"Powerful! Ruthless!"
As a mouthful of dark-red airflow was spat out, the dazzling golden dragon eyes within that giant dragon head cleared up once more, and it spoke in the human tongue: "So this is a weapon forged using human vengeful souls?"
The appearance of this dragon head thoroughly shocked everyone present.
Before their surprise could fade, the dragon head slowly retracted into the spatial rift. The next second, a humanoid figure emerged, a black robe fluttering in the wind, his bearing carrying a hint of cold sternness.
"Di Tian!" ×2
With Di Tian's arrival, Ye Yulin and Jing Hongchen were the first to call out his name. Without a second word, Ye Yulin was also the first to make a move.
Raising his right hand, soul power instantly surged out!
A massive cluster of silver light shot into the sky, illuminating the surroundings brilliantly before quickly soaring into the high heavens. The moment the silver light cluster in the sky stabilized, a silver beam of light descended from the heavens, landing before Ye Yulin. Following his subsequent motion of raising both hands upward, another pale-gold sphere of light appeared within the silver glow.
This light sphere had a diameter of a full meter. As it slowly ascended, it looked just like a small sun. After rising, it reflected brilliantly against the silver light in the sky, flying all the way to its side.
The two distinctly colored light spheres echoed each other from afar in the sky, beginning to revolve around an unknown center point, weaving together in mid-air to form an even larger gold-and-silver dual-colored sphere.
And this was Ye Yulin's proudest masterpiece.
The Rank 9 Soul Tool—Sun Moon Divine Needle!
Facing a Beast God like Di Tian, naturally, he had to go all out. This move happened in a flash of lightning, and Jing Hongchen even stood in front of him, seemingly worried that Di Tian would attack and interrupt.
But obviously, they didn't understand this Beast God's arrogance.
At this moment, Di Tian was actually looking at them with gleeful interest.
As the Sun Moon Divine Needle ascended, Ye Yulin's spiritual power climbed and strengthened along with it, vastly expanding his field of vision. The traces of enemies that he originally couldn't catch quickly appeared in his sight. However, the revolving Sun Moon Divine Needle in the high sky also caused his soul power to drain at an astonishing rate. But in exchange, it provided a deterrent that even Super Douluos would fear.
The gold-and-silver dual-colored cluster in the sky was like a giant dual-colored eye, coldly and disdainfully gazing at the earth, as if searching for its target. Finally, it locked onto Di Tian.
Under the effect of the Sun Moon Radiance, any attribute-based defense would lose its defensive properties. Its launched piercing attack could even cover a radius of thirty kilometers, possessing an extremely terrifying striking power!
It was precisely because of this that Ye Yulin had the confidence to face Di Tian directly.
The next second, Whoosh—
Intertwining gold and silver, a pillar of light blasted down!
Di Tian raised both hands, and a powerful Dragon Prestige erupted from his body. Golden light flickered in his eyes as a thick black shield condensed between his hands. When the gold-and-silver light pillar unleashed by the Sun Moon Divine Needle slammed into the shield, it let out an earth-shattering boom. The shield trembled violently, was pierced through in an instant, and continued to strike down toward Di Tian's body.
However, his left hand transformed into a dragon claw, reaching out. Terrifying soul power converged on the dragon claw, and the spatial power in the surroundings gathered along with it, seemingly forming a massive maw capable of swallowing all creation, enveloping the Sun Moon Divine Needle's strike entirely.
"This is...!"
This scene instantly shocked Ye Yulin and Jing Hongchen.
"Not a bad attack."
Di Tian played with the gold-and-silver light sphere in his hand. However, this seemingly casual move was only on the surface. Feeling the light sphere in his claw constantly battering the spatial power, capable of breaking through his defense at any moment, Di Tian's heart grew incredibly serious. He cast his gaze toward Ye Yulin and Jing Hongchen, and waved his hand back.
"I'll return it to you."
Boom—
Facing the returned strike of the Sun Moon Divine Needle, Jing Hongchen immediately took action, instantly bringing up a reddish-gold light barrier before them. As a Soul Engineer whose strength was on par with, or perhaps even slightly superior to, Ye Yulin's, Jing Hongchen's skill was naturally beyond doubt.
However, the moment they blocked the attack, a dragon claw reached out and arrived right in front of them. This caused the barrier, which was already at the end of its rope after blocking the Sun Moon Divine Needle's strike, to instantly collapse.
Di Tian flashed and arrived before the two of them. Just as he was about to deliver a lethal blow, a dark-red pillar of light was fired from the Death God Soul Tool once more. Howling vengeful spirits rushed straight at him.
The two seized this opportunity to flee far away.
But this time, Di Tian did not pursue them. Because the primary goal of him being called here by Chen Junting was to destroy the Death God Soul Tool. As for everything else, it could wait until later.
