"Kill—!"
Ye Xishui let out a long cry.
Her body crackled as it suddenly swelled, more than doubling in size in an instant!
A nauseatingly horrifying stench of blood and violent Soul Power spread outward from her like a tsunami, dyeing half the sky dark red!
"Boundless Sea of Blood!"
Ye Xishui shrieked and flung her arms wide.
In an instant, towering waves of blood surged from the void beneath her feet, sweeping toward Mu En with a terrifying momentum that threatened to devour everything!
Within the Sea of Blood, countless twisted faces of vengeful spirits rose and sank, howling miserably, making the scene all the more hellish.
Before him was the towering Sea of Blood; at his side, several Level Nine Soul Engineers stood ready to unleash a fatal barrage; above him, Kong Deming watched like a tiger eyeing its prey, ready to strike with thunderous force at any moment.
Mu En was instantly trapped in a lethal encirclement without a single blind spot!
Yet Mu En, at the heart of the storm, showed not the slightest panic.
He pressed his palms together before his chest, then slowly pushed them outward to either side.
"Rumble—!"
Centered on Mu En's body, an indescribably brilliant golden light erupted wildly in every direction without restraint, like a supernova exploding!
The moment the golden light collided with all the attacks, an incomparably violent explosion erupted.
"Boom—!"
An indescribably terrifying energy storm spread madly in all directions as a ring-shaped shockwave faster than sound, like a ring of Destruction cast by a god!
This was practically the most extreme collision possible beneath God Rank. Even if Di Tian had come here, he would have had to face it with utmost caution without using the Dragon God Claw.
Mu En, at the very center of the explosion, bore the brunt of it.
Even Mu En himself felt an unimaginable shockwave at that moment.
The instant the impact struck him, countless fine, intricate pale-golden dragon scale patterns surfaced across his body, automatically forming an impregnable layer of defense.
Even so, he could clearly feel a tremendous force crash into him, as though it would shake his very soul from his body. The vast Soul Power within him churned violently as well.
The attackers, meanwhile, were in an even worse situation.
Kong Deming reacted the fastest. In the instant before the shockwave arrived, a diamond-shaped silver pendant on his chest suddenly lit up, unfolding a silver shield that enveloped his entire body.
The shield flickered under the impact and emitted dense crackling sounds like rain striking plantain leaves. It barely held, but he was still shoved hundreds of meters backward through the air.
Ye Xishui was even more direct. She forcibly diverted the incoming turbulent current of mingled light energy and physical impact into the boiling Sea of Blood beneath her feet, setting off towering bloody waves.
She herself let out a muffled grunt, and her aura became faintly unsettled.
The most miserable of all were the other Level Nine Soul Engineers providing support.
The various Soul Guidance Shields they hastily deployed looked as if they would shatter completely at any moment beneath the scouring currents of energy at this level.
Terrifying vibrations passed through the shields and into their bodies, making it feel as though their internal organs had all shifted out of place.
Their Soul Power poured out like floodwaters from a breached dam, draining massively in an instant. One after another, their faces turned paper-white, their eyes filled with terror and lingering fear.
Merely the aftershock of one collision had made them feel death's chill!
Mu En, on the other hand, remained at the center of the storm. The surging light aura around him, radiant as a blazing sun, only swayed slightly for an instant at the peak of the collision.
Then, like an inexhaustible spring, even more vast and pure light-attribute Soul Power surged from the depths of his body.
It swiftly smoothed over the fluctuations in his aura, restoring him to that unfathomable state.
The depth of his reserves and the terror of his recovery were simply enough to drive one to despair.
"Move farther away," Kong Deming said in a deep voice.
"For the next battle, just provide support with long-range Soul Tools.
"This level of combat is no longer something you can intervene in from close range."
The Level Nine Soul Engineers felt as though they had been granted amnesty.
Without the slightest hesitation, they immediately activated their Soul Guidance Thrusters and turned into several streaks of light, retreating at top speed. Only after reaching several thousand meters away did they stop, still shaken.
They exchanged bitter smiles, knowing Kong Deming had spoken the truth.
If they came even half a step closer, the next aftershock would be enough to tear them, shields and all, completely apart!
In the blink of an eye, only three imposing figures remained facing one another at the center of the battlefield, where the violent energy currents had slightly subsided.
Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming and Death God Douluo Ye Xishui, the two greatest pillars upon whom the Sun Moon Empire now relied.
And facing them was Dragon God Douluo Mu En.
He stood alone, naturally emanating an aura of light that purified all things, yet it contained terrifying power sufficient to make both of them feel palpitations.
Two against one!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The battle resumed, even more intense than before!
Kong Deming completely abandoned all probing. His ten fingers tapped rapidly through the air, and with every gesture, a Soul Guidance beam or ring of entirely different properties shot forth.
Yet Mu En's response made Kong Deming's heart sink further and further.
Faced with a Soul Guidance storm that would have left any Super Douluo scrambling, Mu En did not even pay it much attention.
Within that limited space, he twisted, turned, and shifted with an almost prophetic precision.
More often than not, he evaded the attacks by a hair's breadth only at the final instant before the beams struck him, as though he had already seen through every trajectory.
Most of his attention, along with those eyes gleaming with brilliant light, remained locked firmly on Ye Xishui!
Mu En's restraint over Ye Xishui had nearly reached the extreme.
Every seemingly casual palm strike he made released light-attribute Soul Power that, to Ye Xishui's power formed from vengeful spirits, was like red-hot iron falling upon ice and snow!
"Sizzle—!"
Another palm strike scattered several bloody ghost claws.
The undiminished power of light, like maggots clinging to bone, traced back along the path of Ye Xishui's attack and precisely struck two clusters of vengeful spirits hidden deep within the Sea of Blood.
"Aaaah—!"
Amid shrieks so piercing they stabbed straight into the soul, those two powerful vengeful spirits that Ye Xishui had refined and nurtured for over a century—
Did not even have time to struggle before rapidly dissolving beneath the light, like shadows exposed to the blazing sun.
In the end, they became two wisps of insignificant green smoke and were utterly annihilated.
"You...!"
Ye Xishui's blood-red pupils contracted violently. Amid the madness and resentment that had always surrounded her, a trace of genuine panic and heartache surfaced beyond her control!
Every Blood Soul refined through her Blood Soul Method had undergone more than a century of cultivation.
Ten thousand vengeful spirits would devour one another under the effects of the secret art, and the strongest survivor would become a single Blood Soul.
That Blood Soul then needed to devour vengeful spirits over a long period before it could become even stronger.
When a Blood Soul first formed, it was only the size of a fingernail.
She had nurtured them until they were as large as human heads. Who knew how many vengeful spirits they had devoured!
Yet in just this brief exchange, Mu En had once again worn away two clusters through sheer light affinity!
At this rate, the century's worth of vengeful spirits she had accumulated might truly be forcibly purified by him, all of them!
Yet although she clearly understood the consequences, she had no way to deal with it!
The strength Mu En displayed was simply inconceivable!
Her boundless Sea of Blood had its effectiveness reduced by far more than half before his light power, pure to the utmost extreme!
What should have had ten parts of power could often only deliver three or four.
Yet the light power in his counterattacks could inflict twelve parts of damage upon her!
This utterly suffocating feeling of being restrained left her with towering madness and power, yet she was like someone trapped in a swamp of light.
The more she struggled, the deeper she sank, and the faster she was drained!
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