Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 155 The Counterattack

In the realm of the gods, a world resembling a continent of bones floats silently in the deep sky, its gray-brown walls exuding a restrained sense of death and the cycle of rebirth.

In the core area of ​​the divine realm, Harosa's figure silently appeared.

His long robe, which shimmered with a dark, moonlit glow, was spotless. The starlight and spatial ripples on the surface of his five-word battle armor, "Reincarnation Underworld Abyss," still flowed, showing no trace of the divine battle he had just experienced.

However, the divine power emanating from him was noticeably dimmer than when he left, carrying a restrained sense of weakness characteristic of someone who has just experienced a high-intensity outburst. It was as if a dormant volcano still had lava slowly flowing inside.

Electrolux appeared like a ghost beside Harossa, his withered face bearing an undisguised look of inquiry and—a gloating mockery.

His greyish-white eyes, seemingly capable of piercing the soul, swept over Harosa. He stroked his beard, his voice carrying a hint of amusement: "Eh? Fellow Daoist, your aura—it fluctuates quite a bit! What's wrong? You just stormed back in triumph, and now you're slinking back like a coward? Did you kick a hornet's nest and get into a fierce fight?"

Harosa didn't even lift his eyelids, his tone as indifferent as if he were discussing the weather: "Just those two thieves from the Douluo Continent."

The methods were somewhat underhanded; they were just taking advantage of their home field.

He paused, his brow furrowing almost imperceptibly. "I just didn't expect their control and utilization of the plane's origins to have reached such a profound level. The power of suppression far exceeds expectations."

"Oh?" A glint flashed in Electrox's eyes, and his smile deepened. "So, you were utterly crushed by their territorial rules? The mighty Underworld Emperor, his divine power reduced to almost nothing, forced to flee in terror?"

Harosa finally glanced at him, her eyes calm and expressionless, yet Electrox felt a chill run down his spine.

Harosa did not refute, but simply nodded slightly, which was taken as acknowledgment of Electrolux's "guess".

With the will of the Douluo Continent completely under the control of Tang Hao and his wife, the repulsive force, as if the entire continent were pressing down on his shoulders, was something he couldn't withstand at his current level. Unless he possessed the power of a God-King, or something like the Abyss Plane.

He then changed the subject, a cold smile curving his lips: "However, it wasn't entirely without gains."

He raised his right hand, palm facing upward. The phantom of the great artifact, Netherworld Chant, appeared in his palm. On the sword's blade, deep within the flowing patterns where ink black and moon white intertwined, a faint, extremely pure, and vibrant pale golden halo emanated, incongruous with the sword's inherent deathly and cyclical meaning, yet it was forcibly suppressed, devoured, and transformed.

"Ah Yin is the embodiment of the life core of the Douluo plane. Her power, seemingly gentle and inclusive, actually originates from the extraction of the life essence of the Douluo plane."

Harosa's voice carried the certainty of a controller, "I used the Netherworld Chant to devour a significant amount of her 'essence.' If she wants to recover, she will inevitably need to absorb a large amount of the life core essence of the Douluo Plane again. With this ebb and flow, the Douluo Plane's decline will only accelerate!"

His eyes gleamed with calculation, as if he could already see the massive life force of the Douluo Continent being continuously drained away.

"When its essence weakens further and the dimensional barrier loosens—that will be the time for me to be reborn in the divine realm and descend!"

Looking at Haros's "everything is under control" expression and sensing the barely recovered divine power emanating from him, Electrox's lips twitched involuntarily. He forced himself to refrain from saying, "Are you sure this isn't just an excuse you made up after being chased away?" Instead, he stroked his beard and coughed twice: "Ahem—Fellow Daoist, your foresight is truly admirable."

How could Harosa not hear the sarcasm in his words? But he couldn't be bothered to argue. As the ruler of the divine realm, the immense primordial power of the Rebirth Divine Realm was continuously flowing into his body, repairing his depleted divine power. That feeling of weakness was visibly fading away.

"Hmph." Harosar snorted, turning his gaze to Ilex beside him, who was already in meditation, surrounded by faint gray-white magical runes. "Old Ilex, stop playing dead. Get up and stretch your muscles."

Electrolux didn't even lift his eyelids: "Fellow Daoist's divine might is unparalleled; do you still need this old man's assistance?"

"Enough with the nonsense." Harosa's tone left no room for argument. "We've been ambushed and attacked; I won't rest until we get our revenge. Let's go!"

Before he finished speaking, the space in front of him silently cracked open, and the deep gates of the underworld opened once more. Harosa stepped inside, and his figure vanished.

