[With the White Elephant Demon helping with all its might, and with the consciousness body of the dragonborn fighting in coordination, although the one hundred and eight Great Dark Heavens kept surrounding and attacking with fierce momentum, they were unable to inflict further damage upon your souls.]

[After holding out for a long while, the hundred plus Great Dark Heavens suddenly all stop and stare at you with hearts full of malice…]

[The White Elephant Demon knows that the illusion is about to enter the fourth layer. It hurriedly pulls back, sits down cross-legged to recover its Dharma power. As the stronger one, it had exerted itself without reservation in the battle just now, and its consumption of Dharma power was likewise considerable.]

[It wipes the sweat from its forehead and, panting heavily, says to you, Junior Brother, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and sit down to recover your Dharma power!]

[In a moment, these soul monsters will merge together and enter the fourth layer of illusion. At that point, the Great Dark Heaven King that appears will be extremely powerful. If your Dharma power runs short halfway through the fight, then soul dispersal will be no joke.]

[Hearing this, you tease it, Has Senior Brother ever seen me shed even a single drop of sweat? I do not need to recover Dharma power, because my Dharma power is inexhaustible…]

[The White Elephant Demon is stunned. Seeing your easy, relaxed expression, without even breathing heavily, it seems you really have not consumed much Dharma power.]

Lin Xun’s Child of Evil Shell possessed infinite stamina, and its skills all consumed stamina. The only skill that consumed its own energy, Extreme Evil Assault Demon Claw, was now too low in skill grade, making its damage unsatisfactory, so he had barely used it.

The Child of Evil could advance in Shell quality, and could also use the various cultivation methods of this world to absorb incense malice and raise its own Shell level.

The Wheel of All Evil Karma could only shape clay idols, while higher Buddhist cultivation methods could shape more advanced divine images, allowing more efficient absorption and conversion of incense power, thereby rapidly raising levels.

As long as Lin Xun conquered a few more temples in the mortal world and absorbed large amounts of incense power, the Child of Evil’s level would soon surpass the Executor.

At that point, the Child of Evil would become the leader among his many Shells.

In this world, the Child of Evil’s Shell could be said to be like a fish in water. Its only weakness was that its offensive skills were too lacking, completely unable to keep up with the speed at which the Shell itself advanced, seriously dragging down the Shell’s overall strength.

In this regard, the Child of Evil could not compare to the little dragonkin. The little dragonkin’s bloodline skills had themselves already reached the astonishing level of eternal+ grade. It was only because Lin Xun’s own Authority power was insufficient that he needed to constantly raise his strength to unseal and release the little dragonkin’s battle power.

Lin Xun had snatched some treasures and cultivation methods from the Wondrous Treasure Hall and Wondrous Dharma Hall, but the White Elephant Demon’s Passage Ordination Permit did not have enough authority, leaving him unable to take the true divine grade artifacts and divine cultivation arts…

[Not long afterward, the bodies of the one hundred and eight Great Dark Heavens all shatter, turning into endless black qi that gathers together into a towering and majestic Six-Armed Great Dark Heaven King!]

[Its body is as vague and translucent as the ordinary Great Dark Heavens, entirely blue-black in color, wrapped in tiger skin, with a large human-skull prayer bead necklace hanging from its neck, and a crown of five skulls on its head.]

[A savage, enormous patterned snake hangs down from its neck, and it holds a human-bone bowl, a crescent blade, bone prayer beads, a trident, a human-skin drum, and a long hooked rope…]

[The White Elephant Demon abruptly rises to its feet, tightly gripping its pair of hammers as it immediately charges forward.]

[It shouts, Junior Brother, the six ritual implements of this Great Dark Heaven King all possess the power to harm the soul. In fighting it, you must be extremely careful, and do not let those ritual implements injure your soul!]

[You understand that you and your Senior Brother are grasshoppers tied to the same rope. If the White Elephant Demon dies here, you will likewise find it difficult to escape this tribulation.]

[You take a deep breath and immediately step forward, joining forces with the White Elephant Demon against the enemy!]

