Zu Yunxi, as a soul cultivator, clearly sensed Chu Tian's anxious state.
Although Chu Tian didn't show it, the fluctuations in his soul could not be hidden.
This was the greatest advantage of soul cultivators or soul masters.
They could predict others' next moves.
In combat, they could strike first even when acting later.
Despite this, Zu Yunxi still fell into Chu Tian's trap.
At this moment, he regretted it.
He had just gained power and was brimming with confidence.
Knowing Chu Tian must have a trump card, he wasn't afraid and insisted on entering.
However, this guy's divine platform was too strange.
The peculiar tree could weave such a formidable spherical cage, which also contained the principles of formations.
And these four children...
They were not weak either.
Were these truly just spirit artifacts?
In his impression, spirit artifacts should obey their master's commands, without independent consciousness.
Yet, these four children before him displayed seamless combat awareness and coordination.
And this one, a physical clone.
It turned out to be a divine technique, split from "Yi Qi Hua San Qing" (One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones).
The reason he knew was that he had seen it in ancestral records.
The descriptions of Yi Qi Hua San Qing were filled with hyperbolic praise.
The most crucial requirement for simultaneously cultivating this divine art was a powerful soul. If the soul wasn't strong enough, the split clones would be incredibly weak.
If the soul wasn't strong enough, one couldn't tear their soul apart.
Zu Yunxi was now both excited and dejected.
He was excited because he hadn't expected that the physical body he chose belonged to a true prodigy. He wondered what level of prodigy Chu Tian from Blue Star was.
However, since he could enter this trial ground, he was definitely not weak.
In thousands of years, this guy was the first person from Blue Star to enter the trial ground.
Zu Yunxi, with his purple eyes, stared intently at Chu Tian.
His emotionless eyes moved slightly, evading the clone's attacks.
He barely needed to expend much mental effort.
"Little friend, as long as you are willing to dismantle this cage and grant me freedom, I will cease to oppose you and will bestow upon you an unimaginable great fortune!"
Zu Yunxi's voice was filled with an inexplicable charm, carrying a sense of infinite allure!
However, Chu Tian sneered without speaking.
Seeing Chu Tian unmoved, Zu Yunxi slowly continued.
"You must be here for the first time in the Divine Sea Trial. I have entered countless times, reaching the fifth level at the highest. There are countless treasures there!"
"If you release me, I will lend you a hand to ascend to the fifth level and obtain those opportunities. Your achievements will reach a new height. Then, we will leave here together, and the entire world will bow to us!"
Hearing this, Chu Tian's heart stirred.
This guy had actually been to the fifth level. The Divine Sea Trial had seven levels, and he had passed more than half of them.
However, he had also heard from Hai Yue.
The latter two levels... were the most difficult.
"Heh heh... You have quite an ego. You think you can make the world bow? Once you get out, you'll be beaten like a dog!"
"Hmph!"
Zu Yunxi was first stunned by these words, then let out a cold hmph.
"I possess the power of myriad heroic spirits, who can possibly oppose me?"
"If I hadn't been born in the wrong place, I would have already..."
This guy babbled on for a long time.
Chu Tian, annoyed, rubbed his ear.
This guy was like a frog at the bottom of a well, yet he saw himself in such high regard.
He didn't know where such confidence came from.
"Stop your incessant chatter. If you want to punish the world, you'll have to get past me first. I'm just the lowest-level newbie out here!
Since childhood, people have called me trash!
If you can't even defeat me, how do you expect to strut around outside?"
Chu Tian curled his lips, but he wasn't lying.
He had indeed been called trash when he was young.
However, he also spoke these words as part of psychological warfare.
As expected, the moment he said this,
The other party was stunned.
The clone seized this opportunity.
It slapped him across the face.
The movement was mimicked perfectly.
As Zu Yunxi was stunned, he was slapped across the face by the clone.
And at this very moment,
A pagoda suddenly appeared behind the divine clone.
The bottom two layers of the pagoda flashed. In that instant,
His aura of splendor and grandeur became even more majestic.
And his power seemed to have increased immeasurably.
*Bang...*
A muffled sound.
"Ah..."
Accompanied by Zu Yunxi's scream,
Half of his head was directly blown off by the clone.
This guy was originally a soul body; physical attacks should have been ineffective against him.
But the clone could attack him directly.
This made him extremely uncomfortable.
If he had a physical body,
Perhaps this single slap could have taken his life.
Fortunately, he was a soul body. With half his head gone,
Soul force rapidly dissipated.
Ya Ya controlled the spherical cage, fiercely extracting.
However, this time there was too much, and Ya Ya only managed to extract more than half.
The rest was absorbed back by this guy.
In the blink of an eye, he reformed half of his head.
"You all deserve to die..."
In an instant, this guy went mad.
In that brief moment, he had lost a fifth of his heroic spirit power.
That was something he had plotted for hundreds of years to obtain.
In the blink of an eye, it was taken by the brat before him.
He couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
"This is you forcing me!"
Zu Yunxi glared with rage, gritting his teeth.
"Disperse!"
This guy poked his own brow with a finger.
His entire complexion contorted in pain,
As if he were undergoing something excruciating.
"Old geezer, are you constipated?"
Chu Tian knew this guy was about to unleash a big move.
But he still taunted him verbally.
However, in the next second, streaks of blood-red bodies split from his body.
These bodies were the heroic souls that had been absorbed by him earlier.
As soon as they appeared, they scattered in all directions.
