Yu Hongzhi stared intently at the figure ahead.
He had already used his first soul skill, Mental Amplification, combined with his second soul skill, Deep Dream, to control her.
He had silently drawn her into a dream, weaving a beautiful dream indistinguishable from reality.
In the dream, she was walking the road home, while in reality, she was heading to the secret room Chen Wen had prepared.
As for his method of concealing himself, it was his third soul skill, Dream Bubble.
Enveloping his entire body in bubbles not only made him invisible but also greatly shielded him from others' perception.
To put it bluntly, this set of soul skills would only result in defeat against a powerful offensive soul emperor of the same level in a soul battle.
However, outside the arena, he could use the unpredictability of mental soul skills and the advantage of a large arena to directly crush those soul masters who only charged recklessly.
Yu Hongzhi was extremely cautious about this mission.
To deal with a soul master, he activated all three of his soul skills, using his mental and soul power without restraint.
Maintaining such a large range of mental perception along the way was also extremely taxing on him.
The second soul skill, Deep Dream, requires the enemy to be within the user's mental perception range; once outside, the skill will fail.
Yu Hongzhi guided Jiang Nannan into a carefully laid trap.
"Almost there, almost there."
"The Xuanwu Divine Pill is almost in my hands."
Decades of obsession finally saw a glimmer of hope in the darkness.
This filled him with uncontrollable joy.
He had already planned that once he obtained the Xuanwu Divine Pill and broke through to level 70, he would immediately leave Xuanfeng City and head to the Douling Empire.
There were fewer powerful figures there, making it easier to rise to prominence, and it was far enough away from Shrek Academy.
If things went wrong one day, he could escape in time.
In the Tianhun Empire and Xingluo Empire, he wouldn't even have a chance to escape.
The Tianhun Empire was Shrek Academy's home base, and the Xingluo Empire had many powerful figures and a complex official system.
There was nowhere to go to join the Sun Moon Empire; it was a situation with nowhere to turn.
Just as Yu Hongzhi was beginning to fantasize about his future life,
Huo Yuhao had already touched him from behind.
"Hey, friend."
"Following a little girl all the way, isn't that a bit underhanded?"
This sudden voice sent a chill down Yu Hongzhi's spine, a sudden coldness spreading to his brain.
"When did you get behind me?!"
"I knew this mission wouldn't be this simple!"
Yu Hongzhi immediately retreated, ignoring Jiang Nannan who was still walking ahead in the distance, and looked up to see Huo Yuhao standing on a rooftop.
"Who is it?!"
"Wearing a mask, a coward."
Huo Yuhao chuckled and said, "Interesting, you're well-covered yourself."
"Yet you call me a coward."
"Friend, you're being a bit hypocritical."
Huo Yuhao's spiritual eyes stared intently through the holes in the mask at a jarring, transparent figure in front of him.
To be honest, if it weren't for the full moon tonight, with its bright and clear moonlight, he wouldn't have been able to spot him at all.
If he just shrank into the darkness, and with his ability to shield his senses, no one would be able to find him.
Yu Hongzhi seemed as calm as a rock, but inside he was panicking.
There was no way around it; he saw the masked man standing effortlessly on the rooftop, exuding an aura of overwhelming power—a posture unique to the strong.
Just looking at his appearance, he could already sense his immense strength.
However, Yu Hongzhi had been navigating the world of Soul Masters for decades.
He certainly didn't lack the courage to charge against the strong.
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Or rather, those who lack the courage to challenge the strong simply cannot break through level sixty; the timid and cowardly will only stop at the Soul King level.
Yu Hongzhi knew he had to strike first; to hold back against someone potentially stronger than himself was pure suicide!
He deactivated his third Soul Skill, Dream Bubble, revealing his form, and then immediately activated his fifth Soul Ring, a mysterious and profound black light illuminating it.
He immediately used his fifth Soul Skill, Dream Clone, and three slightly lighter-colored versions of Yu Hongzhi appeared on either side of him.
Huo Yuhao's expression turned serious, because he sensed that the aura of those three clones was identical to his original form.
"A rather peculiar Soul Skill, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones?"
Yu Hongzhi ignored Huo Yuhao's doubts and charged directly at him.
Huo Yuhao began to retreat, but suddenly found himself unable to move.
Looking down, he saw a pitch-black chain binding his shadow.
Only then did he notice that one of the clones was crouching in the distance, connecting the two shadows through the black chain.
"He can still use soul skills? No, the soul rings aren't lit, it's a soul bone skill!"
With the speed of a Soul Emperor, the three Yu Hongzhis had already reached Huo Yuhao's side.
The three formed a strangling attack, each targeting a different vital point.
The head, heart, and spine were all locked onto by killing intent.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao still didn't react, Yu Hongzhi was overjoyed.
"Got it!"
Then the three of them plunged their palms in, intending to kill him instantly.
But the scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere that Yu Hongzhi had expected didn't occur.
He watched in shock as the three palms entered the other's body as if disappearing into thin air.
There wasn't a ripple, as if the three of them weren't even in the same space.
"Divine Might!"
Immediately afterward, Huo Yuhao's hand began to reach back towards Yu Hongzhi's main body.
The hand moved slowly and deliberately, but Yu Hongzhi's entire body sensed warning signs; his hair stood on end, and his mental energy surged wildly.
Gritting his teeth, he used his sixth soul skill, Clone Swap. Under the black light, the clone of Yu Hongzhi controlling Huo Yuhao from afar swapped places with the main body.
Huo Yuhao's hand landed on the clone.
Then, half of the clone's body began to twist under an invisible force, emitting a piercing scream.
"Oh? The clone can feel pain."
The other clones immediately moved away, and the clone in Huo Yuhao's hand turned into bubbles and disappeared. Yu Hongzhi, in the distance, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
"It seems the death of the clone has a backlash on you."
Yu Hongzhi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and an eerie calm appeared on the scene.
"A clone that can use soul skills, substitution ability, invisibility, suspected mental power amplification, shadow binding."
"There's still a fourth soul skill that hasn't been revealed."
"What kind of trump card is it?"
Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly as he analyzed the opponent's soul skill combination.
Yu Hongzhi's hands and feet turned cold. He understood. The opponent had some kind of spatial ability, able to become intangible for a long time and distort space.
Especially since the opponent's soul rings hadn't been revealed, it meant either a soul bone skill or a martial soul characteristic.
He had met his match this time.
The eerie calm was quickly broken because Jiang Nannan left Yu Hongzhi's mental range; she had escaped the dream.
As the one who unleashed the soul skill, he naturally knew that this mission had failed.
He probably wouldn't survive either.
Thinking of this, however, Yu Hongzhi's eyes rekindled with fighting spirit.
Just as the soul master with the Blazing Bull martial soul said, "A soul master is either bleeding or on their way to bleeding."
This profession has always been a symbol of violence; dying in battle, dying while challenging the strong, is always the highest reward for a soul master.
(End of Chapter)