Ghost Emperor's main body, who was still fighting Duoqing Douluo, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. His expression condensed as he looked into the distance. Under Duoqing Douluo's confused gaze, he quickly hid in the void and disappeared without a trace.
If it were a Near Divine, even another peak Near Divine, Ghost Emperor would have dared to test the Douluo Continent's current strength. But the Divine Origin realm was an existence with one foot already in the divine realm. He was not an inexperienced Limit Douluo. Going up would just be seeking death.
While Duoqing Douluo was secretly alert, he suddenly felt the sky behind him light up.
To be precise, it was dyed white by ice and snow.
A blizzard covered an unknown distance. The bone chilling cold continuously spread, making everyone within dozens of kilometers who was fighting or had finished fighting feel a biting cold. They all turned their attention in that direction.
"He fled quickly."
Gu Yuena glanced in Huo Yuhao's direction, then looked at the fleeing enemy, frowning slightly.
To avoid the experts of the Douluo Federation delegation backing off, the high-end combat power the Holy Spirit Cult had prepared was roughly on par with the Douluo Federation side.
But after all, this was Xingluo and the Holy Spirit Cult's territory. The surrounding faint observations all indicated that someone was monitoring the area with spirit abilities or soul tools. Revealing her true form to kill a Super Douluo would be Detrimental to the Overall Situation. For now, she would Let Her Off.
After a moment's thought, Gu Yuena, thinking of the secret deity about whom they still had little intelligence, ultimately did not go after the fleeing Super Douluo. She turned and escaped into the void.
On the other battlefield, Soul Calming Douluo, after also registering his surprise, moved closer.
As for his opponent?
He was still alive. But those who knew him knew that some people were alive, but in fact, they were already dead.
...
Amidst the crisp sound of ice crystals shattering, time and space froze.
Ghost Emperor's clone maintained an expression of shock and anger as it turned into an ice sculpture. Bone Dragon Douluo's spirit power fluctuations were forever frozen at the moment of eruption.
The next moment, the ice shattered. Everything inside turned into ice shards, scattering on the Devastated land.
When Gu Yuena arrived, this was the scene she saw.
"They even sent a Near Divine's clone."
Gu Yuena's delicate brows frowned slightly. She instinctively scanned Huo Yuhao, confirming that he was not seriously hurt, then came to his side, exchanged a glance with Snow Empress, and together they looked at the ice cube in Huo Yuhao's hand.
"Yuhao, what is this?"
Inside the ice cube was a strange bead about half the size of an eyeball. A faint, eerie spiritual wave flowed across its surface.
"A one time divine weapon the Holy Spirit Cult prepared to control me. It has already been destroyed by Snow Empress. Only these remnants remain."
Huo Yuhao shifted his gaze, his eyes lingering for a moment on Gu Yuena's Spotless dress. "Did you encounter any unexpected enemies on your side?"
"Only a Three Word Battle Armor Master. Not as lively as things were here." Gu Yuena smiled, but her gaze remained on the Soul Devouring Eye. "It could control you, at the Spiritual Domain realm?"
Huo Yuhao nodded. "Even a Limit Douluo, if careless, could be controlled by it. I suspect the raw material of that divine weapon was a certain Abyssal Creature, the Possession Demon."
"Possession Demon?"
Soul Calming Douluo, who had just torn through space and arrived at this spot, upon hearing these three words, his expression changed slightly.
The Possession Demon was the most dangerous type of Abyssal Creature. It could absorb most forms of energy, converting it for its own use. It only feared life energy. So most soul masters' attacks were useless against it.
And its most troublesome ability was possession. Those with spiritual power below the Spiritual Domain realm had no ability to resist. Those at the Spiritual Domain realm had to fight with all their might to break free from its control.
In the war against the Abyss plane thousands of years ago, the Possession Demon caused the greatest loss of experts.
Although the Federation had now found a way to use crystals derived from life energy to counter the Possession Demon's possession, Life Crystals were not common on Douluo Star, where resources were increasingly scarce.
As an important strategic resource, Life Crystals were mainly concentrated on the front line against the Abyss, the Blood God Legion's base. Ordinary people would not carry them around to guard against Possession Demons.
If Possession Demons escaped from the Abyss passage.
Soul Calming Douluo took a deep breath, walked over to the group, first nodded to Snow Empress, then learned the details from them, before turning to Huo Yuhao.
"Can you be sure it is a Possession Demon?"
"Absorbing spiritual power and spirit power, immune to physical impact. These characteristics are very similar to the record of Possession Demons."
Huo Yuhao did not say much. He directly handed the Soul Devouring Eye to Soul Calming Douluo to examine.
The latter melted the ice, carefully sensed the aura within, and finally sighed with a condensed expression.
"Yes. There is indeed the aura of an Abyssal Creature inside."
He had also fought Abyssal Creatures and sensed their auras, so he was very sure. This was made from an Abyssal Creature.
Confirming this, Soul Calming Douluo raised his hand to return the Soul Devouring Eye to Huo Yuhao, his mind filled with doubts.
Abyssal Creatures were unique to the Abyss plane. And the passage between the Abyss plane and our plane was on the Douluo Continent, guarded by the Blood God Legion. How had they bypassed the Blood God Legion and obtained a Possession Demon?
The area near the Abyss passage was the Blood God Legion's base, hardly a good place. For the Holy Spirit Cult to successfully infiltrate that area, they might have had to take advantage of the chaos when the Abyss plane attacked.
Then how had the Holy Spirit Cult obtained this very rare Abyssal Creature without being noticed by the Blood God Legion? Had a Limit Douluo been staking out there every day? Or were the Blood God Legion's high ranking members Moles?
That joke was not funny.
Moreover, the Possession Demon's characteristics made it difficult to capture, let alone be refined into a divine weapon.
Unless.
Soul Calming Douluo's expression was somewhat ugly. "To utilize a Possession Demon, unless it willingly serves the Holy Spirit Cult. In other words, the Holy Spirit Cult has some connection with the Abyss plane, or has even reached a cooperation."
This was the worst case scenario. Their Douluo Star had produced a Planetary Traitor. It also meant that the Abyss plane had other ways to invade the Douluo plane.
"If considered from this perspective, the Holy Spirit Cult, with the Abyss's help, would be Like a Tiger with Wings if they wanted to do something in the Federation. Even the Holy Spirit Cult's previous attacks on the Federation could be explained this way."
Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly as he thought. "The Holy Spirit Cult's roots have been destroyed by the Federation. They have no intelligence network in the Douluo Federation. Yet they precisely destroyed important Federation strongholds. Previously, we only suspected someone was feeding them intelligence. Now, another possibility has emerged."
"Some among the Federation's high ranking members may have fallen victim to Possession Demons and are providing assistance to the Holy Spirit Cult."
Unlike the original development, the Holy Spirit Cult had been rooted out of the Federation early on. The Federation, having eliminated its internal conflicts, was terrifyingly strong.
If the Abyss wanted the Holy Spirit Cult to help them expand the Abyss passage, it would certainly need to exert its own efforts and offer some Sweeteners.
And a group of Possession Demons that had entered the interior of the Douluo plane from the Abyss passage was undoubtedly the greatest help to the Holy Spirit Cult and the greatest threat to the Federation.
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