Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 154 Harosa VS Tang Hao and his wife, the depletion of the Douluo plane

boom!!!

Ink black and moon white flowed with dark gold, the boundary between life and death and the weight of planes collided fiercely in the azure law space!

The black and white sword energy that split life and death, unleashed by the Underworld Chant, clashed fiercely with Tang Hao's dark gold giant hammer that carried the phantom of the entire Douluo Continent, like two stars from different universes!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a terrifying muffled thud that tore at the soul and made the laws of nature groan! At the point of impact, space was like a piece of glass tossed with a boulder, instantly covered with a dense, dark, and deep spiderweb of cracks!

The raging energy turbulence, like billions of out-of-control raging dragons, surged, tore, and annihilated wildly from the point of impact! It instantly evaporated the surrounding churning sea of ​​laws, clearing away an absolute void!

Stalemate!

A terrifying stalemate!

Harosa's figure stood like a rock at the center of the energy storm. The starlight and spatial ripples on the surface of his five-word battle armor, "Reincarnation Netherworld Abyss," flickered wildly, devouring and rotating the dimensional gravity that was enough to crush even gods!

His sword-wielding arm was bulging with muscles, and the bones beneath his armor groaned under the strain. The void beneath his feet shattered inch by inch!

But his eyes burned with an almost insane, icy fighting spirit!

Tang Hao's eyes widened, bloodshot! The horror in his heart was like a raging wave, almost overwhelming his reason!

"Impossible!" he roared inwardly. "The Haotian Divine Hammer, which Xiao San personally reforged for me, has been nurtured by the primordial essence of this plane for ten thousand years. It is already comparable to a great divine artifact! I, with the power of a peak second-level god, mobilized the will of the entire plane for support! Yet I still cannot crush this evil soul master who is suppressed by the plane?! What makes him so special?!"

This brief stalemate, in a clash of titans, is already a fatal flaw!

Amidst the raging energy storm, a cold, predatory smile curved the corners of Harosa's lips!

In the instant the stalemate occurred, his left hand suddenly plunged into the crack of the silently opened gate to the underworld beside him! When he pulled it out, a long spear, entirely golden, with a dragon relief coiled around its shaft, radiating endless devouring desire and destructive sharpness, was already in his hand!

It is the Golden Dragon Spear!

Without the slightest hesitation! Harosa's left hand, holding the gun, moved like a venomous dragon emerging from its lair. Using the recoil from the stalemate between the Underworld Chant and the Haotian Divine Hammer, his body spun and slid sideways in a bizarre manner! The golden spear tip tore through the chaotic energy flow, carrying a sharpness capable of piercing stars, silent yet as fast as lightning, aiming straight for Tang Hao's unsuspecting lower body vital, his knee!

Insidious! Ruthless! Vicious! Scathing! Targeting the root of the problem!

"Despicable!" Tang Hao, though shocked, remained calm. As the former possessor of the Killing God Domain, his fighting instincts were ingrained in his bones! Enraged, the muscles in his arms bulged like mountains, and he roared like thunder, "Open up!"

boom!

The illusory images of mountains and rivers on the Haotian Divine Hammer suddenly erupted with dazzling light! An overwhelming force, like a volcanic eruption, forcefully shook the Netherworld Chant, which was locked in a stalemate with it, and pushed it upwards, creating a sliver of space!

Taking advantage of this split second, Tang Hao swept his right leg like a battle axe, carrying violent dimensional divine power, and kicked the incoming golden dragon spear with perfect accuracy!

clang-!

A piercing clang of metal clashing rang out! The Golden Dragon Spear let out a defiant dragon's roar, deflected to one side by the powerful kick! The violent force traveled through the spear, and Harosa felt a violent tremor in his left hand, his entire arm instantly going numb and almost losing all feeling! The Golden Dragon Spear nearly slipped from his grasp!

Using this immense force, the two figures were instantly propelled backward, creating a distance of hundreds of feet!

Just as this first wave of thrilling clashes ended, Ah Yin, who had been standing quietly in the back like a gentle sapphire, finally moved!

A resolute glint flashed in her sapphire eyes, brimming with boundless vitality, as she formed an ancient and profound blue-silver seal with her hands in front of her chest. With her movement, the entire azure space governed by laws abruptly transformed!

hum!

Countless thick, dragon-like vine phantoms, shimmering with a crystalline blue-gold luster, sprouted wildly from the surging sea of ​​laws, as if they were alive! They intertwined, coiled, and instantly filled every corner of the entire space! A life force so rich it was almost liquid, of unparalleled purity, spread out, carrying a gentle power that embraced all things and nourished heaven and earth.

