Against the pitch-black night sky, the clash between the two sides sent the colors overhead shifting constantly.
"Almost there. Three, two, one..." Gu Qingnian murmured, frantically compressing the soul power within him as he gathered strength.
Suddenly, amid those shifting colors, an exceptionally brilliant jade-green light flashed into their sight.
The jade-green light formed a straight line, then spread in an instant, outlining every bone in a human torso, including the spine, ribs, and sternum.
At the very moment the eight attackers and Ma Xiaotao were drawn to it, the final two figures in this ten-person confrontation had silently arrived in the distance and stood watching.
In the next instant, a dazzling jade-green radiance expanded, enveloping them all at once. Along with it came an utterly frigid chill that swept over everyone present, including Ma Xiaotao.
In just an instant, the four Soul Kings felt the terrifying effects of that ultimate cold with perfect clarity. All the blood in their bodies seemed to freeze solid. At that moment, they could make no other movement whatsoever, remaining suspended in midair in the very poses they had assumed to attack.
Even the two Soul Emperors were suffering terribly, their bodies shuddering uncontrollably as they used soul power to resist. The two Soul Saints fared somewhat better, but the enormous expenditure of soul power had left them all utterly exhausted. After unleashing their killing moves, they had only a sliver of soul power left.
The four Soul Kings had it worst. Their confrontation was taking place hundreds of meters above the ground; in flight, if they did not rise, they fell. That brief pause sent the four already exhausted Soul Kings plummeting like meteors.
For Ma Xiaotao, by contrast, this was an extraordinarily invigorating sensation. The evil fire had already left her in