Taking a stride, he crossed a thousand miles in a single step. With just one step, he arrived at the mountain peak where the Death God Soul Tool was located. Unconsciously glancing at the vengeful spirits swirling around Dai Hao, he reached out a claw and annihilated them all.
"Thank you, Beast God Your Excellency." Dai Hao expressed his gratitude, his Vajra Giant Tiger Spirit Soul prostrating on the ground.
But Di Tian didn't pay him any further heed, instead turning his attention to the Death God Soul Tool. However, his arrival actually caused changes in this inanimate object. The clouds over the Mingdou Mountain Range were churning. At this moment, the Death God Soul Tool at the mountain's peak actually looked like an inverted black spire, with dark-red energy runes flowing across its surface, appearing terrifying and ferocious.
"An evil creation."
Soul beasts, much like humans, felt an incomparable disgust toward such evil things. Just as humans felt toward Evil Soul Masters, it was the same as how soul beasts felt toward the Dark Devil Evil God Tiger and the Human-Faced Demon Spider.
Di Tian raised his right hand. The dark elements condensed in his dragon claw solidified into reality, slicing five pitch-black gashes through the air. The mountain body trembled violently, and rock layers weighing dozens of tons were sliced apart like butter. Even when the Death God Soul Tool fired the Light of the Death God again, it was blocked by Di Tian, failing to hinder his actions in the slightest.
Just as he was about to touch the soul tool's base, five pillars of light soared into the sky. One figure stepped out from the void. His body, seemingly forged of gold, cracked the bedrock beneath him into spider-web-like fissures. Blinding light erupted from his chest, actually scattering Di Tian's darkness.
"Stop!"
A deep voice echoed through the valley.
But this person's face, along with the martial souls of him and the remaining four, shocked Di Tian and the powerhouses of the Star Luo Empire.
For no other reason than that these five people were actually all from the Body Sect!
And the one leading them was none other than the Golden Body Douluo, Jin Peng!
"How is this possible!?"
Dai Hao, in his White Tiger True Body form and fighting in the mountains, had his attention diverted by this sight. Ye Yulin seized the opportunity and blasted him back with a single shot, causing him to crash directly through a rock face.
But soon, as high-ranking officials, they realized the reason why.
"Sun Moon Empire—, Holy Spirit Cult—"
Dai Hao gritted his teeth, his killing intent incredibly dense.
Obviously, this was possession!
They knew the news of the Tianhun Empire's coastal cities falling. And the ones responsible for garrisoning them were none other than the disciples of the Body Sect.
When the coastal cities fell, the Body Sect suffered heavy casualties. Aside from a small fraction, the rest either went missing or died in battle. Among them naturally included the Body Sect's Elders.
Clearly, these missing Body Sect Elders had been captured by the bastards of the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult, and then possessed.
Right now, they were long since no longer their former selves.
However, Di Tian obviously didn't care about this point. He only knew that these five guys from the Body Sect were standing on the opposite side of him. In that case, things were simple.
Coincidentally, the grudge between their Star Dou Great Forest and the Body Sect had a long history. It was only out of consideration for their cooperative relationship, and for the future of the soul beast race, that they had chosen to let go of all these grudges.
But letting go didn't mean forgetting.
Now that there was an opportunity, he would naturally demand repayment!
His aura soared, making the five of them feel as if they were facing a great enemy.
"Jin Peng" unleashed his Golden Torso Martial Soul True Body, his main body transforming into a thirty-meter-tall giant. The other four figures spread out in a fan shape—the Dual-Arms Douluo's sleeves exploded, revealing arms covered in dark-iron scales; beneath the Dual-Legs Douluo's feet, air vortices churned, every step leaving burning footprints in the void.
The most bizarre was the Brain Douluo. He hovered in mid-air, and it seemed as if a third vertical eye had split open at his brow. Within the pupil of this vertical eye, countless silver threads extended outward, weaving into a spiritual network that covered the entire battlefield. This made Di Tian feel as if his surroundings had become viscous; those silver threads seemed to be analyzing his trajectory.
"Ignorant."
Di Tian's dragon body trembled. A condensed Black Dragon phantom coiled around his entire body. As he raised his dragon head, the light of the entire sky was swallowed up.
Seeing this, the Dual-Arms Douluo was the first to attack. His dark-iron arm bones swelled three times in size, and serrated soul tool blades popped out from his knuckles. Clearly, a Title Douluo who used his own body as a martial soul had incorporated soul tools. Even if they were only Rank 8 soul tools, the amplification to his own strength was quite substantial. At the very least, his current attack power was roughly at the level of a ninety-fifth-tier Assault-type Super Douluo.
"Nine Nether Tear-Heaven Hand!" With a loud roar, his arms turned into a black whirlwind. The air itself was sliced into sharp shrieks, and hundreds of black blade auras formed a death-trap net that enveloped Di Tian.
Almost simultaneously, the Dual-Legs Douluo's figure vanished. A sonic boom cloud suddenly appeared to Di Tian's left, and a burning right leg swept over with the force of ten thousand pounds. The timing of this strike was exquisite; it was the exact moment the Iron-Armed Douluo's blade net closed in.
