The Heartfiend Lord's Final Gambit: Soul Obliteration Unleashed

The shuddering sensation in his heart made the Lord of All Demons dare not be careless. On the surface, he was arrogant and wild, but when the arrow arrived, he was still extremely cautious.

"Hmph." The Lord of All Demons let out a cold snort. His entire divine body began to transform into countless flowing streams of water, as if his body were coalesced from innumerable droplets.

Pfft!

The arrow shot towards the Lord of All Demons in an instant. The Lord of All Demons offered no resistance, allowing the arrow to pierce right through his body. The flowing water currents surged; the arrow easily penetrated them, then emerged from his back and flew far into the distance.

Drawing a sword to cut water only makes it flow more; an arrow piercing water leaves no trace.

"Shhhhhh…" But the Lord of All Demons' face changed dramatically instead. A look of terror appeared on his face. The area where the arrow had pierced his chest was being frantically corroded, the original droplets of water vanishing into nothingness one by one.

"Impossible, impossible." The Lord of All Demons revealed a horrified expression. "My Whirlpool River has reached grand mastery. I have an undying body. It's impossible, impossible to injure me."

The mighty experts of the Seamless Gate were also filled with panic.

But the Nuwa Camp, Ji Ning, Daolord Three Purities, and the others all showed looks of joy.

None of them understood, however, not even Ji Ning. After all, although World God Northrest had imparted some general knowledge, there was still much that Ji Ning did not know.

...

"Is that... Soul Obliteration?" Watching from afar, the Great Demon God Cixiu and the Blade God, the one-armed Blade God murmured to himself, "Soul Obliteration?"

"What? Soul Obliteration?" The Great Demon God Cixiu beside him was startled and sent a mental message, asking repeatedly, "What is Soul Obliteration?"

"Soul Obliteration is a peculiar offensive technique among the mysterious 'Heartforce Cultivators'," the one-armed Blade God sent back. "They can fuse their divine power and heartforce, then attack... Their divine power will mutually erode the enemy's divine power, like a battle of attrition. The Heartforce Cultivator consumes their own divine power, while the enemy also consumes divine power, and at an even greater rate."

"This is a method of 'killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of your own,' an extremely fearsome technique," the Blade God sent mentally. "Once a Heartforce Cultivator employs such a method, they are virtually invincible among Elder Gods and Ancestral Immortals. But at the same time, after killing their enemy, they themselves will be heavily injured and have little combat strength left. They would not normally use such a method unless truly pushed to a dead end. Furthermore, among Heartforce Cultivators, those who know this technique are relatively rare."

"Oh?" The Great Demon God Cixiu listened, shocked.

Although he was an adventurer, he only took risks in relatively familiar territories. The 'Blade God,' however, was wilder at heart and crazier, having ventured to far more dangerous places and knowing far more.

"This Lord of All Demons is finished." The Blade God looked at the terrified Lord of All Demons in the distance. "He's actually run into such a terrifying Heartforce Cultivator, and this Heartforce Cultivator is willing to pay any price to kill him."

"According to what you said, after killing the Lord of All Demons, that Houyi... is probably done for too, right?" The Great Demon God Cixiu revealed a smile. "That means I still have a chance."

"This Houyi... he must have obtained the methods of a Heartforce Cultivator," the Blade God said, looking at the distant Houyi. "I find it hard to believe that he could have comprehended such a technique on his own."

The methods for utilizing heartforce are countless.

At the same Fifth Layer of Heartforce... some are merely average in threat level.

But some 'Heartforce Cultivators' are enough to terrify countless Elder Gods and Ancestral Immortals. Houyi's 'Soul Obliteration' secret art was precisely the kind of technique that made Elder Gods and Ancestral Immortals tremble in fear.

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"It's working." Seeing that the Lord of All Demons was injured, the killing intent in Houyi's eyes grew even heavier. "I thought you were strong enough to ignore my arrows."

Hum.

Houyi quickly drew his bow and shot another arrow.

Swish!

Like lightning, a black arrow shot out once more.

Hum! Without pausing, Houyi took out another arrow and drew his bow again.

Arrows were shot out one after another, all streaking across the void, forming a dazzling, terrifying rainbow of light that seemed to march in formation. This was a bizarre secret art he had comprehended during the endless years of chopping trees on Mount Innerheart. Once activated, it consumed a tremendous amount of divine power. But now, paying no heed to his own state, he frantically shot arrows.

In a single breath, he shot nine arrows.

All nine arrows transformed into rainbows of light in the void, charging towards the Lord of All Demons. Houyi's limit was controlling nine arrows simultaneously.

