"But if you don't know what's good for you—"
"Then don't blame me for being ruthless and cutting you, Silver Dragon King, down with my sword!"
"By then, the ring will be mine, and so will your Soul Rings and Soul Bones!"
"Conveniently, my Asura Magic Sword is still missing a sacrifice worthy of its power!"
Tang San's words brimmed with confidence.
He had Dual Godhood.
Although he hadn't fully inherited his godhood yet, he considered himself invincible on this plane.
What could a mere Silver Dragon King do, even if she had a Divine Artifact?
Was she going to turn the world upside down?
On the ground.
Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts shook with rage.
"This is too much!"
"My lord, let's fight this bastard!"
Xiong Jun roared and started to charge, but Gu Yuena raised a hand to stop him.
Gu Yuena looked at the arrogant Tang San before her.
There was no fear in her eyes.
Only deep sorrow.
The sorrow one felt for a frog at the bottom of a well.
"Tang San."
"You're truly pathetic."
Gu Yuena's voice was soft, but it carried clearly into Tang San's ears.
"You think that just because you've obtained two godhoods, you're invincible?"
"You think the Asura Sword in your hand is the strongest weapon in the world?"
"Today, I'll show you."
"What true swordsmanship—"
"really is!"
As her words fell,
Gu Yuena didn't use any Soul Power.
She simply raised her left hand and pointed the rusty ring at Tang San.
"Courting death!"
Tang San flew into a rage at the sight.
A beast dares lecture me?
"Since you want to die, I'll grant your wish!"
"Asura Judgment!"
Tang San wasted no more words. He raised the Asura Magic Sword high above his head.
A blood-red sword arc a thousand zhang long instantly took shape.
This strike contained the Asura God's law of slaughter.
It was powerful enough to split mountains and cut rivers in two!
"Die!"
Tang San roared and swung his sword down with all his might.
The blood-red sword arc, carrying the force to destroy heaven and earth, came crashing down toward Gu Yuena.
Faced with a blow that could reduce a Limit Douluo to ashes in an instant,
Gu Yuena didn't even blink.
She merely curled one finger.
Hum!
A speck of rust on the Great Dao Sword Ring, so insignificant it had gone unnoticed, suddenly glimmered.
It wasn't a dazzling golden light.
Nor was it a strange, blood-red glow.
It was a pure, unadorned white light.
The beam was no thicker than a strand of hair.
Against Tang San's thousand-zhang sword arc, it seemed so tiny, so utterly insignificant.
And yet—
The instant the white light touched the blood-red sword arc,
there was no earth-shaking explosion.
Nor did the two forces lock in a stalemate.
The seemingly indestructible Asura sword energy was split clean through by the slender beam of white light, as easily as a hot knife slicing through butter!
Silently.
Like a sharp blade cutting through bamboo!
The white light pierced the sword arc and shot straight toward Tang San.
"What?!"
The vicious grin on Tang San's face froze.
A bone-chilling sensation shot from the soles of his feet straight to his scalp.
It was the breath of death!
"Asura God Armor!"
"Sea God's Light!"
At the critical moment, Tang San frantically drove the divine power within him.
A layer of thick, blood-red armor instantly covered his body, while a blue barrier enclosed him in a tight shield.
Bang!
The white light struck the blade of the Asura Magic Sword.
Clang—!!!
A deafening clash of metal rang through the sky.
Tang San felt an indescribable force slam into him. His sword hand split open at the web between his thumb and forefinger, blood pouring out.
He was blasted away like a cannonball!
He flew several thousand meters, smashing through more than a dozen mountain peaks, before finally managing to steady himself.
All the swagger he'd shown moments ago was gone.
His hair was disheveled, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and his sword hand still trembled uncontrollably.
And the Asura Magic Sword, hailed as the Divine Realm's foremost weapon of slaughter—
now had a grain-of-rice-sized chip in its blade!
The white light had smashed it away by brute force!
A dead silence fell over heaven and earth.
Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts gaped, their jaws nearly hitting the ground.
One strike!
Just one strike!
It had driven back Tang San, who possessed Dual Godhood, and even chipped the Asura Magic Sword?!
The Great Dao Sword Ring was terrifying!
In the distance,
Tang San wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
A trace of shock flickered in his eyes, but it was quickly eclipsed by an even more frenzied fervor.
"Good!"
"Very good!"
Tang San stared at the ring in Gu Yuena's hand like a starving wolf eyeing a piece of meat.
"I never thought the ring would be even more powerful than I imagined!"
"It can even suppress the Asura Magic Sword!"
"If it fell into my hands—"
Tang San took a deep breath as the two divine powers in his body surged wildly, repairing his damaged meridians.
The strike hadn't made him retreat.
On the contrary, it only swelled his confidence further.
"Gu Yuena."
"You really have surprised me."
"But this is as far as you can go."
"An external object is still just an external object."
"That strike must have drained all your strength, hasn't it?"
Tang San raised the Asura Magic Sword again. The chip in its blade slowly healed under the nourishment of his divine power.
"Whereas I—"
"have an endless supply of divine power!"
"I'd like to see how many of my strikes you can withstand!"
Tang San didn't think he'd lost.
He figured he'd merely underestimated his opponent.
Once he got serious and used his trump cards, a mere Soul Beast relying on an external object to throw its weight around would still be his to claim.
Gu Yuena looked at Tang San, stubbornly refusing to admit defeat, and a trace of pity crossed her eyes.
"You still haven't grasped the difference between us?"
"Tang San, the divine power you're so proud of, before the wisp of sword intent he left behind—"
"is nothing but a joke."
She gently stroked the ring, sensing the vast, ocean-like will of the sword within it.
That person was gone.
But this ring would protect everything in his place.
"Come on."
"Let's see how many strikes of—"
"a mortal's sword intent your so-called Dual Godhood can withstand!"
The air beside Lake of Life lay heavy.
Although Tang San had been blasted away with a single strike, the terrifying pressure of a God King still clung to him. If anything, his fury had made it more violent.
The weaker Soul Beasts around them had already fainted. Even King of Ten Thousand Monsters and Scarlet King, both Ferocious Beasts, felt as though an invisible hand had clamped around their hearts, making it hard to breathe.
"My lord—"
Di Tian stepped forward. Black dragon scales shimmered across his body, and it was clear he was ready to fight to the death.
His voice was hoarse, thick with worry.
"Even if Tang San has two gods dwelling within him, his reserves are unfathomable. This ring may be powerful, but it's still just a dead object, and besides—"
Di Tian didn't dare finish the rest.
Besides, it had been forged from mortal iron. How many strikes could it withstand?
What if it broke?
What if its power ran out?
It was the hope of the entire Soul Beast Clan. They couldn't let it fall here.
Xiong Jun was even more anxious, scratching at his head. His enormous paws dug two deep holes in the earth.
"My lord! I'm tough as nails. Let me take the front! Then you can use that treasure to give him one hell of a hit!"
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