Two Extremes Still Domain

Deep within the Star Dou Forest, on the outskirts of the Lake of Life.

The lake's surface was like a mirror, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds, and towering ancient trees all around it.

Several brightly colored birds drank at the water's edge, letting out clear chirps from time to time.

Xiao Wu was riding on Er Ming's broad shoulders, her two pink rabbit ears bobbing with each of his steps.

She held a branch in her hand and swung it at the air.

"Hey! Ha! Behold my Soft-Bone Rabbit Divine Sword!"

Er Ming cooperatively let out a low roar and pounded the ground twice with his enormous fists, sending rings of ripples across the lake.

Da Ming was coiled around a massive tree nearby, his bull head resting atop his overlapping serpentine body. His vertical pupils were half-closed, as though he were dozing.

But upon closer inspection, one would notice that his gaze had never left Xiao Wu. Whenever she slipped from Er Ming's back, his tail would immediately stretch out to cushion her fall.

"Sister Xiao Wu, take it easy. You're about to pound my shoulders numb," Er Ming said in a deep, muffled voice.

"You're thick-skinned and tough. What's wrong with a couple of taps?" Xiao Wu snorted and struck him again.

Suddenly.

Xiao Wu froze.

The branch in her hand stiffened in midair. Her rabbit ears abruptly shot upright, then began trembling violently.

It was an incredibly faint fluctuation of soul power, transmitted from somewhere extremely far away—so weak that it was like ripples stirred by a feather falling upon the water.

Even a human Titled Douluo might not have detected that fluctuation.

But Xiao Wu had.

Because it carried her mother's aura.

It was A Rou's distress signal.

"Mom..."

Xiao Wu's face instantly turned deathly pale.

The branch silently slipped from her hand, fell to the ground, bounced twice, and rolled into the grass.

"That's Mom's signal!!"

Her voice was so shrill that it nearly broke, filled with a terror that seeped into her very bones.

Before her words had even faded—

The Azure Bull Python, Da Ming, suddenly went rigid.

His previously languid, half-lidded vertical pupils flew wide open. Rings of azure light erupted from their depths.

He had sensed that aura. It was Aunt Rou's aura, transmitted from an immense distance away, as though she were making her final struggle.

"Aunt Rou's distress signal."

Da Ming's voice was low as thunder, but it carried an uncontrollable tremor.

Before his words had even fallen—

A bolt of pink lightning had already smashed through the brush along its path, rushing toward the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest.

It was Xiao Wu.

On all fours, she sprinted wildly through the dense forest like an arrow loosed from its bow.

At that moment, there was only one thought in her mind.

Mom.

Faster.

Even faster.

Tears streamed from her large eyes, shredded by the wind into countless tiny droplets that scattered over the fallen leaves behind her.

"Xiao Wu! Wait!"

Er Ming unleashed a thunderous roar. His colossal body was no longer as clumsy as usual. His legs fiercely kicked off the ground, blasting open a deep crater several yards wide as his entire body shot forth like a cannonball.

The Titan Giant Ape's greatest strength was its power. When he poured all of that power into his legs, the speed he unleashed was enough to leave most agility-type soul beasts far behind.

With one palm, he snapped the giant tree blocking his path, then directly smashed through the dense brush with his chest.

Nothing could stop an enraged Titan Giant Ape. Nothing.

At the same time, Da Ming also launched himself from the tree.

Among the three hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, the Azure Bull Python was the fastest.

His enormous bull-headed serpent body traced an azure arc through the air. Trees along his path toppled to either side, as if swept aside by an invisible giant hand.

The same desperate urgency burning in Xiao Wu and Er Ming's eyes blazed within his vertical pupils.

Aunt Rou.

You have to hold on.

You have to wait for us.

The auras of three hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were like three sharp swords, tearing apart the silence of the Star Dou Forest.

Every soul beast along their path fled in terror, driven by instinct to escape those three violent auras.

Ten-year soul beasts, hundred-year soul beasts, thousand-year soul beasts, even ten-thousand-year soul beasts—without exception, all chose to retreat.

No soul beast dared bear the wrath of three hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.

Elsewhere, on the battlefield.

Bibi Dong withdrew her gaze and no longer looked at Yue Guan and Gui Mei.

But that single glance had already sent chills through the bodies of the two Titled Douluos.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei exchanged a look, each seeing an unpleasant expression in the other's eyes.

Then, ruthlessness surfaced in both pairs of eyes at the same time.

They could not drag this out any longer.

Yue Guan took a deep breath. Golden flames erupted from his body and burned around him.

The flames were pure and blazing, dyeing his entire body into a golden torch.

Gui Mei likewise let out a low shout. The black mist around him rapidly faded, replaced by silvery-white flames.

The silver flames were cold and eerie, flickering soundlessly as they emitted a heart-palpitating aura.

The golden and silver flames faced one another from afar, their radiance intertwining.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei suddenly rushed toward each other.

Golden flames and silver flames frantically entwined between them, forming a massive two-colored vortex.

"Martial Soul Fusion Skill—"

Two voices rang out at once, overlapping and shaking the surrounding land.

"Two Extremes Still Domain!"

Yue Guan and Gui Mei's bodies merged into one amid the flames.

All eighteen soul rings between them detached from their bodies at that instant, spinning, weaving, and converging in the air before finally transforming into an enormous golden-and-silver halo.

The halo was over ten meters in diameter, flowing with golden and silver radiance. It silently flew out, descending upon A Rou and Nezha.

It was so fast that there was no time even to blink.

A Rou had just endured the spiritual impact of the Void state, and her reaction was half a beat too slow.

By the time she noticed the halo flying toward her, it was already too late.

Buzz—

A strange ripple spread outward.

Everything it passed fell into absolute stillness.

Falling leaves stopped in midair. Blades of grass bent by the wind remained frozen in their curved positions. A bird flying past was suspended in the sky with its wings spread, and even the droplets of dew splashed beneath its wings hung motionless in the air, refracting rainbow-colored light.

It was as though time itself had been paused.

A Rou remained frozen in midair, holding Nezha tightly in her arms.

The terror in her eyes, the pallor on her face, and the blood at the corner of her mouth that had yet to dry were all locked in that instant.

Nezha in her arms was frozen as well, his hands still tightly clutching A Rou's collar.

A Rou and Nezha had been completely immobilized.

Bibi Dong slowly stepped forward.

Her footsteps were neither hurried nor slow, making soft rustling sounds as they stepped across fallen leaves.

Her dark robe trailed across the ground, brushing over the dirt and shattered stones overturned by the earlier battle.

She stopped before A Rou.

Looking at the red-eyed woman completely immobilized before her, Bibi Dong finally curled her lips into a cold sneer.