"Is that what they're thinking?"
Feeling that he had guessed Huo Yuhao and the others' thoughts, a hint of gold flashed through the depths of Chen Junting's eyes. Immediately after, centered on him, an extremely terrifying spiritual power radiated outward!
The entire Sea God Family residence, including the sea region outside the Sea God Family residence—nothing could escape his perception.
Such a large commotion alarmed the Sea God Family's powerhouses. Until Chen Juntao's voice leisurely drifted out from the Sea God Temple, "Everything proceeds as usual. No one is to interfere in this matter."
As for Chen Juntao himself…
At this moment, he had been sitting cross-legged in the Sea God Temple the entire time. Regarding Huo Yuhao and the others looking for Chen Junting to conduct advance trials, not only did he have no intention of interfering, he didn't even plan to probe or perceive it.
Meanwhile, on Chen Junting's side.
He indeed heard Chen Juntao's voice and understood this Great Worship's intention to let them do as they pleased. Thus, Chen Junting targeted his tracking on the auras of Huo Yuhao's eleven people, directly excluding other people or other soul beasts.
In less than three breaths, Huo Yuhao and the others' auras were like fireflies in the dark, clearly exposed under his perception.
Who would have thought…
One, two, three… ten!
There were actually ten identical auras, and these ten auras were exactly the same. Even he had difficulty distinguishing them.
This situation caused Chen Junting to be slightly stunned.
He truly hadn't expected that Huo Yuhao and the others would actually come up with such a method to deal with him. Because there were ten locations in total, and in a situation where he couldn't distinguish them, it meant he would have to pursue them one by one until he could confirm their true bodies.
This way, a large amount of time could be delayed.
One had to admit, the configuration of Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes soul skills allowed him to perform this kind of deception at a very high level!
Clearly, their strategy had succeeded.
Moreover, if this method were used on that Sea God Great Worship, the effect would be even better than using it on him.
After all…
He didn't have spirit souls like these.
One had to admit, they had indeed done quite well.
A faint smile appeared at the corners of Chen Junting's mouth.
Since that was the case, then let's have some fun.
"Snow Empress, Tyrant, Mad King, Evil Emperor."
Four streaks of flowing light flew out from the back of Chen Junting's head. The four great spirit souls, having transformed into human form, appeared beside Chen Junting.
"Chase!"
Without excessive instructions, the four great spirit souls immediately dispersed, picking a direction and pursuing. Meanwhile, Chen Junting also stepped out, as if the ends of the earth were within a stone's throw, chasing toward one location.
Very quickly, he closed the distance between both sides.
Before he even approached, he fiercely slashed out with a sword!
This sword light seemed to penetrate through space, directly arriving behind this group of people. But before the attack fully landed, a wave of spiritual power distortion transmitted from this group of people.
Immediately after, Boom—
Suddenly, a surge of energy violently exploded.
In the next second, terrifying virulent poison instantly surged toward him!
Damn!
This sudden change caused Chen Junting's pupils to involuntarily contract.
He opened his hand wide, and a formless airflow formed purely from soul power instantly surged toward this virulent poison. The moment it enveloped the poison, streaks of golden patterns spread out. In mere moments, it condensed all the poison into a small sphere.
After completing all this, he immediately changed direction.
When he caught up to the next group, the result was the same.
Thus, after doing the same thing, he prepared to set off again. However, just as he was preparing to move once more, news came from the Snow Empress's side: she had found them! The group she was chasing was the real one.
Probably due to good luck, the route the Snow Empress was chasing happened to be the direction of Huo Yuhao and his group's true bodies.
Now, they were blocked on the road.
Even though the eleven of them were using flying soul guidance devices that were all eighth-level flying soul guidance devices, capable of crossing several hundred meters in an instant, and their speed would maintain a continuous increasing momentum, and they constantly changed direction, it was still futile.
At this moment, facing the relentlessly pursuing Snow Empress, Huo Yuhao immediately had Gu Tianchen open a void gate, preparing to teleport everyone away.
They couldn't delay any longer!
Originally, after obtaining the news from Wang Dong'er at the Sea God Douluo's side, and after roughly exchanging a few moves with Big Brother Junting, Huo Yuhao had no intention of fighting head-on anymore and chose to use his wits.
