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

Each time she moved, Zhu Zhuqing had to use her divine power to forcefully push away the solidifying spatial medium, as if swimming in viscous glue.

Her divine power was being consumed at a rate more than ten times faster than in previous battles.

"This can't go on..."

A resolute look flashed in Zhu Zhuqing's eyes.

She stopped, her hands forming a mudra in front of her chest, and the divine mark of the God of Speed ​​appeared on her forehead—a dark, lightning-like pattern.

"Divine Skill: Instant Shadow Killing Array".

She finally used her trump card.

Zhu Zhuqing's figure instantly split into two—not an illusion, but a real clone.

One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand... Within just three breaths, a total of one hundred and eight thousand figures of Zhu Zhuqing appeared throughout the entire ice and snow domain.

Each one is real, and each one possesses one percent of her strength.

This is a manifestation of the Goddess of Speed ​​pushing speed to its limits—her true form exists simultaneously in 108,000 locations within an extremely short period of time.

Each clone can launch an attack, and each clone can withstand damage, until all clones are destroyed, or her divine power is exhausted.

One hundred and eight thousand ghostly figures moved simultaneously.

They transformed into black streaks of light and pierced towards Xue Di from all directions, from top to bottom and left to right.

Each streak of light was incredibly precise, blocking all possible escape routes for Xue Di.

Wherever the streak of light passed, even the solidifying space was forcibly torn apart—this was the destruction of the spatial structure itself after pure speed reached its limit.

For the first time, Xue Di showed a solemn expression.

She planted the ice sword in the ice beneath her feet and clasped her hands together in front of her chest.

"Ice Extreme Ring".

Centered on her, nine icy blue halos unfolded layer by layer.

Each halo contains a terrifyingly low temperature close to absolute zero, and the temperature gradient between the halo is astonishing—the temperature of the innermost ring is infinitely close to the theoretical absolute zero.

One hundred and eight thousand black streaks of light crashed into the ice ring.

The first halo shattered, but the clone that collided with it was also instantly frozen and shattered.

The second way, the third way, the fourth way...

The black streaks of light, like moths drawn to a flame, crashed into and shattered rings of ice one after another.

Each shattering of a halo would unleash an extreme cold storm that swept across the entire area, freezing hundreds or even thousands of clones simultaneously.

The ice and snow industry is experiencing severe turmoil.

Cracks began to appear in the ice cap in the sky, and large areas of the ice layer on the ground cracked.

This is a collision of two laws—speed and extreme cold—both attempting to rewrite the physical laws of this world.

When the eighth halo shattered, Zhu Zhuqing's clone had already lost 90% of its power.

But she still has 10,800 clones left, as well as... her true body hidden among the countless clones.

"It's now."

Zhu Zhuqing's true form, under the cover of all her clones, quietly appeared thirty meters behind Xue Di.

This was the optimal attack distance she had calculated—it wouldn't provoke too strong a reaction from the ice and snow domain, yet it would guarantee a fatal blow.

Her hands transformed into two dark, gleaming blades, their surfaces wrapped in black threads that could cut through space.

With this attack, she concentrated 70% of her remaining divine power, determined to severely injure the Snow Emperor in one blow.

"Netherworld Twin Daggers - Godslayer Blade"

The double blades thrust out silently, yet with a speed that transcended the perception of time.

The Snow Empress seemed oblivious, maintaining her clasped hands posture, with the final ice ring slowly rotating around her.

However, just as the twin blades were about to touch the Snow Empress's back—

A very faint smile curved the corners of Xue Di's lips.

"You got Fooled."

she said softly.

Then, Zhu Zhuqing was horrified to discover that the temperature in the space around her was dropping exponentially.

No, it's not a decrease, it's a return to zero.

"The sigh of the goddess of ice and snow."

The Snow Empress slowly turned around, her eyes now completely ice-blue, the depths of her pupils reflecting the coldness and stillness of the beginning of the universe.

Centered on Zhu Zhuqing, the temperature in a ten-meter radius space dropped to absolute zero within a thousandth of a second.

It's not just close, it's absolute zero.

This is the theoretical limit that the Snow Emperor forcibly simulated using the core of the Ice Herrscher as energy and her own divine position as a medium.

Within this cage, all molecular motion ceases, time loses its meaning, spatial structure freezes, and even the flow of divine power is forcibly solidified.

Zhu Zhuqing's twin blades stopped just three inches from Xue Di's chest.

It wasn't that she didn't want to stab, but that she couldn't—her arm, her divine body, and the divine power flowing within her were all frozen in that instant.

This isn't just being frozen; it's a far more terrifying state.

Every cell in her body, every wisp of divine power, seemed to be paused, frozen in the instant before the attack.

