Only a God-Rank powerhouse could defeat a God-Rank powerhouse

Long Xiaoyao heard this and slammed a fist into the barrier wall.

With a dull boom, the Dark Sacred Dragon's violent power vanished into it like mud sinking into the sea.

Not only did it fail to shake the barrier in the slightest, but part of its power was swallowed by the demonic runes on its surface.

"Damn it!"

Long Xiaoyao's face turned ashen.

"Are we really going to fight him to the death here? But defeating Qian Jue is simply a fantasy!

Even Xuan Zi and Du Busi were beaten like dogs when they joined forces against him. Even if we use every trump card we have, I'm afraid we still..."

Ye Xishui took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.

"Don't act rashly yet.

His attention is still on Shrek and Chen Hai. Let's conceal our auras and watch what happens.

As long as he doesn't come looking for trouble, we still have a sliver of hope."

The two Ultimate Douluo who had once commanded the winds and clouds across the continent could now only hide in the shadows like frightened quails, praying that the young man who resembled a demon god would not notice them.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield.

A blue-gold barrier trembled violently beneath the impact of Word Magic, letting out strained creaks, yet it barely managed to hold.

Inside the barrier were the two sect masters of the Clear Sky Sect.

Niu Tian and Tai Tan, as well as Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and a small number of Shrek Inner Court students fortunate enough to be near them, whom they were protecting behind them.

Tai Tan's rock-hard muscles were taut. He stared fixedly at Qian Jue in midair with eyes as wide as bells, his rough voice full of apprehension and confusion.

"Big Brother, there's something strange about this guy!

When that power swept over us just now, I felt like my bloodline was about to freeze solid.

This is not power that a human Soul Master could possess!"

Niu Tian's expression was even more grave.

His hands maintained the defensive barrier, his brow tightly furrowed as uncertain light flickered in his eyes.

"Yes, your feeling was correct. That power... carries divine power!"

"Divine power?!" Tai Tan was horrified. "Has he already reached level one hundred and become a god? But doesn't the God Realm have rules preventing deities from casually interfering with the lower realm?"

"No, he hasn't completely become a god yet. He should be at the Demigod or Pseudo-God level.

But what unsettles me the most is..."

Niu Tian lowered his voice, as if afraid Qian Jue in the sky would hear him.

"I can't tell at all whose divine ability he is using!

This divine power is filled with depravity, evil, and chaos. It even carries a bizarre feeling of toying with the rules.

It is neither the Rakshasa God's evil thoughts, nor the Asura God's slaughter, much less the God of Destruction's power of destruction.

This is a... completely unfamiliar power, one that may not even belong to the God Realm system of our world!"

Hearing the conversation between her two fathers, Wang Dong, who was hiding behind them, went pale as paper.

She clutched Huo Yuhao's arm tightly, her voice trembling.

"Then... Father, Second Father, what should we do?

Even Elder Xuan has been defeated. Now everyone's Soul Power has been sealed. Can we still leave here alive?"

Huo Yuhao was in terrible condition as well.

Though protected by Da Ming and Er Ming and spared the direct effects of Word Magic, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress in his sea of spirit were trembling as if they had encountered their natural enemies.

"Yuhao! Don't look into his eyes! Don't feel any hostility toward him!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm screamed frantically within the sea of spirit.

"Too terrifying! I've lived for a million years, and I've never seen such a horrifying aura!

The power on him seems to have been born solely to devour and destroy souls!

If he notices us, I won't even have a chance to run away with you!"

Ice Empress's voice was equally solemn.

"Tian Meng is right.

Yuhao, restrain your spiritual power. Don't use Spiritual Detection to sense him.

At his current level, the moment you dare probe him, he can erase your soul through the spiritual connection!"

Huo Yuhao swallowed hard and forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, locking his spiritual power tightly within his body.

He looked at the Shrek students around him who, without Da Ming and Er Ming's protection, were now lying on the ground in agony, unable even to release their martial souls. A deep sense of helplessness rose within him.

He was too strong—so strong that he inspired despair.

If everyone here died today, the entire structure of the Douluo Continent would undergo earth-shaking changes.

Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, the Sun Moon Empire's Illustrious Virtue Hall...

Nearly half of the continent's top powerhouses would perish today at the hands of this man called Qian Jue!

"No, I can't just sit here and wait for death!"

Huo Yuhao suddenly gritted his teeth and frantically called out in his heart to the great existence that had always lain hidden deep within his sea of spirit.

"Elder Yi! Elder Yi, wake up! Can you hear me?!"

Within the sea of spirit, the once-calm golden ocean was now rippling beneath the terrifying pressure from outside.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress were both curled up in a corner, not daring to release the slightest trace of aura.

At the center of the sea of spirit, the gray bead finally slowly lit up with a soft yet profound gray glow.

An aged, illusory figure filled with endless vicissitudes and wisdom slowly emerged from within the gray light. It was the Holy Necromancer, the Calamity of the Undead, Electrolux.

"Child, I sensed it."

Electrolux's voice rang in Huo Yuhao's mind, carrying an unusually grave note.

"What terrifying power. Such pure evil and chaos. This power has completely exceeded the limits permitted by this plane's laws."

"Elder Yi, you're finally awake!"

As if he had grasped his last lifeline, Huo Yuhao urgently asked within his sea of spirit.

"You've seen and experienced so much. Do you have a way to break the barrier outside?

If this continues, half of the continent's powerhouses will die here!"

Electrolux did not answer immediately. Through Huo Yuhao's eyes,

he gazed deeply at Qian Jue in the sky beyond, as well as the dark-purple barrier covered in demonic runes that enveloped a hundred-mile radius.

After a long while, Electrolux let out a long sigh.

"Child, if I were at my peak, perhaps I could still fight him using the fundamental laws of Necromancy.

But now, I am only a remnant soul. There is nothing I can do."

Huo Yuhao's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

"Even you have no way? What exactly is that barrier? Why can't even Ultimate Douluo break it?"

"That is no ordinary barrier. It is the manifestation of 'laws.'"

Electrolux patiently explained, a trace of reverence in his tone.

"Within that young man resides an existence of an extremely high order.

The ability he used earlier to strip away Soul Power through words, as well as the barrier now sealing heaven and earth, are both based on a 'Word Spirit Law' that transcends the rules of the Douluo Continent."

"Within this barrier, he is the only truth.

If he says Soul Power is ineffective, then Soul Power is ineffective. If he says space is sealed, then space becomes an impenetrable wall.

The Soul Masters of your world rely too heavily on martial souls and Soul Power. Once their connection is severed by a higher law, they are like tigers with their teeth pulled—utterly powerless to resist."

Cold sweat ran down Huo Yuhao's back as he listened.

"Then... are we just supposed to wait for death? Elder Yi, you must know how to break it, right? No matter how great the cost!"

Electrolux fell silent for a moment before slowly speaking.

"There is indeed one way. The suppression of laws is absolute. To break one law, the only path is to use another law of the same rank—or an even higher rank—to collide with it and tear it apart."

"In other words..." Electrolux's voice became incomparably solemn.

"Unless a God-Rank powerhouse acts and uses true divine power, it is impossible to break this barrier from within."

A God-Rank powerhouse!

Those four words were like four massive hammers smashing viciously into Huo Yuhao's heart, leaving him dizzy and nearly unable to breathe.

A God-Rank powerhouse?

That was something that existed only in legends!