Soul Restraint

"Xu Kuluo, what are you doing?!"

Divine Seclusion Heaven's voice descended from above and poured into Xu Kuluo's mind, jolting even his consciousness into a slight tremble.

"That cat isn't important! Stop the Demon-Sealing Tower from being refined!"

Xu Kuluo's movements stalled. The scales all over his body stiffened, and the claw about to strike Cat Master hung in midair.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly before he grumbled in displeasure, "What's with the rushing...?"

His eyes shifted as he looked reluctantly at the battered Cat Master.

"Kitty, looks like I'll have to play with you later."

Before his words had even faded, his body turned, his dragon form carving a golden arc through the air. His wolf head swung around, locking onto Chen Duan.

"Don't run!"

Cat Master's expression hardened. His form swiftly transformed into a wisp of clear wind, soundless and swift as lightning, sweeping toward Chen Duan.

"Courting death."

Without even looking back, Xu Kuluo swept his tail forward. It lashed through the void, trailing a golden arc of light that struck that wisp of wind.

Cat Master was forcibly knocked out of the clear air, carving a long trail of blood through the sky.

"Cough!"

Cat Master felt his vision dim at once, his ears ringing as his mind descended into chaos.

There was something wrong with this golden radiance. It was a power that did not belong to this world, and it possessed an innate suppressive effect on the clear energy around him. Before that suppression, his power seemed to be shackled; of his full strength, he could only wield sixty or seventy percent.

"Is this the end...?"

Looking at the ferocious face of his old friend before him, Cat Master let out a long breath in his heart.

Though the outcome was poor,