Han Shuo always has a few demon generals patrolling around him. As soon as Han Shuo got that very uncomfortable feeling, his demon generals fluttered around him and probed everywhere.
Although his demon generals found nothing, the uncomfortable feeling did not leave Han Shuo for a moment. This made Han Shuo even more anxious. He had the seventeen flying swords on standby, ready for any sudden attack.
At the moment, Sanguis, Gilbert and some of the Fifth Corps Divine Guards were listening to Bolland's lecture on assassination techniques at a distance. The nearest divine guard to Han Shuo was three hundred metres away.
Everything looked perfectly fine, but everything felt completely wrong. The inexplicable feeling of great danger continued to threaten him, even though his demon generals found no abnormalities in the surrounding area. Han Shuo did not take this as a sign to relax, but rather to be more cautious. His heart may be as turbulent as the sea in a thunderstorm, but he still wore the same old calm and unruffled expression on his face. He sat silently on a rock with his head down, as if pondering something.
Suddenly, the space in front of Han Shuo seemed to be torn as a blinding light distorted the region. Space-time began to fluctuate violently.
The next thing Han Shuo noticed was that the space seemed to have frozen. The wind, the grass, and everything else became instantly still, as if time had stopped.
Several humanoid figures of light and shadow suddenly appeared from the region of intense space-time fluctuation. They gathered a powerful binding force in an instant and sent it towards Han Shuo. The power came quickly and suddenly. Before Han Shuo could react, he found that his body had been tightly bound, as if disembodied chains had tightly bound his arms and legs.
The figures emerging from the bright light then rushed towards Han Shuo. Each of them wore a thin mask of pale white colour. There were no openings on the mask except for two narrow slits that revealed their eyes. It made the attackers look eerily terrifying.
The attackers were five Highgods. The one at the front cultivated the Edict of Destruction. He was rather short. He wore a dark glove made of an unknown but precious material. It was pierced with bizarre speckles and carried an astonishing aura of destruction around it.
The four behind the short person were also Highgods, but they were slightly weaker in strength. They all wore the same clothes as the short person leading the charge, but differed in height. Each of them wielded different weapons, and it was obvious that the weapons were all very precious and excellent.
All five of them had the same icy cold eyes. The killing intent emanating from their bodies swarmed towards Han Shuo. It could not be more obvious that they intended to take Han Shuo's life on the spot.
The energy binding Han Shuo's body was tremendous. His arms and legs were held firmly in place by five different energies. Han Shuo immediately realised that the energies came from the five attackers who were charging at him. In an instant, Han Shuo suddenly calmed his mind.
All five assassins possessed Highgod strength. The short man leading the charge was at the Late-stage of the Highgod realm. Dealing with him alone would be just as challenging as fighting Hofs, which Han Shuo had recently experienced. He knew that it would be extremely difficult to break free from the shackles channeled by the five Highgods.
Seeing that the five would soon reach him, with a single thought, the divine souls of Han Shuo's avatars within his body turned in perfect synchronisation with his consciousness. With his avatars still inside the Cauldron of theMyriad Demon , his two Domains of Divinity merged. The hybrid Domain of Divinity was instantly deployed around Han Shuo's main body.
The surrounding element of death suddenly gushed out and wildly converged on Han Shuo, while the power of the strings of faith, invisible to the naked eye, rapidly spun in destructive orbits. The hybrid Domain of Divinity rapidly expanded from Han Shuo, aggressively cleansing every other element from around him.
The five assassins who tried to kill him were instantly enveloped by Han Shuo's Hybrid Domain of Divinity. The power of the strings of faith was like countless tiny invisible hands grasping at the five. The five who had been charging at Han Shuo at high speed suddenly became sluggish in their movements. It was as if they had fallen into a pool of honey.
The eyes under the masks revealed the emotion of shock. The five exchanged glances before immediately unleashing their own Domains of Divinity. Three Domain of Divinity of Dark Energy, one of Death Energy and one of Destruction Energy quickly spread out from the attackers.
The little space was suddenly filled with six Domains of Divinity. Five Domains of Divinity were rapidly expanding within Han Shuo's domain, exerting a crushing and overwhelming pressure on Han Shuo.
Unlike Han Shuo, the five assassins had full control over their own Domains of Divinity. Not only could they make their domains not conflict with each other, but they could also make their domains work together and concentrate the pressure on Han Shuo. Han Shuo immediately felt the enormous pressure on his hybrid Domain of Divinity through his body. He felt like he was being squeezed by five huge inflating balloons. It was excruciating!
Even though his Hybrid Domain of Divinity was aggressive, it could only retreat in defeat under the pressure of five Highgods Domains of Divinity at once. After all, this hybrid Domain of Divinity was created by two Midgods, and Han Shuo had yet to fully master all the wonders of his hybrid Domain of Divinity.
As Han Shuo's hybrid Domain of Divinity gradually shrank, the five attackers moved closer and closer to Han Shuo. They laughed cruelly with their eyes as if they were sure that Han Shuo was about to be slaughtered.
