The threat from Ye Ling this time made Xie Bugui truly feel the fear of death.
At this moment, Xie Bugui's state of mind was completely different.
Xie Bugui forced a strained smile onto his face and said to Ye Ling, "Ye, Ye Ling, let's talk things through. After all, we have no deep-seated hatred for each other, so there's no need to make things difficult.
"My Void Palace has some fame in the outer realms. We can be friends."
Ye Ling narrowed his eyes and smiled, "You haven't answered my question yet."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Xie Bugui froze. After a moment of silence, he said to Ye Ling, "Brother Ye, the situation is like this. That Creation Legacy is the most precious thing to me, more important than my own life. Please, change your request. I truly cannot do this."
Ye Ling sighed slightly and said, "I understand. It seems you prefer death to surrender. I respect your wishes. Go die then."
Saying that, Ye Ling enveloped Xie Bugui's head with his demonic energy, which gradually seeped into Xie Bugui's soul.
Feeling the cold demonic energy invading his soul, Xie Bugui became even more flustered and quickly said, "Wait! I am willing to hand over the Creation Legacy! Please show mercy!"
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Ye Ling withdrew his demonic energy and released Xie Bugui's headless body, saying, "Guide the Creation Legacy out yourself."
Xie Bugui looked at his body, which was sealed by runes, pursed his lips, and his eyes darted around. He said to Ye Ling, "I cannot control my body right now, so I can't guide the legacy's power out."
Ye Ling guessed that Xie Bugui was trying to play tricks, but he didn't have a sacrificial formation. To obtain Xie Bugui's Creation Legacy, he needed Xie Bugui to guide it out himself.
This risk had to be taken.
Ye Ling removed some of the seals on Xie Bugui and said, "You'd better not think of playing any tricks. With the slightest movement, I will have to end your life."
"Understood." Xie Bugui grinned at Ye Ling, "I am now a defeated dog. Naturally, my life comes first, and I won't play any tricks."
With that, Xie Bugui channeled the meager spiritual energy he could control into his headless body, guiding the legacy's power.
Soon, Ye Ling could sense a powerful force surging from Xie Bugui's body, its aura similar to the Soul Capturing Thread.
It was clearly the Creation God Legacy!
Seeing that Ye Ling's attention was fully focused on the Creation God Legacy, a fierce glint flashed in Xie Bugui's eyes. He diverted some of the spiritual energy guiding the legacy's power, sketching out a portion of the Soul Capturing Thread and hiding it within his body.
Under Xie Bugui's guidance, a white light cluster, surging with terrifying power, flew out of Xie Bugui's body and hovered before Ye Ling.
"This is the legacy I received. As long as you absorb it, you will master the Soul Capturing Thread. If you fully inherit the power within, you can even gain the Soul Manipulation Domain of Soul Capturing."
"That domain is absolutely no less than your Barren Domain, a top-tier domain!"
"Soul Capturing Domain..." Ye Ling murmured, reaching out to touch the white light cluster.
As Xie Bugui watched Ye Ling's hand gradually approach the white light cluster, anticipation filled his eyes. He even held his breath, thinking, "Ye Ling, how can my legacy be so easily snatched? The moment you touch the legacy will be your death!"
Xie Bugui roared internally. Just as Ye Ling was about to touch the white light cluster, Ye Ling's hand suddenly stopped and retracted.
Xie Bugui was stunned and quickly asked Ye Ling, "Are you suspecting me?"
Ye Ling smiled, "After all, you are an enemy, and you handed over the Creation God Legacy so readily. I can't help but suspect you."
Cold sweat appeared on Xie Bugui's forehead. He quickly severed his connection with his body and smiled at Ye Ling, "I swear, I absolutely did not play any tricks. May lightning strike me if I did!"
"Lightning strikes won't do much to you... I'll check myself." Ye Ling chuckled lightly and directly enveloped Xie Bugui's head with his demonic energy, beginning the soul-searching.
"Ye Ling, what are you trying to do? You want to search my soul? I curse you!!!"
"Ye Ling, may you die a terrible death! Ahhhhhh!"
Xie Bugui roared, his shrill cries echoing through the space.
He wanted to resist Ye Ling's soul-searching, but with ninety-nine percent of his cultivation sealed, he couldn't block Ye Ling's demonic energy at all!
Soon, Xie Bugui lost consciousness, and all his memories surged into Ye Ling's mind.
After reading Xie Bugui's memories, Ye Ling lowered his eyelids and said, "As expected, this legacy power cannot be forcibly taken. If I had absorbed that legacy just now, I would have fallen into this fellow's trap..."
Creation God Legacies generally possess their own will and actively choose their inheritors.
Since Xie Bugui was the inheritor of the Soul Capturing Thread, as long as Xie Bugui didn't genuinely relinquish the legacy, if Ye Ling were to absorb it and use the Soul Capturing Thread, Xie Bugui could completely manipulate those threads to annihilate Ye Ling's soul!
To forcibly extract a Creation Legacy, like the Red Dust Pavilion's large-scale blood sacrifice to forcibly extract the inheritor's power, one would either have to wait until the inheritor brought out the legacy and then eliminate the inheritor, thus returning the Creation Legacy to an ownerless state.
If one were chosen by the Creation Legacy, they would naturally obtain it. If not chosen, the Creation Legacy would disappear on its own and seek a new inheritor.
Having learned the conditions for inheriting the Creation Legacy, Ye Ling had no reason to keep Xie Bugui, a potential threat, alive. He immediately used the Samsara Great Dao to erase his Samsara information and then completely annihilated his head and body!
Xie Bugui's aura completely vanished.
Somewhere in the outer realms, within the Void Palace, Xie Bugui's life tablet turned to dust, causing a huge shock. Countless cultivators looked in the direction of the cosmic barrier!
Ye Ling was naturally unaware of the commotion in the outer realms. After killing Xie Bugui, he focused his attention on the white light cluster suspended in the air.
Now that the Creation God Legacy had become ownerless, all the tricks Xie Bugui had planned were naturally gone, and there was no longer any need to worry.
"Let me try and see if I have the fortune to obtain this legacy," Ye Ling muttered to himself. He reached out to grasp the white light cluster but felt strong resistance from the legacy.
It was clear that this Creation Legacy did not recognize Ye Ling's qualification as an inheritor. If Ye Ling forcibly absorbed the legacy, it would only cause the legacy to dissipate.
"As expected, I can't absorb it..." Ye Ling felt the resistance from the Creation Legacy and let go of his hand, not feeling surprised.
After all, he already had another Creation God Legacy within him, and that Creation God was a mortal enemy of the legacy before him. It would be truly bizarre if this legacy chose him.
"Alas, this is not my destiny after all, and I cannot force it. I will find a way to deal with this thing later."
Ye Ling sighed slightly, then sealed the white light cluster with runes and said to Zhenhun, "Zhenhun, I'm done here. It's time for us to work on the domain."