Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

Faced with this terrifying attack, Poison Undying's eyes lit up.

Having absorbed all the dark green in the air into his body, his entire body shone with a brilliant green light, making him look like a green sun.

Poison Immortal clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and a small, dark green vortex formed there. The vortex appeared to be only about a meter in diameter, quite disproportionate to his massive body. However, within that vortex, there seemed to be boundless power, causing Zhongli Wu's expression to change slightly.

With a loud shout, the dark green vortex in Poison Undying's hand instantly transformed into a ball of light and shot out, shrinking as it traveled through the air. Wherever the ball passed, it left a deep black trench, as if the space itself could not contain its existence.

Poison Undying's move was no small feat; it was called Death Feast. It was his eighth soul skill, originally his strongest group attack. But at his level, his mastery of soul skills had reached a transcendent level. Seeing Zhongli Wu's technique of compressing a tornado, he perfectly replicated it, responding with the massive energy of a group attack.

"Pfft—" The two collided and froze instantly. In the sky, a sudden and powerful pressure descended like towering mountains. The ear-piercing explosion carried for miles. Under the combined pressure of the dissolving and corrosive power of the Poison Undying's innate poison and the wind element, the two orbs of light transformed into a halo that spread out in the high sky.

The powerful figures from the Sun and Moon Palace below immediately joined forces to release a powerful aura. The various colors mixed together formed a light shield that rose upwards, barely managing to withstand the terrifying impact.

Zhongli Wu squinted his eyes.

The Wind's Extreme, which combined the full support of his Death God Puppet, was only evenly matched with Poison Undying's eighth soul skill, giving him a clearer understanding of Poison Undying's strength once again.

But Zhongliwu showed no panic. Instead, rings of fiery red light emanated from around his body.

The power of the flames was more terrifying and explosive than the wind before.

The Bone Dragon King's skeleton turned completely fiery red, and its huge wings flapped, making it resemble a giant fire dragon.

Even if the poison wasn't deadly, Zhongli Wu was confident he was superior to his opponent. He knew that the Bone Dragon King beneath him possessed bones that had received the blessings of the Silver Dragon King within the Dragon Ruins, its dragon soul immortal. Although it wasn't a top-tier dragon, and its bloodline wasn't even pure, it had acquired a trace of the Silver Dragon King's bloodline when the Dragon God split into the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings, granting it some of the Silver Dragon King's abilities.

Back then, with just the power of that dragon bone, he managed to break through from the Soul Douluo level to the Super Douluo level, thus taking over the position of leader of the Holy Spirit Cult.

If he were to unleash his full power, he would undoubtedly possess combat abilities at the level of a Limit Douluo. However, as the Bone Dragon King, he is not a true dragon and cannot use the powerful physique of a dragon to mitigate the adverse effects of elemental shifts. Therefore, he needs time to adjust and allow his body to adapt before using any elemental ability. Only after warming up can he unleash his maximum combat strength.

Zhongli Wu had already made up his mind. Although Du Busi was covering the rear, he would probably break through. He didn't need to exert too much effort. He would test the waters for a few rounds to wear down the old man's inexplicable fighting spirit. If he could force him to leave, he would. If he didn't leave, his Bone Dragon King would be ready by then. He would then use his near-perfect wind and fire element control talent inherited from the Silver Dragon King to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

But at that moment, Poison Undying seemed to have gone mad, rushing towards Zhongli Wu with eyes burning like flames. Zhongli Wu felt a chill run down his spine and sensed something.

That's hardly the spirit of battle.

It was clearly a pure determination to die and a murderous intent!

Then, Zhongli Wu saw a pair of hands that had completely turned into golden light...

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Feng Ling and the others watched in silence as the giant in the sky fought against the Death God Bone Dragon. Each of them had their own thoughts.

This group was considered Zhongli Wu's most loyal and trusted subordinates. Zhongli Wu had always been extremely kind and benevolent to his subordinates, so this was the first time they had shown such a ferocious side to their own people. They had even managed to devour a Super Douluo who had been with the Holy Spirit Cult for quite some time, which naturally made them feel insecure and terrified.

"So this is how it is with the offering of Wu..." Finally, someone couldn't hold back any longer and spoke first in a hoarse voice.

Just as a thin man in black was about to agree, Feng Ling suddenly changed her expression and said, "Shut up! Mask."

Masked Douluo was taken aback for a moment, thinking that Feng Ling was going to protect Zhongli Wu, and immediately said, "Vice Sect Leader, we are in the same boat."

Before he could finish speaking, his expression slowly changed, because the surrounding environment suddenly became dark, as if many of the starlight in the sky had descended and appeared extremely close, almost within reach, and the fluctuations of his soul power became unpredictable.

The other worshippers were still puzzled by this strange change, but Feng Ling's expression changed drastically. She tore her hands outwards, and they transformed into huge purple claws that swept across the sky, accompanied by a sharp, explosive sound.

"Enemy attack!"

She had heard of this thing and had seen it before.

The Sun Moon Empire's strongest defensive soul tool, and also its most concealed control soul tool, is the Eternal Starfield!