The Snow Emperor gently exhaled a breath of cold air, which instantly solidified into pale blue ice crystals the moment it left her mouth.

Maintaining "The Sigh of the Ice Goddess" is extremely taxing on her; even with the support of the Herrscher Core, she can only maintain it for a mere three breaths.

But three breaths are enough.

She raised her right hand and gently touched Zhu Zhuqing's brow with her index finger.

"Sleep forever, God of Speed."

An icy blue light flowed from her fingertips into Zhu Zhuqing's soul.

Meanwhile, the battle on the other side had reached a fever pitch.

After enduring the Demon Emperor's Lightning Punishment: Annihilation, Dai Mubai's divine armor shattered, and his divine power was greatly depleted.

But he was, after all, a war god with rich combat experience.

Just as the Demon Emperor was about to gather his lightning spear again to pursue, he made a startling decision—

Don’t retreat but advance.

"White Tiger Sky-Splitting Strike".

Dai Mubai roared, and the shattered golden divine armor was deliberately shattered by him, the fragments turning into countless golden light points that merged into his body.

His body swelled again, reaching a height of fifteen zhang, and ancient and ferocious white tiger divine patterns appeared on the surface of his skin.

He abandoned all defense and poured all his remaining divine power into his right fist.

The moment that punch was unleashed, the world lost its color.

Wherever the fist passed, space was not torn apart, but crushed.

A black void with a diameter of 100 meters appeared in front of the fist, a temporary void formed by the complete collapse of the spatial structure.

At the edge of the void, at the boundary between reality and emptiness, the golden power of the God of War clashed violently with the chaotic energy of the void, unleashing a shockwave powerful enough to annihilate everything.

This is one of Dai Mubai's trump cards, a way to burn his divine body's essence in exchange for destructive power comparable to a first-level god for a short period of time.

The Demon Emperor's pupils contracted.

She could feel the terror of that punch—if she were hit head-on, her divine body would be severely damaged.

But she didn't hide.

Instead of dodging, she revealed a crazed grin on her face.

"Good timing, that's more like it."

The Demon Empress spread her arms wide, and the phantom of the deep-sea demon whale behind her roared to the sky. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of dozens of miles converged on her like rivers flowing into the sea. But that was not enough. The core of the Herrscher of Thunder within her body operated wildly, and the Honkai energy of the imaginary space surged into her body like a flood bursting its banks.

"Electromagnetic manipulation, celestial guidance of all phenomena."

She made a fist with both hands, not aiming at Dai Mubai, but at the depths of the earth below.

Beneath the wasteland lie rock layers thousands of meters thick, and beneath those layers lies slowly flowing mantle material.

Deeper within the Earth's core lies a massive, rotating liquid iron-nickel core—the source of the planet's magnetic field.

At this moment, the Demon Emperor's Herrscher power pierced through the earth's crust and directly touched the planet's magnetic field itself.

“Rumble——!!!”

At this moment, all living beings on the entire Douluo Continent sensed something was amiss.

The compass spun wildly, the birds lost their way, and the spirit beasts grew restless.

On the desolate battlefield, the ground began to shake violently, and countless cracks, hundreds of meters deep, spread out like a spider web.

Deep within the fissure, the dark red glow of lava flickered, a sign that mantle material was being forcibly drawn upwards.

But this is just the prelude.

The real killer move was that the Demon Emperor used electromagnetic force to control all the metal elements within a radius of a hundred miles.

The soil of the wasteland contains trace amounts of iron. Under the pull of electromagnetic force, this iron separates from the soil, gathers, and transforms into countless tiny iron sands. These iron sands converge in the air to form dozens of black metallic torrents, swirling around the Demon Emperor like giant dragons.

At the same time, the iron, nickel and other metallic elements rich in the lava that was stirred up deep underground were also forcibly extracted and transformed into a stream of scorching metal that burst forth from the ground.

The sky, the earth, even the dust in the air—all substances containing metal—were brought under the control of the Demon Emperor at this moment.

"Devouring Heaven and Earth - Myriad Magnetic Thunder Prison".

The Demon Emperor suddenly clasped his hands together.

Dozens of torrents of metal, the scorching flow of metal gushing from the ground, and the purple lightning she herself released merged perfectly at this moment.

A terrifying area with a diameter of over one kilometer has formed.

Within the domain, it is no longer simply lightning, but a perfect combination of lightning and metal.

Under the control of electromagnetic force, countless iron particles spun wildly at a speed of tens of thousands of revolutions per second, forming hundreds of millions of miniature metal storms.

Each grain of iron sand is wrapped with purple electric arcs. As they spin at high speed, they collide and rub against each other, generating a terrifying cutting force capable of tearing apart a god's body.

