
The dark purple mist increasingly densely enveloped Xie Ran's body. Xie Ran clenched his hands, feeling his entire body being powerlessly torn apart. He felt his entire body until his soul was torn apart, he lowered his head, gritting his teeth enduring the pain.
Sweat ran down and dripped onto the floor. The dripping sweat started to mix with the bright red blood droplets spilling from his mouth. His spiritual power had been sealed so that he could not hold on any longer until his breath was stung, as if at any moment he would die.
Huai Mao looked at him with a fluffy smile. He had given the puppet curse to Xie Ran so that whatever he wanted, Xie Ran would do it consciously. Just like Xie Chen, Xie Ran would be his puppet.
By just catching Xie Ran, he would never be satisfied. He knew he could not kill Xie Ran, so he had to control it as he wished. If the curse of the puppet managed to cling to his soul, forever Xie Ran would only obey his orders.
The advantage of making Xie Ran a puppet was not only to deter Xie Wang's rebellion, the other thing was none other than Qu Xuanzi. If he could control Xie Ran, he could force Qu Xuanzi to stand by his side with Xie Ran's life guaranteed. That will be his time of glory.
"Huai Mao, you're still too naive."
The cold voice came out accompanied by the chilling air. At the same time, two bright rays shot out accompanied by a gust of cold air and ice flowers sticking out of the ground gave a barrier to everyone in the hall so as to confine them in their respective places.
Everyone was shocked and retreated, they wanted to leave but the entire street was blocked by a thick wall of ice that was almost indestructible. They tried to shatter the ice many times, even Xie Chen could not crush it until he could only stay still on the spot looking at the two figures that had suddenly appeared uninvited.
The two figures swiftly stood in front of Xie Ran who was filled with dark energy, giving him a bully. Ann Rou raised her whip destroying the chains wrapped around Xie Ran.
The sound of the broken chain rang out loud, the clang of the falling chain shocked everyone which made them barely let out an eyeball. With just a single lash, such a thick chain was smashed into pieces!
Just as the chains shattered, Xie Ran again felt spiritual energy flowing throughout his body. The pure energy re-activated and repelled all incoming dark energy until the two collided. Xie Ran immediately set it up, neutralized everything and devoured the puppet curse until it was left unattended to be purified and made into pure body breaking materials.
The dark purple mist turned white which continued to absorb into Xie Ran's body. Not for a minute, Xie Ran opened his eyes with a striking blue iris before finally returning to normal.
Xie Ran's gaze remained calm, while standing up and walking to the side of Ann Rou and Dou Dou. He had not expected to feel so refreshed after suffering the previous torture.
When he felt pure energy reacting to the puppet curse, he directly controlled it letting the pure energy slowly devour the puppet curse into its own energy and made a breakthrough on the pure body to the third stage. With this, he could transform into a dragon aura form without the help of Long Long.
Huai Mao also felt a drastic change in Xie Ran's strength that made his face even darker and ugly. He saw two holy animals that had fought him, especially Ann Rou, the whiny who lost all three tails.
"You didn't expect it, did you?" Xie Ran pulled the corner of his lips, but did not show any fine wrinkles in the eyes. "Thank you for the conversation and the welcome, it's my turn."
Just when Xie Ran said so, the black-robed demons moved from outside the hall and immediately stood guard around the ice wall blocking everyone on the side of the hall. The elders and a few others were puzzled, why did these demons not attack Xie Ran, instead just silently as if waiting for an order.
"By the way, I thank your most loyal subordinate in the Tang Family. If he doesn't provide the soul-control potion that keeps these demons on my side, I might have a hard time. Give my thanks to Mo Shenxi."
Xie Ran's words made Huai Mao's mood even worse. Destroyed was all his plans, even his people had taken advantage of Xie Ran. He wondered, since when did Xie Ran think of all those plans?
Unfortunately Xie Ran did not have the time to tell that he had his friends poison those who followed Xie Chen looking for Xie Ran while Xie Ran held Xie Chen for almost an hour in the fight. Moreover, Xie Ran was also so curious about Xie Chen's strength that he measured it yesterday. That'sallthatis.
