Thunder Clan Joins the Melee

The battle scenes between Dou Emperors and Dou Wangs were not all that different.

However, the battles between Dou Zongs covered far greater areas.

Compared to Dou Zongs, Dou Zuns possessed far greater destructive power.

This was not merely because of the gap in cultivation realms. Higher realms naturally brought greater destructive force, but also because Dou Zuns possessed a devastating move that Dou Zongs did not: spatial lockdown. Ordinary Dou Zongs could only submit helplessly before it.

Of course.

Ordinary Dou Emperors and Dou Wangs could only submit helplessly as well.

However, spatial lockdown was not a passive ability of a Dou Zun. It was more like an active skill. It did not create a domain of sealed space that forced every cultivator within it to lose control over space. Rather, it had to be actively cast, with a target selected and a certain amount of Dou Qi expended, in order to seal the space around that target.

Therefore, even in a melee, it was impossible for a Dou Zun to charge into the enemy ranks and render every cultivator below Dou Zun unable to move.

This gave the Gu Clan room to maneuver.

To put it bluntly, they were playing an exchange tactic.

Under evenly matched circumstances, if a Dou Zun dared to divide their attention and target the enemy's Dou Zongs, they would obviously reveal a flaw. The Dou Zun fighting them could easily seize that opportunity and kill them in one blow. Even if they were not killed outright, severe injuries would be inevitable.

In a melee with enough participants.

Such an outcome could even overturn the current battle situation.

One's own side lost a Dou Zun.

The enemy freed up a Dou Zun.

Who could continue fighting.

Going back and forth like that created a