As Ye Ling's words fell, a string of red garbled characters appeared on the half of his soul he had split off, its aura identical to Jiu Yuan's!
Seeing all his reincarnation information exposed, Jiu Yuan was instantly startled. He trembled and asked Ye Ling, "You knew all along? How did you figure it out?"
"Actually, I couldn't tell," Ye Ling smiled at Jiu Yuan. "I just felt that with your nature, you'd definitely pull some stunts. So, when I was collecting your reincarnation information, I specifically split my own soul into two layers, an inner and an outer one."
"This way, no matter what method you used to invade my soul, you could only corrupt my outer layer and wouldn't be able to harm my core."
"Splitting your soul into inner and outer layers?" Jiu Yuan was stunned. "How is that even possible?"
"Generally, it's not. But I'm a bit special." Ye Ling narrowed his eyes and smiled at Jiu Yuan. "Not long ago, I absorbed the power of the Primordial Soul King."
"The power of the Primordial Soul King..." Jiu Yuan murmured, then suddenly seemed to realize something. He looked at Ye Ling with disbelief and exclaimed, "You separated the Primordial Soul King's power and used it as your outer soul layer?"
"It seems I don't need to explain in detail. It's convenient talking to smart people," Ye Ling chuckled, not denying Jiu Yuan's words.
"Madness! Utter madness!" Jiu Yuan couldn't help but roar. "Just on the basis of your own guess, you're willing to give up the Primordial Soul King's power?"
"I just had full confidence that you'd cause trouble," Ye Ling said with a smile, beginning to use his creation power to repair his damaged soul.
The Primordial Soul King's power had long since become a part of Ye Ling's soul. Although Ye Ling had only divided it, it still caused him considerable pain and a significant drop in his strength.
This was a true case of harming the enemy by a thousand and oneself by eight hundred.
Seeing that Ye Ling had completely severed himself from his reincarnation information, Jiu Yuan couldn't accept the reality. He questioned Ye Ling, "You lunatic, just to guard against me, you're willing to discard the Primordial Soul King's power?"
"I've only discarded thirty percent of the Primordial Soul King's power. Compared to losing my own life, I can still accept it."
Ye Ling smiled at Jiu Yuan, utterly unconcerned about his loss.
To him, trading the Primordial Soul King's power for Jiu Yuan's secrets was a sure-fire, no-loss deal.
If the Primordial Soul King's power was gone, so be it. There were seven kings in the Primordial Chaos, and he could continue to plunder their power later.
But Jiu Yuan's memories were his only known channel to the truth at the moment.
Trading power for information was not a loss.
After Ye Ling replenished his soul with creation power, color returned to his face.
"Jiu Yuan, I'll give you that half of my soul. It contains a full thirty percent of the Primordial Soul King's power!" Ye Ling said with a light smile to Jiu Yuan, activating runes to prepare to leave.
"No, no! Ye Ling! Take me with you!" Jiu Yuan was completely panicked now, desperately calling out to Ye Ling. "Please, take me with you! I won't pull any more stunts! I don't want to die!"
"Farewell!"
Ye Ling waved goodbye to Jiu Yuan, no longer lingering, and vanished from the spot with Jiu Yuan's crucial memories.
"No, no... Ye Ling! You bastard! I'll kill you, ahhhhhh!"
Jiu Yuan roared hysterically. The half of Ye Ling's soul left behind rapidly turned into garbled characters and reincarnated into Jiu Yuan!
All of Jiu Yuan's power surged into Ye Ling's half-soul at that moment, preparing to pursue Ye Ling.
However, at this moment, the Overseers broke through Jiu Yuan's defenses. Countless Overseers surrounded Jiu Yuan, blocking all his escape routes.
The trace Ye Ling left behind in the original spot completely vanished.
A masked man appeared above Jiu Yuan, looking down at him with indifferent eyes. He said faintly, "Jiu Yuan, the fallen you, truly is pathetic..."
Upon seeing the masked man, Jiu Yuan's pupils contracted sharply. He quickly said, "Big... Big Brother... Don't kill me! I just had a small issue! I can return to normal! Believe me!"
"You should know in your heart that you cannot go back. As you are now... you are an uncontrollable threat to the organization, like a cancerous tumor that must be removed." The masked man spoke calmly, raising his hand slightly, his palm nurturing a white light.
"No, no..."
Jiu Yuan sensed unprecedented danger. The fear in his eyes gradually turned into madness, his entire face contorting.
"I don't want to die! I'll kill you all!!!"
Jiu Yuan roared, carrying a large amount of dark red garbled characters, and charged at the masked man.
*Hummm—!*
The surrounding Overseers attacked in unison, easily shattering the power Jiu Yuan had accumulated.
The masked man's gaze remained unchanged. The white light in his palm shot towards Jiu Yuan, easily piercing Jiu Yuan's head.
Everything Jiu Yuan had experienced after his mutation flashed through the masked man's eyes.
"That scoundrel Jiu Yuan!"
Seeing that Jiu Yuan had handed over all his memories to Ye Ling, the masked man's eyes flashed with endless darkness. He directly acted to completely erase Jiu Yuan!
After easily suppressing and killing Jiu Yuan, the masked man ordered the Overseers, "Issue a decree! Ye Ling's threat level is elevated to World-Ending! All Overseers shall cease their current work and pursue Ye Ling with full force!"
"Remember! This is our... new war!!!"
As the masked man spoke, all the surrounding Overseers erupted in thunderous clamor!
A World-Ending threat... aside from the original Seven Kings, no new World-Enders had ever appeared in the Primordial Universe!
Now, Ye Ling was elevated to World-Ender status, and all Overseers were required to abandon their managed universes to pursue Ye Ling alone...
Such a unified pursuit by all Overseers against one person indicated that the situation had escalated to an irreconcilable point.
Upon receiving the order, the Overseers all concealed their forms and began their pursuit of Ye Ling.
Within a very short time, the entire Primordial Chaos began to tremble.
A great storm was about to sweep through all worlds.
Meanwhile, in the Primordial Flame Domain.
Ye Ling stood amidst the endless flames, diligently searching for the World-Ending Spirit Fire and Nuo Ying, unaware of the chaos he had caused outside.
"According to Jiu Yuan's memories, there is a permanent domain of the Primordial Flame King in the Primordial Flame Domain. If the Primordial Flame King were to hide someone, it's highly likely he would conceal the World-Ending Spirit Fire and Nuo Ying there."
Ye Ling murmured, continuously searching the Primordial Flame Domain for the location of the Primordial Flame King's domain.
Although Ye Ling had deleted most of Jiu Yuan's memories, the remaining memories were still vast, and Ye Ling couldn't read them all in a short time. He could only extract the memories related to the Primordial Flame King first and rescue the World-Ending Spirit Fire and Nuo Ying.
After all, Jiu Yuan's memories were already in his mind, so whether he read them sooner or later made no difference.
Following Jiu Yuan's memories, Ye Ling found the Primordial Flame King's domain without much effort.
It was a colossal fireball, scorching everything around it.
In the center of the fireball, Ye Ling could vaguely see a figure bound by flames.
"That person... looks a bit like Nuo Ying. It seems I came to the right place!"
Ye Ling's eyes lit up upon seeing the figure within the fireball. Just as he was about to rush into the fireball to rescue Nuo Ying, he was blocked by a mass of black fire.
"Which petty thief dares to tread upon my domain?"
A deep voice boomed like muffled thunder, emerging from the mass of black fire and sweeping towards Ye Ling.
Ye Ling stopped and, upon clearly seeing the suddenly appearing black fire, his eyes changed slightly. "World-Ending Spirit Fire?"