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Chapter 144: Star Luo City
Horror rose in Xuan Zi's heart, and a low roar escaped his throat, its immense sound rolling like thunder.
In an instant, he transformed into a monster with tiger fangs, human claws, and a pair of enormous bull horns on his head. His massive body stretched over a hundred meters, intense yellow light bursting from within him. Nine soul rings became halos that hovered up and down between those huge horns.
Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red. This was almost the finest soul ring configuration most soul masters could hope for.
The black soul ring in the seventh position was now shining with a profound light. Sensing danger, Xuan Zi unhesitatingly unleashed his seventh soul skill, Godly Taotie Bull Avatar!
Xuan Zi snorted furiously. The crystalline yellow light covering his body became a barrier, instantly breaking him free of the invisible suction from the seawater vortex below. Identical crystalline yellow barriers followed, shielding everyone else, but they were clearly a step too late.
Every one of them had inevitably been touched by the black-purple threads of rain. The cold, sinister energy within those threads penetrated their protective soul power directly, seeping into every opening and corroding them from within. This was an outright difference in the level of their energies.
With his cultivation, Xuan Zi could naturally resist it with ease and then force that evil energy out of his body. Aside from him, however, even Zhang Lexuan, who possessed the highest soul power cultivation among them, was only an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo.
Barely protecting herself was already difficult enough. She had no strength to spare for anyone else.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft..." Dense, soft impacts landed against the crystalline yellow barriers around them, sending out tightly packed ripples of