Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

"Trying to run?" Liu Nian sneered, and the Eternal Night Curtain activated instantly!

A gigantic figure suddenly appeared in front of Shams and punched him in the chest. The force of the punch made the air hum. If this punch had landed, not only would the clone have been shattered, but the main body would have been too.

But Liu Nian suddenly saw that Shams did not dodge or avoid, but instead smiled strangely, and then his body suddenly shone with a dazzling light.

"Self-destruct?" Liu Nian's scalp tightened, and he subconsciously unleashed boundless rage!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A continuous dark purple energy storm exploded in the center of the desert, its power ten times more terrifying than the combined self-destruction of the two clones!

Each explosion sent shockwaves powerful enough to level a small hill, the sound like an ammunition depot going off, shaking the sandy ground.

Liu Nian's shield shattered instantly, and his health bar plummeted with each explosion, reaching zero in the blink of an eye!

[System notification: Endless Fury has been triggered; you have averted death!]

Liu Nian retreated rapidly! His health points dropped to zero several times and then rose again, like walking a tightrope, falling down one moment and bouncing up the next, making the audience's hearts jump.

The vampire prince Dracono, however, did not offer any assistance. Instead, a strange excitement flickered in his eyes, as if he were watching two wild beasts fight in an arena, thoroughly enjoying the spectacle.

Finally, the explosion ended, and the prince waved his hand to disperse the smoke and dust, sweeping away the dark red blood light.

At the epicenter of the explosion, Shams's body had been reduced to fragments—metal remnants, broken gears, and severed scorpion tails—scattered across the scorched sand, resembling a smashed toy, a truly gruesome sight.

But Liu Nian didn't believe he was dead.

Because the system did not indicate that the kill was successful.

A level 999 Eternal Boss has many ways to survive. That explosion just now was most likely a trick, a feint, where they transferred their soul to a clone in another part of the city.

"They run pretty fast," Liu Nian muttered.

But he really had no way to deal with it; he wasn't really good at chasing people.

Just then, Dracono's voice came from behind, carrying a hint of mocking laughter, like a cat playing with a mouse.

"You think you can pull any tricks on me with just a mere soul transfer?"

The crimson Rubik's Cube in his hand suddenly changed—all the faces returned to their positions at the same time, the six sides closed together, emitting a dazzling blood-red light.

"Resurrection spell—come back to me!"

An invisible force emanated from the Rubik's Cube, like a crimson wave of light, instantly sweeping across the entire city.

As Shams was gathering his consciousness in a clone somewhere in the pyramid, preparing to regain control of the situation, he suddenly felt as if his soul was being tightly gripped by an invisible hand.

"What?!" He struggled to break free, but the force was too strong, so strong that he couldn't resist at all.

His soul was forcibly pulled from his clone, as if bound by an invisible rope, and flowed rapidly backward—back to that desert, back to the shattered remains of his original body.

Shams let out a scream.

His translucent soul floated in mid-air, the will-o'-the-wisp dimming.

Dracono gazed at the distant soul of Shams, a smug smile slowly spreading across his face.

"Hahaha... You think I, after fighting the undead for so many years, don't know how many ways you guys can save yourselves? I've been waiting for your soul to leave your body!"

He laughed loudly, his smugness undisguised: "My Soul Return Technique was specifically developed to counter soul transference. You... can't escape!!"

The will-o'-the-wisp of Shams flickered violently, as if in anger or fear, trembling like a candle in the wind.

"You...you..."

He glanced down at his shattered remains, then at Dracono, and finally fixed his gaze on Liu Nian.

In that gaze, there was hatred, despair, and a hint of something else that was hard to define.

"You..." His voice suddenly rose, carrying a desperate madness, "Hmph! Even if I die, you will never get this city!!"

His soul suddenly ignited—he would use his soul as fuel to activate the city's self-destruct protocol!

Dark purple flames instantly ignited, carrying a strong aura of death.

The entire city began to shake. The ground beneath their feet trembled violently as if trampled by a giant beast. The desert churned like boiling water. The energy conduits glowed with a blinding dark purple light. Everyone could feel that the city was heading towards self-destruction!

"Come to hell with me and my city, hahahahaha!!!" Shams's voice, filled with final madness, echoed throughout the entire Golden City.

"Hehehehe~" Dracono's expression was not flustered at all, but instead revealed a hint of sinister, as if everything was under his control.

"Do you think you can still do it?"

The Rubik's Cube in his hand spun again, emitting a low hum.

Shams felt his soul body suddenly shudder, and then an invisible force squeezed him from all directions, making him feel as if he were being stuffed into a hydraulic press, so huge that it was suffocating, as if the next second would crush his soul into a bead!

"Ughhhhhh!!!" He let out a painful roar, his soul twisting and deforming violently as he struggled, but to no avail.

At this moment, Dracono's Blood God Descent was lifted, and the overwhelming crimson pressure dissipated rapidly like the receding tide.

Liu Nian's time for transforming into the Law of Heaven and Earth had come, and his enormous golden body shrank rapidly, returning to human form.

The two clones also turned into specks of golden light and dissipated into the air, like fireworks that had completed their mission.

In the distance, the undead saw the Pharaoh captured, and their morale collapsed instantly.

They had been fighting tooth and nail, but now it was as if their backbone had been ripped out. Under the attack of the vampires, they were forced to retreat step by step, their formation scattered like sand, and many of them began to flee in panic. It was a true depiction of the chaos and disarray that followed.

Liu Nian coldly watched as Dracono compressed Shams's soul into a basketball-sized ball of light. Dark purple will-o'-the-wisps flickered within the ball, and distorted faces constantly tried to break free of their restraints, but each time they seemed to crash into an invisible wall, their efforts futile.

It seems that this vampire prince had planned this all along.

From invading the Southern Continent to luring Shams into a decisive battle, to forcing his soul to transfer, and then capturing him with the Soul Return Technique—every step was on his chessboard.

Controlling Shams's soul is equivalent to controlling the highest authority in the city, and the city and all its assets and secrets will fall into his hands at the same time!

Even the Eternal Engine and Mechagon!

This is definitely not good news for him.