Lu Zheng's words made Ghost Douluo, who was hiding in the shadows, think he'd been discovered.
But after a moment's thought, he understood. It was just a lucky guess.
After all, no one would believe that four Soul Ancestors could kill so many Soul Kings.
Even so, Ghost Douluo stepped out, bringing two people with him.
One was Lu Qing, the Lu Family's deputy clan head and Lu Zheng's son. The other was Lu Xiao, who possessed the Ice Phoenix Mutated Martial Soul.
"Father, save me..." Lu Qing pleaded as soon as he saw Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng ignored him and turned to Ghost Douluo. "My Lu Family is finished. I admit defeat, but could you at least let me die knowing why? Who exactly are you people?"
"Clan Head Lu, I'm afraid you've misunderstood. I haven't made a move this entire time. If you don't believe me, you can ask those two." Ghost Douluo pointed at Lu Qing and Lu Xiao.
When the Lu Family had surrounded Xiao Chen and the others, both Lu Xiao and Lu Qing had seen what happened. Although they couldn't see what was going on inside the mental domain, they could confirm that no one else had intervened.
"Father, no one else interfered. A red light suddenly appeared, and by the time it faded, all the clan elders were dead!" Lu Qing said at once.
Even with Lu Qing's testimony, Lu Zheng still refused to believe it. He stared at Ghost Douluo. "Are you telling me that those four took out all the elite fighters of my Lu Family?"
"What's the problem? I warned you earlier, Clan Head Lu: if you wanted to take someone from them, you couldn't afford to hold back. Unfortunately, you didn't take my words to heart. If you'd arrived sooner, your people wouldn't have been wiped out."
Chrysanthemum Douluo's voice suddenly rang out from the distance.
Lu Zheng turned to look. A figure was flying toward them through the air—it was Chrysanthemum Douluo.
"What a scheme! You deliberately kept me tied up at the Soul Fighting Arena while secretly sending people to slaughter my clan. And now you're putting on an act. Do you expect me to thank you?" Lu Zheng knew he was going to die today, so he had nothing left to fear.
Chrysanthemum Douluo shook his head slightly and replied coolly, "There is one thing I did lie about. I brought Mystic Spear to Xilu City. You wanted to kill him, didn't you? Go ahead. I promise I won't interfere at all. How does that sound?"
Then he added silently, I won't interfere, but the old Ghost never said he wouldn't.
Chrysanthemum Douluo had plenty of confidence in Xiao Chen and Hu Liena's Triple Martial Soul Fusion, but he couldn't truly leave them to fend for themselves.
As Chrysanthemum Douluo spoke, Xiao Chen released both his bow Martial Soul and his Long Spear Martial Soul.
"He actually has Twin Martial Souls!" Lu Zheng exclaimed. "So Absolute String and Mystic Spear are the same person! Your Soul Power Level... This... this is impossible! You're only at level twenty-five, yet you and that Fox Fairy crushed a team of Soul Ancestors. That's absolutely impossible!"
"You'll find out whether it's possible when you make your move," Chrysanthemum Douluo said.
With a wave of his hand, Chrysanthemum Douluo sent Xiao Chen and the others off into the distance, leaving them about two hundred meters away from Lu Zheng.
Ghost Douluo also retreated with Lu Qing and Lu Xiao.
Lu Zheng didn't understand what Chrysanthemum Douluo was getting at. But things had reached this point, and he no longer feared any schemes.
"Utterly arrogant! Even if all four of them have Twin Martial Souls, they can't possibly stand against a level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor. If I can take even one of these supreme geniuses with me, I'll have gotten my money's worth! I want to see the look on your faces when one of these peerless prodigies falls!" Lu Zheng thought to himself.
He was vicious by nature, and ruthless even toward himself.
Knowing he was trapped with no chance of survival, he decided that if he was going to die, he'd take a few others down with him.
He couldn't sense the true strength of Chrysanthemum Douluo or Ghost Douluo. He had initially figured that if he faced either one of them, he wouldn't even get the chance to take anyone with him.
But now the two of them were giving him that chance, letting him fight four Soul Ancestors.
He wouldn't pass it up. Even if he couldn't escape death today, he'd give it everything he had and make Xiao Chen and the others pay.
"You want me to be a stepping stone for these juniors? You're underestimating me."
Lu Zheng muttered under his breath and released his Martial Soul. It took the form of a battle halberd and came with six Spirit Rings—two yellow, three purple, and one black—the standard configuration for a Soul Emperor.
Xiao Chen and the others had dared to fight Soul Kings head-on, but they didn't dare let their guard down against a level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor.
Xiao Chen and Hu Liena immediately performed their Triple Martial Soul Fusion.
When Lu Zheng saw them do it, his eyes nearly bulged out of his head.
He'd already been shocked to learn Xiao Chen had Twin Martial Souls. He'd never imagined that Xiao Chen and Hu Liena could perform a Triple Martial Soul Fusion together.
Lu Zheng had heard of the Golden Iron Triangle and knew about the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but he'd never expected two people to be able to perform it.
In their complete forms, the String Fox Phantom Bow and the Celestial Fox Moon-Chasing Arrow also granted two skills. The first was an enhanced version of their Twin Martial Soul Fusion mental domain: the Blurry Domain, which covered a radius of three hundred meters.
Anyone caught within the domain would find their mental power and Soul Power draining faster. The domain also blocked vision, obscured mental perception, reduced speed, imposed gravity, and made the Bewildering Illusion manifest in reality.
A level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor had powerful mental strength. His cultivation was enough to resist the deeper effects of the Bewildering Illusion and keep his mind from sinking into its dreamlike depths. Even so, he couldn't completely block its influence.
His consciousness remained clear, untouched by the illusion, but the world before his eyes was still overlaid with phantoms that blurred the line between real and unreal.
So when Xiao Chen and Hu Liena expanded the Blurry Domain, Lu Zheng lost his sense of direction.
He could see only about three meters ahead, and phantoms kept appearing to disrupt his judgment and throw off his attacks.
Xiao Chen and Hu Liena had already spent a great deal of energy in the earlier fight, so their Triple Martial Soul Fusion couldn't last as long as usual.
They couldn't afford to drag the fight out. They had to end it quickly.
Under the Triple Martial Soul Fusion, every Celestial Fox Moon-Chasing Arrow was as powerful as the Full Moon attack in Enchantress form.
The move could threaten a Soul Emperor, but if the opponent was prepared, it wouldn't kill him in one strike—especially not a level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor like Lu Zheng.
In their current condition, Xiao Chen and Hu Liena could fire the Celestial Fox Moon-Chasing Arrow four times. Still, Xiao Chen didn't think that was enough.
So he decided to use an archer's secret technique: Seven Star Rapid Fire.
Xiao Chen had just received it from the system as a reward for his and Hu Liena's first battle using their Triple Martial Soul Fusion.
Despite its name, Seven Star Rapid Fire wasn't limited to seven arrows.
As long as the archer had plenty of Soul Power and a steady mind, he could keep firing without pause.
With each additional arrow, the power gathered in it increased, making the attack's overall power surge higher with every shot.
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