"Old Ghost, this opponent is thorny."
Chrysanthemum Douluo stood beside Ghost Douluo, speaking with a solemn expression.
"Do you even need to say that?"
Ghost Douluo felt even more fearful than Chrysanthemum Douluo at this moment, because the clusters of white lightning crackling on Xi Zhao's body hummed menacingly.
For some reason, Gui Mei had a premonition that if he were struck by this white lightning, not even a corpse would remain of him.
"Hmph!"
Xi Zhao let out a cold snort, and the lightning on his body burst outward. Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo had no choice but to take a few steps back to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of his might.
"Yue Guan, I'm afraid this battle cannot be fought."
Gui Mei condensed his Soul Power to struggle against the lightning's might, currently speaking with some difficulty, "The lightning on this fellow has a restraining effect on me. I'm afraid I won't even be able to unleash fifty percent of my strength."
"You think I'm not being restrained?"
Chrysanthemum Douluo gave a bitter smile, looking at his own Martial Soul: "My Martial Soul Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum is a plant. If struck by heavenly lightning, I'll be crippled if not killed, and I'm no better off than you."
"You two, are you still fighting?"
Xi Zhao stood atop the fortress wall, carrying the Thunderclap Axe as he calmly looked at the few of them: "Either surrender, or get lost right now."
"Damn it, I just can't swallow this anger!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo clenched his teeth tightly, staring fixedly at Xi Zhao: "Old Ghost, how about we give it everything we've got!"
"You mean, a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?"
The only thing Ghost Douluo could think of at this moment that could inflict effective damage on that Armored Man was precisely this.
"That's right. As long as we can control the Armored Man, his other subordinates will not be worth fearing at all!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo slowly extended his hand to summon his Martial Soul: "Don't forget, we have an orthodox army of soul masters behind us!"
"Fine, let's stake it all!"
Ghost Douluo immediately summoned his Martial Soul, then flew up into the sky.
Chrysanthemum Douluo also summoned his Martial Soul, and subsequently flew up together with him.
"Two Extremes! Stillness Domain!"
The next moment, the two people's Martial Souls gradually fused, and then a yellow barrier slowly spread outward.
"The Two Extremes Stillness Domain, huh."
Bei Mingyuan was leaning against the side at the moment, making a sarcastic remark: "I really don't know how a ghost and a chrysanthemum managed to possess such a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. It's truly a strange matter."
"Time stillness?"
Xi Zhao stretched out his hand, and the Thunderclap Axe dissolved into an illusory shadow and vanished. Immediately afterward, he drew a circle with his palms, and a Tai Chi diagram slowly lit up in the empty air.
At the very instant the yellow radiance spread before him, Xi Zhao's palms slowly came together into one.
[Zen Meditation Seal.]
In merely the blink of an eye, the surrounding time immediately froze and stopped moving, and even Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo's stillness domain stopped expanding as a result.
"When it comes to time-stopping, my side isn't bad either!"
Bei Mingyuan smiled proudly. Although he was not specialized in the laws of time, after over a hundred thousand years he still had some insights, and carrying out time-pausing on Douluo Star was certainly not a problem.
"You've lost."
Xi Zhao raised both fists, lightning bursting forth: "Thunderclap Fist!"
The next moment, Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo both spat blood and flew backward. The Spirit Hall soul masters behind them turned pale with fright at the sight and hurriedly stepped forward to catch the two of them.
"Your Eminence! Your Eminence!"
A bishop supported Chrysanthemum Douluo, looking in terror at Xi Zhao standing on the city wall not far away. What kind of sacred entity in the world was this fellow, actually severely injuring a Titled Douluo in a single blow!
"Re... treat!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo exhausted the very last shred of his strength to issue an instruction, and then he lapsed into unconsciousness.
"Retreat, quickly retreat!"
That bishop was scared out of his wits, immediately lifting up Chrysanthemum Douluo and retreating with the mass of soul masters out of the fortress's perimeter.
In Spirit Hall, inside the Pope's Palace.
"Damn it!"
Upon seeing Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo beaten into a state of severe injury by a single blow, Bibi Dong violently gripped the armrest, the pure gold armrest instantly being deformed by her squeeze.
"Trash, a bunch of trash!"
Bibi Dong cursed angrily. Dignified Titled Douluos couldn't even take a single move from the opponent-where was this going to leave her face?
"Damn it!"
Bibi Dong sat on her seat, taking heavy, gasping breaths: "Fortunately, it will still take Na'er and the others some time to reach the fortress, otherwise it would be dangerous."
Bibi Dong sighed. At this moment, she also understood that this fellow's combat strength probably matched that of Bei Miao.
"In other words, he is also one of the Five Elders spoken of by the Northern Underworld Empire?"
Bibi Dong fell into deep contemplation at this moment. Two of the Five Elders had already appeared, and judging by their appearance, they were water and lightning. Then the remaining three could each potentially represent an element.
"The Northern Underworld Empire..."
In front of the screen, watching the two Titled Douluos from the Douluo Continent be easily defeated, everyone else wore an expression of sunken morale.
[Douluo Continent · Dugu Bo: Chrysanthemum Guan was actually defeated just like this...
The strength of this Xi Zhao is probably above Level 96.]
[Douluo Continent · Chen Xin: No, this person's strength must be at least above Level 98, otherwise he wouldn't possess such formidable power at all.
Without releasing soul rings or soul skills, defeating a Level 95 Titled Douluo with merely a single punch-this person's combat strength is above mine!]
[Douluo Continent · Ma Hongjun: What the hell, how come anyone who casually comes from the Northern Underworld Empire is so strong? Then how on earth are we supposed to play this game?]
[Douluo Continent · Oscar: Yeah, I always feel like we don't have a show left to put on.]
[Douluo Continent · Huo Wu: You guys, you inflate the enemy's prestige while crushing your own spirit!
Are you even people from the Douluo Continent?]
[Douluo Continent · Ma Hongjun: This isn't a question of prestige or no prestige; the gap is simply too huge, okay?
You heard Senior Chen Xin too, a Level 98 Titled Douluo! My little flame probably wouldn't even have a high enough temperature to light a cigarette for him.]
[Douluo Continent · Oscar: That's right, our attacks are probably no different from an itchy scratch to him.]
[Douluo Continent · Tang San: Fatty, little Ao, shut your mouths!
Are you still Douluo Continent people? Blindly flattering the enemy will only cause our troop morale to sink even lower!]
[Douluo Continent · Ma Hongjun: I'm not flattering them, this is just a fact...]
After finishing off these two Titled Douluos, Xi Zhao slowly shed his armor: "Zhou Tan, the next few days will be handed over to you. The Northern Underworld's reinforcements should arrive very quickly."
"Yes!"
Zhou Tan immediately nodded to acknowledge the order. With Xi Zhao absent, he was the highest commander: "This subordinate will definitely defend this pass to the death and never retreat a single step!"
Xi Zhao looked at him calmly: "Before preserving the fortress, preserve your own life first. As long as there are still people, the continent will sooner or later be ours. This is an order."
"Yes!"
Zhou Tan took a deep breath and nodded heavily.
"Let's go."
Bei Mingyuan appeared at that moment, grabbing Xi Zhao's shoulder: "Xin Nan, Dong Shan and Kun Zhong have already arrived. We're the only ones left."
"Mn."
The next moment, the two of them transformed into two streams of light and vanished into the air.
"Humbly sending off the former emperor, humbly sending off the Five Elders!"
Zhou Tan immediately knelt on one knee, paying respects toward the place where the two of them had vanished.
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