"One hundred spirit seals?"
When one hundred spirit seals appeared swirling around Mu Chen, even Liu Jingshan's face turned pale, his eyes filled with terror.
Although he was not a Spirit Array Master, his knowledge was extraordinary, and he naturally understood how formidable a spirit array that required one hundred spirit seals to set up would be. Even among the Three Extremes Spirit Arrays, it was an incredibly powerful one. If a spirit array of this caliber was successfully deployed, its power could truly be described as earth-shshattering.
"Three Extremes Spirit Array!"
Liu Jingshan gritted his teeth and spat out these words. His eyes were now filled with intense killing intent. A deadly threat was pressing down on him. Even if he didn't know whether Mu Chen could successfully deploy the Three Extremes Spirit Array, the feeling of impending death was undeniably real.
"I absolutely cannot allow him to successfully deploy that spirit array!"
Liu Jingshan's killing intent surged. A spirit array of such caliber possessed immense power, but Spirit Array Masters had a significant weakness: the time required to set up a spirit array was not short, and they had to concentrate fully, unable to be disturbed by others. Yet, Mu Chen dared to brazenly set up a spirit array in the midst of battle. He was truly a foolish calf unafraid of tigers, or perhaps a reckless gambler who played for all or nothing.
"He's truly tired of living!"
Liu Jingshan's expression was cold and grim. Without further hesitation, he transformed into a streak of crimson light and shot towards Mu Chen. He unleashed two punches, and majestic spiritual energy roared violently, conjuring towering mountains that pressed down fiercely.
However, facing Liu Jingshan's attack, Mu Chen's eyes remained tightly shut and unchanged. His feet were filled with dark spiritual energy, and his figure became blurry, creating countless afterimages. He retreated across the sky with ghostly speed, dodging left and right.
"Boom! Boom!"
The mountains formed by the punch winds roared and struck repeatedly, carrying sharp and heavy spiritual energy and momentum, yet they failed to touch Mu Chen.
"Such speed!"
Liu Jingshan was startled by his ghostly speed, gritting his teeth in frustration. Mu Chen clearly wanted to buy time to set up the spirit array, so all his focus was on dodging attacks.
However, Liu Jingshan could not let Mu Chen have his way.
"Swimming Fish Art!"
Liu Jingshan's body swayed, becoming seemingly softer. With a "whoosh," he cut across the sky, closing in on Mu Chen at an incredibly terrifying speed.
His figure moved through the sky quite strangely, like a fish swaying its body in the vast ocean. This speed was extremely fast; he was also employing a movement spiritual art to pursue Mu Chen.
Quickly approaching Mu Chen, a cruel look appeared in his eyes. He extended a hand, and a claw wind carrying violent spiritual energy snatched at Mu Chen's neck.
Wherever the claw wind passed, the air tore apart.
But just as Liu Jingshan's claw was about to touch Mu Chen, he seemed to sense it. His body trembled, creating several afterimages, and the claw could only pass through these afterimages.
"Damn it!"
Liu Jingshan's expression changed. Not only did Mu Chen possess strange movement techniques, but he also seemed able to predict attacks, instantly changing his trajectory of movement, causing Liu Jingshan's attacks to fail.
"I don't believe you can keep running forever!"
Liu Jingshan gritted his teeth in anger, his offensive becoming even more ferocious. Sharp claws tore through the sky, overwhelming Mu Chen from all directions.
However, Mu Chen's figure became even more ethereal. His eyes remained tightly shut, his body drifting like a leaf in a storm, enduring the howling winds without being torn apart.
Mu Chen continuously dodged. Everyone watched as the hundred spirit seals around him gradually dissolved into the air, an astonishing spiritual energy fluctuation slowly emanating, and the spiritual energy in the heavens and earth rapidly converging there.
Mu Feng anxiously observed every shift in the battle high above. Whether today's deadly situation could be resolved perhaps depended on whether Mu Chen successfully deployed that spirit array.
The chase and evasion in mid-air continued without pause, at a speed so high it made onlookers hold their breath. Yet, everyone clearly felt that as time passed, Liu Jingshan could no longer remain calm. He must have also realized that continuing such futile attacks fundamentally couldn't disturb Mu Chen. The young man seemed detached from the outside world, yet still managed to dodge all of Liu Jingshan's sharp attacks.
Such feats filled observers with dread. How that young man managed to achieve such impossible things was beyond comprehension.
Suddenly, Liu Jingshan stopped in mid-air, his face contorted, murderous intent emanating from his eyes as if substantial.
He stared madly at Mu Chen's ghostly figure. Behind Mu Chen, the space gradually turned dark, the air twisted, and a colossal array diagram vaguely took shape.
