Chapter 668

Chapter 668: Soul Emperor’s Self-Destruct

The Shadow King, along with Yi Chen, struggled to keep up with Bunier and Blake as they raced toward the life planet where the Soul Emperor was located.

Along the way, the Shadow King received a communication request from the Soul Emperor.

According to their agreement, if the Soul Emperor encountered misfortune and teleported to a life planet monitored by a powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, his only hope was to shake off the Tree-Dwelling Tribe member before Bunier and Blake arrived.

Then, he needed to find a hiding place, contact the Shadow King, and inform him of his coordinates so the Shadow King could use a stealth technique to rescue him before Bunier and Blake began their extensive search.

At that moment, the Soul Emperor suddenly reached out to the Shadow King, having temporarily evaded pursuit from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe members, thanks to the desperate resistance of several Soul Kings.

Unfortunately, the Shadow King ignored the communication request from the Soul Emperor.

This made the already anxious Soul Emperor feel even more uneasy.

Upon sensing the terrifying presence of Bunier and Blake, he grew anxious, doubting the information the Shadow King had gathered.

These two Tree-Dwelling Tribe members didn’t seem like level 210 strong fighters; they felt more like level 220 strong fighters.

He couldn’t figure out if it was just his misconception or if the Shadow King had also been deceived by the two strong fighters from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

In the face of urgency, he could not afford to dwell on it.

After barely escaping to another life planet through a spatial rift, he faced more misfortune as a powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe destroyed the rift.

He had to come up with all sorts of ways, even sacrificing over ten Soul Kings, to temporarily throw off the Tree-Dwelling Tribe member’s pursuit, giving him a little free time to contact the Shadow King.

The continued lack of connection to the Shadow King only intensified his anxiety to an extreme level.

When he tried to reach out to the group of Soul Kings who had attacked and assassinated the three Tree-Dwelling Tribe members, the results were the same; he could not contact a single one of them.

It was over!

The Soul Emperor’s face turned grim as he realized this likely meant that the Shadow King and over sixty Soul Kings had met their end.

The cause might be that the two Tree-Dwelling Tribe strong fighters had hidden their true strength, carrying out a scheme targeting the Soul Clan and the Shadow King from the very beginning.

Otherwise, if the two Tree-Dwelling Tribe members truly were level 220, it was impossible for the Shadow King, with his strength realm, not to sense them while in a hiding state.

The reason the two Tree-Dwelling Tribe members hadn’t exposed the Shadow King, allowing him to follow them, was undoubtedly a trap to lure the Shadow King and the Soul Clan into a joint attack that would wipe them all out.

How could this happen?

Why did this happen?

The Soul Emperor’s mindset shattered.

Although he had successfully counterattacked from desperate situations many times before, defeating the Tree-Dwelling Tribe and even evolving their bodies into hosts, which had led to a significant leap in the Soul Clan’s Top-tier Combat Power, this time looked promising yet ended in failure.

Could it be that the Soul Clan’s luck had run out?

The Soul Emperor refused to accept it; he kept trying to contact the Shadow King, but to no avail.

On the other hand, Bunier and Blake finally arrived, successfully regrouping with their team of strong fighters.

Having learned from past failures, Bunier kept the federal High-ranking Leaders close to him to prevent further attacks.

Blake, however, operated alone.

After calculating the potential distance the Soul Emperor could escape into outer space, the two men split up and quickly searched the entire outer space.

Once they confirmed that the Soul Emperor was not found, they began to keep searching in circles while continuously tightening their encirclement.

From the moment the Soul Emperor shook off the pursuit of the powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe to when Bunier and Blake arrived, barely half an hour had passed.

Thus, even if the Soul Emperor escaped at top speed, half an hour wasn’t enough to cover a great distance.

Of course, the term "not able to escape too far" was relative to Bunier and Blake’s speed and Perception Ability.

Although there were only the two of them actively searching, they consistently narrowed the surrounding area with their broad-ranging Perception Ability and incredible speed.

In just over half an hour, Bunier successfully sensed the Soul Emperor hiding within a piece of meteorite.

