"What do you mean?" the Evil God Sword asked.
"There seems to be no grudge between us, and I have no intention of offending you today. Could you let me go?" the Evil Spirit Ginseng King spoke again.
This time, its voice carried a hint of timidity — a far cry from its earlier arrogance. It was being considerably more polite now.
It was clear that facing the Evil God Sword, it was truly afraid. At the very least… it no longer wanted to continue fighting.
As the saying goes, only a greater evil can tame the wicked. Perhaps that was exactly the case here.
"What do you think?"
The Evil God Sword let out a faint laugh, tinged with mockery.
"What exactly do you want?"
The fear in the Evil Spirit Ginseng King's eyes deepened by the second. From the Evil God Sword's response, it sensed something ominous.
"From the very beginning, I never intended to let you go," the Evil God Sword said.
Whoosh— Suddenly, the Evil Spirit Ginseng King moved. This time, instead of launching an attack at Chu Feng, it spun its body around — it was trying to flee.
Hummm— Yet the very instant the Evil Spirit Ginseng King moved, a blood-red aura erupted across the sky, blanketing several miles of the void.
Everything within sight was engulfed by that crimson glow. At the same time, pillars of blood-red energy cascaded down from the heavens like colossal crimson columns, plunging deep into the earth below.
A careful look revealed that those blood-red pillars stood on every side, sealing off this stretch of heaven and earth like a cage, trapping everyone within.
The Evil Spirit Ginseng King had no path of escape.
Unwilling to accept its fate, the Evil Spirit Ginseng King extended its tendrils and struck at the blood-red pillars, attempting to shatter them with brute force.
But though those crimson columns looked fragile, they were in truth as sharp as blades.
The moment the Evil Spirit Ginseng King's tendrils collided with the blood-red pillars, they were severed in an instant.
And this time… the stumps where the tendrils had been cut were tainted with the blood-red aura. Not only did that crimson energy prevent the Evil Spirit Ginseng King's severed tendrils from regenerating, but it was also slowly devouring its physical body, bit by bit.
"What… what are you?!"
Horror churned wildly in the Evil Spirit Ginseng King's eyes. It was no longer simple fear — it was something far deeper.
Only now did it truly comprehend just how terrifying the blood-red entity before it truly was.
Even it, powerful as it was, stood absolutely no chance of fighting back.
"I told you — with this Evil God present, you are nothing but trash," the Evil God Sword said.
"Push me further, and you won't live either," the Evil Spirit Ginseng King snarled viciously.
"You mean to perish together with this Evil God?" the Evil God Sword asked.
"I mean to drag every last one of you down with me!"
The Evil Spirit Ginseng King let out a furious roar. In the next instant, its body shifted from a blinding gold to a deep, dark black. Strangest of all, its massive frame began to emit an intense black glow — radiant and ominous — and its body started to swell.
What was already an enormous form expanded rapidly, transforming in the blink of an eye into a colossal giant ten thousand meters tall. Even the clouds could only drift beneath its head.
"Now this is truly bad."
The Evil Spirit Ginseng King seemed to have deliberately allowed everyone to sense its current aura, for every person present could feel the terrifying energy radiating from it.
And because of that, panic spread through the crowd. The aura the Evil Spirit Ginseng King was now emitting was nothing short of catastrophic.
A devastating force was surging within its body, and if that power were to detonate, it wouldn't just destroy everyone present — it would likely annihilate more than half of the Hundred Refinements Realm.
"Is that all you've got?"
"You disappoint me," the Evil God Sword said.
"How dare you look down on me like this — then let me show you whether this level of power is something you can withstand!"
The Evil God Sword's words thoroughly enraged the Evil Spirit Ginseng King. The moment those words fell, the power within the Evil Spirit Ginseng King's body underwent a qualitative transformation. It was about to unleash everything — to self-destruct and take the Evil God Sword and every soul present with it to the grave.