Its only weakness was its lackluster defenses, but on the average battlefield, there was no need for it to defend itself.

With its extreme speed and attacking power, it was often the case that its opponent was already dead before they could even react to it, so why would it require sound defenses?

It had planned this surprise attack well in advance, and it had chosen Nangong Yi as its target as it could sense that Nangong Yi was one of the weakest combatants in the human camp.

It was extremely important to constantly weaken the opposition in a team battle, so the Sickle Emperor had accumulated power in advance and unleashed a full-force attack from the get-go, aiming to take down one of the human combatants with a single attack.

However, it didn't expect this human to be so stoic and decisive. In the face of that lethal attack, Nangong Yi didn't cower in the slightest.

If he had chosen to retreat, then the Sickle Emperor would've immediately switched its target to Shi Mengshan. Furthermore, the Sickle Emperor would've been able to take advantage of the opening created by Nangong Yi's retreat to slice its way into the opposition's formation, thereby creating more chances for its allies. If that had happened, then the entire human camp would be forced onto the back foot from the get-go.

However, Nangong Yi had stood his ground, and in the face of this lethal attack, he had chosen to fight fire with fire. He knew that there was a very good chance that he would perish, while his opponent would only be wounded, but he had still made this decision without any hesitation.

Even the detonation of his three-word battle armor wasn't able to completely withstand the Sickle Emperor's attack, but if the Sickle Emperor had committed fully to its attack and struck Nangong Yi with both of its sickles, then there was no way that Nangong Yi would've survived.

However, if the Sickle Emperor had done that, then it would've also been even more severely wounded.

Currently, the wounds that it had sustained would weaken its combat prowess by about 50%, but if it had killed Nangong Yi without any regard for its own safety, then it would've been weakened by as much as 70% to 80%, which would make it very likely for it to be revenge killed by other combatants of the human camp.

Thus, the Sickle Emperor ultimately made a split-second decision to save itself, withdrawing one of its sickles in defense.

As a result, Nangong Yi survived, but even then, the Sickle Emperor was still severely wounded.

Nangong Yi was undoubtedly in worse shape than the Sickle Emperor, but one had to realize that the Sickle Emperor could easily rank among the top four among the combatants of the abyssal plane on this battlefield, while Nangong Yi was ranked near the bottom among the human camp. Even more importantly, he had completely ruined the Sickle Emperor's plan to rush in from the side and disrupt the human camp's formation.

Just this exchange alone was enough to show that Nangong Yi was worthy of his position as a Battle God!

Right at this moment, Guan Yue sprang into action.

As the leader of the human camp, he hadn't stepped in to assist Nangong Yi against that surprise attack. Instead, he raised his Sky Crossing Divine Spear in a calm manner before hurling through the air like lightning.

In the instant that he released his spear, no one, regardless of whether they were friend or foe, could tell which enemy he was targeting.

Both sides were disrupted visually by the violent energy storm, which had distorted all fo the light in the air.

Everyone had witnessed Guan Yue dominating Black Sovereign in battle earlier, so all of the powerful abyssal beings were waiting with bated breath to see which of them he was targeting with his Sky Crossing Divine Spear.

His attack seemed to have set off all of his allies as well, and all of the other Battle Gods sprang into action almost at the exact same time.

Ao Rui brought his palms together in front of himself, and his eyes instantly turned a reddish-golden color while his seventh soul ring lit up. The scintillating sun above his head quickly descended to devour his entire body, and as it did so, it swelled to over three times its original size. This was his martial soul true body!

Meanwhile, Mo Zihong suddenly hurled his Demonic Zither through the air.

As a control-system Soul Master, he had thrown away his martial soul for some reason! All of the spectators were quite perplexed by this. What was he doing? None of them had ever even heard of a control system Soul Master employing such a tactic.

Wasn't he supposed to be using his zither to exert control over the entire battlefield?

In the next instant, everyone was stunned to discover that Mo Zihong had hurled his Demonic Zither directly toward Ao Rui rather than toward the enemy.

Not only that, but a peculiar smile appeared on his face, and his seventh soul ring also lit up, causing his Demonic Zither to glow brightly as it flew through the air.

In the next instant, the Demonic Zither was elongated, and Mo Zihong shot forth toward it as a streak of light like a moth toward a flame. His Demonic Zither itself had transformed into a long line of light, and it was hanging in the sky.

However, in the instant it fused into Ao Rui's martial soul true body, Ao Rui suddenly transformed.

The scintillating sun that had just swallowed Ao Rui suddenly elongated on either side, transforming into an ovular shape, and the white line of light stretched directly across the longest section of the oval.

At the same time, Mo Zihong's ninth soul ring lit up as he flew through the air.

For any Soul Master, their ninth soul skill was always their ultimate and most powerful soul skill.

After unleashing his ninth soul skill, Mo Zihong transformed into a streak of white light that landed on the white line of light with unerring accuracy.

In the blink of an eye, the line of white light split up into seven, and at the same time, the scorching sun that was Ao Rui transformed into a massive reddish-golden zither.

"Is that a soul fusion skill?" Ghost Emperor exclaimed.

Even everyone from the human army was stunned to see this, let alone the likes of Ghost Emperor and Infernal Emperor.

Everyone was aware of Long Tianwu and Su Mengjun's soul fusion skill, but when had Ao Rui and Mo Zihong, who possessed completely different martial soul skills, also developed a soul fusion skill?

After the two martial soul true bodies combined as one, the intensity of the energy fluctuations the finished product was releasing was even superior to that of Guan Yue. In the Battle God Hall of the past, perhaps only Chen Xinjie's power would've been on par with this soul fusion skill.

It had always been common knowledge to all Soul Masters that the Spirit Pagoda was the wealthiest Soul Master organization, while Shrek Academy was the most powerful Soul Master organization.

The Battle God Hall did rank alongside the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek Academy, and the Tang Sect, but for the majority of Soul Masters, they were only aware that the Battle God Hall was the place where all of the most powerful beings of the military were gathered.

However, very few people were truly aware of exactly how powerful the Battle God Hall was; all they knew that it was answered directly to the federation.

In everyone's eyes, the Battle God Hall was the organization that had existed for the shortest length of time among the four, and it also seemed to be the weakest overall.

However, Ao Rui and Mo Zihong had proven to everyone through their actions that the Battle God Hall was not to be underestimated. In this battle that was going to decide the fate of the entire Douluo Continent, they weren't holding back any longer, and they were finally displaying their true power.

One had to realize that Long Tianwu and Su Mengjun were the second and 13th Battle Gods, respectively, but their soul fusion skill was already extremely powerful, yet Ao Rui and Mo Zihong were ranked first and fifth among the Battle Gods, respectively!