Crushing Dugu Bo

As Gu Shenggo transformed into Divine Knight Solomon, the sky instantly changed. Dark clouds rolled overhead, blanketing the sky and sun as darkness descended. Crimson lightning churned within the clouds, destruction hanging thick in the air as though the end of the world were about to arrive.

Sensing the terrifying aura Gu Shenggo radiated, Dugu Bo's sinister expression changed drastically. His body actually began to tremble, and a sense of lethal danger welled up in his heart.

Gu Shenggo swung the Golden King Arthur Sword. Its edge was incomparably sharp; he could even feel that it was capable of cutting through space.

However, Gu Shenggo could also feel his spiritual power rapidly draining away.

Pointing his sword at Dugu Bo, Gu Shenggo spoke in a low, cold voice.

"Let's fight somewhere else, so we don't destroy the Herb Garden."

Hearing this, Dugu Bo instantly understood that the man before him was after his Herb Garden. His gaze turned vicious. The Herb Garden was his life—whoever dared take it from him would have to fight him to the death!

Without another word, Dugu Bo transformed into a streak of dark-green light and shot toward Sunset Forest, with Gu Shenggo following close behind.

"First Soul Skill: Jade Scale Devour!"

As the two headed toward Sunset Forest, Dugu Bo suddenly attacked. His yellow soul ring lit up, and the ground churned like an earth dragon turning over. More than a dozen enormous Jade Scale Snakes burst forth in a swarm, wrapping around Gu Shenggo's body to restrict his movements. They opened their gaping maws, their stench reaching the heavens, intending to devour Gu Shenggo.

But how could mere Jade Scale Snakes possibly bite through Solomon Armor?

Terrifying destructive energy erupted from Gu Shenggo in an instant, blasting the dozen or so Jade Scale Snakes wrapped around him into powder. Raising his hand, he condensed dark-red destructive energy into a sphere and hurled it out. Like a meteor, it shot toward Dugu Bo, leaving a beautiful trail in its wake.

"Not good!" Dugu Bo's alarm flared. Seeing the destructive energy sphere radiating terrifying power race toward him, his fifth soul ring lit up. Countless Jade Scale Snakes rushed forth and gathered before him into an indestructible giant python shield, attempting to block the destructive energy sphere.

"Boom!!!"

With an earth-shaking explosion, the destructive energy sphere erupted with power comparable to a missile, blasting the python shield into fragments. The shockwave flattened everything within a dozen meters, reducing trees and boulders to dust and leaving a massive crater in the ground.

Yet Dugu Bo was nowhere to be seen. Only a shed Jade Scale Snake skin remained on the ground.

"Did he escape by shedding his skin?"

Gu Shenggo stopped at the sight of that layer of snakeskin. Suddenly, the ground changed, turning into an enormous python's mouth that tried to swallow him whole.

Gu Shenggo instantly vanished from where he stood and appeared in the air, evading the giant python's gaping maw.

Then, a massive emerald snake over thirty meters long burst from the ground. Its scales gleamed like jade, its body thicker than a water vat, and dense green miasma poured from it. Poisonous fumes soared into the sky and spread across the land. Wherever it passed, even the soil became poisonous, while trees, flowers, and grass withered into lifeless ruin.

"Jade Scale Serpent Emperor Avatar."

At the moment Dugu Bo was struck by the destructive energy's shockwave, he had used his sixth soul skill to escape. At the same time, he had transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar. He had intended to swallow Gu Shenggo, but he had not expected him to react quickly enough to evade it.

Nine soul rings encircled the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor's enormous body, gleaming brilliantly. Its scales shone with a cold light and were incomparably tough. Its snake eyes radiated frigid malice as they fixed unblinkingly on Gu Shenggo. Its crimson tongue flicked out, and it opened its gaping maw in a hissing roar!

An incomparably dense cloud of poison spewed from its mouth. Everything it passed withered, and it surged toward Gu Shenggo.

