Bo Saixi's Terror

Su Xuan closed his eyes and calmed his mind, sinking into thought. The time it took for one incense stick to burn was not short; under normal conditions, it would last at most half an hour.

For a peak powerhouse like Bo Saixi, half an hour was enough for her to accomplish many things.

How to use his own abilities to find every possible way to withstand Bo Saixi during the time it took for one incense stick to burn was what Su Xuan had been considering all along.

A single plan definitely would not do. Only with multiple preparations would his chances be greater.

Although the sixth trial had yet to begin, the pressure had already descended. When facing a life-or-death moment, the human mind became exceptionally agile, and one's potential was quietly stirred awake.

A red figure descended from the sky. In an instant, Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi had landed before Su Xuan.

Compared to before, there was less of a smile on her face and more solemnity. Her serious gaze fixed upon Su Xuan's incomparably handsome face.

"You only have one chance. I will not go easy on you. If you fail to pass my trial, then I'm sure you understand what punishment Lord Sea God will bring you."

Su Xuan curled his lip. Am I afraid of the Sea God? What a joke. If this weren't his turf instead of mine, I'd blow you up with one hand.

This was not arrogance on Su Xuan's part. A Five-Clawed Golden Dragon fighting within its own domain possessed an utterly different level of combat strength from when it fought elsewhere.

Su Xuan's gaze was icy, carrying incomparable calmness.

"I'm ready."

Bo Saixi said indifferently, "Very well. The trial begins now."

With a flick of her wrist, just as she had taken out other items before, an incense stick mysteriously appeared in her hand. Su Xuan's Eye of Breaking Illusions saw it clearly—it was the power of space.

Su Xuan's expression grew several shades heavier. Damn it, this is what an Ultimate Douluo is like.

Bo Saixi smiled faintly.

"Now, the trial begins."

Bo Saixi moved a finger, and the tip of the incense stick lit smoothly. A wisp of green smoke curled upward.

Bo Saixi smiled faintly. She did not even place the incense stick aside, merely pinching it in her left hand and blowing lightly on its burning tip.

"Be careful."

Su Xuan gave a cold, arrogant smile and said disdainfully, "Haha, Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi, is that all?"

Then, beneath Bo Saixi's somewhat stunned gaze, Su Xuan turned around. Countless clones appeared, each with a pair of faint golden wings on its back. Dozens of Su Xuans fled at high speed like drifting smoke.

Every Su Xuan looked utterly real. They flew in different directions at astonishing speed, nearly reaching their limit. In the blink of an eye, they had crossed the Ring Sea and reached several hundred meters away, their speed still continuing to rise.

The sixth trial stated that he had to endure for half an hour under Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi's attacks, but it never said he had to fight her head-on. That was what Su Xuan had understood from the trial's wording.

Therefore, what mattered was how he could endure for the duration of one incense stick under Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi's attacks, not the method he used.

Su Xuan had calculated it precisely. At its top speed, a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon could absolutely create sonic booms. Moreover, there was illusion magic to confuse her vision. This was one of the Dao Sect's finest illusions; unless she used an overwhelmingly powerful wide-area attack, she would never find his true body.

Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi had said that day that she would not draw upon the power of the sea or the power of her domain. This meant she could not use the seawater of the Ring Sea to restrain Su Xuan.

With the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon flying at extreme speed in multiple directions at once, even if Bo Saixi wanted to attack, she could only deal with them one by one.

And attacking would take time. Even someone as powerful as her was no exception.

If she wanted to eliminate the phantoms one at a time while the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon fled at ultimate speed, time would naturally pass quickly.

However, Su Xuan's preparations were not yet complete. He was a man who liked to take things to the extreme.

Gray ripples spread through the air, colliding with one another and enveloping the entire space. Then, as if they had eyes, they directly shrouded Bo Saixi.

A Dao Sect item, similar to a Spiritual Power Smoke Bomb.

Faced with this situation, Bo Saixi could not help but pause in surprise. She truly had not expected Su Xuan to come up with such a method to deal with her.

According to her original guess, she had thought Su Xuan chose the foot of Sea God Mountain as the trial location in order to interfere with her combat ability.

Su Xuan had been on Sea God Island for nearly a year. Bo Saixi had been observing him all this time, and she had essentially figured out the various abilities he possessed—or at least the ones he had revealed.

