At the same time, You Ya led the others from the Mingluo Sect, seizing this perfect opportunity for battle.
They no longer gave Huang Heyun, Wang Yichen, and the others any chance for long-range attrition or tactical counterattacks.
They all transformed into sharp offensives, charging fiercely toward the members of the Star Luo National Academy opposite them.
With full firepower and an absolute advantage, the members of the Mingluo Sect coordinated perfectly with sharp attacks.
Already at a disadvantage, the members of the Star Luo National Academy were instantly suppressed and forced back, lacking any power to resist.
They could only defend miserably; the situation had become completely one-sided.
Huo Yuhao ignored the scuffles of the others, his gaze always locked tightly onto the horrified and panicked Xu Jiujiu, his eyes cold and emotionless.
Before Xu Jiujiu could recover from the previous shock, the first soul ring on his body suddenly lit up, and a light containing sharp Demonic Evil Qi instantly erupted.
"First Spirit Ability: Demonic Evil Shock!"
The terrifying black Demonic Evil Qi perfectly fused with Huo Yuhao's mental force, condensing into two lightning-fast crimson beams of light.
They shot violently toward Xu Jiujiu; the speed was so fast that she had no time to react.
Xu Jiujiu's expression changed drastically as a strong sense of crisis surged in her heart.
She didn't dare to hold back at all, fully activating her spirit power and detonating the Starlight Power within her body, instantly raising a brilliant Stars Protection barrier.
Layers of silver-white starlight barriers stacked up, but even though she pushed this defensive Spirit Ability to its limit, she still couldn't block Huo Yuhao's Demonic Evil Shock, which contained dual powers.
The two crimson beams slammed into the Stars Protection barrier, followed by the sound of ear-piercing cracking.
Countless cracks instantly appeared on the solid starlight barrier, making it teeter as if it would completely shatter in the next second.
A powerful impact passed through the barrier into Xu Jiujiu's body, and a sharp surge of Demonic Evil mental force lunged straight for her Sea of Consciousness.
Xu Jiujiu felt as if her brain were being pierced by countless steel needles, or as if it were about to be blown apart; the pain was unbearable.
Her Sea of Consciousness was turned upside down by this domineering and ferocious Demonic Evil power, and her mental force fluctuated violently.
The originally stable Starlight Power instantly went out of control, no longer able to maintain the Stars Protection barrier.
Losing the support of her spirit power, Xu Jiujiu stumbled backward, her face as pale as paper.
Her entire being became unsteady, her eyes filled with pain and helplessness.
"I... I conce—"
Xu Jiujiu spoke with difficulty, wanting to admit defeat.
But before the words could fully leave her mouth, Huo Yuhao gave her no chance to breathe or beg for mercy.
The third soul ring on his body lit up instantly: "Third Spirit Ability: Soul-Devouring Curse Seal!"
A highly condensed crimson light shot through the air, landing accurately on Xu Jiujiu and branding itself directly on her forehead, slowly forming a hideous and terrifying Rakshasa Mark.
The moment the curse seal entered her body, Xu Jiujiu trembled violently, her eyes instantly covered in blood-red.
Her once clear eyes lost all luster, and she was instantly controlled by a violent Demonic Evil power, looking like a mad demon.
Extreme pain and the tearing sensation of her Soul being eroded swept through her entire body; Xu Jiujiu could no longer endure it and let out a shrill scream toward the sky.
Her voice was full of despair and agony, having completely lost the ability to resist.
Everything happened too quickly, so fast that Huang Jinxu, acting as the chief judge, had no time to react.
Within that brief moment of dead silence, Huang Jinxu finally regained his senses.
The anger and urgency in his heart surged, and he could no longer hold back, suddenly shouting as he made his move: "Stop!"
A furious roar echoed throughout the Soul Fighting Arena, causing the surrounding air to tremble slightly.
Before his voice faded, brilliant spirit ring light erupted from around Huang Jinxu.
Nine spirit rings of various colors rose slowly from beneath his feet, rhythmically pulsing around his body.
Dense and thick spirit power spread out in all directions like a tsunami.
The pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul ring in the fifth position suddenly lit up.
In an instant, sharp and cold Star Fiend Power descended from the sky.
It turned into a straight attack, mercilessly aiming for Huo Yuhao in the center of the arena.
This strike was full of Huang Jinxu's fury and full power, fast as lightning and incredibly heavy.
It was clearly intended to subdue Huo Yuhao instantly.
But just as the Star Fiend Power was about to touch Huo Yuhao's body, an ice-cold voice suddenly echoed throughout the arena.
"As the arena referee, publicly ignoring the competition rules and maliciously interfering in a fair duel between both sides—is this how the chief judge selected by the Star Luo Empire should behave?"
At the same moment the voice fell, a giant sickle wrapped in thick blood-colored Evil Qi and surrounded by dark spirit power instantly sliced through the sky.
It flew out at an incredibly precise angle, forcefully blocking the path of the Star Fiend attack.
With a deafening "boom," the blood-colored sickle and the Star Fiend Power collided violently.
A terrifying spirit power shockwave swept in all directions, and the arena floor instantly cracked into countless fine patterns.
Huang Jinxu's fifth Spirit Ability was actually blocked in mid-air by this sudden strike, unable to advance another inch.
Immediately after, Cult Leader Zhongli Wu, wearing a hideous bone hand mask and shrouded in dark spirit power, suddenly flickered like Gui Mei, appearing directly in front of Huang Jinxu without warning.
Before Huang Jinxu could react, Cult Leader Zhongli Wu's terrifying pressure at the Super Douluo level was released without reservation, crashing down like a mountain.
This pressure contained the thick spirit power unique to a Super Douluo and the dominance of years of accumulation, as if the entire space were completely frozen.
The heavy pressure locked onto Huang Jinxu, making the circulation of spirit power around his body extremely sluggish.
Under this terrifying pressure far beyond his own level, Huang Jinxu's expression instantly became extremely grave.
Fine beads of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and the light of the spirit rings around him dimmed significantly.
Huang Jinxu's body subconsciously tensed up, his entire spirit power working to resist, yet he was still pushed back step by step.
Even though Huang Jinxu was a Titled Douluo, in the face of the overwhelming strength of the Super Douluo Cult Leader Zhongli Wu, he didn't even have the slightest room to fight back.
He was suppressed so tightly he couldn't move, and a storm of shock raged in his heart.
He clearly felt the insurmountable gap in strength between the two.
At the same time that Cult Leader Zhongli Wu intervened and released his pressure, five figures with deep auras and tall statures quietly stood up almost simultaneously from the Star Luo Empire's VIP seats.
These five individuals were all surrounded by the unique aura of a Titled Douluo; each was a top-tier hidden combat power of the Star Luo Empire.
The eyes of the five were cold, and their auras instantly intertwined like five unsheathed sharp swords, simultaneously locking onto the domineering and powerful Cult Leader Zhongli Wu in the center of the arena.
If Cult Leader Zhongli Wu made even the slightest excessive move, they would not hesitate to attack together.
For a moment, the atmosphere on the arena instantly froze to the extreme.
Cult Leader Zhongli Wu stood alone against six Titled Douluo, their auras colliding and locked in a stalemate.
The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder, on the verge of exploding; the entire audience held their breath, no one daring to make a sound.
They were afraid of disturbing this confrontation between top-tier Douluo and triggering an uncontrollable war.