"True Form Melee"

"Sky Crystal Barrier, activate!"

Gu You's thoughts were cut off as a silver-white light flew from Bai Haoze's hand and landed straight in his arms.

The Sky Crystal Barrier had already been activated by Bai Haoze's soul power. In an instant, the palm-sized rhombus crystal erupted with dazzling silver light, and countless Sky Crystal shards surged out, scattering in every direction like a silver-white crystal downpour.

The shards spun rapidly around Gu You, each piece of Sky Crystal tracing a specific path through the air.

Hundreds of shards echoed one another, forming a formation with Gu You at the center. Wherever an attack came from, the shards would react and block it.

Sky Crystal Barrier, all-around defense!

Unless it was a full-force attack from a powerful Titled-level expert, it could not be broken.

Gu You stood at the center of the Sky Crystal Barrier, wrapped in a flowing silver-white crystal curtain, and looked at Evil Soul Elder opposite him.

He knew what he had to do now. With the old man's strength, there was no way he could break through the Sky Crystal Barrier's defenses. He was safe.

While Bai Haoze fought him head-on, Gu You just had to be as disgusting a nuisance as possible.

Then now...

"Creation Conversion!"

With a cold shout, a purple soul ring condensed beneath his feet and lit up.

For the first time, Gu You entered his martial soul possession state. A gorgeous nine-colored halo burst out from within him, and the phantom of a Creation Heaven Phoenix appeared behind him.

Flame and life force intertwined and wrapped around him, forming a special green-gold flame.

"Buzz—!"

A moment later, a pair of phoenix wings radiating nine-colored light unfurled within the green-gold flames.

Nine-colored streams of light flowed across the wings, breathtakingly beautiful.

With a thought, the phoenix wings behind Gu You flapped. As the nine-colored halo flowed, his body slowly lifted off the ground.

"I really can fly!"

Gu You was beside himself with excitement. After entering martial soul possession, he had gained the ability to fly.

However, he could not fly too high. With his current consumption, he could only maintain a height of about twenty meters. If he rose any higher, the drain on his soul power would overload him.

"Senior!" Gu You looked at Bai Haoze then. "Go all out. I can fly, and I've got this turtle shell. Nothing will happen to me."

The corner of Bai Haoze's mouth twitched when she heard that.

But his words did indeed remove her worries. The Sky Crystal Barrier could withstand three full-force attacks from a Titled Douluo. Although this old thing before her had the enhancement of battle armor, he was ultimately not a Titled-level expert.

For him to break the Sky Crystal Barrier in a short time was absolutely impossible.

"Good!"

Bai Haoze hesitated no longer. Her fourth soul ring lit up, and her golden horn erupted with intense light. Her entire body turned into a golden meteor, crashing straight toward the old man.

"Creation Conversion, fire!"

Gu You did not stay idle either. The phoenix wings behind him turned pure fiery red. Through Creation Conversion, he converted the life element of his martial soul, making it completely singular and greatly strengthening the fire element.

With a casual wave of his hand, hundreds of fire arrows condensed behind him, aiming at Evil Soul Elder not far away.

Then the fire arrows shot toward him like a meteor shower flying in reverse.

At the same time, Bai Haoze charged in from the front.

Light patterns spun rapidly over her golden horn, and a blade of light condensed at its tip.

The light blade was formed entirely from highly compressed light element, its edges flickering with platinum sharpness. Wherever it passed, the air screamed as it chopped down head-on.

The approaching golden light was reflected in Evil Soul Elder's vertical pupils, yet there was not the slightest trace of fear on his face.

He abruptly raised his right arm, and the dark red scales on it rose layer by layer.

"Boom—!"

The light blade struck the scales, exploding with a deafening crash.

The hundreds of fire arrows arrived immediately after. Crimson flames burst apart, forming thick smoke.

But the level of the attack was obvious. Even Bai Haoze's damage had not been significant, so there was even less reason to expect much from Gu You.

At most, he could add a little trouble, like scratching an itch.

Amid the roar, golden and dark red energy shockwaves spread outward from the point of collision, tearing up large sections of the parking lot ground.

Not far away, soul vehicles let out piercing alarms one after another. Some were overturned, while others were smashed aside.

Within the thick smoke, Bai Haoze's expression did not look very good.

He had blocked it!

She retreated, her expression uncertain.

"Did it hit?"

The phoenix wings behind Gu You flapped lightly as he hovered twenty meters in the air. His Golden Pupils pierced through the smoke, and in the next instant, he went numb.

Within the thick smoke, a dark red figure was rapidly swelling.

"Roar—!"

A dragon's cry.

It was not the cry of a normal dragon, but a roar of madness and decay.

The thick smoke was scattered by the sound wave, black flames shot into the sky, and the monster revealed itself.

Evil Soul Elder's body had already swelled to more than six meters, transforming into a true red dragon. His battle armor had completely fused with his flesh, vein-like patterns pulsing across its surface, pumping a surge of dark-red energy into his limbs and bones with every beat.

"Fire Dragon True Body! A godsend... the godsend is right before my eyes! Anyone who stands in my way dies!"

He snarled, his seventh soul ring already blazing.

This was his Martial Soul True Body!

Bai Haoze's face went pale.

She had not expected Evil Soul Elder to truly stake everything on this. Was that ancient map really so important?

This so-called godsend—was it truly a godsend, or simply the unwillingness of a man nearing the end of his life?

Even the peerless experts of this age had no way to attain eternal life and become gods. How did a mere Soul Sage dare? How could he dare?

They could not drag this out any longer. If they did, Tiandou's inner city would be destroyed.

Bai Haoze thought through her options.

With the amplification from his Martial Soul True Body combined with the amplification from his battle armor, a Soul Sage evil soul master possessed the combat power of a Titled Douluo. If he unleashed his full strength, destroying Tiandou's inner city was only a matter of time.

Even if a Titled Douluo came to support them, the destruction caused by both sides' attacks would never end well.

They could not retreat!

"Guanghao!"

Bai Haoze took a deep breath. She could only fight; there was no other way. Retreating would only draw the battle elsewhere. If they fought, at least they were still in the area of Tiandou Auction House.

If Tiandou Auction House was gone, that was still better than losing the inner city.

The moment the word "Guanghao" left her mouth, battle armor attached itself to her body as if assembling a mecha, from her arms to her legs to her chest, and her aura climbed.

But her enhancement was not yet finished. Her seventh soul ring shone brightly.

Martial Soul True Body, Radiant Unicorn!

At that moment, Bai Haoze flashed out, constantly colliding with Evil Soul Elder as the battle joined.

"Creation Conversion, lightning!"

Gu You's harassment had never stopped. He raised both hands high, and the fiery red wings behind him turned purple, arcs of electricity flickering.

In the night sky, at his words, a bolt of purple lightning suddenly fell, striking toward Evil Soul Elder.

Boom!

Lightning exploded. Though it did not injure the old man, the paralysis effect made him visibly hesitate.

In that brief opening, Bai Haoze struck, slamming him with a headbutt and sending Evil Soul Elder flying dozens of meters on the spot.

"Brat, come down if you've got the guts!"

Evil Soul Elder roared in pain and fury. Black firelight gathered in his mouth, and then he spat it straight at Gu You.

Black flames shot into the sky at tremendous speed. Gu You knew he could not dodge them, and did not want to.

Sensing the danger, the revolving fragments of Sky Crystal Barrier automatically gathered in the direction from which the black flames were attacking, condensing into a shield wall. The gaps between the fragments were sealed tight, impossible to break through.