Slaughtering a Spirit Saint! A Step-by-Step Tactical Battle! The Thousand-Mile Soul-Binding Talisman!

Just as the man in black reached out his hand toward Lu Yu, Lu Yu also raised his right hand!

In an instant, his right hand was covered by a layer of dark gold gauntlets, and the golden light shrouding his body completely condensed onto his right hand. At the same time, the Heaven-Declaring Seal expanded rapidly as his first and second spirit rings lit up!

Grasping the massive golden seal in his hand, Lu Yu slammed it fiercely toward the head of the man in black!

Vajra Seal! Heavy-Thousand Seal!

A fatal sense of crisis washed over him. At the very last split second, disregarding the cost of damaging his foundational roots, the man in black lit up his seventh spirit ring and forcibly unleashed his True Spirit Avatar!

"Bang!"

Almost simultaneously as the man in black transformed into his True Spirit Avatar, the massive golden seal smashed violently against his head!

The man in black was sent flying backward, his skull shattering, brain matter splashing everywhere, and half of his head reduced to pulp!

Yet, Lu Yu had no intention of stopping. The twin wings on his back vibrated, unleashing a cyan-purple wind-and-lightning tornado that instantly tore the body of the man in black to pieces!

At the very moment before his death, the eyes of the man in black were filled with terror and disbelief.

He, a dignified soul saint of the seventh rank, was actually killed head-on by a soul master of the third rank?!

How could this be possible?!

Shaking his slightly dizzy head, although Lu Yu suffered no external injuries, his mental energy was severely depleted.

During the battle just now, he had exhausted every possible scheme and strategy to barely snatch victory.

Even though Lu Yu possessed combat capability far surpassing peers of the same level, before acquiring his fourth spirit ring, he was only confident of killing a fifth-rank spirit king. Facing a soul emperor of the sixth rank at their peak would already be difficult to win against, let alone a seventh-rank soul saint.

Especially after a soul master reaches the seventh realm, the seventh spirit ring grants a fixed True Spirit Avatar skill, bringing a qualitative transformation to their overall strength.

Once the True Spirit Avatar is deployed, a soul master's combat power multiplies exponentially!

Lu Yu first pretended to be weak, fleeing all the way to make the man in black complacent and careless.

Then, when he was caught up by the man in black, he feigned having nowhere to escape, putting on an act of making a desperate, life-or-death struggle.

From the moment Lu Yu deployed the Control Seal, the rhythm of the battle had already fallen entirely into his hands.

A continuous chain of attacks, combined with the suppression effect of the wind-and-lightning twin wings on the man in black's martial soul, successfully caught the opponent off guard!

Even though he managed to catch the man in black unawares and gained the upper hand, Lu Yu knew very well that if the man in black were to fight desperately at all costs, he still wouldn't stand the slightest chance of winning.

Therefore, he deliberately put on a frail appearance of exhausted spirit power, erupting with full force the moment the man in black approached.

That final strike combined a threefold power amplification from the right palm-bone gauntlet, the explosive focus of the Golden Light Incantation, the indestructible attribute of the Vajra Seal, plus the talent ability granting a fivefold smashing power to the Heaven-Declaring Seal martial soul...

Moreover, the man in black was already heavily injured, allowing Lu Yu to succeed in a single blow relying on the defense-breaking effect of the Heavy-Thousand Seal!

Throughout the entire battle, Lu Yu calculated every single step; a single wrong move would have meant total defeat!

Of course, even if he had ultimately failed, he still possessed one final trump card...

The God-Summoning Talisman!

The effect of this supreme talisman was immensely powerful, sufficient to go toe-to-toe against a seventh-rank soul saint head-on.

However, Lu Yu wanted to test the limits of his own abilities. Furthermore, the God-Summoning Talisman was his ultimate trump card and consumed a massive amount of mental energy, making it extremely difficult to use a second time within a short period. Who knew if he would encounter a second man in black?

Condensing a calming talisman and casting it upon himself to drastically reduce his dizziness, Lu Yu took a few steps forward, made a guiding hand gesture, and formed a pale blue talisman.

The talisman fell to the ground and instantly transformed into a blue light, merging into the residual flesh and blood scattered on the earth.