Electrolux shook his head helplessly, but a barely perceptible hint of excitement appeared on his gaunt face. He patted his mage robes and muttered, "Well, it'll do me the trick to stretch these old bones." He then transformed into a streak of gray-white light and disappeared into the gates of the underworld.

In the Douluo Continent, near the sea in Donghai City.

The top-floor observation deck of the luxury cruise ship "Azure Pearl" was deathly silent.

On the expensive soul beast fur carpet, there were still scorch marks from the burning energy and traces of the previous chaos. Leng Yaozhu slumped to the ground, her deep red business suit slightly disheveled, strands of hair at her temples stuck to her still flushed cheeks with sweat, her chest still rising and falling slightly, her eyes filled with confusion and lingering fear.

Leng Yulai knelt on one knee a short distance away, her voluptuous body taut as outlined by her tight leather jacket. The malice of her triumphant prank had vanished from her face, replaced by deep horror and a feeling of utter exhaustion from surviving a close call. The black dagger in her hand fell to the ground, and she forgot to pick it up.

The two sisters, separated by a messy space, exchanged complicated glances. An awkwardness, lingering fear, and an indescribable eeriness hung in the air.

That man—Harossa—the Emperor of the Underworld—was he just calling the Sea God a "little third son"? And saying something about "beating the youngest, and then the old one comes"? And that "older one"—could it refer to…?!

A terrifying conjecture, capable of instantly annihilating any power on the continent, exploded uncontrollably in the minds of the two sisters simultaneously! Both were exceptionally intelligent, and combining Harosa's provocative posture before his disappearance with the subsequent clash of terrifying divine power that froze their souls—this conjecture, though utterly absurd, carried an incredibly real sense of dread!

Looking at Leng Yulai's face, which bore a seven-tenths resemblance to her own but was filled with an eerie and fearful expression, Leng Yaozhu felt a surge of intense emotion, both familiar and strangely unfamiliar, welling up from the depths of her heart!

It seems like a long, long time ago, in some forgotten corner, they once confronted each other like this, and for some irreconcilable reason, they eventually broke up with each other!

Leng Yulai also felt that strange tremor! Alarm bells rang in her mind! An instinctive repulsion and disgust instantly overwhelmed her fear!

"Hmph!" Leng Yulai abruptly turned her face away, forcibly suppressing the inexplicable flutter in her heart. Her voice was deliberately amplified with coldness and impatience, as if she wanted to sever the invisible connection with that sound. "What are you looking at! Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out!"

Startled awake by the harsh words, Leng Yaozhu's eyes instantly regained the coldness and aloofness of the deputy tower master. She also snorted coldly and struggled to stand up, but her legs were weak due to the previous exhaustion and emotional turmoil.

Unwilling to show weakness in front of her sister, she forced herself to stand up straight by supporting herself on the armrest of the sofa next to her, straightening her disheveled clothes, and completely sealing away the strange flutter in her heart.

The air between the sisters plummeted to freezing point once more. The brief, delicate connection that had arisen from facing the divine might together was instantly replaced by a deeper estrangement and hostility. They both tacitly stopped dwelling on that shameful guess, and ceased delving into the source of that lingering stirring in their hearts.

However, in this frozen silence, a buzzing sound rang out!

In the center of the observation deck, space twisted once again without warning! That familiar gate to the underworld, exuding an aura of endless death and reincarnation, opened silently like the eye of an abyss!

Harossa stepped forward first! Closely following behind was Ilex, dressed in a grey and white mage's robe, with eyes as deep as an ancient pool!

The moment the two appeared, the immense aura of divinity, though desperately concealed, still caused Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai to gasp for breath! They looked towards the doorway in terror, their hearts pounding in their throats! Why was he back again?! And with an unfathomable old man?!

Harosa didn't even have time to glance at the still-shaken twin sisters; his first foot had stepped out of the gates of the underworld, his second foot was still dangling in mid-air—

A spatial force, more violent and tyrannical than before, filled with boundless rage and dimensional pressure, instantly enveloped him and Electrox like an invisible giant net!

The scene before him blurred and distorted instantly! Before the familiar azure law space could fully appear, a terrifying wind pressure, powerful enough to pulverize stars, slammed into Harosa's face like a solid wall!

The moment his vision returned, Harosa's pupils contracted sharply!

What lay before them was no longer the surging sea of ​​laws, but a vast expanse of dark gold that filled the entire field of vision!

On that dark gold surface, countless phantom images of mountains, rivers, forests, and land surged and swirled wildly, radiating a terrifying aura of annihilation and suppression of all heavens! It was the hammerhead of the Haotian Divine Hammer magnified a thousand times!

