An attack of Soul Power in five colors—red, blue, gold, green, and yellow—bloomed silently from behind, launching a sneak attack at Ning Yutang's back.
Not even Tianyang Douluo or Saint Turtle Douluo sensed the attack's arrival.
Only when the class-nine Soul Guidance Barrier on Ning Yutang was triggered and blocked the killing blow for him did the others realize it after the fact.
Immediately, everyone broke out in a cold sweat.
If that attack had struck someone else by surprise and had not been blocked, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Ning Yutang, even more so, was no longer calm, because his class-nine Soul Guidance Barrier had shattered outright and could no longer be used. That meant the attack it had just blocked had already reached the defensive limit of a class-nine Soul Guidance Barrier.
The attack's power had definitely reached the Titled Douluo level!
Xue Kuang carefully protected Ning Yutang, his martial soul broadsword in hand, the killing intent on him completely undisguised.
"Who is it?" Xue Kuang shouted toward the rear.
"Tsk, as expected of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School's sect master. What a rich foundation. Trigger-type class-nine Soul Guidance Barriers are rare even across the entire Dou Ling Empire, and not even the Douling Emperor had one."
A teasing voice rang out.
Tianyang Douluo's expression turned somewhat ugly. If the Douling Emperor had possessed a trigger-type class-nine Soul Guidance Barrier, how could he have died so easily?
It wasn't that the Douling Emperor had not had a class-nine Soul Guidance Barrier on him, but it had needed to be activated manually, rather than triggering automatically.
As the teasing voice fell, the person who had made the move also appeared before Tianyang Douluo and the others.
It was a figure in the black robes of the Holy