A burst of emerald-green life energy erupted from him, dispersing more than half of the red light curtain.
Yet right then, the moment the Red-Faced Clone's illusion was shattered, it generated a powerful mental backlash that directly impacted the Sea of Consciousness of the four Elders.
"Ugh, ah-!"
The four of them groaned in unison, their Sea of Consciousness impacted and their movements lagging by half a beat.
Now is the chance!
A sharp gleam flashed in Hanabi's eyes.
"Blue-Faced, disrupt their senses! Brown-Faced, self-destruct!"
The Blue-Faced Clone waved its hands as blue illusionary fluctuations spread outward, distorting the vision and hearing of the four Elders.
They instantly lost track of which was a clone and which was the real body, their eyes filled entirely with Hanabi's phantoms.
At the same time, the Brown-Faced Clone lunged fiercely into the midst of the four.
"BOOM-!!"
The Brown-Faced Clone detonated the instant it took an attack, a large-scale burst of illusory brilliant light completely blinding all four Elders.
"Ah! My eyes!"
Elder Zhao clutched his eyes, silvery-white moonlight writhing out of control across his body.
"Sixth Soul Skill, Thousand-Shadows Wild Dance!"
Elder Song endured the agony of blindness as the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle raised its wings high, a massive cascade of cyan feather blades pouring down to shear away a portion of the surrounding illusionary fluctuations.
Yet the blinding effect still persisted, forcing her to fight purely by perception.
"Purple-Faced, erode their spiritual power!"
The Purple-Faced Clone drifted in midair, purple spiritual power billowing like fog to continuously wear down the spiritual power of the four Elders within its range.
The effects of their mental-type soul skills were drastically weakened, slowing even Elder Song's Azure Shadow Illusion Breaker by several notches.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar!"
Elder Zhao roared, directly unleashing his Martial Soul Avatar.
He transformed into a silvery-white Moonlight Dragon several hundred meters long, dragon might surging majestically and moonlight power maximized, illusions dissipating everywhere he passed.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Azure Shadow Divine Eagle Avatar!"
Elder Song also activated her Martial Soul Avatar.
She transformed into a massive Azure Shadow Divine Eagle with a wingspan of a hundred meters, cyan light and shadow circulating across her entire body as her speed and azure shadow might skyrocketed.
"Eighth Soul Skill, Azure Shadow Storm!"
The Azure Shadow Divine Eagle flapped its wings, the azure shadows condensing into countless feather-blade storms that simultaneously enveloped the three clones, continuously slicing away at their soul power.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Tree of Life Avatar!"
Elder Zhuang similarly activated his Martial Soul Avatar, transforming into a giant Tree of Life a hundred meters tall with emerald-green leaves rustling as it provided large-scale continuous healing and infused vitality.
Under the augmentation of the Tree of Life, the injuries of Elder Song and Elder Zhao recovered swiftly, their soul power also continuously replenished.
"Eighth Soul Skill, Heaven-Falling Fire Meteor!"
Elder Lin refused to be outdone as orange-red flames transformed into meteors plunging from the sky, enveloping half of the plaza in a sea of fire.
The four Elders erupted simultaneously, the scene instantly earth-shattering.
Azure shadows, moonlight, life, and flames-four types of power intertwined, driving Hanabi's clones back step by step.
The White-Faced Clone's shield constantly cracked under the fourfold attack, and the Gold-Faced Clone constantly repaired the forms of the other clones, but the repair speed could no longer keep up with the destruction.
"A bit interesting."
Hanabi's main body stood in the distance, the corners of her lips beneath the fox mask curving slightly upward.
"Silver-Faced, merge."
The Silver-Faced Clone formed Hand Seals, the power of dominion erupting.
It temporarily fused the abilities of the Red-Faced Clone and the Cyan-Faced Clone.
"Delusion · Bind · Illusion Prison!"
A massive illusionary light curtain interwoven with red and cyan unfolded, completely enveloping all four Elders.
Inside the light curtain, their mental memories were invaded while binding seals stacked crazily.
