Boom!
Just as the Soul-Controlling Pill was about to escape, a thunderclap suddenly rang out.
No one saw how Chu Zhou moved. They only saw him turn into a streak of azure lightning and arrive beside the pill in the blink of an eye.
Some of the cultivators with lower cultivation even felt that he had appeared beside the Soul-Controlling Pill out of thin air. They saw his figure materialize before they heard the thunderclap.
Only then did the air release the distinctive sonic boom of being torn apart by extreme speed.
The sound was brief and fierce, like thunder exploding beside their ears, shaking them to their cores.
Without Dou Qi wings or spatial fluctuations, Chu Zhou seemed to have caught up with the Soul-Controlling Pill with a single movement.
Only a handful of people knew that Chu Zhou had moved at such incredible speed that he had exceeded what most eyes could follow. It felt like teleportation, followed by that signature thunderous boom.
Thunder Sound Step had revealed its terrifying speed on its very first use.
The azure lightning had set off later yet arrived first, appearing with unerring precision in front of the fleeing Soul-Controlling Pill.
"You can't escape." Chu Zhou reached out and caught the pill.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
The Soul-Controlling Pill trembled faintly, struggling to break free.
But Chu Zhou's strength was overwhelming. He drew upon the power of the void, forcing the Soul-Controlling Pill to gradually abandon its struggles before he finally put it away without resistance.
From the pill's escape to Chu Zhou's use of Thunder Sound Step to recapture it, the entire process had taken place in a flash!
It had happened so quickly that Yun Shan had only just gathered his Dou Qi, and Yun Yun's wind cage had only just