Lava Douluo had even forgotten to maintain his magma shield. Veins of terror surfaced across his dark crimson skin.
"Fourteenth Realm... that planet's guardian... has broken through to the Fourteenth Realm..."
Withered Bone Douluo's bone wall stopped growing in that instant, his pallid pupils reflecting the pillar of light that pierced heaven and earth.
"Captain... the captain was used... that tree... it had been using the captain to break through all along..."
The undead creatures summoned by Undead Douluo crumbled one after another beneath that radiance, turning to ash. "It's over... we're all finished..."
Blood Blade Douluo's crimson saber slipped from his hand, and for the first time, an uncomposed expression appeared on his face. "Captain... can the captain beat him?"
More than half of Wraith Douluo's wraith phantoms dissipated in the light, and his voice carried a despair he had never known before.
"That tree... that tree has three thousand six hundred abilities... and now it has broken through to the Fourteenth Realm... three thousand six hundred Fourteenth Realm abilities... Captain... how could the captain possibly beat it..."
Cracks began to appear in the Pirates' formation.
The Pirates who had originally pounced on Jiquan Star's formation like starving wolves were now pale-faced, the weapons in their hands trembling faintly.
Their captain—the invincible Limit Douluo of the Fourteenth Realm—had been plotted against, used, and turned into nourishment for a tree's breakthrough.
"No... that can't be..." one Pirate muttered. "The captain is invincible... the captain has hunted three Fourteenth Realm beings..."
"But that tree..." another Pirate said fearfully. "That tree has also broken through to the Fourteenth Realm..."
"And that tree has three thousand six hundred abilities..."
"Captain... can the captain really still win?"
Fear spread through the Pirates' ranks like a plague.
Their formation began to fall apart, their attacks