The instant the seals reached their limit, the four's soul skill releases were directly locked down for three seconds!
"What?!"
Elder Zhao discovered in terror that his soul skill had actually been interrupted, the moonlight dissipating midair.
Elder Song's azure shadow domain collapsed right along with it, and the three clones broke free.
Three seconds later, the fusion ended, and the red-faced and cyan-faced clones fell into a weakened state, their auras listless.
Yet those three seconds were already enough.
"Third Soul Skill, Joyful Firecrackers!"
Hanabi's main body finally made her move.
She retrieved a handful of colorful firecrackers from her sleeve and hurled them toward the four Elders.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang-!"
The firecrackers exploded around the four of them, colorful smoke billowing outward.
The four Elders engulfed in the smoke abruptly began to laugh wildly.
"Hahahaha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
The joy curse took effect, plunging them into a state of "uncontrollable laughter" where they could not concentrate enough to release soul skills.
Elder Zhuang's Tree of Life Avatar teetered precariously amid the laughter, its emerald-green light flickering uncertainly.
"Fourth Soul Skill, Trick Swap!"
Hanabi waved her hands, exchanging positions with Elder Zhuang.
Elder Zhuang was swapped into the exact center of the group of clones and stunned for a second.
Meanwhile, Hanabi appeared atop the Tree of Life, looking down condescendingly at the remaining three.
"Fifth Soul Skill, Puppet Strings!"
Countless illusory threads shot from Hanabi's hands, entangling the laughing Elder Lin.
Elder Lin's body began to move entirely out of her control, the fire dragon in her hand actually flying straight toward Elder Song and Elder Zhao!
"BOOM-!"
The fire dragon exploded between Elder Song and Elder Zhao, orange-red flames swallowing the two of them.
"Lin Huiqun, have you lost your mind?!"
Elder Song burst out from the flames, feathers shedding from her Azure Shadow Divine Eagle Avatar as she was both shocked and furious.
"I... I can't control myself..."
Elder Lin felt like crying without tears, her body completely manipulated by the Puppet Strings.
"Eighth Soul Skill, Tragedy and Comedy!"
Hanabi held back no longer.
She formed Hand Seals, and an eerie illusionary fluctuation spread outward.
The emotions of the four Elders were forcibly manipulated, shifting frantically between "extreme sorrow" and "extreme euphoria."
"Sob, sob... I'm so miserable..."
"Hahahaha! Too funny!"
"Sob, sob... I don't want to live anymore..."
"Hahahaha!"
The four of them were utterly unable to act, bouncing back and forth between tragedy and comedy to the point where they could not even maintain their Martial Soul Avatars.
The Moonlight Dragon Avatar dissipated, the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle Avatar collapsed, the Tree of Life withered, and the flames died out.
The four Elders collapsed onto the ground, tears streaming down their faces while laughing hysterically, completely stripped of their combat capability.
"It's not over yet."
Hanabi took a deep breath, a dazzling radiance blooming over her fox mask.
"Carnival Theater!"
"Hum-"
The theater domain unfurled, enveloping the entire Sea God Pavilion plaza within it.
Inside the domain, the senses of all enemies were thoroughly distorted.
The four Elders opened their eyes, the teammates they saw all turning out to be Hanabi's phantoms.
"It's the enemy! Kill her!"
"She's right there!"
"Don't let her run!"
Though exhausted to the core, under the manipulation of the illusions, the four of them still launched attacks at one another.
Elder Zhao's Moon Blade shot toward Elder Song, Elder Song's azure feather blades slashed toward Elder Lin, Elder Lin's flames burned toward Elder Zhuang, and Elder Zhuang's light of life ended up healing the enemy.
They indiscriminately attacked their "fake teammates," in reality engaging in mutual slaughter.
During the activation of her ultimate move, the energy-supply pressure on Hanabi's main body plummeted drastically, allowing her nine clones to freely link and coordinate.
The nine clones surrounded the four Elders tightly, continuously harassing, controlling, and eroding them with illusions.
In less than thirty seconds, the four Elders were completely subdued, collapsing onto the ground unconscious.