Black mist surged around Bone Dragon Douluo. The bone dragon shadow roared at the sky. Countless stark white bone spikes broke through the ground, forming a forest of death that enveloped Huo Yuhao.
Bone Prison, Thousand Thorn Burial.
Each bone spike was wrapped with distorted spatial power. Wherever they passed, even light was cut into pieces.
This was Bone Dragon Douluo's ninth spirit ability. Combined with his spatial attribute, it was enough to turn a hundred meter radius into a death domain.
Golden light flowed in Huo Yuhao's eyes. His right wrist suddenly pressed down. Five flick claw marks in gold and silver tore through the earth. The dark gold main blade's edgeered with crescent shaped silver radiance. Everything in their path was directly annihilated into nothingness.
Behind the fifty meter long light marks, silver spatial cracks spread wildly like spider webs at the edges of the passage, blocking all attacks from Bone Dragon Douluo.
"Bear Lord's Heaven Tearing Claw?"
Seeing yet another terrifying application of spatial power, Bone Dragon Douluo felt he was going numb.
Huo Yuhao was like a bottomless treasure house. Every time he acted, he displayed a suffocating depth.
Facing him, Bone Dragon Douluo even found himself wondering whether he was the Super Douluo or Huo Yuhao was. Logically, the situation should be reversed, should it not?
He should be suppressing Huo Yuhao, using endless methods to control him. Not like this, constantly restricted by Huo Yuhao's, making it difficult to exert his strength.
"Should he just wait for Huo Yuhao's spirit power to run out?"
This thought arose in Bone Dragon Douluo's mind.
He had already determined during the battle that Huo Yuhao possessed a soul core. But compared to him, with his Twin Soul Cores and level 96 cultivation, Huo Yuhao's spirit power was beyond doubt at a disadvantage. So on this point, he was quite confident.
Boom.
Just as Bone Dragon Douluo was thinking, the sky suddenly split open. A terrifying aura rose in the distance. The battle between Huo Yuhao and Bone Dragon Douluo was therefore affected. They temporarily stopped fighting, immediately separated, and cautiously looked into the distance.
Huo Yuhao frowned in that direction, his expression condensed.
This was the pressure of a Limit Douluo, and more than one. That direction was three Limit Douluo. But among them, the only familiar auras were Divine Domain Douluo and Duoqing Douluo. Soul Calming Douluo was not there.
In other words, another Limit Douluo had joined the battle.
Bone Dragon Douluo was equally shocked as he looked in that direction.
This familiar aura. Could it be that lord?
...
Before Huo Yuhao and Bone Dragon Douluo could notice that a new Limit Douluo had joined, over the sea outside Xihai City, Blood Shadow Douluo was covered in blood. Half of his body was almost torn apart. His entire being was like a rag doll as Soul Calming Douluo sent him crashing into the seabed.
"Cough, cough." Blood Shadow Douluo struggled to burst out of the sea. Looking at Soul Calming Douluo's leisurely figure, his face was as pale as paper.
His proud strength had been completely suppressed.
He was a level 97 Super Douluo, a step stronger than Bone Dragon Douluo and Magic Scythe Douluo. Now, with the blessing of Three Word Battle Armor, he was infinitely close to a Limit Douluo.
But the man before him was of course rubbing him on the water, as if it were the most natural thing. He had not even used his battle armor.
Not only that, Blood Shadow Douluo also had a vague feeling that his martial soul was also being suppressed.
Blood Shadow Demon, that was his martial soul. It was an evil martial soul similar to the Blood Eye martial soul, capable of controlling blood. Its core ability was to rapidly grow by devouring fresh blood and spirit power.
It was because of this ability that he had stood out in the Holy Spirit Cult and become a core member.
But when facing Soul Calming Douluo, he often felt a sense of powerlessness. This was a phenomenon that only occurred with martial soul suppression between similar martial souls.
This meant that the other party's martial soul was also an evil martial soul.
"You are from the Spirit Transmission Tower's Execution Department?"
Blood Shadow Douluo looked darkly at Soul Calming Douluo.
He knew that the Douluo Federation had two organizations for managing evil martial soul possessors, the Spirit Transmission Tower's Execution Department and the Federation's Dark Department. But the Dark Department's head was elusive, having not appeared for many years. The highest head of the Spirit Transmission Tower's Execution Department should only be a level 97 Super Douluo.
Possessing such a dangerous martial soul and such formidable strength, yet being allowed by the Spirit Transmission Tower to act freely and even sit in the position of one of the Four Great Spirit Transmission Envoys. It seemed this Soul Calming Douluo was more dangerous than he had imagined. Choosing him as an opponent had been a mistake.
Fortunately, his task was only to block Soul Calming Douluo and prevent him from participating in what was happening on Huo Yuhao's side.
Now, after such a long time, Bone Dragon should have succeeded.
(Bone Dragon Douluo said, "..." What could I say? Want to switch?)
Soul Calming Douluo glanced at Blood Shadow Douluo. "Whatever you think. Now..."
Before his voice faded, his expression suddenly changed. His gaze condensed toward the distance.
This aura... was a Near Divine?
Blood Shadow Douluo also sensed the distant aura. He was startled, then ecstatic. "Ha ha ha. Soul Calming Douluo, you are finished. Lord Ghost Emperor has come in person. Today is your day of death."
A trace of gravity flashed in Soul Calming Douluo's eyes, but it quickly returned to calm. A set of dark red armor, more magnificent than Blood Shadow Douluo's battle armor, gradually appeared on him.
And upon seeing this set of battle armor, Blood Shadow Douluo's laughter stopped as abruptly as a chicken whose neck had been grabbed.
"Four Word Battle Armor."
Four Word Battle Armor was a rare treasure within the Holy Spirit Cult.
After all, without a Divine Craftsman, Four Word Battle Armor relied on the soul master's own nurturing. And those with the energy and ability to do this were generally Limit Douluo who had reached a limit in their cultivation.
Their Holy Spirit Cult only had a few Limit experts who were Four Word Battle Armor Masters. In this aspect, they were completely no match for the Douluo Federation.
But this was not what shocked Blood Shadow Douluo the most. What surprised him even more was that with the appearance of the Four Word Battle Armor, an aura no less than that of a Semi Divine rose from Soul Calming Douluo.
Blood Shadow Douluo's pupils violently contracted. His entire body trembled uncontrollably.
He stared at the dark red, blood like Four Word Battle Armor and Soul Calming Douluo himself. His Adam's apple rolled hard, but he could not make a sound.
A Limit Douluo?
He had been hiding his strength before? Even while fighting him, he had wanted to continue hiding his strength?
Lord Ghost Emperor's intervention had instead become his own death warrant.
"I had originally wanted to bury you in a quieter way. But now it seems that will not work."
Soul Calming Douluo's tone was indifferent. He slowly raised his right hand. The originally azure sea instantly took on a dark red hue. The seawater within a kilometer radius eerily boiled, rising countless blood red bubbles.
Seeing an attack far surpassing the previous one approaching, Blood Shadow Douluo could only bite the bullet and respond while cursing in his heart.
He was done. This old schemer. You, a Limit Douluo, still pretending to have a lower cultivation. What about your pride as an expert? Do you not feel shame?
...
The joys and sorrows of people are not the same. While Blood Shadow Douluo was suffering a crushing beating, Duoqing Douluo looked expressionlessly at the man who had appeared without warning before him. His eyes were extremely condensed.
A Near Divine Limit.
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