It became filled with death energy and despair.
“Boom!”
A jet-black death energy, like dragon breath, surged towards Shien like a vengeful ghost formed from countless resentful spirits, with faces full of pain appearing within it, emitting an aura that could corrode everything.
“Swoosh!”
Shien didn’t hesitate, teleporting away.
The death energy, with its fluctuating faces, slammed into the ground in front of Limgir, spreading like poisonous gas.
Then, a horrifying scene appeared.
The ground was instantly dyed black, as if all life force had been drained from it. At a speed visible to the naked eye, it first became dry and cracked, then turned into gravel, forming a desert, and finally completely disappeared, leaving behind a terrifyingly large crater.
“Holy moly.”
Shien reappeared in the distance, looking at this scene in astonishment.
Limgir, on the other hand, cried out joyfully as if he had seen his savior.
“Save me! Save me! High Priest!”
Limgir had completely abandoned his past image.
That hoarse and piercing voice immediately responded to him.
“Considering that you have successfully transformed into a Greater Spirit, I’ll spare your life this time and overlook your outburst.”
Saying that, a black shadow floated like a ghost from the direction of the waterfall.
A black robe hovered in mid-air like a Grim Reaper.
A skeletal hand raised, holding a crystal ball.
The being known as the High Priest finally arrived.
A dense death aura fluctuated around her, corroding the atmosphere.
“Bang!”
The stone on Limgir shattered.
The High Priest merely released a wave of death energy towards him, and that death energy, like the ground just now, made the stone dry and crack at a speed visible to the naked eye, then, under Limgir’s struggles, it crumbled into gravel.
Limgir fell to the ground, his body covered in blood, looking battered and miserable.
However, the flesh and blood on his body also rapidly regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye, strangely fast.
“Not bad.”
The High Priest looked at this scene, her raspy voice filled with joy and relief.
“The transformation efficiency is very high. Although there’s still a gap compared to ‘that failed product,’ after a thousand years, being able to create another Greater Spirit isn’t a waste of the [Soul Essence] I’ve collected for so many years.”
Hearing this, regardless of Shien’s reaction, Limgir understood the reason for the changes in his body.
He knew he had become stronger, suddenly possessing power he couldn’t have imagined before, but he didn’t know why.
Now it seemed that it was inseparable from the [Soul Essence] he consumed.
“Here.”
The High Priest was in a very good mood, raising the crystal ball in her hand. Several ghastly green lights emerged from the crystal ball, like swimming venomous snakes, grabbed by the High Priest’s skeletal hand and thrown to Limgir.
Limgir was overjoyed and grabbed the snake-like green lights without hesitation, devouring them like a ferocious beast.
The High Priest then turned to Shien.
Her skeletal eye sockets under the hood stared intently at Shien, like a true Grim Reaper, and she said coldly,
“Although I don’t know who you are, you dared to trespass on my territory, take away our captured toys, and almost ruin my hard-won creation. How are you going to compensate me?”
As she spoke, the death aura surging around the High Priest intensified, and painful faces emerged within it again, a terrifying sight.
Shien looked at the High Priest, glanced at Limgir, who was still devouring the ghastly green light, thought about their conversation just now, and smiled faintly.
“Want compensation? That’s easy.” Shien said with a smirk, “It’s just a matter of whether you can take it.”
These words instantly made the atmosphere drop to freezing point.
The High Priest didn’t get angry, but her eyes grew colder and colder.
“You’re very brave.” The High Priest said coldly, “It’s been many years since someone dared to speak to me like this.”
“Really?” Shien remained unmoved, even sneering, “Isn’t that because you’re hiding and don’t dare to show your face?”
“You’re quite bold.” The High Priest didn’t get angry, but instead chuckled, a creepy and terrifying laugh, “Do you really think that with a bit of skill, you can act so arrogantly before me?”
“Who knows?” Shien just wanted to say that he had never been afraid of anyone in a verbal sparring match, so he said without hesitation, “I don’t know if I can act arrogantly, but I can do whatever I want.”
“Interesting.” The High Priest said indifferently, “In that case, I’d like to see how you plan to do whatever you want here.”
Saying that, the High Priest raised the crystal ball in her hand high.
“Clang!”
A ghastly green light bloomed from the crystal ball, illuminating the entire area.