Buzz—
An ice sword carrying deathly stillness struck fiercely!
When Gu Tianchen raised his bone dragon's defense to block it.
It turned out that the ice sword jointly launched by Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen had been directly suppressed by an "Extinction Sword Intent," then to some degree "appropriated for his own use," and sent back by Chen Junting!
Now, that stick of incense had burned another third of its remaining half. The green smoke lingered, yet time flowed mercilessly.
But this rate of passage could not satisfy them.
"We can't keep going like this!"
Apart from Wu Feng, Ma Xiaotao had the most explosive temperament.
"We have to find a way to break that light circle of his first!"
She shouted sharply, and the ninth soul ring on her body suddenly lit up!
In her view, only the strongest soul skill would work.
"Phoenix Nirvana!"
Under a bloody glow, the red flames instantly converged. The originally explosive Phoenix flames rapidly turned inward, condensing behind her entire body into a lifelike flame phoenix, then carrying a momentum of no return as it ruthlessly slammed toward that sword circle.
This move was her strongest single-target attack soul skill.
It contained terrifying destructive power!
And her action seemed to flip a switch.
Ye Guyi didn't hesitate, similarly activating her own ninth soul ring. "Ninth Soul Skill—Advent of the Angel God!"
In an instant, boundless light gathered behind her.
Six wings flapped, and a phantom figure slowly appeared. Though its face was invisible, it was a sacred female figure.
Ye Guyi and the phantom figure behind her both cupped their hands in the void, and a giant sword of purely condensed light power appeared above her and his head, carrying the majesty to judge all evil, and amid the phoenix cry, slashed down toward Chen Junting's head.
"Add me in!"
As a fellow Titled Douluo, Gu Tianchen was similarly unwilling to show weakness.
The bone dragon let out a heaven-shaking roar. Although he couldn't use his ninth soul technique, to him, the eighth soul technique wasn't bad either.
Waves of void spatial energy gathered between the bone dragon's upper and lower jaws, and in the blink of an eye condensed into a light sphere. Then, "Eighth Soul Skill—Dragon King's Different Dimension!"
The others stood ready. Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er were even holding hands, prepared to use their Martial Soul Fusion Technique at any moment.
As three Titled Douluos with strength comparable to Super Douluos simultaneously activated powerful soul techniques, the resulting momentum was so tremendous that the space of the entire arena began to slightly distort.
Chen Junting's eyes instantly narrowed, and then he stepped out of the sword circle. The surging soul power that erupted was like churning lava, and the sword intent radiating from his entire body seemed to transform into ten thousand Seven Kill Swords piercing the heavens, forming vortexes and tornadoes that swirled around him.
In the next second, vast soul power transformed into four long swords.
Suddenly, four arms reached out from the void, and the phantom of a giant demon appeared behind Chen Junting. Its stature was absolutely not inferior to the angel phantom behind Ye Guyi.
Then, "Seven Kill startles the thunder, one sword breaks the long sky."
Slaughter, Extinction, Entrapment.
The Four Great Sword Intents seemed to materialize into substance, instantly wrapping around the four Seven Kill Swords in the giant demon's hands. Condensed to the extreme, sword qi burst forth from the tips of the four Seven Kill Swords. Two of the swords met Gu Tianchen's "Dragon King's Different Dimension." There was no dazzling splendor, only pure sharpness. As the two terrifying forces collided in midair, that spatial sphere condensed from spatial energy was directly sliced into four pieces by the sharpest swords—the Slaughter Sword and the Zhu Sword.
Then they flew behind Chen Junting.
Boom—
They ultimately exploded!
Meanwhile, the Extinction Sword met Ma Xiaotao's flame phoenix. Deathly extreme cold erupted, and the flame phoenix could only let out a mournful cry before being split in half by that sword qi. The residual sword qi, its momentum undiminished, flew past Ma Xiaotao's shoulder, bringing up a string of blood beads. Ma Xiaotao grunted, her face instantly turning pale.
The last remaining sword was like a surging great river, or like a flourishing forest—so diverse it was indistinguishable, as if encompassing all phenomena. It seemed to directly withstand the judgment. Ye Guyi's Angel Judgment Sword before that sword qi seemed to turn into fragile glass, shattering inch by inch into small dusts of light. She herself was similarly affected, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
"So strong! Is this the strength of a Limit-level powerhouse?"
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao and the others felt heavy-hearted. Every one of their soul techniques was enough to keep opponents of the same level frantically busy, yet before Chen Junting they seemed so utterly vulnerable.
And one must know, this wasn't even his full strength.
In fact, it was only about fifty percent.