[The Great Dark Heaven King wields its gigantic trident and bends down, thrusting it at the White Elephant Demon!]

[Knowing that the monster’s ritual implements are impossible to block, the White Elephant Demon dodges the strike in a flash. Just as it is about to close in and smash out with one hammer, the crescent blade slashes toward it again!]

[The monster’s offensive is as dense as the tide, wave after wave, giving the White Elephant Demon no chance whatsoever to catch its breath. It can only dodge again and again in desperate haste. Forget finding an opening to counterattack, merely continuing to evade is already full of peril.]

[You are just about to step in and help when the Great Dark Heaven King grins savagely and aims the mouth of its human-bone bowl at you from afar…]

[You suddenly feel the very air around you solidify, your hands and feet becoming stiff and unable to move, while that long hooked rope whips toward you.]

[Seeing that there is no way to dodge, with the sharp point of the hooked rope flashing coldly right before your eyes, you hear the White Elephant Demon roar in fury. It forcefully takes one of the monster’s chopping blows, and its pair of iron hammers smash toward the monster’s knees!]

[With a thunderous boom, all that violent force erupts, and the Great Dark Heaven King is knocked askew, causing the hooked rope to lose its aim and brush past your shoulder before embedding itself into the ground beside you.]

[You know that the White Elephant Demon used a desperate style of trading injury for injury to let you escape this calamity.]

[However, the White Elephant Demon does not fare well after forcibly taking one of the monster’s chops either. Its face turns deathly pale, its steps unsteady and staggering, clearly showing that its soul has suffered heavy damage.]

[You narrow your eyes and immediately pull out three Nine Nether Earth-Treasury Precious Lotus Seeds, shouting, Senior Brother, catch!]

[With that, you throw the precious medicine capable of healing soul injuries in one handful toward the White Elephant Demon.]

[The White Elephant Demon catches them in its hand. Seeing that these are the treasures it had previously given you to stabilize your soul, it immediately understands that back in the Demon-Subduing Hall, it had been fooled by you again…]

[Its expression grows complicated. It feels both gratitude and the urge to grind its teeth at you, and what it is thinking and feeling is truly hard to describe in a single sentence.]

[The battle is too intense to allow it to dwell on such thoughts. After swallowing the lotus seeds, its spirit jolts, and it throws itself forward once more, going all out in battle again!]

This Great Dark Heaven King BOSS was extremely monstrous, possessing powerful control methods. The moment one was controlled, if aid did not arrive in time, the BOSS would land a hit, reducing soul strength by 1 point.

Fortunately, that control method had a certain cooldown time and could not be used repeatedly in succession.

With the experience from earlier, Lin Xun and the White Elephant Demon worked together with one heart. Whenever one of them was controlled, the other would immediately launch a fierce assault, forcing the BOSS to switch its attack target.

Thus, the two of them managed to hold on for the moment. Otherwise, the nine lotus seeds in his hand would have been exhausted before long.

However, the BOSS of the fourth layer of illusion was even more difficult to deal with than imagined…

[You and the White Elephant Demon barely manage to hold out for a while, when, as time passes, black qi begins to gather on the human-skin drum in the Great Dark Heaven King’s hand.]

[Now, that human-skin drum has become completely shrouded in black qi, unable to gather any more.]

[The White Elephant Demon clearly notices this as well. A bad premonition rises in its heart, and just as it is about to speak, the Great Dark Heaven King suddenly slams its hand against the great drum!]

[Dong, a tremendous boom! Invisible soundwaves burst outward!]

[You feel as though someone has smashed your head with a hammer, and your vision goes black, the world spinning around you…] 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

[You have suffered a soul attack!]

[Soul strength -1]

[Current remaining soul strength: 5/7]

[You cannot help but collapse to the ground, your vision wavering so badly that you cannot see anything clearly.]

[Not far away, the White Elephant Demon is likewise left dizzy and reeling by the drumbeat, its face pale as paper, clearly showing that its soul too has been damaged.]