Shen Liuxing sent two palm winds at the ancient battle souls rushing towards him, explaining at supersonic speed, "Battle souls are spiritual entities, belonging to the ethereal form. Therefore, physical attacks are difficult to land on them, unless we can etherealize physical attacks, or..."
"Or what?"
Xuanyuan Xun shot out a spear light, forcing a large group of ancient battle souls back, and asked for an opportunity.
Rong Guang quickly scattered a handful of poisonous powder, turning the Poisonous Tree into thirty feet thick, and smashed it towards the dense ancient battle souls, also anxiously saying, "Yes! Or what?"
Shangguan Yulin turned his feather fan into a three-foot size, held it in his hand, and fanned it hard, saying with slight annoyance, "Don't keep us in suspense at this moment, speak quickly."
Shen Liuxing frowned, took out a dark long flute, and said, "Or use soul artifacts and soul skills!"
As his voice fell, the long flute was also brought to his lips, and he began to play it slowly.
The sound wave attack targeted the soul.
As the flute sound rang out, the ancient battle souls clearly froze for a moment, and their attacks became disordered.
The stronger battle souls buzzed in their heads, and expressions of pain flashed across their faces.
The weaker battle souls, however, directly threw down their weapons, clutching their heads and howling on the spot.
Some even rolled on the ground, indirectly hindering the battle soul army behind them.
Xuanyuan Xun, Rong Guang, and Shangguan Yulin were stunned by Shen Liuxing's move and stopped their actions.
"This is the opportunity to break through!"
Ye Lingyuan's icy voice rang out.
The three instantly came back to their senses and found that Ye Lingyuan had rushed to the front at some point, and the Heaven-Breaking Sword in his hand had been replaced by the One Qi Whip.
The One Qi Whip was forged from the first strand of Qi that emerged from heaven and earth, hence its restraining effect on all things in the world. Otherwise, the Altar Spirit would not have been forced to beg for mercy by Bao Fengxi back then.
Ye Lingyuan, with his whip, gave the battle soul army no chance to fight back.
Any battle soul struck by the One Qi Whip would, at the least, emit white smoke and be sent flying. At the worst, they would be shattered into pieces, turning into a wisp of smoke and disappearing completely.
"So fierce!" Shangguan Yulin exclaimed.
Xuanyuan Xun echoed, "Each one is fiercer than the last!"
Rong Guang also sighed, "We mortals cannot comprehend the world of monsters!"
While the three were speaking, another area in front of Shen Liuxing and Ye Lingyuan had been cleared of battle souls.
They no longer defended in place but leaped up, landing in different directions.
Instantly, they were surrounded.
However, they remembered Shen Liuxing and Ye Lingyuan's words, etherealizing their attacks while searching for an opportunity to break through.
Xuanyuan Xun and Rong Guang quickly fused with their past lives' memories, turning what they remembered into their own insights.
Shangguan Yulin, after igniting the Vermilion Bird's Flame, was on the verge of a breakthrough.
Now, he was consolidating the floating power within his body through constant combat.
As long as he accumulated enough, breaking through that barrier would be a natural progression.
On the battlefield, the flute music was rapid, as if thousands of troops were engaged in battle, sometimes like clashing weapons, sometimes like charging shouts, sometimes like roaring drums, and sometimes like stomping hooves.
With every change in the flute music, some battle souls turned into smoke and dissipated into the air.
However, sonic attacks were, after all, soul attacks, and thus required powerful soul force to sustain.
Therefore, as time passed, Shen Liuxing's face turned pale, his lips cracked, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
"No! If this continues, once my soul force is depleted, I will have no power to resist!"
He thought to himself, then stopped playing, and used the long flute in his hand as a weapon, charging into the battle soul army. Su Dan Novel Network
However, Ye Lingyuan grew stronger as he fought.
The One Qi Whip and the Heaven-Breaking Sword in his hand had somehow merged into one, resembling the pattern displayed on the cliff face in the sealed land.
After breaking through to the Divine King realm, he finally recognized the weapon in the pattern – it was his innate divine artifact, the One Qi Heaven-Breaking God Execution Whip!
The One Qi Heaven-Breaking God Execution Whip had clearly surpassed the level of divine artifacts, becoming a super artifact.
Super artifacts also had another name – Spiritual Treasure.
Spiritual Treasures were divided into two types: innate spiritual treasures naturally formed by heaven and earth, and acquired spiritual treasures refined by extracting the essence of heaven and earth.
The One Qi Heaven-Breaking God Execution Whip was an acquired spiritual treasure, personally refined by Ancestral God for his father, Bao Fengxi.
The reason why it couldn't merge into one before was that Ye Lingyuan's strength was not yet sufficient to control an acquired spiritual treasure.
Now that he had broken through to the Divine King realm, he could finally barely control the One Qi Heaven-Breaking God Execution Whip.
The power of an acquired spiritual treasure was incomparable to that of a divine artifact.
Therefore, the ancient battle souls were injured upon contact and died upon touching, and were quickly annihilated by Ye Lingyuan in large numbers.
As night fell, the five finally fought their way to the foot of the mountain. Just a thousand steps more, and they would be able to leap out of the Godly Demise Mountain Range.
However, at this point, they were no longer in a hurry.
Because Shangguan Yulin had finally grasped that thread of opportunity and entered the breakthrough state.
A fiery red Vermilion Bird phantom surged out from his body, illuminating the entire Godly Demise Peak.
Shangguan Yulin's movements paused, and the Vermilion Bird Feather Fan had transformed into a heavenly curtain, hovering above his head.
Perhaps due to their fear of the Vermilion Bird's Flame, the battle souls did not enter the range of the Vermilion Bird Feather Fan, allowing Shangguan Yulin to break through peacefully.
Beneath the Vermilion Bird Feather Fan, fierce flames blazed. Shen Liuxing sat within the flames, as if a meditating old monk.
The Vermilion Bird phantom circled within the flames, and a destructive power shot straight up into the sky from the flames.
The fervor of fire and the dread of destruction intertwined, causing the temperature of the flames to constantly rise.
The surrounding vegetation withered at a visible rate, and the battle soul army became extremely restless.
At this moment, in the heart of Godly Demise Peak, three even more powerful battle souls suddenly appeared.
The moment these three battle souls appeared, three extremely powerful pressures spread out.
The battle soul army, enduring the intense heat, knelt down in unison.
Xuanyuan Xun and Rong Guang's hearts trembled, and they were directly awakened from their enlightenment.
Fortunately, they had completely fused their past lives' memories. Although they hadn't found the opportunity to break through, they had touched the threshold of the Divine King realm.
Naturally, there was regret, but they couldn't dwell on it now.
Because the moment these three powerful battle souls appeared, an insurmountable mountain seemed to have appeared before them.