Da Ming: Tang San, You ****!!!

In Da Ming's original plan, the key to this assassination had not been killing the target in the middle of it, but escaping afterward.

They had even prepared to use the numerous spatial rifts around the nearby Valley of Asking Love and Destiny to leave the Douluo Plane directly and make their escape.

And now he was being told... the plan had stalled at the step of killing the target?

With no time to investigate further, Da Ming knew he had little time to hesitate. A glint of coldness flashed through his eyes as he prepared to attack again and shatter this so-called defense before him.

Yet just as he was about to make another move, he saw Ming calmly take another four Silver Bracelets from his Storage Soul Tool Ring and put two on each wrist.

Da Ming: "..."

There were more?!

The atmosphere fell silent for a moment.

The two locked eyes, yet the youth remained entirely unflustered, displaying a calmness that did not belong to someone his age.

The next moment, the youth gave a faintly amused chuckle and said,

"So... Tang San sent you?"

"?!"

Da Ming's pupils contracted slightly, and an ominous feeling rose within him.

He did not understand how they had suddenly been exposed. From the moment he launched his ambush until now, only a few seconds had passed, and he had not uttered a single word. How had he revealed a flaw?

Da Ming did not understand, but he also knew there was no time for hesitation.

He raised his hand, gathered Soul Power, and sent another palm strike forward.

But the next moment...

Boom—!

Heaven and earth were filled with light.

Endless deathly stillness and holy radiance descended at once. A gray streak of light fell from the sky and condensed before Kong Ming'an into a gray phantom.

Holding a gray staff in one hand, with nine strange gray Soul Rings slowly rotating around him, his oceanic Soul Power mingled with Spiritual Power infinitely close to the godly level and crashed down. He locked Da Ming firmly in place, enveloping the entire area within a domain where light and death intertwined.

Electrolux had descended onto the battlefield!

"Are you alright, Ming'an?"

"I'm fine, Elder Yi. I was just a little startled."

Kong Ming'an's gaze remained calm. After making a brief attempt to open the gate to the Undead Demiplane, he discovered that space had been sealed, making long-distance teleportation nothing more than a fantasy.

At the same time, on the other side, Ye Yulin had already clashed with Er Ming.

However, how could someone who had only just advanced to Super Douluo possibly be Er Ming's match?

Ye Yulin's all-out attack descended, but Er Ming simply threw a punch. Pure power shattered countless starlights and sent Ye Yulin flying backward, coughing blood.

Er Ming pounded his chest with both fists. The phantom of a Titan Giant Ape appeared behind him, and with a savage grin, he reached a massive hand toward Kong Ming'an and Electrolux.

But in the next instant,

"Get lost!"

An enraged shout exploded like thunder. A silver streak tore through the sky as a figure crashed to the ground like a meteor, blocking the way before Kong Ming'an.

Kong Deming had descended onto the battlefield!

Without the slightest hesitation, the Sun Martial Soul behind Kong Deming appeared abruptly, and seven Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, each over ninety thousand years old, shattered in succession!

Wild, unparalleled energy instantly flooded into Kong Deming's body, causing his aura to surge, soar, and skyrocket!

His Martial Soul instantly switched to Silver Moon. Nine Soul Rings emerged, forcefully restraining and guiding the terrifying energy that was nearly enough to burst his body apart.

The next moment, Kong Deming tore off his upper Research Robe, revealing his incomparably muscular physique!

He used no Soul Tools. With nothing more than a simple punch, silver moonlight intertwined with Vitality over his fist as he struck directly at Er Ming's incoming palm!

Thud!

The punch struck Er Ming's massive hand solidly.

A wave of air erupted. Er Ming's tower-like body staggered backward again and again from the punch, which contained the combined eruption of Twin Martial Souls and the ultimate physical power forged through countless trials as a Body Cultivator. Disbelief appeared on his face!

They were both at Soul Power Level ninety-eight. He was a Soul Beast, and a Titan Giant Ape renowned for strength at that. Yet he had actually lost to Kong Deming, who had been described in the intelligence they gathered as a mere civilian researcher with high Soul Power Level?

Something was wrong here!

Er Ming's expression darkened, while Kong Deming remained calm.

He stood at Kong Ming'an's side, silver hair flying and muscles bulging. Vitality surged through his body like a blazing furnace, while faint steam sprayed from his pores and scorched the surrounding air.

His eyes flashed like lightning as he swept his gaze over Da Ming and Er Ming before speaking softly.

"Ming'an?"

"I'm fine."

Kong Ming'an answered once again, his expression equally calm.

Did they really think he did not know an assassination attempt was coming?

Ever since Electrolux had appeared at his side by "coincidence" in an almost eerie manner, he had determined that someone had set him up.

For that reason, aside from improving himself during this period, he had focused even more on strengthening the two greatest pillars behind him.

After all, if he wanted to raise his own strength enough to deal with potential threats, it would take at least seven or eight years. But strengthening Electrolux and Kong Deming, who already had solid foundations, would only take one or two years.

And the current situation proved that his preparations had been entirely correct.

Still, to be honest, the current situation was slightly better than he had expected.

In the worst-case scenario he had anticipated, all the Title Douluo of Shrek Academy, all the Title Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect, and the numerous hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts in the ocean that worshipped the Sea God would join forces to assassinate him.

Of course, the current situation was not much better, because the two before him could, in a sense, be considered Divine Beasts.

"Grandfather, Elder Yi." Kong Ming'an spoke slowly.

Kong Deming understood and looked toward Electrolux. "This one is mine."

"Then leave that one to me." Electrolux spoke calmly.

The two Super Douluo old men, who had never met before and were working together for the first time, displayed extraordinary tacit understanding at this moment.

Their auras began changing simultaneously, rising continuously at a speed that nearly defied logic!

Da Ming's expression changed completely.

Right before his eyes, the energy of heaven and earth poured into the bodies of the two men before him like a siphon!

This was not accomplished through any special Soul Skill or Cultivation Method, but through the aid of the world itself!

The Plane Will had entered the fray!

Only now did Da Ming finally understand what identity the target they had been sent to assassinate truly possessed—the youth who had shown no remarkable traits in any information they could gather, aside from being handsome, and seemed utterly ordinary...

He looked at the youth protected at the very rear, at his composed demeanor, and the absurdity in his heart nearly drowned him.

He was fucking the Child of Fortune!

Was Tang San out of his mind? He had sent them to kill the Child of Fortune?!

Da Ming's expression darkened. Naturally, he understood that Tang San had set them up, but at this moment, he no longer hesitated and directly assumed a fighting stance.

"Second Brother!"

"Understood!"

Er Ming roared in response. Terrifying auras far exceeding their previous ones erupted from both of them simultaneously! Although they were still suppressed within the realm of Limit Douluo, the quality of that power had already become entirely different!

Da Ming knew clearly that if they fled directly without killing the Child of Fortune, what awaited them would surely be the full force of the Plane Will's suppression. Under such suppression, they would undoubtedly die, with absolutely no possibility of survival.

Only by attempting to kill the Child of Fortune and thus severely injuring the Plane Will, leaving it with no time to deal with them, could they possibly escape.

Though the chance was equally slim.

But at this moment... they had no other choice.