"Awooooooo——!"

The Eight-headed Giant Snake's eight serpent heads howled towards the sky, spewing out an endless stream of black-purple poisonous smoke.

Lin Yi quickly used Wind Attribute Magic to disperse and purify the surrounding toxic gas.

At the same time, he covered his mouth and nose.

The massive creature before his eyes was so overwhelming that even Lin Yi felt a sense of stupor.

As the strongest soul beast sealed within Mitsui Shigemasa's body.

The Eight-headed Giant Snake naturally held a different rank from other soul beasts, having already stepped halfway into the imperial rank.

However, Mitsui Shigemasa, being its creator, could still suppress it despite not being as powerful as it.

Several times before, it attempted to break free, only to be suppressed by Mitsui Shigemasa.

The only time he almost failed to suppress it, it was sealed by the joint efforts of a dozen elites from Ghost Moon.

At this moment, the giant snake, Yachi, was being drawn out from Mitsui Shigemasa's body bit by bit.

Eight enormous serpent heads, with sixteen blood-red giant eyes, were all filled with a desire for freedom and excitement for the current situation.

Before long.

The giant snake, Yachi, completely broke free from Mitsui Shigemasa's body!

However, before it could tilt its head back and celebrate its freedom.

All sixteen serpent eyes flickered with a human-like expression of disbelief!

Because it felt its body, filled with endless soul power, becoming incredibly stiff in an extremely short time!

The Eight-headed Giant Snake coiled its body, trying to speed away from this ghostly place.

Yet, after moving just over ten meters, its body could no longer move!

Creak, creak, creak...

The eight serpent heads could still temporarily twist at certain angles.

The Eight-headed Giant Snake looked at Lin Yi in the field.

An even greater sense of disbelief filled its eyes.

It couldn't comprehend what this human had done to it!

Why does a human professional, who isn't even a soul shaper, possess soul control more powerful than a soul shaper?!

It had never seen a Forbidden Curse.

Naturally unaware that the Nether River Funeral, this ninth-rank magic, was the nemesis of all soul-type creatures!

"Congratulations, congratulations on getting out of prison."

"This is the new cell I've prepared for you, and you're going to love it."

"Hehe."

Lin Qianqian clapped her hands.

Her eyes sparkled.

The complete strength of the Eight-headed Giant Snake's soul beast had far surpassed the combined total of the previous seven.

She was originally displeased about Shouhe and Nekomata being used for Soul Sacrifice by Mitsui Shigemasa.

But now, after seeing the Eight-headed Giant Snake, all her discontent vanished!

If she could capture this one, she would be willing to discard all the others.

"Awoo..."

The Eight-headed Giant Snake also spotted Lin Qianqian.

Its massive serpent pupils shrank sharply, sensing that the freedom it had just gained was about to slip away, and it mournfully wailed in resentment.

"Still resisting?"

"In you go!"

Lin Qianqian frantically shook the Soul Bell in her hand.

The next moment, the giant body of the Yachi snake began to shrink rapidly.

Its tail and body were sucked into the Soul Bell.

Only the eight heads remained, crying out in unwillingness.

Seeing this, Lin Yi felt a temporary relief.

It was over.

In the soul perception returned by Lin You, Mitsui Shigemasa's body no longer harbored any soul-type creatures.

Having absorbed the Eight-headed Giant Snake, Mitsui Shigemasa would likely die quickly as there were no soul beasts dwelling within him.

It was a reprieve for him.

As the Eight-headed Giant Snake was completely absorbed into Lin Qianqian's Soul Bell.

Mitsui Shigemasa, soaked in the Nether River, was motionless.

The entrances and exits of the Nether River beneath the high sky and underground closed slowly.

The waters of the Wangchuan River that flooded Penglai Island gradually receded.

Everything returned to normal.

Only Lin Yi remained standing.

Mitsui Shigemasa lay on the ground, his life or death unknown.

"Did he win... Did Lin Yi win?"

With the previous examples of Pei Junxi and Su Wa.

Ah Liang was not entirely sure if Mitsui Shigemasa was truly defeated.

He could only seek clarification from the referee at the edge of the field.

The three main referees were equally bewildered.

This had exceeded their expectations, surely!

They didn't know if this battle was completely over.

Finally, Ah Liang could only look up at the judging panel.

But he was surprised to find.

Cheng Xiao, who had been in the Xia judging panel, had disappeared.

Along with him, the East Japan judge Mitsui Yasuji was also gone.

The three main referees exchanged glances.

They finally decided to begin the countdown.

After ten seconds, if Mitsui Shigemasa showed no signs of life, they would declare Lin Yi the winner, ending the match.

"10...

"9..."

With the countdown underway, Lin Yi took a few steps forward.

Getting closer, Lin Yi saw Mitsui Shigemasa lying on the ground.

He spread the gravity field.

Lin Yi used Gravity Manipulation to turn Mitsui Shigemasa over.

He glanced at his forehead.

The eight eyes previously distributed on both sides of his forehead were now just bloody, blurry voids.

Only the largest one in the center of his brow.

Still existed.

Lin Yi was very sure the soul beast sealed within Mitsui Shigemasa's body amounted to eight.

But why did he have nine eyes on his head?

What was sealed inside this ninth eye?

As Lin Yi pondered, he suddenly noticed that Mitsui Shigemasa's "corpse" was beginning to ooze black blotches.

He was instantly nauseated.

Retreating a few steps.

But the next moment, Lin Yi realized that they were not "blotches."

It was merely some black substance concentrated on his skin.

Because the entirety of Mitsui Shigemasa's body was coated in a layer of jet-black color in a very short time.

That wasn't a normal black skin tone.

This black gave Lin Yi a strange sensation of being able to absorb light completely.

The "darkening" metamorphosis on Mitsui Shigemasa's body initially proceeded slowly.

But after covering his entire body in this peculiar black, the process, in fact, accelerated.

Pa!

Lin Yi flicked his finger.

Lin You was equally prepared.

Unsure of what tricks Mitsui Shigemasa was up to.

They decided to finish it off just in case.

But when Lin Yi flicked his finger, Mitsui Shigemasa's entire body exploded.

Puff!

Innumerable black substances sprayed out.

It turned out Mitsui Shigemasa had long been an empty shell.

Underneath the human skin, everything consisted of these fluid-natured but not entirely fluid black substances.

These black substances, when attacked, only scattered but weren't destroyed.

Then, they recomposed and assembled with alarming speed.

A humanoid creature slowly took shape.

Its height was similar to Mitsui Shigemasa's, although it appeared humanoid, it bore no other human features.

Especially its head, which wasn't connected to the torso.

The head of the black monster was a pitch-black void floating above the neck.

The void bore countless spiral waves, seemingly emotional and alive, its rotation direction in constant change.

Just a single glance could make one feel their spirit falling into it.

The instant the monster formed.

The black aura emanated from its feet.

In a flicker, the surface of half the Penglai Island arena was covered in a layer of black substance.

"Use light magic to deal with him."

"Anything casting a shadow could be his hiding place."

"Find a way to erase all shadows before he expands fully, and absolutely don't let him escape!"

Lin Yi suddenly heard Cheng Xiao's voice in his ear.

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