The black shadows appeared without warning, moving no slower than the Blood Curse King. No, they were faster. Even under normal circumstances, the Blood Curse King would have struggled to dodge them, let alone now.
Having already entered his accelerated state, the Blood Curse King could not even dodge. The black shadows easily surrounded him. In the next instant, the bloody light and the shadows met in midair, and time seemed to freeze.
A streak of red, bloody light stopped eerily in the sky. It was none other than the Blood Curse King. Yet his form was utterly different from before. Seeing this, Huo Hai immediately realized that the Blood Curse King's means of acceleration was probably not a movement technique. Judging by its appearance, it should have been a spell.
In fact, movement-type Battle Spirit Arts were not the only means of increasing speed. Many spells could do the same. Some spell-type Battle Spirit Arts even offered far greater boosts to speed than movement arts.
Unfortunately, despite being a Spell Spirit Master, Huo Hai had never encountered a spell of this kind. As a result, he could only cultivate relatively common movement-type Battle Spirit Arts to increase his speed. Of course, this did have one advantage.
Cultivating movement-type Battle Spirit Arts improved one's own reaction speed. When faced with a surprise attack, before one had time to react, a movement art was actually more useful than an acceleration spell.
The moment he discovered that the Blood Curse King's curse had been broken, Huo Hai had already prepared to prevent his escape. Under cover of the Blazing Flame Sparrows' explosions, he had released all ten Shadow-Binding Insects he had previously subdued. Those insects had already hidden themselves in the Blood Curse King's shadow, ready to attack at any moment.
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