The black shadow let out a shrill scream, like a swooping vulture, and flew straight towards the house.
"Do it!"
Lu Chongwei gave the order.
Natsu, who could no longer hold back, was the first to rush out.
"Fire Dragon's--Iron Fist!"
Natsu jumped from the roof, his right fist wrapped in blazing flames, and using the momentum of his fall, he slammed into the black figure.
"Crush it for me!"
Boom!
The flaming fist accurately hit the black shadow's chest.
However, the expected feeling of blow did not appear. Natsu felt like he was hit on a ball of cotton, or in a pool of stagnant water.
The flames passed through the black shadow's body and exploded behind it, burning the ground black. But the black shadow remained unscathed, not even swaying.
"What?!" Natsu's eyes widened with a look of disbelief on his face.
The black shadow slowly turned its head, its red eyes staring at Natsu. It raised its hand, and a black mist whipped towards Natsu like a whip.
"Natsu! Get out of the way!"
Gray roared and slammed his hands to the ground.
"Ice Make--Ice Shield!"
A thick wall of ice rose up instantly, blocking Natsu.
Snap!
Black mist clung to the ice wall.
A shocking scene happened. The black mist did not break the ice wall, but directly penetrated the ice like water seeping into sand!
"Put it through?!" Gray was shocked.
The black mist passed through Ice Shield and continued to draw towards Natsu. Natsu only had time to protect his head with his arms.
Bang!
Natsu was thrown away and hit the wall hard. Although there was no blood, he felt as if all the strength in his body had been taken away, and a feeling of weakness came over him.
"This thing... will absorb magic power!" Natsu struggled to stand up and warned loudly.
"Lucy! Use Celestial Spirit!" Lu Chongwei calmly commanded.
"Leave it to me!" Lucy pulled out the golden key, "Open it! Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!"
"Mooooo! Miss Lucy!"
Taurus brandished a giant ax and fell from the sky, striking the black shadow head-on.
"Giant Axe Slam!"
Huh--
The giant ax struck through the black shadow's body with a roaring sound, and struck directly on the ground, creating a crack in the ground.
Still doesn't work!
"How is that possible? Even Celestial Spirit's physical attacks are useless?" Lucy panicked.
Fire cannot burn it, ice cannot block it, and an ax cannot cut it.
This black shadow is like a phantom that does not exist in this world, and all attacks directly penetrate its body.
The black shadow was enraged. Its body suddenly doubled in size, and countless black tentacles shot out from its body, attacking Natsu, Gray and Lucy respectively.
"Damn! I can't hide!"
Just when the three of them were about to carry it on, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them.
Lu Chongwei.
He didn't draw his sword, he just stood there quietly, letting those black tentacles attack.
"Lu Chongwei! Get away quickly!" Lucy screamed in horror.
However, those tentacles suddenly hit an invisible wall half a meter away from Lu Chongwei and stopped instantly.
Lu Chongwei looked at the black figure in front of him with teeth and claws, and his eyes became cold.
He was using his spiritual pressure to fight.
"As expected."
Lu Chongwei spoke calmly, with a sense of absolute confidence in his voice.
"This is not a monster or a ghost."
He stretched out a finger and gently tapped the void in front of him.
"This is a thought condensed from pure negative magic power. Of course, ordinary magic attacks and physical attacks cannot hit it, because it is a conceptual existence without entity."
The strange black shadow hovered in the air, emitting bursts of heart-wrenching hissing sounds. It sensed everyone's difficulty, swayed, and even gave up Natsu and Gray in front of it, turned into a black lightning, and rushed towards Lucy standing behind.
"Lucy! Be careful!"
Natsu yelled and wanted to come back for help, but the distance was too far and it was too late.
The speed of the black shadow was astonishing, and it arrived in front of Lucy in the blink of an eye. From the thick black mist, several dark tentacles suddenly stretched out, like poisonous snakes coming out of their holes, and instantly wrapped around Lucy's limbs.
"Ah!"
Lucy's eyes widened in horror, and she wanted to reach out for the key at her waist, but the cold pressure made her slow down for half a beat.
At the critical moment.
A figure appeared out of thin air in front of Lucy.
That's Lu Chongwei.
His expression remained calm, and his right hand was already on the handle of the knife at his waist.
"Flash Step."
With a whisper, Lu Chongwei's figure folded in the space.
Clang--
A red light suddenly appeared.
The moment Ryujin Jakka was unsheathed, a blazing high temperature instantly swept through the surrounding chill.
Lu Chongwei did not completely draw the sword, but just used the flames that burst out from the blade to swipe at the incoming tentacles.
"Nadeshiko."
Boom!
The golden-red flame wrapped around the blade, slashing towards those pitch-black tentacles like a Fire Dragon.
The black shadow tentacles, which were originally ineffective in physical attacks and could penetrate even ice walls, made a sizzling sound the moment they came into contact with the flames.
"Hiss--!!!"
The black shadow let out an unprecedented scream. The sound was sharp and harsh, like fingernails scraping against a blackboard, causing everyone present to cover their ears.
Those tentacles touched by the flames were like snow that had encountered its nemesis, burning and melting instantly, turning into black smoke and dissipating in the air.
The black image was like an electric shock. It frantically retracted its tentacles and retreated tens of meters. Its scarlet eyes revealed human fear.
"This..."
Natsu was stunned, and then his face showed surprise.
"It's hurt?!"
Gray was also shocked, looking at the long knife that was still smoking in Lu Chongwei's hand.
"My ice magic and Lucy's Celestial Spirit attack just now were ineffective. Why can Lu Chongwei's fire hurt it?"
Lu Chongwei shook off the remaining fire on the blade and said lightly:
"Because this is no ordinary fire."