshan's obese body fell from a height.

He was severely injured, vomiting blood.

His eyes were filled with shock and terror.

The attacks of two Spirit Kings were actually stronger than a Spirit Douluo.

One of them even ignored his defense.

It rendered his proud defense useless.

Bai Baoshan's body landed heavily on the ground.

The location was precisely between the funeral procession and the wedding procession.

Of the two processions, only one coffin and one bridal sedan chair remained.

At this moment, the coffin opened, and a stream of Death Qi drifted out from within; simultaneously, the curtain of the red sedan chair was pulled back, and a bride appeared, bringing an eerie sense of celebration.

Inside the coffin was a young man dressed in blue burial clothes, wearing a black hat on his head; his face looked as if it had been soaked in water, terrifyingly pale, with eerie green light flickering in his eyes.

The bride in the red sedan chair wore a wedding dress washed until it had faded to white; as she emerged, her head was slightly lowered, and her long hair was almost stuck to her paper-pale cheeks, making it impossible to see her true features, only revealing a patch of skin so white it didn't look human.

The red rouge on her lips was like a fresh, undried bloodstain, extremely eye-catching.

Her ten fingers were a grayish-blue, with very long black nails.

Standing there, one could feel a faint scent of decay radiating from her.

When Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin arrived, they happened to see the bride and the youth pouncing toward Bai Baoshan together.

Both of their faces were hideous, and they let out eerie, ear-piercing screeches from their mouths.

They grabbed Bai Baoshan simultaneously; the bride, as if having completed some mission, used that pale, bloodless face to squeeze out a barely visible smile.

The youth stroked Bai Baoshan with his pitch-black nails, revealing a look of satisfied hideousness.

Bai Baoshan's eyes widened to their limit, wanting to do something, but the injuries on his body made him unable to circulate his Soul Power normally.

At the same time, a sense of unknown fear arose in his heart.

The next moment.

The youth and the bride exploded simultaneously, their bodies decomposing in an instant.

The bride's explosion summoned Yin thunder, bombarding a radius of a hundred meters; a large number of buildings were destroyed in an instant, and some academy teachers who arrived were forced back by this Yin thunder, with no one daring to approach.

The evil power produced by the youth corroded everything it touched in the surroundings.

Bai Baoshan was carried away by this power, his body disappearing without a trace; he didn't even have time to let out a scream.

The Yin thunder and evil power dissipated, and the surroundings fell into silence in an instant, leaving only the smell of scorched earth everywhere, along with blood suddenly falling from the sky; drops of rain landed on the Royal Academy, quickly staining the surroundings red, causing a bloody scent to emerge from the ground.

"No!"

Meng Shenji's eyes widened, and Zhi Lin also felt his heart tighten.

They were one step too late; their old friend of many years had died right before their eyes!

The rain of blood before them made them feel a sense of desolation and grief.

"It's you!"

Meng Shenji looked at Su Wen and A Xie, and Zhi Lin also discovered the two.

"Holy Son of Spirit Hall."

Zhi Lin clenched his fists tightly; there was no need to guess why the Holy Son of Spirit Hall had come to kill Bai Baoshan.

He rushed up, intending to avenge Bai Baoshan; blinded by rage, he no longer cared about the other party's status.

He only knew that Bai Baoshan was his close friend of many years.

"Zhi Lin!"

Meng Shenji was still rational and timely reached out to grab Zhi Lin, stopping his impulsive behavior.

"Holy Son of Spirit Hall, this is the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. By killing an Education Commissioner of the academy, do you have any regard for the Heaven Dou Empire?"

"So what if I know? My Spirit Hall is cleaning up its own people, and the Heaven Dou Empire has no say in that. As for the damage around here, I will compensate for it myself..."

Su Wen looked around; the commotion was indeed a bit too large, and he estimated that the Heaven Dou Spirit Master Legion would arrive in a while.

But to kill a Spirit Douluo without relying on a Titled Douluo, it was impossible to do so without making a scene.

"You're courting death!"

Zhi Lin was completely enraged; after killing Bai Baoshan, he still dared to be so disrespectful to them.

Regardless of anything else, they were Spirit Douluos; without the Spirit Hall, what would a Saint like him even count for?

"Brat, I will make you die. I'll take the blame for killing the Holy Son of Spirit Hall myself!"

"Let the Spirit Hall hunt me down, but before that, you will absolutely not be able to leave this place. I will make you die before me."

Zhi Lin broke free from Meng Shenji's hand and immediately rushed up.

Meng Shenji sighed.

He tacitly approved of Zhi Lin's actions.

In the future, it would be nothing more than living a life on the run.

"Third Soul Skill, Azure Binding!"

Eight spirit rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, purple, purple, black, and black—rose one after another beneath Zhi Lin's feet.

The moment the third spirit ring spun, his Azure Vine Spirit grew rapidly.

In just a single breath, the surroundings were plunged into a green scene, overgrown with vines that looked like emeralds.

While dodging backward, A Xie continuously waved her hands.

The vines that were Binding over were all slashed apart by beast claws.

"Evil God Lightning!"

In front of A Xie, gray light gathered rapidly, finally condensing into a spherical shape.

The sphere flew forward, and when it reached a certain distance, it suddenly exploded.

A powerful force impacted the surroundings.

The three attributes of wind, lightning, and evil appeared mixed together.

A tornado blew wildly, and even the breeze blowing over transformed into wind blades.

They densely cut toward Zhi Lin!

Evil power shrouded the surroundings, blocking all of the opponent's paths of retreat.

Lightning descended, bombarding Zhi Lin crazily.

"Martial Soul True Body!"

Zhi Lin transformed into a vine, and the emerald green plant covered the surroundings, contending against the lightning indiscriminately.

The power of lightning bombarded wantonly, setting all the vines ablaze in just a moment.

The evil power of erosion caused the vines to constantly rot.

The cutting of the wind blades left one wound after another on Zhi Lin's body.

"How is this possible!"

Meng Shenji was stunned; this woman's Spirit Ability was actually directly threatening a Spirit Douluo.

"Wait... her spirit ring configuration... it's actually one yellow, one purple, and three black!"

Only then did Meng Shenji notice A Xie's five spirit rings.

These spirit rings surpassed those of ordinary people, and Meng Shenji even rubbed his eyes.

"How could there be such spirit rings!"

After the shock, Meng Shenji acted decisively, lighting up his seventh spirit ring, Martial Soul True Body.

The opponent having a spirit ring configuration that surpassed the norm already indicated that her strength far exceeded that of a Spirit King.

"Eternal Night Deep Sleep!"

Meng Shenji attacked Su Wen directly; to capture the bandits, one must capture the ringleader first.

If he took down Su Wen, even if reinforcements from the Spirit Hall arrived, he would have won.