Tang Hao's face, twisted with rage, was faintly visible behind the massive hammerhead, his eyes bloodshot and filled with resentment and a resolute determination to kill! He had calculated that Harossa would return to seek revenge, and had been lying in wait in the spatial rift, waiting for his prey! He was just waiting for Harossa's aura to appear before forcibly pulling him and Ilex into this shattered battlefield, where they would be met with this long-awaited, deadly hammer blow, imbued with the will of the plane and boundless hatred!

"Ha! Lo! Sa! Die!!!"

Tang Hao's roar exploded like billions of thunderbolts deep within Harosa's soul! The enormous dark gold hammer, carrying absolute power that could lock down all escape routes and crush all resistance, slammed down at Harosa and Elex, who had just appeared and were still unsteady on their feet, with speed beyond comprehension! The space itself groaned under the weight of this hammer blow, like shattering glass!

Harosa felt his scalp tingle instantly! An unprecedented, deadly sense of crisis coiled around his heart like a cold, venomous snake! He cursed inwardly:

"Damn it! This drunkard! Is he really waiting here for me?! Just dragging him in is like throwing a punch at me?! No sportsmanship at all!!"

Even with Harosa's shrewdness and strength, he was instantly filled with shock and anger when faced with this meticulously planned, premeditated, and deadly sneak attack that mobilized the power of the entire plane!

This blow was even more sudden and vicious than the previous ring-exploding attack! It was clearly aimed at smashing him and Electrox together into cosmic dust!

boom!!!

The dark golden hammerhead obscured the entire field of vision! Like the collapse of the heavens, it carried a terrifying pressure capable of crushing stars and suppressing eternity, compressing space itself to the point of groaning under its unbearable weight! Tang Hao's face, twisted with rage and the satisfaction of his successful scheme, appeared and disappeared behind the hammer's shadow, his eyes burning with a venomous flame of resentment that wanted to grind Harosa to dust! This hammer blow, long premeditated, mobilized the immense power of the entire plane's will, aiming to smash the still-unstable Harosa and Elex into cosmic dust!

"Damn it!" Harosa cursed, his scalp tingling instantly! The immense sense of impending death felt like a cold, venomous snake coiling around his heart! But what kind of beings were he and Elex? One was the Hades Emperor who had fought his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the other was the undead Scourge who had endured countless battles! Their fighting instincts were already ingrained in their very bones!

In a flash, Harosa had no time to think! His eyes flashed with a fierce light, and instead of retreating, he advanced! The muscles in his right arm bulged instantly under the Five-Character Battle Armor, the veins like dragons! The great artifact, Netherworld Chant, erupted with an unprecedented gray-white death light, the ink-black and moon-white patterns on the sword blade spinning wildly, transforming into a barrier separating life and death! At the same time, the golden dragon spear in his left hand burst forth with a dazzling golden light, like a second arm, fiercely overlapping behind the Netherworld Chant! He actually intended to use two divine artifacts to directly confront this killing blow that carried the power of a plane!

clang!!!!

An indescribable, terrifying roar! It was as if two dimensions were colliding violently! At the center of the fierce clash between the gray-white death light, the devouring golden light, and the vast dark golden divine power, space, like fragile glass, instantly exploded into an absolute dark void with a diameter of tens of feet!

The raging energy turbulence, like billions of out-of-control cosmic beasts, roared and surged wildly in all directions, tearing, annihilating! The entire azure law space, already on the verge of collapse, emitted a dying wail, and cracks spread out instantly like a spider web!

However, with Ah Yin's Blue Silver Domain present, this azure space did not collapse and remained at the final stage.

Harosa felt a violent tremor in both arms! It was as if he had been struck by billions of divine mountains at the same time! The starlight and spatial ripples on the surface of the five-word battle armor "Reincarnation Netherworld Abyss" flickered wildly and erratically, emitting a piercing metallic scraping sound!

An immense force pierced through the divine artifact, slamming into his internal organs! A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he nearly coughed up a mouthful of blood! The void beneath his feet shattered inch by inch, and he was as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, uncontrollably sliding backward, carving two dark trenches in the turbulent energy flow!

Tang Hao was also in great discomfort due to the enormous recoil force. As a power-type character, the fact that he was still suffering from the recoil force shows just how powerful the recoil wave was during the collision.

Just as Harosa was bracing against the giant hammer, Electrox also made his move!

His withered figure remained motionless, like an ancient pine tree rooted in the eye of a storm. The seemingly ordinary greyish-white bone staff had appeared in his hand without his noticing. The deep blue gem inlaid at the top of the staff suddenly lit up!

"Radiant Reincarnation Town!"