Tang Wulin's right foot stomped the ground violently. Accompanied by a low dragon roar, a terrifying shockwave erupted with him at the center. Within a thirty-meter diameter, the very space seemed to collapse. Even the Demon Gate released by Huo Yuhao shattered under this vibration.
Eight golden dragons soared from the earth, each over five meters long. More terrifyingly, the surrounding space warped under the writhing of these eight golden dragons.
Golden Dragon Nine Forms: Golden Dragon Shakes the Earth!
Huo Yuhao raised Elucidator, swinging it upward to trace an elegant black arc as golden light erupted from his body.
With a single slash, the surrounding area instantly turned purple. Immediately after, the air seemed to boil, releasing massive purple bubbles that swarmed from tricky angles toward Tang Wulin's eight golden dragons. Each bubble contained the power of Ultimate Darkness.
A skill from the inheritance of the Demon King of the Demon Plane: Dark Wither.
The purple-black bubbles collided unreservedly with the golden dragons formed by the combat technique. Waves of bubbles popped, and the golden dragons were simultaneously corroded and torn apart by the dark energy released from the bursts.
Furthermore, the dark energy from the popping bubbles suppressed Tang Wulin's blood essence. Under Huo Yuhao's control, it threaded into Tang Wulin's body like silk, intending to slowly grind him down.
One could see that this situation was making Tang Wulin's expression grow anxious.
Using the power of light against the "extremely hard and masculine" Golden Dragon King was clearly unsuitable, so Huo Yuhao felt that utilizing the power of darkness was the optimal choice.
At least for now, the results were good.
Tang Wulin let out a furious roar toward the sky, and golden specks of light appeared in every corner of his body.
A ferocious yet magnificent suit of golden armor covered Tang Wulin entirely. Protrusions resembling dragon horns appeared on both sides of the helmet, and a golden mask slid down, concealing his handsome face.
"Holy crap!"
Huo Yuhao was momentarily speechless. After donning this armor, this guy's cultivation level—and his overall aura—had spiked directly to the Soul Saint level for no logical reason...
"Talk about futuristic high-tech... if the Sun Moon Empire saw this, they'd probably die of envy."
With a forceful stomp of his right foot, the blazing Golden Dragon King blood essence forcibly blew away the surrounding dark energy. Tang Wulin then spun his body, his right leg sweeping out like a lightning strike. A massive dragon tail whipped across the air, heading straight for Huo Yuhao.
Tang Wulin had realized that he was inferior to the guy in front of him in terms of technique, so he stopped trying to compete with skill and opted for "absolute strength breaks all laws."
Huo Yuhao traced a pattern with both hands, manifesting a purple-gold shield in front of him to block Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Swings Tail.
The shield shattered, and Huo Yuhao retreated several steps, slightly pressing his numbed hands.
He truly was the Golden Dragon King; his strength was indeed extraordinary, even stronger than the tail-swing of that Nine-Sectioned Fish Dragon Beast.
Tang Wulin pressed his advantage. He circled his hands at his sides and pushed forward solemnly. A massive dragon head solidified once more, instantly transforming into a thirty-meter-long golden dragon that lunged forward fiercely.
Golden Dragon Ascends to Heaven!
"Indeed, at the five-ring level, you are quite a bit stronger than your father."
Instead of retreating, Huo Yuhao advanced. He tapped his toes on the ground and flapped the wings on his back, transforming into a streak of black-gold light that charged toward Tang Wulin, nearly grazing past the Golden Dragon Ascends to Heaven.
An emerald-green arc flashed, and the two bodies crossed paths.
"!!!"
Tang Wulin's expression was one of pure shock.
That's right, he was completely stunned. He slowly lowered his head, looking at his Battle Armor in disbelief.
The belt of his Battle Armor... had shattered.
In Tang Wulin's era, the energy core of an entire set of Battle Armor was the belt. Consequently, Battle Armor Masters prioritized the defense of the belt above all else.
Yet, it had been destroyed just like that by the emerald-green short sword in Huo Yuhao's hand...
The emerald glow faded in an instant. That suit of One-Word Battle Armor, forged from Spirit Alloy, simply turned to ash...
Huo Yuhao nonchalantly shook the Life Sword in his hand. "Life Gold. Supposedly, it also carries the title of 'Mother of Metals.' I doubt you've heard of it."
However, it was clear that the system-set Tang Wulin would not give up the fight just because his Battle Armor was destroyed—though that might just be Tang Wulin's natural personality.
