The more desperate the situation, the more his inherent ruthlessness will be unleashed.
A ruthless glint flashed in Xiao Yan's eyes.
Fifth Soul Skill! Cold Heart Lotus Explosion!
Xiao Yan did not hesitate at all, nor did he give himself even half a breath to consider a way out.
A jet-black Soul Ring suddenly appeared in the space beneath his feet.
The Soul Ring burst forth with dazzling light the moment it appeared.
A halo of light rippled out from the Soul Ring, enveloping Xiao Yan in a layer of dark radiance.
At the same time, the Soul Power within his body frantically converged into his hand.
A pale blue lotus flower slowly emerged in his palm.
The lotus was about the size of a palm, with layers upon layers of petals, each petal formed from pure flames.
The alternating patterns of pure white and turquoise possess both the chilling Bone Spirit Cold Flame and the raging fury of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
At the center of the lotus, two colors of flame constantly converge and rotate, forming a miniature energy vortex.
The power it contains is chilling—a destructive force that has been forcibly suppressed to the extreme and could erupt at any moment.
"Go!"
Xiao Yan flicked his finger, and the Cold Heart Lotus Explosion instantly flew out of his hand, heading towards Old Ghost Liu's direction behind him.
The blue-white lotus flower spun rapidly in the air, its light intensifying with each rotation, leaving a faint trail of light in its wake.
Amidst the howling wind, an astonishing scene unfolded.
Where the lotus flower flew, the air, which had been almost stagnant due to the Spatial Lockdown, was broken open once again by the raging flames.
The extreme cold of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and the extreme heat of the Green Lotus Core Flame alternated, and the dramatic temperature difference generated by the alternation of cold and heat caused subtle tremors in the space.
Although the shock was not enough to truly tear space apart, it was enough to temporarily disrupt the Spatial Lockdown set up by Old Ghost Liu.
Xiao Yan suddenly felt a lightness all over his body, and the omnipresent stickiness lessened by more than half.
"Laugh!"
Xiao Yan didn't stop at all, not even turning around.
It wasn't that he didn't want to see the effect of his attack; rather, he knew it better than anyone else.
Against a Dou Zong, this attack can only buy time at most.
It would be truly foolish of him to waste precious escape time looking back.
He propelled himself forward with the help of his wings, taking advantage of the weakened Spatial Lockdown, and shot forward like an arrow released from a bow.
Old Ghost Liu looked at the blue-white lotus flower rushing towards him from its spot, a hint of curiosity appearing in his cloudy old eyes.
This tiny lotus flower looks as exquisite as a piece of porcelain.
But in his perception, the energy contained within was unexpectedly violent.
The two extreme forces of fire, cold and hot, are forcibly combined to form an extremely unstable equilibrium structure.
This structure itself is a time bomb, capable of unleashing destructive power far exceeding its inherent size at any moment.
He actually felt a faint pressure on the lotus flower.
This discovery brought a hint of disbelief to Old Ghost Liu's eyes.
He is a genuine Dou Zong expert, having immersed himself in the Dou Zong realm for many years, possessing an incomparably profound Dou Qi.
How could an attack released by a mere Dou Huang Realm cultivator pose even the slightest threat to me?
This is like an ant picking up a pebble the size of a grain of rice and throwing it at an elephant, yet the elephant feels a slight pain from that pebble.
However, this surprise lasted only a moment.
A more fervent light immediately appeared in Old Ghost Liu's eyes.
In his view, this slight threat was probably due to the inherent power of the Heavenly Flames, a rare treasure of heaven and earth, rather than how strong Xiao Yan himself was.
In other words, the stronger the Heavenly Flames, the greater the benefits to him after refining it.
The thought of his strength increasing dramatically after refining these two Heavenly Flames made a slight smile involuntarily appear on his lips.
A mere Dou Emperor brat is able to dominate the Dou Huang Realm by relying on the power of Heavenly Flames.
But in his presence, such strength was nothing more than an ant that could be easily suppressed.
"Suppress!"
A hint of disdain flashed in Old Ghost Liu's eyes, and he uttered two words indifferently.
He stretched out his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread, and the earth-yellow Dou Qi that had been gathering power in his palm roared out.
The Dou Qi in front of him instantly froze, transforming into a semi-transparent energy barrier.
