"Without my own spirit power to sustain it, the consumption is just too fast," Su Ming thought helplessly.
This time, his Martial Soul had been stripped away, and along with it, he couldn't use his spirit power. This left him with only the spirit power from his Douluo 1 and Douluo 3 main bodies to use.
But the spirit power of these two main bodies had crossed the long river of time, incurring significant loss.
And without a Martial Soul as the main body for fusion, it had now completely devolved into mere spirit power fusion, and the consumption rate was truly rapid.
But it didn't matter.
Since spirit power wasn't enough to sustain the consumption, he would simply stop using spirit power.
Within the Domain of Chaos, the power of the seven elements gathered and coalesced once again into an Elemental Storm.
From the moment Su Ming shattered his spirit ring until now, everything had been completed in the span of a single breath.
Using the Elemental Storm from Douluo 3, Su Ming replicated his own Domain of Chaos spirit skill. Then, using the Douluo 3 version's ability to control elements, he mastered the seven major elements within the Domain of Chaos, re-converging the Elemental Storm.
At this point, he had completely gained control over the Domain of Chaos.
The Domain of Chaos was still chaotic, but that didn't include the seven elements under Su Ming's control.
Xu Sanshi had already fled from Su Ming's vicinity. Because he was too close earlier, he was also illuminated by the Golden Road, so his escape speed was somewhat slow.
While Xu Sanshi was fleeing, Ma Xiaotao and the others were also charging their attacks, which had now reached their peak.
The fact that Su Ming could still use spirit power and execute spirit skills was unexpected by the Shrek Seven. But since Su Ming was surrounded by them, even if he could still use some spirit power, it wouldn't change the overall situation.
Ling Luochen was the first to release her spirit skill.
Outside her body, her third spirit ring shone.
A patch of icy mist rapidly condensed above Su Ming, then began gathering ice elements, intending to form an ice cage.
However, as the ice elements gathered around Su Ming, before these elemental forces could take effect, they rapidly fell into chaos, no longer under control. The laws governing the ice elements seemed to have been rewritten; the control techniques were no longer the ones Ling Luochen currently mastered. These ice elements simply dissipated into thin air, even becoming part of Su Ming's Elemental Storm and merging into it.
At the same time, a phoenix cry echoed across the entire plaza.
"Third Spirit Skill, Soaring Phoenix Wings!"
"Second Spirit Skill, Bathing Fire Phoenix!"
"Fifth Spirit Skill, Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike!"
A phoenix burning with blazing flames shot towards the ground.
After the fiery phoenix charged into Su Ming's Domain of Chaos, it rapidly began to change, losing its phoenix form, and the fire elemental power was quickly stripped away, merging into the Elemental Storm.
Even so, Ma Xiaotao's attack was not completely neutralized.
A considerable portion of the fire power remained, exploding violently on Su Ming's body.
At that moment, a dark golden glow reappeared on Su Ming's body.
His bones became stronger, his skin became tougher.
The spirit skills attached to the spirit power of Past·Su Ming activated. Simultaneously, the Skeleton Martial Spirit and Lich Martial Soul附体, his physical defense reached its peak at this moment.
Boom!
Flames shot out in all directions, transforming into scattered fire elemental power that merged into the storm.
On Shrek's side, Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng, who had also finished charging their attacks, were lagging slightly behind as they were both close-combat fighters.
Su Ming did not continue standing still as a target. The Elemental Storm above his head had now grown powerful.
"Elemental Harmonization!"
The Elemental Storm was compressed to its limit and, controlled by Su Ming, rose high into the air.
Boom!
A massive explosion enveloped Shrek's rear area.
Simultaneously, the collision between elements triggered subsequent reactions, actually reconstructing the Domain of Chaos once again.
Su Ming's spirit power was already exhausted, but he still had mental power.
The Domain of Chaos he had previously constructed using the Elemental Storm only covered a maximum radius of five meters around his body. This large explosion expanded the Domain of Chaos to half the size of the stage.
Using mental power to control the Domain of Chaos, space twisted, and Su Ming took a single step, returning to the Sun Moon Imperial team's area.
Only about ten seconds had passed since the start of this match.
The first volley of spirit cannon shells fired by Xiao Hongchen had just landed.
Boom!
The roar of dozens of spirit cannon shells resounded.
To heavily injure Su Ming, Shrek Academy had completely abandoned defense. The Sun Moon Imperial team, of course, could not pass up this opportunity.
Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng's charged attacks missed their mark and were twisted by Su Ming's spatial distortion, landing on Ling Luochen and Huo Yuhao respectively.
The overall situation was decided.
Su Ming returned to the rear of the Sun Moon Imperial team, sat down cross-legged, and began recovering.
The effect of the Golden Road's Martial Soul deprivation was still affecting him, but he had already sensed his Martial Soul again and was now working to eliminate all effects of the deprivation as quickly as possible.
This time, his gains were not small.
His Martial Soul was spirit power, so his cultivation naturally involved striving to explore the nature of spirit power.
Just now, with his Martial Soul deprived, he had completely lost it, leaving only the spirit power from his other two main bodies.
Although he controlled it just the same, without any barriers, it ultimately wasn't the spirit power of this body.
This control provided him with a novel, alternative sensation.
It was an experience of directly stimulating the properties within the spirit power without relying on the Martial Soul as an intermediary.
Electrolux, noticing Su Ming's insights, provided real-time commentary within his Sea of Consciousness.
"The experience you just had is essentially the process of a normal practitioner using supernatural power. In such a state, the characteristics of the supernatural power are directly laid bare in your perception, making the sensation the clearest."
The Martial Soul provided convenience for Spirit Masters, allowing them to activate spirit rings to release spirit skills without needing to explore the properties within their spirit power. But it also acted as a barrier, preventing Spirit Masters from perceiving the properties of their spirit power from a first-person perspective.
This was also why it was difficult for Spirit Masters to create their own spirit skills.
"That little guy's Martial Soul Fusion Skill is quite good. Depriving the Martial Soul shouldn't be used for combat; applied to cultivation, it would definitely be a powerful tool, provided the Spirit Master themselves has the talent for creating spirit skills."
Returning to the state of a primitive cultivator allowed for a more genuine experience of spirit power properties. But without talent, this would be rather meaningless. However, Su Ming clearly had talent in this area. Experiencing it for the first time, he successively replicated multiple spirit skills.
Su Ming looked towards the opposite side of the stage. The Shrek team was in complete disarray.
Xu Sanshi, who had teleported Su Ming over, was filled with regret.
Although this was the strategy devised by Wang Yan, he was the one who executed it.
Xu Sanshi felt as if he had dragged the boss into his own backyard.
Preparation Area.
Wang Yan's body was also trembling.
This strategy was a major mistake.
Yan Shaozhe also remained silent.
Who could have expected that after Su Ming was suddenly teleported into Shrek's rear and had his Martial Soul stripped by the Golden Road, he could still cause such chaos?
To heavily injure him, all seven members of Shrek Academy had attacked him, not even taking precautions against Xiao Hongchen and the others' spirit cannons the first time.
As a result, Su Ming returned safely to the rear of the Sun Moon Imperial team, while also redirecting Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng's spirit skills, severely injuring Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen.
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