The four golden halos retracted, replaced by the five soul rings of the Blue Silver Emperor. His first four ten-thousand-year soul rings flashed, and in the next moment, a massive figure standing sixty meters tall appeared.
Huo Yuhao was somewhat stunned. Was this a soul spirit? Why did it look no different from a physical soul beast?
This form... could it be a Tyrannosaurus Rex? He actually had a Tyrannosaurus Rex as a soul spirit?
The Tyrannosaurus Rex snorted a cloud of hot air from its nostrils before opening its massive maw, spraying a stream of crimson fire.
"Mmgh."
Huo Yuhao hurriedly raised his hand to block, but he was knocked out of the sky by the Tyrannosaurus Rex's Dragon Flame Breath.
Simultaneously, a golden light suddenly appeared beside Tang Wulin, charging toward Huo Yuhao.
Was that a snake? Or a flood dragon?
"...You seem to have forgotten one thing."
Huo Yuhao didn't panic; instead, he shook his head with a hint of regret. With a flash of emerald and dark green light from his body, two spheres of light charged toward the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jin Yu.
The Ice Emperor soul spirit let out a disdainful snort. With a flick of her scorpion tail, an emerald pillar of light shot out. Accompanied by pillars of ice rising from the ground, she froze the swaggering Tyrannosaurus Rex solid.
It was true that a Tyrannosaurus Rex soul spirit could rival a 100,000-year-old Soul Beast, but the Ice Emperor was a genuine 400,000-year-old Soul Beast...
The flood-dragon-like soul spirit, Jin Yu, was also ensnared by the Soul-Eating Emperor's spider web, where it was being corroded by the web's intense venom.
"If we go by the so-called normal progression of history, soul spirits were created by [Huo Yuhao]. Therefore, you really shouldn't use soul spirits against me..."
Your soul spirits are impressive, but I'm sorry—I am the one who created soul spirits.
Sure enough, after the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jin Yu were neutralized by the Ice Emperor and the Soul-Eating Emperor, Tang Wulin's face turned deathly pale. He swayed, appearing as if he could no longer hold his form.
With his Battle Armor destroyed and his soul spirits incapacitated, even with the Golden Dragon King bloodline, he would be helpless in this situation.
Yet Tang Wulin still did not give up. A golden light flashed in his hand, revealing a weapon very familiar to Huo Yuhao: the Golden Dragon Spear!
"..."
Huo Yuhao fell silent for a moment. Then, black-gold light flickered across his body, and he appeared in front of Tang Wulin as if teleporting.
He nimbly dodged the spear sweeping toward him and silently pressed his palm against Tang Wulin's chest. The power of light, compressed to the extreme, pulsed irregularly within the inch of space at his palm. Black-gold lightning flickered in and out; even a body as powerful as Tang Wulin's could not move before the electric net formed by this strange black-gold energy.
"You rely too much on this so-called Golden Dragon King bloodline. You haven't utilized your own advantages at all. Be it your martial soul or your weapons, they are just tools to you. Still, you're much stronger than your father."
He gave a gentle push. Driven by the black-gold light sphere, Tang Wulin's body was sent flying like a cannonball, tracing a straight line through the air and creating a sonic boom.
Only five seconds later did the low rumble reach Huo Yuhao's ears. In the distance, a spectacular ring of intermingled black and golden light could be seen expanding outward.
Huo Yuhao murmured to himself, "...Even with the Golden Dragon King bloodline, you shouldn't be able to withstand this Light-Dark Divine Thunder."
Soon, the system notification [Tang Wulin Defeated] appeared before him.
This wasn't the Light-Dark Divine Thunder mastered by Lan Xuanyu in his past life—or rather, the Dragon God. Because Huo Yuhao's current cultivation was insufficient, he could not yet simultaneously control the elements of time and space to revolve around light and darkness.
However, he possessed the Ultimate Thunder attribute. This version of the Light-Dark Divine Thunder was similar in form but different in essence to what the Dragon God once held. Under the guidance of Electrolux, it involved attaching the attributes of light and darkness to lightning before firing it, using the explosion generated by the absolute opposition of light and darkness to damage the enemy.
Previously, Electrolux had only taken him through practice sessions for this move; he didn't actually know its specific power. If not for the second awakening of the Spirit Eye martial soul, which greatly enhanced Huo Yuhao's elemental control, he wouldn't have been able to pull it off.
[Congratulations to [ID0001 Huo Yuhao] for passing Stage 3. Assessment completed before Level 50. Calculating strategic and tactical evaluation, settling rewards...]
[Comprehensive Strategic and Tactical Evaluation: A.]
[Reward: Map of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well]