Blue Silver Domain! A god-level Blue Silver Domain!

The moment this domain unfolded, Tang Hao's somewhat disordered aura, caused by his rage and exertion, was instantly soothed and amplified. As if bathing in a fountain of life, his consumed divine power was rapidly replenished, and his momentum became even stronger! The five divine rings behind him shone brightly, complementing the domain!

Harosa, on the other hand, felt as if he had instantly sunk into an endless, viscous deep-sea swamp! The omnipresent life force gently enveloped him, yet carried unimaginable pressure and repulsion! It was as if the life force of the entire plane loathed and squeezed him! The Reincarnation Divine Power circulating within his body instantly became sluggish, and even the Devouring Reincarnation Power of his Five-Word Battle Armor was significantly suppressed! Speed, strength, and perception were all weakened in every way!

"The Golden Dragon Spear?!" Tang Hao steadied himself, his gaze fixed on the gleaming golden spear in Harosa's left hand, his face filled with disbelief and rage. "This is my grandson Wu Lin's natal artifact! It contains the devouring and destructive essence of the Golden Dragon bloodline, something that those without the Golden Dragon bloodline can hardly control! How could you, you fiend, possibly wield it?!"

Harosa shook his still numb left hand, the Golden Dragon Spear emitting a bloodthirsty hum in his grasp, as if responding to his will. He met Tang Hao's shocked and furious gaze, his mocking smile like a poisoned icicle:

"Fool! You became a god by taking something that doesn't belong to you, and you've been sitting in a well with a limited view of the sky for thousands of years. You don't even know what a chosen one of heaven is?"

"How could a piece of trash like you, who climbed to the top by relying on women and only knows how to escape through alcohol, possibly understand the power in this world?" He deliberately emphasized the words "climbed to the top by relying on women" and "trash," as if whipping Tang Hao's most painful scars!

"You're asking for death!" Tang Hao was so enraged that his three corpse gods were about to leap into a rage, and he swung his giant hammer to charge again!

But Harosa was faster! He didn't give Tang Hao any time to gather his strength and unleash it! The instant he finished speaking, he moved!

The target is none other than Agin, who is at the core of the field!

Harosa's figure transformed into a fleeting gray shadow within the viscous blue-silver domain! The Underworld Chant traced an arcane trajectory before him, not a brute force attack, but rather a serpentine maneuver of point, stab, guide, and deflect, skillfully deflecting and redirecting the several hammer shadows that Tang Hao angrily hurled at him from afar! Although his speed was suppressed by the domain, his combat skills and control over his power reached an outrageously exquisite level!

At the same time, the golden dragon spear in his left hand erupted with an even more intense golden light, like a ferocious beast that had been starving for ten thousand years, its tip pointing directly at Ah Yin! A terrifying vortex of devouring energy formed at the tip of the spear, frantically tearing and devouring the surrounding life energy that was so dense it was almost impenetrable!

Ah Yin's delicate brows furrowed slightly. Facing the golden dragon spear thrusting straight at her, she remained calm. With a shift in her divine power, the life energy surging around her, like the gentlest ocean, layered upon layer, met the spear tip, attempting to envelop, neutralize, and dissolve it. This was her most proficient defensive method: using softness to overcome hardness, using boundless life force to wear down the opponent's sharpness.

However, this time, she miscalculated!

The Golden Dragon Spear's devouring vortex perfectly combined with Harosa's Samsara divine power. The pure life energy that surged in was not consumed; instead, it flowed like rivers into the sea, greedily and unhinderedly swallowed up by the vortex! The dragon patterns on the spear seemed to come alive, emitting a joyful hum!

Harosa's lips curled into a cold smile. This was exactly what he wanted! Attacking Ah Yin was a pretense; his true intention was to lure her into releasing more of her pure life energy to "neutralize" the attack! This energy, poison to others, was a great tonic to his Golden Dragon Spear and Netherworld Chant!

"Watch out!" Tang Hao's eyes widened in fury at the sight, and he charged forward again without regard for anything else, his giant hammer smashing down on Harossa's back with earth-shattering force! A diversionary tactic!

Harosa seemed to have eyes in the back of his head! Just as the hammer shadow was about to hit him, his right hand, the Netherworld Chant, swung strangely, and the blade slashed upwards at an incredible angle. It was not a direct collision, but a precise strike on a subtle point of force on the side of the hammer head!

clang!