The surface of the barrier was covered with dense, mysterious patterns, each pattern radiating a powerful spatial fluctuation.
"Kid, you still don't understand the difference between Dou Emperor and Dou Zong."
Old Ghost Liu spoke calmly, his tone carrying an air of self-righteous arrogance.
He certainly has the right to be arrogant.
On the Dou Qi Continent, the gap between Dou Emperor and Dou Zong is much greater than the span between Dou Wang and Dou Emperor.
No matter how strong Dou Emperor is, their strength is ultimately limited to the level of raw power; while Dou Zong has already begun to touch the edge of the rules of heaven and earth.
The gap between these two cannot be bridged by quantity, nor can it be overcome by a Dou Emperor who relies on Heavenly Flames.
As soon as he finished speaking, the battle Dou Qi barrier solidified completely.
The blue-white lotus flower that was originally flying rapidly toward him began to slow down after it came into contact with the spatial fluctuations outside the barrier, as if it had rushed into an invisible stagnant pool.
The lotus flower's rotation slowed down, and its forward momentum weakened.
The light that had been swirling on the petals gradually dimmed.
Finally, three zhang in front of him, the lotus flower came to a complete stop, as if someone had pressed the pause button.
Old Ghost Liu's gaze fell upon the blue and white lotus flower in front of him.
Upon closer inspection, this lotus flower truly deserves to be called a masterpiece of nature.
Two different types of Heavenly Flames with opposite properties were fused together with such precision.
They neither exploded prematurely nor dissolved each other, but maintained a delicate balance.
Even he had to admit that his control over the flames was quite impressive.
At this moment, the attack launched by Xiao Yan floated silently before his eyes like a fine porcelain work of art.
Exquisite and beautiful, yet so fragile that it could be shattered at the slightest touch.
That's it?
Old Ghost Liu shook his head dismissively, even somewhat disappointed.
Although the quality of the Heavenly Flames is indeed good, this kid's technique in using it is still too immature.
He was about to say a few more words, so that this arrogant brat would die knowing why.
However, just as Old Ghost Liu was about to continue speaking, Xiao Yan, who had already escaped more than a hundred feet away, suddenly burst out with a sharp shout.
"Burst!"
The word was short and forceful, like a thunderclap suddenly resounding in the night sky.
Xiao Yan didn't even turn around; he had precisely calculated the timing of the detonation through his soul perception.
The distance between that lotus flower and Old Ghost Liu was exactly the limit of his Soul Power's ability to remotely control it.
This was the moment he had been waiting for—the moment when Old Ghost Liu lowered his guard and observed the lotus flower up close.
The next moment, the previously frozen, dazzling Fire Lotus in front of Old Ghost Liu suddenly erupted with a surge of energy.
The energy came so suddenly and so violently, like a volcano that had been suppressed for thousands of years finally finding an outlet.
Countless fine cracks first appeared on the surface of the lotus, and blue and white light burst out from the cracks.
Immediately afterwards, the entire lotus flower swelled dozens of times in an instant.
A violent burst of flames roared out from within the Fire Lotus. The two forces of extreme cold and extreme heat, after being suppressed to the extreme, finally went completely out of control and exploded with a deafening roar.
The explosion was deafening, as if the entire night sky had been torn apart by it.
The blue and white flames almost instantly filled the sky, and wherever the pure white flames of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame passed, the moisture in the air instantly condensed into ice crystals and fell down in a flurry;
Wherever the emerald-green flames of the Green Lotus Core Flame Fire swept, even space itself was scorched and distorted.
The two flames intertwined, forming a huge fireball with a diameter of tens of meters, illuminating the sky as if it were daytime.
Old Ghost Liu, who was closest to the flames, naturally bore the brunt of the attack. Together with the three Dou Emperor not far behind him, the four of them endured the first and most intense wave of impact.
At the instant the Fire Lotus exploded, Old Ghost Liu's pupils suddenly contracted.
He sensed the energy fluctuations released by the lotus flower in the final moments before the explosion, a fluctuation that made his heart pound.
He dared not underestimate him in the slightest, and his Dou Qi roared out almost instantly.
An indestructible spatial barrier formed in front of him.
This barrier is no longer just a pile of energy; it also incorporates all of Old Ghost Liu's understanding of the laws of space over the years.