20demayo 1026. Still breaking through the formation.
1026. Still breaking through the formation.
Another reason is that these people who came to raid the Eldar are important enough.
There's the Pill Tower Ancestor, hailed as the number one alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent, whose existence even the Soul Clan's patriarch takes seriously. There's Xiao Yan, a descendant of the Xiao Clan renowned throughout the eight clans, whose possession is rumored to be crucial to the Dou Di descendants' Heavenly Tomb. And then there's Yao Chen, already mentioned within the Soul Clan, who disappeared for many years but returned with a terrifyingly increased strength—a fact the Soul Clan naturally wants to know the reason behind.
These three individuals had long been targeted by the Soul Clan for various reasons. However, due to various circumstances, the Soul Clan was unable to act recklessly and could only let them go for the time being.
But now, the situation is completely different; they've come to us willingly. If we can deal with them today, it will be an unprecedented achievement for Soul Brilliance within the Soul Clan.
From both a moral and logical standpoint, he had no reason not to intervene. His earlier restraint stemmed from two reasons: first, he needed the Spirit Clan to engage them first, at least to weaken them. Second, Soul Mang hoped to take control of the Spirit Clan as much as possible, not through forceful rule. His own strength was inferior to Ling Yuan's, and he still needed to show relative respect to the Spirit Clan's leader.
"Clan Chief Lingyuan, you are now the strongest. I will follow your orders."
At this moment, Hun Mang adopted a very cooperative attitude. After all, neither in terms of strength nor prestige could he immediately replace Ling Yuan. Since he couldn't replace him, he might as well follow his arrangements. In any case, if they succeeded in the end, the credit to the Soul Clan would not be recorded on a surrendered member of the Soul Clan.
Seeing that the two powerful Dou Sheng from the Soul Clan were willing to cooperate, Ling Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what their intentions were, it was always good to have two Dou Sheng helping them.
"The battle situation is currently manageable. Please try to break through the battle qi blockade surrounding this area. You've both seen what happened earlier, so please be careful!"
"There are two others who haven't made a move yet, and they might try to stop you later."
Hun Mang glanced at Yao Lao and the others who were watching the battle, and nodded. He was actually more than happy to be able to fight Yao Lao.
The fact that Yao Lao was able to safely leave the Ancient Clan with Xiao Yan demonstrates the terrifying strength he possessed. However, in the following years, the Soul Clan also discovered that Yao Lao's ability to contend with a Seven-Star Dou Sheng was only a short-term burst of power, and he himself had never been able to maintain that state a second time.
"Alright, Soul Crow, come with me. Let's attack together."
The three-star Dou Sheng Hun Wu behind Hun Mang was his direct subordinate, and now he naturally obeyed his orders without question.
Soul Mang was remarkably calm. He knew that capturing the Pill Tower Ancestor, Xiao Yan, and the others would be a tremendous achievement, but he didn't want to use the Spirit Clan's power to directly annex them. Instead, he felt perfectly justified in preparing to break through the blockade and send a message to the Soul Clan, urging their experts to come and annihilate these people.
Everyone knows that a few years ago, the Spirit Clan launched a massive attack on the Pill Tower, but in the end, not only did they fail, they also lost their Supreme Elder, Ling Haonan.
These people before them are probably several times stronger than the former Pill Tower members. Even with the two of them included, it would be impossible to completely devour them here.
However, given the importance of Xiao Yan and his two companions, they absolutely cannot be allowed to slip away under our noses. Therefore, the only way to perfectly resolve this is to recruit a large number of reinforcements from within the Soul Clan. As long as we can achieve overwhelming strength, there is a possibility of annihilating them all here.
Soul Brilliance did not let greed override his reason, but instead chose what seemed to be the most rational and appropriate course of action.
When they appeared, Yao Lao and the others were indeed keeping a close eye on them, and both sides were wary of each other.
What puzzled Hunmang was that when he and his assistant Hunwu were about to attack the sealing formation that was trapping the Spirit Clan, the three of them, including Yao Lao, remained bystanders, showing no intention of making a move.
"Aren't you going to make a move? Are you really that confident in their grand formation?"
"Lord, what should we do?"
"Be a little careful; if they really don't make a move, then we'll just take them down!"
Excessive hesitation and second-guessing will never lead to success. When Hunmang realized that Yao Lao and the others really did not intend to stop them, he decided to press on and break through the sealing formation in one fell swoop.
Because of the isolation effect of the formation, they were unable to detect the situation outside, nor did they know the strength of the person currently in charge of the formation.
But Hunmang wasn't worried at all. The reason was simple: he wasn't going to directly fight the person in charge of the formation. To break through the formation, he only needed to find a breakthrough that he could exploit.
Once the sealing formation falters, information can be transmitted to the outside. As long as they can do this, they have already succeeded. Whether they will be sealed off again is irrelevant.
Even if outsiders wanted to replicate the method used to kill the Spirit Race Half-Saint, he was confident he could resist. Besides, outsiders would most likely not make a move. If they could attack the people inside the formation without restraint, they should have attacked Ling Yuan from the start.
"Go all out! I want to see how many attacks these people who set up this formation can withstand!"
"Celestial-Rank Battle Technique, Tribulation of Ten Thousand Souls!"
With a roar, Hun Mang formed complex and bizarre hand seals. The dense, almost viscous, black battle aura around him surged wildly, converging into a massive energy vortex composed of a vengeful spirit's face. As soon as this vortex appeared, the surrounding space violently distorted, as if it were about to suck away all the life force in the world.
"Heavenly Rank Battle Technique, Black Soul Annihilation Light!"
Hunwu's fierce shout followed immediately. He thrust his palms forward, and a deep black light, only as thick as an arm, shot out from his palms. This black light, seemingly slender, moved with the speed of black lightning, seemingly swallowing even light in its path. Even more chilling was that after this black soul-annihilating light was shot out, its trajectory subtly resonated with the vortex of the Myriad Souls' Calamity, intertwining and connecting with Hunwu's power. This caused the power of the two Heavenly Rank combat techniques to produce a strange amplification effect in the instant before they collided with the barrier!
Boom—
It was impossible to count how many deafening explosions this was today, as two amplified Heaven-Rank Battle Techniques slammed solidly into the mysterious array isolating the Spirit Race from the outside world. The raging Soul Race Battle Qi surged, crashed, and exploded wildly against the invisible array barrier!