However, Su Xuan's battle against Sea Dragon Douluo three days ago had surprised her once again.

Especially the Sword Control Technique Su Xuan used at the end—it was incomparably profound. In a battle between opponents of the same level, it absolutely had the power to turn the tide.

Yet overall, Su Xuan's greatest strengths were still his use of domains, his ever-changing and strange skills, and his precise calculations.

She just had not expected him to begin with a fleeing tactic that was practically "cowardly."

Although it looked somewhat pathetic, the effect was indeed excellent. Even Bo Saixi could not help but praise him inwardly.

"He is truly someone with combat wisdom, and he is not stubbornly rigid at all."

A faint smile appeared at the corner of Bo Saixi's lips. Fine, I'll play along with you.

A faint blue radiance lit up from Bo Saixi's body. The moment those disruptive light waves approached her, they were immediately blocked outside. Her figure flashed, and she soared into the air.

She did not pursue any of the phantoms. Instead, she shot directly into the sky, as though rising out of thin air. Her speed was even faster than Su Xuan's fleeing multitude of clones. In the blink of an eye, she had already reached a height of several hundred meters.

Immediately afterward, Bo Saixi made an embracing motion. Her body spun rapidly through the air, and in an instant, a layer of blue airflow swept out from her body, rapidly expanding around her.

Bo Saixi's shoulders shifted, and both arms trembled at once. The blue light's expansion immediately increased by geometric proportions.

It looked like an enormous vortex had appeared in the sky.

From the outside, it somewhat resembled a tornado, but it was absolutely not wind. The energy fluctuations within it were entirely water-attributed.

Su Xuan's Dao Sect "Spiritual Power Smoke Bomb" had indeed disrupted even Bo Saixi's Spiritual Power, making her unable to lock onto Su Xuan with it.

But was that truly enough?

Yes, Bo Saixi had said she would not borrow the power of the sea. But Sea God Island was ultimately an island, and the water-attributed energy particles here were far more abundant than on land.

Su Xuan's true body, which was flying at high speed, suddenly felt an intense pulling force from behind. His rapidly advancing body immediately stalled, and his flight speed plummeted, as though he had been tied to a rope that was dragging him backward.

Startled, Su Xuan instinctively looked back. He saw Bo Saixi in the sky, her hands held together in an embracing gesture, as well as the state of his phantom clones. His heart instantly sank.

The phantoms naturally could not be stronger than the true body. If even Su Xuan's true body could sense such terrifying suppression, how could the other phantoms fare any better?

Bo Saixi's method of dealing with Su Xuan's escape was simple. You sealed off my Spiritual Power detection?

Fine, then I'll use an all-encompassing attack to deal with all of you.

Although the phantoms had scattered widely, for a Sea God Douluo whose Soul Power was as vast as an ocean, such a distance was still not enough to escape her control.

What should he do?

Su Xuan's mind raced.

Before truly facing Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi, Su Xuan had been unable to accurately judge just how strong she was.

But from the very start, she had dealt him a crushing blow.

One had to know that even now, Bo Saixi had not used her martial soul. In other words, the enormous vortex she released was neither a soul skill granted by a Soul Ring nor one granted by a soul bone. She had simply used her own Soul Power to release it directly, yet it easily caught hold of Su Xuan's countless clones.

At that moment, Su Xuan's decisiveness showed itself. Without hesitation, he turned and charged back, borrowing the pulling force emanating from Bo Saixi to fly toward her.

In battle, if one fell into passivity, one could only stand there and take the blows—especially when one was the weaker side.

He did not switch to another martial soul. Su Xuan still flew with the Golden Dragon Wings. While suspended in midair, his eyes lit up. Within the pale golden radiance, his pupils turned into blazing bright gold.

At the same time, an intense blue light suddenly shot out from the Sea God Trident mark on his forehead. The blue light gathered without dispersing and directly shrouded Bo Saixi—it was Sea God's Light.

Su Xuan would naturally not do anything meaningless. The pressure produced by Sea God's Light had the ability to intimidate all marine creatures and Sea Soul Masters.

No matter how powerful Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi was, she was not the Sea God. She was merely the High Priest of Sea God Island and still belonged to the category of Sea Soul Masters.

