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

Chapter 370 The Spear of Divine Punishment
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The Snow Night Emperor slumped on his dragon throne, seemingly aging ten years in an instant. His lips trembled, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Yu Xiaogang released his grip on Emperor Xueye, staggered back a step, and his face drained of color. All his calculations and strategies seemed so pale and laughable in the face of this power and control that transcended comprehension.

Tang San's clenched fists slumped open, a profound sense of powerlessness washing over him. What he had initially perceived as a vast difference now seemed like the difference between a firefly and the moon!
Morale collapsed? It's more than just morale!

At this moment, even the core pillars of the empire began to waver in their beliefs.

What kind of monster does the Spirit Empire possess?!
Just as despair and helplessness enveloped the Heavenly Dou Imperial Palace, and everyone's spirits wavered—

boom! ! !
An indescribable, terrifying pressure, seemingly originating from the soul level, swept through the entire Tiandou City without warning, like a tangible tsunami!

The sky seemed to darken at that moment, not because of dark clouds, but because it was shrouded in an indescribable, suffocating dark red aura!

"It's...it's here again!!" The messenger who had just finished reporting was the first to feel this familiar and terrifying aura. He let out a heart-wrenching scream, collapsed to the ground, and soiled himself.

Almost simultaneously, an even more chaotic and terrified uproar erupted outside the hall, with cries, screams, and running sounds all mixed together, as if the end of the world had come!

"Report—!!!" Another guard scrambled in, his face deathly pale, his voice distorted: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty! Outside the city! Outside the city!! That blood-red giant...it...it's at Heavenly Dou City!! It's right outside the city!!!"

"what?!"

At this moment, everyone could no longer sit still, including the nearly exhausted Emperor Xueye, who was forced to straighten his body by a chill.

"Go out and take a look!" Tang Xiao roared, and was the first to transform into a streak of light and rush out of the main hall.

Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and others followed closely behind, while Emperor Xueye was also supported by eunuchs and staggered out.

The crowd poured out of the palace and onto the high platform outside.

This place is located at a high point in Tiandou City, offering a wide view.

However, there is absolutely no need to deliberately look into the distance—

Because that figure was simply too enormous!

Just outside the magnificent city walls of Tiandou City, which are hundreds of meters high and hailed as never to fall, a giant, as red as a mountain, stands silently.

The walls of Tiandou City were already enormous, but in front of this blood-red giant who was at least 500 meters tall, they appeared as small and fragile as building blocks stacked by a child!
The giant was enveloped in a tangible, dark red aura of slaughter; its mere presence distorted the entire sky and dimmed the light.

The enormous, blood-red spear in its hand pointed diagonally at the ground, its tip gleaming with a dark light that sent shivers down everyone's spines.

Throughout the entire Tiandou City, with its millions of residents, anyone who looks up can clearly see this demon god who seems to have descended from hell!
Panic spread like a plague at a visible speed. People in the streets fled and cried out like headless flies; some collapsed to the ground, some knelt in prayer, and many more looked up at the giant, their eyes filled with pure, incomprehensible fear and despair.

The once bustling and vibrant capital city now resembles a ghost town.

Amidst this extreme chaos and fear, that cold, emotionless voice, echoing directly in everyone's mind, appeared once more, exactly the same one that had resounded at Jialing Pass that morning:
[All personnel within the city gate area and the vicinity of the city wall within one mile must evacuate within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.]

The voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable and absolute will, clearly reaching every corner of the city.

"Run!!"

"Get off the city walls immediately!"

This time, without even needing to be urged, driven by instinct, the people let out even more piercing screams and frantically surged towards the inner city, far from the city walls!
On the high platform of the imperial palace, Emperor Xueye looked down at the hellish scene below, and at the giant who seemed to be about to unleash his judgment spear at any moment. He couldn't catch his breath, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, completely losing consciousness.

Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the others watched all of this with pale faces.

There is nothing they can do.

