Oslo sat at the center of the array, absorbing Xiao Wu's soul ring and soul bone, while Tianlin activated a large Holy Spirit Domain to assist him.
A major advantage of twin martial soul is that innate domains don't interfere with each other. Even while using the Demon Sword, Tianlin could open the Holy Spirit Pearl's domain. In that instant, not only did Oslo get a boost, but the Spirit Hall members were all powerfully suppressed, their soul power rapidly dissolving.
"Damn you, Jun Tianlin! You've ruined Spirit Hall's plan again!" Yan glared angrily at Tianlin—the hundred-thousand-year beast's sacrifice intercepted, all their efforts wasted for the Emperor Team's benefit.
"So what? Hundred-thousand-year beasts don't belong to anyone. Anyone can hunt them. If you're not good enough, don't blame us. You think our Emperor Team is as easy to bully as Tang San?" Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan stood before Spirit Hall's group. "You're not worthy to face Xiao Tian. We'll play with you instead."
The two joined hands. The Ice-Fire Scale Jiao and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soared, merging into a giant Ice-Fire Thunder Dragon and pounced at the Spirit Hall people.
Most of Spirit Hall's group were Soul Sages, and they could feel that the dragon's fighting power nearly matched a Soul Douluo. No one here could defeat it alone.
Fortunately, they had numbers. By ganging up, they might be able to defeat the dragon.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar!" In an instant, twenty Martial Soul Avatars appeared at once—a magnificent sight.
Soul Sages are a watershed in power precisely because of the Spirit Avatar.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Demon Sword Avatar! Third Soul Skill, Flowing Wind and Water!" Tianlin reacted faster, launching a wind-water barrier in his weapon martial soul avatar state.
The twenty Martial Soul Avatars disappeared simultaneously; this shocking event left the Soul Sages no time to react. The dragon's claws struck, crushing five people at once, and its tail swept away four more, gravely injuring them.
In just a breath, Spirit Hall's fighting power was halved.
Tianlin loved nothing more than catching enemies by surprise after they activated their Martial Soul Avatars. The opponents never knew what hit them and suffered sudden drops in power, leaving them completely exposed to attack.
The Golden Generation dared not step forward—they were only Soul Emperors, no match for the Ice-Fire Thunder Dragon.
This was fine; Tianlin didn't want to lose Hu Liena as a pawn just yet.
"This won't do. Without Martial Soul Avatars, Soul Sages are barely stronger than Soul Emperors. At this rate, we'll all be slaughtered!" Chrysanthemum Douluo shouted.
"The beast has been sacrificed anyway. Let's withdraw the Dark Eclipse and retreat—let the two divine beasts deal with the Emperor Team," Ghost Douluo suggested.
"Good!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed, but just as he tried to withdraw his soul power, Tianlin sneered, "Nice idea, but too bad—it won't work. Suppressing Demon Domain, Second Level—Suppress!"
Tianlin's Suppressing Demon Domain was similar to Sea Dragon Douluo's Dispelling Demon Domain but fundamentally different. Dispelling Demon Domain cancels the enemy's domain, preventing its use.
Suppression Domain, however, doesn't prevent use but makes it ineffective against Tianlin.
But since gaining his Martial Soul avatar, Tianlin's domain entered the second level, and its superiority became clear.
A domain suppressed by the second level can't be withdrawn, and the degree of suppression is up to Tianlin. Now, he merely made it impossible to recall the domain. Since its target wasn't Tianlin, he didn't cancel its effect.
If it were a domain with huge self-consumption, like Bibi Dong's Death Domain, keeping it active would multiply her soul power consumption.
Likewise, the Dark Eclipse is a martial soul fusion skill that consumes immense energy. Once Tianlin locked it, both Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo were frozen—helpless.
Similarly, since the domain remained, the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Blue Bull Python were also immobilized.
Tianlin alone managed to suppress four Title Douluo-level powers, plus the Martial Soul Avatars of twenty Soul Sages—a terrifying feat.
He could do this thanks to his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Heart Separation Control. If Flowing Wind and Water and Suppression Domain had conflicted, one forcibly breaking fusion, the other forcibly suppressing, the effects would have canceled each other.
But now, the skills worked perfectly together.
"Damn it, what the hell is this skill, Jun Tianlin? My soul power won't come back!" Ghost Douluo gnashed his teeth.
As a fusion skill, the Dark Eclipse's consumption was huge. If they kept it up, both would be drained dry. Then, facing the divine beasts with no soul power, they would surely die.
"Go save the two elders!" Spirit Hall's crowd shouted. They had to rescue Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo, or everyone would die.
"Want to save them? Better worry about yourselves first!" Tianlin warned.
All of Spirit Hall's attention was on Tianlin and the Ice-Fire Thunder Dragon, ignoring the other members, who had been preparing a soul skill for a long time.
"Six-in-one fusion technique—Vault of Light, Formation-Breaking Melody!"
Under Qin Ming's protection, the remaining Emperor Team members, with Ye Lingling's fusion ring, unleashed the fusion skill again. Now with Huan Yin breaking through to five rings, she could accept the six-in-one boost, and the Vault of Light was even more powerful than before.
She had been practicing this piece for years—now it was perfect.
The terrifying sound waves became tangible, turning into a pink, destructive beam that exploded among Spirit Hall's people.
At the same time, the Ice-Fire Thunder Dragon attacked with freezing volts and extreme cold flame.
With a pincer attack, all eleven remaining Soul Sages of Spirit Hall were gravely wounded.
"If Xiao Tian hadn't told me to spare some of you for Qian Renxue's sake, you'd all be corpses now. If you don't want to die, get lost." Huan Yin said coldly.
This wasn't Tianlin being a saint. He needed a reason to spare Hu Liena; if everyone else was killed and only she survived, she would be suspected. Tianlin didn't want to lose this chess piece just yet.
Since they were enemies, killing some but sparing others for old times' sake was reasonable and wouldn't make people suspect Hu Liena.
"Jun Tianlin, you bastard! I'll kill you one day—just wait!" Yan roared.
He couldn't accept it. They had lost again. At the Title Ceremony, he lost to Jun Tianlin the first time, and then at the academy tournament, Spirit Hall lost to Emperor Team again. Today, two Title Douluos, twenty Soul Sages, plus the three Soul Emperors of the Golden Generation, were once again utterly defeated by Tianlin and his team. He was truly unwilling.
"Calm down, Yan. Right now, you're no match for Jun Tianlin," Xie Yue said, restraining him. He was much calmer, knowing if they continued fighting, they wouldn't even get a chance for mutual destruction.