"Your Majesty, what... what exactly is happening here?" the female cultivator from the Celestial Realm asked. "Why is there another ?"
「Central Region of Boundless Heavens.」
Upon the wasteland, the female cultivator hid behind Luo Xiu. Peering out with trembling eyes at the Void Entity in front of her, an exact replica of herself, she felt terrified to her core. Not only did it bear an uncanny resemblance in appearance and dress, but even the aura of her Profound Emperor Realm cultivation was indistinguishable. This eerie phenonon completely exceeded her understanding; she couldn't fathom how another version of herself could have split off from her.
Luo Xiu did not answer her questions. He remained vigilant, scrutinizing the Void Entity before him. The Void Entity stared back with vicious eyes, making Luo Xiu feel as if he were facing a wild beast devoid of humanity. It seed to lack human thought, possessed only by brutal and malevolent instincts.
"Can you communicate normally?" Luo Xiu suddenly asked into the silence.
However, the Void Entity only let out a sharp, eerie shriek and lunged at him with bared teeth and claws, truly like an inhuman wild beast.
Composed and unhurried, Luo Xiu lifted his leg and kicked, sending it flying. Even though he was at the end of his strength, a re Profound Emperor was nothing more than a clay chicken or a pottery dog before him, powerless to withstand a single blow.
The Void Entity let out a hoarse, grating howl. Seemingly insensible to pain, it flipped over swiftly and once again charged at Luo Xiu, brandishing its claws.
Luo Xiu's gaze hardened slightly. With a casual wave of his hand, he released a beam of Death Spirit Sword Qi. The Sword Qi tore through the air, and the rushing Void Entity abruptly froze mid-stride, stuck in a running pose as if turned to stone. Several seconds later, its head fell to the ground.
Unexpectedly, just as the head touched the ground, a gray, eerie gas began to form on the severed neck. It condensed into hair-like filants that quickly pulled the rolling head back onto its shoulders, reattaching it.
Seeing this, Luo Xiu's brow furrowed slightly as he muttered, "Could it be that this thing can't be killed with ordinary thods?"
Just then, a figure flickered into existence and landed in front of Luo Xiu. With a single, rciless punch, he shattered the Void Entity. His actions were ruthless and decisive.
Luo Xiu looked up, his brow furrowed slightly. The newcor was a mysterious, skeletal man with almost no flesh left on his face. It was Yang Jiu.
Yang Jiu turned to glance at Luo Xiu, the green flas in his eye sockets flickering slightly, as if showing so emotion.
"What in the world is this monster?" the Heaven-Supporting Venerable's voice suddenly ca from behind Luo Xiu.
Luo Xiu glanced back at the Heaven-Supporting Venerable, too lazy to explain, then focused his attention back on the fragnts of the corpse scattered across the ground. The pieces were all emitting the sa gray gas as before, which ford into hair-like filants that quickly began piecing the body back together. It was just like the Body of the Dark Land—immortal and indestructible.
The Void Entity, possessing only the strength of a Profound Emperor, seed to fear nothing. After resurrecting, it once more lunged at the three of them.
Yang Jiu's figure flashed as he struck again, sending it soaring into the air with a single palm strike. Following that, Luo Xiu raised his right hand, and a cluster of lightning instantly blossod in his palm. It was his Glazed Thunder.
Holding the cluster of Glazed Thunder, Luo Xiu blinked through the air. With a booming explosion, the Void Entity was instantly annihilated, turned to nothingness.
The Heaven-Supporting Venerable remarked from the side, "It seems that only the Power of Laws can completely exterminate this kind of monster."
Yang Jiu turned to look at Luo Xiu and suddenly said, "This place is not suitable for to linger, so I will take my leave. Azure Emperor, we will et again."
Luo Xiu found this Yang Jiu inexplicably strange. Just as he was about to ask a question, he saw Yang Jiu fly into the sky and enter the rapidly closing spatial rift, disappearing in an instant as if he had never been there.
Back at his original spot, Luo Xiu lifted the curse of the Body of the Dark Land from the Heaven-Supporting Venerable and used the Soul Capturing Technique to retrieve his residual soul. Then, turning to the female cultivator, he was about to speak but suddenly frowned.
Before he knew it, the female cultivator had begun to bleed black blood from all seven orifices. She convulsed nonstop on the ground as her body turned into foul-slling pus from her feet to her head, unable to even let out a scream.
"Your Majesty... save..."
Unable to bear her suffering, Luo Xiu waved his hand and cast a ball of Indestructible Divine Fla, granting her a swift end to spare her the agony.
Could it be... when a Void Entity is killed, its host also dies? Luo Xiu wondered, looking at the burning corpse on the ground. He murmured to himself, the thought suddenly reminding him of his master, Guijian Chou.
A short while later, the female cultivator was reduced to a pile of ash, her body and spirit both extinguished.
Luo Xiu looked around and released his Divine Sense, discovering dense crowds moving toward him. They were all Void Entities that had separated from other cultivators. He imdiately flashed toward the Holy Lotus Hall.
It must be that the Green Lotus Palace suppressing the Starry Sky Ancient Path's node was damaged, allowing these things to escape... This is a huge problem.
At the entrance of the Holy Lotus Hall, Luo Xiu looked at the cultivators who had been infected by The Void before they could leave the Boundless Heavens, and a sense of helplessness washed over him. In his current condition, he truly lacked the strength to fight again, let alone rescue anyone.
I'll hide in the Land of Lawlessness for now and figure sothing out later. In any case, the entrance to the Boundless Heavens is closed, so these monsters can't escape.
「The Land of Lawlessness.」
「Green Lotus Palace.」
As soon as Luo Xiu entered the main gate, he heard urgent calls. A bad premonition suddenly struck him, and he quickly ran toward the source of the shouts.
"What's happening?"
Deep inside the hall, Luo Xiu found the won gathered in a circle, their faces etched with anxiety. He saw Wei Qingkuang convulsing and crying out in pain on the ground. Just like the female cultivator from before, gray gas was erging from her seven orifices. Clearly, she too had been infected by The Void.
Luo Xiu figured that Wei Qingkuang had likely been infected when the Void Creature captured her. He rembered that the Emperor of Calamity Extermination had once said that The Void was akin to a virus. Looking at Wei Qingkuang's suffering, Luo Xiu felt a sharp pain in his heart, reminding him of the other female cultivator. But at that mont, he didn't know what to do.
"Luo Xiu, this is a big problem... We have to kill her," Master Ping said gravely, walking to Luo Xiu's side. He knew that Luo Xiu was a man who valued loyalty and righteousness, and making this decision would be incredibly difficult for him. "If you can't bring yourself to do it, let . If we allow this thing to spread... everyone will suffer."
Luo Xiu clenched his fists, remaining silent.
Just then, An Ran spoke up. "The only way is to suppress The Void inside her before she separates into a Void Entity."
Luo Xiu quickly asked, "How can it be suppressed?"
An Ran's gaze swept across the crowd before finally landing on Zhang Yi. "With the Spirit Martial Markings." She added, "But even if we suppress it, it's only a temporary asure. If we can't find a permanent solution, we'll still have to kill her in the end."
Luo Xiu gritted his teeth and looked at Zhang Yi. "Xiao Yi, I'll have to trouble you."
Zhang Yi nodded. "I'll give it a try, but I'm not sure if it will work."
An Ran said, "I knew your ancestor, the Spirit Martial Emperor, Zhang Tiangao. His Spirit Martial Markings are, in essence, a form of the Power of Laws. They have a sealing effect."
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