Therefore, their strategy was: at the very beginning of the match, first rely on the two great soul skills Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing to connect all teammates, then have the three power-attack system soul masters make a move against Big Brother Junting to distract him, and in that instant when he was distracted, have Huo Yuhao create an illusion to further delay Big Brother Junting's time.
Even though they knew this kind of delay couldn't be maintained for long. But this short period of time was extremely precious to them. Using spirit souls and the simulation soul skill to split into ten identical teams, then using void gates to disperse—including their own real team—to ten different locations, and then under the premise of not crossing paths, have the ten teams rely on speed to frantically run around, thereby achieving the goal of delaying time.
Conveniently, also set up virulent poison methods in each fake team. This way, even after seeing through it, Chen Junting would need to take action to clear the poison, thereby delaying time again.
Huo Yuhao had calculated precisely that this could delay a lot of time. Even if afterward Chen Junting really caught up, then they would fight him again to delay time, and when they couldn't hold on anymore, run again, and after he caught up, fight again, and when they couldn't win, run again…
Cycle back and forth, perhaps it could work.
Of course, this was only an ideal state.
But sometimes, this ideal state was difficult to achieve.
For example, Huo Yuhao had overlooked one point: if he could borrow the power of spirit souls, then why couldn't Chen Junting?
He wasn't the Sea God Douluo.
So now, the Snow Empress was already pressing hard in pursuit.
Facing Huo Yuhao's signal, Gu Tianchen acted again, opening a void gate before them. But before they could escape into it, the Snow Empress had already acted before them.
In an instant, a layer of blue-white airflow had already swept out from her body, rapidly expanding around her body. The moment the Snow Empress spread her arms, she lightly shook them, and immediately, the diffusion of blue-white light increased geometrically, looking like a gigantic vortex appearing in midair.
Terrifying chill instantly swept toward them!
The rapidly flying crowd suddenly felt their entire bodies turn ice-cold, then completely stiff. Apart from Huo Yuhao who also possessed Ultimate Ice, and Wu Feng who possessed the Ultimate Fire attribute, the others' bodies that had been rapidly advancing suddenly stalled, accompanied by a sudden drop in flying speed.
And ahead, an ice wall had already blocked their path.
As their expressions suddenly changed, Huo Yuhao subconsciously looked back and saw everyone's condition, and his heart immediately sank.
The ones reacting most strongly were unconsciously Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er, who had the lowest soul power cultivation. Under the influence of the Snow Empress's Ultimate Ice chill, they could no longer fly forward, and even their entire flying soul guidance devices were covered with a layer of frost.
Apart from the two of them, Gu Tianchen, Ma Xiaotao, and Ye Guyi were still within the range of what they could endure, while the others were barely able to maintain a stable state.
At this moment, this region was already covered in ice and snow.
Facing this scene, Gu Tianchen almost immediately made a decisive decision. He directly opened several void gates in succession, some near and some far, some in front and some behind… wanting to make it difficult for the Snow Empress to safely seal them off.
However, the Snow Empress lightly waved her palms.
A gigantic blizzard rapidly blocked their path.
But Gu Tianchen's five fingers hooked in the air, instantly pulling a void gate close, rapidly swallowing the blizzard blocking their path within it. Immediately after, another void gate opened before the Snow Empress, not only blocking her line of sight, but also…
Whoosh—, Wuwu—
The raging blizzard was directly returned by Gu Tianchen!
But this wasn't over yet…
His hooked five fingers pulled again, and several nearby void gates were rapidly pulled close by Gu Tianchen. And this time, the void gates were aimed at each power-attack system soul master.
Such an action immediately made them react.
"Move first!"
Almost the moment the shout fell,
"Phoenix Sky-Shattering Strike!"
"Angel Judgment!"
"Dragon Emperor Suppressing Evil Split!"
"Super Energy Aggregation Cannon!"
"Blazing Dragon Star Cluster!"
"…"
Under the aiming of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing, void gates precisely opened at different positions around the Snow Empress, then had firepower precisely and comprehensively cover her!
Boom boom boom—
For a moment, violent bombardment did not cease.
But just at this time, Huo Yuhao's entire body felt his hair stand on end!
He saw that from the void gates facing everyone, waves of extremely cold and frigid aura suddenly transmitted out!
It was almost Gu Tianchen's fastest reaction, cutting off all void gates!
Crack—, Crack—…
Several sounds rang out in succession, and he saw many ice sword tips being severed by the void gates, then falling from midair.