Di Tian remained silent, viewing these as mere petty tricks.
His left hand made a grasping motion in the void, and the spatial power in his palm collapsed into a miniature black hole. The black blade auras were like fallen leaves swept into a whirlpool, and even the Flame-Leg Douluo's kick had its trajectory twisted.
But right at this moment, the golden giant formed by "Jin Peng" opened its massive maw, and an incomparably overbearing golden pillar of blood essence sprayed out.
Three entirely different attacks collided within a narrow space, and the resulting energy storm sheared off the peak of a nearby mountain. In the smoke and dust, two points of golden light suddenly flashed. Di Tian's dragon claw tore through the chaotic energy, reaching straight for "Jin Peng"'s throat.
Clang—, Clang—
Two sounds of metal clashing echoed through the heavens in succession. First, an Invincible Barrier was raised, only to be torn apart by Di Tian. Then, the Bone Douluo somehow blocked the path in front of "Jin Peng". His vertebrae bulged joint by joint, forming a pale-white bone armor over his body surface. The dragon claw scraped against his bone armor, creating blinding sparks.
"The carapace of a hundred-thousand-year Sea Turtle?"
The words had just left his mouth when the dragon claw suddenly flipped.
With just a single claw, Hmph—
The Bone Douluo's face instantly turned pale. Not only did a deep crack that reached the bone appear on his chest armor, but Di Tian's attack actually penetrated deep into his martial soul, causing irreversible damage to it.
And this was merely Di Tian flipping his palm in passing.
At this moment, the Brain Douluo's vertical eye suddenly shot out blinding silver light, and a flash of brilliance swept across his entire head; he had clearly used his head soul bone skill. "Mental Imprisonment!"
The instant the silver threads tightened, before they could even ascertain Di Tian's condition, the Golden Body Douluo "Jin Peng"'s golden giant smashed its fists together. The golden light of his blood essence condensed into a golden hammer that crashed down with a boom.
Amidst a deafening sound of collapsing mountains and splitting earth, Di Tian merely raised a palm upward, effortlessly blocking "Jin Peng"'s strike. As Di Tian's dragon claw, which had grabbed him, violently tightened, *Boom—*
"Jin Peng" was sent flying backward directly.
Then, a wave of Dragon Prestige rampaged out in all directions!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
The other four were all blown away.
Just as they barely managed to steady themselves, Roar—
"Up above!"
The Brain Douluo's mental warning had just been transmitted.
Above the Death God Soul Tool, the pitch-black clouds began to churn violently. The dark domain originally formed by the Death God Soul Tool had now directly changed owners. A giant dragon of indeterminate size loomed within, its body covered in pitch-black scales, emitting a deep purple glow within the dark clouds.
The next second, the black dragon that had been spiraling through the clouds paused. Two clusters of golden light abruptly flared up—they were its eyes.
At this very moment, the dark elements within a radius of a hundred miles frantically converged, condensing into nine meteors burning with black flames in the air.
Roar—
This dragon roar was a signal. The nine meteors plummeted, dragging long tails of fire. Ferocious dragon head reliefs appeared on the surface of each meteor. "Jin Peng"'s pupils shrank. The golden giant crossed its arms and, joining forces with the other four Douluos, activated a joint defense, forming a diamond-shaped shield above their heads. The entire mountain range was illuminated by various soul power lights until it looked like broad daylight.
The first meteor struck the shield, its light and flames intertwining with the black flames to form a spinning energy vortex. The second and third followed closely behind, and cracks began to appear on the shield's surface. By the time the fifth meteor fell, the shield was already on the verge of collapse.
In Di Tian's massive golden eyes, a clear look of disdain appeared. His giant dragon wings flapped forcefully once.
Instantly, the sky completely plunged into darkness.
Day turned into night. The pressing dark clouds swallowed the bodies of all five people, forcing them to erupt with their hidden power.
Darkness surged, and demonic runes manifested on the bodies of the five.
"Oh?"
This scene immediately drew a sound of surprise from Di Tian.
At the same time, "Zhongli Wu," who was trapped within the Zhuxian Sword Array and originally unaware of the outside changes, also sensed that something was wrong at this moment.
As beings from the same plane, after they arrived in the Douluo Plane, a certain perception was interconnected between them.
The eruption of the demonic runes meant they were no longer holding back.
And there was only one situation where they would stop holding back now...
"You called Di—Tian!"
"Zhongli Wu" stared at Chen Junting, whose aura seemed slightly weakened, and spat out the last two words through gritted his teeth. He had clearly realized Chen Junting's plan.
Under the state of "Sword God Without Self," Chen Junting's face remained as cold as ever. He was silent and wordless; he merely held his sword in his right hand, pointing it directly at the space between "Zhongli Wu"'s eyebrows.
The implication here went without saying.
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