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

Chapter 359 Starry Roar and Illusion

"This guy is really fast, and his ability to save his life is top-notch."

Black Tower pursed his lips, seemingly slightly disappointed that he hadn't been able to collect more complete data on the dying state of the Extinction Lord.

Then, as if she remembered something, she flipped her wrist and took out something from somewhere, throwing it towards Huang Quan, who was standing still.

"Hey, here you go. This is what that little guy specifically told me to give you after you're done playing."

It turned out to be a plump, juicy peach with an enticing sweet aroma.

At that very moment, a faint, yet real, glimmer of light appeared in Huang Quan's previously empty and lifeless eyes.

Almost instinctively, she reached out gently and precisely caught the peach that was tracing a beautiful arc in the air.

"Thank you."

She spoke softly, and the lingering sense of etherealness in her voice seemed to have lessened somewhat, replaced by a subtle, human vitality.

She really likes peaches.

This fruit embodies the joy of life's growth and the sweetness of sunshine and rain, yet it is also so fragile and fleeting. This contradictory quality always stirs subtle ripples in her tranquil heart.

"Tsk!"

Seeing Huang Quan seem to come alive instantly because of a peach, and even showing a hint of satisfaction, Hei Ta couldn't help but purse his lips, a complicated expression on his face.

For those beings who were summoned by Lu Jingming in a special way, Lu Jingming was sometimes just... too unfair.

His understanding of them sometimes even surpassed that of the women themselves.

Lu Jingming seems to always be able to accurately grasp a person's preferences, personality, hidden desires, and even deep-seated yearnings, and can always find the perfect key to understand them.

Just like now, Huang Quan had only recently been summoned to this realm, yet he became one of Lu Jingming's most reliable henchmen almost without hesitation.

What could bring back the light of humanity in the eyes of this messenger who was walking on a path of nothingness and should have been indifferent to everything was not some earth-shattering existence, but simply a peach that was as ordinary as could be in countless worlds.

Besides Lu Jingming, who else could have imagined or would have done this?

Throughout her life, Huang Quan spent her endless journey searching for fleeting encounters and the meaning of existence in order to combat the maddening sense of emptiness that constantly eroded her.

Lu Jingming, on the other hand, gave her a new and unexpected encounter and anchor point, allowing her to briefly break free from that bottomless void and gain more time to continue her long and lonely pursuit.

That's why she chose to help Lu Jingming without hesitation, and came to this inner sea of ​​the star to ambush the Great Lord Huanlong of Annihilation.

"The mission is finally complete, and this place can finally have some peace and quiet for a while."

Black Tower rose from her throne, stretched lazily, revealing her graceful figure.

"Alright, that's a wrap."

She clapped her hands, and her figure, along with the technologically advanced throne, began to slowly fade, like a stream of data being erased.

"Remember to go back and tell that little guy that I helped him solve the problem, but he owes me double the amount of lab supplies, not a single gram less."

Before she finished speaking, she and the throne had completely vanished, as if they had never existed.

Huang Quan stood quietly in place, gazing in the direction where the black tower had disappeared, remaining silent for a moment.

She slowly turned her head again, looking at the halo of dimensional will that was still trembling slightly and radiating waves of fear. Her empty gaze lingered on it for a long time.

"Only forgetting..."

She murmured to herself, her voice as soft as a sigh, yet carrying an ancient, unsettling heaviness.

"That is eternal demise."

In the end, her purple figure, like ink merging into water, faded quietly, vanished into nothingness, and disappeared completely into the once tranquil inner sea of ​​the star.

The waves in the Starry Sea had not yet completely subsided, but in a different space attached to the Douluo plane barrier, the cold starlight flowed quietly like a curtain, reflecting Xing Xiao's indifferent profile, which seemed to be sculpted from ten thousand years of ice.

She stood silently in the void, as if she herself were part of this silent realm.

Suddenly, the smooth, mirror-like space in front of her, used for observing external dynamics, violently distorted, like glass shattered by a tremendous force, bursting forth with countless spiderweb-like cracks.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely dim, almost merging-with-nothing dark green stream of light suddenly burst forth, carrying with it an indescribable aura of chaos, weakness, and decay on the verge of dissipation. It crashed heavily onto the invisible ground of the alternate dimension, stirring up invisible ripples of energy.

As the light faded, the figure within was revealed—it was none other than Huanlong, who had been so confident just moments before.

But at this moment, she had already shed all her alluring charm and the majesty of the Great Lord of Annihilation.

That perfectly crafted body, painstakingly sculpted from the core of the Golden Tree, was now covered with countless tiny yet shocking cracks.

