"Big Black Bug, keep an eye on your master."
Luo Feng casually released his grip and pushed the weakened Gu Yuena into Zi Ji and Bi Ji's arms.
Then he exerted a little force with his legs.
As if defying the laws of gravity, he drifted gracefully back into the spacious cockpit of the Vanguard Titan.
"Luo Feng! Die!"
Seeing how weak and pale Gu Yuena looked,
Tang Wulin's heart bled, and the red light in his eyes instantly blazed to its peak.
"Roar!"
With a piercing dragon's cry that split the clouds and shattered stone, the Bloodline Power inside Tang Wulin erupted like a vast ocean.
The Golden Dragon Berserk Domain opened at full force!
Fine scales, gleaming with dazzling golden light, spread over his entire body at a visible speed.
Behind him, the enormous phantom of a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon roared into the sky.
It radiated an unmatched, violent aura of destruction, as if it would tear the very heavens and earth apart!
Not only that, the Sea God Trident clenched in his hand also shone with a dazzling, sacred blue light.
The divine artifact had awakened!
Tang Wulin became a radiant streak of light.
With the resolve to charge forward without hesitation, he hurtled toward the Vanguard Titan!
This attack gathered all his fury and strength. Even an ordinary Level 90 Super Douluo would probably have to avoid its edge when faced with such a desperate assault!
Yet Luo Feng, seated in the cockpit, watched the high-energy blip racing toward him on the holographic screen
and merely yawned in boredom.
"Not bad momentum, and the special effects are maxed out. You're the textbook hot-blooded manga protagonist."
"Too bad. When faced with an absolute technological advantage, powering up in a pinch is the most meaningless thing there is."
Luo Feng crossed his legs and casually tapped a few times on the control panel.
"BT, play with Sect Master Tang."
"But don't blast him to smithereens in one shot. That'd be a waste of the top-tier loot I'm after."
"Keep the output of all Soul Guidance Cannons firmly capped at the yield of Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons."
Now that was how you killed someone's spirit!
To deal with a Child of the Plane who had played all his trump cards, Luo Feng couldn't even be bothered to use his Level 10 cannons.
He simply kept his firepower below Level 10!
That was already giving Tang Wulin more than enough face.
[Command confirmed, Pilot!] [Weapon array output lowered! Level 9 High-Explosive Plasma Matrix, ready!]
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The Vanguard Titan's shoulder armor opened instantly.
Dozens of miniature missile pods, their dark openings like black holes, belched out dazzling flames all at once.
A dense barrage of high-explosive missiles, trailing blue flames,
came crashing down on Tang Wulin in midair like a raging storm, blotting out the sky!
"Break!"
Tang Wulin roared.
The Sea God Trident in his hand whipped about furiously, raising waterspouts imbued with sacred power.
"Rumble!"
Explosions thundered through the sky one after another, flames soaring into the heavens!
The Sea God Trident truly lived up to its name as a Super Divine Artifact.
Even against such a dense barrage of Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons, it still managed to tear open a path.
But human strength had its limits, while the Vanguard Titan's ammunition supply seemed like a bottomless pit!
"Keep up the barrage."
Luo Feng issued the order with a cold laugh.
"Zzzzt!"
The plasma cannons on the Vanguard Titan's arms began to charge.
One thick red high-energy beam after another, each as wide as a barrel, lashed Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Body like a whip!
"Ugh!"
Tang Wulin let out a pained groan.
The golden scales, said to be indestructible and capable of withstanding attacks from Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts,
began to crack and char over large areas under the searing heat of the Level 9 Plasma Rays!
He had the Golden Dragon King's formidable regenerative ability, but his wounds were being inflicted faster than they could heal!
"Bang!"
A cunningly placed Armor-Piercing Shell slammed into the shaft of the Sea God Trident.
The tremendous recoil surged straight through the divine artifact and into Tang Wulin's arms, splitting his palms open and spraying blood everywhere!
Like a meteor struck by a baseball bat, Tang Wulin tumbled out of the sky in a sorry heap.
He slammed into the ruins of the Spirit Pagoda and plowed out a deep trench over a hundred meters long!
"Wulin!"
The Shrek Seven Devils watched in furious anguish and were just about to rush forward to help.
"Boom!"
A Level 9 Plasma Cannon exploded in the ground in front of them, leaving a charred crater dozens of meters across.
The blistering shock wave forced them to retreat again and again.
"This is a one-on-one fight. Anyone who interferes will find that my next shot won't be a warning. It'll erase you."
Luo Feng's icy voice rang across the battlefield through the speakers.
Like a bucket of ice water, it doused everyone's desire to rush to the rescue.
In the ruins, Tang Wulin struggled to use the Sea God Trident to push himself up, swaying as he stood.
His clothes were in tatters, and large patches of the golden dragon scales he had once been so proud of had fallen away.
Golden blood kept spilling from the corner of his mouth. He looked utterly wretched.
Even after playing all his trump cards, even after burning through his life,
he was still no better than a laughable ant before this steel monster—not even running at full power.
"L-Luo Feng...I haven't lost..."
Tang Wulin gritted his teeth and glared at the mecha before him.
"Enough. Stop forcing yourself.
Keep fighting, and you'll lose your life."
Luo Feng scoffed.
He piloted the Vanguard Titan one step forward, its oppressive aura of heavy industry washing over Tang Wulin.
"What can you possibly fight me with?
Those few charred dragon bones of yours, or that fire poker in your hand?"
"I've used less than thirty percent of my firepower. If I'd opened the Level 10-and-above arsenal, there wouldn't be anything left of you but dust."
Luo Feng looked down at Tang Wulin arrogantly.
Then the mecha's speakers broadcast his final terms, greedy and cold.
"Master of the Tang Sect, there's no such thing as a free lunch in this world. And there's no reason to save someone without getting something in return."
"Don't you want to save your Silver Dragon Princess? Fine."
"Hand over the Golden Dragon King Core inside you!"
"Trade that power for your lives!
Just hand it over obediently, and I'll let you and Gu Yuena go!"
"What did you say?"
The fury on Tang Wulin's face instantly gave way to shock and disbelief.
That was his deepest secret, the trump card that had kept him alive all this time, and the divine inheritance from the Divine Realm that Old Tang had left him.
This Luo Feng, whom he had never even met before, not only knew Gu Yuena's true identity—
he even knew all about the Golden Dragon King's essence sealed inside him!
"How...how could you know all that?"
Tang Wulin's voice trembled uncontrollably. He was terrified, having completely lost control over the situation.
"What I know is far more than you can imagine."
Luo Feng sat in the cockpit, his voice passing through the speakers like an icy judgment.
"For example, I also know that the Silver Dragon Princess is already carrying a little life inside her."
"If you die here today, she won't just be left a widow.
Your unborn child won't even get the chance to see this world."
Luo Feng was a transmigrator, so of course he knew what had happened that day with Bedside Douluo.
That was why he'd never intended to actually marry Gu Yuena in the first place.
And now, wasn't this little tidbit coming in handy?