As Feng Ling's icy aura erupted instantly, dispelling the surrounding disguises, everyone could see that a bowl-shaped soul tool was floating above the courtyard where they were.

The small, dark gold bowl was only slightly larger than an ordinary rice bowl. Its opening faced downwards, and the bowl itself shimmered with starlight, radiating a dazzling light as if countless stars were revolving around it.

Several figures emerged from the shadows.

The level 97 Bright Phoenix Douluo Yan Shaozhe, the level 95 Martial God Douluo Xian Lin'er, the level 93 Moon God Douluo Zhang Lexuan, the level 92 Flame Phoenix Douluo Ro Xiaotao, and that God of Slaughter who has killed countless people and whose mere sight makes Masked Douluo and others tremble with fear.

Level 94, titled Heavenly Slaughter.

"Cain! Ma Xiaotao? Aren't you... on the front lines? And Yan Shaozhe too!"

Nangong Wan's expression was contorted, his eyes filled with terror. The reason he had sent Zhongli Wu to guard Mingdu was because Xue Di and all the other top-tier experts were away on campaigns. Now that Ma Xiaotao, who had traveled with Xue Di, had returned, that…

No one answered him.

At this moment, these evil spirit masters understood that the Snow Emperor was already in charge of the palace. Kong Tianxu had Zhongli Wu guard the palace so that he could eliminate them all tonight!

The truth eventually came out.

The group of evil spirit masters were ashen-faced, except for Feng Ling, whose face was flushed an unnatural red. She let out a shrill scream:

"I knew it! I knew this day would come sooner or later! Yan Shaozhe, you heartless man, come on!"

Three purple, five black, one red. Rings of spirit energy rose instantly, and Feng Ling's seventh spirit ring, as black as ink, suddenly shone brightly, its intense purple-black light instantly engulfing her. The next instant, a gigantic blood-eyed purple-black phoenix suddenly burst forth, carrying a dazzling purple-black tail flame and countless strange ripples, charging towards Yan Shaozhe.

With the level 97 Evil Wind Douluo Feng Ling leading the way, the remaining Evil Soul Masters also rallied and unleashed their abilities.

However, which of the Sun Moon Empire's forces was easy to deal with? Xian Lin'er acted the fastest, but in the blink of an eye, a pair of dazzling fire wings overtook her. The blazing fire was evenly matched with Feng Ling's. Zhang Lexuan held up a bright moon in the central courtyard, suppressing the advance and retreat of the evil soul masters behind Feng Ling. Yan Shaozhe sighed, transformed into a golden phoenix, and took over Ma Xiaotao's position, engaging Feng Ling in a fierce battle.

In an instant, the Blood Moon Erosion raged fiercely, and the level 87 mental evil soul master who was about to join forces with Masked Douluo was burned to ashes in a single exchange.

Cain watched this scene in silence.

The true evil spirit masters within the Holy Spirit Cult have already lost their support base, leaving only this small group of malignant tumors. Once they are all eliminated, the Holy Spirit Cult will be truly clean.

As people died, the intensity of the battle escalated. But just then, a loud roar suddenly came from the sky, and the extremely strong pressure just moments before vanished instantly, drawing everyone's attention.

Only Ma Xiaotao was so engrossed in the fight that she was caught off guard by the Masked Douluo's momentary lapse in attention and was transformed into a mature carbon-based life form by the extreme fire.

But no one cared about the life or death of the Masked Douluo anymore. Looking at the scene in the sky, even Cain couldn't help but widen his eyes.

So fast!

……

A life-or-death battle should be this quick.

Poison Undying slumped into the air without any regard for appearances, his face full of smiles and his eyes lowered. All his aura was contained, with only a faint golden halo shining through his green light. He looked like a solemn and dignified statue of a god.

Behind him, a huge, dark green vortex was spinning continuously. Within that vortex, faint golden light flickered.

Below, the blue and red colors on the Bone Dragon King's entire body rapidly faded, and eerie green soul flames continuously emerged from all the gaps in the Bone Dragon King's skull. The Death God's true form, now only five meters tall, seemed to stiffen, and plummeted straight down from the Bone Dragon King's back.

During the fall, everyone could see clearly that the true form of Death was folded up in a posture that no ordinary person could possibly achieve. Its hips were twice as long, its upper body was leaning back and its lower body was straight against each other, and its head was pressed against its toes. Whether viewed from above or below, it was truly as upright as a pine tree. However, when the two were combined, it appeared extremely bizarre and terrifying.

Because no living person could make such a gesture.

So Zhongliwu naturally died.

Without the oppressive aura of Du Bu Si, the Sun and Moon Garrison took to the air. One after another, high-level soul tools that had not been used before were linked together to weave an impenetrable net in the airspace. Countless terrifying cannons were aimed at Du Bu Si. With just one salvo, this Body Douluo would be reduced to ashes.

However, Xu Tianyuan, who was temporarily in charge of the palace guards, glanced warily at Du Busi's hands, which were still shimmering with golden light, and then subtly glanced at Xue Di, who was standing with Xu Tianzhen in front of him. He did not make any rash moves.

