Chapter 23: The Millennium Evil Eye Tyrant

Half a minute later.

The staff member connected to his spirit communicator.

"Yes... yes... yes... Understood, Your Excellency, I know."

Once the other end hung up, he bowed respectfully toward Xu Minghuang and quietly exited the room. Although he was burning with curiosity to see the six-year-old child fight the guardian, he was bound by orders and had no choice but to wait outside.

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Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, Core Zone.

Xu Zhao stood before Xiaoyue in its six-winged form, watching a massive shadow cast from the sky as it slowly descended before him.

"Its tentacles are entirely silvery-white and translucent. It seems my luck is good; it is actually a pure mental-attribute Evil Eye."

"Let me see then, whether the spirit bone that sustains your source of power is a skull spirit bone or an external spirit bone."

The guardians of the Spirit Ascension Platform derive their power from the spirit bone that constructs them. This thousand-year-level Evil Eye Tyrant possessed a pure mental attribute, which meant the spirit bone hosting it also originated from a pure mental-attribute Evil Eye Tyrant. The Evil Eye Tyrant clan drops only two types of spirit bones: skull spirit bones or external spirit bones.

Since this was a thousand-year-level Evil Eye Tyrant, there were only two possibilities for its core spirit bone: a thousand-year skull spirit bone or a thousand-year external spirit bone. Among spirit bones of the same thousand-year rank, how could a skull spirit bone compare to the value of an external one? Naturally, Xu Zhao hoped that this Evil Eye Tyrant was constructed from an external spirit bone.

The Evil Eye clan possessed high intelligence, gaining human-level sentience within a century. This thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant understood the human’s words perfectly, and a surge of fury erupted within it. Its dozen tentacles whipped frantically through the air, and silvery-white mental fluctuations transformed into massive ripples that radiated outward in layers. In an instant, a violent mental storm surged toward him!

"Mental Shock, is it?" Xu Zhao recognized the technique. It was one of the six innate abilities of the Evil Eye clan, capable of destroying the mental consciousness of targets within its range.

"But when it comes to mental power, you are still lacking!"

Before he finished speaking, Xiaoyue transformed into a streak of silver light and merged into Xu Zhao’s body. Instantly, a majestic mental pressure, far exceeding what his age should permit, erupted from Xu Zhao!

This pressure was not a defense; it was like an invisible, colossal hammer slamming head-on into the oncoming mental storm!

Boom—!

There was no sound of physical collision, but a dull, soul-shuddering detonation exploded in the void. The two powerful mental forces clashed and compressed against each other. Transparent ripples visibly distorted the surrounding air, and the rocky ground in the core zone was even carved with fine cracks.

Xu Zhao and the massive Evil Eye Tyrant shuddered simultaneously, both forced back several meters by the immense power. Dust and gravel were swept up by the invisible shockwave and rained down.

"Keee—!!"

With its mental storm crushed head-on, the thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant’s arrogance instantly turned into a furious shriek. Its massive, silvery-white pupil contracted to its limit, as if endless energy were burning and shattering within!

Evil Eye Gaze!

The silvery-white pupil erupted with a condensed beam of mental shock—silent, yet swift as a viper’s strike, instantly crossing space to pierce the center of Xu Zhao’s brow!

Light of Destruction!

Following closely, deep within the colossal pupil, a heart-stopping, ink-green radiance gathered. A massive beam of ink-green light, wreathed in the aura of destruction, tore through the air. With a shrill whistle and ripples of spatial distortion, it slammed into the spot where Xu Zhao had stood a moment before! Where the energy passed, the ground turned charred black, and blades of grass instantly disintegrated into ash.

However, the moment the Evil Eye Gaze locked on, Xu Zhao’s figure had already become intangible!

Swish!

Wind elements swirled, and spatial power folded. His figure left only a faint afterimage as he moved like a phantom. At the very instant before the Evil Eye’s devastating double-strike could reach him, he had performed an incredible side-step and ascent!

The Evil Eye Gaze missed its mark, and the Light of Destruction roared past his afterimage, slamming into a stone forest behind him with a violent explosion, sending fragments of rock spraying like rain.

With both major attacks missing, the Evil Eye’s massive body trembled violently from the reckless discharge of energy. Its silvery-white radiance dimmed instantly, revealing an undeniable weakness.

Opportunity!

In the split second before the Evil Eye could recover its strength, Xu Zhao’s figure abruptly appeared directly above its massive eyeball, aided by a slight fold in space!

Sun, moon, and stars emerged; Primordial Ancient Dragon possession!

A low dragon roar seemed to echo from the ancient past. In an instant, shadows of the sun, moon, and stars swirled around Xu Zhao, and the majestic, imposing shadow of the Primordial Ancient Dragon perfectly overlapped with his body! His right arm was instantly covered in dazzling purple-gold dragon scales, and his entire hand transformed into a ferocious claw capable of tearing through space.

"Xiaoyue, merge!"

The spirit soul Xiaoyue within him did not hesitate. Earth, water, fire, wind, light, darkness, and space! Seven elemental powers were compressed and harmonized to their limit, transforming into seven distinct yet complementary streams of violent energy. Like a spiraling rainbow torrent, they wrapped crazily around the purple-gold dragon claw!

Puchi!

A dull sound like tearing fabric echoed!

The weakened thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant could only turn in time to helplessly watch the shadow of the claw, reflecting the arrival of destruction in its pupil, descend upon it. The next second, the spiraling dragon claw, imbued with the seven elements, penetrated the eyeball’s tough membrane defense without resistance, burying itself deep into the heart of the Evil Eye with precise, violent force!

Rumble—!

The violent power of the seven elements detonated completely within the Evil Eye’s massive energy core! It was as if seven wild dragons were rampaging inside it at once: the power of earth tore its internal structure to shreds; the power of ice and water froze its core; the power of flame incinerated its flesh; the power of the storm pulverized everything; light and darkness annihilated each other; and finally, the power of space expanded the destructive chain reaction to its absolute limit!

The shrill, piercing scream came to an abrupt halt. The thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant’s massive, silvery-white body, containing endless mental light, began to disintegrate and crumble inch by inch from the inside out!

Countless dazzling points of light erupted from the shattered remains like a river flowing in reverse, then swirled and converged rapidly like birds returning to their nest. Finally, they coalesced above Xu Zhao’s outstretched palm into a mysterious vertical eye, radiating pure, powerful mental fluctuations and flowing with silvery-white brilliance.

"It really is an external spirit bone." Xu Zhao looked at the object in his hand, his face breaking into a wide smile.

External spirit bones were rare treasures even in the era of spirit beasts and spirit rings ten thousand years ago; in this current era of spirit souls and spirit rings, they were ten times more precious. Throughout history, the only person recorded to have absorbed an external spirit bone from the Evil Eye clan was Huo Yuhao.

"Whatever the reason the Spirit Pagoda didn't keep this external spirit bone for themselves, it now belongs to me!"