"If this King must perish, then you shall all perish with me!"
The next moment, a vortex of ghostly spirit Qi spiraled around the Heavenly Ghost Formation in his chest, gathering power for a final, suicidal detonation that could shatter the very lure formation meant to hold him.
Seeing the Ghost King had driven into the corner and now intended to drag everyone down with him, the five Half-Abyssal Kings reacted instantly,
"Everyone retreat, now!"
The cloaked council members also sensed the gravity of the situation and, without hesitation, fled in all directions, knowing that the Evernight Devil King didn't need them and could handle the Ghost King alone, as the former had already driven the latter to the brink of death.
Cracks surfaced with the chains binding the Ghost King as they widened. The abyssal chains seemed to be weakening, spectral links snapping under the Ghost King's suicidal attempt.
