Heaven's Punishment: Another Slap in the Worship Hall's Face (1 / 2)

[Ding, system mission triggered: injure the Titled Douluo Azure Luan to receive a system reward.]

Suddenly, another system mission appeared.

"Looks like the system wants me to teach this Azure Luan Douluo a lesson too!"

Li Tianyuan decided to act.

Stepping through the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, he swiftly moved between several positions.

He arrived a short distance from Azure Luan Douluo.

His opponent was still observing, but seemed not to have detected his location.

"Looks like even Azure Luan Douluo can't pinpoint my position."

"Let's try my other Soul Skill, Heaven's Punishment!"

Li Tianyuan made up his mind and raised his hand. The two aspects of yin and yang, the four symbols, and the eight trigrams appeared around him once more,

along with the shifting Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and Yin-Yang Lines.

He controlled every movement in space and time within a hundred-meter radius.

Heaven's Punishment would deliver punishment in the name of heaven's will, its divine might unfathomable. Once successfully cast, its target would suffer punishment at some point in time.

That punishment might take effect immediately, or it might be delayed.

Li Tianyuan extended a finger and gently pointed at Azure Luan Douluo.

A hum rang out.

A mysterious bell seemed to toll.

The order of space and time seemed to have been nudged.

Then a mass of black mist appeared in the void and swiftly descended upon Azure Luan Douluo.

Azure Luan Douluo's Martial Soul shuddered several times, seemingly sensing danger and trying to escape the attack, but its efforts were utterly futile.

The black mist seemed to have taken root!

"Hm?!"

Azure Luan Douluo immediately realized something was wrong. At the same time, he sensed an unusual spatial disturbance nearby.

"Found you!"

"Wind Spiral, Azure Waves!"

Azure Luan Douluo immediately unleashed his Soul Skill.

A blue-green tornado swept toward Li Tianyuan.

However, seeing that Heaven's Punishment had already formed, Li Tianyuan had no intention of lingering. He stepped into another position, leaving before his opponent's Soul Skill struck.

The blue-green tornado hit empty air.

"So fast!"

"As expected of a Douluo with a Space Martial Soul!"

"But now that I've detected you, why don't you show yourself at once?"

Azure Luan Douluo beat his wings. His enormous twenty-meter wings lashed toward every direction in the void with astonishing speed, slicing through everything like two razor-sharp cleavers.

Wherever they passed, no one could hide.

"Azure Luan Douluo's Martial Soul Avatar really is powerful."

Li Tianyuan could not help feeling some pressure.

But by combining his Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams footwork with Wind God Leg, he remained steady.

No matter which direction his opponent attacked, he could still escape unscathed.

Below, Qian Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo were also preparing, searching with their Coiling Dragon Staffs in hand.

Once Li Tianyuan was forced to reveal himself, they would use their Coiling Dragon Staffs to seriously injure him.

But as time passed, Li Tianyuan still showed no sign of appearing.

"Azure Luan Douluo, could he have already fled?"

Seeing that Li Tianyuan had not appeared again, Demon Subduing Douluo voiced his doubts.

"No!"

"I can still sense some disorder in the space here. Clearly, that mysterious Douluo is still around."

"He must still be hiding. His spatial abilities are truly formidable!"

Azure Luan Douluo shook his head, continuously releasing Soul Power in an attempt to force his opponent into the open.

"In that case, let us lend you a hand."

Qian Jun Douluo spoke up.

With Azure Luan Douluo holding the field, the two of them felt they could advance and support him.

Together, the three Douluos could put up a fight even against a Limit Douluo.

"Martial Soul Avatar!"

Qian Jun and Jiang Mo once again unleashed the Martial Soul Avatars of their Coiling Dragon Staffs. Golden dragon souls appeared upon the staffs, erupting with tremendous might.

The three Douluos took up separate areas and began attacking fiercely within that space.

Every move shook the void.

Under such power, an ordinary Douluo would have no way to remain hidden.

"Hahaha... exhilarating! Absolutely exhilarating!"

"Let's see how that fellow dodges an assault like this!"

"We're bound to shatter his Space Martial Soul!"

Demon Subduing Douluo grew excited and attacked even more fiercely.

For a time, their might shook heaven and earth.

Li Tianyuan finally felt immense pressure.

But rather than retreat, he used another Soul Skill, Yin-Yang Reversal.

Under this Soul Skill, Spacetime Disorder threw space and time into chaos, and positions and auras changed drastically.

He wanted to see whether he could hold back the three Douluos' fierce assault.

When he had previously used this Soul Skill against Qian Jun and Jiang Mo, his Soul Power had been one level lower. Now that it had increased, the skill's power had grown as well.

"I've detected his spatial Soul Power!"

"It's formidable!"

"But he probably won't hold out much longer!"

At that moment, Azure Luan Douluo sensed the disorder in spatial and temporal positions. He felt that the mysterious Douluo lurking behind it was about to reveal himself.

"No, Azure Luan Douluo! This is that mysterious Douluo's unique Soul Skill. It can displace and distort space. Don't underestimate it."

Qian Jun and Jiang Mo, however, grew solemn.

The brothers had already tasted this Soul Skill's effects and did not dare take it lightly.

"What?"

Azure Luan Douluo dismissed their warning, refusing to believe in this spatial distortion.

Before him, such things were mere petty tricks.

But he soon noticed his flight slowing.

"This Soul Skill... can't be underestimated."

Azure Luan Douluo frowned, then opened his mouth.

"Azure Sky, Cloud Sea, Soundless Dust!"

A violent sound wave burst forth, spreading outward and bombarding everything around him.

Its tremendous power swept out.

But upon entering Spacetime Disorder, it lasted less than a second before weakening layer by layer, its power dwindling.

"Even a sonic attack amounts to little within my Spacetime Disorder."

Li Tianyuan smiled faintly.

Of course, Azure Luan Douluo's combat prowess truly could not be underestimated.

If his opponent unleashed this Soul Skill right in front of him, he probably would not be able to withstand it.

That was why he always maintained a certain distance from him.

For now, his Soul Skill testing was nearly complete. He could hold back the attacks of three Douluos.

He was quite satisfied with that capability.

Of course, he could only restrain them; his offensive power was insufficient.

In other words, he needed to remain concealed during battle.

"Azure Luan Douluo, this Soul Skill is extremely uncanny. We must find a way to break it!"

Qian Jun Douluo tried to speak, but discovered that his words seemed to be sliced apart wave by wave, unable to travel far at all.

Suddenly, Li Tianyuan sensed something and looked toward Azure Luan.

Azure Luan Douluo's body shuddered violently, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. His Martial Soul Avatar seemed affected as well, becoming somewhat insubstantial.

Azure Luan Douluo was horrified. He could not understand why he had suddenly coughed up blood when there had been no warning whatsoever.

"What on earth is happening?!"

Azure Luan Douluo could not make sense of it.