"Continue!"
Huo Yuhao's voice rang out in everyone's minds. "Since we can't die anyway, let's train ourselves to death! Don't worry about failure!"
Under his unified command, everyone attacked again.
He Caitou's soul cannon began covering bombardment. Although it couldn't break through the sword circle, the continuous explosions and impacts could at least cause some interference with the sword circle's stability. Dugu Xin's poisonous fog spread even wider, trying to penetrate from all directions. Wu Feng and Bei Bei roamed the periphery, looking for gaps in Chen Junting's moves to carry out harassing attacks and delay his time.
The fighting spirit in Ji Juechen's eyes only increased rather than diminished. The sword in his hand had long since merged with her entire heartbeat. He continuously displayed her own thousand-hammered sword techniques—each sword stroke was simple and direct, yet contained his understanding of the sword dao. He tried to learn the essence from Chen Junting through this.
Compared to before, he was more like seeking instruction at this moment.
Xiao Xiao's flute sound became even more urgent, beginning to try combining the Nine Phoenixes Jade Flute's sound wave attacks with Huo Yuhao's spiritual power, attempting to produce a stronger spiritual-level impact. The Three Lives Soul Sealing Cauldron constantly changed positions, suppressing from different angles.
Wang Dong'er's Light Goddess Butterfly danced gracefully, and even, with a flash of inspiration, borrowed the power of Sea God's Light to counterattack.
Huo Yuhao's spiritual power was highly concentrated, his Spirit Eyes martial soul pushed to the extreme. Spiritual Detection Sharing connected everyone's perception into one whole; spiritual interference was continuously applied, while he began attempting to construct more advanced illusions, trying to create false attack points in Chen Junting's perception, or distort the true attack trajectories of his companions, in hopes of winning by surprise.
The battle seemed to have entered a white-hot stage.
Of course, in reality, it wasn't quite so.
Since there was still enough time, he maintained a mentoring attitude. He allowed everyone to treat him as a "punching bag" to practice their hands on.
Chen Junting stood in place, his foot movements merely within a hair's breadth. His Seven Kill Sword was sometimes light and agile in its thrusts, sometimes heavy in its cleaving strikes—each movement was naturally flawless, even carrying a kind of simplifying complexity that pointed directly to essence, possessing terrifying power.
Even so, it made everyone suffer bitterly.
A sword light of extreme speed instantly pierced through a specially made armor-piercing round He Caitou had just fired, leaving several afterimages in the air as it respectively pointed toward Wu Feng and Bei Bei's attacks.
The two only felt their eyes blur, and their attacks had already collapsed.
Even their chests felt stifled.
Time passed minute by second. That stick of incense had already burned quite a bit. It looked like only the final ten minutes remained.
But under continuous all-out attacks, everyone's soul power consumption was enormous—especially those who hadn't yet condensed a soul core. So among the eleven people, most had already turned pale, their breathing growing heavy.
As for wanting to rely on milk bottles to recover soul power—
They had to have the opportunity to recover first.
"This won't do; our soul power can't sustain it."
Bei Bei's forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat. He turned to look at Huo Yuhao, who had been forced back by Chen Junting's sword. The strength of a Limit-level powerhouse—even with only about fifty percent of his combat power unleashed—had already far exceeded their estimates.
If this continued,
They absolutely wouldn't last until that stick of incense burned out.
They had to find a way!
[Yuhao, let's use the Martial Soul Fusion Technique!]
At this moment, through the Spiritual Link soul technique, Wang Dong'er's inner voice simultaneously rang out in everyone's minds. Because the only means that could threaten Big Brother Junting was probably this one.
However, Huo Yuhao rejected this idea.
[No, while the power of the Martial Soul Fusion Technique could certainly work, Big Brother Junting can absolutely dodge it. And if we simply clash head-on, we're not his match either. Unless...]
[Unless we can first seal him with the Golden Road!]
But although the Golden Road was strong, the old man in the final stage of the fifth trial had been able to block it relying on special soul techniques. Yet everyone knew the Golden Road's flaw—compared to the other three Martial Soul Fusion Techniques, the Golden Road was a straight-line attack, lacking flexibility. Even moving one step to the side could avoid it.
[Leave that to us!]
Bei Bei took a deep breath, a flash of resolve passing through his eyes.
Everyone knew that conventional tactics could no longer work.
They had to take a risky move!
[Yuhao, how much time do you need!]
[Three breaths!]
[Good!]
