The Glory of the Sun and Moon in the Peerless Tang Sect

If even with Gongyang Mo's assistance, they still can't suppress Huang Heyun and his group of five head-on, then Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Chen Zifeng wouldn't deserve to be called elite disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court.

A whooshing sound came from Dai Yueheng's mouth, and a sharp golden tiger claw slashed across, causing Dugu Shangshan to stagger backward in a disheveled state.

On the other side, Chen Zifeng also unleashed countless blood-red sword beams, forcing Chen Xiaojie to reveal his figure.

Chen Xiaojie was enveloped in yellow lightning, his arms transformed into wings, and his gaze was as sharp as a hawk's. His wings were entirely orange-yellow, far less vibrant than Gongyang Mo's seven-colored wings, but they possessed a streamlined beauty.

Chapter 188 Thunder Hell vs. Starfield

The decline of the Star Luo Royal Academy students did not seem to affect Xu Jiujiu, who was standing at the back of the group.

Her azure eyes were calm and still, yet they held a confidence that seemed to be in complete control.

Although the battle between Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and the five members of Xingluo Royal Academy looked extremely intense, neither side was actually giving it their all.

The most difficult aspect of team fights to control is the sudden coordination that comes together. In such situations, it's easy to unleash a powerful burst of energy, thus changing the course of the battle.

Xu Zihuang has not used his soul skill for the time being, partly to guard against this. Or rather, he has been guarding against it for a long time.

If the Star Luo Royal Academy starts a counterattack, then the starting point will definitely be Princess Xu Jiujiu.

As if responding to Xu Zihuang's gaze, she revealed a composed smile. Then, her fair right hand slowly rose, a golden light flashing at the tip of her jade-like finger, and another beam of golden light shot into the sky.

The fifth black ten-thousand-year soul ring beside him also lit up.

In team battles, unless there's a significant difference in overall strength between the two sides, the game is mostly dominated by the control-type Soul Masters on both sides.

Although Xu Jiujiu is described as a support-type Soul Master, in the Star Luo Royal Academy team, he mainly plays the role of a control-type Soul Master.

Xu Zihuang was well aware of the key to this match: suppressing Princess Jiujiu.

His gaze sharpened, and he instantly activated his second soul skill to counterattack. He was somewhat taken aback by Princess Jiujiu's sudden and unhesitating use of her only ten-thousand-year soul skill.

However, Xu Zihuang was soon surprised to find that under the influence of this golden light, his mental power was unable to lock on for a long time.

However, using his third soul skill, Time Distortion, required a certain amount of time, so he had to settle for controlling the rest of the Star Luo Royal Academy team instead.

At that moment, the golden light shining from Xu Jiujiu's fingertips suddenly condensed near the top of the soul-guided shield on the competition stage, transforming into a dazzling golden star that then radiated a brilliant golden light.

The rich, golden light was dazzling yet not glaring; instead, it gave off an exceptionally gentle feeling, like a hazy mist enveloping the entire competition arena.

This time, Xu Zihuang's mental power was even unable to lock onto the others at the Star Luo Royal Academy. Within this space covered by golden mist, mental power was completely isolated, and even the five senses were blocked.

"A domain-type soul skill?"

A hint of surprise rose in Xu Zihuang's eyes. This long-lasting soul skill made him recall the scene when he faced the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest.

When the Dark Demon Tiger launched its final counterattack, the domain it used had a similar effect.

Xu Zihuang's guess was correct; Xu Jiujiu's fifth soul skill was indeed named Star Domain. Just like the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had the attribute amplification soul skill, the Star Crown School, the predecessor of the Xu family of the Star Luo Royal Family, had also inherited the Star Domain domain-type skill after tens of thousands of years of exploration.

Many powerful and established Soul Master sects have unique inherited Soul Skills. For example, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan has the same first three Soul Skills for every direct descendant who possesses the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul.

The same applies to the White Tiger Martial Soul of the White Tiger Duke lineage of the Star Luo Empire.

These are all skills that our predecessors discovered through continuous exploration and research, and which are most suitable for the use of their own martial soul.

However, it's quite remarkable that Xu Jiujiu possessed the Star Domain Soul Skill at the fifth Soul Ring. It's important to understand that such a domain-type skill isn't something everyone can inherit. Even Xu Jiawei, the current emperor of the Star Luo Empire, hailed as a cultivation genius of the royal family for nearly three hundred years, only mastered this Soul Skill at level sixty.

Moreover, in this generation, only the brother and sister possess this soul skill.

On the city wall, Xu Jiawei wore a faint smile.

"Our Star Crown lineage's Star Domain hasn't appeared on the continent for countless years. I'm afraid the Soul Master world has almost forgotten about this domain Soul Skill that can shield mental power and perception. Star Domain and Star Guardian are the nemesis of mental attribute Soul Masters and ultimate attribute Soul Masters."

