The entire place fell silent.
Even the four members of the Holy Spirit Cult instinctively stopped.
"How... how is this possible?!"
Zhongli Wu's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief. "That's a soul skill that instantly weakens all physical and Soul Power attacks by seventy percent!"
As the Holy Spirit Cult's Cult Master, he naturally knew how unusual Dark Clouds' soul skill was.
Even Zhongli Wu himself, giving it everything he had, wouldn't be able to deal Dark Clouds a fatal blow within those five seconds. At most, he could injure him.
And yet Dark Clouds, after using this life-saving skill, had been killed instantly from a distance!
How was this possible?!
But the facts were right there before Zhongli Wu. He had no choice but to believe them.
The Heavenly Dao Emperor didn't pause at all. After a few strides, he reached the Bone Dragon.
As a member of the Dragon Clan who had received the Silver Dragon King's blessing, even with only its dragon soul remaining, the Bone Dragon had a keen sense of danger.
So, although the Bone Dragon could sense just how terrifying the person before it was, and was under Zhongli Wu's control, it still instinctively felt afraid. It even wanted to turn and flee.
"The Bone Dragon King actually feels fear!"
Zhongli Wu's face filled with shock as he realized this.
Of the ten years Zhongli Wu had spent capturing the Bone Dragon, more than half had gone toward eroding the dragon soul's self-awareness.
Only then could Zhongli Wu safely link minds with the dragon soul and make it a part of his own body.
By all rights, the Bone Dragon King shouldn't have felt fear without any self-awareness.
What was happening now completely upended Zhongli Wu's understanding.
Zhongli Wu knew he couldn't let the Bone Dragon King flee just like that.
Otherwise, faced with that power that seemed to have no limit, they would very likely all die here.
Zhongli Wu wasn't afraid of death. In fact, no one in the Holy Spirit Cult feared death. But they didn't want to die for no reason.
Crow Douluo was already dead. If they lost all four of their core members as well, even a force as powerful as the Holy Spirit Cult would suffer a severe blow.
If that happened, unless Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, the two Limit Douluo, were still there to hold down the fort, the Holy Spirit Cult would decline completely before Gu Tian ever had to act.
Of course, completely wiping out the Holy Spirit Cult was almost impossible.
As long as Evil Soul Masters still existed on Douluo Continent, the Holy Spirit Cult would rise from the ashes again.
In the Original Work, even by the Ultimate Douluo era, the Holy Spirit Cult only seemed to have disappeared. In reality, it had become the Dark Division of the Douluo Federation's Heaven Dou Division.
Besides, during this period, the Holy Spirit Cult could only be said to be just emerging.
This organization, made up of Evil Soul Masters, wouldn't reach its true peak until ten thousand years later.
At that time, the Holy Spirit Cult wouldn't be as large as it was now, and its structure would have changed to one Emperor, two Sovereigns, and four Dark Heavenly Kings.
But every one of them would be a top-tier powerhouse. They would have one hundred-level True God without a divine position, three Demigod-level powerhouses, and the weakest among them would still be a level-97 assault-type Super Douluo.
"Looks like the warm-up is just about over," Zhongli Wu murmured.
As soon as he finished speaking, brilliant light suddenly flared around him, and the Bone Dragon King turned black once more.
At the same time, blue and red light appeared overhead.
Clusters of blue fireballs gathered in midair.
Then streaks of azure wind appeared, fanning the flames!
The next instant, clusters of blue fireballs shot toward the Heavenly Dao Emperor like cannonballs.
The relentless attacks filled the air for a hundred miles with the smell of burning.
The entire palace exploded, and the terrifying pressure left everyone gasping for breath.
This move was called Wind Fire Meteor.
It was one of the Bone Dragon King's most powerful killing moves.
Its power was so great that even a Limit Douluo at the very peak of this era had to face it with utmost caution and focus. They would even have to unleash their Martial Soul Avatar to ensure their safety.
But just like before, golden light flashed around the Heavenly Dao Emperor.
The blue meteors flying toward him were instantly erased, leaving not even a trace of dust behind.
The next thing to greet the Bone Dragon King was a mighty punch.
"Boom!"
The Bone Dragon King couldn't withstand that tremendous force. The punch tore through it and burst out through its back.
It was smashed to pieces on the spot!
"Argh!" Zhongli Wu cried out as blood poured from his mouth.
The dragon soul was linked to Zhongli Wu's mind. It could even be said to be part of his body.
The Emperor Armor had destroyed his Bone Dragon King in an instant.
That meant Zhongli Wu himself had been severely injured in an instant.
The Bone Dragon King's death had been within Zhongli Wu's expectations.
His original plan had been to sacrifice a pawn to save the king.
But he had never imagined that the Bone Dragon King, with all its strength, wouldn't even be able to withstand a single attack from the Heavenly Dao Emperor.
Zhongli Wu hovered in midair, looking at the Heavenly Dao Emperor with fear and coldness in his eyes.
That golden armor, as majestic as an emperor, was terrifying—and it was especially effective against Evil Soul Masters.
But he couldn't bear to give up just like that.
He could tell that this wasn't Gu Tian's true power.
There was no way such immense power could be used without limit, right?!
"Go." At Zhongli Wu's thought, the light barrier vanished instantly.
At the same time, blinding light suddenly burst from his body.
Then he turned into a black meteor and fled into the distance.
The other three didn't hesitate. Soul Power erupted from their bodies, and they fled at once.
The Emperor Armor looked up at the four fleeing figures but made no move.
Just as everyone present was staring in confusion, the Emperor Armor dissolved into specks of light, revealing a handsome young man.
It was Gu Tian.
"Those Holy Spirit Cult members got lucky. They actually managed to escape without being wiped out!"
Watching the four members of the Holy Spirit Cult flee, Gu Tian clicked his tongue in displeasure.
It was a shame that Gu Tian himself hadn't been the one controlling the Emperor Armor just now. Otherwise, how could he have let those four who wanted to kill him get away?
This was the Heavenly Dao Substitute!
The Emperor Armor only appeared to protect its master when Gu Tian's life was in danger.
Once the danger was gone, it disappeared again.
Gu Tian himself hadn't lost consciousness. He'd simply been watching the battle the entire time, unable to interfere or even speak.
As for whether the Ultimate Emperor Armor had a consciousness of its own or simply destroyed its enemies on instinct, Gu Tian had no idea.
The one thing he could confirm was that it hadn't spoken to him at all.
Neither the inherited memories in his Five Elements bloodline genes, a fragment of the Emperor's Divine Sense, the old man inside his cheat, nor Old Man Shenshan had appeared.
This left Gu Tian somewhat disappointed. After all, if Old Man Shenshan had been there, he could have learned every form of martial arts from ancient to modern Huaxia, along with how to use all eighteen kinds of weapons.
The improvement to his combat ability would have been obvious!
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