Du Busi seemed oblivious, only staring at the two golden palm prints that had sunk into Zhongli Wu's chest, and the Bone Dragon King that had crashed and shattered on the soul-guiding shield below, before bursting into laughter:

"Hahaha! Back then, Mu En defeated my brother only because of his rank. If we were of the same rank, my lineage would be invincible!"

"Your wish has been fulfilled. Now, let's begin." Poison Undying suddenly became solemn.

Gold-level second awakening, triple amplification, no charging required, one strike kills the enemy, no one dares to challenge it.

He proved the true power of his original martial soul in his final battle—no need for soul skills, no need for opportunities, and no need for any external objects, just the purest martial soul power, which can kill with one blow in battles of the same level.

Its ferocity was terrifying.

Inside the palace, Jin Penglong Aotian and the others, who were reluctant to fight, had originally sealed off their five senses. However, Du Busi's shout, which was full of his own will and spiritual intent, was extremely penetrating. In an instant, they were all in tears.

"Sigh, can't we try to persuade him any further? Shrek was quite resolute at first, wasn't he? Why don't you freeze him up, Sister Xue'er?"

Xu Tianzhen sighed somewhat sadly and touched her daughter's little tuft of hair.

Xue Di shook her head. "I'm afraid freezing it won't help. There's a saying among humans: 'Seek benevolence and you will get benevolence; die in a worthy place.' Tian Xu has probably already said everything he could to persuade you."

Since Kong Tianxu intended to kill Zhongli Wu through the security plan of Mingdu, he naturally wouldn't really relax the defense of the palace and had already recalled Xue Di.

Listening to the conversation between the two leaders, Xu Tianyuan knew it was time to make a decision, and gritted his teeth:

"Let's do it!"

"Not urgent."

The next moment, a dazzling array of colors burst forth simultaneously. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—seven colors of light intertwined, like a rainbow rising from the ground and hurtling towards the Poison Undying in the sky.

But suddenly a hand appeared in the sky.

The golden palm, just a grasp.

The multi-energy-gathering rays, powerful enough to annihilate several Limit Douluos, vanished instantly under the grip of the golden hand.

A golden light shone brightly, and a thousand-meter-tall humanoid figure, far more imposing than Poison Undying, stepped out from the void.

Its entire body shimmered with a purple-gold light, and three faint halos of light slowly rotated behind it, like a god who had stepped out of mythology. Its aura was like the heavens and earth themselves, profound, vast, and immeasurable.

They returned earlier than expected, but after seeing the state of the poison-ineffective poison, Kong Tianxu sighed inwardly.

On the chest of the green giant that Poison Undying had transformed into, a ball of purple flame was burning fiercely.

Chapter 406 The Fourth Awakening, The Transformation of Heaven and Man

Others might not recognize what that burning purple light was, but how could Kong Tianxu not know it?

He was well aware of the many variations of the Demon Puppet Martial Soul and the selection of Soul Skills. He had even had Zhongli Wu demonstrate the purple light.

Zhongli Wu's Death God Puppet's eighth soul skill, Death Needle.

Its technique appears as thin as a hair, but its power is strong enough to pierce through mountains and break through all kinds of protective soul techniques. At least among the soul techniques that Kong Tianxu currently knows, apart from himself, there is none that can resist his Death Needle.

To avoid being hurt, you can only try to dodge, but Death Needle is a lock-on skill, so dodging is easier said than done.

At that time, Du Bu Si struck with a fierce palm, originally intending to exchange injury for life. After all, Soul Masters are a class with high attack and low defense, and his own martial soul is the best in the world in terms of strong attack. The boost to attack power from the second awakening of the gold level is unparalleled at the level of ninety-eight. If this palm strike landed, anyone would die, and he himself would at most be seriously injured.

This is also the most trump card and desperate fighting method of each generation's sect leader. Although it is simple, it is effective.

After all, who would have thought that a burly man with a pale face, waving his little fists and running towards you for a hundred meters would kill you with one punch?

When Mu En and Du Bisi fought fiercely for a long time, Mu En witnessed the second awakening of a Gold-level cultivator. Despite being prepared with his superior cultivation level, Mu En's spine was still broken by a single palm strike.

So much so that when he later taught Huo Yuhao, a person with an extreme martial soul and twin martial souls, he still had to tell Huo Yuhao that if he did not have a cultivation advantage of at least one level, he should not fight against a person with a gold-level second awakening of their main body martial soul. This shows how heavy the psychological shadow left on him by this explosive power was.

However, the Death God Puppet was not so easy to deal with. Zhongli Wu was also ruthless enough. In the instant that Du Busi's palms were about to strike him, he delivered a slender, needle-like Death Needle, which instantly pierced through the sky and penetrated Du Busi's protective soul power.

Once this Death Needle enters the body of any living being, it will induce a flame called the Flame of Decay to burn. No matter what the attribute of the soul power is, once it is burned by the Flame of Decay, it will perish and die. This is the power of the God of Death!

Just as a Soul Master burns their Soul Power and their Sea of ​​Spirit when they are fighting desperately, this Flame of Decay directly promotes the spontaneous combustion of these two things, and it is almost impossible for a Soul Master to control and extinguish it.