Within their Star Crown lineage, two extremely powerful soul skills have been passed down. One is this Star Domain that shields mental power and perception, and the other is a range defense soul skill known as attribute isolation, Star Guardian.

At this point, Xu Jiawei's deep eyes revealed a strong sense of anticipation.

"I hope you can bring me more surprises."

Compared to Xu Jiawei, the audience was not in such a good mood. The arena was filled with a golden mist, making it impossible for anyone to see what was happening inside.

Wang Yan, who was sitting in the waiting area, also suddenly stood up from the sofa, his brows furrowed.

"It's a domain?"

This is the first time a domain-type soul skill has appeared in this Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. The power of a domain is self-evident; it is absolutely the soul skill that every soul master dreams of.

Even someone as powerful as Ma Xiaotao didn't possess such a soul skill.

A golden mist rose around Xu Zihuang's body, shielding his senses and making him feel as if he were in a void. He hadn't expected that Princess Xu Jiujiu would be so well-hidden. From his memories of his past life, this princess had never displayed this kind of domain-type soul skill.

If this continues, Shrek Academy might actually be defeated one by one by Star Luo Royal Academy.

In the past, without revealing the destructive attribute and annihilation power of his second martial soul, and without using the second awakening of his main martial soul, he would indeed be helpless in this situation. But since fusing with the right leg bone of the Thunderous Hell Vine, the situation has changed.

With a thought, a streak of purple-gold lightning flashed unexpectedly in this golden star field, and then a strange fluctuation of soul power emanated from Xu Zihuang's right leg.

Xu Jiawei, standing atop the imperial city wall, suddenly narrowed his eyes. With his cultivation level, he naturally sensed the flickering purple-gold lightning.

At the same time, a deep rumble suddenly sounded. The sky darkened, and the wind and clouds changed color.

Almost instantly, lightning crackled across the sky, bolts of lightning crashing down and shattering the soul-guided shield surrounding the arena. Moreover, the area covered by this rampant lightning continued to expand.

Many spectators in Xingluo Square screamed in terror. The terrifying and destructive lightning startled even the students from the participating academies, let alone the ordinary spectators.

If it weren't for the tens of thousands of soldiers maintaining order on site, it would probably have already turned into a riot.

"Silence!" At Xu Jiawei's signal, Huang Jinxu, the Heavenly Fiend Douluo, mobilized his soul power and shouted coldly. He transformed into a golden light and flashed by, appearing in the sky above Xingluo Square in the next instant.

Accompanying him were three other Guardian Douluos of the Star Luo Empire.

The four titled Douluo activated their soul power together, and the celestial phenomena finally stopped changing, but the sky remained dark.

Within the arena, clusters of dark purple lightning rapidly condensed, while on the ground, more dark purple lightning orbs rose into the air. An extremely terrifying aura emanated from them, as if they were about to destroy the entire world.

The golden light on the playing platform dissipated and dimmed when these lightning orbs appeared, instantly forcing them back to the edge of the arena.

Instead, a dark purple world appeared.

However, the figures of the Shrek Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy students were clearly visible.

Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Chen Zifeng did not rashly use their powerful soul skills, but instead used their soul power to protect themselves in a defensive posture. This was because, without their senses, it was easy to accidentally injure their allies.

In contrast, Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were much more unlucky, seemingly suffering from serious internal injuries and even falling into a coma. They were rescued from the arena by the powerful Douluo Cheng Gang.

Gongyang Mo was temporarily unharmed because he had increased his altitude in time. However, Chen Xiaojie, who also possessed the ability to fly, was rapidly closing in on Gongyang Mo.

The eyes of the Mighty Douluo Cheng Gang underwent a strange change. His eyes turned pure black, without any whites. This pure blackness further split into tiny pupils, a powerful instinct of his Ant Emperor Martial Soul, granting him astonishing sensory abilities. He could even perceive the entire situation on the field for a very long time within the Fifth Soul Skill, Star Domain.

Xu Jiawei specifically asked this Mighty Douluo to be the referee today because of this special ability of the Mighty Douluo.

Huang Heyun and Dugu Shangshan appeared where Beibei and Xu Sanshi had been, rushing towards Xu Zihuang. The injuries that Xu Sanshi and Beibei had suffered were clearly caused by them.

Indeed, that was the case. From the very beginning, Xu Jiujiu's strategy was to eliminate the relatively weaker Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and the support-type Soul Master Gongyang Mo, who had little ability to protect himself, as quickly as possible in the star field, thus reducing the enemy's numbers.

They then pooled their resources to deal with Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Xu Zihuang.

While her fifth soul skill, Star Domain, is exceptionally effective, greatly amplifying her own soul skills within it, it also consumes a significant amount of soul power, which she cannot sustain for long at her current cultivation level.

