The tension in the valley rises the same as the battle makes Ethan hasten his action.
''Faster!...faster!'' hurrying to finish the array sphere formation Ethan pushed himself to his limit.
Rumble!
A heavy pressure suddenly smashed into Ethan he could feel his soul trembling trying to fly out of his body.
''Not good!''Ethan clenches the invincible robe activating its protection barrier, he stabilises himself and continues to finish the array formation.
''A little more...done!''Ethan put his hand on the ground and lightly injected his remaining vital essence qi into the array formation.
Hum!
''Demigod essence qi suction array formation Activate!''
This array sphere formation sucks excess vital essence qi to relieve the burden on Demigod experts who are trying to break through the Deity level.
Sucking the excess vital essence qi and reusing it to nourish the cultivator undergoing the breakthrough that's how the array sphere formation should work, but because Ethan remade the array sphere formation instead of helping the Demigods it end up sucking their vital essence qi and using it to attack them!
Hum!
It starts sucking the vital essence qi of the enemy making them stop attacking. The array sphere formation would only attack the black soul clansmen because Ethan uses the blood of their members. Ethan not only uses it to supply power to the array formation but also to let the black soul can be the target of the attack.
Bang!
Ethan almost lost consciousness of such a powerful vibration coming from the bronze gong of Igor.
Bang!!Bang!!Bang!!
Cough!... Ethan spits up a mouth full of blood he is too weak to endure the attacks from his enemy.
Crack!
''Ugh...ah!'' his bones started to snap and his skin already started to break blood covered his entire body.
Ethan gathered his remaining strength and lightly tapped the array sphere formation.
''Activate attack mode!''
Hum!
The essence qi that was gathered by the formation slowly emits a burning flame.
Bang!
The members of the black soul clan were burned and were sent flying.
Still heavily injured Ethan taps the array sphere formation again making it gather a huge amount of vital essence qi from nature.
''Ha.....ha'' Inhaling the massive vital essence qi Ethan recovered fast if it weren't for the fact that he was heavily injured he would've advanced to Human level.
Opening his eyes he saw Meo lying down on the ground her meridians were damaged by a bronze gong of Igor. He looked at her took out a pill and gently put it in her mouth Ethan moved closer to her ears saying ''You better not act arrogant again....next time if this happens I won't save you again'' but she was already asleep.
Ethan stood up and stomped his feet the array sphere formation glowed up while disappearing into the night leaving no trace behind.
''That should do it...now should I settle the grudge I have from those freaks'' he gently smiled and ran to the forest.
''Just wait I'll dismantle all of you!''
Deep in the forest in one of the hidden caves found within it lies all of the Demigods who were burned a moment ago.
''What the heck happened...why is there a such powerful array sphere formation doing there! it was strong enough to counter us'' Igor roared angrily towards his followers.
''Could it be that they hired an Array sphere formation Master'' Mo looked at Igor asking.
''Possible since the Merchant Union is an influential figure here in Fire continent''
Igor said while slowly healing
''But still, we got what we wanted we just had to return and our mission is finished''
''Yeah you guys are finished''
A voice echoed throughout the cave, all the members of the black soul clan suddenly jolted surprised by the sudden intrusion everyone became very cautious.
''What's with the sudden alertness''
Tap....tap...
The light sound of footsteps sounded in every corner of the cave at the same time wind blows seemingly whispering to their ears sending chills to their spine.
Puff!!!
Blood gusgushedt of their mouths, breathing became hard and their skin started to turn red making them look terrible.
''Let me tell you, this poison is called golden sand poison sounds familiar right?''
Ethan reveals himself in front of Igor smiling while holding a pouch of golden sand poison.
''Who....are you!?'' Igor asked although he had difficulty speaking his tune is still intimidating.
Slap!.....but he only received a red handprint on his face, the black soul clansmen all look at him surprised by the fact an elementary-level cultivator dared to slap their leader's face.
''Did I let you speak...I'm not done talking so shut your mouth!'' Ethan raised his hand again and slapped!..... another handprint appeared on Igor's cheek.
''You see this pouch contains the poison that is currently killing you and your friends....hehehe you know if you curious about them I'll tell you''
moving closer to Igor's ear Ethan smiled and whispered to him.
''Apparently, this poison came from your pets their fangs contain a powerful poison... I know you are aware of this information since you tame them, but if you crush them and then mix them with their blood and a special ingredient which a Demigod blood that is the poison strengthens''
Ethan feels satisfied with their reaction he moves around and takes a torch from one of the corners of the cave. He poured the golden sand poison on the ground and started to burn them.
''This is how I poisoned you guys...all I have to do is burn the poison and let you inhale them and it is much more effective since you guys are recovering, all you need to do is take a large essence qi from nature and the poison mixed with it will be inhaled by you''
Igor gathered his remaining strength ready to attack but was interrupted by a violent attack, confused he looked around and realized that many array sphere formations were gathered in every single part of the cave.
''I'm not just moving around your cave other than poisoning you I also make some of them... like it?'' Ethan summoned his scarlett ring and used it to destroy Igor's storage ring revealing the orb that they had just taken.
''You!....you are one of them!'' Igor was more concerned about Ethan's ring than the orb that they risked their life for.
Seeing it Igor and the rest of his clansmen intend to self-destruct.
''Not a chance baldy heads'' Ethan held the orb and chanted a spell.
''Wait how can you...no...stop!''
Screams echoed from the cave as the souls of the black soul clansmen all got sucked!
Hum...
The soul-swallowing orb glowed brighter while sucking the souls of every member of the black soul clan after sucking the last the light dimmed before returning to normal.
''That should do it...now should I loot their bodies?''
Looking at the sky he decided to look for some useful stuff and return before the sun rose.
Several storage rings and some good weapons revealed themselves to Ethan but some of them are nothing to him.
''What is this?''
While looking at their storage rings he found something interesting.
''Ten spirit creation techniques''
''Corpse puppets creation manual''
''Demon hand mantra''
''Creation of soul sea''
''Not bad'' Ethan read every single one of them and thought about researching it for further enhancement.
''This one is for a necromancer didn't expect to see one here'' he thought while flipping the pages of the manual.
Weapons that look strange pop at the storage rings now he's problem is how to use them.
''This should be a defensive treasure'' Taking a small shield he tries to put his vital essence qi to it and it suddenly expands. He retrieved his vital essence qi and it returned to normal he put it in his ring and continued his search. While looking at the other treasure the orb caught his attention taking a closer look he realized there was a beast's soul entrapped inside it.
Ethan searched more and found a small cauldron with some strange inscription in it. Being knowledgeable of different inscriptions and languages Ethan began to read it.
''What the heck'' Ethan can't help but say as he finished reading it. The cauldron can be used to make pills with a beast's soul attached to it making it more effective.
''Pills with beast soul in it I never heard of it before'' Apparently the name of the cauldron already fades since it's too old and rusty Ethan could only make a quick deduction by reading the remaining inscription left for him to understand. Hours pass and Ethan feels that he needs to return to the camp he immediately cleans the cave so that no trace can be found.
''I should hurry they might get suspicious if they don't see me there'' Taking his invisible robe he hurriedly returned to the lake and sneakily swarmed there.
The sun rises and lights everything it touches Ethan looks at the sunlight under the lake wishing he could feel its warmth.