Dongfang Yuechu swung his Demon Extermination Divine Fire through the air, and a pale-yellow eggshell of flame enveloped him and Huan Du Luo Lan. The moment Black Pool's attacking clones touched the fiery shell, they vanished in a burst of black smoke.
"You can't escape. Just be good and merge with me!"
Seeing his clones burned to nothing, Black Pool wasn't discouraged in the least. He'd sent them out to slow Dongfang Yuechu down. They had indeed held him up for a moment while he burned them away, which gave Black Pool a little more time.
So Black Pool laughed arrogantly. He was sure that once they were completely surrounded, there'd be no way out.
By then, the hole Dongfang Yuechu had burned through Black Pool with his Demon Extermination Divine Fire had already been mostly filled in by Black Pool's clones. If Dongfang Yuechu still headed for it, the hole would be blocked by the time they reached it, and they'd run straight into Black Pool—right into a trap!
"Watch out!"
Huan Du Luo Lan had already snapped out of her infatuation. Seeing Dongfang Yuechu flying toward the hole he'd made earlier, she worried they'd charge straight into Black Pool's clutches and get stuck to him, so she hurriedly called out a warning.
Just then, Black Pool's surging mass suddenly slowed to a crawl, as though it had been hit with a slowing spell.
Almost in the next instant, a pale-blue chill swept through the air. The Black Pool blocking the hole froze solid, turning into chunks of ice.
The pale-blue ice spread farther and farther, freezing not only all the Black Pool clones rushing over to block the hole, but even Black Pool's main body.
In that brief moment, Dongfang Yuechu had already pulled Huan Du Luo Lan