Regarding Mo Shenxi's potion, he retrieved it from Mo Shenxi's room's basement. He took everything and did a little research during the trip back to Zichen City, who would have thought it would be very useful here. Initially he took it as a form of anticipation in case something happened.
But, even though he had planned this since knowing that Xie Chen was looking for him, he was still dissatisfied with his own plans. After all, Huai Mao was extremely strong. All of that had to depend on what Huai Mao did next.
"Xie Ran, are you playing around?" Huai Mao looked down at Xie Ran lightly. He was still sitting on his throne with his legs crossed, looking at all the defected demons as well as his people who were confined within the thick ice wall.
If this was done for an ordinary human, Xie Ran's plan included a final and could not be reversed anymore. But, the target was a thousand-year-old hell cat.
Huai Mao laughed as if all of this was just a joke. He looked at Xie Ran amusedly and then got up from his chair as he walked over.
"Xie Ran, do you know who your opponent is? These children's games ...." He raised his hand, a dark purple mist appeared, darting to various sides smashing each wall thick to pieces freeing everyone. He continued with a demonic smile, "It doesn't affect me at all."
"I know." Xie Ran was not at all surprised that the thick wall was smashed. If Huai Mao killed all those demons, he was also not surprised because he knew this would happen and had prepared for it. After all, he didn't mean to keep them locked up.
The previous attempt was simply to pry information and break away. He will fight fairly.
In just an instant, everyone in the hall targeted Xie Ran. The demons that Xie Ran was in control prepared to block everyone in the hall with weapons and with gazes full of killing intent.
Ann Rou and Dou Dou had also prepared with their respective weapons, protecting the front and rear Xie Ran from the foolish humans who tried to harm their fellows for the sake of the other races.
Huai Mao smirked. "Only with this, do you think you can beat me?"
Xie Ran remained calm, his gaze directed at the large chair behind Huai Mao. "You better get out of there."
Just as Xie Ran's voice rang out, several rays appeared in gigantic sizes as if a huge monster had appeared charging towards them from the direction of the large chair behind Huai Mao. Three huge figures came out in a giant form up to the hollow roof of the hall, causing everyone to try to get out of the hall of the presence of a large creature that broke the aura without any signs.
Three figures with two pairs of wings appeared causing an uproar. One of them flew through the air, letting out a loud roar electrifying the sky with a long body like a snake made everyone clearly see it the monstrous monster in the sky that invaded the Xie Clan.
The others stepped on the roof of the hall which was the tallest tower in the Xie Clan. Its size was almost as big as a hall, clutching the roof with pointed nails and roaring into the sky.
A red figure appeared right in front of them like a mountain, roaring with an incredible air of arrows causing everyone to bounce back just like a roar accompanied by hot steam that made the temperature boil. Although he was not as big as the other two, his fire power was so high that no one could last longer.
The arrival of three dragons at once was the rarest thing they had all witnessed. Not just the people in the Xie Clan, everyone could see three mountain-like figures making a bigger fuss than they could think.
At that moment, they thought that Xie Wang had come back and were angry that his grandson was nowhere to be seen. But when they realized that there had been no signs of Xie Wang's arrival since earlier, they were again confused as to who brought the three dragons at once to destroy the Xie Clan.
Unfinished until there, a long white figure appeared at high speed snatching everyone with terrifying strength!
Right now, a terrifying hiss sounded accompanied by an aura of intense suppression that was not inferior to the three dragons. When they saw clearly what the creature behind the familiar hiss was, they felt their minds had been distorted!
A jade-white phyton appeared right in front of all of them. A trace of seven colors was exposed faintly on his body which showed his identity as the ruler of the snake race, the Seven-colored Phyton!
Dragons and snakes never get along. Why could they be in the same camp today!
The phyton stuck out a long tongue accompanied by a terrible hiss. His huge body was low and rolled towards the girl who had been ignored since the appearance of four monsters in a row.
When they realized that the large phyton was bowing to the little girl they had barely forgotten, they were getting tensed to a jaw drop!
"Crsssss .... (Eating ...)" The big phyton looked at Xie Ran with teary eyes, trying to look pitiful.
Xie Ran smiled faintly, rubbing the head of Xiao Caihong who was whining gently. "You've grown teeth. Today, you can eat meat."
