"Blue Silver Boundless!"
In an instant, it swept across the sky and blanketed everyone.
"One Soul Saint and two Soul Emperors. You're looking down on me a little!"
Enveloped by the Blue Silver Grass, the masked men summoned their martial souls and revealed their soul rings.
"Brat, no matter how impressive you are, you're still only a Soul Ancestor. I advise you to bare your neck and accept your execution."
The masked Soul Saint leading them looked at Gu Ping'an, certain of victory.
"Is that so?" Gu Ping'an's gaze sharpened, and the Blue Silver Grass filling the sky swiftly wound toward every masked man.
"Overlord's Dragon Breath!" The leading Soul Saint opened his mouth and spewed scorching flames at the Blue Silver Grass around him.
"Sky-Rending Slash!"
"Azure Dragon Claw!"
The two Soul Emperors also unleashed their soul skills, severing the Blue Silver Grass approaching them.
The remaining Soul Kings and Soul Ancestors had a far harder time. Unable to withstand the Blue Silver Grass filling the sky, they were soon bound tightly.
"Take him down first!" The leading Soul Saint pointed at Gu Ping'an.
Once they took him down, his soul skill would collapse on its own.
"Take me down?" Gu Ping'an gave an eerie smile, darted into the Blue Silver Grass beside him, and vanished.
Several more strands of Blue Silver Grass suddenly wound around Xiao Wu's, Dugu Yan's, and Shui Bing'er's waists.
The three felt a powerful tug from behind and were pulled straight into the Blue Silver Grass at their backs.
After sending the three away, Gu Ping'an looked through the countless strands of Blue Silver Grass at the Soul Saint and Soul Emperors opposite him.
Within this vast thicket of Blue Silver Grass, every strand served as his eyes.
His opponents, however, had their vision obstructed.
Using the Blue Silver Grass as cover, Gu Ping'an slipped behind one of the Soul Emperors.
"Take this-Five-Colored Rasengan!"
The Rasengan hurtled out. The Blue Silver Grass ahead parted automatically, while Gu Ping'an swiftly withdrew into the grass behind him.
"Behind us!"
The targeted Soul Emperor sensed something wrong behind him and immediately roared.
Bang!
The ambushed Soul Emperor had barely turned his head halfway when the Rasengan slammed squarely into his face.
Skin and flesh shattered, inch by inch.
"Yu Qi!"
The other two only had time to turn around, not to rescue him. They could only watch as their teammate's head shattered into mangled flesh scattered across the ground.
"Brat, let's see how long your soul power can last!"
The leading Soul Saint stared at the rapidly closing passage left by the Rasengan and roared.
He had never expected one of their Soul Emperors to die so easily at their opponent's hands.
"Soul power?"
Hidden within the Blue Silver Grass, Gu Ping'an watched the Soul Saint constantly spewing fire to burn the grass around him, along with the sword-wielding Soul Emperor.
How could he possibly run short of soul power?
The dozen or so Soul Kings and Soul Ancestors they had brought were all his soul power reserves.
With a thought, he gradually increased the Blue Silver Grass separating the Soul Saint from the Soul Emperor.
"Die!"
The grass behind the increasingly isolated Soul Emperor with the sword martial soul suddenly parted, and Gu Ping'an thrust out a Rasengan held in one hand.
"Brat, I've been waiting for that trick!"
The Soul Emperor with the sword martial soul suddenly twisted aside, dodging the Rasengan, and stabbed at Gu Ping'an.
The blade pierced his chest, its tip emerging from his back.
"Brat..."
Bang!
His words cut off abruptly.
Gu Ping'an stood behind the corpse, his raised hand yet to lower.
"Pah! How underhanded. You figured out I'd attack from behind and actually tried to trap me!"
Opposite him, a clone identical to Gu Ping'an lightly rubbed his chest, the puncture wound rapidly healing.
"Only the last one left!"
Gu Ping'an vanished into the Blue Silver Grass again.
On the other side, the Soul Saint with the fire dragon martial soul was still spewing flames.
As the flames poured out, great swathes of Blue Silver Grass dissipated. He intended to exhaust Gu Ping'an's soul power this way.
