Surrounded by a ring of bone shields, Korro was strung tight with tension.
Han Fei suddenly materialized beside him, her ice-crystal longsword dancing as it unfurled into a curtain of light that shrouded him completely.
The moment she moved, Li Rong struck as well.
The Ancient Demon Clan's leader charged forward with unstoppable force, her fists swinging in rapid succession. Utterly disregarding the bone shields around Korro, she smashed through them like rotting wood, shattering countless barriers along the way until she arrived directly in front of him—and hammered her fist downward.
A surge of fist force, imbued with the intent to annihilate all living things, erupted without warning.
Korro's expression changed drastically. He was about to block when Chang Yuan's peerless halberd had already thrust home. Assaulted from both front and back and unable to parry everything, he could barely dodge while simultaneously taking Li Rong's strike head-on.
BOOM...
The earth shook and the ground trembled, the deafening roar splitting their ears. Korro's newly formed flesh body seemed unable to withstand such a violent blow, cracking inch by inch.
Chu Lingxiao's Demon-Sealing Chains seized the opportunity to wind around his body, binding him fast.
The other powerhouses seized the moment and surged forward together, unleashing everything they had in a concentrated bombardment upon Korro.
Korro was in wretched disarray. Chunks of flesh and blood were blasted from his cracking body, revealing the skeletal frame that housed his life essence and formed the very foundation of his existence, exposed before everyone's eyes.
Crack, crack, crack...
The skeletal frame could not endure the relentless assault of ten top-tier powerhouses either. Fissure after fissure split open, dense as a spider's web.
Korro was finished!
This time, it was truly over.
He had pinned his hopes on the Bone Clan's forbidden technique—the Blood Pool and Flesh Forest—to wipe out all the powerhouses of the Tongxuan Continent in one fell swoop. But at the final moment, Yang Kai had ruined it. Unable to unleash that forbidden technique, Korro was no match for the ten powerhouses at all.
In every respect, he had been thoroughly countered. He no longer had any hope of victory.
Korro's jade-green eyeballs twitched—chagrin, fury, and refusal to accept defeat all tangling together—when Chang Yuan's halberd pierced straight through his skull, puncturing one of those eyeballs.
Flesh and blood sprayed in every direction. Korro froze where he stood, moving no more.
In the next instant, it was as though he had been dismembered. His flesh body violently exploded, and his skeletal frame completely fell apart.
An ethereal, spectral figure suddenly burst forth from within Korro's mind, rapidly condensing into a pinpoint of spectral light and immediately fleeing into the distance.
"His soul has left his body!" Meng Wuya called out in a low voice.
With both his flesh and skeletal bodies completely shattered, Korro had decisively ejected his Divine Soul from the remains, seeking only to preserve his soul from annihilation.
A Divine Soul without a vessel, no matter how powerful, could not remain in this world for long—unless one employed special Artifacts to preserve it, or found a suitable flesh body to inhabit.
The Earth Demon was a perfect example of that.
If Korro truly had such fortune and managed to find a suitable flesh body, with the bizarre nature of the Bone Race, he might very well be able to stage a comeback and return in full force.
How would the ten powerhouses give him that chance? They had been guarding against this very moment all along.
The instant Meng Wuya's voice fell, ten waves of Divine Sense erupted with devastating force, surging toward Korro's Divine Soul in pursuit.
In the blink of an eye, a soul-piercing scream tore from Korro. His soul spirit hovered in midair, his half-transparent face twisted in a hideous grimace, emanating an aura of extreme danger.
Sensing the unnatural state of his soul, the ten powerhouses dared not press any further. Instead, they enveloped Korro with their own soul power, preventing any chance of escape.
Soul battles were far too perilous — a single misstep could result in irreparable soul damage, a price no one could afford to bear.
Everyone feared Korro would fight like a cornered beast, dragging someone down with him in his final moments.
A powerhouse of Korro's caliber, if truly pushed to the brink, could simply detonate his soul — and no one present would survive the fallout.
"Stop pushing me, or I'll drag you all down with me!" Korro shrieked in hysteria. The aura radiating from his soul spirit grew ever more volatile, as though it could detonate at any moment.
The ten powerhouses all furrowed their brows, privately realizing this matter had become rather thorny.
"Korro!" Yang Kai's furious shout suddenly rang out.
Hearing the call, Korro turned his gaze toward Yang Kai. The next instant, he realized he was in trouble. The moment his eyes met that golden Demon Eye, an enormous and invisible vortex materialized before him, generating a terrifying suction force that defied all resistance, dragging his soul spirit toward its depths.
Korro struggled with all his might, but it was utterly futile — he was like a man sinking into a swamp, where every thrash only pulled him under faster.
Whoosh…
In the span of a single instant, the soul of Korro — the very same one that had given all ten powerhouses such headaches — was drawn straight into Yang Kai's left eye. It seemed that Korro's defiant roars and agonized screams still lingered in everyone's ears.
The crowd stood dumbstruck.
Before anyone could ask Yang Kai how he was feeling, he had already closed his eyes and settled cross-legged on the ground.
Within his Consciousness Sea, Yang Kai's soul spirit materialized. Korro floated above the ocean, glancing around in panic. Sensing the scorching heat radiating from the seawater, his expression shifted several times before he blurted out in horror, "Special soul energy? You actually possess special soul energy?"
With his keen perception, he could naturally recognize the extraordinary nature of Yang Kai's Consciousness Sea.
It was Divine Sense imbued with searing, fiery heat.