Xiao Caihong looked at Xie Ran happily. His limber body turned around looking at the group of 'food' serving itself before his eyes. His eyes sparkled with a mouth that almost drooled. He will eat fresh meat!
Seeing that, everyone shuddered in horror and looked at Xie Ran in disbelief. Even to death, they would not believe that Xie Ran had conquered and nurtured the lord of the snake race!
At this moment, they would rather be controlled with Xie Ran's strange potion like those demons than be made into the lunch of a baby phyton.
They were all scared and running. While Xiao Caihong had fun with his new 'food' while wandering around with his mouth open. Those with low cultivation could only shout begging not to be eaten.
The elders had a rather high cultivation so they could go away. They would approach Xie Ran to stop this all, but the three dragons snatched them all so badly and did not let them die so easily. They knew how the treatment of these elders and their betrayal supported Huai Mao, they would not let a single one off!
The elders tried to hold on and exert strength to the limit. They wanted to run away, but the dragons did not let them loose so easily and tortured them slowly. If the three dragons wanted the elders dead, they had long since killed him without letting them know what killed them.
The elders knew they had been made into toys by the three dragons, but they had no chance whatsoever but to survive as a joke. All their lives, they had never felt such insane oppression. They'd rather die!
Seeing that the Xie Clan had been made into the playing area of the four monsters, Huai Mao clenched his fists tightly and looked at Xie Ran sharply full of hatred. In just a moment, suddenly the corner of his lips lifted. "You enjoyed it a lot, didn't you?"
Huai Mao's gaze was directed at the indifferent Xie Chen along with the frightened Xie Nu on his back. Huai Mao's dark purple iris became bright red like seeing blood. He raised his hand, unleashed dark energy and possessed Xie Chen without realizing it.
Xie Chen did not even know anything Huai Mao was doing when things went dark. As soon as he opened his eyes, his irises became red like demons with a thick flash of murderous intent. He had no idea what was happening, he only knew that his mind was starting to fill with bloodlust for murder.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Xie Nu became extremely pale when he saw Xie Chen's iris turn red. Xie Chen only glanced at him a glance and left without saying anything.
Xie Nu was surprised at Xie Chen's abandonment, he was about to follow, but Huai Mao suddenly appeared holding back his arm.
"Mother, Sister—"
"That is his duty" Huai Mao said. He did not want to listen to Xie Nu's chatter anymore and closing Xie Nu's voice with dark energy made Xie Nu completely speechless. He could only bow in silence full of fear.
A few meters away, Xie Ran felt a thick killing intent approaching. He gestured for the three dragons to clear them all faster, but suddenly a black mist spread in the air permeated everyone.
The demons that Xie Ran was in control of before had killed many people within the clan, but all of a sudden they were sprawled and turned to ashes in an instant. Not only the demons, the dead humans had also become black ash without leaving blood or bodies. Their ashes condensed into the air, gathering in a dark mist that encompassed the entire clan.
Xie Ran felt that it was not a good thing. As he was about to destroy the collection of mist in the air, his strength collided with the clumping mist until Xie Ran landed back on the ground, watching the process of shrinking the mist into Xie Chen's body.
This power, Xie Ran was very familiar. He had once fought a demon that used the power of sacrifice to increase strength, but the sacrifice this time was more complex than Mo Shenxi's blood sacrifice.
If Mo Shenxi's blood sacrifice relied on human blood to add strength, then this time it was a soul sacrifice that took all the dead souls of both humans and other races to raise the power far to a more terrifying level. This strength would be stronger than Mo Shenxi.
"Miss, leave Xie Chen to us." Dou Dou appeared on Xie Ran's side as well as Ann Rou, staring at Xie Chen warily.
Xie Ran nodded, but suddenly some demons outside his control sprung up from various different directions. Now the clan was filled with demons, simultaneously standing up made Xie Chen a leader.
In general, the demons that Xie Ran controlled were only a portion of the entirety of the demons that existed in the Xie Clan. But the demon that Xie Ran was controlling had died and become ashes due to the previous pressure and became Xie Chen's strength. Now, Xie Chen summoned the remaining demons to fight Xie Ran.
The real battle has begun.