360: Melt the demon!

While the Demonic Body Clone was slaughtering these Martial Demon Realm cultivators, Xiao Shi's brain was already operating at high speed.

He constantly pondered methods to deal with the Demonic Body Clone.

Currently, he didn't have many items that could affect a Martial Demon (Saint).

He mainly relied on exclusive items.

However, after the Demonic Body Clone successfully gained control of this special area, these exclusive items had little effect on the Demonic Body Clone.

For example, the exclusive item that could drain a target's power.

Now, when used on the Demonic Body Clone, it would at most only cause a small portion of the Demonic Body Clone's power to be lost.

At the same time, Xiao Shi couldn't let the Evil Energy Users beside him take action.

As the Demonic Body Clone's body was the third-ranked Evil Energy User on the Ten Evils Ranking, the Evil Energy Users around Xiao Shi would absolutely not dare to contend with him.

Even the Crimson Refining Corpse was only fit to be beaten up in front of the Demonic Body Clone.

It was completely unable to contend with him.

After much thought.

Xiao Shi thought of the Martial Emperor Regalia!

Although the Demonic Body Clone also had the right to use Xiao Shi's items.

His right to use items was far inferior to Xiao Shi's.

This was also an advantage Xiao Shi himself possessed.

If the Demonic Body Clone wanted to use his items, he must first obtain his consent.

Xiao Shi had the highest item usage authority.

This point remained unchanged even after the Demonic Body Clone became a demon.

Therefore.

Xiao Shi didn't have to worry at all that the Demonic Body Clone would use his items to deal with him.

Nor did he have to worry that when he used a certain item, the Demonic Body Clone would snatch away the right to use the item.

Now, after taking out the Martial Emperor Belt, Xiao Shi immediately used the Martial Emperor Belt's soul deterrence to suppress the Demonic Body Clone!

Originally, the formation of the Demonic Body Clone was a life form that evolved and differentiated from Xiao Shi's Life Soul.

In order to ensure that he could completely control the Demonic Body Clone, Xiao Shi had already condensed his Life Soul within the Evil Energy User's body when he was in the Martial Soul Realm.

Now, he directly used the Martial Emperor Belt's soul deterrence to intimidate the Demonic Body Clone's soul body, thereby making it difficult for the Demonic Body Clone to disobey his commands!

After all, the Martial Emperor Belt's soul deterrence was effective even against souls with higher cultivation than himself.

Suddenly.

The Demonic Body Clone's body trembled continuously, obeying Xiao Shi's command, and his knees bent further.

The Demonic Body Clone's expression was ferocious, and he struggled desperately.

Red-blooded veins bulged on his forehead.

As his knees bent continuously, just as they were about to touch the ground.

The Demonic Body Clone suddenly raised his head and let out a roar.

Demonic energy surged from his body.

Those ferocious faces formed by demonic energy also roared at the same time.

Boom!!

A huge wave of demonic energy shockwave immediately spread out and exploded from the Demonic Body Clone's body.

Xiao Shi, who was in front of him, was the first to be sent flying by the impact.

Xiao Shi tumbled and flew backward several hundred meters.

More than half of the bones in his body were instantly shattered.

Just the Demonic Body Clone's current demonic energy impact directly severely injured him.

However, with his healing and recovery ability.

Such an injury had little impact on him.

But when he looked up.

He found that the Demonic Body Clone, surrounded and enveloped by numerous demonic energies, had entered a strange and terrifying state at this moment.

The demonic energies swirling around him continuously gathered into his glabella, and he was frantically absorbing these demonic energies.

And with continuous absorption.

The Demonic Body Clone's eyes were gradually filled with these demonic energies, permeated with dense black smoke, and even his soul was surrounded and enveloped by numerous demonic energies.

What made Xiao Shi even more solemn was that while the Demonic Body Clone was absorbing these demonic energies, he actually aggregated all the wills contained within these demonic energies.

Thus forming a terrifyingly powerful will.

When this will was empowered onto the Demonic Body Clone's body.

The suppression that the Demonic Body Clone had previously suffered was immediately lifted.

And under the empowerment of this will, there were now two different wills within the Demonic Body Clone's body.

One was the Demonic Body Clone's own will.

The other will was this aggregated powerful will.

The Demonic Body Clone deliberately made this aggregated powerful will the dominant one.

This rendered Xiao Shi's soul deterrence, formed through the Martial Emperor Belt, ineffective.

