Spirit bone skill: Spiritual Shock Burst, the spirit bone skill of a Star Luo royal family inheritance spirit bone, the seventy-thousand-year Intimidation Skull of Spiritual Rampage.
Once activated, it instantly converts spirit power into spiritual power for a large-area attack that ignores friend and foe. Those hit suffer a violent spiritual shock. The actual effect depends on the relative strength of both sides' spiritual power.
If the target's spiritual power is less than half of the user's, the soul will be directly annihilated.
If the target's spiritual power is weaker but within a factor of two, it becomes a spiritual impact, inflicting spiritual damage while hindering the opponent's consciousness.
If the target's spiritual power is stronger than one's own, the user suffers spiritual backlash.
There is no doubt that Dai Tao, a level 95 Titled Douluo who also possessed a seventy-thousand-year head spirit bone, had slightly higher spiritual power than Chu Chengzhou, now a level 79 Spirit Sage, and was also a shade stronger than Xiao Hei, whose age had reached one hundred and ten thousand years.
The Dark Devilgod Tiger is not a spiritual-type soul beast. A hundred-thousand-year non-spiritual-type soul beast overwhelms most Titled Douluo not by spiritual power, but by a powerful body, vast spirit power, and innate skills with great might that scale with age.
In addition, limited by Xiao Hei's bloodline level, while its overall strength surpassed the Netherworld White Tiger that Dai Tao unleashed, its spiritual power was still a touch weaker.
Of course, the gap in spiritual power among Dai Tao, Xiao Hei, and Chu Chengzhou was not large. Control was possible, but the duration would be very short. So short that Dai Tao, whose normal state was only that of an ordinary level 95 Titled Douluo, might not be able to finish off a "fully armed" Chu Chengzhou.
Furthermore, Spiritual Shock Burst had a very obvious flaw. It did not distinguish between friend and foe.
For these two reasons, Dai Tao had not used this move on Chu Chengzhou earlier.
Otherwise, if Chu Chengzhou was not killed yet allies with weaker spiritual power were, the loss would be enormous.
One second after the ghostly blue radiance bloomed, Dai Tao, with spirit power raging through him, flew to within a bit over a hundred meters of Chu Chengzhou, and Xiao Hei's consciousness recovered.
Two seconds later, the distance between the two shrank to just over twenty meters.
At two and a half seconds, Dai Tao, his whole body surging with violent spirit power, clamped his arms tightly around Chu Chengzhou.
At the same time, Chu Chengzhou's consciousness returned to normal.
But in that very instant, the raging spirit power in Dai Tao's body reached its peak.
Staring at Chu Chengzhou trapped in his grip, Dai Tao's slightly aged face was filled with madness.
Dai Tao knew Chu Chengzhou was very strong. Though his spirit power level was not high, his spiritual power was not much weaker than Dai Tao's. His spirit bone skill could not restrain him for long.
Now his wife was dead, and he had already lost the Martial Soul Fusion Technique: Netherworld White Tiger. If he missed this chance and Chu Chengzhou reacted, he would never be a match for Chu Chengzhou and his two summoned spirits.
Then not only would he die, but the Empire and the White Tiger Clan would be destroyed by Chu Chengzhou's hands.
For the Empire's survival and the White Tiger Clan's continuation, even if his body were to be shattered, he would drag Chu Chengzhou down the road to the Yellow Springs.
And without this great enemy Chu Chengzhou, the Empire might still perish in the future, but the White Tiger Clan would not be without a chance to endure.
Even without a top expert to hold the fort, with the inheritance of the top beast martial soul, White Tiger, as long as the White Tiger bloodline did not die out, one day they would surely rise again, and the Star Luo Empire would once more stand tall upon the continent.
"May my White Tiger ever prosper!"
Dai Tao shouted hysterically.
At the instant his shout rang out, a gigantic platinum-white mushroom cloud blossomed in the night sky outside Heaven Dou City.
Boom.
In that moment, the night sky lit up again.
The violent spirit power explosion directly swallowed Chu Chengzhou's figure.
In an instant, as his consciousness had just returned, Chu Chengzhou saw the protective divine light shrouding his body shatter, and the spirit power flower above his head wither.
Blossom in an Instant, this defensive technique, was of high grade, theoretically on par with a million-year defensive spirit skill.
But the strength of a technique or spirit skill scales directly with a spirit master's spirit power level. The technique was good, but Chu Chengzhou's current level 79 Spirit Sage spirit power dragged him down badly.
After all, this was the final strike unleashed at the cost of his life by a level 95 Titled Douluo. Its power was no weaker than the ninth strong-attack spirit skill of ninety thousand years used by a level 97 or even 98 Titled Douluo.
However, the protective divine light formed by Blossom in an Instant was not paper-thin. It bought him a split second.
At the critical moment, without hesitation, Chu Chengzhou activated the spirit bone skill of the Crystal Aegis left arm spirit bone: Crystal Body.
The violent spirit power explosion instantly warped the Nine Heavens Profound Spirit Armor on Chu Chengzhou, which was forged of soul-tempered Ling Gold.
But just as the explosive force was about to act on his body, at the key moment, a faint blue, crystal-like radiance spread over Chu Chengzhou's form.
At once, the surging, violent energy from outside was all blocked by that faint blue crystalline glow on his surface.
Spirit bone skill: Crystal Body. When activated, it can block all physical and energy attacks below god-level for three seconds.
Inside Heaven Dou City.
On the top of a tall building, Qian Renxue, looking a bit grimy and dusty, gazed toward the distant Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
Behind and to the side of Qian Renxue stood She Long, looking thoroughly bedraggled.
At this moment, Qian Renxue felt a little excited.
With victory already decided on Chu Chengzhou's side, if things also went smoothly for her, tonight's plan would conclude perfectly, and the years of effort she had invested would finally bear fruit.
Compared to the excited Qian Renxue, She Long felt indignant and full of resentment.
When misfortune comes, even cold water cracks your teeth. He had not believed that before, but now he did.
The number of Star Luo experts attacking tonight was somewhat beyond earlier expectations. Noticing it might exceed control, Young Master Qian Renxue, worried about her little lover, immediately took him outside the city to support.
But not long after they set out, the battle outside the city reversed. Chu Chengzhou erupted and cut down several Star Luo experts in a row, and the crisis was resolved. The two had made a trip for nothing.
That in itself was nothing. A wasted trip did not cost much.
But as they were about to return to Heaven Dou City, an accident occurred. They just happened to run into Dugu Bo, who was heading out to watch the fun.
And somehow, the man who in his impression was called the weakest Titled Douluo on the continent, Dugu Bo, turned out to be absurdly strong. In less than twenty exchanges, She Long almost had his Martial Soul True Body blown apart.
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