Sure enough, when Sea God's Light shone upon Bo Saixi, her expression changed slightly. Su Xuan clearly felt the pulling force on him loosen by a fraction. At that moment, two dazzling golden swords of light shot from Su Xuan's eyes like lightning.

Dao Sect Secret Technique—Heart Sword.

It specialized in severing souls.

The golden light was exceedingly thin, appearing like several strands of thread twisted together. Yet when faced with this slender golden light, Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi's expression became more solemn than ever before.

Against Bo Saixi, Su Xuan had not held back much. Or rather, under the pressure Bo Saixi brought, even Su Xuan was no longer qualified to be overconfident.

Bo Saixi, whose Spiritual Power had reached the same level, could sense it with absolute clarity. The energy contained within those two tiny swords was terrifying beyond measure.

To her, Su Xuan's Soul Power was nothing worth mentioning.

But Su Xuan's terrifying Spiritual Power was enough to threaten her.

It was energy of the same realm, after all. She had to treat it cautiously. That was the discipline of a true powerhouse.

Bo Saixi brought her hands, which had originally been held before her body, together before her face. A red imprint emerged on her forehead. The imprint was actually identical to the Golden Trident on Su Xuan's forehead, except Tang San's was golden while Bo Saixi's was dark red.

A dark red radiance first illuminated her palms, then erupted outward. Like a blade of light, it slashed toward the two golden swords shooting from Su Xuan's eyes.

At this moment, the terror of the Heart Sword revealed itself. It was a method of transforming Spiritual Power into an attack.

Without the Heart Sword, Su Xuan could only release his Spiritual Power over a wide area like a primitive man, unable to condense it as he could now.

Bo Saixi clearly did not possess such an ability. Yet the fact that she could gather her Spiritual Power through her palms before launching an attack was already miraculous to these Douluo natives. Even so, the degree of her Spiritual Power's condensation was far inferior to the Dao Sect's supreme secret techniques.

Dark red and blazing gold.

The two colors collided in midair.

More precisely, they collided without making a sound.

Because her hands were pressed together, Bo Saixi had also trapped the incense stick between her palms. She looked rather strange, as though she were worshipping something.

The two currents of Spiritual Power collided soundlessly.

Su Xuan's body shuddered violently.

Bo Saixi, however, drifted backward.

In the blink of an eye, she was already a thousand meters away. It was clear just how terrifying that silent impact had been.

Su Xuan's face turned slightly pale. Blood flowed from his mouth like a winding little snake.

That was right. In terms of Spiritual Power condensation, Su Xuan was indeed stronger than Bo Saixi.

However, in terms of overall Spiritual Power, Su Xuan was still inferior to Bo Saixi.

Their collision on the spiritual level had ended in a draw.

And at this moment, Bo Saixi displayed her powerful side.

Although their Spiritual Powers had clashed to a draw and the impact they suffered should have been the same, her reaction was different from Tang San's.

She merely retreated, yet did not cough up blood like Su Xuan or suffer a violent Spiritual Power shock.

A trace of surprise appeared in Su Xuan's eyes. Bo Saixi's control over Spiritual Power was extremely strong, beyond his expectations.

After their attacks collided, she directly used a special method of dissipating force to neutralize the impact.

Su Xuan naturally knew such an exquisite technique as well. But he had assumed Bo Saixi did not, so he had originally intended to press his advantage and pursue her. Now, however, it seemed he had still underestimated this Sea God Douluo.

At that moment, Bo Saixi, a thousand meters away, had already turned around and charged directly toward Su Xuan.

Facing Bo Saixi, even without considering whether she released energy to intimidate him, merely looking at this Sea God Douluo created immense pressure in Su Xuan's heart.

It was not as if Su Xuan had never seen an Ultimate Douluo before. For example, his nominal mother, Bibi Dong, was also a top-tier Ultimate Douluo.

Su Xuan had grown up alongside Bibi Dong since childhood. Although the number of times Bibi Dong had acted could be counted on one hand, he could still judge the terror of powerhouses at this level.

Before an Ultimate Douluo, an ordinary person might have already become discouraged at a moment like this, perhaps even losing the confidence to resist.

But Su Xuan would not. He was a proud and arrogant youth; the word retreat had never existed in his dictionary.

Su Xuan gave a savage grin. Instead of retreating, he advanced, charging straight at Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi.

There had never been any question of retreat.