Chu Tian's clone and the four children
Were unable to stop so many people from rushing outwards.
Immediately, countless blood-red spirits rushed to the edge of the spherical cage.
These fellows all possessed weapons.
Raising their weapons, they began to hack at the vines.
"Brother!" Ya Ya cried out.
The vines being hacked by these fellows were her main body.
Hearing Ya Ya's cry, Chu Tian's heart jolted.
She had cried out so miserably just now.
"Ya Ya..."
Chu Tian wanted to ask how she was.
But he saw that on the vines being chopped by the red-clad figures, streams of emerald-green sap were flowing.
After emitting that sound, Ya Ya fell silent.
However, Chu Tian knew she must be enduring great pain.
With thousands of red figures, each chop on her branches was akin to being flayed alive.
"Ya Ya... retract your branches!"
Chu Tian knew Ya Ya must be in pain and shouted.
However, the canopy of the Tree of Life merely swayed, as if shaking its head.
"Master... Sister Ya Ya will be fine..." Shui Shui said, her eyes glistening with tears.
"Shui Shui, be quiet!" Shou Shou rebuked.
Within the entire circular spherical cage, the four children acted like firefighters, continuously scattering those blood-red figures.
But after those figures dispersed, they could condense again.
It was as if they were endless...
Chu Tian's clone had been pursuing Zu Yunxi, but his attack methods had long been seen through.
Although Zu Yunxi couldn't inflict any damage on him, he also couldn't land a hit on him.
The slap he delivered earlier had been quite solid.
It had caused a fifth of Zu Yunxi's soul power to dissipate.
It was already considered a great feat.
At this moment, seeing Ya Ya's trembling canopy, Chu Tian's anger surged.
But he had no good solutions; his soul power had not recovered much.
The abilities of the Five-Colored Supreme Bone could also not be used.
This was because in the soul space, he was merely a phantom, and the Five-Colored Supreme Bone... was in his body.
Naturally, its power could not be mobilized.
With Ya Ya suffering and him unable to do anything, his anger continued to rise.
At this very moment...
*Hummm...*
From his chest, a faint pinkish-gold light flickered.
"Huh?" Chu Tian was startled.
It was the Buddha-Demon Harmonious Profound Magnetic Light that had entered his body earlier without any reaction...
At this moment, it actually showed a reaction.
However, in the time it took Chu Tian to be startled, it went still again.
The previous light slowly vanished.
"What's going on?"
Just moments ago, he clearly felt that thing could be controlled by him.
Now it was unresponsive again.
He still remembered that time in the forest, with a single strike, everything had turned into golden-pink crystals.
"Under what circumstances does it react?"
Chu Tian's mind raced...
That time, he seemed to have been furious, wanting to destroy the Divine Sea Palace. In his rage, he casually unleashed an attack.
And just now...
He was also extremely angry and anxious, and only then did this thing react.
"Could it be that anger activates it?"
Chu Tian thought about what the Devouring Dragon had said earlier – that Fahai was originally a demon but cultivated Buddhist ways.
In the end, he walked the path of the Wrathful Buddha.
This thing was what he had cultivated. Could it be that this thing needed to be used while maintaining anger?
Thinking of this, Chu Tian was speechless for a moment.
Maintaining rage at all times was not an easy feat.
He had just been interrupted...
How could he do it?
Chu Tian began to recall his past, remembering the humiliation he suffered in the first half of his life.
Remembering the various humiliations encountered before his rebirth.
Continuously... a flame appeared in his heart.
Anger, unwillingness, surged unceasingly.
As expected, in his soul state, a pinkish light reappeared on his chest.
This time, Chu Tian dared not be distracted, fearing that the anger he had painstakingly brewed would vanish.
"You... deserve to die!"
Chu Tian stimulated his mentality with his will. He had even thought, if the inner demon were still there, could he use this thing in an instant?
He roared, his eyes turning red, and with a flash, he re-entered the spherical cage.
He focused on feeling the Buddha-Demon Harmonious Profound Magnetic Light and began to mobilize it with his soul power.
Indeed, that thing responded as if it were an extension of his arm. Chu Tian drew out a trace of its power.
This wisp of power was drawn out along with his soul power.
"Soul Secret Technique... Soul Splitting Slash!"
This move, Chu Tian had never used before; this was his first time using it.
The instant extraction of a large amount of soul power caused his recovering soul body to instantly dim.
However, a heavenly saber, over ten meters long, appeared.
Its appearance was somewhat similar to the move Zu Yunxi had used before.
However, the heavenly saber condensed by Chu Tian emitted a faint golden-pink light.
That light was precisely the Buddha-Demon Harmonious Profound Magnetic Light, which Chu Tian had drawn out a trace of and mixed with his soul.
As the heavenly saber appeared, Zu Yunxi's lips curled.
Seeing Chu Tian's phantom body in a weakened state, he felt he had won.
The spherical cage woven from vines also had many broken sections.
It was now easy for him to get out!
"Little doll, don't struggle anymore!"
Zu Yunxi, while dodging Chu Tian's clone, casually waved his hand, and a soul blade appeared.
Instantly, many blood-red figures turned back and charged towards the soul blade.
In the blink of an eye, countless ancestral heroic spirits plunged into it, and its color changed from milky white to red.
"You injured Ya Ya! Therefore, you must die!"
Chu Tian gritted his teeth, waving his palm.
The heavenly saber, with his swing, carried a sharp aura and an indescribable essence, cleaving towards Zu Yunxi.
The latter, with a curl of his lips, also waved his hand...