Divine Emperor of Death

Ellia noticed that Davis's strand retreated and disappeared while she knew that Myria was unharmed. After all, if Myria's manifestation was destroyed, she would die without a doubt too.

Outside, Davis finally sat up from Ellia's body and sat beside her, but he still kept his finger on her forehead, disallowing Myria to wake up. Nonetheless, Ellia's eyes opened as she sat up, turning to look at him before she opened her mouth.

"Thank you…"

Davis closely looked at Ellia as he inwardly sighed.

The strange thing was that both manifestations of the soul imprints in Ellia's soul sea had been holding hands. At the very least, it indicated to him that they were extremely close. He didn't know what to say to this as Myria no longer seemed like the aggressor who kidnapped Ellia, and judging by Ellia's words, it was Myria's body.

What's going on?

Davis felt his head ache from using too much soul force. At this moment, he saw Ellia reach out her hand towards the other side. However, he didn't even blink an eye as he knew that she recalled the Ice Phoenix back.

Indeed, a ray of icy blue light traveled back to Ellia's body and disappeared.

"Haha." Davis lightly chuckled, "The moment the Ice Phoenix interfered in the battle, Myria lost. Myria has to uphold her words no matter what, or I'm going to deeply look down on her."

Ellia pouted as she put her hand down, "Mhm~ Xiaolan went out by herself. Myria didn't have the energy to suppress her, and neither did I. I can never harm you, but Xiaolan is different. She deeply cares about us and would be willing to do anything for us to survive. Poor Xiaolan. While Myria ventured into the world, I played with Xiaolan in the soul sea. Poor Xiaolan. While Myria stayed in the soul sea, I strolled around with Xiaolan. Poor Xiao-"

"Fine, fine. I'll heal your Xiaolan's soul later."

Hearing Davis's hurried words, Ellia smiled. She knew that she was going to be locked up because of Myria's existence, so who would heal Xiaolan?

She only had Davis to request but couldn't because Xiaolan actually attacked him to save Myria, almost sacrificing her own life in the process. However, she didn't blame Davis. She was only thankful that Davis held back when he struck Xiaolan. Otherwise, could Xiaolan have survived?

She could only ask coyly as of Davis, and this feeling was reminiscent of the past, making her feel nostalgic. He was the same Davis that she fell in love with.

"Nadia, can you take us away?" Davis asked as he looked around, "This space is collapsing…"

Nadia nodded her head, "I can. The spatial tears in the edge of this space also became less, drawing to the center."

While Davis was talking with Ellia, Nadia searched for a way out and already fixed an optimal direction in her mind where the spatial cracks could be seen the least.

Davis gratefully nodded. If possible, he didn't want to use his soul force at this moment. For one, he was exhausted, and for two, he might need it. He turned to look at Ellia and consoled her before two tails wrapped around them. Nadia didn't dissolve her doppelganger. Instead, she conjured an energy tail and wrapped it around Davis while her real tail wrapped around Ellia's waist.

She flapped her dark-purplish wings and took off, heading into the area full of spatial tears. As Nadia entered the danger zone, Davis turned to look at Ellia.

"Ellia, can you suppress Myria?"

"I can't." Ellia directly shook her head, "However, I can disturb her to the point of exhaustion. Don't worry. I will never let her harm you or your family. She wouldn't as well."

Davis almost scoffed but looking at Ellia's solemn expression, he asked.

"What makes you say that?"

"You don't know Myria's ruthlessness, even to herself. She will not faint if it's the last thing she could ever do in a situation like this. Instead, she'll kill herself before she can faint. Your soul suppression was only a factor in disallowing her to use her energy. As a form of last resort, she was capable of killing me and, in turn, causing her death through some kind of resonance, but she…"

"… was unwilling to kill you." Davis continued her words, causing Ellia to lower her head in shame while here she was, sticking with the person she loved.

"Yes." However, her voice became firm, "I believe the only reason she fainted is because she believed that you would not hurt me. Moreover, she hates people who don't keep their words to a cause, so I can guarantee that she would not attack you again since she lost."

"What's going on with you two?" Davis narrowed his eyes, "Are you somehow mother and daughter?"

Ellia blushed as she shook her head, "No, I'm just a new consciousness birthed from our Eternal Life Soul. Also, please don't say that I called Myria my mother in front of her… I never called her that, not even once as I've only called her sister…"

Davis kept nodding his head, almost laughing from the complex relationship of this duo, but he kept it suppressed as he asked.

"You can read each other's memories?"

"We could." Ellia nodded and didn't hide anything, "At first, I was in the dark, not knowing how to cope, but I later learned how to stop each other from reading memories, although Myria never restricted access of her knowledge to me."

Davis's brows narrowed, but he didn't ask anything again, contemplating on what to do about Myria. From Ellia's words, it was obvious that Myria was the superior in this body, for it apparently was Myria's body, so he thought about the direct method.

'Restricting Myria with a soul-suppressing item?'

Davis rubbed his chin with his free hand, thinking about the item he possessed in his spatial ring.

Back then, Davis had found Soul Impeding Thunder Stone in the Hundred Devil Thunder Archipelago's Dark Thunder Island, right before he met the Silverwinds. It could cause soul sense below Supreme Soul Stage to become useless, able to protect the user from prying. However, it can also be used as the main ingredient in inscriptions, and the derived talisman could essentially suppress Soul Forging Cultivation under Supreme Soul Stage when imbued on a soul cultivator.

The item he possessed in his spatial ring was also a similar inscription talisman that he had specifically readied for sealing Myria's Soul Forging Cultivation. After all, how could he face her without any kind of preparation?

Killing Myria was easy but rescuing Ellia? Very difficult.

He had the All-Seeing Emperor scour for this item's ingredients and had it made so that it is even able to suppress the likes of Soul Emperor Merlight with ease, but of course, only if she got hit with it. However, it became useless against Myria as he now understood her complete prowess. She could literally overpower it even in a weakened state if she wanted to but not if he always suppressed her.

But could he always be with Myria? Impossible!

Still, he had also foreseen this kind of scenario and deduced that he would need to use the Spirit Formation: Soul Seal to seal Myria's Soul Forging Cultivation but then again, his Soul Forging Cultivation's prowess was lacking when compared to Myria. He could only try using Fallen Heaven's death energy to perform the spirit formation in order to seal her, but what were the chances that it would kill her instead since the technique itself wasn't supposed to go with death energy in the first place?

Besides, there was the knowledge factor that Myria would be able to unravel the Spirit Formation by herself. All things considered, he had no way to suppress Myria and could only kill her unless they came to an agreement. However, were Myria's words believable?

He would only know after she woke up and, in the meantime, could only believe that Ellia would keep Myria in check.

Thinking like this, he made up his mind.

At this moment, they gradually saw the light of the exit in the myriad of spatial cracks around them. It was shiny and bright, ever-illuminating as though it spelled freedom for them who traversed this region for like two minutes.

Nadia leaped and arrived outside. Once she saw that the surroundings were safe, she released Davis and Ellia, turning to look at him when Davis neared her and kissed her face while caressing her cheeks, causing her to whine sweetly while shaking her tail. He was still a bloody figure, but Nadia didn't mind it, looking pleased.

Ellia witnessed this scene and couldn't help but pout when Davis suddenly turned to look at her, still having his finger on her forehead.

"Ellia, I'll put a Soul Seal Spirit Formation in your soul sea, so can you guard it against Myria?"

"This…" Ellia became flabbergasted.

She could stand Davis locking her up for his safety but for her to guard against Myria, she felt that it was nothing short of betrayal.