Sea Horse Douluo's blind box yielded Ning Rongrong, and Sea Star Douluo got Xiao Wu.
Only Sea Ghost Douluo remained, searching for Oscar for a long time but finding no trace. Instead, he was drawn by the commotion from Tang San's side, leading to a chaotic brawl.
With only a stick of incense's worth of time left, it was essentially a battle of attrition.
Under the full support buffs from Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasures Absolute Body, they adopted a "turtle shell" tactic. However, whenever an opportunity arose, they used the "Yearning Mushroom Sausage" tucked away to disperse and evade, utilizing Sea God Island's complex terrain and dense vegetation to initiate a new round of cat-and-mouse chase, aiming to stall for as much time as possible.
On Sea God Mountain, Tang Sui, who was observing the battle projected onto the sea screen, paused. With a premonition, she looked into the distance.
In the direction Tang Sui gazed, Tang San, who had lured Sea Dragon Douluo away and unleashed two consecutive ten-thousand-year spirit bone skills, coughed up a large mouthful of blood and fell heavily from mid-air. His serious gaze fixed on Sea Dragon Douluo's approaching attack as he calculated the time.
"Buzz—"
A dark vortex opened the moment Tang San was about to crash into the ground, swallowing him and vanishing from Sea Dragon Douluo's attack range before the attack could land.
"What?!"
Sea Dragon Douluo's shocked exclamation was drowned out by the deafening roar of his arms, covered in hardened dragon scales, as he swung them down.
Not far away, Ning Rongrong, whose evasive maneuvers had been exhausted, also found a dark vortex opening beneath her, sucking her in and causing Sea Horse Douluo's attack to miss.
"This is?! The power of a domain? Tang Sui's domain?!"
Sea Wanderer Douluo, who was chasing Ma Hongjun, now covered in blood, had his DNA instantly react. His sharp eyes darted over, filled with apprehension and shock.
"Tang Sui didn't participate in the assessment, did she? Could it be that food-type spirit master again? Does he still have spirit power to replicate Tang Sui's martial soul?"
Such thoughts flickered through the minds of the other Guardian Douluos who had also succeeded in 'kidnapping' their targets.
Within minutes, Oscar, who had brought his companions into the domain with the fastest speed possible, was dripping with sweat, his face deathly pale and appearing to be in great pain.
On Sea God Mountain, Poseidon, who had clearly experienced Tang Sui's power, shifted her gaze, looking at Tang Sui. Her eyes, fixed on the slight upturn of his lips, held a hint of inquiry: "It must be that food-type spirit master named Oscar who replicated your martial soul with a spirit skill."
Tang Sui turned her head, meeting Poseidon's gaze. "Precisely."
"But as far as I know, even if a spirit skill can replicate another spirit master's martial soul and spirit skills, it shouldn't be able to replicate the effect of a domain." If the domain could also be copied, then food-type spirit masters wouldn't be struggling so much on the continent; they'd be revered.
Poseidon's words implied that Tang Sui might have secretly tampered with things and helped them cheat.
Zhu Zhuqing and Bai Chenxiang couldn't help but tense up, but Tang Sui smiled calmly and explained, "Oscar's 'Painting a Tiger to Draw a Cat Mirror Intestines' can indeed only replicate martial souls. However, this is under the condition that the martial soul has not undergone mutation." Sudan Novel Network
"To be honest, my martial soul, Ling Mian, is inherently a mutated martial soul. The direction of this mutation is related to myself. One could say that each mask is a split personality of mine. The moment they appear, they possess independent thought. My domain... is not bound to me, but is inherent to the martial soul."
"In other words, Little Ao can now also use my Twin Domains, albeit a lower-quality version. Hmm..."
Thinking of the masks chattering in the mental space, Tang Sui's smile deepened.
"However, Little Ao should be in a lot of pain right now, with seven different voices in his head, and a vast amount of negative emotions polluting his mind, on the verge of collapse at any moment."
"But the benefit of self-splitting is that, including himself, there are now effectively eight individuals sharing the immense mental pollution brought on by deploying the domain."
In reality, the moment the 'kidnapping' was successful, more than eight people were already sharing the mental pollution.
This was also why the priority for 'kidnapping' was her brother and Rongrong.
Her brother's mental strength was beyond doubt. After being whipped by the upgraded domain pollution, this level of pollution was nothing, and he could withstand it head-on.
As for bringing Rongrong into it, it still involved Rongrong's Illusion Wisdom Skull.
Even if the domain could be deployed, the immense polluting power was something Oscar, who had never directly faced it, could not bear. Even with several more of him, it would be difficult.
The only way was to immediately pull her brother in the instant the domain was deployed, to transfer mental strength to him, and simultaneously have Rongrong, who possessed the Illusion Wisdom Skull, activate her Illusionary Space again.
Illusionary Space could increase allied mental strength by twenty percent and establish a mental network, allowing for telepathic connection and preventing them from getting lost in illusions.
In essence, mental pollution could also be shared.
But this didn't need to be told to Poseidon.
Tang Sui met Poseidon's scrutinizing gaze with composure.
Within the dark mental domain, Oscar shifted the entry and exit points of the domain to their pre-arranged location and then focused on dealing with the vast pollution erupting like an active volcano.
Thirteen people together bore the continuous overflow of pollution from the interconnected mental strength network.
Tang San voluntarily shouldered even more mental pollution than Oscar.
Each person, looking disheveled, had crimson blood flowing from the corners of their lips, their faces pale, and their mental strength in disarray.
They were like a fishing net cast into a pond, tenaciously forming a line before the surging dam, enduring the impact of the turbulent waves, trapping the large fish that struck the net, preventing them from flowing through the opened sluice gate.
In their previous skirmishes with the other Guardian Douluos, they had also sustained considerable injuries. Now, they were at their wit's end, only able to wait for Oscar's replicated second spirit skill, 'Kind Face,' to refresh its cooldown, allowing them to rotate spirit skills and gain some respite to struggle.
Outside, the Guardian Douluos, having lost their targets, began a carpet search for peculiar mental fluctuations and domain spatial waves with grim expressions.
But they could never have imagined that because Oscar couldn't withstand such immense mental pollution, even deploying the domain was a huge burden on his spirit power, barely manageable even with Tang Sui's second spirit skill and the help of Ning Rongrong and Tang San.
After forcing himself to deploy the domain on a large scale to incorporate his companions, he could now only maintain a fist-sized entry and exit point, stubbornly hidden in the shadows of a corner of the city, praying for time to pass quickly.
Otherwise, they would be caught like fish in a barrel.
Another, faster possibility was that they would exhaust their strength prematurely, be trapped within the domain with no strength left to escape, and have to wait for Tang Sui to rescue them.
However, doing so might lead to Tang San and the others' assessment being directly ruled as a failure.