The broken walls and ruins are everywhere, the ground stained red with blood and scorched by flames, forming patches of dark brown filth.
Severed limbs are scattered everywhere, some corpses charred and curled up, while others remain in their final terrified pose, eyes wide open, hollow and soulless, evidently devoured of their Divine Soul.
But what is most spine-chilling are the residual souls wandering among the ruins!
They pounce on corpses still warm or already cold, greedily gnawing and sucking on the remnants of Divine Soul fragments!
Some residual souls even fight among themselves to seize a "fresh" corpse, emitting a silent yet fiercely spiteful shriek.
The entire camp has turned into a living hell!
The cries have long since vanished, leaving only the crackling of flames, the boom of collapsing structures, and... the chilling, spine-tingling whispering sound of countless residual souls devouring Divine Souls!
"Ugh..."
Gu Yuan took only one glance, and her stomach churned violently, a strong feeling of nausea rising to her throat. She hastily covered her mouth, barely holding back from vomiting on the spot.
This scene was too brutal and terrifying, far beyond her psychological capacity.
Gu Sheng’s expression, however, remained calm, as if below was just a common ruin.
His gaze quickly swept across the entire battlefield, searching for those residual soul targets whose aura were relatively strong enough to be worth engaging.
"Go down."
Gu Sheng, with Gu Yuan, descended onto a relatively open area on the edge of the small town, unaffected by the blaze.
As soon as they landed, it was like throwing a stone into the tranquil (but chaotic) surface of a lake!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
From the shadows of the ruins around, from the street corners, from behind burning houses...
Distorted, semi-transparent figures instantaneously converged from all directions!
The hollow eye sockets locked tightly on Gu Sheng and Gu Yuan, especially on Gu Sheng, with his vigorous Qi-Blood and powerful Divine Soul aura, a fatal attraction to them!
In just the blink of an eye, the dense swarm of residual souls had completely surrounded the two on the open ground!
There were thousands of them!
Their rich, chilling, deathly aura gathered, forming a suffocating, icy storm, trapping the two firmly at the center!
Most of these residual souls were at the Earth Martial Realm level, among them dozens whose aura was significantly stronger, Sect Realm residual souls!
They gradually approached, the invisible killing intent and greed almost becoming tangible!
Gu Yuan’s face turned ashen, her body involuntarily tense, subconsciously stepping closer to Gu Sheng.
Being locked by thousands of malicious gazes, the pressure would be enough to make an ordinary Martial Artist’s spirit collapse.
Gu Sheng, however, seemed unaware of the terrifying array, his gaze sweeping over the approaching residual souls, and instead, a slight curve forming at the corner of his mouth.
"Perfect timing."
He murmured softly to himself.
Thousands of distorted, semi-transparent residual soul figures surged from the shadows of the ruins from all directions, encircling Gu Sheng and Gu Yuan tightly at the center!
The rich, chilling deathly aura gathered into a gray storm, cold as ice, almost freezing one’s soul.
Countless hollow eye sockets locked onto them, especially Gu Sheng, his abundant Qi-Blood and Power of Divine Soul an irresistible extreme temptation to these residual souls!
Gu Yuan felt a chill shoot from her soles to her Heavenly Spirit, her hairs standing on end, her heart nearly stopping!
She subconsciously clenched her fists, her nails deeply embedded into her palms, barely suppressing the fear from deep within her soul.
Never had she faced so many residual souls up close before, the gathered malice and deathly aura almost consuming her!
Right in that critical moment, Gu Sheng moved.
He did not draw his sword, nor did he perform any earth-shattering Martial Technique, merely calmly raising his right hand.
A low, grand hum, as if traversing ancient space-time, suddenly erupted!
An ancient, weighty, and endlessly profound aura-emitting Bronzed Cauldron’s shadow gradually emerged above his palm, transforming from illusion to reality!
Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron!

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