"Then... come on!!"
Buzz—!!!
As the two ultimate Spider Emperor powers erupted completely, it was as if every color vanished from heaven and earth, leaving only a ghastly purple and an eerie green.
Behind Bibi Dong, two enormous Spider Emperor phantoms rose from the ground.
The Death Spider Emperor on the left was wreathed in purple mist, corrosive poison running down its hideous carapace.
The Soul-Eater Spider Emperor on the right was entirely dark green, greedy ghost fire burning in its compound eyes, as though it meant to devour every soul in the world.
But what horrified everyone was that these two Martial Souls didn't harmoniously fuse together like the legendary Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Instead, like two Ferocious Beasts locked in a fight to the death, they let out shrill roars and lunged at each other!
Crack! Crack!
The grating sound of tearing echoed through the skies.
As the two powers destroyed each other, they rapidly collapsed inward. At last, before Bibi Dong's chest, they became a gray singularity no larger than a fist, yet so powerful that space itself seemed to crumble around it.
"What kind of monster is that?!"
Alarm bells rang wildly in Tang Xiao's mind. A terror rising from the depths of his soul left him barely able to grip the Clear Sky Hammer in his hands.
"Stop her!! Quickly!!"
Tang Xiao roared as the Clear Sky Battle Formation activated once more. Seven enormous hammers, carrying the force of Thunderous Might, slammed toward the gray singularity!
But it was too late.
"Martial Soul Fusion Skill—"
Bibi Dong (Nan Feng)'s voice grew ethereal and eerie, as if it came from an endless abyss:
"Twin Emperors Annihilate the World · Samsara Death Realm!!"
Boom—
There was no deafening explosion, only a silent gray halo that spread instantly from the singularity at its center!
Wherever the halo passed, the Clear Sky Hammer's lightning went out, the raging Soul Power dissolved, and even the dust billowing through the air froze in place before turning into gray-white powder.
In the blink of an eye, a gray hemispherical domain a thousand meters across enveloped the heart of the battlefield.
Within this domain, there was no light, no sound. Even the air had been replaced by a thick, icy gray-white mist.
And at the center of this mist—
Bibi Dong was gone.
In her place was a strange being, more than two meters tall, floating in midair.
"It" had no distinct sex. Its body was semi-transparent and gelatinous, its skin a lifeless gray-white, as though its form had been rebuilt from corpses and mist.
Around "it," the space was webbed with black cracks, like a spider's web—the sign that space itself was buckling beneath this evil power.
But most chilling of all were "its" eyes.
From its left eye flowed viscous purple-black venom: the ultimate physical destruction—death!
Its right eye burned with eerie green ghost fire: the ultimate devouring of souls—soul-eating!
"Phew..."
The monster parted its lips and breathed out a cloud of gray mist. Several more cracks instantly appeared in the surrounding space.
"Welcome to..."
Nan Feng and Bibi Dong's overlapping voices rang out in everyone's soul, carrying a lofty, mocking indifference:
"Our world."
"Argh!!"
A Clear Sky Sect Soul Saint near the edge of the domain screamed. His clothes and skin began to rot and dissolve at a visible speed!
Even worse, he could feel his Soul Power draining rapidly, as if the greedy gray mist in the air were taking bite after bite out of it!
"What the hell is this?! My Soul Power is disappearing!!"
"My hand! My hand's rotting!!"
"Help! Somebody help me!!"
Screams rang out one after another. It wasn't only the Clear Sky Sect members—even the Spirit Hall Soul Masters who had been fighting desperately moments earlier were now crawling over one another to flee the domain.
Though Bibi Dong controlled the poisonous mist with her web-like mental power and it hadn't harmed them, instinctive terror made it impossible for them to stay calm.
"Everyone! Get out of the gray mist!!"
Tang Xiao roared. The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand shone brilliantly as he tried to use Clear Sky Body Protection to scatter the strange poison mist.
But it was useless!
The gray mist clung like a parasite and couldn't be driven away. Instead, contact with Tang Xiao's immense Soul Power only made it more excited, speeding up its corrosive power!
"What?! It can even corrode a Soul Power barrier?!"
Tang Xiao was aghast. The poisonous mist didn't just corrode flesh—it could even corrode Soul Power and mental power!
"Bzzzz..."
Their bodies were in agony, but what drove everyone to despair was the discovery that within this domain, their Soul Power was being depleted twice as fast as outside, and every means of recovery had stopped working!
An auxiliary Soul Master from the Strength Clan tried to heal and restore everyone. But when he activated his healing Soul Skill, the wounded were corroded by the gray mist even faster!
"It's useless."
