Chapter 339: Regardless of success or failure, is she the biggest winner?
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The deep blue sword tip rapidly enlarged in Gold Crocodile Douluo's vertical pupils. Suppressed by both Xue Wu's Ultimate Ice Domain and the lingering power of the Emperors Palm, he could not even lift a single finger.
He could only watch helplessly as that blade of light, representing death, rapidly closed in.
At the line between life and death.
A name, like a final straw to cling to, was roared out from between his teeth.
"Bibi Dong!!!"
"Are you still not going to make a move!!!"
Gold Crocodile Douluo's roar carried the unwillingness, anger, and a trace of imperceptible pleading of a 98th-level Peak Douluo.
However, the surroundings were deathly silent.
No sound responded to him.
Only the wailing of wind and snow, and the faint, sharp whistling of the sword blade cutting through the air.
Deep within the imperial palace, there was absolute silence, as if this heaven-shaking killing trap, capable of overturning the Empire and burying the Hall of Worship, had been nothing but a wishful stage of their own making from the very beginning.
"..." "???"
At this moment, in Gold Crocodile Douluo's vertical pupils, the last glimmer of hope was extinguished, replaced by a deathly, icy coldness and an unbelievable absurdity.
Beside him, Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, froze the moment she heard Gold Crocodile Douluo's desperate roar. Then, as if a bolt of icy lightning had split through her chaotic thoughts, a terrifying speculation that made her entire body go cold suddenly emerged!
She suddenly looked up, staring toward the Void Realm deep within the imperial palace where Bibi Dong should have been presiding.
At this moment, it was empty.
Immediately after, she looked fiercely at Gold Crocodile Douluo in the center of the field, the frozen Thousand Weight and Demon Subduing Douluo, and the surrounding Spirit Hall elites who were being used as sacrificial pawns... It was as if she understood something in an instant.
"Oh no!"
Qian Renxue exclaimed aloud, her voice slightly distorted by extreme shock and anger.
"We... we have all fallen for that madwoman's scheme!"
"If this Heaven Dou palace coup succeeds, she, Bibi Dong, can naturally conquer the entire Heaven Dou Empire and consolidate her power with such a great achievement! If it fails... she can also take this opportunity to bury all those core forces belonging to the Hall of Worship that do not obey her orders!"
"Weakening the Hall of Worship, eliminating dissidents—regardless of success or failure, she is the biggest winner!"
"Madwoman... this absolute madwoman!"
"For the sake of power, she even dares to gamble with the very Foundation of Spirit Hall!"
Hearing this, Snake Lance, Porcupinefish, and the others were struck as if by lightning. Their faces turned ashen instantly, and a chill and sense of betrayal from the marrow of their bones made them feel freezing cold.
In Gold Crocodile Douluo's eyes, beneath that deathly grey, a monstrous rage suddenly erupted! Being used, being abandoned, being sacrificed as a pawn...
This humiliation made him even crazier than the death he was about to face!
"Bibi Dong, you bastard!"
"If I die today, do you think the High Priest will let you off!?"
However, that ice-blue Emperor Sword would not pause in the slightest due to the revelation of this cruel truth; it was already thrusting directly toward Gold Crocodile Douluo's glabella!
But just at the moment the sword tip was about to pierce through Gold Crocodile Douluo's skull and spill blood,
Hum—!
A golden light, pure to the extreme and carrying dual attributes of fire and light, suddenly erupted without warning from somewhere on Gold Crocodile Douluo's body!
Immediately following, the golden light spread across his entire body like quicksilver poured upon the ground.
Wherever it passed, that incredibly hard, deep blue ice containing the chill of annihilation hissed like snow encountering a scorching sun, then rapidly melted and vaporized!
Although this golden light only lasted for a fleeting moment and only melted the outermost layer of ice, failing to completely break the absolute suppression of Xue Wu's Ultimate Ice Domain, for Gold Crocodile Douluo, it was already enough!
"Roar—!!!"
Having broken free from the restraints, Gold Crocodile Douluo immediately let out a primordial roar mixed with endless humiliation, rage, and the desire to survive! Immediately after, the deep, blood-colored Soul Ring under his feet shone with unprecedented brightness the very instant the golden light appeared!
The next second, a surge of dark golden Soul Power, as vast as a tsunami, shot into the sky, forcibly shattering the remaining icy confinement around him!
