Xuan Zi went all out, and Huo Yuhao no longer held back either. Their earlier battle had merely been a mutual probing of each other's strength. Now that the balance had been broken, Huo Yuhao owed Xuan Zi a proper response.
He withdrew his Saint Tiger Martial Soul and moved the Eye of the Storm Soul Core from behind his back to the front of his chest.
Then several azure markings appeared in his eyes, spreading outward across his entire body.
Watching the Eye of the Storm Soul Core spin madly before him, Huo Yuhao did not draw upon its Soul Power for his own use. Instead, he poured his own immensely concentrated liquid Soul Power into it at a frantic pace.
Under the Eye of the Storm's furious rotation, nine terrifying hurricane tornadoes gradually formed. As Huo Yuhao continued pouring in Soul Power and the tornadoes themselves kept spinning, all nine rapidly swelled to hundreds of meters in height. They actually matched Xuan Zi's Godly Taotie Bull in size, and even surpassed it slightly in sheer imposing presence.
At the center of the nine hurricane tornadoes, Huo Yuhao stood like a deity descended upon the world.
Though he was looking up from below, and though he seemed no larger than an ant in the Godly Taotie Bull's eyes, Huo Yuhao's tricolored eyes seemed to gaze down upon it with disdain.
Everything on a battlefield changed in the blink of an eye. In truth, Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi had completed their transformations simultaneously in an extremely short span of time.
The first to strike held the advantage. Xuan Zi took the initiative, driving the Godly Taotie Bull, hundreds of meters tall, into a fierce charge toward Huo Yuhao. With azure light now dominating his eyes, Huo Yuhao raised his left hand horizontally and closed it into a fist. The three terrifying hurricane tornadoes before him swept toward Xuan Zi.
As the two colossal forces collided, a deafening boom erupted in the air. The entire sky lost its luster beneath their clash.
Facing these three rapidly spinning, devastating hurricane tornadoes, the Godly Taotie Bull blocked one with each hand. Its mighty spiral horns held the one directly in front firmly in place, denying it even an inch of advance.
The three hurricanes ground against the Godly Taotie Bull with terrifying friction. Xuan Zi resisted with all his might, his eyes turning grave. The power of celestial phenomena was the most difficult to fathom, yet Huo Yuhao could freely control such terrifying hurricane force. It was truly alarming.
The yellow Soul Core behind him spun rapidly, blazing with yellow light. Terrifying Soul Power gradually gathered between the Godly Taotie Bull's horns. Before long, an attack as dazzling as diamond finished charging. White light flashed in an instant, stabbing like a bolt of white lightning into the hurricane tornado pinned against its horns.
The two were barely an inch apart. The collision of their terrifying energies erupted instantly, and the explosion seemed to blast open the entire space. The detonation of that hurricane acted like a fuse, causing the two beside it to explode in succession amid the terrifying blast.
The explosion of three such terrifying manifestations of celestial power unleashed an immense force. Xuan Zi's Godly Taotie Bull was blasted back hundreds of meters. Its hands, which had held back two of the hurricane tornadoes, had already dissolved into masses of yellow light, and even one of the spiral horns atop its head had snapped halfway off.
His Godly Taotie Bull, which had stood over four hundred meters tall, also shrank by a full hundred meters.
It was utterly devastating!
Huo Yuhao gave Xuan Zi no chance to catch his breath. With a thought, he sent the six hurricane tornadoes around him hurtling toward Xuan Zi at high speed, deliberately steering them clear of the space where the explosion had just occurred.
Countless wind blades could still be seen racing through the heart of the explosion. Innumerable spatial rifts shimmered with a deep black light. In particular, where Xuan Zi's horn had just exploded, the black hole in space had even formed a vortex, within which countless stars could faintly be seen twinkling.
Xuan Zi's expression had already turned rather ugly. Three hurricane tornadoes had nearly cost him his old life. What was he supposed to do against six?
Unfortunately, there was no time to think. The six terrifying attacks of celestial power had already arrived. After absorbing the wind elements in the air through their rapid rotation, these hurricanes had become even stronger, completely surrounding Xuan Zi.
The Godly Taotie Bull was hemmed in on every side by the six terrifying hurricane tornadoes. As they spun and ground against it furiously, it seemed to be getting pulverized bit by bit. Its body visibly shrank, and the entire sky filled with earthen-yellow elemental power. Xuan Zi felt terribly stifled. He had dominated the continent for hundreds of years, only to suffer a humiliating setback here-and one in which he could not even fight back. It left him deeply frustrated.
He forced his palms together with all his strength. The nine Soul Rings above his head instantly merged into a single, dazzling yellow ring of light. At the same time, the yellow Soul Core behind him spun even more furiously. The Godly Taotie Bull roared, opened its enormous, blood-red maw, and swallowed heaven and earth like a whale.
The earth-type Soul Power that had scattered outward, along with the earth elements in the air, was sucked into the Godly Taotie Bull's body before gathering in the earthen-yellow orb of light between Xuan Zi's hands. His Godly Taotie Bull continued to shrink.
Suddenly, more than half the Soul Power within the yellow Soul Core behind him vanished in an instant. The Godly Taotie Bull's body also shrank to a hundred meters in size. Then an abrupt change occurred.
The yellow light within the orb in his hands had reached its utmost intensity. With a casual toss from Xuan Zi, the tiny orb abruptly expanded severalfold, enveloping both him and the six hurricane tornadoes. Huo Yuhao's controlling hand also stopped moving, for that yellow ring of light had cut off his control.
He was not annoyed. After all, he had only been controlling the hurricane tornadoes' direction. The tornadoes themselves were attacks of celestial power that would not stop until they destroyed their opponent. The yellow ring of light did not block everything, and Huo Yuhao could still sense all that happened inside.
"Was that Heaven Calls, Earth Answers?"
Huo Yuhao murmured thoughtfully. After all, no one here shouted out their skills before attacking. He could only guess.
Yet it did not seem quite right. In the original story, Xuan Zi's Heaven Calls, Earth Answers was an offensive skill, not a sealing skill like the one before him.
Perhaps heaven would not call, and earth would not answer.
Regardless of which it was, it made little difference to Huo Yuhao. His nine hurricane tornadoes were merely an appetizer.
The second permission Seven-Color had mentioned was not actually that unimpressive. With the Eye of the Storm Soul Core's terrifying ability to absorb and refine energy, his condition only improved the longer he fought. He was nearly back to full health and mana now. Xuan Zi, by contrast, was not only losing health rapidly, but was also about to have his mana bar drained dry.
Unlike Huo Yuhao, who watched the battle at leisure, Xuan Zi had no energy to spare on investigating anything outside. Having sealed the six powerful hurricane tornadoes to prevent them from drawing upon heaven and earth to grow stronger, his eyes filled with grim resolve.
Soul Power surged rapidly through his body, and six crystalline yellow lights appeared upon him. These masses of light shot toward the six hurricane tornadoes, becoming barriers that clung to the hurricanes.
Then the yellow Soul Core behind him dimmed once more. Infused with powerful Soul Power, the screens of light suddenly spread wildly, wrapping the six hurricane tornadoes tight. Without the amplification of heaven and earth, and with their rotation impeded, the six hurricane tornadoes actually resembled earthen-yellow silkworms wriggling endlessly.
"Mend Heaven!"
Having succeeded with that strike, Xuan Zi revealed a strained smile. He hurriedly controlled the Godly Taotie Bull and began clearing away the attacks that had left him in such a wretched state.
Unfortunately, he had no idea what awaited him outside.
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