Bibi Dong (Nan Feng) slowly raised a semi-transparent arm and pointed at the struggling members of the Clear Sky Sect below.
"Within the Samsara Death Realm, life flows in only one direction."
"It can only drain away. It can never be restored."
"And everything you lose..."
The green fire in her right eye flared. The web-like spatial cracks behind her trembled violently.
"Will become nourishment for this sovereign!"
Buzz—!!!
Hundreds of Soul Masters on the battlefield, enveloped by the gray mist—whether from the Clear Sky Sect or the Strength Clan—felt their Soul Power and vitality wrenched from their bodies by the surrounding mist, then hurtled toward the monster in the sky!
As the energy flowed into it, the monster's once-illusory gray-white body grew more solid, and its aura more terrifying!
One side weakened, the other grew stronger!
"Damn it! What kind of evil sorcery is this?!"
Tang Xiao felt his strength draining away at an alarming rate. His once-indestructible Clear Sky Avatar now showed signs of coming apart.
"Evil sorcery?"
Nan Feng sneered. "This is a divine skill!"
"Enough talk."
"This form of mine burns through Soul Power. I don't have time to waste on you."
This Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill was powerful, but its consumption was a bottomless pit. Even with the domain's life-draining effect, his current Soul Power reserves wouldn't last a minute!
He had to end this quickly!
Boom!!!
The gray-white demon god in midair transformed both arms into scythes of death.
Purple-black poison coursed along the blades, while ghostly green flames burned atop it.
"Eastwind—Break!!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two crescent-shaped blades of light, dark as the abyss, shot through the air. As they flew, they greedily devoured the surrounding gray mist. With every inch they advanced, they doubled in size and grew more terrifying!
By the time they reached Tang Xiao and the others, they had become two hundred-meter blades capable of tearing the sky apart!
"Hold them off!!!"
Tang Xiao's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets. The Clear Sky Battle Formation ran at full power, all seven Clear Sky Hammers shining as they tried to form an impenetrable defensive barrier.
But—
Crack—!!!
The first blade came down. The supposedly indestructible Clear Sky defense shattered like glass!
Tang Xiao and the five elders all spat blood. The Clear Sky Battle Formation—broken!
But that was only the beginning.
The second blade followed close behind, carrying an even more terrifying force. It swept unhindered across the Fifth Elder and Sixth Elder at the front.
There were no screams, no spray of blood.
Before everyone's horrified eyes, the two peak Soul Douluos—and the unbreakable Clear Sky Hammers in their hands—were sliced in half like butter under a hot knife!
Their upper bodies still held the pose of raising their hammers, but their lower bodies had lost their support.
But that wasn't the most terrifying part.
The most terrifying part was that their corpses didn't fall to the ground.
"Bzzzz..."
The greedy gray mist surged over them at once, like countless hungry little mouths, frantically devouring the two halves of their bodies.
"Fifth Elder! Sixth Elder!!"
Tang Xiao let out a heart-rending cry.
Below.
Demon Bear Douluo had driven Tai Tan and the others back with the aid of the gray mist. He lifted his head, ready to enjoy the spectacle, but his face froze.
"This..."
One strike?!
With a single strike, it had broken the Clear Sky Battle Formation and instantly killed two peak Soul Douluos?!
What the hell was that thing?!
Nan Feng paid no attention to their shock. He could feel the Soul Power in his body drying up at a terrifying rate.
This was the first time he'd used this Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill. They hadn't yet meshed, so his Soul Power circulated with terrible inefficiency, and the fused Spider Emperor Soul Power was extremely unstable!
Right now, he was even weaker than Ultraman with his red light flashing!
"Again!"
Nan Feng crossed his arms once more, preparing to unleash a second attack and end the battle for good.
But right then—
"Impudent!!!"
An old but resolute roar exploded like thunder.
The Great Elder, who had been fighting Chrysanthemum Douluo, suddenly went berserk. He even took a Soul Skill head-on from Chrysanthemum Douluo, then used the force of the impact to hurtle toward Nan Feng with reckless abandon!
The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand wasn't as enormous as the Clear Sky Avatar, but a heart-stopping black death light coiled around it.
The eight Soul Rings around him flickered madly, turning dim and indistinct, as though they might explode at any moment!
"Ring Detonation?!"
Nan Feng's pupils contracted.
Wasn't the Great Sumeru Hammer passed down to only one person in each generation?
How could this old bastard—
No!
That violent, chaotic energy... This wasn't Ring Detonation!
He was forcefully unleashing the energy of his Soul Rings, triggering an irreversible self-detonation of his own Soul Power!!
This hundred-year-old bastard meant to take him down with him!