Hearing the words of the black-haired youth, the now unstable evil spirit snorted, why should he follow the plan of that bastard he thought, somehow despite him now being the one with the highest realm in the group, the evil spirit felt threatened the most by the black-haired youth.
Not only it had a strong murderous aura which is unusual in the members of the young generation, but also even with his high soul cultivation he couldn't see through him, and that made alarms ring for him.
"Humph, forget about those women, help me kill that bastard first, I saw him using yang radiance earlier, so he is just another dual cultivator!".
"Roaaar!", the giant undead followed the orders of the evil spirit and charged towards Aster.
"Boom!", but even before he could approach him, he was blown away by Felicia's punch and the giant spear created by Camila, its giant body landed at the other side of the room creating a small tremor.
The girls then rushed towards it, leaving Aster to deal with his own enemy, the evil spirit on the other hand gritted its teeth, even if he watched the girls's prowess display earlier, he didn't think they would be strong enough to stop his better creation, in which he used the only remaining piece of his physical body.
Which made it possible for a Void Manipulation level undead to be born.
'What the hell, are modern cultivators this strong… fuck, I need to get the thing in the center of this place before taking my leave, or I will be suppressed by the modern experts once I'm out', he thought.
The evil spirit had no way to know, that Mortal Transcending realm cultivators, normally don't have the strength to clash head on with a Void Manipulation realm being, it's just that Camila and Felicia are abnormally strong.
The giant undead roared, the attack sent him flying and some of its black bones cracked due to the spear casted by Camila but they recovered in a matter of seconds, not only that, the undead hit the ground with its fist and a crack appeared from which smaller undead poured in.
Those were the ones that formed a sea of undead that blocked the path in one of the previous rooms, apparently the giant undead had the ability to control the weaker undead, despite it only having body path cultivation, instead of soul path cultivation.
"Nine Sea's Sword, Splitting Wave!", a tsunami of water spirit energy suddenly impacted the swarm of undead, splitting into half, once the dust settled up, the figure of a tall black-haired woman wielding a blue jade sword was revealed.
"I can't kill that guy, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be a burden, humph", Nerissa waved her sword and a wave of water spirit energy and sword intent destroyed a whole section of the swarm of undead.
"Camila and miss Felicia, you two deal with the giant, leave these bunch to us", Aria appeared next to Nerissa, the ground near to her was covered in ice, she beckoned and then the leftover water spirit energy used by Nerissa was turned into ice peaks that pierced tons of undead.
"Don't leave me out of the fun", Tiana who was descending from a high altitude, smacked her war spear on the ground and flash of yellow light with blue borders, hit a bunch of undead sending them flying at such a high speed towards the wall that they exploded into little pieces of broken bones due to the impact, she used her ability to repel things which is the contrary to what Felicia can do.
While Camila was pushing the giant undead with huge spears she created out of thin air, Felicia saw her daughter working together with others and she smiled, as the stole a gaze of the other side of the battlefield, where Aster was facing the evil spirit alone with that usual confident smiling expression which was characteristic of him.
'To think you changed that stubborn little girl, it seems following you was for the best~', she thought, before a black vortex appeared below her.
"Boom!", the next thing the giant undead knew was that, a little weak-looking woman punched him and once again, he who is proud of its strong bones, and huge physical strength was forced to the ground.
"Rooar!", the undead roared of anger letting waves of blue flames radiate from its body, but they couldn't do anything to the two women that were standing proud like goddesses of war in front of it, anything that tried to harm Felicia was dragged, crushed and devoured by the black vortex she created whenever she used the ability of her energy constitution, as for Camila, her body dazzled with a pretty metallic light, making her look like a living treasure, imperishable, towards the corroding capacity of yin.
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At the other side of the battlefield, the evil spirit was beyond angry right now, his other half was being pushed backwards by women with lower realms than him, not only that but even the swarm tactic usually adopted by undead wasn't working, because the other three though weaker, had wide area techniques and were destroying too many of the undead with just one attack.
