Douluo Unrivaled: The Beginning Materializes the Black Abyss and White Flowers

Chapter 297 Doomsday Beast

"I have no opinion."

D'Artagnan toyed with the water blade in his hand, his azure eyes gleaming with excitement, a smug smile playing on his lips. "As long as there's a fight, it doesn't matter who I help."

His purpose in participating in the Holy Grail War was not complicated—either to become stronger in the battle and win the Holy Grail in the end, or to die a glorious death under the blade of a powerful opponent.

Regardless of the outcome, it would be a satisfying ending for him, and the right or wrong of his stance was never within his consideration.

After all, he has no standing in this world.

Hoshimi Miyabi frowned slightly. Although she was a martial arts fanatic and her desire for strength was second to none, unlike Tadalia's carefree attitude, her mother's words always echoed in her ears.

"A true hero never draws his sword to kill anyone, but to protect."

At this moment, as she looked at the crying civilians in the distance and at the figures struggling under the claws of the antimatter legion, what surged in her heart was not fighting spirit, but an indescribable heaviness.

Rather than fighting with other Servants, what she wanted to do was to wield her sword and protect those innocent lives.

"Miss Ya, you don't need to push yourself."

Meng Hongchen spoke softly, her tone filled with understanding.

Having spent so much time with Hoshimi Miyabi, she had long since figured out that this seemingly cold and occasionally eccentric martial arts fanatic actually had his own set of beliefs.

"Go do whatever you want, it's okay."

Meng Hongchen never believed that a Master should be bossy towards a Servant, especially a top Servant like Hoshimi Miyabi. Going against her wishes and forcibly ordering her around would only backfire.

After all, the Master's control over the Servant is not as strong as imagined. Servants who are easy to talk to and obey their Master's orders, like Karna and Siegfried, are ultimately a minority.

Hoshimi Miya paused for a moment, her gaze softening as she looked at Meng Hongchen. She then nodded slightly, the cold light on her demon sword receding somewhat, before she transformed into a blur and rushed towards the area where the commoners were gathered.

Where the blade flashes, it is no longer a challenge to the strong, but a precise strike against the vagrants who threaten the civilians. Each strike carries just the right amount of restraint, killing the enemy without harming the innocent.

Jing Hongchen looked in the direction Xing Jianya had left and sighed softly, but there was no dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Both Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen respected Xing Jianya's choice, even though she did not choose to help them. After all, Xing Jianya saved the civilians of the Sun Moon Empire, the civilians they were supposed to protect.

Moreover, Kong Deming had never expected to have any extra helpers; having an additional powerful young master was already an unexpected bonus.

"Jingyuan, call thunder!"

A dazzling shooting star streaked across the night sky of Mingdu and suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Feixiao was surrounded by raging winds, his long silver hair was whipped up by the air currents, and the long-handled battle axe in his hand gleamed coldly.

Her gaze precisely locked onto the area shrouded in golden lightning and crimson flames. The familiar power fluctuations allowed her to instantly recognize two figures—Jing Yuan, the Divine Strategy General and her colleague, and Hu Lei, the chief warrior of the Bu Liren clan and a generational enemy of the fox people.

Almost instinctively, Feixiao gripped his battle axe and prepared to swoop down.

She could see clearly that although Jing Yuan had the upper hand, Hu Lei's scarlet aura continued to surge stubbornly, indicating that he was not yet at his wit's end.

The vitality of bountiful creatures has always been terrifying. Although Hu Lei is not the messenger of bountiful creatures, he has inherited that tenacity that makes them difficult to completely kill.

Jingyuan is not from the Jingliu school, and he lacks the sword skills and icy power to counter Hulei. It will likely take a considerable amount of time to completely defeat Hulei. This will be a protracted battle, and it remains to be seen how long Hulei can hold out.

However, at the very moment she moved slightly, in the starry sky of the alternate dimension, Xingxiao's fingertips gently brushed across the void projection.

The Great Lord of Annihilation's eyes were as cold as frost, clearly indicating that he did not intend to let Feixiao easily intervene in the battle.

"Crack——!"

The space above Mingdu suddenly shattered like glass, with countless cracks spreading out. An extremely ferocious aura surged out from the cracks, making the air in the entire city seem to freeze.

Feixiao abruptly stopped, his sharp gaze instantly locking onto the shattered void high above.

She could sense a terrifying power descending, carrying the will to destroy everything.

Accompanied by the mournful cry of the space, a claw entwined with countless vengeful spirits reached out first—the claw was covered in molten, charred armor, with purplish-black cracks swirling around its fingertips, and wherever it passed, even light was swallowed up.