Stop it? What can stop it? Attack it? That's tantamount to suicide. They could only watch helplessly as the dignity of the empire, the empire's defenses, melted away like ice and snow under the sun before that absolute power.

The time it takes for an incense stick to burn slowly passed amidst unbearable torment.

As the last bit of incense ash fell.

The blood-red giant moved.

It slowly raised the blood-red spear in its hand, a spear that seemed capable of piercing the heavens. This time, the spearhead was no longer purely blood-red, but began to gather a deep, dark purple energy that seemed capable of devouring all light!
The energy did not leak out violently; instead, it was extremely restrained, compressed at the tip of the spear, emitting a destructive wave that was even more terrifying than the pure killing aura before!
There was no earth-shattering momentum, no violent energy storm, only a suffocating stillness.

Then, under the gaze of countless desperate eyes, the giant, holding his spear, seemingly casually and lightly slashed downwards at the massive city wall that had protected the Heavenly Dou Imperial City for nearly a thousand years.

No sound.

Or rather, the sound was completely annihilated by that extreme destructive power.

The dark purple light, like a hot knife slicing through butter, silently swept across the impregnable city wall.

next moment--

The magnificent city wall, stretching for thousands of meters and reaching hundreds of meters in height, along with its defensive fortifications, was instantly torn apart as if devoured by an invisible behemoth, leaving behind a terrifying gap with incredibly large, smooth, mirror-like edges!
There was no explosion, no flying debris, and no raging aftershocks.

Only complete, absolute... disappearance.

The destroyed section of the city wall was reduced to the finest dust, vanishing without a trace.

Extreme destruction brings about extreme "silence".

The entire Tiandou City fell into a deathly silence, even deeper than during the previous panic.

Everyone stared blankly at the huge gap, at the open field scenery that had been blocked by the city wall, their minds completely blank.

On the high platform of the palace, Tang San looked at the huge gap and the blood-red giant that slowly became transparent and finally dissipated into the air, his body cold.

For the first time, he realized with such clarity what kind of being he was about to face.

That is no longer a force within the human realm.

That was... divine punishment!
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Yuexuan.

This building, a symbol of the noble etiquette and elegance of the Heavenly Dou Empire, was now eerily silent inside. The panic and clamor outside seemed to be shut out by the high walls, but the fear permeating the air could not be dispelled.

Tang Yuehua stood alone by the window, her slender fingers gripping the window frame tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force.

She stared blankly at the spot outside the city where the blood-red giant that had just vanished had stood, and at the huge, smooth, terrifying gap in the city wall that seemed to have been wiped away by a god.

My mind went blank, with only that earth-shattering scene replaying in my head.

The suffocating silence was broken by a calm voice behind her.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Tang Yuehua's delicate body trembled violently, and she turned around like a startled rabbit. When she saw the person's face clearly, her pupils contracted sharply, and her face was filled with disbelief.

“Xuan…Ming?” Her voice was dry and trembling slightly.

The Xuanming before me is completely different from the young man who studied etiquette at Yuexuan a few years ago and whose sharpness was kept to himself.

She wanted to ask so many questions: was that giant he? What was the purpose of all this? What had he been through all these years? ... A thousand words stuck in her throat, but in the end, they turned into a sob.

She disregarded everything else and rushed forward, hugging Xuanming tightly as if she had grasped a lifeline, or as if she were confirming his presence.

Xuanming was slightly taken aback, but did not push her away. He simply let her hug him and felt her body trembling slightly.

After a long while, Tang Yuehua finally managed to calm down. She released Xuanming, took a step back, and tidied her somewhat disheveled appearance, but the fear in her eyes remained. She raised her head and tentatively asked cautiously, "Just now... that outside the city... did it have anything to do with you?"

"Yes." Xuanming didn't hide anything and admitted it directly, "It's me."

After reaching level 99, his Killing Battle Spirit can absorb the energy of heaven and earth to reach 500 meters. If he unleashes his full power, it can even exceed 1,000 meters.

Perhaps physical size is meaningless to gods, but for mortals, such a size is nothing short of despair.

(End of this chapter)