The Tu Shi Qi couple shouted, charging toward Singh, only to be blocked by Ming Hong. Singh himself was in a sorry state, unable to focus on controlling the Soul Refining Cauldron.

Tu Shi Qi wielded a thunder hammer. Every swing brought forth a flash of lightning and thunder, the very bane of fierce souls.

Infused with Singh's power, Ming Hong dared not confront Tu Shi Qi directly. Upon seeing the hammer descending, he swiftly evaded. A single touch from the lightning and thunder would cause Ming Hong’s form to immediately smoke.

With no energy left to manipulate the Soul Refining Cauldron, Singh gritted his teeth and fought back desperately.

"Condense Soul!"

The clusters of vengeful spirits beneath him, driven by his profound intent, solidified into two spiritual serpents. These serpents coiled around his arms. He roared and lunged at Tu Shi Qi, extending his arms. The spiritual serpents danced wildly, skillfully dodging Tu Shi Qi’s thunder hammer, aiming directly for Ya Yun’s body.

Ya Yun held a silken banner embroidered with orderly palaces. With a shake of her hand, a palace materialized, enveloping Singh like a mirage, capable of temporarily restraining and trapping him.

"How can we kill Singh?"

A thought echoed in Ming Hong’s mind—it was Shi Yan’s voice.

"The Soul Clan cultivates the soul. If the Soul Altar is destroyed, Singh will instantly die a miserable death! He will be counter-swallowed by his fierce soul; I could even devour his main soul and take his place!" Ming Hong continued to grapple with Tu Shi Qi, yet the communication in his own mind was unaffected.

"Whoosh!"

A line of blood suddenly flashed at the back of Singh’s head, striking like a relentless shadow!

Singh’s expression turned cold. He slapped back, unleashing countless souls from his palm like a swarm of locusts, crashing directly into a blood-red sword.

"Slap!"

As the myriad souls engulfed the blood sword, its scarlet luster visibly dimmed. The crimson eyes upon it flickered with confusion.

This blood sword was an early secret treasure of the Bloodthirsty lineage, refined from the spinal bone relics of the Undying Demon Race. In the Desolate Domain, the blood sword was virtually unstoppable; few divine weapons could contend with it.

However, in the Sea of Void, the blood sword suffered a hidden loss upon its first appearance.

The souls refined by Singh carried an aura of filth, corrosion, and acid poison. Once any weapon or secret treasure was tainted, it was difficult for it to perform optimally. Although the blood sword was sharp, it was equally affected, failing to exhibit its usual ferocity.

"Roar!"

At this moment, the Dragon Lizard's true form shook the heavens with a roar, turning the tide of defeat. It pinned the Giant Crocodile beneath it, tearing and hammering away.

The Giant Crocodile, deprived of the augmenting power from Singh’s Soul Refining Cauldron, was no longer fierce. It shrieked under the relentless assault of the Dragon Lizard Ancestor, its soul fragments scattering. It looked as if it couldn't hold out much longer.

Singh’s last fierce soul, Ming Hong, was also restrained by Tu Shi Qi and Ya Yun, unable to unleash its savagery. Singh himself was engaged and at a disadvantage, while being ambushed by Shi Yan—he was overwhelmingly frustrated.

He looked toward the woman of the Shadow Clan and shouted, "Please grant me aid!"

The masked woman of the Shadow Clan was surrounded by snow lotus flowers rolling like snowballs. One of these lotuses suddenly shifted direction and slammed into an empty region of nothingness.

"Boom!"

A figure abruptly materialized—it was Shi Yan, who was sent reeling and dizzy, his entire body instantly coated in frost, as if about to be frozen solid.

The masked woman remained silent, her hand reaching out to pull Shi Yan down, completely ignoring Singh’s cry.

"Singh!"

Suddenly, Shi Yan, whose presence had been revealed, roared hysterically.

Singh was startled, looking toward Shi Yan in bewilderment, then he violently shuddered. He realized that from Shi Yan’s pupils surged mountains and seas of corpses, countless gruesome, blood-soaked limbs spreading outward. Thoughts of rage, slaughter, madness, and terror flooded in, causing Singh to become momentarily lost.

Due to the masked woman's massacre, hundreds more corpses were added to the shattered meteor sea of the Dragon Lizard Continent. Shi Yan had been secretly drawing and gathering the resentful death aura lingering around these corpses while invisible, guiding it with his gaze, channeling it all into Singh’s Sea of Consciousness.

If he had been at his peak, Singh, who was also adept at soul cultivation, surely would not have been affected.

But Singh had been severely wounded by the Dragon Lizard and the Tu Shi Qi couple underground, all his fierce souls were now external, and he was already agitated by the relentless harassment from Tu Shi Qi and his wife. This was precisely his moment of greatest weakness. When assaulted by the immense resentment within Shi Yan’s eyes, his reason finally collapsed, plunging him into a state of madness.

The Tu Shi Qi couple had waited too long for this opportunity to miss it, and they charged fiercely toward Singh.

Surprisingly, the fierce soul Ming Hong offered no resistance! The instant Singh’s soul fractured, even the Giant Crocodile’s power waned, allowing the Dragon Lizard Ancestor the chance to strike, eliciting continuous howls.

Everything was proceeding with uncanny smoothness!

Tu Shi Qi, wielding the massive hammer, brought it down directly onto the crown of Singh’s head. Singh's skull instantly exploded.

The ferocious soul Ming Hong, which had been poised for action, savagely counter-attacked the moment the opportunity arose, swallowing Singh’s main soul in one gulp. It then activated its profound intent, reclaiming the nearly extinguished Giant Crocodile.

"Hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Many residual souls also gathered toward Ming Hong. Having devoured Singh, Ming Hong, the fierce soul, instantly became the main soul. The moment Singh’s head blew apart, not only was Ming Hong free, but it had usurped the host, consuming Singh!

Ming Hong showed no hesitation, transforming into a cloud of spectral shadow, carrying the countless souls Singh had refined. It suddenly floated away, vanishing in a flash.

Everything happened too quickly, so fast that even Tu Shi Qi couldn't react in time. He only saw Singh’s head burst open, followed by countless fierce and vengeful souls reuniting around the Ming Hong fierce soul, which then abruptly departed.

"Don't let him go!" the Dragon Lizard Ancestor roared, his true form writhing. A human clone manifested and darted after the Ming Hong fierce soul. "That is Singh! Singh has slipped away through subterfuge; give him time, and he will recover and destroy us! Kill him!"

He didn't understand what had just happened. He merely assumed Singh had escaped using a secret technique of the Soul Clan, thus demanding complete eradication.

Even Tu Shi Qi and Ya Yun were stunned. They too assumed the Ming Hong fierce soul was Singh himself, completely unaware that this was a fierce soul turning on its host. They hurriedly pursued the Ming Hong entity along with the Dragon Lizard Ancestor's clone.

The masked woman also showed a look of astonishment, momentarily confused by the details. However, she only paused briefly before refocusing on Shi Yan.

Shi Yan, shivering with cold, didn't hesitate and immediately retreated far away.

As his thoughts shifted, causing ripples to spread across the space around him, he intended to rendezvous with Audrey and Evelyn. But just as he prepared to change direction, his expression drastically altered.

He discovered that the Ming Hong fierce soul was heading directly toward Audrey. When he perceived Audrey, he realized the Ming Hong fierce soul, trailing its ominous cloud of countless spirits, instantly drilled into Audrey’s Altar and took root within her body.

He understood everything in that instant.

Ming Hong seized the chance to betray his host, swallowing Singh whole, thus becoming the main soul, gathering all the souls Singh had refined. He intended to escape, but finding himself targeted by the Dragon Lizard Ancestor and the Tu Shi Qi couple, knowing he could still slip away, he chose the most trustworthy—Audrey—to land upon, attaching himself to her Altar.

"I am Ming Hong. I must immediately merge with you to complete you, so I can evade the pursuit and attention of those people."

A voice suddenly echoed in Audrey's mind. Audrey froze, then discovered countless souls in the Sea of Consciousness of her Altar, souls so powerful they made her tremble throughout her body.

"You know I won't harm you. I'll tell you a method. Follow it, and all the souls Singh refined will acknowledge you as their master! This is your great fortune, and also the destiny of our Ming Huang Clan. Act now!" Ming Hong urged.

Audrey was decisive and did not hesitate. "Tell me the method!"

"Open your heart and accept my consciousness inheritance. This is the technique Singh of the Soul Clan used to command us..."

Shi Yan’s preceding thread of consciousness had been lurking in Ming Hong’s mind. He clearly perceived every exchange between Ming Hong and Audrey.

When Ming Hong began transmitting the Soul Clan secret technique to Audrey, Shi Yan immediately understood that Audrey’s fortune had arrived. Accepting the guidance of this ancestor, Ming Hong, Audrey’s future achievements would at least not be inferior to Singh’s.

The profundity of the Soul Clan’s intent and the strange, wondrous power resided within the myriad fierce souls Singh had refined. Now, Ming Hong, as the new main soul, had seized all of Singh’s years of achievement and was using it entirely to elevate Audrey. Audrey was destined to become one of the strongest figures in the future of the Ming Huang Clan, possibly even surpassing Ming Hao!

The reason this situation arose was because Ming Hong sensed the pursuit of the Dragon Lizard Ancestor and the Tu Shi Qi couple. Those two assumed he was Singh and would undoubtedly not relent. He only had a brief window to shrink into someone’s soul consciousness and merge with them to evade the relentless attack of the Dragon Lizard Ancestor and the Tu Shi Qi couple.

"We will temporarily separate and regroup at the Sea of Destruction. That woman from the Shadow Clan is hunting me, and I fear the Dragon Lizard Ancestor might also harbor designs against me, so I left first. Your location is a spatial blind spot; do not move yet. After merging with Ming Hong, find an opportunity to slip away..."

Shi Yan’s consciousness flashed simultaneously in the minds of Audrey and Ming Hong. After transmitting the message, he unilaterally severed the connection.

Audrey was currently too preoccupied to worry about anything else and could only proceed with merging with Ming Hong’s soul first.

Shi Yan was relentlessly pursued by the masked woman and dared not seek aid from the Dragon Lizard Ancestor or the Tu Shi Qi couple, fearing that the Dragon Lizard Ancestor, like Singh and the masked woman, might try to refine his soul to gain an opportunity to break through to the Domain Ancestor realm. He could only seek temporary evasion, following a vector provided by the Heavenly Illusion Star Compass, constantly utilizing the mysteries of spatial intent to instantaneously traverse the void and escape.

As a practitioner of spatial intent, if one was determined to flee, one truly possessed an unmatched advantage.

At this moment, he exhibited this advantage to the extreme, appearing like a starbeam leaving no trace, flashing and vanishing. He constantly concealed and reappeared in spatial blind spots and dead corners, managing to vanish invisibly from time to time.

Even the masked woman of the Shadow Clan, who had reached the peak of Immortality, was having a miserable time chasing him. She expended tremendous effort to lock onto his trajectory, her vital essence and spirit severely depleted.

"You cannot escape!"

She ground her teeth until they cracked, hating Shi Yan to the bone. Risking damage to her own mind, she fixed her gaze upon him, determined to grind Shi Yan to dust.