With just one palm, it exuded a pressure that made even a Title Douluo tremble.

The next moment, another giant hand, shaped like a pale bone claw, emerged simultaneously. Its surface was covered with ice crystal patterns, and blue-white energy flowed between the claws, as if it could freeze time.

With two terrifying giant claws, one on each side, a gentle tear ripped through the already shattered space, making it as if it were made of paper.

Deep in the void, a terrifying dragon body hundreds of meters long slowly appeared. Its main body was covered with dark golden carapace, each scale shimmering with a cold metallic light. A long tail formed from calamity shadows extended from its back, the end of which was wrapped with dark purple energy, like a shattered star ring.

Most terrifyingly, in its chest cavity, a dark red sphere floats, its interior surging with the light of dark matter, and the crack-like energy veins covering its surface emit terrifying fluctuations powerful enough to shake the earth.

"Roar--!"

A deafening roar echoed through the heavens, mixed with the wails of countless vengeful spirits, as if it were a proclamation from hell.

This colossal dragon, an embodiment of destruction, descended from another dimension onto the Douluo Continent, hovering above Mingdu, casting a shadow that nearly covered half the city.

"Doomsday Beast..." Lu Jingming, who was in the distance, couldn't help but twitch his lips when he saw the giant beast.

As early as when the soul beasts of Jingyang Mountain were wiped out, he guessed that Xingxiao was secretly forging this thing—a war machine forged from 100,000-year-old soul beasts as a base, thrown into the furnace of war, and forged with the sorrow of countless bones and the unresolved will of all living beings.

The dark matter engine inside its chest cavity is the core of the Doomsday Beast, providing a continuous source of energy for its body.

This is a true anti-planet weapon. Even if it's just a "Pinduoduo version" made by Xingxiao using materials from Douluo Continent, it's still enough to possess demigod-level combat power.

Even Xingxiao likely has very few of these monsters, and would never use them unless absolutely necessary.

The Doomsday Beast's crimson eyes instantly locked onto Feixiao, as if it had identified this as its most formidable enemy.

It spread its enormous wings, and the dark matter core in its chest cavity suddenly lit up. Countless torrents of dark matter spread throughout its body like blood vessels, causing the aura of the entire behemoth to surge once again.

The sky turned dark red at that moment, and countless spatial rifts burst open due to this power.

The next moment, countless golden beams of destruction shot out from the Doomsday Beast, pouring down like a torrential rain—most of the beams precisely locked onto Feixiao, while a small portion transformed into indiscriminate attacks, falling towards the city of Mingdu. Wherever they passed, houses were instantly annihilated, and the ground was plowed with bottomless trenches.

"Ha, just in time!" Fei Xiao did not back down; instead, a fierce fighting spirit ignited in her eyes. The azure energy around her grew even more violent, and a huge phantom of a fox with wings on its back appeared behind her—it was her spirit, "Fei Huang."

The long-handled battle axe was swirling in the gale, emitting a buzzing sound.

Feixiao's figure transformed into a streak of blue meteor, breaking through the air resistance at supersonic speed, creating a series of airbursts along the way and leaving behind a huge ring of air in the sky.

Facing the destructive beams filling the sky, she charged fiercely towards the doomsday beast high in the sky. With each swing of her battle axe, the gale condensed into a giant wind blade, shattering the incoming beams one by one.

A clash between exceptionally powerful individuals suddenly erupted in the skies above Mingdu.

The azure gale intertwined with the dark golden dragon's body, and the destructive beams of light collided with the tearing wind blades, plunging the already ravaged city into an even more terrifying catastrophe.

"What the hell? Is this a dragon?"

Poison Undying's dark green soul power surged around him as he and several titled Douluo elders from the Body Sect protected Vina and other young disciples, attempting to break through to the outskirts of Mingdu East City.

The sudden appearance of the doomsday beast was like a dark cloud looming overhead, instantly capturing everyone's attention.

When the golden beams of destruction rained down like a storm, even Poison Undying, who had broken through to the Limit Douluo level, had his pupils shrink and hurriedly activated his main spirit to protect Vina and the others behind him.

He could clearly sense that the destructive energy contained in the beam of light was enough to kill an ordinary Title Douluo upon contact, and even he, a Limit Douluo, would never dare to take it head-on.

"Lord Feixiao... how could you handle such an offensive with such ease?"

As Du Bu Si gazed at the blue figure high in the sky, a storm of emotions surged within him.

Feixiao's figure weaved through the beams of light, the whirlwind whipped up by his long-handled battle axe repeatedly cleaving away fatal attacks. His composure made Feixiao feel inferior to him.