"No, no..." Seeing the massive rainbows of light coming one after another in the distant void, the Lord of All Demons was terrified.

One arrow had already injured him that badly; if all nine of these arrows hit him, would he have any life left?

The arrows were too fast.

Even the Lord of All Demons' speed couldn't match the arrows, let alone his.

"I will not die. I will not."

A frenzied look appeared in the Lord of All Demons' eyes.

Whoosh.

The Lord of All Demons, suspended in midair, suddenly split apart, instantly transforming into over a hundred copies of himself, frantically fleeing in all directions.

Pfft! One of the rainbow lights shot through one of the copies. Although its power was slightly diminished after passing through, it still attacked the other copies. The first 'Lord of All Demons' that had been struck, however, simply sizzled and vanished.

The nine rainbows of light were all extremely fast, flying through the void, shooting at one copy of the Lord of All Demons after another.

...

"It's useless." Watching from afar, the Blade God shook his head. "Each arrow is infused with a vast amount of Houyi's divine power. As long as Houyi's divine power isn't exhausted, the arrows will continue to attack. Splitting his divine body cannot evade this fearsome technique."

If Soul Obliteration were so easy to dodge, it wouldn't have such a fearsome reputation.

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The Lord of All Demons also realized this method wouldn't work. With a thought, all one hundred and six remaining intact copies of him roared as one, transforming into a surging, torrential river. This surging river coalesced into a gigantic hand, which directly struck one of the arrows.

Bang.

A direct strike!

The arrow was sent flying backward, but the strange divine power contained within the arrow instantly corroded the gigantic hand, causing a massive amount of divine power to be consumed.

"Cannot dodge, cannot block... What do I do, what do I do?" The Lord of All Demons suddenly let out a furious roar. The vast, surging river violently tore through the void, ripping open a massive spatial rift. The river rapidly shrank and began to drill into that spatial rift.

Pfft.

The arrows pursued him into the spatial rift one after another.

Boom! The void exploded. The surging river was blasted back out again, reforming into the Lord of All Demons.

"AAAAAAHHHH!!! I refuse to accept this! I refuse to accept this! I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS AAAAAHHHH!!!!" The Lord of All Demons was utterly insane. He looked at the arrows still pursuing him in the distance; the feeling of utter despair drove him mad. He had waited for endless ages, expended boundless effort, and finally gained his freedom.

He had finally broken free from the Heavenly Dao.

He had originally thought he could easily conquer the Nuwa Camp, and then planned to leave the Three Realms to the other mighty experts of the Seamless Gate, while he took some people to explore the vast, boundless worlds beyond. He felt that was his true domain! If Nuwa could become a World God, then he, the Lord of All Demons, felt he could also become a World God.

The Lord of All Demons had many plans for the future, many ambitions and desires.

But now…

He was about to die.

This terrifying, unstoppable arrow had truly driven him to despair.

"I refuse to accept this, I really do." The Lord of All Demons' murmuring voice echoed through the endless void. "Since that's the case, then die! Die! ALL OF YOU, DIE!!!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

In an instant, the Lord of All Demons transformed into a surging river. Each branch of the river shone with a white light, splitting into six torrents that madly attacked the Nuwa Camp. At this moment, he no longer cared about Houyi's arrows. He wanted to kill, to kill! Since he was going to die, they would all die along with him!

...

The Lord of All Demons watched all this unfold, powerless to stop it.

The distance between him and Houyi was millions of li. Although his speed was fast, capable of reaching six hundred thousand li in an instant at the speed of light, his effective range was only about a million li. Houyi, in the distance, could calmly fire arrow after arrow.

As the arrows were consumed one by one.

Houyi fired new arrows once more. He wanted to kill the Lord of All Demons as quickly as possible.

"Hang on."

"Hold on a little longer. This is the Lord of All Demons' final frenzy."

"Block him!"

Ji Ning and the Jueming Buddha, whose divine bodies were formidable, charged bravely to the front, desperately trying to intercept the attacks. But just two of the surging rivers were enough to completely entangle the two of them. Ji Ning could feel that the Lord of All Demons' power actually seemed to have increased slightly. He understood that, in his final frenzy, the Lord of All Demons was hysterical, using every desperate means at his disposal.

"Suiren." Ji Ning suddenly noticed Suiren in the distance, whose situation was extremely dire. He was already enveloped by two torrential rivers. Suiren roared in fury, his entire body blazing with flames, wielding his wooden staff, his aura vast and towering. But under the suppression of the rivers, his aura began to weaken...