The words of the Platinum Priest Molotov caused Flander's eyes, hidden behind his rigid square glasses, to narrow slightly.
"The power of the vampires hidden within this city seems to extend far beyond what's outwardly apparent."
During his previous nighttime infiltration of the city lord's mansion, Flander had not only used his thermal imaging soul tool to pinpoint the location of the secret chamber, but the soul power fluctuation detection function embedded in the tool had also allowed him to roughly determine the soul power levels of the evil soul masters
gathered there. Flander was certain that none of the evil soul masters in the underground chamber possessed a soul power level exceeding eighty, and at most only two had a level exceeding seventy. Based solely on the strength of the soul masters, the allied forces should hold an absolute advantage. However, Flander couldn't ignore Molotov's warning, because he himself could feel the subtle, oppressive atmosphere permeating the city.
Although Flander's sensitivity to such crises wasn't as high as Molotov's, who possessed a unicorn spirit, due to his spirit attribute, even a Soul Master like Oschin could sense danger to some extent through his active and powerful mental energy. How could Flander, a Soul Douluo, not do the same?
"The Spirit Hall has an Angelic Descent Array that effectively counters the power of these evil spirit masters, so the source of this sense of crisis is most likely not the spirit masters themselves.
Could it be that red light? Yes, only that kind of power that makes me feel so oppressed even from being merely affected can contend with the divine power of the Spirit Hall's six-winged angels.
Forget it, I won't think about it too much. This operation is mainly for those Spirit Hall guys. If things really develop beyond my capabilities, I can only protect myself first."
Old Zhao, you and Old Li must ensure we can evacuate Hulan Motuo City at any time.
—Flander
Don't worry, there won't be any problems. When
Zhao Wuji
received Flander's message, he was in a high-class inn in the northern district of Hulan Motuo City with his teachers, Li Yusong and Lu Qibin. That morning, after disguising himself and concealing his soul power fluctuations with a soul tool, Zhao Wuji returned to Hulan Motuo City without incident.
After meeting up with Li Yusong, Zhao Wuji didn't waste the morning. The three of them set up several interesting traps along the road between the city lord's mansion and the north city wall. With these traps, Zhao Wuji was confident he could temporarily escape the clutches of the Title Douluo.
Time passed, and the Spirit Hall members, reminded by the Platinum Priest, abandoned their relaxed attitude and began dispatching soul masters to search the entire city. They wanted to find as many hidden methods or soul master forces as possible from the evil soul masters before nightfall.
The Spirit Hall believed that the evil soul masters were most likely to make their move at the moment night fell. The more comprehensive the information the Spirit Hall had before then, the more prepared they could be.
However, would the evil spirit master organization, which had been operating in Hulan Motuo City for many years and had only recently revealed its true colors, really act as the Spirit Hall Allied Forces expected?
The answer was, of course, no. It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun's rays were beginning to wane. Most of the common people in Hulan Motuo City, who lived a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, were making their final purchases in the streets, making the city bustling with activity.
But at this time, the City Lord's Mansion was shrouded in silence. The servants of the City Lord's Mansion, who had appeared no different from ordinary people before, were now gathered in the City Lord's Mansion's training ground like soulless puppets.
Waves of ultrasonic waves, unbearable to the ears of ordinary humans, echoed above the City Lord's Mansion. Thousands of vampire bats, their blood-red eyes wide open, awaited something in the shaded areas of the various buildings.
The City Lord of Hulan Motuo City, the master of this mansion, slowly donned a dark red hooded robe and once again entered the underground chamber that Flander had previously explored.
Here, there were over a hundred hundred hundred-year-old vampire bats and five thousand-year-old vampire bats. Most importantly, there were also ten human soul masters dressed in dark red robes.
If Flander could see this, he would probably be very surprised, because at least five of these ten people had auras stronger than the city lord, who was already a level 69 Soul Emperor. In other words, there were at least five Soul Saints here.
The city lord's entry was like a signal. Eleven evil soul masters dressed in dark red hooded robes stepped on the mysterious patterns on the ground and formed a circle around a blood-red statue with a human body and bat wings.
Soul power, like blood, exuded an ominous aura and poured into the blood-red statue. The originally dormant statue seemed to come alive at this moment. An invisible and terrifying aura slowly enveloped the space, which was like an underground cavern. The vampire bats in the space first fell silent for a moment, and then all of them seemed to fall into a frenzy. Various kinds of sound waves kept rebounding in this narrow underground space.
As the invisible aura spread, the vampire bats throughout the City Lord's Mansion quickly descended into a frenzy. In an instant, both ultrasonic waves, indistinguishable to the average human ear, and normal sound waves, permeated the entire mansion.
Before the Spirit Hall allied forces monitoring the City Lord's Mansion could react, Oschin, perched on a hilltop outside the city, realized something was amiss. His
ultrasonic soul-guided device, set up around the mansion, collected the frenzied sound waves emitted by the vampire bats and alerted him.
"Quick, something seems to be happening in the city. Fatty, notify the Dean immediately!"
Seeing through his binoculars that the Spirit Hall allied forces in the city seemed oblivious to the anomaly in the City Lord's Mansion, Oschin adjusted his binoculars to get a clear view and immediately instructed Ma Hongjun to inform Flander to prepare.
"A blood mist spreading outwards from the central training ground of the City Lord's Mansion"—this was the scene that appeared on the soul-guided display screen in the treehouse after Oschin pointed his binoculars at the mansion.
"What's going on?" Before Dai Mubai could even voice his question, the Shrek Seven Devils, gathered in the treehouse, noticed that the blood mist in the City Lord's Mansion had suddenly coalesced into a towering crimson pillar of light.
Realizing what was happening, Oschin adjusted the telescope's angle and magnification again. This time, the soul-guided display screen encompassed the entire city of Hulan Motuo, twenty kilometers away.
Through this god-like perspective, those far from Hulan Motuo could clearly see that besides the crimson pillar of light in the City Lord's Mansion, there were four other pillars of light within the city. These five beams had now converged, enveloping the entire city in a crimson light membrane.
Oschin tried to contact Flander and Zhao Wuji in the city, but the crimson light membrane interfered with the soul-guided device's communication signals.
The Platinum Priest of the Spirit Hall had completed his Spirit Possession and led a group of allied Spirit Masters with Spirit Power levels reaching level 70 into the sky. While searching for the evil Spirit Masters, they also did their best to calm the panicked citizens of the city.
However, after such meticulous preparation, how could the evil Spirit Masters allow the Spirit Hall to so easily quell the chaos in the city?
Once the crimson light membrane stabilized completely, the beam of light emitted from the city lord's mansion suddenly burst forth with a chilling brilliance. When the light subsided, a dark red, menacing bat with a wingspan exceeding ten meters floated above the city.
The city of Hulan Motuo, shrouded in the light membrane, began to plunge into darkness after the bat gently flapped its wings.
Before the telescope's view was completely cut off by darkness, Oschin saw countless civilians convulsing and collapsing to the ground. The platinum priest's expression suddenly turned ferocious, his lips moving as if he were speaking.
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