On the plain not far outside Xilu City.
A hazy pink glow suddenly spread out, enveloping everything within a hundred meters.
From a distance, all that could be seen was a blurred pink haze.
When the Lu Family members chased them out of the city, they had already cleared the area, driving away all the Soul Masters who had gathered to watch. Aside from the Lu Family party, there was no one else in the wilderness.
Even the many powerful Soul Masters who were curious enough to secretly follow and spy on them were all scared off by Ghost Douluo, who had been lurking in the shadows.
The instant the String Fox Phantom Bow's mental domain unfolded, Xie Yue and Yan moved together.
At the same time, Xiao Chen and Hu Liena drew their bowstrings and fired two arrows.
The four Soul Kings closest to the carriage had taken no defensive stance. Their fate was already clear.
The attacks from Xiao Chen's group of four did not let up. As Yan and Xie Yue charged toward the Lu Family members, arrows continued to shoot out of the carriage one after another.
Against these Soul Ancestors and Soul Kings, their minds clouded by mental charm, the arrows fired by Xiao Chen and Hu Liena didn't need the true killing power of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Ordinary arrows empowered by their Martial Soul Fusion were enough to take their lives.
The Lu Family's level fifty-eight Soul King was the first to break free of the Bewildering Illusion, but even after regaining his senses, he remained affected by the mental domain.
After seeing the plight of the Lu Family Soul Masters, he immediately launched the Lu Family's distress signal fireworks. Then he moved to save them, only to be blocked by Yan and Xie Yue.
Xiao Chen continued firing arrows. In a mere few dozen seconds, more than half of the Soul Masters the Lu Family had brought along had already fallen.
That level fifty-eight Soul Master was powerful. Even facing two opponents at once within the mental domain, he remained on equal footing.
But the others were nowhere near as strong as him. Those below level fifty-five couldn't even break free of the Bewildering Illusion in a short time.
And even if they managed to break free, they still couldn't escape the mental domain Xiao Chen and Hu Liena had created. They could only serve as sitting ducks.
After about a minute, only two people besides the level fifty-eight Soul King remained standing among the Lu Family's elite forces. The rest had all collapsed, lifeless.
The two surviving level fifty-five Soul Kings were both seriously injured, their wounds bleeding and their Soul Power unsteady and weak.
Yan and Xie Yue joined forces and exchanged a blow with the level fifty-eight Soul King.
A tremendous boom rang across the wilderness. A violent shock wave of Soul Power swept in every direction, sending the two of them flying backward. They only managed to stagger to a stop in front of the carriage.
"A level fifty-eight Soul King really is powerful. Even inside your mental domain, his fighting strength hasn't weakened much!" Yan said.
"There's nothing I can do. My Soul Power Level is a little low. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn't have escaped the Bewildering Illusion so quickly!" Xiao Chen said.
"Leave this man to me and my junior brother. You two deal with the remaining level fifty-five Soul Kings!" Hu Liena said. "That man already launched the distress signal fireworks. That old bastard Lu Zheng will be here soon. We have to finish off these three quickly, before he arrives!"
"No problem!" Yan and Xie Yue nodded, each choosing a Soul King to charge at.
The three Lu Family members had trouble seeing inside the mental domain, but the level fifty-eight Soul King was barely affected.
He saw Yan and Xie Yue charging toward the Lu Family's two remaining Soul Kings and immediately moved to stop them, but then he sensed an extremely dangerous aura.
He hurriedly looked toward the carriage and saw Xiao Chen and Hu Liena standing atop it. Together, they drew the bowstring and formed a pale red arrow. That dangerous aura was coming from the arrow.
"It's a Martial Soul Fusion Skill!" The Soul King's expression changed drastically. Staring at the arrow, he no longer dared to let his attention wander. All he could do was hope that Lu Zheng would arrive as soon as possible.
"Phantom Soul-Chasing Arrow!"
Xiao Chen and Hu Liena called out softly, then released the bowstring. The pale red arrow instantly became a streak of crimson light and shot forward, reaching the Soul King in the blink of an eye.
He didn't dare be careless. He immediately swung his wrist and summoned his Martial Soul, the Mystic Steel Blade, holding it across his body to block the incoming pale red arrow.
Their collision made no sound, but the Lu Family elder felt a tremendous, strange force surge along the blade and straight into his body.
He grunted, feeling his blood and vital energy churn. He was just about to summon his Soul Power to suppress the strange force raging through him when he suddenly felt a surge of mental power rush straight into his sea of consciousness.
The sensation of the Bewildering Illusion he had only just escaped returned.
He hurriedly focused his mind, steadied his breathing, and guarded his consciousness, but he still struggled to resist the needle-like mental assault.
With the strange force inside his body attacking at the same time, the two forces struck together. His body lurched, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"What a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill!" He was secretly shocked, but also immensely relieved.
He knew very well that two Soul Ancestors just over level forty would surely exhaust their Soul Power by unleashing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with such terrifying force.
But just as he breathed a sigh of relief, that same extremely dangerous aura began to coil around his heart again.
He looked up and saw another streak of pale red light shooting toward him.
He hurriedly swung the Mystic Steel Blade in front of himself, ready to withstand the strange force and mental assault. But after blocking one arrow, he realized another was following right behind it.
"How is this possible..." His face filled with disbelief, and a tempest rose in his heart.
But the strange force that bypassed some of his defenses and the mental assault aimed directly at his mind left him no room to think of anything else.
The second arrow struck him squarely between the brows.
At the same time, Yan and Xie Yue had also forced the two gravely wounded Soul Kings into a desperate situation. Already badly injured, they could barely resist the mental domain, so they were no match for Yan and Xie Yue.
In a lounge at the Xilu City Spirit Fighting Arena, Lu Zheng was leisurely sipping fragrant tea.
Suddenly, a member of the Lu Family rushed in, flustered, and reported that the Lu Family's distress signal fireworks had gone up outside the city.
Lu Zheng wasn't particularly worried. He assumed the Cang Family had made a move.
So he informed Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ji Chuan, then left the arena with the family member.
But when he arrived at the scene, what met his eyes was a chilling sight: Xiao Chen and the others stood quietly in front of the carriage, while the ground around it was strewn with the bodies of Lu Family members.
"This... you did this?" Lu Zheng asked, his voice trembling.
"That's right!" Xiao Chen said. As he spoke, he summoned both his Bow Martial Soul and his Spear Martial Soul.
Lu Zheng's expression changed drastically when he saw Xiao Chen's Twin Martial Souls. Only then did he understand that "Mystic Spear" and "Absolute String" really were the same person.
"Why? Why is this happening? When did my Lu Family ever offend you? Why are you trying to wipe us out?" Lu Zheng roared furiously.
"You reap what you sow. Your Lu Family brought this on yourselves!" Xie Yue said.
"Heh... hahaha..."
Lu Zheng suddenly burst into wild laughter. "There's no need for the people hiding in the shadows to keep concealing themselves, is there? You killed so many Soul Ancestors and Soul Kings in such a short time. Surely you don't need to ambush a mere Soul Emperor like me?"
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