Jonah Weiss, another Grand Elder, was a Level 88 Soul Douluo and the strongest Soul Master openly affiliated with the Demon Sheep Sect.
He had never held real power. He was from a collateral branch, and the Main Lineage treated him only as a high-level enforcer. He even suspected that his son had died under mysterious circumstances.
An established family would have had a complete system for handling such matters, but the Demon Sheep Sect had risen too quickly, and its systems were still incomplete in many areas.
As soon as Fang Yuan sealed off all of Red Forest Mountain, Jonah led several trusted subordinates along a winding path toward the mountain gate.
One of his trusted subordinates asked anxiously, "Elder, can we get out?"
Jonah replied confidently, "The seal covers such a vast area of the mountain. Even a Titled Douluo would find it difficult just to maintain it, and the seal must have a weakness somewhere."
"Even if it doesn't, with my strength, I should be able to attack one point, break through it from the inside, and open a small gap wide enough for us to pass through."
At that moment, even if he lacked confidence, he had to show it.
As he spoke, shadows crisscrossed, several arrows flew out, the air twisted, and time seemed to stand still.
"Sixth Soul Skill-Dark Sky Curtain."
Jonah's Soul Power turned into roiling clouds of black mist, surging wildly. In an instant, it covered the group, slowing the arrows and giving everyone time to dodge.
"You make it sound easy. Let's see whether you can escape from my hands." As she spoke, several figures appeared. At their head was Yang Jingxue.
That was right. After expending a great deal of Soul Power to carpet-bomb the area, Yang Jingxue had gone to the mountain gate at the Mountain Foot to recover.
Unlike the east, west, and north sides, each of which had only one road and was easy to keep an eye on, the south side had a long, gentle slope and several paths leading to the mountain gate. So Yang Jingxue had brought a small squad to guard it, just in case anyone tried to escape.
A hundred meters from the plaza in front of the main hall, Zhu Tianhao stood over three meters tall in his transformed state.
He was burly and muscular, with thick, powerful limbs. A faint yellow light glinted in his eyes, and Stone Armor covered his body. Charging through the crowd like a ferocious boar, he barreled into everyone in his way.
Not far away, Level 67 Wilbur Weiss was being pressed hard by Chen Xun.
"Pressed hard" was meant literally.
Strength Type Soul Masters from the Chen Clan were a little unusual compared to the clan's other Soul Masters.
While the others focused on the Sword-Controlling Art, they preferred to swing their swords and hack at their opponents, relishing the satisfying feel of blade meeting flesh.
After Chen Jingyao, the Mysterious Heaven Gourd Soul Master, had just granted Chen Xun the two Soul Skills "Eye of the Wind" and "Thunderclap," he charged toward the Demon Sheep Sect's Soul Masters and began directing the First Battalion in battle.
A moment ago, Chen Xun had charged through the crowd, surrounded by swirling wind and flashing blue arcs of electricity. He activated Sword Shadow Form and wielded the Seven Kill Sword, which shone with seven stars.
His Seven Kill Sword was twice as large as the others', eight feet long and six inches wide, like a heavy executioner's blade.
The Seven Kill Sword already leaned toward being a greatsword, and now it was nearly as large as Chen Xun himself. This was precisely the same as his son Chen Jianjun's Second Soul Skill-Hard Sword.
Generally speaking, Instrument Martial Souls could change size at will only while in the Martial Soul Avatar state. This Soul Skill granted him that function early.
He spotted a Big Fish-Wilbur Weiss-and used his perfected Sword Step, Starstream Thunderstrike, striding forward like a shooting star.
Sword Light tore through the air, and Chen Xun's figure suddenly appeared before Wilbur Weiss like a phantom.
He raised the Seven Kill Sword high and unleashed a refined sword strike of peerless might. With a shriek that seemed to sever the Void, it came crashing down from above Wilbur's head.
"Third Soul Skill-Demonic Shadows."
Wilbur Weiss's pupils contracted sharply. The bone-piercing killing intent and speed of the sword sent a chill through him. Meeting it head-on would be unwise.
His body blurred, and in an instant, more than ten indistinguishable copies of him appeared. Like wisps of smoke, they scattered and slid sideways, barely avoiding the deadly strike from above.
However, as Chen Xun's momentum passed and his toes touched the ground, his Sword Momentum was still going strong. He swung the Seven Kill Sword in his right hand in a sweeping arc.
"Fifth Soul Skill-Sweep Across the Four Directions."
A dazzling, azure-blue circular Sword Aura, like a starry river pouring backward, erupted from Chen Xun and swept out in every direction.
The air shrieked under the strain wherever the Sword Aura passed. The domineering, unyielding force it contained seemed capable of toppling mountains and splitting peaks.
The scattered Demon Sheep phantoms burst like bubbles beneath that unstoppable blue wheel of light, popping one after another until not a single one remained.
This technique was peerlessly domineering. It could sweep the Six Harmonies in an area attack or split the earth with a focused strike.
Wilbur's true body was exposed.
In his haste, he slammed both hands against the ground. "Fourth Soul Skill-Earth Wall."
With a rumble, a massive stone wall several yards tall shot up from the earth, hastily rising between him and Chen Xun.
But how could a ten-thousand-year Soul Skill like Sweep Across the Four Directions be stopped by a hastily raised earth wall?
Bang! Crack-!
The stone wall shattered into pieces like fragile Glazed glass the instant it met the blue Sword Aura.
The shattered boulders, together with the remaining Sword Aura, slammed into Wilbur's crossed arms. The tremendous force sent him flying more than ten yards.
Although he managed to gather Soul Power into a shield in time, the Thunderclap power wrapped around the Seven Kill Sword, which came from Chen Jingyao, had already seeped into his body through the vibrations.
