"Light Phoenix. Heh—I wondered who it was."
A trace of mockery flashed through Zhongli Wu's eyes, then was covered by killing intent. With a wave of his large hand, he directly targeted Yan Shaozhe for attack.
With a thought, winds and clouds transformed.
With merely a pressing hand, he gave Yan Shaozhe enormous pressure, and his eyes also flashed with shock at this moment!
"You broke through to Limit Douluo?!"
The words Yan Shaozhe shouted out directly stunned everyone.
They had never expected that this Holy Spirit Cult Sect Leader had actually broken through to Limit Douluo. Even Chen Junting's group had never expected—only a few days had passed since their last meeting with Zhongli Wu. And he went from Level 98 to 99?!
"Hehe—"
Zhongli Wu smiled, but his hands showed no mercy.
"This is thanks to the sea creatures' souls' dedication."
With a squeeze of his large hand, Yan Shaozhe was like a sparrow, completely unable to escape Zhongli Wu's net-like heaven-covering giant palm.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh— Suddenly, Sky Azure Vines sliced through the air, arriving to block above Yan Shaozhe and forming a sky-reaching giant net, resisting Zhongli Wu's descending attack.
But with Zhongli Wu's thought, as purple light descended, the life energy on the Sky Azure Vines was instantly eroded completely. The originally resilient Sky Azure Vines instantly decayed, collapsing with one strike.
But at this moment, a black light flashed.
"Nine Treasures emerge with glazed light, Second: Attack!"
A gentle female voice fell, and a surge of killing intent charged to the heavens.
A pitch-black long spear seemed to pierce through the sky dome, directly stabbing into Zhongli Wu's palm. A heart-piercing pain instantly swept through him.
Yang Zihan, under Ning Tian's amplification and Chen Junting's domain, relying on her Level 96 cultivation and the Soul Breaking Spear's dominance, forcibly tore through Zhongli Wu's attack, even heading straight for his face. The momentum unchanged, as if determined to never return!
"You seek death!"
A cold and furious voice resounded through the heavens.
When the Soul Breaking Spear's tip was only five feet from his face, Zhongli Wu coldly snorted. Purple light erupted behind him, transforming into a purple figure. Immediately after, that purple figure pressed against the spear tip, but was continuously shattered by the Soul Breaking Spear's spear light.
At this moment, Zhongli Wu suddenly felt somewhat unable to maintain face.
Thus his eighth soul ring flashed, and a slender purple light like a fine needle instantly sliced through the long sky. Where the purple light passed, spear light extinguished, and the needle tip directly met the spear tip in a needle-against-needle confrontation.
A sharp aura instantly swept through the high sky.
Also at this moment, enormous soul power fluctuations came from all directions around Zhongli Wu. From the east, the Sky Star Giant Furnace struck horizontally; from the west, the Vajra Giant Fist shattered the atmosphere; from the north, the wing-spreading Azure Luan rode the wind through the air; from the south, the Crimson Flame Dragon spat firelight.
On all four, glazed colorful light circulated. Under Ning Tian's amplification, their attack power all reached their peaks!
Ha—
A furious roar, the staff entered his hand.
With a wave, a bone dragon appeared beneath his feet. Accompanied by a low roar from the Bone Dragon King beneath his feet, its enormous head raised, spitting out cyan light spheres.
This cyan light sphere's volume wasn't large, only about the size of a human head. When spat out, because it was somewhat disproportionate to the Bone Dragon King's volume, it gave people a sense of disharmony.
But as Zhongli Wu pointed his staff at that cyan light sphere, soul ring light rhythmically pulsed on his body. Rays of light landed on that cyan light sphere, and the sphere's color immediately became much deeper, its might also becoming increasingly terrifying.
Then, the light sphere shot toward the dragon flame.
And he himself also blasted toward the Sky Star Furnace direction!
Instantly, the terrifying dragon flame was instantly extinguished the moment it contacted that cyan light sphere. The terrifying power contained within, the terrifying wind element, couldn't help but make Wu Yan feel his scalp go numb.
What Wu Yan didn't know was that this move was called "Wind's Extreme"—the most powerful strike among wind-type powers that Zhongli Wu could use and control. With wind elements extremely concentrated, its might when he was still a Super Douluo could flatten a mountain range.
That is to say, relying solely on Wu Yan, he couldn't block this move.
At the critical moment, Wu Yan suddenly felt his entire body lighten, the pressure before him suddenly vanishing. An enormous bone shield blocked before him. The light sphere landed on the shield, emitting teeth-grinding cutting sounds, attempting to resist this terrifying concentrated wind element.
At this moment, Gu Tianchen acted once more.
But even with his astonishing defense, cracks began to appear. But as a stream of light entered his body, Gu Tianchen's defense seemed to transform into invincibility, directly blocking the attack.
This scene hadn't even allowed Zhongli Wu time to be shocked.
Hum—
A sword had already slashed down above Zhongli Wu's head!
Sword God – Selfless, Soul Chasing-Life Taking, Tool Soul True Form.
And also...
"Scourge of Destiny."
Beneath Chen Junting's indifferent eyes was contained terrifying amplification. An enormous figure wielded a sword and slashed down, penetrating the sky dome.