"Who the hell are you, others have visited my tomb and they weren't this strong!", shouted the evil spirit, gray waves of soul energy were radiated by it.
Aster met the murderous aura of the evil spirit with his own, letting them clash and cancel each other, not without causing a distortion in the atmosphere.
It hasn't been that long since he learned that grey mist that came out of the people who really wanted him dead, after he killed them, like Isaac for example, was murderous aura, but in truth he had to thank the evil spirit, before seeing how he used murderous aura, he only knew how to use it intimidate others, but he now can use it as an offensive mean.
The evil spirit saw his attack being cancelled and he got even angrier, his face distorted as it was losing the control over the other evil spirit it has assimilated to regain some of its powers.
In exchange his cultivation increased, until it became an early-stage Void Manipulation being in the soul path.
"You forced me to do this brat, I can't let you see the might of a Soul King, but I'm not far from a Ghost King, now go to hell!".
The mix of murderous aura and soul energy from the evil spirit exploded all over the place, the Blood Devouring Flags which he has gathered over the years by tricking the participants to kill each other, just to be devoured by the flags at the end, were all summoned, a total of one hundred flags surrounded Aster and the evil spirit.
"Mom once mentioned this, cultivators from a couple of millions of years ago, used to fight this way, refining these kinds of tools and manipulating them, as if they were trying to imitate spirit formations", said Aster.
The person from which this evil spirit originated has clearly been dead for a long time, even then, there are records from millions of years ago of the Heavenly Quadrants, so there is no way a Soul Sovereign didn't leave any legends behind.
Not to mention the soul path is relatively new in the four Heavenly Quadrants, especially because even Soul Kings who are at the peak of the Transcending realms are incredibly rare, and no one knows what lies ahead in the soul path.
Aster only knows about it, thanks to Eris telling him, which means this so-called Blood Devouring Sovereign, which is safe to assume used to be a Soul Sovereign when it was alive, isn't a native of the four Heavenly Quadrants.
Now the question is if it comes from a Divine Firmament, or just from another Quadrant, which is unknown to him, also if that guy was killed here, that means this Silicon Forest isn't simple at all.
Aster saw the red flags let out an ominous black mist before countless of black bone ghosts were released out of them, those were evil spirits forged with the negative feelings and the blood of those who died.
"Hahaha, what do you think, when this Sovereign was alive, I commanded an army of millions of different undead, once I use your yang for my other half and that blue hair woman's yin for me, I will be able to fuse and resurrect!", shouted the evil spirit.
Aster snorted, this thing dared to covet his cute Aria's yin, naturally what he wanted was the origin of the limitless yin she produced, to use it as the base of his new "soul", in other words Aria's jade-like bones.
As for the giant undead, his eyes could see through those black bones and all the yin which was protecting a single piece of flesh which moved all over the place, a toe to be more accurate, it wasn't hard for Aster to deduct what happened.
Mylene and Eris could live without their physical bodies for quite some time, the Blood Despair Sovereign was probably killed, but his cultivation as a Soul Sovereign allowed a fragment of his soul survive, then he used the yin of this place to grow stronger and started to plot its revival, the giant undead was created using a leftover of his flesh, so the evil spirit was the soul of the Sovereign and the giant undead was his flesh, when the two reached the peak of the Transcending realms, in other words when they became a Ghost King and a Corpse King respectively, they will fuse and become a full undead, which is sentient, practically a living being.
Naturally he could do it, because the Sovereign probably cultivated the soul as its main path and the body as its secondary one.
Aster had many questions, like what could obliterate a Soul Sovereign which should stand at the top of the pyramid in the Mortal realms, but for now he had to deal with those annoying blood-stinking evil spirits.
Aster's body exploded in golden light, as the golden armor formed around his body, since this was an enclosed space he couldn't expand the armor to its whole size, in fact he couldn't call the full armor, but just the upper part of it, it's worth mentioning that it was still headless, since Aster hasn't unlocked the helmet of the Paragon Body yet.