The fact that the fifth soul skill, Star Domain, had been broken after so long filled the eyes of everyone at Star Luo Royal Academy with astonishment.

"How is this possible?!"

This question arose in everyone's mind. Standing at the edge of the arena, Xu Jiujiu, her pretty face pale, appeared from the golden mist, staring intently at Xu Zihuang.

She knew that Yu Tianhuang had successfully fused with the right leg bone of the Thunderous Hell Vine.

But Yu Tianhuang is only at the Soul Master level, so how much power can he unleash from the Thunder Hell Soul Skill attached to that Soul Bone?

How could he suppress her domain so easily?

What she didn't know was that Xu Zihuang's total soul power was actually higher than hers. He mobilized all his soul power to activate a 60,000-year-old soul bone, which was a top-level soul bone produced by a soul beast like the Thunderous Hell Vine. It was normal for it to have such power.

His newly acquired skill, the Thunderous Hell Vine Right Leg Bone Skill, which he had just acquired 60,000 years ago, had already been unleashed.

"Boom—" Under Xu Zihuang's control, the first lightning ball exploded.

Chen Xiaojie realized the situation was turning against him and wanted to eliminate Gongyang Mo, the support-type Soul Master, as soon as possible. The Lightning Falcon Martial Soul was indeed incredibly fast, but unfortunately, no matter how fast it was, it was meaningless against Xu Zihuang, who possessed the Martial Soul's innate ability of dynamic vision.

The first blackish-purple lightning ball exploded at the perfect moment. At the instant it exploded, a sensation of liquid splashing through the air was felt. That splashing liquid was certainly not liquid, but rather completely liquefied lightning energy, plasma.

Chen Xiaojie let out a shrill wail. Under the flow of plasma, his whole body became numb, and his body even turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His own martial soul is of the lightning attribute.

The Mighty Douluo Cheng Gang raised an eyebrow and quickly waved his hand to save Chen Xiaojie. However, when his palm touched the dark purple plasma, he subconsciously contracted his muscles. The liquid dark purple plasma was relentlessly eroding his body. He quickly increased his soul power output to expel the dark purple plasma from his palm.

But in that brief moment of delay, he felt a tingling, stinging sensation in his palm.

Everything has yin and yang, even the most violent lightning attribute.

This plasma possesses more of the characteristics of dark lightning: it is elusive, penetrating, silent, and corrosive. But it also has the extremely strong destructive power of lightning.

One after another, lightning orbs exploded, and large swaths of plasma converged, as if one had truly entered a thunderous hell. In an instant, in this space on the arena, viscous plasma, like magma, dripped down, and a huge lightning pool gradually took shape in the sky and on the ground.

Still shaken, Gongyang Mo's eyes were filled with horror as he flapped his seven-colored wings repeatedly to dodge the dripping black-purple plasma.

Fortunately, under Xu Zihuang's control, the number of exploding lightning balls in the space he was in was relatively sparse.

Xu Zihuang stretched out his right hand, and blackish-purple plasma slid through his fingers, but his cold gaze sent chills down the spines of Huang Heyun and Dugu Shangshan who rushed over.

The scene before them was simply too shocking.

Is this really just a soul skill that a Soul Master could use?

Suddenly, a loud phoenix cry rang out across the sky, and Ma Xiaotao, her face frosty, swooped down toward Huang Heyun and Dugu Shangshan.

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi's injuries were entirely due to her negligence as team leader. And it was only thanks to Yu Tianhuang that the stalemate was broken. You can imagine how she feels right now.

Ma Xiaotao's figure was parallel to the ground, and blazing flames spewed from her legs at the same time. With the help of two leg soul bones, she appeared in front of Huang Heyun and Dugu Shangshan in an instant.

At this moment, the Star Luo Royal Academy had no time to rescue the two, as they too were under attack from Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng.

Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng didn't show it as obviously as Ma Xiaotao, but their gloomy expressions were enough to tell their mood.

Wang Shiying and Yi Chen, both control-type soul masters, are not good at head-on combat. Without offensive-type soul masters in front of them, how can they stop Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng, two offensive-type soul masters who are good at close combat?

The only defensive-type Soul Master on the Star Luo Royal Academy side is named Saint Wing, and his Martial Soul is the Giant Winged Eagle. His second and fourth Soul Rings simultaneously shone, and his enormous wings turned iron-gray, then burst forth with a strong metallic luster.

It blocked the dripping blackish-purple plasma for a long time.

While the Star Crown Martial Soul is powerful, it offers relatively little improvement to the Soul Master's physical body. Therefore, despite possessing strong support abilities and even offensive power, Xu Jiujiu's physique remains a weakness.

They need someone to protect them at all times.