This sword made Zhongli Wu feel heart palpitations.
Among all the attacks he had just faced, he had never had this feeling. But now, his intuition was telling him—if he forcibly received this sword and got injured, he would definitely die!
Under the rose-gold rendering, the sickly green was hidden.
And below in the crowd, compared to others' tension, Di Yao looked at this sword, the surprise in her eyes difficult to express in words.
"You really succeeded..."
In her murmuring, Chen Junting had already swung his sword down.
In the next second, a Class 9 defense soul tool shield was raised.
Clang—
The sword blade fell, teeth-grinding cutting sounds rang out.
Following closely were three other attacks, plus Yang Zihan's backhand thrust, another spear attack arriving. Instantly, the Class 9 defense soul tool shield seemed to wail. No matter how powerful the defense, it was ultimately blasted into dots of golden light, scattering in the air, but also intercepting most of the attacks.
Only a thread of sword light remained, momentum unchanged.
However, enormous cyan wind blades several meters long and over a meter wide sliced through, extinguishing the sword light.
Almost simultaneously, whoosh whoosh whoosh—
Several laser-like attacks came, making Chen Junting, who had wanted to swing his sword again, change direction, slicing through the lasers with one sword.
Chen Junting's gaze looked into the distance. In the gloomy sky, four enormous eyeballs with ten or even more than ten tentacles floated in the air. Clearly, the attacks just now were emitted by them.
And of these four, each Evil Eye had hundred-thousand-year cultivation.
In the next moment, several figures also pressed in from below.
Chen Junting's gaze swept over. Some had evil auras—evil soul masters; some had shaky auras—Sun-Moon Empire soul masters. But these people were all Titled Douluo Level powerhouses.
Even the leader of the soul masters had an aura familiar to him.
"Jing Hongchen."
Three words without any emotional fluctuations came from his mouth, his indifferent eyes coldly watching where Jing Hongchen stood.
"You and others surrender, and I shall leave your corpses whole."
"..."
Jing Hongchen, who had originally wanted to open his mouth to say something, was instantly rendered speechless upon hearing Chen Junting's words.
Arrogant!
Only this word remained in his heart.
Even the expression beneath his face-covering cloth became ugly.
Almost simultaneously, killing intent permeated. Jing Hongchen and Zhongli Wu spoke together, "All subordinates, exterminate the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!"
At their command, countless black shadows surged out from Nine Treasure City like tidal waves, charging straight toward the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Ning Bowen, seeing this scene, had an extremely ugly expression. Thus he immediately ordered, "Raise the fixed soul guide cannons, prepare to fire!"
Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons, Thunder Armor Cannons, Explosion Cannons...
Dozens of fixed soul guide cannons were raised by Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples, aimed at evil soul masters, soul masters, and even soul beasts from Evil Demon Forest, swish swish swish... Dozens of fixed soul guide cannons let out roars, masses of intense light continuously lighting up at the plaza's front edge.
Instantly, it was as if thousands of cannons fired in unison.
Boom boom boom— Attacks landed.
Instantly, a terrifying energy storm was stirred up.
However, as soul tool shields were raised one after another, this represented that the Soul Hunt operation's team had blocked their first round of bombardment.
In the next moment, they also made their counterattack. Soul skills and soul tool attacks like a meteor shower blasted out from the smoke and dust.
For a time, the plaza was covered by artillery fire.
But just at this moment,
"Do you all feel very hot?"
In the Soul Hunt team, a soul master felt the continuously rising temperature around him, irritably tugging at his collar.
But the moment he opened his mouth, he was refuted by a companion.
"Hot? I'm saying cold. Ack—"
That soul master who said "hot" upon hearing this, immediately felt his companion was talking nonsense. Amidst artillery fire, "hot" would be normal, but you say "cold"—wasn't that just talking nonsense?
The result was the moment he turned his head, "You...!"
He saw his companion's face was pale, teeth still constantly chattering up and down, and his entire person was also trembling.
This appearance didn't seem fake.
Then why did he himself feel so hot he was about to burn up! Wait?! About to burn up?!
"Sect Protection Grand Formation! Rise!"
A forceful voice resounded through the entire field. They saw Ning Bowen raise both hands, and the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect emitted terrifying abnormal movements.
Above, Jing Hongchen had just dodged one of Chen Junting's swords. The result was he was completely stunned by the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's changes.
The Golden Tree and Undead Tree swayed together. Underground, the two great earth veins of ice and fire seemed to come alive. Instantly, ice and fire energies combined with life and death, two auras circulating, transforming into a yin-yang fish.
This was their first contact with the Soul Hunt team...
Sizzle— Hiss—
Ice energy rampaged, fire energy swept through, immediately catching them off guard. Attacks originating from underground swept through, instantly burying one-third of the Soul Hunt team in the grand formation.
Almost simultaneously, hiss—
A cold snake tongue flickered lightly, chilling cold aura making people terrified.
Behind the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect team, a Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor coiled, twenty gazes coldly watching the front.
The moment the snake mouth opened, soul rings flashed.
