The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Unleashes Its Might, Medusa Gaze, Jade Phosphorous Divine Light!

Deep in the gorge.

The clash of ice and fire had thrown the whole place into chaos.

The Crimson Flame Ancient Tree finally revealed its true form.

It was a towering tree more than twenty meters tall.

Its entire body was as red as iron fresh from the forge.

Scorching white lava flowed through the countless cracks in its trunk.

Every leaf was a flickering flame.

Its roots surged up from the bottom of the gorge.

Hundreds of burning roots lashed wildly through the air like giant pythons.

Every root that struck the ground left behind a charred furrow.

It had no mouth, yet the entire gorge roared in its place.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King showed no fear.

Its nine-meter-long body darted like lightning through the encircling roots.

The ice-blue and fiery-red mane along its back streamed into two brilliant tails of light as it raced about.

It opened its gaping jaws,

and a blast of ice-blue breath erupted, crashing head-on into the fiery roots hurtling toward it.

Ice and fire exploded in midair.

White mist billowed.

The entire gorge seemed to have been shoved inside a giant steamer.

Several of the Crimson Flame Ancient Tree's fiery roots froze solid.

But more roots burst up through the earth, converging on the Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King to tear it apart.

The two Soul Beasts had been fighting for quite some time.

A jade-green figure appeared silently in the sky above the gorge.

Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back.

"Hiss—!"

The phantom of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor coiled behind him, hissing.

The pressure of a ninety-second-level Titled Douluo poured down without restraint.

He looked down at the battlefield, a cold smile curling at his lips.

The Crimson Flame Ancient Tree had been dragged to the brink of exhaustion by the Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King was wounded, too.

A charred wound on its flank had been seared by a fiery root, and its left foreleg was visibly half a beat slower.

Both Soul Beasts were at the perfect moment to strike. Dugu Bo couldn't wait any longer.

"Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar."

The enormous phantom of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor threw back its head and hissed. Dugu Bo's figure merged into it.

Just as he was about to move in for the kill, both Soul Beasts suddenly stopped.

The Crimson Flame Ancient Tree's fiery roots stopped chasing the Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King stopped dodging, too.

They both turned their heads.

The Demon Wolf's red and blue eyes locked onto Dugu Bo in midair.

The Crimson Flame Ancient Tree turned toward him as well.

In the next instant, fire and ice struck at once.

All the Crimson Flame Ancient Tree's hundreds of burning roots pointed skyward.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King opened its jaws and unleashed a blast of mixed flame and ice.

Faced with a deadly threat, the two Soul Beasts instinctively abandoned their fight with each other and turned first to eliminate the more powerful outsider.

Dugu Bo's pupils contracted. He cursed inwardly: Damn it.

With no time to think, he immediately activated the Soul Bone Skill of his sixty-thousand-year-old Medusa Skull.

"Medusa Gaze!"

Light burst from the Head Soul Bone between his brows.

A gray-white petrifying beam slammed precisely into the center of the Crimson Flame Ancient Tree's trunk.

Gray stone spread madly outward from the trunk's center.

The fiery roots about to strike him froze abruptly less than three meters away.

The flames went out, and the wood hardened.

Within a few breaths, the entire Crimson Flame Ancient Tree had become a petrified giant.

Even the flames flickering on its leaves were frozen into gray stone sculptures.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King's breath was already right in front of him.

The air churned in the mingled heat and cold, condensing into countless ice crystals.

Dugu Bo didn't look back.

"Time Freeze!"

His Eighth Soul Ring lit up.

An invisible ripple of time spread outward from him.

The blast of breath, already right before him, froze in midair.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King, baring its fangs behind the breath, was frozen in its charge as well.

But Dugu Bo could feel that Medusa Gaze couldn't hold the Crimson Flame Ancient Tree for long.

Time Freeze could last only a few breaths at most on a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast.

But that was enough.

He immediately took the snow-white Immortal Herb from his Soul Tool.

Amid the endless jade light, the Snowy Swan Kiss glimmered softly, as if it didn't belong in this land of slaughter.

Dugu Bo drew a deep breath. His entire body abruptly turned jade green,

as though he had become an emerald statue formed from concentrated venom.

"Jade Phosphorous Divine Light!"

This was his Ninth Soul Skill!

Jade-green toxic light burst from his translucent body.

The radiance was eerie and alluring. Wherever it passed, the air was violently corroded, hissing and sizzling.

The moment the Jade Phosphorous Divine Light pierced the Snowy Swan Kiss, its gentle glow was completely ignited.

The Snowy Swan Kiss quivered softly, as though the sleeping swan had finally opened its eyes.

The jade-green toxic light turned a despairing shade of dark green as it passed through the herb's leaves.

Its corrosive power was a hundred times greater!

Even Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar trembled.

The dark green toxic light poured through the entire gorge like a tsunami.

The petrified Crimson Flame Ancient Tree began to crumble beneath the poisonous light.

Countless cracks appeared across its gray-white stone surface, and jade-green poison seeped through them into the heart of the tree.

Time Freeze wore off.

"Awoooo!!!"

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King let out a pained howl.

Its distinctive ice-and-fire fur quickly lost its luster beneath the poisonous light.

The forces of extreme cold and heat erupted wildly in an attempt to resist the poison, but only hastened its spread.

"Boom!"

The trunk of the seventy-thousand-year-old Crimson Flame Ancient Tree crashed to the ground beneath the toxic light.

The limbs of the ninety-thousand-year-old Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King began to tremble violently.

Dugu Bo hovered in midair, watching the scene.

"Gulp."

He swallowed hard.

He'd scared himself.

Was this power... a little too much?

Outside the gorge.

Ye Qing stood on a thick branch, his dark eyes fixed on the gorge.

He saw a pillar of dark green light shoot into the sky from deep within the gorge, dyeing half the heavens an eerie green.

Under its glow, the surrounding trees withered and blackened at a visible speed.

Corroded blotches appeared across their bark.

Ye Qing understood at once that Dugu Bo had made his move.

He clenched his fist without thinking.

"Old geezer, whether this works or not depends on this one shot."

"If you mess this up, I'll burn paper money for you on this day next year."

The dark green toxic light lasted for several dozen breaths before slowly fading.

Ye Qing counted twenty seconds.

Once he was sure the light had completely vanished, he leaped down from the thick branch and sprinted toward the gorge.

He had barely reached the entrance when the sight before him left him gaping in shock.

The entire gorge looked as if some god had sanded it from end to end with an enormous sheet of sandpaper.

A layer of dark green crystals covered the rock walls, like glass formed after being soaked in poison.

A strange, sweet fragrance hung in the air—the lingering trace of the poison dissolving.

If he didn't have the Hundred Poison Immunity Body, he would have died of poison just by approaching this area.

At the bottom of the gorge, two massive bodies lay sprawled across the charred earth.

The Crimson Flame Ancient Tree had collapsed completely.

The towering tree, once more than twenty meters tall, had broken into several sections scattered across the ground.

Its trunk was riddled with holes eaten through by the poison, wisps of green smoke still rising from their edges.

The Ice and Fire Demon Wolf King lay curled up on the opposite side of the gorge, its nine-meter-long body balled up.

Its distinctive ice-and-fire fur had gone dull, and its belly rose and fell so faintly it was almost impossible to see.

Both Soul Beasts were still alive.

But they were teetering on the brink of death.