No One Is Leaving

Immediately after, a massive azure figure slithered out of the forest.

It was a giant snake, its body as thick as an ancient tree a thousand years old, its azure scales glinting with a metallic sheen beneath the sunlight.

Yet its head was an enormous bull's head, with two curved horns thrusting straight into the heavens.

Bull's head, serpent's body.

Sky Azure Bull Python, Da Ming.

Human-like fury burned in Da Ming's vertical pupils. Azure light surged around him as terrifying Soul Power swept outward like a tsunami.

"Who dares touch him!"

Da Ming's voice rumbled like thunder, every word striking Spirit Hall's people in the chest like a massive hammer.

Then came a streak of pink lightning.

Xiao Wu!

Ignoring everything, she smashed through branches and brush as she rushed toward Nezha.

At the very moment Ah Rou sacrificed herself, Xiao Wu had seen it from afar.

Her gentle mother, who always smiled as she cooked for them, had turned into countless red specks of light filling the sky.

Xiao Wu's vision instantly blurred with tears.

She wanted to throw herself forward, to seize those red points of light, to pull her mother back. But she had no time to stop, nor could she stop.

She crashed headfirst into Nezha. Her two enormous rabbit ears trembled violently, and her voice was so hoarse it barely sounded human.

"Mom—"

"Mom!"

Xiao Wu collapsed beside Nezha. The enormous pink rabbit trembled as she tried to rush toward where the red light had faded, but Da Ming gently caught her with his tail.

"Xiao Wu, don't..."

Er Ming stood before Nezha, his enormous fists clenched so tightly that they cracked. Unprecedented fury blazed in those bell-like eyes.

The auras of three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts erupted simultaneously, changing the very color of the sky and clouds.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei's faces instantly turned livid.

The two had just suffered backlash from the Martial Soul Fusion Skill and had yet to recover.

Facing three enraged Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, they might not have escaped unscathed even at their peak.

Bibi Dong's expression changed as well.

Her gaze swept over the three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and a flicker of apprehension crossed her eyes.

If there had been only one Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, she would still have been confident in fighting it.

Two, with Yue Guan and Gui Mei assisting her, would have been manageable.

But three...

And among them were supreme existences even among top-tier Soul Beasts, such as the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.

What was more, Yue Guan and Gui Mei were currently injured by the backlash, their combat strength greatly diminished.

Bibi Dong gritted her teeth, a trace of unwillingness flashing through her eyes.

But she swiftly forced it down.

She was a rational person.

As the pope who had brought Spirit Hall to the pinnacle of power on Douluo Continent, she naturally would not stubbornly fight to the death when she knew she had no chance of winning.

"Retreat."

She coldly spat out a single word, turned, and transformed into a streak of purple-black light as she shot toward the edge of the forest.

As though granted a pardon, Yue Guan and Gui Mei forced their injured bodies to follow after her.

The Soul Douluos and Soul Sages dared not linger either, turning and fleeing in all directions.

Spirit Hall's encirclement crumbled beneath the pressure of the three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

But Xiao Wu and the others, consumed by rage, would not let them leave so easily.

"Roar—"

Er Ming was the first to let out an earthshaking roar. His colossal body launched forward like a meteor, every step smashing a crater several meters deep into the ground as the entire forest shook violently beneath his mad charge.

He would make these damned Soul Masters accompany Aunt Rou in death.

The Spirit Hall Soul Masters lagging behind instantly sensed a terrifying change.

Everything around them suddenly became incomparably heavy. The air seemed to turn into an invisible swamp, and their bodies felt as though they had been filled with lead. Their wind-like speed plummeted.

Even more terrifyingly, everything before their eyes began to twist slightly. The outlines of trees blurred, and their sense of distance became completely distorted. What clearly looked only a few steps away felt like stepping into an abyss.

A domain.

This was the power of a domain.

As one of the rulers of the Star Dou Forest, the Titan Giant Ape possessed the most despair-inducing domain of all: the Gravity Control Domain.

Among countless Soul Beasts, fewer than ten species could truly control the power of domains, and among those ten, those capable of cultivating a domain were rarer still.

The Titan Giant Ape was one of them.

The Soul Sage-level Soul Masters found it difficult even to stand upright beneath the suppression of the Gravity Domain.

Their knees bent, their backs hunched, and every breath felt as if it were squeezing all the air from their lungs.

Some tried to unleash soul skills to resist, but the instant their Soul Rings lit up, they dimmed under the crushing pressure. The circulation of Soul Power within their bodies was suppressed by at least half.

And this was only the beginning.

Following the Gravity Domain came an overwhelming expanse of azure light.

That azure light was so dense that the entire forest was instantly dyed into an azure world.

The trees turned azure, the ground turned azure, and even the terrified expressions on the Spirit Hall Soul Masters' faces were coated in an eerie azure hue.

The Sky Azure Bull Python's Slow Domain.

Unlike the Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain, which existed to crush enemies head-on, the Sky Azure Bull Python's Slow Domain had only one purpose—to prevent enemies from escaping.

The moment they were enveloped by that azure light, every Soul Master belonging to Spirit Hall felt their bodies become sluggish.

Raising a hand was half a beat slower. Turning around was half a beat slower. Even moving their eyes took several times the usual effort.

This sluggishness was not merely a reduction in speed. The circulation of Soul Power, mental reactions, and blood flow all slowed as well, their speed weakened by at least thirty percent.

With the two great domains layered together, Spirit Hall's retreat formation completely collapsed.

Just as those Soul Masters fell into despair, a pink bolt of lightning swept past their side.

Xiao Wu.

As a Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit, speed was her innate gift. With the support of the two domains, she was so fast that only an afterimage remained.

No one could see her movements clearly. They saw only a streak of pink light tear straight through Spirit Hall's formation, charging from the rear all the way to the front.

She blocked Bibi Dong's path.

"No one is leaving!!"

Xiao Wu's voice tore through the forest's silence. It held no fear, no hesitation—only one thought.

Kill.

Kill them all.

Make these murderers who had killed her mother remain in this forest forever, to accompany her mother in death.

Bibi Dong stopped.

She looked at the Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit before her, whose eyes gleamed with frenzied killing intent, and snorted coldly. Her expression remained icy and arrogant.

She was the pope of Spirit Hall.

The youngest Title Douluo with Twin Martial Souls on Douluo Continent.

How dared a mere Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast block her path?

"You overestimate yourself."

Bibi Dong's voice was as cold as ice that had endured ten thousand years.

Before her words had even faded, terrifying purple-black light suddenly erupted from around her.