Xiao Shi's expression was solemn regarding this.

He could clearly feel... the will now present within the Demonic Body Clone's body was an incomparably terrifying and powerful will.

This will was extremely evil.

It was a powerful demonic thought formed by the aggregation of numerous demonic thoughts.

Previously, when the Demonic Body Clone became a demon, he gathered numerous demonic thoughts from this special area, and each demonic thought contained a will.

However, these wills had not reached the level of a Saint (Demon), so they could not serve as the dominant will within the Demonic Body Clone's body.

Until he aggregated all these wills, thereby directly forming a demon's will!

In an instant.

The demonic energy swirling around the Demonic Body Clone immediately formed a huge face behind him.

This face was that of an old man.

His expression was ferocious, filled with endless killing intent and bloodlust, exuding monstrous malice.

This made Xiao Shi realize... that when the Martial Emperor built this special area, he had evidently also contained a demon's will within this special area.

After the Demonic Body Clone became a demon, he would be able to use this demon's will for himself.

Thus.

The Demonic Body Clone, possessing two different wills, could resolve the Martial Emperor Belt's soul deterrence by switching between wills.

In a critical moment.

Xiao Shi didn't hesitate at all.

He decisively activated an ability within the Martial Emperor Belt that he had never used before—

Forming the emperor soul!!

Because Xiao Shi had always been in the Imperial Domain before.

He was worried that if he formed an emperor soul in the Imperial Domain, it might attract the attention of the Great Wu Crown Prince and others.

Out of caution.

Since he obtained the Martial Emperor Belt, he had never used this ability.

And now that he was no longer within the Imperial Domain.

Xiao Shi naturally no longer had this concern.

In fact, from the moment he took out the Martial Emperor Belt, he had already prepared to use this ability.

He knew.

The Martial Emperor Belt's soul deterrence alone might not be able to subdue the Demonic Body Clone.

For this.

He had long prepared a backup plan.

As a brilliant golden light burst forth from the Martial Emperor Belt.

A phantom figure suddenly materialized in front of Xiao Shi.

This was a giant figure wearing an Emperor's Robe.

The wide golden Emperor's Robe displayed divine majesty, embroidered with nine soaring dragons that seemed to truly exist, sealed upon this robe, flowing like water, exuding nobility.

The golden Emperor's Crown on his head, like a golden scorching sun, formed a huge golden halo behind him.

And what was most eye-catching were the hanging tassels of the Emperor's Crown, twenty-four tassels in total, front and back, each strung with twelve jade beads, obscuring his face while each bead emitted a brilliant glow, making him even more impossible to look at directly.

At the same time, behind him was a golden cloak, with an all-gold base, red flames embroidered on the hem, and a huge black 'Martial' character on the back.

Around his waist was a belt identical to the one Xiao Shi was currently wearing.

On his feet and shoulders were the Martial Emperor War Boots and Martial Emperor Shoulder Armor that Xiao Shi was familiar with.

Only in the current soul form.

They appeared somewhat blurry.

Also, because the emperor soul formed in front of Xiao Shi, Xiao Shi couldn't see the front of the emperor soul at this time.

And at the moment the emperor soul formed.

The world changed color!

The entire special area experienced incredibly violent tremors!

And under these violent tremors.

Crack crack!

The ground beneath Xiao Shi's feet directly split open with a terrifying, deep, huge crack.

Not only that.

An unparalleled and astonishing pressure, even more so, spread out from the emperor soul like a landslide.

The moment he saw the emperor soul.

The huge ferocious face behind the Demonic Body Clone's expression instantly changed drastically.

The malevolence and brutality on his face transformed into an indescribable fear and horror in less than a second.

The entire face was twisted with fright.

That extreme fear... was enough to move all who witnessed it.

So much so that the entire huge face, under this extreme fear, actually showed signs of imminent collapse.

Merely the appearance of the emperor soul... without any attack, had already brought this demon's will to the brink of collapse.

In an instant.

This demon's will directly abandoned its dominance over the Demonic Body Clone.

Scared, it retreated into the Demonic Body Clone's body.

It no longer dared to show its head.

The Demonic Body Clone's will could only reluctantly take over.

And the Demonic Body Clone after taking over was also in a bad situation.

Although the Demonic Body Clone was not as afraid of the emperor soul as the previous will, the oppression brought by the emperor soul, as well as the soul deterrence formed by Xiao Shi through the Martial Emperor Belt, directly caused the Demonic Body Clone to lose its ability to act.

