Though Zhan Feng possessed perception far beyond that of ordinary people, Shadow Douluo's abilities were too strange, greatly diminishing his advantage.
At the start of the battle, Zhan Feng still held the upper hand.
His divine treasury held a vast amount of compressed water-attribute spiritual energy—that was the spiritual power of an entire ocean compressed into the Divine Treasury of Water.
Over ten thousand years of cultivation, he had compressed the energy within his divine treasury hundreds and thousands of times over, until every wisp of spiritual power was as heavy as a thousand jun.
When he activated it, ice-blue light surged from within him, allowing him to sense every fluctuation within a thousand zhang.
Each time, he could pinpoint Shadow Douluo's location with perfect accuracy and force him out of the shadows with an ice-blue pillar of light.
But as the battle went deeper, Shadow Douluo began to use more abilities, each stranger than the last.
He first used "Shadow Corrosion" to erode Zhan Feng's perception.
Black mist surged out from his Soul Ring and spread through the air like a layer of viscous ink, dyeing heaven and earth pitch-black.
Though Zhan Feng could sense fluctuations, that layer of black fog made his perception blurry, as if he were looking through a veil, or as if he were seeing things underwater—everything was twisted out of shape.
Then Shadow Douluo used "Shadow Manipulation" to control Zhan Feng's own shadow.
Zhan Feng's shadow suddenly came alive, turning into a black chain that silently wrapped around his legs.
That chain had no physical form, yet it was tougher than iron.
It was an extension of shadow, a chain of rules condensed from shadow power, acting directly upon the connection between soul and flesh.
Zhan Feng's expression changed, and he hurriedly activated the