The Rise of the Black Plain

Once Minos began to manipulate the weaker Spiritual Saints in the group of high-level elders of this organization, the battle that should have been a 15-on-1 battle turned into an 8-on-8 one.

Minos' allies were the weakest of these elders. Still, even so, they could help him immensely in defeating the other high-level members of this force.

Simultaneously, Minos was already absorbing his opponents' forces while focusing his techniques on making it difficult for those elders.

He then moved while wielding a spiritual weapon, causing his avatar to launch energy blades through space in different directions.

Swooish!

Those blades disappeared from the surroundings, leaving both the observers of the battle and the fighting elders confused by the current capability of the Spatial Sword.

But everyone directly involved in the battle felt their bodies being restricted by that ability as they moved.

Some of them could hardly move at all, feeling as if they were trapped inside their avatars, unable even to use their energy to activate their techniques.

On the other hand, the strongest ones there could use their techniques and move slowly, only with great difficulty, given how powerful that technique was.

'Unbelievable!'

'So that's what he can do with that technique?' Patriarch Terry wondered, feeling in his own skin, what it was like to be affected by this offensive technique of Minos.

They had heard and even seen Minos using such a thing in battle. Still, because of the great difference in cultivation between them before, these elders did not understand the feeling of being immobilized by it.

But in this situation, they all understood why Minos' opponents were usually so vulnerable after he used such a technique.

The Spatial Sword not only restricted the movement of its opponents but also strengthened the user's attack power, made it possible to launch spiritual blades, and now moved such blades through space.

Thus, as several of them suffered from Minos' terrifying powers, his blades appeared in directions no one expected, going against the bodies of his opponents.

"Damn it!" One of the level 78 elders screamed as he felt something appear near his back, heading toward his right arm.

He moved to try to dodge it, but even at his level, this man could not do much and saw part of his body being severed by Minos' attack.

Observers of this battle saw that man and two other level 78 elders suffered similar blows, losing hands or feet to Minos' blades.

These were not attacks aimed at taking life or threatening the special regeneration of Spiritual Saints. But even so, these attacks would cause those people to be without those parts of their bodies for a few days, thus decreasing their combat proficiency in this battle.

Everyone saw or felt this, noting that if Minos wanted to, he could take on local leaders and endanger the lives of even people at the head of the Flaming Empire.

'Is he that powerful?' A representative of the Holy Sect in the surrounding area wondered, feeling that Minos was going against common logic.

On the other hand, a member of the Mountain Sect, an organization that was not so friendly to the Gray Clouds Sect and wanted distance from Minos, could not help but notice how ridiculous it all was.

'That's absurd!'

'Not only can he decimate this entire group by himself, but he can also do it without even moving!' This person noticed the seven individuals who had changed sides and were pressing three opponents of Minos.

The three elders being pressured by those seven individuals were suffering without being able to attack, forced to defend themselves so as not to get seriously injured.

Unlike Minos, these people affected by the Infinite Dream illusion were using all their strength to attack the monsters they saw in their way, something inherent to the Dark Sea.

Minos had no control over this soul ability to the extent that his victims fought with less or more intent to kill. By falling into the illusion generated by their fears, these victims would naturally use everything at their disposal to protect themselves and avoid the worst.

So their blows could hurt a lot, and those elders facing them were taking the necessary care so that the worst would not happen.

Because of this, only five individuals, three with parts of their bodies cut off, were facing Emperor Stuart as he used all his abilities for the first time since his advancement to the 8th stage.

Chaotic Gravity: Destruction Meteors!

He activated this technique evolution while summoning the stones he had stored in one of his spatial rings.

When this happened, while his opponents could barely defend themselves, unable to counterattack, three grandiose meteors began to form over Minos' position.

Gulp!

'Is that the one technique?' Some Spiritual Saints on the outskirts of the battlefield, most of them members of the Gray Cloud Sect, wondered as they saw for the first time the technique that had defeated Vogel's Assembly.

Minos had many ways to defeat his opponents these days. But this was a great way for him to do it because he did not need to be close to his opponents, he used little force of his being, and the attack was extremely destructive.

That was the kind of attack that was very good for destroying enemy headquarters by surprise, something that, if the victims did not prepare well, they would not be able to save themselves in time!

Since those individuals fighting Minos were already quite tense, as they were under pressure from their own allies, the Devouring Art, the Infinite Dream, and the Dark Sea, they could not defend themselves against it.

So the moment Minos threw those three stone clusters, he ended this test battle before he even suffered the first attack from his opponents!

Boom!

The three stone clusters hit their targets, sending them hurtling toward the ground, miles below where the battle had taken place.

Meanwhile, the meteors exploded into thousands of smaller pieces, creating a beautiful meteor shower for those watching the local sky.

But to the happiness of Clouds City inhabitants, Minos had positioned Spiritual Saints strong enough for this moment, and when they saw those fragments, they soon acted to stop them from reaching the ground.

'Not bad... I can overpower groups of high-level Spiritual Saints too.' Minos smiled upon seeing all this, retracting his Soul Avatar.

He was still uncertain about this since the places he had passed in the last few weeks did not have enough people from the end of the 8th stage for him to test his strength. But in this sect, he could do that and finally reached a more realistic estimate of his actual strengths.

'From what I felt in this battle, my strength should only be below that of level 80 Spiritual Sages armed with Silver-grade techniques and equipment of a similar classification to their cultivation...'

"Not bad!"

'If that person manages to advance to the 9th stage, I have methods to at least temporarily ward him off!'