And these ice sword tips were clearly the Snow Empress's "Imperial Sword: Unparalleled Chill." Clearly, while facing their violent bombardment, the Snow Empress directly withstood the attacks and repeatedly thrust out her Imperial Sword!
Fortunately, in the end, Gu Tianchen reacted swiftly.
And just at the instant of severing the Imperial Sword, a void gate appeared below them. Almost at the same time, a terrifying palm force surged toward the top of their heads with great momentum!
In the next second,
Fall!
This word was issued by Huo Yuhao in everyone's minds. Instantly, they stopped circulating soul power and free-fell.
At the instant the Empress Palm arrived, everyone all escaped into the void gate, vanishing without a trace.
"They escaped."
The Snow Empress looked at the vanished crowd, and a hint of displeasure couldn't help but appear on her indifferent face. And at this time, "They can't escape."
A streak of flowing light flashed past, and Chen Junting arrived at her side.
Gazing at the residual spatial fluctuations, he then said to the Snow Empress: "You return first. I'll chase the rest myself."
Regarding this, the Snow Empress naturally had no objections.
Thus, after retrieving the Snow Empress spirit soul, Chen Junting immediately locked onto the direction Huo Yuhao and the others took after stepping out of the void gate based on the residual spatial fluctuations, then directly chased after them.
And next,
You run, I chase; you run, I chase…
A pursuit battle unfolded just like this.
This disgusted Chen Junting to no end. In his words:
Slippery as a loach!
This was no wonder—when passing the fifth trial and proceeding to the sixth trial, Tang San directly sealed Gu Tianchen's ninth soul skill and domain. Otherwise, what would be the point of this sixth trial!
Unless from the very beginning one sealed the entire space; or possessed absolute speed, needing only an instant to intercept Gu Tianchen within a hair's breadth, not letting him escape into the void gate; or existed like Di Tian who had comprehended spatial power to a powerful level; or was a god…
Then relying on his domain and ninth soul skill, as well as the spatial abilities he had comprehended and possessed up to now… if Gu Tianchen wanted to escape, then practically no one could catch him.
Thus, "Can't continue like this anymore."
After they once again used Gu Tianchen's void gate to escape, Chen Junting didn't rush to chase after them again.
Instead, after locking onto their region…
Hum—
Nine stars flickered as soul rings lit up one after another. Under the shroud of blood light, "Third Soul Skill—Might Shakes Eight Directions!"
Rumble rumble—
In an instant, winds and clouds suddenly changed!
At this moment, right above Huo Yuhao and the others, the originally cloudless sky was in a mere instant shrouded by thick clouds. Just as Huo Yuhao and the others realized something was amiss, and Gu Tianchen wanted to open a void gate again to escape, an invisible powerful magnetic field completely sealed off this region.
Immediately after, Hum—
In an instant, winds and clouds transformed. In the eight directions of the cloud layer, gigantic vortexes slowly appeared, and the tips of eight Seven Kill Swords also protruded from the vortexes in the clouds. Then, Shhh shhh shhh—
Eight Seven Kill Swords fiercely fell, directly inserting into the earth.
Eight illusory giant swords were like eight illusory city walls, completely sealing Huo Yuhao and his group inside.
"Can't escape now, except upward."
Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to scan the surroundings and discovered that apart from upward, all other directions were already sealed. With their strength, to break these giant swords… their strength was completely insufficient.
"Go up! Move!"
Hearing this, everyone's figures rapidly ascended upward!
But before they could reach the top, Shhh—
A sword qi rapidly slashed toward them from afar!
In an instant, a frigid sword light flashed through Ji Juechen's indifferent eyes, and a sword intent surged toward the sky!
Immediately after, his first six soul rings flickered in succession, and under the soul power amplification of six soul skills, he similarly slashed out with a sword!
Clang—
Under the collision of the two sword qis, although the momentum of the incoming sword qi was reduced, its force was still ferocious, and the atmosphere it passed through was directly sliced open, dispersing toward both sides!
Just at this moment, "Coiling Dragon Spinning Shield!"
Gu Tianchen spread open the bone shield, only then blocking the sword qi.
But after blocking it, when he moved the bone shield aside, he saw that Chen Junting had once again appeared before them. Only this time, they could no longer use the void gate to escape.
Unless, they left this sealed region.
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