Divine Retribution

After driving Tang Hao away, Danheng unexpectedly extracted a Soul Bone from his severed arm.

"That makes sense. A Titled Douluo with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring having a Soul Bone is only normal."

"Still, its quality seems inferior to the Moonshadow Direwolf's."

Holding the Soul Bone, Danheng gave it a light squeeze or two and found that the energy fluctuations within it were weaker than those of the Moonshadow Direwolf's right leg bone.

"Consider it the price you paid for your arrogance."

After muttering that, Danheng put away the Soul Bone and began his "Douluo Continent Speedrun Edition."

He wanted to see whether this method could make the train carriages solidify more quickly.

If it did not work, then he would take things slowly and visit all the important places across the continent first.

A day later, Danheng arrived at a place called Silves City.

"So it really doesn't work..."

Looking at the Train Phantom before him, whose solidification progress had increased by an almost negligible amount, Danheng helplessly shook his head and sighed.

In a single day, he had crossed a small kingdom called the Silves Kingdom, yet the train's solidification progress had not moved at all.

"Sigh, then I should get to Heaven Dou Imperial City as soon as possible."

At this point, Danheng had no other choice.

"Hehe... Are you in such a hurry to go back?"

Suddenly, a voice so familiar it could not have been more familiar rang out beside Danheng's ear.

"You can go back too... What gives you the right to go back!"

Sensing a fierce gust from behind him, Danheng did not even turn around before summoning the Cloudpiercer Lance to block it.

When he turned his head, an incomparably familiar face entered his sight.

"Of five people, three must pay the price, you..."

"Trailblaze Spirit."

Before Blade Brother could finish his famous line, Danheng cut him off directly, his face full of exhaustion.

"That isn't funny."

Hearing Danheng's assessment, Blade Brother's expression immediately became exaggerated, and he burst into manic laughter.

"HAHAHA! Aha's trick was seen through so quickly! And someone even said it wasn't funny—Aha is so embarrassed! Hahahaha!"

As Aha laughed, a layer of human skin suddenly peeled away from him. It then turned into a mass of multicolored energy and instantly dissipated.

Danheng shook his head, truly too lazy to pay Aha any attention, and turned to walk into the distance.

But Aha clung to him like a stubborn plaster.

"Little Azure Dragon! Your performance lately has been terrible! Aha will punish you!"

Having shed Blade Brother's skin, Aha stood with his hands on his hips, an angry expression appearing on his mask.

"Punish me?"

Nerves that Danheng had not had to keep tense for a long time were stretched to the limit at that moment.

Before a Star God, he was still far too insignificant. If Aha truly wanted to do something to him, he would probably end up like Tang Hao earlier, treated as a child's plaything.

"Your punishment will be... doubled attractiveness to women!"

The next moment, Danheng felt an inexplicable energy flow through his entire body.

Danheng could sense that, in an instant, the way the women on the street looked at him had changed.

"..."

Aha's punishment really was... vicious!

Double his attractiveness? They might as well kill him!

It was not a matter of sexual orientation—he simply had never had any thoughts in that regard!

"Handsome~"

Just then, a beautiful woman with voluminous wavy hair who was passing by walked straight toward Danheng, actually passing directly through Aha's body along the way.

"Want to be friends?"

The beauty pressed her arm directly onto Danheng's shoulder, leaned close to his ear, and whispered softly, giving him a flirtatious wink.

"...Sorry, miss, I have something to do."

Seeing her movements grow increasingly excessive, the hand resting on his shoulder gradually sliding down and nearly climbing inside his clothes, Danheng hurriedly broke free and vanished at once.

So this was what wavy hair meant.

"Hmph, man, are you playing hard to get with me?"

The beauty standing in place wore the same smile as an overbearing CEO. It was not that she did not want to chase after him—Danheng had simply run too fast for her to catch up!

"Aha! Remove it now!"

After Danheng left, he ducked into an alley and tore the Smiling Face Mask from his waist, anger lacing his voice.

"HAHAHA! Little Azure Dragon got chased by a woman! Little Azure Dragon is embarrassed! Hahaha!"

Aha ignored Danheng's demand and burst into laughter, making goosebumps rise all over Danheng's skin.

"..."

Danheng's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he grabbed both sides of Aha's mask.

"Little Azure Dragon, what are you doing?"

Aha's tone changed instantly. From the look of it, was Danheng really going to get serious with him?

"I don't need your power, and I won't accept this absurd punishment of yours!"

As Danheng's words fell, his hands gripping Aha's mask suddenly exerted force. Two energies, one green and one blue, gathered between his hands, as though he meant to tear the Aha mask apart alive.

"Hey, hey, hey! Little Azure Dragon, are you serious?"

Aha's words remained full of laughter, with no emotion detectable in them.

"I'm very serious!"

Suddenly, a terrifying force swept outward from Danheng, engulfing all of Silves City.

The powerful hurricane toppled houses, while the ground, after shaking violently, split apart with a thunderous crash.

"What's going on? Is it an earthquake?"

"More than an earthquake—it's a hurricane and an earthquake! A massive natural disaster! Run!"

The people of Silves City instantly descended into panic. They could tell where the hurricane was coming from, but none of them dared to investigate.

What a joke. Even from this far away, they felt searing pain as if their bodies were being torn apart. If they got any closer, wouldn't they be ripped to pieces on the spot?!

At the same time, the people inside the Great Soul Arena also felt this scene, as though a god had flown into rage.

Even a structure as incomparably sturdy as the Great Soul Arena had begun to shake, and cracks were appearing in the ground!

"W-What's happening?"

The two squads fighting desperately on the arena platform also stopped moving, utterly shocked—or rather, terrified—by everything happening around them.

"Could it be that we've killed too many people and drawn the hostility of some great figure?"

Other than the legendary Titled Douluo, the captain of the Dire Fiend Squad could think of no other explanation for someone capable of making the earth tremble and the winds rage across the sky.

"Forget that for now. Let's run first!"

The Dire Fiend Squad's opponents were equally panicked. Divine Retribution was becoming more and more terrifying; if this continued, they feared they would die!

With someone taking the lead, everyone else, including the spectators in the stands, also fled the Great Soul Arena.

After all, if this place collapsed and crushed them badly, they would have nowhere to seek justice!

But just then, Divine Retribution suddenly stopped.

"Huh?"

The people who had just escaped the Great Soul Arena, along with the people of Silves City, all voiced the same confused cry.

The heavenly god was no longer angry? Had its temper passed?

"Oh! We're alive!"

Perhaps it was the wild joy of surviving a disaster, but although the people of Silves City did not know one another, they embraced each other and celebrated wildly.