Huang Zhengyang stood in place, looking at the empty battlefield, momentarily dazed. He, a dignified Pillar of Xingluo, a divine level mecha pilot, was at this moment left standing like an outsider.
"Sir, what should we do now?" His deputy asked cautiously.
Huang Zhengyang snapped back to reality, took a deep breath, and looked at the ruins in the distance. "Block the area within ten kilometers. Check for any remnants left by the Dawn Society."
Although he was unwilling, Huang Zhengyang was very clear that a battle of that level was indeed not something ordinary armies could participate in.
He looked up at the sky. There were still a few not yet fully closed spatial cracks there, emitting a heartbeating energy fluctuation.
After thinking for a moment, Huang Zhengyang continued, "Also, mobilize all detection soul tools to closely monitor the nearby situation, in case the Dawn Society sends reinforcements."
"Yes."
Just as Huang Zhengyang was deploying defenses, dozens of kilometers away from Xihai City, above a wasteland, space suddenly distorted. Two figures emerged one after another.
Bone Dragon Douluo looked at Huo Yuhao, who had followed him alone, and narrowed his eyes. "You actually followed. It seems Lord Huo Yuhao is very confident in himself."
The three of them had separated. Although he had deliberately maintained a subtle distance to guide Huo Yuhao to track him, he had not expected it to be so smooth. Huo Yuhao had actually followed him alone.
Were Duoqing Douluo and Soul Calming Douluo really that assured about Huo Yuhao?
Or had Divine Domain Douluo done something to lure them away?
While Bone Dragon Douluo was secretly thinking, Huo Yuhao said calmly, "Cut the nonsense. Your Holy Spirit Cult has always wanted me to become your Holy Son, has it not? Just show me what you have."
Bone Dragon Douluo smiled eerily. "In that case, forgive me for being rude, Holy Son."
Before his voice had faded, a dense black spirit power suddenly erupted around him. A huge bone dragon ghost appeared behind him. Eerie black flames wrapped on the stark white bones. The dragon's pupils flickered with scarlet light.
Nine spirit rings rose one by one. The last two were impressive an eerie blood red. At the same time, a set of pitch black battle armor attached to Bone Dragon Douluo. A powerful aura comparable to a level 98 Super Douluo emanated from him.
Bone Dragon Douluo's cultivation level, like Magic Scythe Douluo's, was level 96. Although he could not compare to Duoqing, Divine Domain, or Soul Calming, dealing with the still young Huo Yuhao, in his view, was still no problem.
After all, he had also seen the battle between Huo Yuhao and Magic Scythe Douluo last time. If not for that girl named Gu Yuena beside him, with Huo Yuhao alone and his undead puppet, he would not have been able to overpower Magic Scythe.
Moreover, unlike Magic Scythe Douluo, what he was best at was the eerie spatial power. He was far more troublesome than Magic Scythe Douluo.
Dark patterns flowed on Bone Dragon Douluo's battle armor. The ferocious Bone Dragon patterns faintly appeared on the pitch black metal surface.
He smiled grimly. His form suddenly distorted. In an instant, he split into three afterimages. Each emitted the same spirit power fluctuation. They simultaneously attacked Huo Yuhao from different directions.
Huo Yuhao's gaze condensed. His Spirit Eyes martial soul fully activated. Spiritual Detection instantly covered the entire area. However, to his slight surprise, these three figures all carried spatial fluctuations, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake by spiritual power alone.
Interesting.
Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow and smiled. Seeing the three figures simultaneously raise their hands, countless sharp bone spikes cutting through the air, he raised his hand and blocked them with star power.
"Bang, bang, bang." The bone spikes on the starry curtain, producing a sharp crackling sound, but ultimately failed to break through the defense.
However, at the moment Huo Yuhao blocked the attack, Bone Dragon Douluo's true body appeared silently behind him. A claw covered in pitch black battle armor reached straight for his back.
This strike was as fast as lightning and completely concealed its spatial fluctuation. Even a Titled Douluo was good at spatial power would find it difficult to detect.
The black claw violently pierced through Huo Yuhao. Bone Dragon Douluo, having successfully struck, a flash of a smile passed through his eyes.
That he had been able to keep up with his spatial teleportation before was already enough to surprise him. But even with a martial soul that could utilize spatial power, the gap between him and Huo Yuhao was still too great.
"It seems it is over, Holy Son."
Just as Bone Dragon Douluo was about to take the next step, he suddenly realized the feeling was wrong. Moreover, no blood was flowing from Huo Yuhao. His pupils sharply contracted. But before he could react, a terrifying spiritual shock, like a tsunami, into his mind.
"Ah."
He groaned in pain, staggering backward. Blood faintly seeped from his seven orifices.
Huo Yuhao's figure slowly appeared not far away. The figure before Bone Dragon Douluo dissipated into golden light particles.
Clearly, that had been a spiritual clone.
Bone Dragon Douluo gritted his teeth and steadied himself. He looked up at Huo Yuhao. A trace of gravity finally appeared in his eyes.
Formed into a entity, spiritual power stronger than his. A Soul Emperor like Huo Yuhao actually possessed spiritual power at the Spiritual Domain level.
Bone Dragon Douluo was horrified, but what shocked him even more was the way Huo Yuhao had just hidden his whereabouts.
"You melted into the void while I was attacking?"
Yes, what shocked Bone Dragon Douluo was Huo Yuhao's melt into the void. As a Super Douluo is good at spatial power, he had completely failed to detect any spatial fluctuations.
And this indicated an incredible fact. In terms of manipulating spatial power, the person before him was no less skilled than himself.
"You know the answer in your heart. Why ask?"
As Huo Yuhao's calm voice fell, he disappeared again, perfectly blending into the void with the coordination of the Imitation spirit ability.
The control experience of a Limit Douluo with spatial power, combined with the concealment of the Imitation spirit ability, made Bone Dragon Douluo watch Huo Yuhao disappear without even detecting the spatial fluctuations.
This finally made him realize a horrific fact. This young man's understanding of spatial power truly transcends him, a Titled Douluo who had immersed in a space type martial soul for decades.
This realization made his whole body grow cold. Even his soul trembled.
Yes, trembled.
Spiritual Domain realm spiritual power. Twin martial souls. Possessing strength comparable to a Super Douluo at the Soul Emperor level. Spatial power even better than his own.
A soul master like this was hard to describe even with the word monster. Even a child of a god would be nothing more than this. Could this person truly be used by the Holy Cult?
Having been defeated in the area he was most confident in, a trace of unease rose in Bone Dragon Douluo's heart.
Although he was confident in his own strength, most of his ability was concentrated in spatial power. Being suppressed in this aspect made capturing Huo Yuhao far more difficult than he had imagined.
It was only when his left hand gripped the Soul Devouring Eye, which he had brought with him when leaving the Tang Sect branch, that Bone Dragon Douluo relaxed.
The Soul Devouring Eye, like the Demon God Sword, was a one time use divine weapon developed by the Holy Spirit Cult's high ranking members. Moreover, because the materials were special, requiring materials from outside Douluo Star, it was basically impossible to copy. It was even more precious within the Holy Spirit Cult than the Demon God Sword.
As for its power, once the Demon God Sword hit, even a Limit Douluo could only face death. How could the Soul Devouring Eye, another trump card of the Holy Spirit Cult, be any weaker?
"You ultimately have not grown up yet."
A cold, unfeeling smile flashed in Bone Dragon Douluo's eyes. While fighting Huo Yuhao, he quietly waited for the right moment.
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