Self-Created Soul Skill, Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps (1 / 2)

The room remained rather quiet.

Xie Yue and Hu Liena exchanged a glance and hurriedly backed out of the room.

There was definitely something wrong with this room!

"You dared strike this Douluo's face, yet you don't dare come out and face me?"

"Come out!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo's voice was shrill, his expression twisted into a terrifying mask of anger.

The old chrysanthemum is angry. Good, let's keep him that way.

Li Tianyuan looked at the enormous purple chrysanthemum, shifted his feet, and moved behind Chrysanthemum Douluo. Then he reached out and knocked on his head.

As soon as he had done so, he swiftly withdrew.

Chrysanthemum Douluo flew into a rage and swung the chrysanthemum behind him.

But his attack hit empty air. There was nothing there.

"Who are you? Just who are you?!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo thundered with fury, but a hint of wariness also appeared in his eyes.

He was a Titled Douluo of formidable strength. He should have sensed any living creature approaching him, yet something had clearly gone wrong this time.

The presence lurking behind him had actually struck him twice in succession.

If his opponent had struck to kill, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

Yet there was still no response.

Chrysanthemum Douluo grew even angrier and said coldly, "If you have the ability, come out and fight me fair and square. What good is skulking around?"

As he spoke, he shook the Strange Towering Chrysanthemum. Its leaves flew out and encircled him, forming a barrier.

Only part of his head remained exposed.

He wanted to see how the person behind him could strike now.

The old chrysanthemum is scared.

Watching Chrysanthemum Douluo's reaction from hiding, Li Tianyuan nearly laughed aloud.

But he could not laugh, or he might give away his position.

After a brief moment of thought, he decided to knock on the other man's head again.

His body swept into the air, and he brought his hand down onto Chrysanthemum Douluo's head.

Thump.

Chrysanthemum Douluo immediately felt a sharp pain in his head and swung his chrysanthemum toward the roof.

Once again, he hit nothing.

He had attacked three times and failed to catch his opponent each time.

Panic began to creep into Chrysanthemum Douluo's expression.

Since becoming a Titled Douluo, he had never encountered such a strange opponent.

"Who might you be, sir?"

"I am Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan. Why not reveal yourself so we can meet?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo's manner became somewhat respectful. He felt there was very likely an expert in this room whom he could not afford to offend—at least a Titled Douluo above rank 95.

[Ding! Successfully toyed with Chrysanthemum Douluo. Rewarding the host with a Self-Created Soul Skill: Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps.]

[Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps: Allows rapid changes of position through spacetime, making your movements elusive, mysterious, and unpredictable.]

[Integrate?]

Just as Li Tianyuan was about to have another go at Chrysanthemum Douluo, the system's voice rang out.

[Integrate!]

In an instant, a profound Soul Skill appeared in Li Tianyuan's mind.

What a marvelous Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps. Another technique that draws on spacetime.

Combined with the Temporal Concealment Soul Skill, it will let me come without a shadow and leave without a trace.

Li Tianyuan marveled inwardly.

"Fine! If you won't come out, I'll destroy this house!"

At that moment, Chrysanthemum Douluo erupted completely. He could no longer bear being struck repeatedly while his opponent remained utterly untroubled. He was determined to find out who was playing ghostly tricks behind his back.

"Strange Towering Chrysanthemum, kill!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo shouted, and the chrysanthemum instantly unleashed countless leaves that swept wildly outward.

Boom.

The sharp leaves pierced through the entire room, bringing it crashing down in an instant.

That old bastard actually destroyed my house!

Li Tianyuan was furious too. Housing prices in Spirit City were already high, and he had endured a thousand hardships to buy this home.

He had never imagined it would be blown apart just like that.

Still, the attack was quite powerful, so Li Tianyuan had no choice but to use the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps to evade it first.

As the house collapsed, Chrysanthemum Douluo surveyed his surroundings, yet still found no one.

What on earth is going on?

Even such a powerful strike couldn't force my opponent to reveal himself?

Chrysanthemum Douluo raised his eyebrows in surprise.

After all, only a handful of people in Spirit City could emerge unscathed from an attack like his.

"Do you still refuse to show yourself?!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo continued shouting angrily, his enormous chrysanthemum in hand, ready to fight again at any moment.

Not far away, Xie Yue and Hu Liena looked shocked, sensing that something was badly amiss.

Meanwhile, the commotion had also drawn attention.

Quite a few people looked in their direction.

Qian Jun Douluo also strode over, arriving nearby.

He glanced at Chrysanthemum Douluo several times and asked, "Chrysanthemum Douluo, what just happened?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo was watching for any movement and was somewhat surprised to see Qian Jun Douluo appear.

This fellow belonged to the Worship Hall. Why had he suddenly come here?

"Qian Jun Douluo, how did you find the time to come out?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo asked curiously.

Although both belonged to Spirit Hall, the other man served under Qian Daoliu, whereas he was loyal to Pope Bibi Dong.

"I came here for the same reason as you."

"Were you trying to kill someone just now?"

Qian Jun Douluo asked gravely.

"That's right. I detected some mysterious presence hiding here and wanted to force it out!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo concealed nothing.

"A mysterious presence?"

Qian Jun Douluo sounded surprised.

"My opponent is extremely elusive and has struck repeatedly, yet I haven't been able to detect any trace of him."

Chrysanthemum Douluo explained, intending to enlist the other man's help in investigating the situation.

"Something like that really happened?"

Qian Jun Douluo was skeptical. Although he disliked Chrysanthemum Douluo's neither-male-nor-female appearance, he knew there was little difference between their strengths.

Anyone whom even Chrysanthemum Douluo could not force into revealing himself was undoubtedly an extremely powerful existence.

"As real as it gets!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo said coldly.

"Then I would like to see just who possesses such ability!"

Qian Jun Douluo also decided to act. He stood with his hands behind his back, examining the surroundings.

But he detected nothing unusual.

"Could our opponent be a Douluo with a Space Martial Soul, capable of concealing himself within space?"

Qian Jun Douluo speculated.

Otherwise, he would certainly have been able to find him.

"A Space Martial Soul?"

"Such a Martial Soul exists?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo was somewhat surprised.

"There are countless Martial Souls on the Douluo Continent. Those with Space Martial Souls are far from rare."

"It's just that I have never heard of a Titled Douluo with a Space Martial Soul."

Although Qian Jun Douluo had a theory, he was also somewhat puzzled.

"Then he's a Soul Douluo!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo declared furiously.

A Soul Douluo dared to toy with him, a Titled Douluo? He was simply courting death!

"Not necessarily. He could be a Titled Douluo unknown to us. Someone who can evade both our senses and lurk within Spirit City is very likely targeting our Spirit Hall!"

Qian Jun Douluo said coldly.

He opened his hand, Soul Power surging through his body as his Martial Soul appeared—the Coiling Dragon Staff!

The staff was dark gold from end to end, with two carved dragon patterns coiling around it, covered in fine dragon scales. It looked anything but ordinary.