But this wasn't the usual armor, which the girls besides Nerissa had already seen before, instead of the bright golden color of the Paragon Body, it was dark golden colored, not to mention this looked more menacing, as if its purpose wasn't to protect like normal, but to destroy.
The design was wilder and threatening, it also gave off a dreading aura, especially because everything near it started to dissolve, this was the result of Aster injecting annihilation into the manifestation of the Paragon Body, or as he people of the Azure Sky planet called it, "The Golden Reaper".
Aster didn't have to move, he just ordered the armor to destroy the flags and its giant arms moved to smack them away, naturally all the evil spirits along with the flags were erased from existence, since in this state the armor was covered by annihilation.
The evil spirit saw his precious spirits being destroyed left and right and his eyes became bloodshot, one interesting thing about evil spirits is that they feel the urge to destroy everything in their path.
Since they form due to negative feelings, yin and fragments of souls of the dead, in places like abandoned battlefields, when the dead aren't properly buried, they only exist to bring calamity to the living, and thus their murderous aura is incredibly strong.
"Raaa!", the jaws of the evil spirit dislocated and then with an open mouth which was easily trice the size of a normal person, it roared letting out a blood curling scream accompanied by murderous aura.
That is a known technique of Ghost Kings, which are said to be on par with Soul Kings, Death Roar, a sound attack which injects murderous aura into the body of the target through the ears, killing it on the spot.
Aster left the protection of the giant armor which was wildly crushing the evil spirits and the red flags, when he uses this form, he loses the defensive capacities of the armor, in exchange for an abnormal offensive power, with the exception of the ten seconds of invincibility of course.
But he wasn't relying on that to face the attack of the pseudo-Ghost King in front of him, murderous aura can only be stopped with either soul energy or an equally strong murderous aura, and though Aster's soul energy is undoubtedly strong, his limit is around the middle stage of the Genesis Manifestation realm.
So normally he would need to use the giant Manifestation of the Paragon Body to compete with anything stronger than that, but this evil spirit had to commit the serious mistake of relying in murderous aura as its main offensive way.
Aster smirked and then gray mist started pouring out of his body, as the milliseconds passed the tone of it became darker and darker, until the mist had completely turned black inked.
The attack of the evil spirit met with that black mist and it surprisingly stopped in cold, just like that, the attack of a Void Manipulation evil spirit was rendered useless.
But that's not the most surprising thing about it, but the fact that the previously angry and reasonless evil spirit was now trembling, the fear returned his clarity!
"Y-You, what kind of atrocities have you committed to have such a horrifying murderous aura… no forget about that, why haven't the heavens destroyed you with tribulation lightning!", he shouted.
A bloody evil spirit who has killed countless of people was feeling fear, over that black mist which was now enveloping Aster, giving him mysteriously attractive but dangerous aura, in fact even his hair which is already black due to his Drage bloodline, has been painted darker, but his golden eyes were as clear as crystals, meaning that he hasn't lost himself in slaughter, to the surprise of the evil spirit.
"What the hell are you, how can you keep your sanity after having done so many atrocities!", he shouted.
Aster closed and opened his hand a few times, this black mist originated from his body, more accurately from his dantian and if you went deeper, it came from the black book in which the twins lived.
But it was only stored there, he knew the origin of this ominous black mist, which is an even more advanced version of murderous aura, exclusive to those who have committed unspeakable atrocities.
'Not bad', thought Aster to himself, before he glared at the evil spirit who actually backed off, just by being started at by the current Aster.
A purely spiritual being like him, was naturally suppressed by things that had strong impact on the soul, that's why though a Ghost King is considered equally strong as a Soul King, the first one can't never rebel against the latter, unless it surpasses the Transcending realms in the energy path, which is the counter of the soul path of course.
But undead can't cultivate in the energy path, as they aren't natural beings and so they don't have access to the privileges the heavens granted to the living.
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