Chapter 405

But before he could fire, he felt his gaze drawn in by Huo Yutong's eyes, vast and deep as an abyss.

Fifth soul skill, Soul Gaze.

Under the effect of Soul Gaze, Xia Xuanchen's spirit was unable to resist and fell into a frozen state.

At the same time, a pure white small hand lightly pressed against the defenseless Xia Xuanchen's back.

Imperial Palm, Great Cold Without Snow.

Although the Imperial Palm is powerful, its extremely low hit rate is truly terrible; as long as the opponent retains a bit of reason, they cannot easily let her palm strike them.

Therefore, Huo Yutong recently became enamored with first using a mental clone to cast Soul Freeze to immobilize the opponent, then seamlessly following up with the Imperial Palm.

Even Tang Wulin, when first facing this combo, was directly defeated by her.

At this moment, as the Imperial Palm landed successfully, an endless chill that seemed capable of completely freezing the soul began to pour into Xia Xuanchen's body from where the palm touched his back.

His body inevitably stiffened, and in less than half a second it turned into an ice sculpture.

While striking with this palm, Huo Yutong actually also used another soul skill from her fifth soul ring.

Eternal Frost, its effect is to double the power of the next ice-attribute soul skill used, while also applying the Eternal Frost effect; to dispel the cold it produces requires consuming five times the usual soul power.

Originally, Huo Yutong was already at her peak under the amplification of Ice Wing Dragon Dance, Bajiao Ice Source Condensation, and Extreme Ice Amplification; now, combined with Eternal Frost, she unleashed the Imperial Palm, which can be said without exaggeration to be her strongest strike currently possible.

Such power could not be resisted by Xia Xuanchen, who had no time to employ any defense; his consciousness instantly vanished into a realm of extreme cold.

Huo Yutong's motion had no pause; after freezing Xia Xuanchen, her jade-green scorpion tail wrapped around his waist and then flung him violently toward the strongest remaining soul master, an eight-ring soul master.

That eight-ring soul master, startled by the movement, instinctively turned his head and saw Xia Xuanchen flying toward him; his expression had just begun to show delight when it quickly turned to great panic.

Because Xia Xuanchen had come close, he only then realized that his greatly admired and trusted vice-captain had now become an ice sculpture with a bewildered expression.

He instinctively reached out to catch him, but the instant his hand touched Xia Xuanchen, a terrifying explosion erupted in his palm.

"Boom—"

The Eternal Frost soul skill essentially enhances the ice-attribute nature of the next soul skill, making it more formidable.

As for the Ice Burst soul skill, its essence is to detonate the ice elements controlled by Huo Yutong, instantly causing massive damage.

After obtaining the Eternal Frost soul skill, Huo Yutong quickly discovered that it synergizes exceptionally well with Ice Burst.

Naturally, Ice Burst then achieved great success, instantly blowing that eight-ring soul master to bits, leaving no fragments, and also taking out more than a dozen seven-ring soul masters nearby.

After completing this series of actions, Huo Yutong let out a long breath and then stopped maintaining the blizzard she had been sustaining.

This combo's power is indeed formidable; not to mention the ordinary nine-ring soul master Xia Xuanchen, even Tang Wulin, whose physical strength rivals Xuanzi's, would die without a burial place if he took the full combo unprepared. Correspondingly, the combo consumes a great deal of soul power; Huo Yutong's previously ample soul power was instantly drained by eighty percent or more, making further maintenance of the domain somewhat risky.

Anyway, the leaders of the Xie Jun Soul Mentor Group have already been slain by her and Tang Wulin; losing their strongest member and leader is tantamount to losing their own brain, leaving them unable to resist four Super Douluo-level powerhouses.

And most importantly, reinforcements for Tang Wulin and his group have arrived.

"Whoosh—"

With a sharp eagle cry, a blue streak shot into the enemy formation, forcibly scattering the Xie Jun Soul Mentor Group's ranks, which had just taken advantage of the domain's dissolution to begin regrouping.

The newcomer was Song Lao, who had already killed several Holy Spirit Sect powerhouses she and the Golden Peng had intercepted, and now came to help.

At this point, the Xie Jun Soul Mentor Group had only a few eight-ring soul masters left; one of them gritted his teeth and shouted, "Linked Soul Conductor, lock on!"

Now that their leaders are dead, if they continue in this scattered state, they will surely be wiped out here.

They all know the war is about to begin, and the chance to achieve merit lies before them; how could they lose their lives here!

Hearing his voice, the remaining soul masters finally came to their senses and one after another activated the Linked Soul Conductors on their bodies.

Vast soul power gathered once more, but the losses the Xie Jun Soul Mentor Group suffered in the recent blizzard were enormous—not only were the two leaders killed respectively by Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong, Jing Feng also took advantage of the chaos to send countless high-level soul masters flying with single punches.

The soul power they have now managed to regroup is actually less than half of what they had just before, barely reaching the level of a ninety-eight-rank Super Douluo.

Don't think ninety-eight rank sounds high; this is pure soul power without any martial soul or soul skill enhancement, and its attack power is such that even a few true Super Douluo could not match it—Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong could burst forth with that level if they gritted their teeth.

Yet they face six opponents each possessing Super Douluo-level combat strength, the strongest of whom is even a ninety-seven-rank Super Douluo.

Song Lao, transformed into an azure crane, let out a sharp cry to the heavens, and then the black soul ring at the end of her soul rings lit up.

In an instant, dazzling light radiated from the Azure Shadow Divine Hawk above; at this moment Song Lao no longer resembled a normal creature but rather a work of art carved from jade.

Ninth soul skill of the Azure Shadow Divine Hawk, Jade Ascension.

The next instant, Song Lao's figure vanished from its original spot.

At the same time, the soul masters present began to die suddenly at a terrifying rate.

Song Lao's martial soul true form is not large; indeed, among the beast martial soul true forms of many Super Douluo, it can be said to be among the smallest.

Yet her terror lies in the fact that, among those present, no one dares claim they can fully perceive her movements.

Even in the eyes of Huo Yutong, whose vision is the strongest, Song Lao now appears like a blue lightning bolt weaving through the crowd, each descent destined to take the life of a member of the Xie Jun Soul Mentor Group.

(End of Chapter)