Xiao Shi knew that now was the best time to recall the Demonic Body Clone into his body and merge with himself.

A black martial emperor mask instantly appeared on his face.

He used the martial emperor mask's function to exempt all aura pressure, resolving the terrifying pressure formed by the emperor soul.

He had thought that the pressure emitted by the emperor soul would only affect targets other than himself, but he didn't expect that even he himself would be affected by the emperor soul's pressure.

However, for Xiao Shi, who possessed the martial emperor mask.

Even the terrifying pressure of the emperor soul, he could directly exempt through the martial emperor mask, thereby remaining unaffected.

Whoosh!

Xiao Shi's figure flickered.

He instantly teleported in front of the Demonic Body Clone, under the Demonic Body Clone's angry and unwilling gaze.

He raised his hand and pointed.

He placed his index finger on the Demonic Body Clone's forehead.

Immediately, a vortex appeared on his index finger.

With a whoosh.

He absorbed the Demonic Body Clone into his body, merging with it.

Prior to this.

Xiao Shi had never merged with the Demonic Body Clone; although he had already gained control of the Demonic Body Clone when he entered the Martial Demon Realm, he had always maintained it at the first stage of the Martial Demon Realm.

It was only at this moment... that he officially merged with the Demonic Body Clone.

Typically, Martial Demons merge with their Demonic Body Clone only after the Demonic Body Clone has cultivated to a certain extent.

If one merged with the Demonic Body Clone too early, even if they could successfully enter the second stage of the Martial Demon Realm, their strength would still lag behind other Martial Demons.

However, merging after the Demonic Body Clone became a demon... this was the first time in the endless years of the entire Tianwu Continent!

At the moment he integrated the Demonic Body Clone into his body.

Boom!!

Xiao Shi's body trembled.

He felt as if a vast world had forcefully squeezed into his body, and instantly he had a strong intuition that his body couldn't bear it and was about to be burst open by this world.

Fortunately, his physical body was powerful.

Even if multiple areas of his skin ruptured, his bones shattered, and all his internal organs exploded, his tenacious vitality meant that he would not face a life-or-death crisis.

At the same time, under his powerful recovery and healing.

The injuries he sustained immediately began to heal.

Although they would immediately rupture again upon healing, a delicate balance was maintained.

This allowed him to continuously adapt to and accommodate the vast world that had squeezed into his body.

However, the crisis of integrating the Demonic Body Clone was far more than just accommodating this world.

At the moment he integrated the Demonic Body Clone.

Boom!!

Xiao Shi's killing intent was ignited.

He himself originally possessed a strong killing nature.

After all, since he embarked on the path of a martial artist, he had been constantly killing.

He primarily improved through slaughter.

However, he had always maintained his bottom line.

He would not blindly slaughter indiscriminately for dropped items.

But at this moment, when his killing intent was ignited.

Xiao Shi's eyes were instantly filled with endless murderous thoughts, and an urge to slaughter everything arose in his heart.

If there were others around him at this moment, he would inevitably lose control and kill them.

No matter who the opponent was!

In response to this.

Xiao Shi desperately maintained his rationality, fighting against the ignited killing intent in his heart.

He knew this was the corruption brought by the Demonic Body Clone.

Once he failed to resist this killing intent's corruption, the Demonic Body Clone would regain dominance.

Clearly.

The Demonic Body Clone knew he possessed a strong killing nature.

Therefore, he deliberately used the killing nature as a form of corruption.

As a final counterattack.

At first, Xiao Shi could still continuously contend with it through his own will.

But as the killing nature intensified, and given his own strong killing nature, gradually, his consciousness was lost bit by bit, his mind was filled with endless murderous thoughts, and he only wanted to slaughter everything.

Just as his last shred of rationality was about to be submerged by these murderous thoughts.

Xiao Shi, relying on this last shred of rationality.

Decisively took out an item.

This was an exclusive item, precisely... the era crystal!

Xiao Shi had kept this item before and had not sacrificed it.

Now, the moment he took out the era crystal.

He decisively used it.

And directly through the era crystal, he exchanged for items from the Star Era.

He successfully exchanged for an exclusive item from the Star Era.

In the current situation, he no longer had the time or opportunity to check the relevant information of this exclusive item.

He could only rely on the last thought in his heart.

He decisively used this exclusive item!