A moment later, a illusory soul shadow slowly took shape.

The Thousand-Mile Soul-Detention Talisman!

As long as this talisman was cast upon a corpse, and the soul of that corpse remained within a radius of a thousand miles, it could be instantly dragged right before Lu Yu!

As the soul shadow gradually solidified, it transformed into the appearance of a lean middle-aged man, his eyes filled with confusion and terror.

"I ask, you answer." Lu Yu's voice carried a hypnotic quality that made the middle-aged man's soul form nod involuntarily.

A moment later, Lu Yu waved his large sleeve, dispersing the effect of the Thousand-Mile Soul-Detention Talisman, and the soul form of the middle-aged man dissipated along with it.

Through the middle-aged man's soul, he had just confirmed the conjecture in his heart.

Just as he anticipated, this ambush was the handiwork of the Spirit Hall, but this middle-aged man did not know much; he merely took orders from Ghost Douro and was unaware of the specific plans and objectives of the Spirit Hall.

What was interesting was...

Before their operation, Ghost Douro had specifically instructed that unless their own lives were threatened, they should not kill members of the Heaven Dou Empire exchange delegation, and definitely should not hunt down those students.

From Lu Yu's perspective, this was Spirit Hall's attempt to provide cover for Xue Qinghe to continue hiding in plain sight!

Simultaneously, this made him even more certain of his inner suspicion...

This move by Spirit Hall was most likely to rendezvous with Xue Qinghe!

The reason this middle-aged man pursued Lu Yu was because he had suffered severe injuries in the main battlefield and fled, accidentally encountering Lu Yu and the Tianshui Academy students. Upon seeing Lu Yu's soul ring configuration that defied natural limits, he had acted on his own accord, hoping to capture Lu Yu and claim credit.

Putting away his wandering thoughts, Lu Yu stored the scattered fragments of black cloth, shredded flesh, and bones into his soul guide ring, then turned and strode back in the direction of Star Soul Canyon.

Meanwhile, inside a cave not far from where the battle between Lu Yu and the soul saint had erupted.

Shui Bing'er, standing guard at the cave entrance, let out a slight breath of relief and turned to say to the other six girls, "It looks like Lu Yu must have led that soul saint away. We're safe!"

Shui Yue'er said anxiously, "Elder sister! Lu Yu only has three rings of cultivation; how could he possibly escape the pursuit of a soul saint? Let's go save him!"

Shui Bing'er shook her head and replied, "If we go, we'll only be throwing our lives away. Besides, Stepmother said that the Heaven Dou Royal Academy likely prepared life-saving measures for Lu Yu."

Stepmother was the term she used for Shui Ningyan.

Hearing this, Shui Yue'er said no more, only lowering her head with a gloomy mood, deep in thought.

On the royal highway, luxurious carriages lay overturned in all directions, some directly smashed into splinters.

The powerhouses of the Heaven Dou Empire exchange delegation were mostly sitting on the ground leaning against the carriages, each with pale complexions and weak breathing.

In the previous fierce battle, they had initially managed to put up some resistance.

However, as time went on, they were practically beaten into a state where they had no power to fight back.

Yet, for some unknown reason, those attackers did not push for a complete massacre and suddenly withdrew.

Several eighth-rank soul douluos sat together in a circle.

During the previous battle, most of them had only sustained minor injuries, with only a single royal soul douluo perishing.

"Could their target be the geniuses of the various academies?" Meng Shenji wore a grave expression, deeply worried for Lu Yu's safety.

"Even if so, what can we do?" Shui Ningyan gave a bitter smile. How could she not worry about her own two daughters?

Yet, looking up, the sky above remained shrouded in gloom, with chilling yin winds howling.

The Title Douro who had concealed themselves within the shadows all along had still not departed, as if closely monitoring every single one of them!

Just as everyone fell into silence, three thousand meters high in the sky.

Two figures stood facing each other. One possessed six wings as thin as cicada wings on her back, shimmering with a trace of an evil aura. She was tall, with an alluring, curvaceous figure and a near-perfect face, exuding a mature charm alongside an unangered majesty.

Opposite her, Xue Qinghe hovered in the air with six pristine white wings, the fluttering of which radiated a holy and luminous aura.