Yet at that very moment, a sudden change occurred!
"Ha ha ha! Silver Dragon King, this opportunity is mine!"
A wild laugh rang across the sky.
A blue-and-gold figure appeared above the Lake of Life, tearing through space with six other figures in tow.
The newcomers were none other than Tang San and the Shrek Six Devils!
"Sea God's Light!"
Ignoring his injuries, Tang San forcibly summoned his divine power. A beam of golden light shot from the space between his brows, and he tried to snatch the nine-colored orb out of the air!
"Impudent!"
Di Tian roared. His enormous dragon wings blotted out the sky as he prepared to attack.
"There's no need."
Gu Yuena's cool voice rang out, stopping Di Tian.
She watched Tang San charge toward her opportunity. Not a ripple stirred on her beautiful face; it was utterly indifferent.
As though she were watching a ridiculous clown.
The nine-colored orb seemed to possess a will of its own. It completely ignored Tang San's Sea God's Light, swayed lightly, and merged into Gu Yuena's body.
Boom—!
An indescribably terrifying aura erupted from Gu Yuena!
The entire Star Dou Great Forest shook violently!
Tens of thousands of Soul Beasts prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling. It was the awe and submission that came from the deepest part of their bloodlines!
Gu Yuena's aura surged at an astonishing speed!
Tang San's face turned deathly pale.
His attempt to snatch the orb had failed. Worse, that overwhelming aura had sent his blood and energy churning, striking his already gravely wounded divine soul once more.
"Silver Dragon King!"
Steadying himself, Tang San shouted with a show of force that barely concealed his fear, "Hand over the Silver Dragon Spear, and offer up your Soul Rings and Soul Bones. Then I'll spare your life!"
He still clung to one last glimmer of hope, trying to cow her with his status as a god.
Gu Yuena slowly opened her eyes.
What kind of eyes were they?
Deep within her purple pupils, the sun, moon, and stars seemed to wheel around, while seven-colored light flowed without end.
Majestic, ancient, indifferent.
She merely gazed at Tang San calmly, as though he were an ant that didn't know its place.
"A human god?"
Her vermilion lips parted. Her voice was ethereal, yet carried an arrogance that stood above all creation.
"Do you think you're worthy of calling yourself a god in my presence?"
Before her words had even faded, she moved.
There was no earth-shattering attack, no dazzling Soul Skill.
She simply raised her right hand.
Hum!
A long spear, silvery white from end to end and wrapped in seven-colored dragon patterns, appeared in her hand.
The Silver Dragon Spear!
Holding the spear, she casually pointed it at Tang San.
"Space, bind."
In an instant, Tang San felt the space around him turn into solid amber, pinning him firmly in place. He couldn't move at all!
The Blue Silver Domain he had always been so proud of was as fragile as paper before this power. It shattered in an instant!
"How—could this be?!"
Tang San's pupils contracted to their limit. Boundless shock and terror swallowed his mind.
This was the power of space!
And it was the most fundamental law of space, on a level countless times higher than anything he, the Sea God, could control!
"Time, strip away."
Gu Yuena spoke again, her voice devoid of emotion.
To Tang San's horror, his divine power and life force began draining away at a terrifying speed!
In just an instant, he felt weaker than he had ever felt before!
"No!!"
He tried to roar, tried to struggle, but he couldn't even move a finger.
"Third Brother!"
Seeing this, Dai Mubai and the others were enraged. They unleashed their strongest attacks and hurled them at Gu Yuena.
"White Tiger Meteor Shower!"
"Phoenix Sky-Screaming Strike!"
Yet these attacks, powerful enough to split mountains and shatter stone, were silently erased by a layer of unseen seven-colored light before they could get within a hundred meters of Gu Yuena. They couldn't even stir a ripple.
From beginning to end, Gu Yuena's gaze rested solely on Tang San.
Holding the Silver Dragon Spear, she stepped through the air toward the immobilized Tang San, graceful as she strolled through her own garden.
"You want my Soul Rings and Soul Bones?"
"You want my Divine Artifact?"
With each sentence, she took another step closer.
The fear in Tang San's eyes deepened with every step.
He had been wrong.
Terribly wrong!
The woman before him was no wounded, weakened Soul Beast!
She was a true monster! A terrifying existence that could control space and time with a flick of her finger and treat gods as beneath notice!
In her presence, all his calculations and greed had become one enormous joke!
Fear—fear unlike anything he had ever known—surged like an icy tide, drowning every inch of Tang San's divine soul.
Gu Yuena's footsteps left soundless ripples in the air.
Gods?
In her eyes, they were merely powerful living beings.
Tang San's divine soul trembled. It was the instinctive terror of a life-form utterly suppressed by a higher existence.
He wanted to beg for mercy, but a god's dignity kept him from uttering a single word.
Just then, determination flashed in the eyes of Dai Mubai, who had been frozen in shock until now.
"Xiao San is our brother! And he's a god!"
"If you want to kill him, you'll have to step over my dead body first!"
He roared, his voice twisted by fear.
"Seventh Soul Skill, White Tiger True Body!"
"Ninth Soul Skill, White Tiger Heavenly Might Shock!"
In an instant, an enormous phantom white tiger appeared out of thin air. Its violent Gengjin energy tore through the air with a piercing sonic boom.
Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger, had descended once more!
But this time, they weren't facing a human Titled Douluo.
"Roar—!"
The Hell White Tiger charged at Gu Yuena with the force of utter destruction, its enormous claws seeming capable of tearing apart the heavens!
"Protect Third Brother!"
Ma Hongjun also snapped back to his senses, brilliant flames surging around him.
"Ninth Soul Skill, Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike!"
A fiery phoenix cried out, racing alongside the white tiger. Together, they attacked from either side in a deadly pincer!
They had chosen their moment with exquisite precision: just when Gu Yuena's attention was entirely fixed on Tang San, seemingly at its most relaxed.
"Know your place!"
Contempt filled the Beast God Di Tian's eyes. He was just about to crush the little pests beneath his dragon claw.
But Gu Yuena, standing beside him, didn't even turn her head.
She merely swept her right hand, the one holding the Silver Dragon Spear, behind her.
There was no fluctuation of Soul Power, no sign of a law manifesting.
It was like swatting away bothersome mosquitoes.
Yet the Hell White Tiger, powerful enough to seriously wound a First-Level God, and the nine-headed fire phoenix, capable of scorching the heavens and boiling the seas, struck an invisible wall that nothing could overcome.
A dull, thunderous boom rang out.
The phantom Hell White Tiger cracked apart piece by piece, then exploded, scattering into countless points of light.
Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were struck as if by lightning. They spat blood and flew backward like kites with their strings cut, crashing heavily into the distant ground, their life or death unknown.
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