Almost at the same instant the two dragons unleashed their killing moves, Zhi Mengze, who had been interfering all along, made his move.
"Ninth Soul Skill: Shadow Sinking!"
His body merged into his Shadow Tree Martial Soul, and the entire enormous tree erupted with endless, viscous darkness.
Rather than devouring light, this darkness seemed to sink space itself, forming a region that continually collapsed and dissolved, intercepting, slowing, and even annihilating the terrifying Red Sun Annihilation fireball and the silver river.
Yet Chen Weizhe's Clear Saint had freed the two dragons from interference, and the Mysterious Heaven Gourd had further amplified their attributes, strength, spirit, and elemental properties. They were now at their peak!
Despite the powerful interception, the Red Sun Annihilation orb still forcibly broke through the collapsing pull of the Shadow Sinking region. Only its void-melting trajectory twisted briefly, and its radiance dimmed a little.
The Cosmic Silver Stream following close behind was also weakened layer by layer by the viscous darkness, losing much of its sharp, tearing force.
"Ninth Soul Skill: Dark Nether Return-to-the-Abyss Armor!"
Zhai Henbai's icy voice rang across the battlefield. Vast quantities of dark nether blackwater surged skyward, instantly condensing over his enormous Xuanwu True Form into a suit of deep-black heavy armor covered in ancient runes!
But that was not all!
A true image-level conception of stillness spread over the thick tortoiseshell, forcibly slowing and freezing the ferocious impact.
At the same time, the radiance of an illusion-level conception of immovability blazed from the armor's core runes, making the heavy armor seem like the foundation of a mountain that would remain unmoved for all eternity.
A second conception!
Although most Soul Masters focused on cultivating a single conception after becoming Titled Douluos, nothing prevented some from cultivating others as supplements.
And Zhai Henbai,