If it were him being targeted by the Doomsday Beast, he probably wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

Clearly, Fei Xiao had been holding back in his previous battle against him, but even with Fei Xiao holding back, he was still no match for Fei Xiao.

"Grandpa, we need to leave as soon as possible."

Vina's voice was unusually calm for a young girl; her mental energy had already spread out, giving her a complete view of the surrounding battle.

"Mingdu is already a dead end; dragging it out any longer will only make it more dangerous."

Her personality was naturally calm, and even when faced with the rampage of the antimatter legion and the oppressive apocalypse beast, there was no trace of panic in her eyes.

Poison Undying took a deep breath and nodded.

The danger level in Mingdu had far exceeded expectations. Even he had felt the deadly threat from the Servants several times just now. Each of those summoned beings possessed the power to shake the Limit Douluo.

Just as he took out the burrowing soul tool, preparing to lead everyone to evacuate underground, the Mingdu Imperial Palace in the distance suddenly erupted with a blinding light—a huge mushroom cloud shot into the sky, and the sun-like flames illuminated half of the night sky. The terrifying shockwave swept out, leveling the entire palace area to the ground!

"Hmm? Someone attacked the palace?" A glint flashed in Poison Undying's eyes, and his mental energy suddenly locked onto the direction of the palace.

He was well aware of the situation in the Sun Moon Empire. The current emperor was bedridden, and real power was in the hands of the regent, Xu Tianran.

That guy was ambitious and had always been a major threat to the Heavenly Soul Empire. He had originally planned to find an opportunity to eliminate this tyrant and buy the Heavenly Soul Empire a chance to breathe.

However, Xingxiao's sudden attack disrupted all plans, and he could only retreat in a hurry, with no time to spare for anything else.

But now, the unusual activity in the palace is undoubtedly a golden opportunity—anyone who dares to attack the palace at this time must be targeting Xu Tianran!

"If we can seize this opportunity to kill Xu Tianran..."

Poison Undying's breathing became rapid. "Mingdu is now in ruins. The Sun Moon Empire has suffered a heavy blow. Perhaps my Heavenly Soul Empire can take advantage of this and launch a counterattack to completely destroy this thorn in our side!"

"Take Aotian and Vina with you, and make sure you escape Mingdu!"

Without hesitation, Du Bu Si turned sharply to the elders and said, "I'll be right back. I'll try to take Xu Tianran's dog head!"

Before he finished speaking, his figure transformed into a dark green beam of light, breaking through the smoke and dust, and speeding towards the palace.

"Grandpa, be careful!" Vina didn't stop her; she knew better than anyone that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

With Xu Tianran dead, the situation of the Heavenly Soul Empire will be completely reversed. This risk is worth taking.

On the ruins of the palace, He Caitou was covered in heavy soul-guided armor, his eyes burning with the flames of revenge.

He gazed at the palace ruins engulfed in flames, a long-suppressed sense of satisfaction spreading across his face—this had once been his home, the burial ground for all his loved ones, and now it was finally reduced to ashes.

Beside him stood Karna, his golden armor gleaming with a sacred light in the firelight.

The anti-army treasure "Brahma, cover the earth" that just destroyed the palace was created by him.

Blinded by revenge, He Caitou didn't care whether innocent people would be affected. Upon arriving at the palace, he immediately ordered Karna to activate his Noble Phantasm against the army.

In his view, none of the Sun Moon Royal Family members were innocent; everyone in the palace was an accomplice to evil and deserved to die.

"How dare you attack the palace! You're asking for death!"

A roar came from the ruins, and the members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps rushed out from behind the remaining soul guide shield, instantly surrounding He Caitou and Karna.

Commander Xu Tianyuan's face was so gloomy it could drip water, his eyes burning with an almost insane desire for destruction, and all the soul-guided cannons around him were already deployed.

Karna frowned slightly, a strange light flashing in his eyes.

His "insights of the poor" can see into a person's true nature, but in Xu Tianyuan, what he saw was a distortion—his original humanity was being eroded by some strange force, and his essence was being quietly rewritten.

"This kind of erosion..."

Karna felt a chill run down his spine and glanced at the Soul Master Corps members around him, discovering that most of them had the same signs.

If their essence has been altered, can they still be considered "themselves"? Before he could ponder this further, the ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled violently, and countless cracks spread outwards.

The soul-guided cannons and various soul-guided devices hidden underground instantly rose and unfolded, with countless cannon muzzles pointing towards the center, their dark muzzles radiating a chilling killing intent.

(End of this chapter)