These are not ordinary physical damages, but rather like the void scars left behind after some essential existence has been forcibly erased, which cannot be judged by common sense. At the edges, there is still a chilling sense of nothingness that constantly erodes the existing rules.

Her body became translucent, her aura extremely weak and feeble. The once vibrant emerald life force and dark destructive energy that had intertwined around her now flickered like a candle in the wind, as if it would be extinguished completely at any moment, returning to nothingness. She curled up on the ground in agony, her body trembling uncontrollably. Each delicate breath was accompanied by the dissipation of precious life energy, making even maintaining the most basic form extremely difficult.

She struggled to lift her head, and her eyes, which had once been captivating and alluring, were now filled with pain, weakness, anger, and humiliation.

Just then, a clear, calm voice, devoid of any emotion, came from not far in front of her.

"It seems your probing...did not go very well."

Xingxiao didn't even turn around completely; he merely tilted his head slightly, his eyes devoid of any emotion, looking down at his disheveled colleagues with an almost absolute rationality, his tone as indifferent as if he were commenting on something unrelated to himself.

"Indeed... it was my carelessness."

Huanlong's voice was hoarse, but surprisingly he did not lose his composure. Instead, his extreme pain was tinged with a coldness.

"The Void Commander... Heh, what a Void Commander... Truly unexpected!"

Xingxiao then walked slowly and steadily to Huanlong's side.

Her icy gaze swept over the terrible wounds on Huanlong's body, lingering for a moment on the cracks that contained the meaning of nothingness, as if she were observing something.

"The power of nothingness, or the power of an Envoy?"

Xingxiao's voice remained devoid of any emotion, consisting only of a pure statement.

"No wonder you were in such a sorry state. Although I had expected it, I really didn't expect you to lose so badly."

She knows Huanlong too well.

This colleague is certainly shrewd and cunning, but his biggest weakness is that he is prone to overconfidence after gaining an advantage.

When facing the weak, this arrogance is a way to easily manipulate them, but when facing the strong at the same level or even higher, it is a path to disaster.

As expected, Huanlong, who had gained a significant increase in power after acquiring the physical body of the Golden Tree, became arrogant once again.

Knowing full well that the Black Tower was very likely to have set up an ambush in the Inner Sea of ​​the Star, they still confidently and carelessly charged straight in.

This was not due to Huanlong's folly, but rather stemmed from her absolute confidence in her own immortality and newly acquired power, a confidence that she could escape unscathed no matter what.

And judging from the results... the facts seem to be somewhat true.

Although it was far from a complete escape, being able to survive and return alive from the ambush set up by a Wisdom Envoy and a Void Envoy is, in a sense, a success.

"The Black Tower...did not directly attack me."

Huanlong struggled to calm the chaotic and rampant energy within her body. After the violent fluctuations, her body gradually stabilized. Her eyes, which had regained their sharp light, narrowed slightly, flashing with a calculating glint.

"Otherwise, I might not have been able to come back alive... At the very least, I would definitely not have been able to keep this hard-earned body."

"I think I understand what's going on."

Xingxiao said calmly, seemingly unsurprised by this development.

As she roamed the universe spreading destruction, she encountered far too many self-righteous ambitious individuals who sought to use the power of the antimatter legion as a tool to achieve their own ambitions and hegemony.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those who manipulated this path ultimately turned into embers on the path to destruction, burned by the flames they themselves had attracted.

"Heh... using the two Great Lords of Annihilation as pawns to pave the way for them or achieve some other goal..."

Huanlong regained her elegant and alluring demeanor. Although her body was still broken, she managed to sit up. The fan in her hand reappeared, and she gently fanned herself while covering her mouth and chuckling, as if her previous disheveled state was just an illusion.

"I'm becoming more and more interested in the Black Tower... and the person behind it who is truly orchestrating this."

Although she suffered an unprecedented loss, anger and humiliation were only temporary emotional fuel for her.

As the Great Ruler of Extinction, she values ​​tangible gains more.

At least, she successfully probed out key information: the emergence of an unprecedented Void Messenger, the terrifying nature of its power, and the complex intentions of the person behind it, who both exploited and controlled it.

This information is already priceless.

How long will it take you to recover?

Xingxiao glanced at Huanlong, whose body was still slowly repairing, and spoke directly and pragmatically.

With the Black Tower and a Void Envoy personally guarding the other side of the Plane Will, it was already beyond saving, and she no longer held any hope.

However, Huanlong's power will remain an indispensable part of the plan going forward.

After all, besides Black Tower and his men who were letting them roam freely, there were also two hunting envoys blocking their way.

(End of this chapter)