Bei Bei decisively gave orders in the Spiritual Link: [Xiaotao, Xiao Feng, we'll use the explosive and berserk power of the thunder and fire attributes to prepare our strongest attacks! Guyi, you enhance the power of their flames again. As for the others, do your utmost to cover Yuhao and Dong'er, buying them three breaths of time!]
Ma Xiaotao and Wu Feng exchanged glances, immediately nodding.
In the next moment, the two simultaneously shouted sharply, their soul power erupting without reservation, their seventh soul rings shining together.
"Seventh Soul Skill—Fire Phoenix True Body!"
"Seventh Soul Skill—Crimson Flame Dragon King True Body!"
Two deafening roars rang out. Ma Xiaotao transformed into a giant golden-red fire phoenix with a wingspan exceeding twenty meters, while Wu Feng transformed into a fierce crimson-red flame dragon nearly thirty meters long. Two blazing high temperatures intertwined, forming a terrifying heat wave that rolled toward Chen Junting.
Immediately after, Wu Feng's domain fully deployed!
Crimson Dragon Explosive Domain!
Having transformed into her martial soul true body, the Crimson Flame Dragon King's dragon head suddenly raised, letting out a heaven-shaking dragon roar. At the same time, a crimson-red halo instantly expanded outward.
In an instant, everything within range turned crimson-red, like magma densely covering the area below. And the deployment of this domain also caused Ma Xiaotao's fire attribute to suddenly soar, directly transforming into extreme fire just like Wu Feng's!
At the same time, Bei Bei's entire body was shining with lightning!
"Seventh Soul Skill—Light Holy Dragon True Body!"
Roar—
An incomparably resonant dragon cry rang out from Bei Bei's mouth. Then, with a shake of his body, he transformed into a white dragon emitting intense golden light, flying up to position himself between the crimson dragon and the fire phoenix.
"Ha!"
Seeing this, Ye Guyi also immediately let out a light shout!
"Seventh Soul Skill—Angel True Body!"
Dazzling golden light, along with the gorgeous golden shadow behind her, simultaneously bloomed. A powerful and holy aura of oppression surged toward them. Amid the brilliant golden light, the phantom behind Ye Guyi quietly moved forward, and she herself rapidly merged with that phantom. Her entire person, including skin and hair, was all rendered into pure gold. Even her clothes disappeared in that golden purification. Gorgeous golden flames wrapped around her body, like an immortal being. Even the other eight soul rings on her body were at this moment rendered golden.
On Ye Guyi's two pairs of pure white wings, gold spread from the roots all the way to the tip of each feather.
Accompanied by a ripping sound, another pair of wings opened from behind her. The Six-Winged Angel's true form completely manifested under the effect of the seventh soul ring's martial soul true body.
Ye Guyi's momentum instantly swelled like covering the heavens and earth, fully displaying the power and confidence that belonged to the Six-Winged Angel martial soul from ten thousand years ago!
Then,
"Angel Domain, open!"
Instantly, circles of golden halos carrying strange and wonderful sounds directly enveloped Chen Junting. And the moment they overlapped with the Crimson Dragon Explosive Domain, everything around became somewhat hazily golden. Even everyone on their side gained a layer of golden light.
And right at this moment, Wu Feng and Ma Xiaotao went all out.
"Ninth Soul Skill—Phoenix Nirvana!"
"Eighth Soul Skill—Dragon King Hellfire!"
Following closely, Ye Guyi also used another soul technique of her ninth soul ring. "Ninth Soul Skill—Angel·Solar Holy Flame!"
Golden-red and dark-red flames rapidly intertwined. The fire phoenix and the fire dragon directly merged into one, transforming into azure-blue flames that directly distorted the surrounding air, even causing the surroundings to instantly be covered with spiderweb-like cracks. Moreover, under the blessing of Ye Guyi's Solar Holy Flame and holy light, boundless light and heat erupted forth!
Like a sun, thoroughly ignited at this moment!
Immediately following, a circle of golden lightning suddenly erupted with Bei Bei at the center. Even the air seemed to have completely become a world of lightning. Countless golden lightning bolts rampaged within; some lightning was even so viscous it seemed like liquid, and some spherical lightning was contained within. Boundless, berserk thunder symbolizing heavenly punishment, like billions of lightning snakes that had completely broken free of their cages, began madly shooting in all directions!
Rumble—
Lightning and fire.
The two most berserk, most primal, and also most difficult to control, most explosive plasmas in nature—at this very moment, in just an instant, fused into one. A sphere of pure destructive energy of incalculable diameter, blazing white in color, began expanding at an unimaginable speed!
Light swallowed all colors.
Sound was replaced by absolute thunder.
In the next second, Boom—
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