Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

Chapter 358 Tang Chen Awakens
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“Madman…” Bibi Dong murmured softly, but a smile involuntarily crept onto her lips.

This domineering and unreasonable style of doing things is indeed very much in line with Xuanming's personality, and... it also makes her feel an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

Just then, the destructive clouds in the sky reached their peak!
Xuanming's blood-red spear pointed directly at the massive, pale bone gate below. The terrifying energy, a fusion of the three divine laws of slaughter, evil, and thunder, seemed to have found an outlet, flowing under the guidance of his will—

Rumble, rumble—! ! !
A pillar of destructive lightning, over a hundred meters in diameter and interwoven with dark red, black gold, and pale white, ripped through the sky like a divine spear of judgment, carrying the power to annihilate everything, and ruthlessly struck the entrance to the City of Slaughter!

The enormous portal, constructed from countless bones and rocks and imbued with a powerful death restriction, was as fragile as paper before this fusion of divine lightning, instantly vaporizing without leaving even a trace!

The lightning bolt continued its relentless advance, pouring directly into the bottomless passage!

This is just the beginning!
Immediately afterwards, a second, a third... countless smaller but equally terrifying bolts of lightning, each containing the power of the three laws, poured down like a torrential rain, precisely striking the entrance and any possible cracks and weak points in the surrounding area!

Even more terrifying is that the destructive energy poured into the passage did not dissipate. Instead, it spread, infiltrated, and ravaged wildly along the intricate passages and spaces within the City of Slaughter, like a spider web with life and will!
Wherever the lightning struck, rocks melted, space distorted, and those who succumbed to slaughter and desire, whether ordinary criminals or powerful law enforcement officers, were reduced to ashes in the lightning containing divine laws before they could even scream!

The thunder of slaughter roared and surged in the dark underground world, mercilessly cleansing every corner.

The piercing wails, the desperate roars, the deafening crashes of collapsing buildings... all these sounds were drowned out by the deafening, destructive roar of the thunder.

This divinely punishing and thunderous attack lasted for nearly ten minutes.

As the last bolt of lightning gradually dissipated and the eerie clouds in the sky slowly receded, the valley where the entrance to the City of Slaughter was located had been completely transformed.

The enormous pale bone gate, along with the surrounding mountains, has vanished, replaced by a bottomless, crystalline crater. Within the crater, chillingly destructive energy and wisps of electric arcs still linger.

The air was filled with a mixture of burnt smells and strange ozone. The originally strong smell of blood and evil energy had become extremely thin and almost imperceptible.

The filthy land that once occupied this place, absorbing countless sins and lives—the City of Slaughter—along with all that existed within it, was completely wiped off the face of the earth under this ten-minute divine lightning baptism.

Xuanming slowly descended from the sky, his face slightly pale. At the same time, he activated and manipulated the power of three divine laws, causing such a level of destruction that almost completely drained his soul power.

Just as the devastating lightning completely dissipated, Xuanming, his breath slightly ragged and his soul power nearly exhausted, fell back to the ground—

"Roar--!!!"

A roar, filled with endless pain, rage, and madness, yet carrying a deeper and more domineering quality that was distinct from the previous pure chaos, suddenly erupted from the bottom of the unfathomable crystalline crater!
A streak of blood-red light, like the final counterattack of a dying beast, burst forth from the crater filled with an aura of destruction and hovered in mid-air.

He is the King of Slaughter!
At this moment, however, he was in an extremely miserable state.

His once imposing body was now covered in scorch marks and cracks, large patches of dark red skin peeling away to reveal writhing flesh and wisps of black mist beneath. The aura surrounding him, a mixture of Asura power and the Bat King's filth, had become extremely unstable, like a candle flickering in the wind. However, his scarlet eyes were no longer filled with the pure chaos and savagery they once held.

Deep within, an extreme anger, humiliation, and murderous intent belonging to "Tang Chen," suppressed for decades, erupted like a volcano, locking onto the pale-faced Xuan Ming below!
"It was you... who destroyed this place... who destroyed my very foundation!!" The King of Slaughter's voice was hoarse and distorted, yet it carried a chilling clarity and hatred. "You stole my Blood Pool... destroyed my kingdom... you... damned madman!!"

He clearly sensed that it was this human in front of him who first stole the blood pool energy that maintained the operation of the killing city, and now he had triggered this world-destroying divine lightning, completely turning his foundation built up over countless years and all his "subjects" into nothingness!

Overwhelming hatred engulfed the will of the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King and broke through its final suppression of Tang Chen's remnant soul.

A crazy and resolute thought formed in the mind of the King of Slaughter—to perish together with him!
It realized that, given its current dilapidated state and the opponent's unpredictable methods, it had no chance of winning in a normal battle.

Only by awakening the peak power of the original owner of this body, which had been suppressed and honed for decades, belonging to the "Haotian Douluo," is there any possibility of dragging this madman down to hell with him!
"Old man... wake up!! Look at what your continent has become! Look at the culprit who destroyed everything!!"

The King of Slaughter let out a sharp mental roar, voluntarily giving up interfering with and polluting Tang Chen's remnant soul consciousness. Instead, he forcibly poured the current situation on the continent, the tragedy of the Clear Sky Sect, the rise of the Martial Soul Empire, and the existence of the madman Xuan Ming into Tang Chen's long-dormant core consciousness like a torrent!
At the same time, it burned its last bit of original blood power, and the blood-red light wrapped around Tang Chen's broken body like a living thing, forcibly repairing the wounds that had been severely injured by the lightning, temporarily stabilizing the body on the verge of collapse, and attempting to briefly restore the body to a state that could bear the power of "Haotian Douluo"!
Om-!
A completely different, pure, domineering, and terrifying pressure, full of power and a sense of vicissitude, began to rise from the King of Slaughter!

The unstable blood-red light around him began to converge and condense inward. In his scarlet eyes, chaos and violence were gradually replaced by a cold, deathly, yet earth-shattering rage!

The scorch marks and cracks on his body surface barely healed under the effect of the blood light. Although he still looked disheveled, the oppressive feeling that was like a sleeping lion awakening made Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena next to him instantly turn serious!
"Not good! He's forcibly awakening Tang Chen's true self and temporarily repairing his body!" Bibi Dong exclaimed urgently. She could feel the aura of the Haotian Douluo, who was once known as invincible on land, rapidly returning!
A sharp glint flashed in Gu Yuena's silver-purple eyes, and her Dragon God Heart rippled slightly, preparing to intervene.

However, just as they were about to take action—

"enough."

A cold, hoarse voice, yet carrying undeniable authority, came from the figure in mid-air.

The King of Slaughter—no, perhaps he should be called Tang Chen now—slowly raised his head.

Although his eyes were still bloodshot, they had regained their clarity—a clarity born of endless torment and despair, filled with deep-seated hatred and resolute determination!

He stared intently at Xuanming below, his gaze like two cold Haotian hammers, wanting to smash him into mincemeat!
"Boy..." Tang Chen's voice was like the scraping of metal, filled with endless pain and killing intent, "You... deserve to die!"

He felt the power within his body that had been forcibly awakened, yet was burning rapidly like a rootless duckweed, and he understood the parasite's intentions.

But at this moment, none of that matters anymore.

The important thing is that this person in front of him destroyed the prison that had trapped him in his depravity, cut off his last glimmer of hope for returning to normalcy, and was one of the root causes of the turmoil on the continent!

New and old grudges, as well as overwhelming anger over his own fate, all turned into killing intent towards Xuanming!
(End of this chapter)