Hiss—
A layer of dense, fishy-smelling green gas suddenly sprayed out from Dugu Xin's martial soul true form's mouth, as if it had eyes, bypassing the sect disciples in front, surging forward like tidal waves.
"Defense!!!"
The moment he saw the extreme poison, a Class 8 soul master leading the team instantly had his hair stand on end, instantly feeling incomparable terror. Without hesitation, he immediately used a Class 9 soul tool to defend.
However, the moment the extreme poison contacted the shield, teeth-grinding sizzling corrosion sounds came. And those corpses and living people not within the defense, the moment they made contact, as long as they were below Soul Saint cultivation, were instantly transformed into a pool of pus and blood in moments.
In an instant, another third of the attackers were slaughtered. Even a ninety-thousand-year Evil Eye was hit. In just one minute, a deep black soul ring floated in mid-air.
And this was merely the might of Dugu Xin alone.
Hiss—
At this moment, whether friend or foe, everyone drew a cold breath. Even Zhongli Wu, upon seeing this, had his brows twitching. He could sense that this poison could easily poison him to death.
Among them, Yan Shaozhe's eyes widened.
"This is... Ultimate Poison!"
As his voice fell, two more revealed themselves below.
Roar—
Clack clack—
A fire dragon roared, circling above the grand formation's fire eye; the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion waved its pincers, sitting at the grand formation's ice eye.
Ultimate Fire!
Ultimate Ice!
Relying on the grand formation's might, two Ultimate attribute Soul Saints immediately launched slaughter against the Soul Hunt army. Until an evil soul master Titled Douluo, a Class 9 soul master, and two hundred-thousand-year Evil Eyes acted, intending to kill Huo Yuhao and Wu Feng, did they stop the rout. Of course, they also couldn't succeed.
After all, a long sword danced, an angel descended—Ji Juechen and Ye Guyi acted together, supporting Huo Yuhao and the others.
However, compared to the results achieved below, the battle at the top-tier level also determined victory and defeat at this time.
"You're seeking death!"
Zhongli Wu was furious. Waving his staff again, the Bone Dragon King beneath him raised its enormous head, and a blue fire pillar sprayed directly toward the five disheveled Elders and their spirit souls.
After all, they were only Super Douluos, and not even Level 98. Even with Ning Tian's amplification, facing Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King—two Limit Douluo Level combat forces—they also had difficulty resisting.
In the next second, the five were knocked down from high sky by Zhongli Wu.
Even with the five's five spirit souls acting together, they were treated as nothing under Zhongli Wu's attack, instantly repelled.
This scene shocked the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and various guests. Even though they knew high-end combat forces weren't a match, no one had expected that the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's several Elders would only last this short while before already being defeated.
Now, no matter how abundant the low and mid-tier results were, they couldn't resist—they would be instantly pulled back by Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King.
For a time, everyone's hearts couldn't help but sink. After all, it was common knowledge that if both sides' top-tier powerhouses' strength differed too greatly, then the battle situation was completely uncontrollable.
"Die!"
Zhongli Wu controlled the Bone Dragon King, terrifying wind element attacks descending with a boom, intending to completely kill the five Grand Elders here.
At this critical moment, hum—
A light sword sound, a long sword suddenly broke through the air, as if endless starlight swept through, the Milky Way hanging and flowing, instantly illuminating the dark night sky, as if all darkness was dispelled.
"Zhongli Wu, you dare!"
A shout, and the Bone Dragon King's attack was easily resolved.
The long sword fell, making Zhongli Wu's expression change.
"Limit Douluo!"
White clothes fluttering, an old man with crane-white hair and childlike complexion rode the void, sword in hand, surrounded by seemingly endless starlight.
"Uncle Ye!"
"Great Grandpa!"
"Big Brother!"
"..."
Joyful voices came from everyone's mouths.
Even Chen Junting, who was in the "Sword God Selfless" state, after slicing through one of Jing Hongchen's Class 9 soul tools with one sword, spoke indifferently in his heartbroken gaze, "Master."
Clearly, Ye Xuanji had broken through.
Moreover, he was a yin-yang complementary dual soul core!
"Holy Spirit Cult, Sun-Moon Empire! You invaded my sect, destroyed its Nine Treasure City, wounded my sect's disciples, slaughtered my empire's common people—your sins cannot be forgiven! Today, you shall all leave your lives here!"
White hair flying, like a wrathful Vajra.
Clang—
The Star God Sword pointed directly at the sky dome. Instantly, a sword sound carrying heaven-shaking sword intent resounded through the clouds! The twinkling starlight in the sky seemed to be drawn by the sky-piercing sword intent, casting down "gazes"!
"Stars twinkle, the endless night,
Sword points to sky dome, spirit soaring.
Sword light vast, swallowing ten thousand miles,
Countless stars shining, reflecting the sky's length.
—Sword Dao: Xuanji!"
Instantly, a torrent of stars slashed down!
This sword made Zhongli Wu feel a huge threat! He knew that this sword was too fast. If he could be given time to prepare, he could absolutely block it. But now, he would definitely be severely wounded. He would die under Ye Xuanji's sword. Thus...
"Evil Emperor, save me!"
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