Chapter 2225: Next Step, Desert Sea Absolute Array

Yao Yulou’s forceful and determined voice drew everyone’s gaze back.

Under Yao Yulou’s leadership, they continued to head towards Fenglei City. Regardless of Young Master Sikong’s state now, his obstruction of Pei Kuang had ended, and Qianwang experts would soon pursue them.

If they didn’t leave now, they would die here.

Inside Qianwang Holy City, Pei Kuang still stubbornly stared at the scattered blood fragments of the Thunderstorm Roar Beast.

Pei Kuang’s Spiritual Shadow Power surged out, as if searching for Sikong Jing’s whereabouts from the blood fragments and surrounding area. He didn’t believe Sikong Jing could die so easily, possibly escaping the beast body the moment it shattered.

While Pei Kuang was observing... buzz!

A spiritual shadow suddenly appeared, and it was indeed the spirit shadow of the Thunderstorm Roar Beast.

"I died, I actually died... Ahhhh!"

The spirit shadow of the Thunderstorm Roar Beast roared loudly, finally regaining its spiritual wisdom at the cost of its life, now struggling with only its spirit shadow remaining.

Realizing this, Pei Kuang immediately reacted and rushed forward to ask, "Where’s Little Demon Sikong? Was he really blown to pieces?"

Pei Kuang’s Spiritual Shadow Power didn’t find Sikong Jing’s whereabouts in the surroundings.

The spirit shadow of Thunderstorm Roar Beast said blankly, "My demonized body has shattered, how could he possibly survive? Before the formation’s power fell, he hadn’t escaped my beast body..."

Upon reaching this point, the spirit shadow of Thunderstorm Roar Beast suddenly paused, as though realizing something amiss.

It pondered silently...

"No, what entered my beast body wasn’t the actual Little Demon Sikong; it seemed it was just a spirit shadow?"

"I’ve just been demonized and can’t remember clearly, I... Ah!"

In the end, the Thunderstorm Roar Beast’s spirit shadow let out a scream.

It was Pei Kuang suddenly taking action, tearing the spirit shadow into pieces.

Just before ending completely as fragments, the Thunderstorm Roar Beast heard Pei Kuang’s angry voice saying, "Truly lacking in accomplishment, and a damn useless being causing more harm than good. Who the hell let you appear outside the Holy City?"

Pei Kuang was truly angry now!

If it wasn’t for the Thunderstorm Roar Beast showing up outside the Holy City, it wouldn’t have been struck with demonic qi by the fully demonizing human-shaped beast, and wouldn’t have allowed Little Demon Sikong a chance to use its power to rescue people.

Now that all the Qianwang defectors had escaped, Pei Kuang’s opportunity to sweep through the world was gone.

After these defectors ran away, they immediately joined the Overlord Commerce, and sweeping the world became impossible.

How could Pei Kuang not be furious, how could he not go mad?

Yet Pei Kuang did not know that tearing the Thunderstorm Roar Beast’s spirit shadow also prevented it from sharing certain words, namely... about Little Demon Sikong only entering its body as a spirit shadow.

Now, Pei Kuang might mistakenly believe Sikong Jing was dead.

Soon after, countless Qianwang experts and defectors approached Pei Kuang.

Pei Yuguang also stared intently at the ground full of Thunderstorm Roar Beast’s blood fragments, asking, "Father, is Little Demon Sikong really blown to pieces?"

One by one, gaze froze.

Although Thunderstorm Roar Beast’s spirit shadow couldn’t voice the truth, people felt the situation wasn’t so simple, as Little Demon Sikong had been presumed dead multiple times yet had unbelievably returned each time.

More and more Qianwang people approached; doubt filled their faces.

Pei Kuang furrowed his brows tightly, murmuring, "It is difficult to confirm, logically speaking, he should be dead, but we must remain vigilant, for now, don’t worry about too much else, immediately pursue Yao Yulou, the lead enemy of Qianwang."

"Also, spread my command to carefully monitor the whereabouts of the human-shaped beast. I must know where it is."

"Has it fully demonized, has it exploded and died?"

