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 shore, letting out crisp chirps from time to time.

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

She gripped 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 growl and hammered his enormous fists against the ground twice, sending ripples across the lake's surface.

Da Ming was coiled around a giant tree not far away, 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 body, his tail would immediately reach over to cushion her.

"Sister Xiao Wu, go easier on me. You're about to pound my shoulders numb," Er Ming said in a deep, muffled voice.

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

Suddenly.

Xiao Wu stopped moving.

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

It was an extremely faint Soul Power fluctuation, coming from somewhere unimaginably far away, as slight as the ripples caused by a feather landing on water.

Even a human Title Douluo might not have noticed such a fluctuation.

But Xiao Wu did.

Because it carried her mother's aura.

It was Ah 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.

"It's Mom's signal!!"

Her voice was so shrill that it nearly cracked, filled with a bone-deep terror.

The moment she finished speaking, the Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming's body suddenly tensed.

His previously lazy, half-lidded vertical pupils snapped wide open, rings of azure light bursting from their depths.

He sensed that aura as well. It was Aunt Rou's aura, transmitted from an unimaginably distant place, as though she were making her final struggle.

"Aunt Rou's distress signal."

Da Ming's voice rumbled like thunder, yet it carried an uncontrollable tremor.

Before his words had even faded—

A pink bolt of lightning had already smashed through the brush ahead, charging toward the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest.

It was Xiao Wu.

She dropped to all fours and raced through the dense forest like an arrow loosed from a bow.

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

Mom.

Faster.

Even faster.

Tears flew continuously from her large eyes, torn apart by the wind into countless tiny droplets that scattered over the fallen leaves behind her.

"Xiao Wu! Wait!"

Er Ming released an earth-shaking roar. His massive body was no longer as clumsy as usual. He kicked off the ground with both legs, blasting a deep pit several yards wide into the earth as his entire body shot forward like a cannonball.

The Titan Giant Ape's greatest strength was power. When he poured all of his strength 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 smashed directly through the dense undergrowth 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 Sky Azure Bull Python was the fastest.

His enormous bull-headed serpentine body traced an azure arc through the air. Wherever he passed, trees toppled to either side as though swept aside by an invisible giant hand.

The same 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 tore through the silence of the Star Dou Forest like three sharp swords.

Every soul beast along the way fled in terror, instinctively driven to get as far away as possible from 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 was enough to send chills through the two Title Douluo's entire bodies.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei exchanged a look, each seeing a trace of ugly tension in the other's eyes.

Then, ruthlessness surfaced in both pairs of eyes at once.

They could not delay any longer.

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

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

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

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

The gold and silver flames faced one another from afar, reflecting brilliantly against each other.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei abruptly rushed toward one another.

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

"Martial Soul Fusion Skill—"

Two voices rang out at the same time, overlapping and shaking the surrounding lands.

"Two Extremes Still Domain!"

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

The eighteen Soul Rings between them all flew free at that moment, spinning, intertwining, and condensing in midair before finally transforming into a gigantic gold-and-silver halo.

The halo was over ten meters in diameter, gold and silver light flowing across its surface as it silently flew out and enveloped Ah Rou and Nezha.

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

Ah Rou had just suffered the mental 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 fluctuation spread outward.

Everything in its path fell into absolute stillness.

Falling leaves stopped in midair. Wind-bent grass remained frozen in its curved posture. A bird flying past solidified in the sky with its wings spread, and even the droplets of dew splashed beneath those wings halted in the air, refracting rainbow-colored light.

It was as though time itself had been paused.

Ah Rou remained frozen in midair in the posture of holding Nezha tightly.

The terror in her eyes, the pallor of her face, and the still-wet blood at the corner of her lips were all fixed in that instant.

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

Ah Rou and Nezha had been completely immobilized.

Bibi Dong slowly walked forward.

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

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

She walked before Ah Rou and stopped.

Looking at the red-eyed woman completely frozen before her, Bibi Dong's lips finally curled into a cold smile.