There had been no tactical discussion between the two of them, not even an exchange of glances. At their level, dealing with a forty-thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine required no deliberation at all.
They understood each other without words. That was all.
Xiao Ran's arrival resolved Xu Zhiyuan's greatest concern. His Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul wielded pure destructive power, and he had already grasped some of the profundities of the Destruction Law. Against a plant-type soul beast like the Thunderclap Hell Vine, which sustained itself by devouring heavenly lightning and converting it into vitality, he was its natural nemesis.
Spatial Solidification came without warning.
Xiao Ran made his move without the slightest sign.
The Space-Time Divine Shuttle rose from his palm, its silver-white body suddenly lighting up with fine patterns of radiance. Xiao Ran made no unnecessary movement and did not even speak. He merely pushed the Space-Time Divine Shuttle forward.
In the next breath, the space within a hundred zhang around the Thunderclap Hell Vine seemed to be clenched by an invisible giant hand. Space itself became sluggish and heavy.
At that instant, every current in the air stopped. The frenzied activity of lightning elements was forcibly flattened, while the heavenly lightning power the Thunderclap Hell Vine had been drawing upon and the self-destructive energy compressed within its body became like a high-speed engine whose fuel line had suddenly been cut—loud, but powerless.
Using the Space-Time Divine Shuttle as a medium, Xiao Ran exerted absolute control over space itself. He completely sealed that patch of heaven and earth. Spatial Solidification became an invisible prison, locking down every coordinate around the Thunderclap Hell Vine. Its effect went beyond rendering the vine unable to move an inch; it also prevented the self-destructive reaction brewing inside from finding an outlet,