Gu Yue had seen this state of Huo Yuhao once before.
It was on Devil Island, where he used this very move to make those seven old Devil Heads who had lived for over a thousand years beg for mercy repeatedly.
At the time, Gu Yue had asked Huo Yuhao what kind of technique this was, and Huo Yuhao simply explained that this technique had a special effect only on Soul entities.
But now, what was closing in on them were not Soul entities, but twelve fully armed Undead knights with physical bodies.
Could this move actually work on them too?
Gu Yue was filled with doubt, but she believed that Huo Yuhao would never do anything useless. Since he chose to reveal this trump card at this moment, he must have his reasons.
Having originally prepared to disregard everything and invoke the Dragon God Origin, she silently withdrew the power in her hands. Even if Huo Yuhao's move couldn't deal with those twelve Death Knights, as long as it could buy some time, that would be good; she still had other contingencies.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao's eyes also turned into the same dead, grey color as that spirit ring. He slowly extended his right hand, and a pitch-black scepter appeared out of thin air into his palm.
Watching Huo Yuhao change his form again, a flash of surprise couldn't help but cross Pluto Douluo Harosa's grey eyes.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart again, "Just how many trump cards does this kid have?"
However, what surprised Pluto Douluo Harosa even more was that the power surging from Huo Yuhao at this moment was actually somewhat similar to his own Pluto power.
It was the same grey, and it was equally filled with the aura of death.
Could it be that Huo Yuhao was also an Evil Soul Master?
No one would give Pluto Douluo Harosa an answer!
Then, he could only see Huo Yuhao's lips moving slightly. The voice was extremely low and light, but with Pluto Douluo Harosa's Limit Douluo hearing, he could still hear it clearly.
However, the syllables that reached his ears were messy and completely devoid of any pattern. Let alone a complete sentence, he couldn't even distinguish a single clear word.
Pluto Douluo Harosa frowned deeply, and his grey eyes were churning with increasingly intense unease.
He suddenly swung the Pluto Sword in his hand and shouted, "Kill!"
Receiving their master's command, the twelve Death Knights no longer approached slowly as they had before; instead, they simultaneously erupted with terrifying strength comparable to a Super Douluo.
In the blink of an eye, they had already rushed to surround Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue, completely sealing off all their escape routes.
Twelve giant swords were raised high above their heads simultaneously, and the grey death power Binding the blades emitted a teeth-grinding hum.
At this critical moment, the grey spirit ring at Huo Yuhao's feet suddenly erupted with a dead, grey light.
That light carried a kind of desolation and annihilation, spreading out in a circular ring in all directions, silently sweeping across the entire Underworld Rebirth Domain.
Others didn't feel anything unusual, but Pluto Douluo Harosa's expression changed instantly.
The twelve Death Knights holding their longswords high around Huo Yuhao were like they had been pressed with a pause button; the giant swords remained frozen in mid-air above the two people's heads, failing to strike down.
Pluto Douluo Harosa widened his eyes, and almost blurted out in exclamation, "How is that possible?!"
This was the first time he had been so uncomposed since he appeared!
For Pluto Douluo Harosa, these Death Knights were not just his tools, but also his partners who had accompanied him for hundreds of years, and his most trusted and closest comrades-in-arms.
They would not betray, would not fear, and would not tire; they were the twelve sharpest swords in his hands.
But just a moment ago, Pluto Douluo Harosa had suddenly lost the ability to perceive his control over these twelve Death Knights, something he had never encountered before.
Huo Yuhao's voice came out calmly at this moment: "There is nothing impossible."
As he spoke, he gently waved the staff in his hand, and grey magic seals floating around his staff flew out instantly, precisely sinking into the center of the brows of those twelve Death Knights.
Subsequently, those frozen Death Knights finally moved again, but this time they did not strike the raised giant swords down at Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue; instead, they simultaneously retracted their longswords and held them vertically in front of their chests, with the sword tips pointing upward and the blades pressed against their faceplates.
And the two Undead knights facing Pluto Douluo Harosa on Huo Yuhao's side simultaneously retreated to the sides, presenting Pluto Douluo Harosa's figure to Huo Yuhao's line of sight.
