Quality Tactics, Desperate Roars

Taking advantage of Tang Chen being chained to the ground and consumed by rage, Gengar floated like a phantom to the edge of the arena and swept its claws!

Spikes!

Countless metal spikes, gleaming with icy blue light and coated in Toxic, poured down like a torrential rain, densely carpeting the ground around Tang Chen and forming a field of deadly thorns!

Every step Tang Chen took brought piercing pain from beneath his feet and the corrosive effects of poison. Even his divine power barrier was rapidly draining!

Meanwhile, Snorlax stood leisurely atop the Toxic Spikes. Those lethal spikes not only failed to harm it in the slightest, but instead turned into nourishing green light that flowed into its body.

Lu Feng had specifically given it the Poison Heal Ability.

Just as Tang Chen gathered all his divine power, preparing to unleash a fatal strike with the Asura Demon Sword and cut down that Spikes-laying ghost first—

Slap!

Another resounding slap echoed through the sky! Gengar had somehow flashed before him, a massive purple palm formed from pure Ghost energy.

Carrying mockery and the power of rules, it accurately and viciously struck the other side of his face once again.

Tang Chen once more fell into that humiliating, Flinch-induced stiffness. Endless frustration and fury nearly burst through the top of his skull.

The dignified King of Slaughter, chosen successor of the Asura God, had been slapped repeatedly like a plaything! His eyes turned blood-red, and the blood fiend energy around him raged nearly out of control!

At that moment, the blue light in Alakazam's eyes surged to its peak! The Mega Stone on its chest blossomed with dazzling radiance!

Mega Evolution!

As the light faded, Mega Alakazam floated in the air!

Vast Mental Power, like a sea of stars, transformed into tangible shockwaves that swept across the entire arena.

Trick Room.

That familiar sensation of spatial distortion once again enveloped the arena!

Tang Chen's stats, enhanced by the Asura God, became a burden once more!

At the same time, Snorlax puffed out its belly and slammed both palms against its round stomach.

Belly Drum! At the cost of half its stamina, its physical attack rose to the maximum!

After drumming its belly, Snorlax pulled out a Berry that restored stamina and stuffed it into its mouth. A flash of light followed.

Its lost stamina instantly returned to full, while its attack power had already soared off the charts!

Then, it crooked its little stubby finger at Tang Chen, who had just recovered from Flinch and whose eyes were blood-red.

A dark crimson force of rules locked onto Tang Chen.

Taunt, drawing aggro and forcing the opponent to use only attacking moves for a short period of time!

"Aaaahhh! Die for me!!" Tang Chen's reason was completely ignited by rage and humiliation!

Divine Slaughter's Domain compressed to the limit, forming crimson battle armor over his entire body! In his left hand, the smaller but incomparably solid true form of the Clear Sky Hammer condensed once more. His right hand gripped the Asura Demon Sword tightly as bloody and black light intertwined!

Eighth Soul Skill, Ling Tian Strike!

Divine Slaughter's Domain Secret Art: Slaughter Descent!

He abandoned all defense and technique, pouring the Asura God's power and his lifetime of killing intent into this ultimate two-handed combination attack!

He swore to blast that hateful fat pig, along with its disgusting tactics, into pieces! The power of this strike had already surpassed the realm of ordinary Ultimate Douluos and approached the threshold of godhood!

A two-colored Destruction Torrent tore through space and roared toward Snorlax!

Facing this heaven-destroying strike, Snorlax still neither dodged nor evaded. It even stuck out its belly again, its tiny eyes gleaming with a look that said, Come hit me.

However, just before Tang Chen's attack struck its body—

Snorlax's body suddenly began to expand without limit!

The sky above the arena gradually turned red. Dynamax!

Its body crazily swelled like an inflated balloon! In the blink of an eye, it became a colossal Snorlax hundreds of meters tall, nearly filling half the arena!

Its round belly transformed into a flat rocky islet, lush with greenery. Fruit trees rooted themselves across it, laden with Berries brimming with life energy. From time to time, fruits fell on their own and merged into Snorlax's body, restoring its stamina!

