224 Suppressed and Restrained

A strange energy emanated from their bodies. Zhou Tian’er’s first soul ringlit up as she raised her hand. Vines appeared from beneath the two sisters,wrapping around their legs and waist before rapidly dragging them backwards,instantly opening a wide gap between them and Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin reacted without thinking; Bluesilver Grass shot out as he activatedBind and charged ahead whilst he himself followed behind.

To one side Xie Xie had reached Wang Dongqi.

Rather than retreating, Wang Dongqi stepped forward to welcome him with anewly manifested sword in hand.

Silver lightning ran in jagged lines along the length of the sword’s violetblade, enshrouding it with an aura of magnificence.

A simple slash of her sword sent a bolt of silver lightning at Xie Xie.

Xie Xie gathered strength within his legs and forcefully leapt off the groundand into the air, evading the lightning bolt while simultaneously closing thedistance between them

Unlike Wu Zhangkong’s Skyfrost Sword and Ye Xinglan’s Stargod Sword, WangDongqi’s Thunderflash Sword used soul power to enhance its lightning-attributesoul skills rather than the sword itself.

She raised her Thunderflash Sword high into the air, calling down a storm oflightning snakes around her.

This was her second soul skill, Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakes.

Wang Dongqi looked down upon Xie Xie. Although he had two rings at the youngage of ten, she felt he couldn’t possibly compare with her. Three rings was amajor milestone for soul masters; it meant that one had reached the middlelevel of a soul master and often the third soul skill brought a huge powerboost.

She had decided to use Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakes the moment Xie Xiehad moved against her since this soul skill specialized in restrainingagility-type soul masters.. As an assault-type soul master and with herThunderflash Sword’s characteristics, she was most effective at restrainingagility-type soul masters.

Not only did lightning have explosive power, its paralysis effect couldcripple the speed of an agility-type soul master.

The lightning blossomed into a flower of silver light that instantly swallowedXie Xie.

Despite not having much firepower, if Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakesstruck and paralyzed its opponent, it wouldn’t take much effort for Wang Dongqito finish them off.

She had yet to be defeated by an agility-type soul master of the same rank asher. Their defeat was guaranteed the moment she was their opponent.

A smile had already settled on her lips. Her team’s victory would be assuredonce she defeated her opponent; she wasn’t worried for the Zhou sisters at all.After all, the two were the core strength of the team.  

But at that instant, her smile stiffened.

Just as the lightning snakes were about to strike him Xie Xie’s figurewobbled, then duplicated into a multitude of ghostly shadow reflections thatflickered forward.

Despite the large range of Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakes, it was notwithout gaps. The erratic bolts of lightning constantly changed positions,creating gaps that Xie Xie took advantage of and, with the sway of his body, heevaded the onslaught of lightning snakes and continued to advance on WangDongqi.

How can this be? That isn’t a soul skill! She hadn’t seen Xie Xie’s soul ringlight up; she was utterly flabbergasted.

She could understand if he had used a soul skill to protect himself, but shecouldn’t comprehend this situation.Why did his body suddenly become soillusionary? Isn’t his martial soul a dagger?

How could she have known that what Xie Xie was using right now was the TangSect’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

Just as they had researched the Eastsea team, the Eastsea team had researchedthem.

Familiarity with one’s opponent could mean the difference between victory anddefeat in battle. Tang Wulin had only let Xie Xie take on Wang Dongqi afterthoroughly understanding her.

While Wang Dongqi’s lightning certainly was highly effective againstagility-type soul masters, that was still dependent on how fast her opponentwas. 

Xie Xie had displayed spectacular combat skill the first time Tang Wulin hadmet him, so one could only imagine how strong he was after a year of WuZhangkong’s guidance and learning the Tang Sect’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

Xie Xie’s movements was like the drifting clouds and flowing water when usingGhost Shadow Perplexing Track. Wang Dongqi couldn’t keep track of him, butneither did he keep track of her. In his eyes, she was just a sitting duck.Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakes had a large range, but was rife with holes.It was worthless in the face of true speed.

Wang Dongqi’s eyes rolled with panic. When Xie Xie arrived before her in theblink of an eye, she immediately stabbed her Thunderflash Sword into the groundand activated her third soul ring.

Silver light erupted from her body.

Xie Xie instinctively backflipped, retreating from her and delaying hisassault.

Just as he had expected, lightning snakes exploded from her sword an instantafter he backed away. She had used Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakes once more.

It was impossible to dodge in the air—well, at least at their level. If XieXie hadn’t called off his attack, he would have been paralyzed by those snakes. 

Golden light gathered around Xie Xie and a second later, he unleashed hisLight Dragon Storm, spurring his body to fly backwards!

Streaks of silver lightning chased after him but instantly dissipated uponcontact with his Light Dragon Storm.

Xie Xie twirled the Light Dragon Dagger in his hand after landing a distanceaway, taunting Wang Dongqi.

Her expression turned unsightly. In order to protect herself just now, she hadbeen forced to use Chaotic Dance of the Silver Snakes twice and ThunderflashRing once.

The consumption of those three soul skills was incomparably larger than XieXie’s single soul skill use and even though her soul power surpassed Xie Xie’sby far, the amount used was nothing to laugh at.

Xie Xie gripped his Light Dragon Dagger and slowly circled Wang Dongqi. Not asingle trace of anxiety could be found in his demeanour. Tang Wulin had onlygiven him one mission—to keep Wang Dongqi busy,, and if he had an opportunity,defeat her. If he didn’t, then keeping her isolated was enough.

While he kept her busy here, Tang Wulin found out that his Bind was useless.

Zhou Tian’er pointed at the strands of Bluesilver Grass aiming for her,shooting a group of green lights at it.

A strange sensation suddenly washed over Tang Wulin, as if his BluesilverGrass had been enveloped in a warm embrace that gently stole his control awayfrom him.

His sea of Bluesilver Grass went limp in the air and fell onto the ground, toolifeless to attack any more.

This…

This is attribute suppression!

Tang Wulin understood what he faced in an instant.

It had always been his Golden Dragon King suppressing other soul master’s andsoul beasts before now. He hadn’t expected that a day would come when he wouldbe suppressed instead.

Even though his Golden Dragon King bloodline had transformed his BluesilverGrass, in the end, it was still a wood-attributed existence. His bloodline hadcertainly elevated it to much greater heights, but against the Zhou Tian’er whohad the Wood Spirit martial soul and a higher soul power than him, beingsuppressed was inevitable. Even his thousand-year soul ring could do nothing tooverturn this suppression.