Chapter 26: The Evil Eye King
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As the gray light entered his body, an bone-chilling cold swept through him, and Linley felt as if his entire body had been frozen numb. That gray light, after entering Linley's body, directly shot toward his mind, heading straight to the location of his soul.
The vast soul ocean surged slowly, with the seven-colored crystal suspended above the ocean. A faint green light swirled at the edges of the soul ocean, and a layer of green halo also faintly covered the seven-colored crystal.
But this gray light directly dispersed, turning into a layer of gray halo that covered the boundless soul ocean. The originally surging soul ocean suddenly came to a halt, and even the green halo protecting the soul offered no resistance.
The entire soul ocean and that seven-colored crystal seemed to be covered in a layer of gray halo.
The soul stopped its fluctuations.
The light in Linley's eyes vanished, leaving him numb and mechanical. At this moment, Linley's soul had ceased to fluctuate, and his brain naturally stopped thinking.
Soul, frozen!
"Crackle~~" Ice wildly sprouted from Linley's body surface. In the blink of an eye, Linley was completely covered by several meters of thick ice, forming a massive ice block. As for Olivia... he too had turned into an ice block at this moment.
Desri, Fain, and the others stared in shock.
The Evil Eye King's voice still carried a hint of amusement as he looked around at Desri, Fain, and the others in the distance: "I know one of you must possess the Life Source Pearl, but unfortunately, the Life Source Pearl is useless before me. I'll seal them in ice for now, then slowly torment and kill them. Hmm, now to deal with the four of you."
The Evil Eye King's voice was very gentle. But Desri and the others felt their hearts tremble.
Linley was very strong, they all knew. Yet before this 'Evil Eye King,' Linley was utterly powerless. In truth, when this Necropolis of the Gods was built, those banished to the seventh and eighth layers were all, without exception, the most terrifying life forms among the Saint-levels across countless planes.
Different life forms had different strengths.
For example, the Evil Eye—its greatest specialty was dealing with souls.
"Hmm?" The Evil Eye King's golden single eye suddenly looked toward Olivia, who had been frozen into an ice block.
"Boom!" Countless ice fragments exploded in all directions.
His black-and-white mixed long hair fluttering, Olivia charged out of the ice seal, holding the Frost Sword. The Evil Eye King looked at Olivia in surprise: "What a peculiar soul. How is your soul so aggressive?"
This was his greatest secret! It was also the reason his strength had soared after his battle with Hedderson! And the reason he could simultaneously use the Laws of Light and the Laws of Darkness!
Olivia said nothing, directly turning into a streak of light and charging toward Linley beside him.
Before Olivia, Bebe had already rushed toward Linley.
The Evil Eye King's attention was entirely on Olivia. He didn't even bother to stop Bebe, who had turned into a black streak of light heading for Linley. Bebe's heart was full of anxiety: "Boss, boss, wake up, wake up!"
Bebe's voice reached Linley's soul ocean.
Bebe and Linley were soul-linked. Their communication was essentially a soul-to-soul exchange.
The originally frozen soul ocean trembled slightly, but those gray halos flared up brightly, and the soul ocean once again fell into silence and stillness, without any fluctuation.
"Rip!" Bebe's claws tore through the ice block. The terrifying tearing force shattered the ice into pieces. "Boss, boss. Wake up! Wake up now!!!" Bebe frantically and desperately sent soul messages to Linley, trying to awaken him.
A frozen soul is completely cut off from the outside world. No matter what happens outside—even if his body is severed—Linley would feel nothing.
Only soul communication through a contracted bond could ignore this isolation.
Linley's soul ocean fluctuated once more, but the gray halo covering the entire soul ocean lit up again, though it was clearly growing thinner and thinner. This resistance against the soul ocean's struggle was obviously consuming that energy.
"If you communicate with Linley's soul a few more times, you should be able to wake him," Olivia said to Bebe. "Go quickly."
Bebe, carrying 'Linley,' turned into a streak of light and fled at top speed, all the while continuously calling out to Linley's soul. Finally, within that mind, the soul ocean fluctuated once more, causing the gray halo, now thinned to the extreme, to collapse.
"Hmm? What happened?" Linley was now fully awake.
He was surprised to find that he was being carried at high speed by Bebe, who had enlarged his body.
"Boss, wake up, wake up quickly," Bebe kept calling out, tears in his eyes.
"Bebe," Linley communicated through their soul link and also began flying on his own.
Bebe froze, his small eyes filled with surprise.
"What exactly happened?" Linley was confused. He only remembered being hit by a gray light, then feeling an icy cold all over, and then nothing. When he woke up, Bebe was carrying him and fleeing at top speed.
"Boom!" A terrifying explosion sounded in the distance.
A large amount of ice, like meteorites, came hurtling through the air with a sharp whistle. Linley and Bebe easily dodged them, then turned to look into the distance. Not only Linley looked back, but Desri, Fain, the Three-Headed Six-Eyed Golden Lion, and other experts who had fled far away also turned to look.
At that sight, everyone's faces showed surprise and joy.
That Evil Eye King's massive ice body had actually exploded, and it was clearly split open by a single sword strike from Olivia. At this moment, Olivia was standing in midair, holding his longsword, his eyes closed.
"Good," Linley praised.
"Olivia, be careful," one of the Six-Eyed Golden Lions shouted. "The Evil Eye King's true body is that single eye. The ice body is just condensed energy."
"Haha..."
That vertical golden eye floated in midair, its voice eerily sounding, "Right, that magical beast is correct. The ice body is just something I casually condensed. Haha, I've been in this Necropolis of the Gods for so long and killed quite a few experts, but I've never encountered a soul as peculiar as yours. Interesting, very interesting."
Olivia kept his eyes closed, as a large amount of thin dark energy spread out in all directions.