Gu Shenggo became a streak of golden light and charged into the poison mist. Swinging the Golden King Arthur Sword like a god slaying filth, he cleaved the poison cloud apart. Without slowing, his blade swept out with savage force, cutting through armies as it struck at the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor!

Feeling the terrifying sharpness of Gu Shenggo's attack, the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor's scales immediately bristled as alarm flared within it. Its enormous body curled, then sprang away in an instant, barely evading the Golden King Arthur Sword's slash.

At the same time, it violently swung its tail at Gu Shenggo, carrying the force of a thousand jun. Waves of air pressure swept over him, filling the heavens and earth—there was nowhere to evade and nowhere to retreat!

The snake tail swept over with overwhelming force, capable of leveling all in its path. Gu Shenggo raised his sword to block, only to feel a savage force send him flying. His body tumbled through the air for hundreds of meters before he barely managed to stop.

"Roar!!!"

The Jade Scale Serpent Emperor roared as terrifying energy erupted from its enormous body and swept in every direction. Its power was horrifying enough to send the soul beasts fleeing in all directions.

The ninth soul ring around its body suddenly lit up. Emerald light bloomed over its entire body, dyeing the whole world green. A terrifying emerald energy gathered in its mouth, its divine radiance dazzling as it shot forth!

"Ninth Soul Skill: Jade Scale Divine Light!"

Before Gu Shenggo could react further, a resplendent emerald divine light tore through space and shot toward him, piercing heaven and earth. Everything in its path was annihilated, leaving only vacuum behind!

"Fuck!"

Sensing the terrifying energy within the Jade Scale Divine Light, Gu Shenggo cursed. Going straight for the ninth soul skill—this bastard was truly ruthless!

Gu Shenggo raised his hand, seized the dark-red cape behind him, and violently swung it in front of himself.

The Jade Scale Divine Light was unstoppable, piercing through everything. Even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could only retreat before it.

Inside the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor, Dugu Bo saw that Gu Shenggo neither dodged nor evaded, and a trace of surprise appeared in his snake eyes.

But the next moment, Dugu Bo was completely dumbfounded.

The Jade Scale Divine Light struck Gu Shenggo's cape, yet it caused no damage whatsoever. Instead, it was all absorbed by that dark-red cape without even creating a ripple.

Gu Shenggo lowered his cape. He had already transferred Dugu Bo's Jade Scale Divine Light to another world.

Without any needless explanation, Gu Shenggo transformed into a brilliant streak of golden light and charged at Dugu Bo. The Golden King Arthur Sword swung, annihilating all things as it sought to chop the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor into eight pieces.

Though Dugu Bo was shocked, he did not lose his composure because of it. The Jade Scale Serpent Emperor shot toward Gu Shenggo, and another fierce clash began.

Golden and emerald light collided continuously in the air. Roars echoed throughout the forest as clouds churned overhead. The aftershocks of their battle swept across heaven and earth, shaking the mountains and forests. Rocks tumbled, trees turned to dust, and the ground was blasted full of enormous craters, leaving devastation everywhere. The terrified soul beasts fled in all directions.

Dugu Bo was completely being suppressed by Gu Shenggo. Wounds multiplied across the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor's huge body, green blood scattering across the sky as scales burst apart and flesh flew everywhere. It was a miserable sight; he was no match for Gu Shenggo at all.

If this continued, he would only end up chopped into snake soup.

"Roar!!!"

The Jade Scale Serpent Emperor howled in pain, twisting its body before violently ramming toward Gu Shenggo. He easily dodged, then pressed the Book of Solomon. A terrifying force gathered into a thirty-meter golden greatsword, which descended upon the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor carrying terrifying divine might!

The golden greatsword swept across the world, unstoppable as it directly sheared the top off a mountain. Its power did not diminish, its edge capable of splitting heaven and earth, making the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor feel an unprecedented crisis.

In an instant, Dugu Bo poured most of the Soul Power in his body into his eighth soul ring. Heaven and earth fell into a state of stasis. Both Gu Shenggo and the golden greatsword slashing toward him froze in place.

"Eighth Soul Skill: Time Stasis!"

Dugu Yan... perhaps I should consider her.