Chapter 2590: Rescue
In his normal condition, Emperor Jun wouldn’t fear these divine runes. He had plenty of ways to deal with such situations. But this was only a sliver of his soul, and it was possessing the Golden Crow Prince’s body. This was considered an evil, unorthodox method.
Furthermore, Jianmu’s divine runes had the power to dispel evil!
Zu An had attacked Jianmu using Emperor Jun's face and aura to trigger the divine runes, and to make things worse, he'd even swapped their positions! The divine runes didn’t have intelligence and were incapable of telling people apart, so they could only identify the aggressor through their aura. Meanwhile, Zu An’s earlier attack had harnessed the auras of the Golden Crow Prince and Emperor Jun’s soul sliver.
Emperor Jun was instantly devoured by the divine runes’ light.
Cold sweat dripped down Zu An’s forehead. He had been taking on a huge risk there. If the divine runes had somehow identified him as the aggressor, he would have been the one suffering that fate. Fortunately, he had played plenty of games in the past and was skilled at finding loopholes to exploit.
His bet had paid off!
With a scream of agony, Emperor Jun plummeted from the sky like a sandbag.
The divine runes reined in their light and reverted to normal.
Zu An carefully caught the Golden Crow Tenth Prince’s body and confirmed that there was no longer any soul pulsing in it. That meant Emperor Jun’s soul sliver had been vanquished! He had no idea why the divine runes had only obliterated Emperor Jun’s soul sliver, but hadn’t harmed the Tenth Prince’s body; but this wasn’t the time to be thinking about that. He quickly brought the prince’s body back to the celestial palace.
On the battlefield between the Fiends and the Shamans, Emperor Jun, who had been imposingly massacring his enemies, suddenly clutched his head and let out a miserable cry. The nearby Ancestral Shamans took this chance to counterattack. If not for Donghuang Taiyi protecting him with the East Emperor Bell, he could have lost his life there and then.
“What happened?” Donghuang Taiyi asked, concerned.