"Old man, don't tell me you really think your flames can counter me?"
Fresh Blue Silver Grass swiftly filled the gaps left by the vanished strands and wound toward the Soul Saint with the fire dragon martial soul, utterly unafraid of his flames.
The Blue Silver Grass possessed the ultimate fire attribute. The strands that had appeared to burn away earlier had actually been dispersed by Gu Ping'an himself, giving his opponent the illusion that fire could counter him.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Ultimately, Gu Ping'an was only a Soul Ancestor. The gap between his rank and a Soul Saint's was too great for him to bind the man.
But... he was in no hurry.
"Blue Silver Devour!"
"Hmm? Brat, what kind of trick is this?" The Soul Saint with the fire dragon martial soul immediately noticed something wrong.
He could snap the Blue Silver Grass each time it wound around him, but every contact drained a little of his soul power and weakened his body a little more.
"Martial Soul Avatar!"
Flames surged, and amid a blaze of light, the Soul Saint with the fire dragon martial soul transformed into a fire dragon over ten meters long and six or seven meters tall.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
His heavy footsteps struck the ground with dull booms.
"What a nuisance!" Gu Ping'an frowned.
He hated creatures that could break free of his Blue Silver Grass.
With a beckoning motion, he sent every Blue Silver Grass vine within an eight-hundred-meter radius winding toward the giant fire dragon.
"Brat, I see you!"
The giant fire dragon's voice thundered loud enough to rattle eardrums.
"Flame Dragon Impact!"
A crimson fireball came down like a sun falling from the sky, rolling waves of heat washing over Gu Ping'an's face.
"Not very bright, are you?" Gu Ping'an murmured. With a sweep of his right hand, he sprouted another vast expanse of Blue Silver Grass, forming a wall in front of him.
The terrifying fireball struck the grass wall, stretching its rear into a huge spherical bulge.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Bang!
Every strand of Blue Silver Grass forming the wall snapped.
"As expected, dealing with a Soul Saint using only my current Blue Silver Grass is a little difficult."
The fireball passed through the grass wall, then through Gu Ping'an's figure.
The giant fire dragon's pupils contracted at the sight.
"Accept your fate and die!"
Gu Ping'an's five fingers moved lightly, as though he were playing a graceful dance tune.
The sky-obscuring Blue Silver Grass separated into five bundles, interweaving and twisting into tough blue ropes that wound toward the giant fire dragon.
"Roooaaar!"
"So fast!"
Gu Ping'an had only just finished weaving the five grass ropes when the flaming dragon's head, bristling with savage fangs, reached him.
Boom!
The giant fire dragon became a streak of fire and passed through Gu Ping'an's figure, his tremendous speed producing a thunderous roar.
"Bind!"
Gu Ping'an pointed, and the five thick Blue Silver Grass ropes wound toward the giant fire dragon's limbs and head.
"Damn it! This fellow is too strange!"
The giant fire dragon swung his head and immediately locked onto Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and the others in the distance.
With all the Blue Silver Grass gathered into five ropes, Xiao Wu's, Dugu Yan's, and Shui Bing'er's positions in the distance were naturally exposed.
"Dragon Shadow Dash!"
Light flashed over the giant fire dragon's body, and he became a streak of fire charging straight toward Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Shui Bing'er.
"Damn it!" Gu Ping'an's eyes turned icy!
"Time-Space Barrier!"
This was a new ability he had developed over the past year.
Using time and space as a barrier, it could both defend and obstruct enemies.
Bang!
A dull impact rang out, as though he had struck the air yet could not pass through it.
The giant fire dragon shook his slightly dazed head, traces of bewilderment appearing in his enormous pupils.
He turned in another direction and unleashed Dragon Shadow Dash again!
This time, he was trying to escape!
Another dull bang rang out.
"Brat, what is this bizarre ability?"
The giant fire dragon looked at Gu Ping'an with a wavering gaze. He realized that he seemingly could not even escape.
"I've sealed this place! If you want to leave, you'll have to kill me!"
Gu Ping'an spread his hands and looked at his opponent with an easy expression.
You went after the people beside me, so die in terror!
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