Black and gold, two incompatible lights, mixed together. Soon, that black soul ring seemed to be assimilated, transforming into gold during the release process.
The golden light shone brilliantly, and the phantom behind Xue Qinghe moved silently forward. Xue Qinghe himself quickly merged with that Angel Phantom, his entire being, including his skin and hair, rendered in pure gold. The clothes on his body were purified and vanished within that gold, and dazzling golden flames of light wrapped around his body, like an angel descending to the mortal world. Even the other six soul rings on his body were rendered gold at this moment.
On the two pairs of snow-white wings behind Xue Qinghe, gold spread from the roots all the way to the tips of every feather.
With a tearing sound, another pair of wings opened from his back, and the true form of the Six-Winged Angel fully manifested under the effect of the Seventh Soul Ring, the Spirit Avatar. Xue Qinghe's aura suddenly expanded as if it were overwhelming the sky and earth. Having released his Spirit Avatar, his true combat power approached that of a Titled Douluo.
Xue Qinghe stretched his arms out to both sides of his body, his whole person hanging in the air like a cross. He tilted his head back, and a melodious, long whistle erupted from his mouth. In an instant, the golden light bursting from his body expanded at a speed invisible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, it had encompassed most of the Chamber, and Yun Ming was directly shrouded within it.
Situated within that golden light, the first thing Yun Ming felt was immense pressure coming from all directions, and his sight and hearing were restricted to a small range. It was as if he had arrived in another world, and the master of this world was Xue Qinghe.
The feeling of his soul power being purified and dissolved appeared again, and this time, the sensation was even more intense than before. Yun Ming judged that even among the many domains, this Angel Domain could be considered a relatively powerful ability.
Perhaps seeing that the ability was finally effective against Yun Ming, Xue Qinghe said loudly.
"Now you understand, the greatness of the angels!"
Hearing Xue Qinghe's surround-sound effect, he was even putting on an act; would Yun Ming allow him to show off so unscrupulously? That was certainly not going to happen. He didn't particularly like showing off, and he equally disliked others showing off in front of him.
Yun Ming looked through the golden holy light, the Lapis Light in his eyes shining brightly, and said leisurely.
"Some angels are great, but whether that includes you is hard to say."
As he spoke, the previously stable Angel Domain began to fluctuate violently, the holy light flickering on and off. Xue Qinghe sensed the powerful suppression being exerted on his domain from the outside.
Xue Qinghe's expression changed drastically. He remembered that although Yun Ming hadn't targeted him with his Fifth Soul Skill earlier, he had been within Yun Ming's domain the entire time.
His soul power erupted fully as he tried to stabilize the domain while simultaneously launching an attack, attempting to affect Yun Ming.
Xue Qinghe transformed into a golden figure and charged violently toward Yun Ming. Seeing that he had a new trick, Yun Ming stopped; he wanted to see what other moves Xue Qinghe had.
As the attack arrived, Yun Ming reacted immediately, wielding the Atlas Spear and thrusting it forward. As the two crossed, Yun Ming was shocked to find that the Atlas Spear struck the golden figure without any sensation of touching a solid object. The golden figure that swept past him also brought with it a sense of spiritual impact. Although he was in a state of Void, his Spiritual Power and soul power still dropped slightly.
The opponent's ability felt like a mutated version of Yun Ming's First Soul Skill derivative, Void. His Void was biased toward defense, capable of immunizing against physical and energy attacks, while the upper limit of Xue Qinghe's move was unknown and biased toward offense.
This move of Xue Qinghe's was called Angel Descent, a secondary evolution skill of the Angel Domain. Its specific ability was to allow his own soul power to combine with the holy energy within the domain to condense golden angels that carried a stun effect with every attack.
Seeing that although Yun Ming had been hit by the stun effect, he was unharmed, Xue Qinghe refused to believe it. He added a golden flame sword to each hand, his six wings flapping, and charged at Yun Ming again.
Seeing the Sacred Twin Swords slashing in a cross, Yun Ming raised his spear again, only this time, a touch of white light was added to the spear.
"Clang—"
The spear and swords collided, emitting a sound. It would have been normal, but this time, the long swords in Xue Qinghe's hands were completely energized, yet they were still blocked by Yun Ming's spear, which was abnormal. He exclaimed in shock.
"How is this possible?"
Since breaking through to Soul Saint a few months ago and developing this domain evolution skill, he had never seen anyone be able to block it. She Long and Ci Xue, as Titled Douluos, couldn't block it, so why could Yun Ming do it again and again?
Regarding Xue Qinghe's question, Yun Ming explained.
"Energy attacks just need to be blocked with energy."
Yun Ming explained it, but Xue Qinghe could not accept it. Did Titled Douluos lack soul power or something? Their energy couldn't block it, but Yun Ming's energy could; was that the key to the problem?!
Of course, Yun Ming wasn't talking nonsense. The essential difference between why he and the other two Titled Douluos produced different results when blocking with energy lay in the intensity level and attributes of the energy they used.
Energy attacks need to be blocked with energy, but Xue Qinghe's holy soul power had the ability to dissolve energy. Therefore, to counter holy soul power, one's soul power quality must be high enough, or it must have attributes that restrain holy soul power. Yun Ming's Space Restriction White Flame could block it mainly because of its high energy quality and the fact that the space restriction attribute was relatively stable, which led to the current result. The two Titled Douluos Xue Qinghe had fought possessed neither, so of course, they couldn't block it.
"Ding ding ding ding—"
Xue Qinghe slashed repeatedly with his twin swords, attacking Yun Ming like a raging sea. The Atlas Spear in Yun Ming's hand flew up and down, nonchalantly blocking all the slashes. No matter how fast Xue Qinghe's sword speed was or how strange his sword paths were, he couldn't cross the line by even a step.
Xue Qinghe became more manic the more he fought, while Yun Ming became more bored.
After receiving dozens of his swords, Yun Ming saw that he seemed to be at his wit's end and lost interest in continuing, so he said.
"That's enough, it's time to end this."
Suddenly, a massive energy fluctuation erupted from Yun Ming's body. Its momentum was so great that it surpassed everyone present, even the four Titled Douluos, who were all inferior to it.
On the other side, the four Douluos who were fighting sensed the change on Yun Ming's side, stopped their movements, and turned their heads in unison to look at the battlefield between Yun Ming and Xue Qinghe.
The next moment, they saw Xue Qinghe's Angel Domain wrapped in a layer of lapis-colored energy, slowly being suppressed, and the range of the Angel Domain was constantly compressed.
Fifty meters. Forty meters. Twenty meters. Ten meters. Finally, it reached a critical point, and large swaths of gold shattered in response. It was like a disk unable to withstand high pressure, covered in cracks, and finally turning into pieces of golden fragments. Each fragment then shattered into countless Golden Light Dots, disappearing into the air just like that, causing the originally dazzling sky to return to its proper color.
The Angel Domain shattered, and two figures appeared in mid-air simultaneously.
Yun Ming was still the same Yun Ming; except for his slightly wrinkled clothes, he was no different from before, but Xue Qinghe was not so lucky.
Although he tried his best to stretch the four wings on his back that had recovered to control his body, thick blood still flowed continuously from his nostrils like two small red snakes, and purple-black blood also flowed from the corners of his mouth.
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