Han Shuo's hands and legs were bound by the five. Not only was he unable to use his divine weapons to defend himself, but he also had no way to dodge their attacks. Even his Domain of Divinity was being pushed back. From their point of view, Han Shuo had lost every means of defence and was as vulnerable as a chained sheep. Therefore, they looked at Han Shuo as if he was already a dead man!
But they were very wrong. Even if Han Shuo couldn't move any of his limbs or make a sound, that didn't make him a sitting duck!
Han Shuo's formless and disembodied consciousness remained unaffected by the binding energy projected by the five. He was able to remain calm and think of a solution to free himself from the danger, even as the five attackers stared at him with their cold and merciless eyes.
Suddenly, an arm crawled out of Han Shuo's back. It was the arm of one of his avatars. It was holding a handful of the Pearls of Annihilation!
The binding energy channeled by the five only targeted Han Shuo's main body. It did not affect Han Shuo's two avatars. At present, Han Shuo's two avatars only possessed Midgod strength, and the two would be slaughtered in no time if they were to rashly appear before the Highgod assassins. Not daring to fully reveal his avatars to the Highgod attackers, Han Shuo only revealed one arm of his avatar from his back, out of sight of the assassins.
The Avatar threw hard, sending the Pearls of Annihilation flying from Han Shuo's back. At the same time, the seventeen flying swords burst out of his body, making Han Shuo look like a giant hedgehog. The piercing flying swords began to cut the disembodied energy links that connected him to the five attackers.
Han Shuo had miraculous connections with his demonic weapons. Even though his main body was completely restrained, as long as Han Shuo could still think and his consciousness functioned, he could use and control his demonic weapons as usual.
The Pearls of Annihilation flew outwards. Han Shuo calmly manoeuvred the pearls with his thought. When the Pearls of Annihilation arrived behind the five attackers, Han Shuo ignited every single drop of blood essence contained in the Pearls.
Each of the Pearl of Annihilation was injected with one drop of Han Shuo's blood essence when they were produced. It was the key that enabled Han Shuo to remotely control and maneuver the Pearls of Annihilation. The blood essences boiled and splattered while the Pearls of Annihilation that flew undetected to the back of the assassins detonated.
The Pearls of Annihilation made using an improved formula erupted with an astonishing amount of explosive force. With the five assassins located near to each other, the force of the explosions managed to impact every one of their domains of divinity. The Soulpiercers inside the Pearls were sent shooting towards the five attackers in densely packed swarms. The five were pricked from head to toe.
Simultaneously, under the control of Han Shuo's consciousness, the seventeen flying swords severed off the formless chains that bound him to the five. Once the energy channels were broken, using Omen Invincible Body, Han Shuo instantly overcame the remaining binding energy around his body. He was finally free.
Rumble... The Pearls of Annihilation produced deafening explosions. The tremendous blunt force of the explosions compressed and strained the attackers' Domain of Divinity, causing them to lose their balance. The five attackers were swept away by the shockwave of the explosions, along with their Domains of Divinity. They were sent crashing into Han Shuo's Domain of Divinity, causing the newly freed Han Shuo to stumble.
But fortunately for Han Shuo, he had anticipated this. As soon as the Pearls of Annihilation exploded, he withdrew his Domain of Divinity and was able to get back on his feet faster than the attackers. The seventeen flying swords suddenly whistled loudly and headed towards the shortest attacker.
Han Shuo had also gathered the demon generals that had been created from the Highgod souls in the distance and transformed them into a material state the moment he started to attack. The demon generals fiercely attacked the other four Highgods, keeping them busy at all costs. The four assassins were overwhelmed by the Demon Generals' attacks and had no time to deal with Han Shuo.
The rumbling explosion had alerted everyone nearby. Rose, who had been bathing in the pool under the waterfall, quickly got out of the water and put on an oversized robe without drying her soaked, voluptuous body. She immediately rushed over to Han Shuo.
Bollands and other divine guards who were nearby also rushed to Han Shuo. These divine guards, who had been tempered by the Eight Desolation and Torment Formation, had no fear of danger.
With grave and stern faces, they flew boldly and quickly to Han Shuo's aid.
As soon as Han Shuo freed himself from the invisible bonds, he attacked the assassins with everything he had. While manoeuvring the seventeen flying swords against the shortest but most powerful assassin, he summoned every demon general to attack the rest of the assassins. These demon generals, refined from the Highgod souls he had harvested in Hushveil City, were incredibly terrifying. The four assassins were too busy defending themselves to help their short leader.
When Rose and the divine guards arrived at the scene, they saw Han Shuo's prowess in all its glory, handling five masked Highgod assassins all by himself.
The Highgod aura emanating from the assassins was very obvious, especially from the short one. The energy of destruction overflowed wildly from his body, a clear sign that he had reached the peak realm in the cultivation of the Edict of Destruction. However, Han Shuo was able to hold him and his four companions at bay with only his own power.
Moreover, he showed no signs of backing down. The divine guards who witnessed Han Shuo's power were all stunned.
The divine guards had secretly guessed Han Shuo's strength among themselves.
They thought that Han Shuo was slightly stronger than Avery, the former chief of the Fifth Corps. But now, after witnessing the scene of Han Shuo fighting five Highgods at once, they realised that Avery wasn't even on the same level as Han Shuo!