629: Chen De Slays the Three Corpses (Part Four)

After a moment's thought, Chen De understood Xie Feng's intentions.

As he withdrew the power he had extended, he grumbled with a bit of annoyance.

Who was he trying to guard against?!

Did he not trust a man like Chen?

Xie Feng turned his head and shot a glance at Chen De, but said nothing before turning back.

Chen De knew exactly what that look meant.

He only had himself to blame for being so upright and open in his actions, never deigning to hide anything.

Even when he had been looking just now, he did so openly; he simply wanted to show concern for his colleagues.

Although Chen De himself wasn't familiar with them, this body was.

Since Chen De had inherited everything from the original owner, he naturally had to adopt the attitude of 'I shall care for your wife and children, so do not worry.'

He couldn't just walk away and ignore the past debts; as a Holy Mother, he had to take responsibility for everything.

It was just that the Supreme Holy Mother's gaze was too bright and burning, which seemed to have caused Xie Feng to misunderstand something.

However, Chen De didn't deign to explain. As a true Holy Mother, his path was destined to be a lonely one.

"Hypocritical, so hypocritical. I can't even stand to watch this anymore."

Right then, a voice echoed in Chen De's mind.

The moment the voice appeared, he was nearly scared out of his wits.

He instinctively wanted to lash out, but he forced himself to stay in control.

He had already realized that the voice didn't come from the outside world, but from within himself.

To be more precise, it came from the evil corpse inside his body.

Since this was his first time Slaying Three Corpses, he hadn't known such a thing would happen afterward.

But Chen De wouldn't be swayed by such baseless slander. Instead, he rebuked sharply,

"Evil creature, cease your nonsense!"

Chen Heng's voice rang out in his mind again. "No, no, no. Our current state of existence is just right. I'm going to guide you toward the path of goodness."

Hearing this, Chen De was almost amused. "Guide me toward goodness? You, an evil corpse, want to guide me—the Supreme Holy Mother of the Holy Mother Sect—toward goodness? Utterly ridiculous."

"That's why I say you're dead wrong. Clearly, I am the good one, yet you actually think of yourself as evil. It's truly..."

Unfortunately, before Chen Heng could finish, Chen De interrupted him. "Pure nonsense. You'd better stay quiet and reflect on your actions."

"One shouldn't be too much like Chen De..."

After that final remark, Chen Heng's voice fell completely silent.

Chen De's expression remained unchanged, but his mind was racing.

It wasn't because of what Chen Heng had just said; he wasn't that petty.

He was simply reflecting on the changes after slaying the evil corpse. It seemed some things had happened outside of his expectations.

He hadn't expected the aftermath of slaying a corpse to be like this. No wonder they said self-splitting was a dangerous act.

Looking at it now, the dangers in the Three Corpses Severing Method were indeed significant, splitting a whole person into four parts.

This was only the first one. After some time, there would probably be two more voices in his body.

However, Chen De wasn't worried about the subsequent good corpse and self corpse, because they, like him, would be wholly devoted to goodness.

The key was this evil corpse, which was constantly thinking of how to drag him down.

How on earth did he, Chen De, end up slaying such a thing as his first one?

It was truly too late for regrets now.

Chen De then shook his head, pushing these troublesome thoughts aside.

With his own supervision, he doubted the thing could stir up much trouble anyway.

Li Xi was likely in a similar situation. Though he appeared focused on the remaining three portals, he was probably like Chen De, sensing the various changes brought about by his breakthrough... After waiting for a long time, one of the portals suddenly changed.

It was trembling slightly. Clearly, the being inside wasn't attacking, but was in the final step of slaying a corpse.

The other party's strength was growing continuously, and it had already begun to exert a violent influence on the entire Small World.

Even the barriers Xie Feng had left behind had to bear the impact of the breakthrough.

Both Li Xi and Chen De had experienced this, so they knew the seal wouldn't break just yet.

However, at this moment, Xie Feng slowly stood up.

Through the portal, he could see the scenes inside the Small World.

Li Xi glanced at Xie Feng, wondering what he saw inside.

After all, when Chen De was breaking through just now, the other man hadn't reacted like this.

If he remembered correctly, the person inside should be Fen Lie of Fen Tian Palace.

At that moment, the Small World portal next to it also began to undergo the same change.

The person inside that one was Can Xu of Xu Kun Sect.

What was going on? Did the two of them coordinate this?

Seeing the commotion at the other Small World portal, the chanyu sword appeared in Xie Feng's hand at some unknown point.

Clearly, a fierce battle was likely imminent.

Chen De looked on thoughtfully, thinking of Yu Qianhong, the Hall Master of Luohong Hall.

And although Li Xi hadn't personally witnessed such a case, he had vaguely guessed something.

The most likely possibility was that a problem had occurred during the fourth step of Slaying Three Corpses—for instance, being counter-controlled by one's own good or evil thoughts.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, Xie Feng abruptly drew his sword. Sword Qi surged, slashing into one of the Small Worlds.

As a result, the entire Small World was forcibly slashed into nothingness right before the eyes of the three men.

Then, Xie Feng struck again, slashing the other Small World into nothingness as well.

Thus, Can Xu and Fen Lie, who had not yet fully succeeded in their breakthroughs, were erased by Xie Feng with a single sword strike each.

He just slaughtered them like that?

Xie Feng's actions naturally made Chen De even more certain of his guess.

And while Li Xi was somewhat shocked, he too became increasingly convinced of his theory.

If Xie Feng wanted to kill them, there was no need to wait until now; that would be far too much trouble.

Therefore, the only explanation was that his guess was correct.

Xie Feng had seen some warning signs and immediately struck first to gain the upper hand.

He truly lived up to being the first person in their Ten Sects of the Sacred Ring to attempt and successfully complete Slaying Three Corpses; he was indeed decisive!

Just as they were thinking this, both of them suddenly received a message from Xie Feng.

Qi Deviation?

As expected!

Upon hearing this news, Chen De and Li Xi were completely certain of their guesses.

That was why Xie Feng had acted just now to deal with those two; otherwise, it would have been very troublesome once they completed their breakthroughs.

From the looks of it, those two had already slain a corpse and were in the process of anchoring it to a Soul Treasure.

When Xie Feng acted, they were likely in the stage of consolidating after anchoring to the Soul Treasure.

At that point, it was already too late to interrupt the process.

But it was precisely at this moment that problems from the first three steps would manifest.

Chen De immediately voiced his support. "Alliance Leader, this was necessary to prevent them from escaping and wreaking havoc upon the world."

Li Xi also expressed his agreement. "Indeed. If two Quasi-Saints were allowed to run wild in the vast Sacred Ring Domain, the consequences would be unimaginable."