At this moment, Pei Kuang wasn’t quite concerned about Sikong Jing, his greater concern was about the state of the human-shaped beast. If the beast could recover its spiritual wisdom, the Qianwang Holy Tower would cease to exist.

Though the probability was extremely low, Pei Kuang had to be cautious.

Knowing now Ba Zhun and the Six Clawed Mixed Beast had died.

Even though the gray ancient patch stone was still there, Pei Kuang didn’t know if it could summon other prison guardians anymore...

Overall, he lost one more trump card.

Moreover, Pei Kuang had no idea what kind of terrifying consequences might follow their deaths here.

His understanding of the Absolute Formation Prison was insufficient.

Perhaps the mysterious prison guardian would appear directly.

Still, this wasn’t the time for thinking about it, Pei Kuang personally took people and pursued out.

...

As Pei Kuang led Qianwang soldiers in pursuit, some severely wounded Qianwang defectors stayed in the Holy City, eyes gleaming with enigmatic significance.

Someone murmured, "The Central Plains is about to change completely."

While currently, the situation was that Pei Kuang led men to hunt, and Yao Yulou and others were fleeing Thousand Kings Territory.

But truly, Qianwang Holy Tower was defeated in this battle.

They lost two Holy Martial beings, Qian Ta and Thunderstorm Roar Beast, while severely cutting ties with allies, forcing Qianwang defectors into joining the Overlord Commerce without hesitation.

And previously, were all those entering Qianwang Golden Light Tower really supporters of Qianwang Holy Tower?

Certainly not, there were countless wavering ones.

They just didn’t dare confront Pei Kuang head-on, hence had to enter Qianwang Golden Light Tower.

The most crucial thing is...

In this battle, Overlord Commerce at most lost only Little Demon Sikong.

They even suspected Little Demon Sikong hadn’t truly died, or perhaps he even brought Yao Yulou of the third realm Holy Martial Stage to the Overlord Commerce.

Anyhow...

This battle thoroughly demoted Qianwang Holy Tower from the Central Plains altar, afterward it was impossible for them to gather top sects with any Qianwang Tenth Emperor Battle.

Once all Qianwang defectors break through, Overlord Commerce genuinely becomes capable of directly confronting Qianwang Holy Tower.

The Central Plains is really going to change.

"But whether the human-shaped beast would truly perish due to excessive demonization?"

Someone else murmured lowly...

This matter held significant importance for them; if the human-shaped beast could return, Qianwang Holy Tower wouldn’t need to battle.

...

Could the human-shaped beast really return?

The answer was almost negative as the Pure Spirit Heart’s three opportunities were exhausted, and Sikong Jing couldn’t demonize to the Divine Martial Stage again, nor demonize anymore.

Currently, Sikong Jing, carrying immense demonic qi, had already flashed out of the Qianwang Holy Tower’s territory.

He murmured lowly, "After my beast-shaped spirit shadow shattered, I finally stepped down from the Divine Martial Stage."

To descend from the Divine Martial Stage, Sikong Jing infused a substantial amount of demonic qi into the Thunderstorm Roar Beast’s body, then let the beast-shaped spirit shadow be shattered, ultimately weakening the demonic qi to reach the Holy Martial Peak Realm.

"But this cannot continue, the Pure Spirit Heart won’t last long."

Even though stepping down from the Divine Martial Stage slightly slow the consumption of the Pure Spirit Heart, it’s still hard to manage.

"I must find a place to strike my demon body, keeping me constantly awake."

"Moreover, this place must be devoid of human or beast presence; otherwise I’d lose control wanting to devour them; but where is a place with no humans or beasts, yet can strike my demon body?"

"Is there any desolate land within the Deserted Sea Forbidden Land capable of striking my Holy Martial Peak demon body?"

Sikong Jing murmured lowly...

His mind flashed through various terrifying desolate lands he’d seen, yet none could suppress his Holy Martial Peak demon body.

Suddenly, cold glimmers sparkled in Sikong Jing’s eyes, "Right, the Desert Sea Absolute Array!"