The shock and anger in Pluto Douluo Harosa's grey eyes were almost overflowing from their sockets. He suddenly raised the Pluto Sword in his hand, pointing the sword tip directly at Huo Yuhao opposite him, but his hand holding the sword was shaking slightly uncontrollably at this moment.
"How is it possible? What on earth did you do?!"
He now finally confirmed one thing: he had completely lost control over these twelve Death Knights, and they were now obeying Huo Yuhao's commands.
Huo Yuhao snorted coldly: "You know nothing of the power of the Undead."
"You drive these Death Knights relying on nothing more than the Domain power of your Underworld Rebirth Domain."
"Although you are titled Pluto, you have never truly touched the Origin of the Law of death."
Gu Yue stood behind Huo Yuhao, listening to his resonant words, a trace of doubt flashing in her purple eyes.
This style of speaking was too different from Huo Yuhao's usual style; he was usually steady in his actions and rarely this overbearing.
These words were indeed not spoken by Huo Yuhao himself, but by Electrolux, who was truly controlling this body at this moment.
Just now, he had cast his self-created level 9 Necromancy — Soul Control Seal.
The effect of this magic was to forcibly drive Undead creatures. As long as they were planted with a Soul mark, the Undead creatures would unconditionally obey the caster's commands, and forcibly seizing others' control over the Undead was naturally a matter of course.
Although Pluto Douluo Harosa was strong, in front of Electrolux, the Necromancy Holy Mage, his understanding and control of the Undead were merely at an elementary school level.
Listening to these merciless words from Huo Yuhao's mouth, the shock in Pluto Douluo Harosa's eyes was gradually replaced by anger.
He had tried to reconnect with those twelve Death Knights, but those Undead knights who were once connected to his mind and were like a part of his body now had no response.
Since he couldn't take them back by force, then he might as well solve the problem at the source.
As long as he killed the caster, those stolen Undead knights would naturally return to his control.
Pluto Douluo Harosa took a deep breath, suppressing all the raging anger and restlessness in his chest.
After the consecutive surprises just now, he had already raised his regard for Huo Yuhao to the highest level.
A flash of scarlet light suddenly flickered from under his feet, intertwining with the grey battle armor on his body to create an eerie, dark red halo.
A phantom of the Pluto appeared behind him again, but this time it was not just dozens of zhang high; it surged crazily to hundreds of zhang high. This was the true Martial Soul True Body of Pluto Douluo Harosa.
The huge Pluto True Body wore a Crown of Death and held the Pluto Sword. A dense power of death poured out from this phantom like a bursting flood, completely turning the entire Domain into a kingdom of the dead where all things were annihilated.
However, this Pluto True Body did not directly strike down with its sword. Instead, in the next second, it suddenly contracted. The huge phantom of hundreds of zhang shrank rapidly at a speed invisible to the naked eye, and finally rushed into Pluto Douluo Harosa's body, completely merging with him.
Merging himself with the Pluto True Body would unleash terrifying combat power exceeding that of a Quasi-God in a short period of time!
With a ferocious anger and cold killing intent on his face, Pluto Douluo Harosa simply thrust the slender Pluto Sword in his hand forward, and his entire person disappeared from where he stood.
With the appearance of that grey spirit ring at Huo Yuhao's feet, the spatial freezing effect of the Domain of Eternal Frost had long since lost its effect.
When Pluto Douluo Harosa appeared again, he had already arrived in front of Huo Yuhao, and the Pluto Sword named "Netherworld Aria" was only inches away from Huo Yuhao's throat.
Even Electrolux could not command the twelve Death Knights to step forward to intercept at this instant; Pluto Douluo Harosa's speed was simply too fast.
However, Electrolux was not completely unprepared; while casting the Soul Control Seal just now, he had already quietly set up a level 9 defensive magic.
However, just as the Pluto Sword was about to pierce that invisible barrier, another spatial fluctuation appeared in front of Huo Yuhao without warning.
Space seemed to be torn apart instantly. Five cracks suddenly emerged between Huo Yuhao and Pluto Douluo Harosa, then expanded larger and larger, finally turning into five pitch-black rifts hundreds of meters long.
Seeing this, Gu Yue, who was behind Huo Yuhao, finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt completely at ease.
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A/N:
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