Tang Chen's inevitable combination attack struck the Dynamaxed Snorlax's mountain-like belly solidly!

"Rumble rumble rumble!!!"

An unprecedentedly terrifying explosion erupted above the arena! The energy storm swept through everything!

The Dynamaxed Snorlax was blasted violently backward, and the rocks of the "island" atop its belly shattered, but it did not fall!

Its enormous body was like the sturdiest bulwark, firmly blocking every impact!

Counter and the force of recoil descended at once.

"Pwah!!!" Tang Chen spat out a mouthful of blood. A backlash several times stronger than before, mixed with the sharp retaliatory damage of Rocky Helmet, struck his own body viciously!

It was as if he had been hit by a cannonball fired at full force by himself. He flew backward at an even greater speed and crashed heavily onto the ground covered in Spikes, bringing another burst of piercing pain!

He struggled to get up, but the weight of the Iron Ball, Toxic, and the relentless erosion of Burn made his movements sluggish.

When he looked up, his vision was completely occupied by the mountain-like back of the Dynamaxed Snorlax. He could not see Gengar and Alakazam hiding high in the air behind it at all.

Tang Chen stood amid the Spikes, Toxic eating away at his body, Burn weakening him, the Iron Ball shackling his feet. Above him stood an unmovable colossal mountain of flesh that would reflect double damage if struck.

In the distance were an invisible, sinister ambushing ghost and a Psychic-type opponent... Though he possessed the Asura God's power and earth-shaking combat strength, he had fallen into an unprecedented quagmire of despair!

Attack? Hit Snorlax, hurt himself, and possibly suffer retaliatory damage.

Try to attack Gengar and Alakazam? He could not fly, his view was blocked, and he could not reach them at all.

Stay on the ground? Spikes dealt continuous damage while Toxic and Burn kept eroding him.

Do nothing? The enemy could slowly wear him down with long-range moves, while Snorlax could even eat Berries to heal itself...

"Aaaahhhhhh!!!" Tang Chen let out a roar of ultimate frustration, yet there was nothing he could do.

This disgusting battle was even more maddening than the cruelest torture in Slaughter City!

Hearing Tang Chen's desperate roar—

Beneath the Sky Screen, billions of living beings fell into a suffocating silence even deeper than when Qian Daoliu had been defeated!

At the Clear Sky Sect, the people who had been ecstatically celebrating their ancestor's restored glory and his selection by the Asura God only moments ago now looked as though their throats had been seized, their faces pale as paper.

Sect Master Tang Xiao's excited, trembling hands froze in midair, and the fanatical light in his eyes was replaced by utter terror.

Watching the invincible killing god ancestor in their hearts get publicly slapped by a fat Pokemon, stripped of his divine sword by Trick, shackled, and covered in poison spikes... the impact of that scene was far more direct and humiliating than Qian Daoliu's "imprisonment"! The dawn of the sect's revival was instantly doused in icy despair.

In the Heaven Dou Empire, Qian Daoliu watched the Sky Screen. The bitter curve at the corner of his mouth turned into a silent sigh, his eyes filled with the pity of "just as expected" and a faintly twisted sense of balance.

It was as if he were watching another version of himself fall into the abyss.

The other Grand High Priests and Qian Renxue felt only a chill at the sight. They simply could not imagine how they would deal with such a combination if they encountered it themselves.

On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi gripped her staff so tightly that her knuckles turned blue, while stormy waves surged in her sea-like eyes.

Watching Tang Chen humiliated and bound, the sense of destiny no longer brought a flutter to her heart, only piercing cold and profound helplessness. Sea God's silence felt especially heavy at this moment.

All the spectators had only one thought left: How could this battle still be fought? To what extent could the rules be manipulated?

Tang Chen... how much longer could he struggle?

At this moment, no one believed he could win anymore. Seeing a demigod beaten into such a state was truly a rare sight.