Chapter 528: Capturing Them All

Chapter 528: Capturing Them All

No one whom the spirit kings had tasked to explain things from within the Cursed Earth formation had any success. None of the spirits believed their words, and those subordinates of theirs who had avatars outside found their avatars killed. The spirit kings' rage mounted.

Finally, one of the spirit kings thundered, "Don't worry. This Cursed Earth formation can only trap us, not hurt us. Xiao Nanfeng won't be able to do anything against us, and the island lord will return soon enough. After that, he'll be dead meat."

The other spirit kings could only nod, exasperated.

There were simply too many spirits outside the Cursed Earth formation. He ignored all spirits below Spiritsong, but even then, the purple-furred monsters were all tired out by sealing the cultivation of the regular spirits.

Before long, the islands in their vicinity had all been filled by spirits.

Of course, not all the spirits had been tricked. Some attempted to flee.

Xiao Nanfeng's ten golden crows gave chase, tearing them apart.

"All spirits who flee must be those who hate the Imperial Court. Don't let any of them escape—kill them!" Xiao Nanfeng shouted.

"Understood!" A few purple-furred monsters rushed over.

"Ao Shuai, haven't you heard my command?" Xiao Nanfeng demanded. "Go take down those enemies of the Imperial Court!"

Ao Shuai and the others frowned, but had no choice but to obey.

Only a rare few spirits managed to escape the carnage. The majority died on the spot or were forced to return and have their cultivation sealed.

After several hours, almost all the strongest spirits on Thousand-Spirit Island had been taken down, and those that had perished had been cleaned off the battlefield.

Spectral guards were appearing out of nowhere, bringing ships to the island and escorting the sealed spirits onto them.

Ao Zhou flew up to Xiao Nanfeng. "These spectral guards are amazing actors. I never thought there would be spirits among them, too!"

"Your acting wasn't bad, either," Xiao Nanfeng said.

"Of course!" Ao Zhou preened. "I want half of these spirits."

Xiao Nanfeng rolled his eyes. "Dream on."

Ao Zhou stiffened. "Are you going to take them all for yourself? You can't! Think of how much work I've done!"

"We'll need to check on these spirits' background. Wait until we do so—if there are sea spirits that truly are interested in joining you, feel free to take them."

"That's more like it," Ao Zhou replied.

Ao Shuai had flown over as well by then. He frowned at Ao Zhou and gave him a few looks before turning to Xiao Nanfeng. "Xiao Nanfeng, how do you intend to handle these spirits?"

"We'll talk about that after the fight."

Ao Shuai pursed his lips in dissatisfaction. He wanted to say more, but Xiao Nanfeng wasn't giving him any more of his attention.

He turned to the purple-furred monsters. "Generals, leave with these spirits for the time being."

"Understood!" thousands of purple-furred monsters replied.

A large number of purple-furred lifeforms flew across the surface of the sea, picking up the ships filled with spirits, clouding themselves in white fog, and soaring into the air.

Ao Shuai frowned. He immediately said, "Martial Aspect Xiao, it's dangerous for you to take away the spirits like that. Why don't I assign some of my subordinates to guard the monsters?"

Xiao Nanfeng shook his head. "There's no need. We have a tough battle to come, and all of your subordinates will be needed."

"But these purple-furred monsters don't have any intelligence whatsoever! They've only been hypnotized. What if—" Ao Shuai continued, unwilling to give up.

"I am the commander-in-charge. You listen to my orders," Xiao Nanfeng declared.

Ao Shuai stiffened. "Understood."

Not far away, Ao Shuai was similarly stunned. "Xiao Nanfeng, are you really going to head in there?"

"I am. Keep guard over the formation and prevent any spirits from entering."

Ao Shuai and his subordinates frowned at each other. Was Xiao Nanfeng addled in the head? Was he really intending to commit suicide like this?

As countless baffled gazes watched on, Xiao Nanfeng reined in his ten golden crows and stepped to the side of the Cursed Earth formation. "Let me in."

"Understood!" those manning the formation replied.

Roiling blue fog surrounded Xiao Nanfeng before dragging him into the formation.

Xiao Nanfeng had appeared within.

"Is he serious? Does he have a death wish?!" Ao Shuai shouted.

The spirit kings were equally astounded. "He really came in here to die?"

Just then, the sound of scripture could be heard within the formation, as though there were countless monks chanting.

"Where did these sounds come from?"

"This scripture sounds a little eerie, doesn't it?"

"It does seem cursed..."

The spirit kings were taken aback.

Outside the formation, Ao Shuai suddenly reared back in shock. "Death chants? They're death chants, I'm sure of it! Are the lotus hood cursed effigies back?!"

Ao Shuai's subordinates retreated in panic. Clearly, none of them had gotten over the trauma from the golden lotus hoods.

Just then, one spirit king said, "Ignore the scripture. Take down Xiao Nanfeng first!"

"Got it!" the other spirit kings replied.

They shot toward Xiao Nanfeng.

Suddenly, one of the spirit kings whirled around and struck two other spirit kings, who were leaping toward Xiao Nanfeng, in the back.

The two spirit kings vomited out blood from the sudden attack and were sent sprawling against the barrier.

The sudden transformation left the other spirit kings agape.

"Tiger King, why did you attack the two of them?!" the other spirit kings roared out.

The tiger king flew toward Xiao Nanfeng, landing protectively in front of him.

"You're in cahoots with Xiao Nanfeng?" the spirit kings exclaimed.

Just then, Xiao Nanfeng bowed toward the tiger king. "Senior, I've shown you what these spirit kings have done. They're all evil and malicious, killing and eating humans at will. There's no need to show them any mercy—including the tiger king you're currently possessing."

The tiger king nodded.

All the spirit kings reared back in shock.

"The tiger king has been possessed!" a spirit king cried out.

Ao Shuai blanched. "That tiger king's been possessed? How could the lotus hood cursed effigy be obeying Xiao Nanfeng now? That's impossible!"

Xiao Nanfeng looked toward the tiger king. "You don't have to worry about my safety, Senior. I'll be counting on you."

"Very well!" The tiger king shot toward the gathered spirit kings.