Once the Invincible Golden Body activated, all attacks of any level became completely ineffective. Internal strength doubled. Duration: three seconds. For every ten levels of Soul Power gained, the duration of invincibility and strength amplification increased by one second.
Three seconds seemed short, but in many situations, it could be the crucial key to victory. The brief duration of this fourth Soul Skill was offset by its powerful effect. Against any attack, it provided three seconds of invincibility. That gave Xiao Wu ample time to close the distance.
Her long hair wrapped around the opponent's neck as her body flickered behind Dai Weisi. Dai Weisi clapped both palms backward in a counterstrike, meeting the final second of the Invincible Golden Body head-on. The violent rebound left his palms tingling with numbness.
Tang San had told Xiao Wu long ago that he didn't like watching her use her own body to entangle opponents — she was a girl, after all. Because of that, Xiao Wu's Soft Technique had already evolved considerably. The braided hair coiled around Dai Weisi's neck tightened sharply. Having slipped behind him, she planted one foot on the ground and drove the other into the small of his back.
First Soul Skill — Waist Bow — activated.
Xiao Wu's entire body tensed within the golden glow, and in the next instant, she exploded with full force.
Under the effect of the Invincible Golden Body, her strength had doubled. Combined with the doubling from Waist Bow, the power erupting from that slender-looking frame was terrifying. Even a Soul Master around the sixtieth rank, once caught in her grip like this, would have no chance of resisting.
Dai Weisi's body was launched like a cannonball, slamming straight into his companions.
And just then, amid a tiger's roar, Dai Mubai finally moved. Three blasts of White Tiger Blazing Light Wave erupted from his mouth, and under the amplification of White Tiger Diamond Transformation, they forcibly blocked the Soul Skill releases from the remaining Star Luo Academy Soul Masters.
But strangely enough, from the start of the match until now, the Shrek Seven Devils had shown no intention of charging forward on the offensive.
Another beam of light shot from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda — attack power amplification. A total of two beams now converged on Zhu Zhuqing alone.
With a deafening clang, Zhu Zhuyun was sent flying backward under the force of Zhu Zhuqing's suddenly amplified cat-claw strikes. Her face had turned extremely ugly. She wasn't losing to Zhu Zhuqing alone — she was losing to the combination of Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong.
The Shrek Seven Devils had always operated as one. Even now, with both sisters covered in wounds, they remained perfectly matched.
"Seven Devils — Uproar!" Tang San's steady voice rang out. He had been gathering force all this time, and now he finally made his move. His left foot stepped forward as his right fist, surging with dark blue light, hammered down toward the ground.
At the same time, in Oscar's hands, four Excitement Pink Sausages were tossed out, landing one each in the hands of Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun. While Tang San had been charging up, Oscar had naturally continued crafting sausages without pause.
A faint glow flickered, and a fierce, commanding light surfaced on Tang San's face as dark blue radiance exploded from his fist in an instant.
Dai Weisi, flung by Xiao Wu's throw, had completely lost control of his body. It took the combined effort of three of his partners to catch him. And at that very moment, time seemed to freeze.
Boom — hissss —
Accompanied by strange, otherworldly sounds, a ring of dark blue light silently expanded outward with the Star Luo Academy team at its center. When the blue halo reached its maximum spread, countless stalks of Blue Silver Grass erupted from the ground within that ring, launching every member of the Star Luo Academy team into the air.
Before the crisis struck, the Star Luo Academy team members had only managed to release their Soul Skills to protect themselves. Of the seven, only Zhu Zhuyun was at a distance — the other six were clustered almost together.
The defense held. But the Blue Silver Grass that had pierced them skyward carried a peculiar vibrational force. All seven members of the Star Luo Academy team fell into a brief state of dizziness.
Thousand Hand Asura Tang San — fourth Soul Skill, Blue Silver Prison variant ability — Blue Silver Thorn Formation, activated.
This was the result of Tang San's painstaking research. In practice, the Blue Silver Prison worked by having Blue Silver Grass suddenly surge from beneath the ground to trap opponents inside a cage. If that was the case, then what would happen if he channeled all his Soul Power into releasing Blue Silver Grass from the ground simultaneously?
These Blue Silver Grass stalks that formed the Blue Silver Prison were extraordinarily tough. Weaker opponents would be pierced straight through, and even stronger ones couldn't escape such a wide-area attack.
Through relentless experimentation, Tang San had discovered that when his Soul Power was condensed to a sufficient degree, the Blue Silver Thorn Formation could produce a brief dizziness effect. The duration of this effect varied depending on the opponent's strength.
But even the strongest opponent would be stunned for at least one second.
This discovery led Tang San to devote tremendous effort to studying this Soul Skill. After all, this was a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring's ability — how could it be simple? The Blue Silver Prison itself already carried a dizziness effect, but it only triggered when an opponent broke free from the cage, and the effect was extremely faint. However, when massive numbers of Blue Silver Prisons detonated simultaneously, the dizziness effects stacked, becoming immediately and powerfully apparent.