Liu Jingshan truly could no longer prevent Mu Chen from completing the spirit array.
"Today, this old man wants to see just how capable you are!"
Liu Jingshan growled fiercely, then suddenly roared, his body shooting backward. As he retreated, an incredibly vast spiritual energy surged from within him like a rolling tide.
A supremely strange fluctuation emanated from his body.
This immediately drew everyone's attention. They cried out in shock as they watched Liu Jingshan's body visibly and rapidly expand, darkness enveloping him.
"Rip, rip."
His clothes tore apart, his body quickly swelled. In just over ten seconds, he was no longer human-shaped, but had transformed into an incredibly colossal beast.
It was a two-headed black giant hound, its mouth full of ferocious fangs, thick, milky white drool dripping. The surrounding air also rippled slightly.
One of the black hound heads exhaled, spitting out a fierce flame, while in the mouth of the other head, a black windstorm formed, its menacing aura reaching the sky.
Liu Jingshan had unexpectedly transformed into the spirit beast whose essence he had refined: the Twin-Headed Demonic Hound!
Everyone's expressions changed, including Mu Feng and the various city lords. Of course, they could all clearly see that the Twin-Headed Demonic Hound Liu Jingshan had transformed into was not illusory, but genuinely possessed the aura and power of a Twin-Headed Demonic Hound!
"A Heaven Fusion Realm expert can refine an essence to this extent?!"
Mu Feng was inwardly shaken. Although he could refine spirit beast essences, with his Spirit Soul Realm ability, he could only use spiritual energy to materialize spirit beasts, not truly transform into them like Liu Jingshan.
Now, Liu Jingshan not only had his own strength but also the genuine abilities and power of the Twin-Headed Demonic Hound. His combat power was terrifying.
"Howl!"
The Twin-Headed Demonic Hound howled, its four blood-red eyes ferocious. Despite transforming into a spirit beast form, Liu Jingshan still retained his full rationality, completely uninfluenced.
A creature possessing the might of a spirit beast combined with human intellect was truly the most terrifyingly powerful entity.
"Whoosh!"
The Twin-Headed Demonic Hound opened its maw wide, spitting out a fire dragon and a dark storm simultaneously. These two attacks were even more ferocious and powerful than when it was in its human form.
Mu Chen created countless afterimages to dodge, but this time, he could only avoid the vital points. More than half of his clothes were torn to shreds, revealing a body crisscrossed with fresh blood.
"Howl! Howl! Howl!"
The Twin-Headed Demonic Hound roared madly, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also became chaotic. In the sky, fire dragons formed one after another, and a colossal dark storm swept through, covering a vast area of the sky and sealing off all of Mu Chen's escape routes!
Mu Feng was terrified, his hands drenched in cold sweat.
"Boom boom boom!"
Fire dragons filled the sky, and dark winds howled, like a pack of ferocious beasts surrounding Mu Chen, ready to tear him apart.
In the city, everyone held their breath, no one daring to breathe loudly.
The scorching fire dragons burned the scattered fragments of clothes in the air to ashes, and the raging dark winds blew closer and closer to Mu Chen.
But at that very moment, Mu Chen's eyes suddenly opened.
In his eyes, dark flames still burned strangely.
On Mu Chen's body, several wounds burst open, blood flowing down. He paid little attention, his bloody hands slowly formed a seal, and a low, muffled voice softly spoke.
"Demonic Lotus Array, activate."
"Bang!"
A loud explosion echoed from the space behind him. Darkness spread and twisted, transforming into a gigantic dark array diagram.
The array diagram flickered a few times, vaguely forming a dark lotus flower that softly bloomed.
The lotus descended, hovering in front of Mu Chen, then casually allowed the fire dragons and dark winds, carrying their chaotic energy, to strike it.
"Boom boom boom!"
Smoke and fire filled the sky, everything exploded, but when the fire dragons and dark winds dissipated, everyone's eyes widened in even greater shock, because the lotus protected Mu Chen, completely unharmed.
"Next..."
Mu Chen's hands trembled as he wiped the blood from his face. Even that small, ordinary action caused him intense pain. His body had endured the energy of the Nine Netherbird to its absolute limit.
However, now was not the time to rest.
With eyes blazing with dark flames, Mu Chen quietly looked at the distant sky where the Twin-Headed Demonic Hound stood menacingly. His blood-stained finger pointed into the air, and his voice whispered.
"It's time to butcher the dog..."
The gigantic, eerie Dark Demonic Lotus shot out, carrying a wave of deathly fluctuations.