It was by relying on the area covered by this dark energy that Olivia could sense where the Evil Eye King was. After all, Olivia didn't dare to stare directly at that golden eye. If he made eye contact with the single eye, the closer the distance, the greater the threat.
As for Linley and the others, they had already fled several miles away. Even with good eyesight, they could only vaguely see a golden dot. They weren't affected.
"Swish!" Dark energy covered half of Olivia's body, while light energy covered the other half. His black-and-white mixed hair swirling with battle qi, Olivia, eyes still closed, shot like an arrow straight toward that golden eye.
The Frost Sword in his hand slashed down with an unstoppable momentum. Where the sword passed, several spatial ripples appeared in the air.
"Whoosh." Like a phantom of light.
The golden eye vanished from its original spot and appeared a hundred meters away. Its speed far surpassed that of Bebe, Fain, and Desri. The massive golden eye eerily emitted a voice: "Haha, trying to kill me? Dream on!" At the same time, a violent, freezing air current wildly surged toward the golden eye, instantly forming a raging whirlwind. The golden eye was the core of this massive vortex.
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Watching this scene unfold, Desri, Linley, and the other experts gathered together.
"Everyone must be careful. Don't get hit by that gray light again," Desri said, looking around. "Everyone, what do we do now?"
Seeing the golden eye's movement speed just now, all the experts present understood that in terms of speed, no one could match this Evil Eye King.
"There's one last option," the Six-Eyed Golden Lion spoke up. "The three of us can use the same move we used on the seventh layer. We'll trap the Evil Eye King. I believe the Evil Eye King's resistance won't be stronger than Mother Empress 'Lashabell's.'"
Everyone's eyes lit up.
"Even if we trap him, the Evil Eye King can still fire that gray light without moving," Linley said with a frown.
"That's fine. While we trap him, we'll attack his single eye," Fain said. "Maybe we can even kill this Evil Eye King."
"No, I advise everyone not to try to kill the Evil Eye King. It's better to enter the ninth layer first," the Six-Eyed Golden Lion objected.
"Why?" Desri asked, puzzled.
Another Six-Eyed Golden Lion explained, "According to what we know, the Evil Eye clan's attacks, besides the soul attack they used on Linley and Olivia just now, also include soul control and physical attacks."
Everyone's hearts tightened.
"Krio and the others will trap the Evil Eye King, and I'll attack him," the silent Black-Armored Giant Scorpion suddenly spoke. "All of you should rush into the passage and enter the ninth layer."
Everyone looked at the Black-Armored Giant Scorpion in surprise.
"Don't worry, I have some confidence," the Black-Armored Giant Scorpion said confidently.
"Haha... Do you think I only know soul freeze?" A loud laugh came from the distance. The whirlwind had stopped, and now an ice giant, only ten meters tall, appeared. That golden single eye was inside the ice giant's body.
The ice was transparent, and the massive golden single eye inside the ice giant's body could be clearly seen.
"Let's go," the leading Six-Eyed Golden Lion commanded.
Then, the ten experts flew back at top speed. At this moment, the Evil Eye King's interest was all on Olivia. A soul as unique as Olivia's—the Evil Eye King had never encountered one in all these years. Being very knowledgeable about souls, he naturally wanted to capture Olivia alive, control his soul, and study it carefully.
"Whoosh." The ice giant flickered and appeared before Olivia.
Olivia still had his eyes closed. He rapidly retreated while slashing diagonally downward with the Frost Sword.
"Clang." The ice giant blocked with its left arm.
At the same time, its right fist slammed heavily into Olivia. Caught off guard, Olivia was sent flying. "Boom!" He crashed into a distant iceberg, causing cracks to appear in it. Olivia rolled and stood up.
"What a hard arm. Dozens of times harder than before," Olivia thought with shock.
Although the ice giant had originally been as large as a mountain, after its body was destroyed, it condensed into a ten-meter-tall ice giant, but the ice's hardness had greatly increased. Olivia's full-powered sword strike only managed to cut halfway into the ice giant's arm.
The Evil Eye King was about to charge at Olivia again when he suddenly noticed a black streak darting toward the passage. He became furious.
"Swish." A gray light shot directly from the golden eye inside his body.
That black streak seemed to know in advance, dodging and then slamming into the frozen passage entrance. The hard ice exploded from the impact. "Boss, everyone, hurry!" A voice came from within the passage.
"Ahhh~~" The Evil Eye King was enraged. He hadn't expected those fleeing intruders to dare return. He now noticed Desri, Fain, Linley, and the three Six-Eyed Golden Lions rushing at top speed toward the passage entrance.
"Die!"
The Evil Eye King, in a fury, suddenly emitted a blinding golden light as thick as an arm from his golden eye. This dazzling golden light instantly streaked across the sky, shooting directly at the foremost person, 'Desri.' Beside Desri, the Black-Armored Giant Scorpion's tail pointed straight at the Evil Eye King's golden eye.
"Pfft—"
A black light as thick as a finger shot out from the scorpion's tail at incredible speed, even faster than the golden light. In an instant, it struck the ice giant's body. The enraged Evil Eye King didn't dodge—no, it wasn't that he didn't dodge, but...
At this moment, a layer of black halo had already covered the Evil Eye King's body surface. He was now, like Mother Empress 'Lashabell' before, completely immobilized.
The Six-Eyed Golden Lion's ultimate move—Imprisonment!
"Pfft!" The black light from the Black-Armored Giant Scorpion's tail easily pierced through the ice and struck the massive golden eye inside.
"Oww~~" The Evil Eye King let out a agonized scream, and the black halo covering his entire body began to tremble.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"...
Linley, Desri, Fain, and the other experts all rushed into the passage at lightning speed. Even Olivia took this opportunity to dash into the passage at top speed.