In the blink of an eye, the illusory Golden Crocodile King true form behind Gold Crocodile Douluo solidified once again.
An aura of barbaric violence, as if it could tear the heavens apart, erupted along with it!
"Want to kill this old man? You are not qualified!"
With crimson eyes, Gold Crocodile Douluo sneered. He stared fixedly at the ice-blue Emperor Sword that was already within reach, then poured his lifelong cultivation, all his Soul Power, and the monstrous rage from being betrayed into this final and strongest Ninth Spirit Skill.
"Ninth Spirit Skill: Crocodile Emperor Devours the World!"
The next second, a roar that seemed to come from ancient times rang out. Gold Crocodile Douluo opened his huge mouth, not aimed at Tang Chuan, but at that ice-blue blade of light!
The phantom of the Golden Crocodile King behind him simultaneously made a motion of devouring heaven and earth. Inside its huge mouth, a deep, pitch-black terrifying vortex, seemingly capable of swallowing light and Souls, suddenly took shape. At the edge of the vortex, dark golden lightning darted wildly, emitting a destructive force of annihilation!
This strike held nothing back; it was his ultimate outburst in a desperate, near-death situation, fusing his lifelong cultivation and all his Soul Power! He intended to use his Ninth Spirit Skill to clash head-on with Snow Empress's Emperor Sword!
The next second, two ultimate lethal moves representing different Peak powers collided with a boom less than three feet from Gold Crocodile Douluo's glabella!
There was no sound.
Or rather, the sound was completely swallowed the moment it was born by the annihilating energy that erupted at the point of contact, a force that surpassed the limits of perception.
Replacing it was a ring of energy ripples, solidified to the point of being nearly black, yet with edges blooming in destructive gold and blue light, expanding and diffusing outward at a speed that transcended thought!
Wherever it passed, space emitted a groan of unbearable weight.
The remaining side hall ruins, towering palace walls, exquisite pavilions and towers, and even the intact palace rooftops further away... in the face of this destructive ripple, were as fragile as sandcastles.
They were not shattered; rather, they were directly erased and vaporized from the level of existence by the power of annihilation produced by that extreme collision!
There were no fragments, no roaring sounds of collapse.
There was only a rapidly expanding, bare, flat scorched earth as if licked by an invisible giant beast, along with billowing smoke and turbulent energy rising into the sky, blotting out the sun!
The entire core area of the Heaven Dou imperial palace was forcibly razed by the aftermath of this strike! As far as the eye could see, only the devastated, scorched black earth and the lingering, pervasive smoke of Chaos remained.
Dugu Bo and the others had been protected by the Domain power Tang Chuan had quietly spread out just before the collision, and then retreated far away. At this moment, gazing at the core of the destruction, they were all struck with terror.
A moment later, the smoke slowly settled and then disappeared.
The turbulent energy also gradually subsided.
In the air at this moment, Gold Crocodile Douluo's figure had disappeared.
Even the ice sculptures of the two frozen Thousand Weight and Demon Subduing Douluo were gone.
As well as the remaining Titled Douluo of Spirit Hall like Snake Lance and Porcupinefish, and Qian Renxue, all had vanished without a trace, as if they had never existed.
"Escaped? What was that golden light just now?"
Looking at this scene before him, Tang Chuan frowned slightly. Then, his figure moved, intending to chase in the direction where the energy disturbance was last sensed. For the opponent to disappear instantly under the aftermath of such a collision and his own Domain lock was no easy feat; there must have been an extremely powerful rescue or backup plan.
However, just as he took a step, a golden feather drifted down lightly from the smoke and energy glimmer that had not yet fully dispersed.
It landed precisely on Tang Chuan's newly raised left shoulder.
Seeing this, Tang Chuan stopped abruptly, then raised his hand and pinched the feather with two fingers.
The feather felt warm and smooth to the touch, not a real bird feather, but composed of a golden, sacred energy condensed to the extreme. It faintly emitted a soft and pure halo, and felt warm to the touch, which was completely out of place with the surrounding lingering aura of Ultimate Ice.
Staring at the golden feather on his fingertips, a trace of solemnity flashed deep in Tang Chuan's eyes.
The next second, he slowly raised his head and looked toward the sky from where the feather had drifted, as if he could pierce through space and see a certain towering hall located in the clouds above Spirit City.
"Angel Douluo... Qian Daoliu?"
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