Clearly, Bunier was so intimidated by the Shadow King’s stealth techniques that he had developed a mental block.

After sensing the Soul Emperor, he didn’t rush to attack.

Instead, he immediately contacted Blake, asking him to come over.

In just a few minutes, Blake rushed in from the other side of the encirclement.

After confirming the Soul Emperor’s location, Bunier stayed put, extending his Perception Ability to the maximum to ensure that he could sense the Shadow King’s presence around him at the first moment.

Blake then launched an aggressive attack, racing swiftly towards the Soul Emperor.

It wasn’t until they were only a million kilometers apart that the Soul Emperor sensed Blake’s terrifying aura.

He turned pale with fear and burst out of the meteorite, fleeing at full speed into the distance.

Unfortunately, there were two major realms between them.

His speed couldn’t compare to Blake’s, and the distance between them closed rapidly.

It was utterly finished!

Knowing he was doomed, the Soul Emperor felt as if his heart had turned to ashes. He fled at full speed while taking out the communication stone to send one last message to the surviving Soul Kings, instructing them to find a way to escape the Fog Cloud Star System with the Soul Clan.

They needed to escape as far as they could and hide as thoroughly as possible.

Boom!

Just as he sent the message, Blake arrived, unleashing a giant branch filled with his fury towards the Soul Emperor.

The Soul Emperor couldn’t defend himself, failing even to dodge the strike, and was instantly sent tumbling away by the branch.

His body was split in half.

The Soul Emperor flew out from his shattered form, wanting to plead for mercy, but the words caught in his throat.

Winners are kings, losers are thieves.

He had no fear of death.

What truly terrified him was the destruction of the Soul Clan because of his actions.

Even if he wanted to beg for mercy, he wished for the Tree-Dwelling Tribe to spare the Soul Clan, giving them a glimmer of hope.

But he also understood that this was nearly a wishful thinking.

The Soul Clan was the greatest enemy of the vassal races of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe and had previously teamed up with the Shadow King to kill many Tree-Dwelling Tribe members, including some powerful beings, turning hundreds of Tree-Dwelling Tribe members into hosts.

With the terrifying strength of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, it was impossible to forgive such a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Soul Clan.

Of course, the most important factor was that the Soul Clan couldn’t offer anything to make the Tree-Dwelling Tribe spare their lives.

In this confrontation, if they won, the Soul Clan’s Top-tier Combat Power would rise even higher.

If they lost, only extinction awaited them.

“A mere ant dares to provoke our Tree-Dwelling Tribe. Today, I will make you witness the annihilation of the Soul Clan! You will endure a million years of torment, living forever in agony and pain!”

Blake roared fiercely, his expression twisted.

The giant branch began to extend thousands of smaller branches, circling and trapping the Soul Emperor.

Despite his rage, he did not intend to kill the Soul Emperor immediately.

One reason was that he hoped to extract information about the Shadow King from the Soul Emperor, perhaps even locating the Shadow King through him.

Although the Soul Emperor likely had little chance of knowing the Shadow King’s hiding place, even if he did know, the Shadow King wouldn’t remain in the same spot.

And they still had Mares, who could continue searching for the Shadow King.

However, a little hope was better than none.

What was more important was that the Soul Emperor and the Soul Clan had repeatedly humiliated the Tree-Dwelling Tribe in front of the High-ranking Leaders of the human federation, even daring to turn Tree-Dwelling Tribe members into hosts.

This was a tremendous disgrace to the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, and they could not easily kill the Soul Emperor.

Making him suffer the agony of wanting to live but being unable to was the best punishment for him.

Boom!

Just as countless branches were about to ensnare the Soul Emperor, his body suddenly exploded.

With no hope of survival, the Soul Emperor resolutely chose to self-destruct.

“…… ”

Blake was speechless.

His rage only intensified, not dissipating due to the Soul Emperor’s self-destruction but swelling further because he couldn’t subject the Soul Emperor to the torture he desired.

Yet, the Soul Emperor was dead, and no matter how powerful Blake was, he could not bring the Soul Emperor back to life to fulfill his earlier thoughts.

That feeling left him in unbearable torment.