Clear Sky Douluo's Fury, Domain Expansion: Gluttonous Sea of Light!

Meanwhile, in the direction of Saint Soul Village, a middle-aged man was rapidly closing in on this area.

[That presence...]

Lu Ming's body was unable to move while his soul ring condensed, but his senses had become sharper than ever before.

A terrifying pressure like a mountain collapse and tsunami swept in from afar. The fury and sorrow contained within it seemed capable of tearing apart the very valley he stood in!

He was unfamiliar with this aura, but there could only be one person nearby who possessed such terrifying strength...

The man who had single-handedly grievously wounded three Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall, the youngest Titled Douluo in history, wielder of the Haotian Hammer—Tang Hao!

"Fuck!"

Lu Ming cursed inwardly.

Could his luck get any worse?

He had just eaten the Blue Silver Emperor, and its owner had already come looking for him?

He desperately tried to break free of his body's restraints, but the system's soul ring condensation process was incomparably tyrannical, locking him firmly in place. He could not move even a finger, nor could he even blink.

He was a living target right now!

"System! You bastard! Stop this now!!" Lu Ming roared madly in his mind.

Yet the system remained completely silent. Only the power within him continued to surge wildly as the outline of his second soul ring rapidly took shape.

He was done for. Totally screwed.

He had only just gone from rabbit to human and had not even gotten to enjoy being human before one of Douluo Continent's combat ceilings was about to smash him into meat paste?

This was way too suffocating!

Boom!

A figure fell from the sky and crashed heavily onto the ground nearby.

The earth shook violently. Spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly from his landing point, and the entire valley seemed to groan in pain.

The newcomer was tall and powerfully built, his weathered face mostly obscured by his unkempt hair and beard. Yet in his eyes burned a fury fierce enough to incinerate everything.

His gaze locked tightly onto the withered remains of the Blue Silver Emperor on the ground.

"A Yin..."

A low, hoarse cry filled with pain was forced from his throat.

Tang Hao stretched out his hand, wanting to touch those dead leaves, but his fingers trembled violently in midair before finally falling limply to his side.

He could sense that the Blue Silver Emperor he had protected for so many years had completely lost every trace of life.

Even the traces of its soul had vanished without a trace!

Who was it?!

Who did this?!

Tang Hao suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes instantly locking onto the sole figure still standing nearby.

That human youth still carried a faint lingering aura belonging to the Blue Silver Emperor.

It was him!

"You... deserve to die!"

Tang Hao's voice held not a shred of human emotion, as if it had risen from the depths of hell.

The next moment, he moved.

No soul rings appeared, and he did not even summon his martial soul. He simply took a step forward.

But that single step made Lu Ming feel as if the space of the entire world had frozen solid.

Terrifying killing intent, nearly tangible, pressed in from every direction, seeking to grind his body and soul into dust.

Was this the strength of a Titled Douluo?

He did not even need to use his martial soul. His sheer presence alone could kill a level-twenty soul master!

Lu Ming's consciousness struggled frantically, and his instinct to survive caused the soul power in his body to riot.

But before Tang Hao's abyssal, ocean-like power, his tiny amount of soul power was like a speck of dust in a raging gale—pitifully insignificant.

The shadow of death had never been clearer.

Just as Tang Hao's hand was about to touch Lu Ming's neck!

Buzz—

A strange hum came from within Lu Ming's body. At that very moment, his second soul ring finally finished condensing!

Like his first soul ring, it was still that dazzling, heart-palpitating red!

Another hundred-thousand-year soul ring!

Under Tang Hao's pressure, both soul rings emerged at once and shook violently. They had sensed the threat as well!

At the sight of that brilliant red light, Tang Hao's movement paused slightly, and a flicker of astonishment flashed through his furious eyes.

A youth who looked barely more than ten years old actually had two soul rings?

And the first was a hundred-thousand-year one, while the second... was also a hundred-thousand-year one?!

How was that possible?

This completely overturned everything he knew about the soul master's cultivation system! How could that body possibly withstand it?

Not even Spirit Hall's Golden Generation could possibly accomplish such a thing!

Yet that brief moment of shock gave Lu Ming a sliver of life! The restraints on his body vanished the instant his second soul ring finished condensing!

[Second soul ring condensed! Acquired soul skill: Domain: Gluttonous Sea of Light (attached technique: Myriad Essence Life-Eater)]

[Myriad plants gather life essence, drawing upon the vitality of the earth and plundering the lives of living beings.]

The system notification rang out in his mind!

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Ming activated his second soul skill almost purely on instinct.

"Domain Expansion: Gluttonous Sea of Light!"

An entirely different power erupted from within him.

If his first soul skill, "Self-Contained Perfect Enclosure," represented ultimate restraint and defense, then this second soul skill represented ultimate bloom and expansion!

Countless emerald-green motes of light appeared out of thin air around Lu Ming, rapidly spreading in every direction like fireflies.

Wherever those motes passed, the withered weeds on the ground, shattered trees, and even the remains of the Blue Silver Emperor seemed to be injected with false vitality, beginning to grow, twist, and mutate wildly!

In an instant, the entire valley became a bizarre ocean of plants!

And Tang Hao stood at the very center of that ocean!

"A domain?"

"He awakened a domain with only two soul rings!?"

"Just flashy tricks!"

Tang Hao snorted coldly, his voice filled with disdain.

