"Aren't you going to the front?" Tang Wulin asked in confusion.
"The front?" Gu Yue's tone was strange. "I'll go to the back in a bit."
"The back?" Tang Wulin was dazed... Information about the terrorist attack had been exposed, and under the Tang Sect's encirclement, the Green Skeleton was retreating rapidly.
A command came through the earpiece: "Green Skeleton members are abandoning the frontal engagement and beginning to retreat. Intercept them!"
"Keep all these damn bastards here!"
The Green Skeleton members, who had been attacking fearlessly and fiercely, seemed to receive a signal. They instantly turned around and fled frantically.
The people from the Battle Soul Hall immediately gave chase.
Suddenly, with a "whoosh," a dark shadow leaped from inside the theater to the highest point.
It blocked the way between the two sides.
"What a pity, I originally planned to do something big. Consider yourselves lucky."
"Taste a seventh-rank fixed soul guidance cannon shell!" The person laughed maniacally. "Bury everyone!"
This person had a total of seven spirit rings rising around him and was wearing Two-Word Battle Armor.
He was the leader of this terrorist attack.
Since he dared to appear openly and speak so arrogantly, it meant the soul guidance cannon shell had already been set up.
Terrifying Soul Power fluctuations instantly swept through the entire underground space, even the air trembled slightly. The fighters of the Battle Soul Hall's faces changed drastically, and they stopped their pursuit one after another, their faces showing terror.
A burst of noise came through the earpiece, and Black One's voice carried a hint of urgency: "It's a seventh-rank fixed soul guidance cannon shell! Everyone! Protect the civilians!"
A shell was fired toward the theater.
Once a seventh-rank fixed soul guidance cannon shell like this exploded, let alone the theater...
...the surrounding area within a diameter of several thousand meters would be turned into ruins.
Looking at the shell flying straight toward them, everyone's scalp tingled.
Intercept it? It was useless; the explosion range was too large.
Protect the people? There wasn't enough time.
They didn't even know if they themselves would survive.
At this critical moment, a golden light and shadow abruptly appeared in front of the shell.
That light and shadow was as fast as Teleportation, barely managing to block the space between the shell and the theater.
"Xia Xi, illuminate it!"
Arthur could have frozen it himself, but he still had to find something for Xia Xi to do; he couldn't let the child stay idle.
Xia Xi, atop his head, opened her vertical pupil. A seven-colored beam of light, like a precision scalpel, directly enveloped the seventh-rank fixed soul guidance cannon shell that was emitting terrifying fluctuations.
It blocked the complex internal detonation device.
The Green Skeleton leader's smile remained unchanged. "Ridiculous."
Soul Masters' Spirit Abilities were varied, of all types. The manufacture of soul guidance cannons naturally took these factors into account.
The curve of his lips became increasingly maniacal. "Hahaha, you all must die!"
Finally, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers, mouthing the word: "Bang!"
As the words fell, the spirit rings around him suddenly lit up, and the light on his Two-Word Battle Armor flickered as he led the organization members to evacuate quickly.
Xia Xi's seven-colored beam was still firmly locking onto the shell, but as the leader's snap fell, the patterns on the shell's casing suddenly lit up with an eerie red light and exploded directly!
A terrifying shockwave instantly swept out, and the scorching air current, like a roaring giant beast, tore everything apart.
Arthur frowned slightly and gave a cold snort.
Two-Word Battle Armor instantly covered his entire body.
The golden light became even more brilliant.
In an instant, he closed in on the explosion, holding the Holy Lance.
The golden light at the tip of the spear surged. Instead of defending, he boldly thrust it into the rolling flames.
The Holy Lance and Xia Xi's seven-colored beam echoed each other, and a strange binding force centered on the spear tip, spreading frantically in all directions.
The explosive fluctuations that were enough to tear everything apart actually came to a dead halt under this force. The flames solidified into a crimson barrier, and the shockwave turned into visible ripples, frozen in mid-air.
Even for a seventh-rank soul guidance cannon shell, all its reactions were firmly fixed within inches by Arthur, unable to affect the outside world in the slightest.
Finally, the explosion ended.
The entire shell only exploded within less than a meter of air. Not even a single spark managed to splash out.
Whether it was the Battle Soul Hall or the Green Skeleton people, they were all dumbfounded.
The fighters of the Battle Soul Hall were slack-jawed, forgetting to grip the weapons in their hands.
The Green Skeleton people were moved to tears of terror and fled even more frantically.
However, Arthur did not give chase.
Everyone only saw the light and shadow in the sky vanish.
"That must be Brother Arthur..." Tang Wulin knew who it was with one guess; it was too obvious. "Don't you think so, Gu Yue? Eh, Gu Yue?"
He turned to look, but Gu Yue, who had been standing beside him just a moment ago, was already gone... The Green Skeleton members fled back to their lair in Star Luo City, an abandoned spirit tool workshop.
The workshop was dark and damp, filled with rusty parts.
The leader burst in and took off the skeleton mask on his face, revealing a hideous, twisted face.
He looked at the remnants of his defeated troops behind him and couldn't help but roar, "A bunch of useless trash! You couldn't even blow up a theater!"
The subordinates were as quiet as cicadas in winter; no one dared to respond.
They still hadn't recovered from the shock. Arthur's feat of forcibly suppressing a seventh-rank fixed soul guidance cannon shell had already exceeded their understanding.
"Leader, what... what do we do next?" a thin and small Green Skeleton member asked with a trembling voice. "The Tang Sect must have their eyes on us now, and that person..."
The leader's eyes were sinister. He slammed the table suddenly, making the spirit tool parts on the table rattle. "The operation failed. Let's pull out of Star Luo City."
As soon as he finished speaking, the iron door of the workshop was suddenly kicked open.
A piercing sound of metal scraping rang out, and a figure wearing silver-white battle armor stood at the door.
What kind of figure was that?
Silver-white battle armor covered the entire body, with faint purple-gold patterns flowing on the armor plates.
Moonlight slanted in through the damaged skylight, reflecting a cold luster off the armor.
The battle armor outlined a tall and slender figure, with the pauldrons slightly raised, carrying an innate nobility. Even just standing there quietly, she was like an unsheathed sharp sword, her brilliance fully revealed.
Even with her face covered by the battle armor, one could feel that beneath the helmet must be a cold and beautiful face.
It was Gu Yue, who had rushed over.
one-word battle armor, Moon!
Her eyes swept over the panicked Green Skeleton members in the workshop; there was not a single ripple in her gaze.
With a light tap of her toe on the ground, her figure lunged into the workshop like a ghost.
"Retreat?" Gu Yue's voice came through the battle armor's mask. "Why don't you stay and become my contribution points instead?"
...By the time the Battle Soul Hall received the message and rushed over, the battle was already over.
The iron door of the workshop hung crookedly on its frame, and Green Skeleton members lay scattered all over the floor, each one tied up tightly, without even the strength to struggle.
Gu Yue stood in the center of the workshop. The purple-gold patterns on the silver-white battle armor had dimmed. She was stepping on an enemy, her hand firmly gripping the neck of the Spirit Saint leader.
Her eyes under the battle armor glanced at the arriving crowd, her gaze lingering slightly on Black One without any extra emotion: "Battle finished. Yellow Seven has completed the mission."
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