At the heart of this realm is the gravitational singularity created by the Demon Emperor using his deep-sea whale talent—a black sphere that constantly devours all surrounding matter and energy.

On the surface of the sphere, purple lightning and metallic flow intertwined to form patterns of destruction.

Dai Mubai's earth-shattering punch slammed into this area.

Then, something shocking happened.

The punch, powerful enough to crush space, began to slow down rapidly the moment it entered the Magnetic Thunder Prison.

The golden divine power on the fist was peeled away and worn down layer by layer by countless high-speed rotating iron sand.

The iron sand itself was constantly being destroyed by the force of the fist, but for every one destroyed, ten more would be replenished from various parts of the domain.

This is not a contest of strength; it is a war of attrition between the finite and the infinite.

When Dai Mubai's fist force was still a hundred meters away from the Demon Emperor, its power had already decreased by 50%.

When it advanced to fifty meters, the decay rate was reduced by 70%.

When the distance reached twenty meters, the force of the punch almost completely dissipated.

Meanwhile, the Demon Emperor's Magnetic Thunder Prison continued to operate frantically.

When the iron sand is destroyed, she extracts more metallic elements from deep within the earth to replenish it.

The lightning was neutralized, and the collapsing energy of the imaginary space continuously transformed into new lightning.

"Impossible...this is impossible..."

For the first time, despair appeared in Dai Mubai's eyes.

His strongest attack was completely neutralized by this strange domain without even touching the hem of his opponent's clothes.

"nothing is impossible."

The Demon Emperor's voice echoed in the Thunder Prison, cold and cruel.

"You're still looking at the world with outdated perspectives from ten thousand years ago, but times have changed, and your methods are outdated."

She raised her right hand, and the Magnetic Thunder Prison began to contract inward.

Countless iron sands, metallic streams, and purple lightning, like a giant millstone, began to slowly grind towards Dai Mubai at the center.

"Now, feel the power of the Herrscher."

"Magnetic Thunder Prison - Heaven and Earth Millstone".

The rate at which the domain is shrinking is accelerating.

Dai Mubai unleashed his War God Domain with all his might to fight back, but the golden domain melted away as quickly as snow under the crushing force of the Magnetic Thunder Prison.

Cracks began to appear on his divine body, and golden divine blood seeped out from the cracks, instantly evaporating into blood mist by the electromagnetic field.

Even more terrifying, the gravitational singularity began to generate a terrifying suction force, threatening to swallow him whole.

"Mubai."

Just then, Zhu Zhuqing's exclamation came.

Dai Mubai turned his head sharply and saw a scene that made his eyes widen in horror—Zhu Zhuqing was frozen by the Snow Emperor's Sigh of the Ice and Snow Goddess, and his finger was pointing at her brow.

"Zhu Qing—!!!"

Dai Mubai let out a beast-like roar.

Golden divine blood gushed from his seven orifices, and all the remaining divine power in his body was completely ignited at this moment.

It's not consumption, it's burning—sacrificing the very essence of divinity for the power of a final, desperate struggle.

"Forbidden Technique of the God of War - White Tiger Burns the God."

Dai Mubai's body began to burn, not with flames, but with pure golden light.

That was a sign that his divine origin, divine soul, and divine body were burning simultaneously.

Amidst the flames, his aura began to surge wildly, instantly breaking through the limits of a second-level god and briefly touching the threshold of a first-level god.

"Break it—!!!"

He punched the inner wall of the Magnetic Thunder Prison.

This punch was at least three times more powerful than the previous one.

The iron sand storm inside the Thunder Prison was blasted open, creating a gap ten meters in diameter, and the gravitational singularity's suction force was briefly disrupted.

It's now.

Dai Mubai transformed into a golden meteor, bursting out of the gap and heading straight for Xue Di.

He wanted to save Zhu Zhuqing, even if it meant dying together.

The Demon Emperor's expression changed.

She never expected Dai Mubai to be so resolute, daring to burn the very essence of his divine position.

By the time she realized what was happening and tried to stop him, Dai Mubai had already rushed out of the Thunder Prison's range.

"you wanna die."

Enraged, the Demon Emperor unleashed his Myriad Magnetic Thunder Prison, which transformed into a purple thunder dragon and pursued Dai Mubai relentlessly.

However, Dai Mubai's speed was too fast. The explosive power brought by burning his source energy gave him a speed that was no less than Zhu Zhuqing's for a short period of time.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters...

They were getting closer and closer to Xue Di and Zhu Zhuqing.

Xue Di sensed the terrifying aura rapidly approaching from behind. She frowned slightly, and her finger, which was pointing at Zhu Zhuqing's brow, paused.

It was this meal that gave Zhu Zhuqing her opportunity. (End of Chapter)