"Your Highness, allow this old servant to handle it."
King Zhuan Lun looked at King Qin Guang in disbelief, specifically at his left arm. Upon hearing the words, King Qin Guang instantly tore open his left sleeve, revealing a pale white arm.
Around it, a dragon tattoo was coiled, but where the tattoo met the skin, there were usually blood vessels connecting... No, it was a fusion...
Then, the dragon slowly raised its head from King Qin Guang's arm. Its cloudy eyes shot out a sharp light, and the collapsing formation began to stabilize.
King Zhuan Lun felt his own power rapidly draining. He raised his head with difficulty and saw the dragon on King Qin Guang's left arm, letting out a choked cry, "Old man! You're still alive!"
"Heheheh... Thanks to the National Teacher. If the National Teacher isn't dead, how dare I die..." The dragon chuckled coldly and slowly extended its claws, saying, "Rise!"
The six formation flags began to spin faster around King Zhuan Lun, and beads of sweat appeared on King Qin Guang's forehead.
Seeing this, King Yan Luo began to channel spiritual energy to King Qin Guang. King Du Shi and King Bian Cheng exchanged glances and, not daring to hold back, poured their spiritual energy into King Qin Guang.
Meanwhile, King Zhuan Lun's body deteriorated further.
The reason for choosing to strike when King Zhuan Lun was on the verge of death was that, compared to the time he began a new cycle of reincarnation, his strength had declined to its second lowest point. His life force was at its weakest, making it difficult for him to use secret techniques.
In simple terms, there were only two times to kill King Zhuan Lun: at his birth and when he was nearing death. At his birth, although King Zhuan Lun was at his weakest, he could have used secret techniques to sacrifice his future strength and recover from injuries to counterattack everyone. At the latter stage, while King Zhuan Lun's strength was slightly better than at his birth, many of his contingency plans and secret techniques were unusable.
By accelerating King Zhuan Lun's aging, making it difficult for his meridians to circulate large amounts of spiritual energy, impairing his bodily functions, and slowing his spiritual energy recovery—all these debuffs were in place to ensure his ultimate demise at the opportune moment.
"What I cannot have... you shall not have either!!" King Zhuan Lun's face contorted. Seeing the dragon, he knew he was likely doomed, so he decided to shatter the Six Paths Samsara Disk rather than be taken alive, hoping to take everyone present with him.
The terrifying spiritual energy, even in its initial gathering phase, cracked the formation's barrier. Strands of spiritual energy seeped out, blowing dust and pebbles from the ground, scattering them around.
"Fu Xiao! If you beg for mercy now, I'll spare your life and let you be a puppet emperor!" Before the spiritual energy could erupt, King Zhuan Lun addressed King Qin Guang.
"As expected..." King Qin Guang said coldly, "The longer one lives, the more one fears death..."
"If you were truly willing to fight us to the death, I would be afraid. But you... forget it. Attack."
As soon as he finished speaking, a figure flashed within the formation and, after a few evasive maneuvers, stopped beside King Qin Guang.
It was Zhuan Xu.
King Zhuan Lun did not realize what was happening. Just as he was about to unleash the gathered spiritual energy, he suddenly lost sensation in his hand.
No... it was his limbs, his organs... his entire body...
A few sword lights flashed, and King Zhuan Lun turned into a pile of rotten flesh, scattered across the Six Paths Samsara Disk.
"Now! Quickly!"
The dragon leaped out, suppressing the stone disk downwards, while King Qin Guang wielded a spiritual treasure to absorb the unstable spiritual energy that was about to spiral out of control.
With the surge of spiritual energy gone, the dragon immediately pressed the stone disk, along with the formation, onto the Six Paths Samsara Disk. Then, incantations appeared, drawing the souls within the stone disk into it along with the dragon.
However, the terrifying suction did not disappear.
King Bian Cheng's claws dug firmly into the ground, using his body to shield everyone; King Du Shi spread a dense net, covering them.
The violent suction gradually subsided.
The Six Paths Samsara Disk, which should have vanished with King Zhuan Lun's death, lay quietly in place.
Seeing this, Zhuan Xu's brows furrowed—what evil method had they used to leave a sacred artifact in the mortal realm?
The Chinese nation's "Yi Hu Chun" had once published a list of abilities, ranking the most precious and powerful abilities—the Ten Sacred Artifacts and the Ten King Artifacts.
The biggest difference between the two was that the former were highly functional abilities with extremely high potential, while the latter were mostly combat weapons with high minimums but relatively limited maximums.
Most importantly, when an ability user of the former died, the corresponding sacred artifact would reappear at an unknown time; however, for the latter, the King Artifacts would reappear in the world a few months after the death of their users.
This was also why Zhuan Xu was so wary.
When King Qin Guang had previously discussed cooperation with Zhuan Xu, Zhuan Xu had not paid much attention. But after the Longjing incident, when Sui Ren was unable to focus on the northwest, the Yan Luo Hall actually launched wars in places like Yulin and Datong.
Zhuan Xu immediately sensed a conspiracy—the main forces of the army guarding the Hukou Pass were forced to move north to suppress the rebels.
It should be noted that Zhuan Xu's forces were tightly controlled by Fu Xi within the regions west of the Yellow River and Hangu Pass, making it extremely difficult to pass through the pass. If Zhuan Xu wanted to advance eastward, there were four passes he had to break through: Hukou (the path to attack Taiyuan, one of the Yellow River gates), Hangu (the eastern plains), Hejin (one of the Yellow River gates), and Shangluo (a crucial strategic point for heading south to Jingzhou).
So, Zhuan Xu played a big game—he sent over ten thousand non-main force troops to their deaths, then feigned an inability to suppress the rebels, requesting aid from the Hukou army east of the Yellow River.
The Hukou army fell into the trap, and its main force of thirty thousand men was trapped in the valley and starved to death.
Following that, Zhuan Xu directly declared war and quickly captured Hukou, advancing directly on Taiyuan.
Finally, the two sides met again and reached a second cooperation—jointly eliminating King Zhuan Lun.
"Senior Zhuan Xu, thank you for your assistance. The reward will be delivered later," King Qin Guang said, bowing to Zhuan Xu.
This was a hint for him to leave.
Zhuan Xu snorted coldly and activated the Zhan Xie Zhang to leave.
King Qin Guang beckoned, and the Six Paths Samsara Disk floated gently, slowly arriving before the four of them.
The constantly rotating jade ring in the center was filled with a stone disk, upon which a dark green dragon pattern coiled, continuously drawing and stabilizing spiritual energy from the Six Paths Samsara Disk.
"Come," King Qin Guang extended his left hand, signaling the dragon to begin the plan.
Three beams of light emanated from the "Heavenly Path" disk, "Human Path," and "Hell Path" disks on the Six Paths Samsara Disk, rushing into King Qin Guang's body.
Three distinct demonic patterns appeared on King Qin Guang's forehead, arms, and neck.
King Qin Guang's body trembled slightly, and he finally absorbed these powers.
"Come, it's your turn."
The remaining stone disks of "Asura Path," "Hungry Ghost Path," and "Animal Path" lit up and surged into the bodies of the three individuals respectively.
"From today onwards," King Qin Guang smiled slightly and said, "Yan Luo Hall is officially renamed—"
"Ye Du."