"What kind of person is this...?" Lin Chuan's expression turned grave.
Eighteen Soul-Locking Chains, added to the previous nine—twenty-seven Soul-Locking Chains in total. Not a single person from the Soul Refining Sect had been able to unleash that many before!
During the earlier battle, Lin Chuan had only seen a Soul Refining Sect disciple at the early Nascent Soul Transformation stage cast eighteen Soul-Locking Chains. Their terrifying power had nearly killed Jing Jie, who held the bronze oil lamp. Yet now, the person facing Lin Chuan had unleashed twenty-seven Soul-Locking Chains, and with the bizarre enhancement of the character "Charm," their power had nearly doubled.
Even Lin Chuan could not remain calm in the face of such a terrifying attack. Fortunately, Kamui's intangibility gave him a fallback, so he would not truly be driven into a dead end. However, he had intended to save Kamui for the later struggle over the Enlightenment Ancient Tree seeds. Using it now would put him at a severe disadvantage in the coming fight.
"Jade Mystery Butterfly Dance!"
At that instant, Lin Chuan's Sharingan abruptly contracted. He directly formed hand seals and unleashed Shangguan Dieche's ultimate technique, Jade Mystery Butterfly Dance. In an instant, his figure flitted and shifted through the mist sea like a ghost, while the Violet Jade Sword slashed out a twenty-meter-long sword beam toward the direction from which the Soul-Locking Chains had come.
The pale violet arc of light tore through the mist, erupting with terrifying force before swiftly vanishing into the air. Yet it did not affect the Soul-Locking Chains' trajectory in the slightest.
Seeing that his counterattack was ineffective and that the twenty-seven Soul-Locking Chains were already within arm's reach, Lin Chuan held the oil lamp in his left hand and gripped the Violet Jade Sword in his right.