Though he was shocked by the appearance of a domain skill, he had fought all his life and seen countless bizarre soul skills. Did a mere plant-type control ability think it could stop him?

He did not even summon his martial soul. He simply released his soul power, forming an invisible barrier around himself.

The wildly growing vines and thorns instantly turned to ash as soon as they came within three meters of his body.

However, Lu Ming had never intended to use those plants to attack him.

The moment those emerald-green motes completely enveloped Tang Hao, Lu Ming's soul skill truly activated!

One of the core abilities of Domain: Gluttonous Sea of Light was controlling plants. But its other ability was to "devour" the senses!

These motes condensed from the Blue Silver Emperor's soul power were, in essence, a blend of spiritual and energy-based matter. They simulated, amplified, and distorted the pheromones emitted by every surrounding plant before forcibly pouring them into the target's five senses...

For ordinary people, it might have merely meant smelling some strange floral and grassy scents.

But for a Titled Douluo with immense soul power and exceptionally sharp senses, it was nothing short of a sensory tsunami!

In an instant, Tang Hao felt as though he had fallen into a world made up of countless plants.

The fragrance of innumerable flowers, the fresh scents of grass and trees, the sweetness of fruit, the stench of rotting leaves... countless odors mixed together and surged madly into his nostrils, battering his mind.

Before his eyes, ordinary plants twisted and deformed, transforming into grotesque monsters that lunged at him with bared claws and fangs.

At his ears, the sound of wind blowing through leaves was amplified hundreds and thousands of times, becoming a piercing shriek.

Even the ground beneath his feet became soft and viscous, like a massive swamp trying to swallow him whole.

His five senses had been completely stripped away and tampered with!

"An illusion?"

Tang Hao's will was incomparably firm, and he instantly understood what he had been hit by.

He was not panicked. He was only deeply astonished. What kind of illusion could affect a Titled Douluo whose resolve was as solid as stone?

And within this illusion, there was even a trace of... A Yin's aura?

It was precisely that familiar trace of aura that caused the cold, murderous intent in his heart to waver ever so slightly.

And when experts clashed, victory and defeat were decided in an instant.

That tiny hesitation was already enough!

"Now!"

The moment Lu Ming activated his second soul skill, he had already begun planning his escape route.

He knew perfectly well that his Domain: Gluttonous Sea of Light could never trap Tang Hao for long.

This was Tang Hao!

All he needed was a chance to catch his breath!

"Formless Transformation!"

Without hesitation, Lu Ming activated the attached technique he had mastered from "Domain: Self-Contained Perfect Enclosure."

His hand pressed against his soul once more.

This time, he chose a faster method that consumed less energy—mimicry!

His bones let out a teeth-grinding series of cracks as his muscles and skin rapidly contracted and changed shape.

In less than a second, the human youth who had stood around one meter seventy tall turned into a dusty-gray, utterly inconspicuous... groundhog?

[Fuck! Why did I turn into this?]

Even Lu Ming was stunned.

He had originally wanted to become a bird and fly away.

But because it was his first time using mimicry, his mental control was not precise enough. Combined with the fact that he was standing on the ground and thinking about escaping as fast as possible, the form of his soul had automatically shaped itself into the animal best suited for digging.

[Forget it, a groundhog is a groundhog! As long as I survive!]

"Squeak!"

Having turned into a groundhog, Lu Ming cried out as his front paws furiously clawed at the ground. In an instant, he dug a hole through the hard stone and plunged into it headfirst.

And in the very next second after he vanished from where he stood.

"Break... for me!"

A thunderous roar exploded from within that emerald-green ocean of plants!

Rumble!

An indescribably tyrannical force shot into the sky, directly blasting the entire Domain: Gluttonous Sea of Light to pieces!

All illusions and every mote of light vanished like smoke before that power.

Tang Hao's figure reappeared. He panted heavily, his eyes crimson, clearly having suffered greatly from the illusion just now.

He scanned his surroundings. The valley had returned to normal, aside from the ground shattered by his own power.

That youth was gone.

Only a faint ripple of soul power remained in the air, pointing underground.

"Trying to run?"

Tang Hao's fury ignited once more.

After eating his A Yin, that brat still wanted to escape from beneath the hands of Clear Sky Douluo?

Wishful thinking!

He abruptly raised his right foot, then stomped down with all his might!

BOOM!!!

Terrifying power surged from beneath his foot and violently poured deep into the earth.

The entire mountain range seemed to have been struck by an invisible colossal hammer!

The earth heaved violently like waves, hard rock layers shattered inch by inch, and a massive bottomless ravine spread wildly from Tang Hao toward the direction Lu Ming had fled!

Deep underground.

Lu Ming, who was digging at top speed, suddenly felt a world-destroying force rushing toward him from behind.

He did not even have time to turn around before his entire "groundhog" body was violently hurled away by the savage shockwave!

Pfft!

A mouthful of blood sprayed from his groundhog mouth, staining the soil before him red.

"Cough, cough... Madman! He's really a madman!"

Lu Ming felt as if all his internal organs had shifted out of place, while every bone in his body was about to fall apart.

Was this the sheer power of a Titled Douluo?

Separated by over a hundred meters of rock, the force of a single stomp had nearly shaken him to death!

He did not dare pause for even a moment. He had to keep running!

If he did not run now, he definitely would not survive the next strike...

"Formless Transformation!"