He felt every muscle in his body twitching, numbness crawling over him as if ten thousand ants were gnawing at his bones.
Before he could catch his breath, the killing intent in Chen Xun's eyes blazed brighter.
"Fourth Soul Skill-Rainbow Pierces the Sun."
He moved with the sword. The Seven Kill Sword became a blazing white streak of light that tore through the sky. Chen Xun used the Starstream Thunderstrike Movement Technique, increasing his speed several times over.
The Soul Power surging through the blade was like tangible flames. The straight thrust came with the overwhelming force of Thunderous Might, far surpassing the nimble finesse of sword control. It was an utterly domineering blow.
The sword point aimed straight at Wilbur, who was numb and rigid.
His life hung by a thread.
Wilbur's eyes bulged with fury. The Three-Eyed Demon Sheep possessing him threw back its head and roared, and the eerie vertical eye on its forehead snapped open!
"Sixth Soul Skill-Repulsive Force Tide."
A vast, invisible force burst from the vertical eye, accompanied by a blinding, piercing light.
Ripples of Soul Power spread in layer upon layer, forming a formidable invisible wall.
As Chen Xun's meteor-like thrust entered the field of repulsion, its speed plunged. It was as if he had fallen into sticky mud, where he was forcibly halted and left suspended in midair.
Wilbur would not let the moment pass.
At the same time, eerie black-purple light shot from the Three-Eyed Demon Sheep's eyes.
"Soul Bone Skill-Demon Sheep Divine Light."
Two soul-shaking beams of demonic light crossed the distance in an instant and shot straight at Chen Xun's eyes.
This was the Head Soul Bone passed down through generations of the Demon Sheep Sect, taken from a Three-Eyed Demon Sheep of the same kind.
Once struck, its target's will would freeze in terror, their soul would be sealed in ice, and their body would go rigid as wood and stone, leaving them a lamb awaiting slaughter.
However, the one before him was Chen Xun, a powerful swordsman with a Seven Kill Martial Soul.
Moreover, Strength Type Power Attack System Soul Masters charged and crashed into their foes. They could not only dish out blows but take them, even when those blows targeted their Mental Attribute.
The demonic light invaded his Sea of Consciousness.
Deep in Chen Xun's mind, a massive azure-blue Seven Kill Sword suddenly appeared, formed from pure Mental Power. Runes flowed along its blade, and it radiated a righteous, evil-purging, annihilating will.
It was the Chen Clan's secret, never-taught art-the Spiritual Secret Technique, Brilliant Star Primordial Spirit Sword.
The giant sword in his Sea of Consciousness burst into dazzling light. Beneath its magnificent Sword Might, the eerie Demon Sheep Divine Light melted like snow in the sun. Before it could unleash its power to corrode his mind, the spiritual sword tore it apart and vaporized it in an instant.
Chen Xun's gaze remained clear, and his movements were completely unaffected.
Wilbur was utterly horrified.
His trump card had been neutralized without a sound.
In the millionth of an instant when he faltered in shock-
Chen Xun chanted a true verse, his voice thundering across the wilderness: "Draw the Sword to Pacify the Four Seas; Raise the Spear Against Ten Thousand-Sword Aura: Sweep Across the Eight Directions."
The Seven Kill Sword rang out like thunder.
An even larger, more condensed, all-tearing deep-blue Sword Aura burst forth with overwhelming force, surpassing Sweep Across the Four Directions.
The Sword Aura stretched across twenty to thirty meters. It was solid as a real blade, and a ferocious black dragon seemed to coil around it, roaring. Its domineering presence threatened to tear apart the sky and shatter mountains and rivers.
The earlier Sweep Across the Four Directions was a Soul Skill the Chen Clan had specifically obtained from the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast Heavenly Mantis.
Sweep Across the Eight Directions, on the other hand, was a legacy Self-Created Soul Skill the Chen Clan had refined and created on the foundation of Sweep Across the Four Directions.
Wrapped in a black dragon shadow that seemed capable of destroying everything, the Sword Aura hurtled toward the dazed Wilbur, intent on killing him.
Chen Xun's path was one of strength that broke through all laws, a Strength Type Power Attack approach that swept through every direction with absolute Sword Aura.
However-a terrifying Soul Power pressure descended without warning, suffocating in its intensity and far beyond the level of a Soul Emperor.
"Eighth Soul Skill-Demon Sheep Space-Breaking Strike."
At the edge of the battlefield, an old man in an embroidered robe of the Demon Sheep Sect appeared without a sound. His face was as withered as deadwood, his hair and beard were white, and his eyes burned with furious madness.
Eight Soul Rings surged wildly at his feet, and their oppressive force filled the surrounding space.
Jesus Weiss-the Demon Sheep Sect's Grand Elder, Wilbur's father, and a Level 85 Soul Douluo.
He held his hands as if cradling a divine seal, bringing them together at his waist in the shape of a strange flower calyx. A dark energy sphere, so deep it seemed to swallow light, rapidly gathered and compressed in his palms.
The next instant, he thrust both hands forward.
Rumble!
A black projectile shaped like a Demon Sheep's horn, over ten meters wide and trailing a dazzling, scorching tail of flame dozens of meters long, shot toward Chen Xun's back with berserk force, like a destructive comet falling from beyond the heavens. It moved so fast it tore through sight itself, leaving behind only a scorched trail in the air.
This was a sneak attack using a Soul Skill from a Six-Thousand-Year Three-Eyed Demon Sheep. In the hands of a Soul Douluo, it unleashed enough murderous force to wipe out an ordinary Titled Douluo.