438: Chapter 438 Actually, I was just faking it; I can only hold on for five more minutes!

"Cough!"

Jiang You's chest heaved violently as the backlash he had been forcibly suppressing finally broke through his defenses.

His body leaned forward uncontrollably, and he suddenly spat out another mouthful of shocking black blood!

The blood splattered onto the black ink clouds, instantly emitting a sizzling "hiss" sound.

"Jiang You!" The Fourth Princess's tears instantly fell as she gripped his arm tightly, her fingertips turning white from the force.

Jiang You did not wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.

He slowly straightened his waist, lifted his slender, pale right hand, and held up five long fingers in front of The Fourth Princess's tear-stained face.

"Fine."

Jiang You took a deep breath of the cold, blood-scented air, his voice hoarse yet filled with an unquestionable determination:

"I really can't hold on much longer."

He turned his head, his deep blue eyes locked firmly onto Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan in the distance, and said to The Fourth Princess beside him, enunciating every word:

"I can still hold on for five minutes."

"Let's join forces. Within these five minutes, we will kill him together!"

There was no unnecessary chatter, no bravado to save face.

This was the absolute rationality belonging to the cold version of Jiang You!

Assess the situation, weigh the pros and cons, then rally every available combat force to scatter the enemy's ashes before he himself collapsed!

The Fourth Princess looked at the man before her, covered in blood yet still terrifyingly calm.

She did not ask "why," nor did she ask "what if we can't kill him in five minutes."

At this moment, The Fourth Princess put away all her weakness.

She wiped away her tears indiscriminately and nodded vigorously, her crisp voice filled with a determination to face death without fear:

"Yeah!"

A hundred zhang away, Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan, who was slumped on the ground, heard their conversation clearly.

When he heard Jiang You's words, "Must kill him," the fear and despair in Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's eyes, under the immense pressure of life and death, rebounded like a spring hitting bottom, completely twisting into a hysterical madness.

He understood that begging for mercy was useless, and there was no way to escape.

This mad dog surnamed Jiang would absolutely drag him down to hell together, even if he had to vomit up all his internal organs today!

"Hehe... Hahahaha!"

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan laughed like a lunatic, his tears mixing with cold sweat as they streamed down his face.

He propped himself up with one hand and staggered to his feet, his face full of fat covered in hideous, blue-purple demonic veins.

"Jiang You!" Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan let out a roar like a trapped beast at Jiang You, pointing his remaining left hand toward the heavens:

"Since you are acting so ruthlessly, refusing to leave even a path to survival!"

"Then today, only one of us will be able to crawl out of this pitch-black hellhole alive!"

"Demonic Soul Transformation, Activate!!!"

Accompanied by a roar that did not sound human, Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan slammed his remaining left hand onto his own chest.

"Boom!"

Dark green demonic energy, ten times more violent than before, erupted from his body like an inverted waterfall, soaring into the sky!

Under the impact of this demonic energy that was recklessly overdrawing his source, the entire Boundless Ink Realm emitted a groaning sound of being unable to bear the load, and fine cracks began to appear on the spatial barriers.

Immediately after, a scene that made The Fourth Princess's scalp tingle appeared.

The three Tier 6 Demonic Soul Puppets that had just self-destructed to shatter the space were now, strangely, "resurrecting" within the churning demonic energy in front of Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan!

No, that could not be called resurrection.

The two Longwu Secret Guards commanders had bodies that appeared in a semi-transparent, ghostly state.

And the original New Emperor Jiang Hantian, because he had controlled a portion of Great Zhou's national destiny during his lifetime, had his soul form directly transform into a dark red demonic dragon, ten zhang long, exuding an aura that mingled decay with imperial power!

These were their souls!

Tier 6 souls that had been forcibly detained by demonic arts, unable to find release even through self-destruction!

"Come... all of you, come to me!"

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's jawbone let out a teeth-grinding dislocation sound, and his mouth tore open to an unnatural, exaggerated degree, transforming into a bottomless black hole.

The two remnant souls of the secret guards and the national destiny demonic dragon representing New Emperor Jiang Hantian's will let out a shrill, silent wail, turning into three streaks of light that were swallowed whole by Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan in one gulp!

"Gulp."

The moment he swallowed the three Tier 6 remnant souls, Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's already obese body, like a fully inflated hot air balloon, grew a size larger amidst a hair-raising series of bone-cracking sounds.

The veins all over his body bulged, and the dark green demonic energy condensed on the surface of his Skin into a materialized set of demon armor.

"Boom!!!"

A terrifying pressure that seemed to crush the world swept out from within Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's body like a landslide.

This aura had completely and utterly surpassed the limit of the Tier 6 peak!

The surrounding space fragments began to peel off in large areas, and that pressure was faintly threatening to break through the barrier, forcing a breakthrough toward that elusive Tier 7 realm!

"He is forcing a rank-up!" The Fourth Princess exclaimed, her pretty face turning pale.

However, facing this super Boss that was charging up an ultimate move, would Jiang You stand there like those brainless villains and wait for him to finish?

Of course not!

I only have five minutes of life left, and you dare to charge up in front of me?

"Eye of Tianshu! Stellar Body!"

Murderous intent flashed in Jiang You's eyes.

Without any nonsense, he took a step, shattering the ink clouds beneath his feet. In his deep eyes, azure streamers spun frantically, instantly locking onto the core and weakest node of the demonic energy circulation within Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's body.

Immediately after, he raised his completely etherealized Stellar Body right arm high.

Endless starlight collapsed and compressed in his palm, transforming into a miniature black hole radiating the light of death and annihilation.

"Die!"

Jiang You flipped his wrist, and the stellar death light, containing pure destructive power and coordinated with the absolute truth-breaking lock of the Eye of Tianshu, transformed into a beam of intertwined azure and silver light that pierced through the heavens and earth, blasting straight toward the face of Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan, who was in the middle of a forced breakthrough!

The killing blow was imminent. Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan, who was frantically digesting the remnant souls, couldn't even manage a dodging maneuver.

"Roar!" The Demonic Soul Puppet Xue Yin, who had been guarding on the side, moved!

This Tier 6 late-stage puppet, which had been completely enslaved, made the most tragic protective response in an instant.

His body exploded with a "bang," and all his essence blood and bones transformed into a thick cloud of blood that blotted out the sky!

This cloud of blood compressed and condensed frantically in front of Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan, actually forming a huge blood shield several zhang thick, imprinted with countless wailing ghost faces!

He attempted to use his entire life as a Tier 6 late-stage puppet to help his master block this fatal blow, forcibly delaying these last few seconds of breakthrough time!

"There's actually a chance..." Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's eyes were filled with wild joy; if he only had ten more seconds, he might really be able to break through to Tier 7!

However, he miscalculated one thing. Standing here today wanting his life was not just Jiang You, but also the only awakened user of an Innate Divine Ability from the Great Zhou royal family!

"In your dreams!"

The Fourth Princess, who had been standing beside Jiang You, shot out unprecedented sharpness from her beautiful eyes.

The Fourth Princess rapidly formed hand seals in front of her chest, spat out a mouthful of source essence blood, and the spiritual energy within her body boiled completely.