A crisp yet powerful resounding clang rang out! Harosa used this clever momentum to send his body flying backward like a weightless willow catkin, not only dissipating most of the force but also skillfully avoiding Tang Hao's furious attack! At the same time, the golden dragon spear in his left hand continued its devouring momentum without stopping, still greedily absorbing the life force released by Ah Yin!

The ensuing battle turned into a bizarre confrontation between Harosa and Tang Hao and his wife, with Harosa fighting alone against them.

Harosa flitted among the giant Haotian Hammer and the ubiquitous blue-silver vines like a butterfly flitting among flowers. The Underworld Chant transformed into a sturdy shield and a skillful deflector, defusing Tang Hao's ferocious attacks time and time again.

His main focus was on constantly "harassing" Ah Yin with the Golden Dragon Spear, forcing her to release more life energy, which would then be quietly devoured by the Golden Dragon Spear and the Underworld Chant!

Time ticked by. A pale and solemn expression finally appeared on Ah Yin's gentle and jade-like face.

"Brother Hao!" Her clear, cold voice, tinged with a barely perceptible weakness, echoed in Tang Hao's mind. "Something's not right!"

My life energy wasn't just scattered by his attack! It was completely destroyed! Swallowed by his weapon! Within this domain, I can recover any spilled energy, but now—it's all gone!

Upon hearing this, Tang Hao's heart sank! He finally understood Harosa's sinister intentions! This demon was actually using Ah Yin's power to replenish its own depletion!

"Roar! Evil Soul Master! You dare devour the life energy of the Douluo Plane! You deserve to die!" Tang Hao was utterly enraged, his eyes bloodshot. "Do you dare to act like a man and take my hammer head-on?!"

One of the five divine rings behind him, the one symbolizing the immense power of a mountain, suddenly burst forth with a dazzling earthy yellow light! Then, to the astonishment of Harosa and Ayin, it exploded with a deafening roar!

(P.S.: I personally think that the ring-exploding ability is an important memory point for Tang Hao among readers of the original novel and viewers of the anime, so I will retain Tang Hao's ability to explode the rings here. As for how he exploded the divine rings, that is not important.)

Boom!

The divine halo shattered, transforming into countless pure starlight of mountain laws, which surged wildly into Tang Hao's body like rivers flowing into the sea! His already imposing body instantly expanded again, his muscles bulging as if cast from divine metal!

A terrifying power, several times more violent than before and seemingly capable of shattering the heavens, erupted! The Haotian Divine Hammer in his hand shone with a dark golden divine light powerful enough to blind even the eyes of gods! The entire Blue Silver Domain trembled violently under this power, emitting mournful cries of unbearable strain!

"Idiot!" Harosa cursed, his eyes wide with disbelief at Tang Hao's near-self-destructive outburst. "His combat intelligence is even lower than your son's split soul! You've almost drained your wife dry!"

The price to pay for blasting the divine ring would be much greater, and it's clear that Ah Yin wouldn't allow Tang Hao to pay any irreversible price.

However, Tang Hao only had eyes for Harosa at this moment! The power brought by the exploding rings filled him with boundless confidence!

"die!"

A roar that shattered the void! Tang Hao's figure vanished from his spot in an instant! It wasn't that he was too fast, but that space was forcibly compressed and folded! In the next instant, he appeared above Harossa's head! The Haotian Divine Hammer, which had absorbed the power of the Mountain Divine Ring and was so heavy that it seemed capable of crushing eternity, slammed down on Harossa's crown with a plane's will that locked onto everything and left no room for evasion!

At the same time, Harosa clearly felt the surging sea of ​​laws beneath his feet and the ubiquitous blue-silver vines around him instantly freeze! Like the most resilient divine metal shackles, they bound him firmly to the spot! Ah Yin's face was deathly pale, and a trace of pale golden divine blood spilled from the corner of her mouth. Clearly, in order to cooperate with Tang Hao's sure-kill attack, she had forcibly overdrawn her domain power to create a spatial confinement!

Unable to dodge!

To take it head-on? This hammer strike contained the power of exploding rings and the enhancement of the entire plane, enough to shatter his suppressed body along with his battle armor...

Smash it into dust!

If it were someone who wasn't suppressed by the Douluo plane, they could have taken it head-on, but that's clearly not the case now.

A close call!

Harosa's face showed no sign of panic, only a cold, all-knowing mockery.

"Stubborn and obstinate."

Just as that earth-shattering giant hammer was about to touch the tip of his hair, hum!

A deep, ancient portal, seemingly leading to the eternal underworld, suddenly opened behind Harosa! An intense aura of death and reincarnation surged forth like a tangible tide!

