Chapter 190 The fiery Xing Jiaoshu was half-dead from the explosion; what exactly did Bai Yuhao use?
Meanwhile, in the dark world, within the Sun and Moon Empire.
Reminded by Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen looked at the spheres more and more and felt that the patterns and energy conduction methods of those spheres were extremely similar to soul guides.
He adjusted his monocle and continued speaking, following Kong Deming's words with a hint of unbelievable approval in his tone.
"Elder Kong, you're right, that is indeed the structure of a soul tool. The way the special metal shell and energy core are nested is completely in line with the standard of high-level soul tools."
But he quickly frowned, looking somewhat puzzled.
As a top-tier Soul Master, Jing Hongchen clearly understands the balancing logic of Soul Tools.
"But the problem is that the higher the rank of a soul tool, the more terrifyingly it extracts soul power from the user."
"To deal with a peak soul beast like Liehuo Xingjiaoshu, which is at the level of 100,000 years, even a regular level 8 soul tool can only play a restraining role. To truly injure or even defeat her, you would need at least a level 9 soul tool, right?"
Jing Hongchen looked at the young man in the sky who still only had a fifth-ring cultivation level, and his tone became puzzled:
"Huo Yuhao from the White World only has a soul power of level fifty-something. Even if he possesses a soul tool of this level, how could he possibly be able to activate it? The soul power deficit of a level nine soul tool is enough to drain a Soul Douluo dry in an instant. How could he possibly use it?"
Kong Deming was also deeply puzzled. As a level nine soul master, he was well aware of the ironclad law of conservation of energy. In his view, even Bai Xuyi could not forcibly drive a weapon three levels higher than his current soul power level.
"I can't figure it out either," Kong Deming said in a deep voice, his gaze fixed on the screen above the sky.
"We can only wait and see. The White Order must have made technological breakthroughs in soul power conversion or energy storage that are completely beyond our imagination."
[The aerial footage continues to play.]
Bai Huoyuhao did not respond to Liehuo Xingjiao's taunts. He moved again, his figure transforming into a silver afterimage, launching a new round of fierce attacks on the giant fiery red flower.
This time, his attack methods seemed to be exactly the same as before.
[A burst of black light erupted from her double pupils, and Amaterasu's black flames transformed into countless tiny fire arrows, densely covering the flame defense net surrounding Liehuo Xingjiao.]
At the same time, he unleashed the ultimate ice soul power of the Ice God Martial Soul without reservation, attempting to forcibly carve out a cold path through the fire poison.
"Useless! You think the same trick can threaten me a second time?" Liehuo Xingjiao let out a disdainful laugh. Her enormous petals suddenly closed and opened again, unleashing a shockwave of extreme fire poison that almost solidified into a tangible form.
[boom--]
The pitch-black flames were quickly extinguished by the shockwave, and the extremely cold ice was instantly vaporized into large amounts of white water vapor by the intense heat. Bai Huoyuhao continued to dodge in the aftershocks of the explosion, seemingly still in an extremely dangerous and passive situation.
[The fiery apricot blossoms handled all of this with ease.]
In her view, the human boy had exhausted all his resources and could only delay his inevitable defeat through these meaningless attacks. She focused all her senses on Huo Yuhao's soul power pathways, preparing to launch a final strike to end the battle.
However, Liehuo Xingjiao hadn't anticipated that all of Bai Huoyuhao's previous attacks, including the eruption of his Ice God Domain, were feints designed to disrupt her senses and distract her.
Just as Liehuo Xingjiao Shu relaxed her guard for a moment due to her successful defense, Bai Huoyuhao's double pupils captured a gap in the energy conversion of her core.
"Now!" Bai Huoyuhao shouted, his figure, which had been slightly weakened during the dodge, suddenly froze.
He no longer used any soul skills, but instead relied on the precise strength of his physical body to directly hurl those silver spheres at the delicate core of the Fiery Apricot flower from an extremely tricky angle.
The spheres traced cold trajectories in the air; due to the absence of soul power fluctuations, they strangely evaded the instinctive interception of the fiery apricot blossoms amidst the sea of fire.
The moment the first sphere touched the fiery red petals of the Fiery Apricot Blossom, there was no conventional explosion of soul power. Instead, a blinding, silvery-white light, generated by high-frequency vibrations and material fission, erupted.
[Boom—!!]
A dull, penetrating explosion resounded through the valley.
The spheres detonated instantly upon contact with their target, generating an "antimatter annihilation pulse" unique to the White Order. This attack wasn't aimed at the physical body, but rather at the ultimate fire elemental source within the 100,000-year-old soul beast, forcibly neutralizing and disintegrating it.
A massive, silvery-white ball of light completely engulfed the fiery apricot blossom. The once arrogant, crimson figure within the light emitted a piercing scream; her inexhaustible flames, under the onslaught of the pulses, rapidly extinguished and disintegrated like embers doused with ice water.
As the explosion subsided, a deep crater appeared on the bank of the once-hot spring.
[The enormous flower of the Fiery Apricot Blossom was badly damaged, its fiery red petals scattered all over the ground. The intense flames that had once surrounded it had become extremely dim. She... no, the entire flower, had been half-dead on the spot and was now in a state of extreme weakness.]
The people of the underworld were utterly shocked upon witnessing this scene.
This shock stemmed not only from the reversal of the battle's outcome, but also from their complete inability to comprehend the principles behind the explosion.
"How is this possible... what kind of power was that?" A Soul King screamed in disbelief on the streets of Shrek City. "That was a 100,000-year-old Soul Beast! How could it be blasted into such a state by those few small balls?"
"We didn't sense any fluctuation in soul power at all, so why was the explosion so terrifying?" People's words were filled with fear of the unknown. "What methods did Huo Yuhao from the White World use? If this kind of thing can be mass-produced, then what's the point of a Soul Master's Martial Soul?"
Meanwhile, in the Sun Moon Empire, Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen, who represent the pinnacle of soul guidance technology across the entire plane, were also bewildered by the scene before them.
"This...this isn't right."
Kong Deming's breathing became extremely rapid. He stared at the silver residual energy produced by the explosion, his eyes filled with confusion.
"If this is a soul tool, where does its energy come from? The destructive power it just unleashed has completely surpassed that of an ordinary level nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon."
"And most importantly," Jing Hongchen added, his voice trembling slightly.
"Huo Yuhao didn't expend even a tiny bit of soul power when throwing these spheres. What level of soul tool is this? How can it unleash such earth-shattering power without needing a host to drive it?"
(End of chapter)