The Gates of the Underworld!

Harosa's figure seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness behind the door in an instant, disappearing into thin air!

Rumble! ...

Tang Hao's hammer, imbued with all his strength, rage, and killing intent, slammed heavily into the empty space where Harosa had vanished!

The terrifying power lost its target and erupted out of control in an instant! Centered on the point of impact, a pure, dark, void sphere with a diameter of over a hundred feet was instantly generated! Then it suddenly collapsed and exploded inward!

Click! Click! Click!

The entire azure space, constructed from the laws of the ocean and the origins of the plane, cracked like a fragile glass mirror, emitting a teeth-grinding sound! Countless crisscrossing, pitch-black, and enormous spatial rifts instantly spread out!

Through the cracks, one could even see the distorted starry sky of the Douluo Continent outside! Violent spatial turbulence surged in like a burst dam! The entire space was on the verge of collapse!

puff-!

The domain was forcibly torn apart, and the spatial confinement was brutally broken by a higher spatial power! Ah Yin was struck as if by a heavy blow, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of pale golden divine blood. Her gentle and beautiful face instantly turned ashen, her aura was extremely weak, and her delicate body flew backward like a kite with a broken string!

"Gin!"

Tang Hao's ferocious expression, caused by the burst of power, was instantly replaced by boundless terror! He no longer cared about Harosa; the violent power brought by the exploding rings instantly subsided, and he transformed into a streak of dark golden light, rushing towards the flying Ah Yin without regard for anything else!

He pulled his wife's trembling body tightly into his arms, feeling the disordered and weak breaths within her. His voice was filled with unprecedented panic and heartache: "A-Yin! A-Yin! How are you? Where are you hurt?!"

Ah Yin leaned weakly against his broad chest, her sapphire-like eyes dull and lifeless, a trace of gold blood still lingering at the corner of her mouth. She forced a reassuring smile, her voice barely a whisper: "Hao—Brother Hao—I'm alright, it's just a backlash from my domain—it damaged my core essence—"

She took a few breaths, as if drawing strength from Tang Hao, and continued, "It's okay—"

"I—I just need to absorb a little more—the essence of the life core of the Douluo plane—and I'll be able to—recover—"

Her tone was so natural, as if she were talking about something trivial and insignificant.

It's like drinking a glass of water when you're thirsty or eating a meal when you're hungry.

Upon hearing this, Tang Hao's anxiety and heartache subsided considerably. He let out a long sigh of relief and hugged A Yin tightly, as if holding a lost treasure that had been found again: "It's good that you're alright—it's good that you're alright." He gently stroked A Yin's back, calming her disordered breathing, his eyes tender and gentle.

However, when he raised his head and looked at the battlefield, riddled with massive spatial rifts and in complete disarray, especially the place where Harosa had disappeared, his gentle gaze was instantly replaced by endless violence, resentment, and icy killing intent! Veins bulged on his forehead, and his steel teeth nearly shattered!

"Ha! Lo! Sa!" Tang Hao squeezed out the name through gritted teeth, each word filled with boundless hatred, as if he wanted to tear the owner of this name to pieces and grind his bones to ashes!

"Shameless evil spirit master! Cowardly coward who runs away when he can't win! You scoundrel who only knows how to scheme and plot!" He roared at the empty void, where only spatial turbulence howled, his voice like that of a wounded beast, "You just wait! Next time we meet, I will personally smash you to death! I will throw your soul into the dimensional furnace and burn it for ten thousand years! I will ensure you never reincarnate!!!"

His roar echoed in the shattering space, filled with the stench of impotent rage. As for his wife's casual mention of "absorbing a little more of the core essence of the Douluo plane's life force," and his own frantic extraction of the plane's primal power during his ring-explosion, all of this seemed like a matter of course to the couple, as natural as breathing. This Douluo plane was already theirs to possess.

In fact, Ah Yin's injuries were so severe because she was backfired by the Netherworld Gate, which connects to the God Realm of Rebirth, using a higher-level spatial power. On the other hand, Harosa used the Netherworld Chant to devour a large amount of Ah Yin's life essence. Ah Yin is not from the Demon Realm and can withstand the devouring of the Netherworld Chant for so long. However, Ah Yin herself said that she can recover from her injuries by absorbing the life core of the Douluo Realm.

None of that counts as an injury.

No wonder the life core of the Douluo plane has been gradually weakening over the millennia. No wonder even the Abyss Saint King in the Abyss plane could sense it and expand his scheme, causing countless lives to die in vain.