Giant Fang and Black Blade's Joint Assault! Dual Domains Suppress Them

Seeing this, Giant Fang and Black Blade finally realized that Lu Ming's earlier warning had not been alarmist.

Resurrección really could kill.

Feng Qie's failure was like a resounding slap, fiercely striking them across the face.

The two of them subconsciously glanced at Zhu Mao, whose aura was deep and steady, and felt a trace of heartfelt admiration...

[Just what kind of unyielding will had that quiet fellow relied on to successfully complete Resurrección?]

"Master, Feng Qie..." Giant Fang spoke in a muffled voice, a hint of worry in it.

"It's fine. The worst didn't happen. He merely exhausted his spiritual power and suffered a slight shock to his soul. A few days of rest will be enough."

"Yue Xi, I'll leave the rest to you..."

Lu Ming handed Feng Qie over to Yue Xi.

Yue Xi immediately reached out with her little hand and pressed it against Feng Qie's forehead. A ball of gentle white light flowed in, beginning to nourish his injured soul.

Yue Xi's role as the team healer immediately became apparent.

Then Lu Ming's gaze fell upon Giant Fang and Black Blade.

"Do you still want to try now?"

Giant Fang and Black Blade exchanged a glance, each seeing a trace of hesitation in the other's eyes.

Feng Qie's failure had sounded the alarm for them! It had also shown them that Resurrección was far from as easy as they had imagined...

But were they really going to give up just like that?

Whenever they thought of Zhu Mao's overwhelming might after Resurrección, they were unwilling to accept it.

"Master! I want to try!"

In the end, Giant Fang was the first to step forward.

His face, covered by a shattered bone mask, was filled with resolve.

"Master, I'm different from Feng Qie! My will is as unbreakable as my body!"

Black Blade followed by dropping to one knee.

"I want to try too."

His voice was just as cold, but the longing in his eyes could not be concealed.

"Good." Lu Ming nodded. "Since you insist, then do it together..."

"You two were originally born as one body, divided into twins. There is a special connection between your souls. Perhaps doing it together will give you a higher chance of success..."

With that, he once again spread the domain of the Self-Contained Perfect Enclosure, enveloping Giant Fang and Black Blade together!

Xiao Wu watched from afar, her heart pounding.

[Again?]

[What exactly is this thing called 'Resurrección'? Why are they all acting like madmen, willing to risk their lives just to obtain it?]

She could not understand it at all...

She had no idea what had happened during the time she had been away.

Inside the domain.

With Feng Qie's example before them, Giant Fang and Black Blade were far more cautious.

Under Lu Ming's guidance, they quickly found their own soul imprints.

Giant Fang's imprint was a savage troll's head, filled with a primordial aura...

Black Blade's imprint, meanwhile, was an eerie demonic hand with sharp claws...

The two imprints lay tightly beside each other, giving off auras from the same source that were nevertheless entirely different.

"Begin." Lu Ming's voice rang out.

Giant Fang and Black Blade exchanged a glance and simultaneously extended their hands of consciousness toward their own imprints.

"Roar—!"

"Hiss—!"

Two entirely different savage wills erupted at once!

Giant Fang's will was pure, unreasonable brutality and impact!

Black Blade's will, on the other hand, was cold and sinister, filled with cunning and calculating bloodlust!

The two wills simultaneously assaulted the human rationality within them.

"Big Brother! Hold on!" Black Blade's soul roared. "Don't let instinct control you! Think of Master!"

"I... I know!" Giant Fang's consciousness struggled amid the chaos.

Images kept flashing through his mind—images of his time as a Black-Armored Troll, reigning supreme in Blackwood Forest and slaughtering as he pleased.

That unrestrained, carefree feeling intoxicated him...

[Why should I change? Why should I become an Arrancar? Why should I take human form?]

[Wouldn't it be better to return to myself?]

A seductive voice sounded from deep within his soul.

"No!" Giant Fang suddenly roared, violently crushing that voice.

[Returning to a beast will only get me hunted by stronger beings!]

[Only by becoming an Arrancar, only by becoming stronger, can I truly control my own fate!]

[I refuse to become that stupid, clumsy troll again!]

At that moment, Giant Fang's will became incomparably firm!

He clutched that troll imprint tightly, using all his strength to drag it out of the domain!

On the other side, Black Blade's situation was even more dangerous!

Though Black Blade's will was clearer than Giant Fang's, what he faced was an even more sinister temptation...

The nature of the Clawed Terror Demon was cunning, betrayal, and doing anything necessary to achieve its ends.

At that moment, streams of cold thoughts kept emerging from the depths of his soul.

[Why should I submit to another?]

[Master's power may be great, but he is not invincible.]

[As long as I master Resurrección, then find an opportunity to devour Master...]

[Then I will become the new ruler!]

Those thoughts were like poisonous weeds, frantically taking root and sprouting in his sea of soul!

Black Blade's eyes began to flicker uncertainly.

The hand clutching the imprint also began to loosen slightly.

"Black Blade!"

Lu Ming's voice rang through the depths of his soul...

"I know exactly what you're thinking!"

"Put away those laughable little schemes of yours!"

"I reshaped your soul! I granted you your new life!"

"With a single thought, I can turn you back into that filthy lizard, or even... erase you completely from this world!"

"Boom!"

An absolute, irresistible pressure originating from the level of the soul descended fiercely upon Black Blade's soul!

It was the absolute control of a creator over his creation.

"I... I was wrong! Master! I was wrong!"

Black Blade's soul trembled beneath the pressure.

The ambition that had just begun to sprout within him was instantly crushed to pieces!

He finally understood that an insurmountable chasm stood between himself and his master.

His so-called betrayal was nothing more than a ridiculous joke before his master.

Fear instantly engulfed him.

But at the exact instant his mind lost its guard, the cold, cunning beast nature belonging to the Clawed Terror Demon seized the opportunity and launched a frenzied counterattack!

"Hiss—!"

Black Blade's consciousness was swallowed in an instant!

"Not good!"

Lu Ming's expression changed.

Black Blade's body began to undergo violent, bizarre changes.

Fine black scales reappeared across his skin. His hands became even more grotesque, and a long tail covered in barbs even grew from his back!

His aura became chaotic and evil!

Black Blade's Resurrección had failed outright, and he had suffered a backlash from his beast nature!

Even worse, his transformation affected Giant Fang, who was fighting with all his strength against his own beast nature!

"Black Blade?!"

Sensing that something was wrong with his brother's aura, Giant Fang was distracted and glanced over.

That single glance caused a crack to appear in the will he had struggled so hard to gather.

"Roar!"

The primordial beast nature of the Black-Armored Troll instantly shattered his defenses!

"Boom!"

Giant Fang's body also began to swell uncontrollably, bone armor reappearing over his gray-black skin!

He had failed too!

Two violent beast natures completely spiraled out of control within the domain!

Their crimson eyes, devoid of reason, turned simultaneously toward the only human within the domain!

"Roar!"

"Hiss!"

The two out-of-control monsters lunged at Lu Ming with overwhelming killing intent!

Inside the domain, the situation changed in an instant!

The out-of-control Giant Fang and Black Blade had been completely dominated by their primal beast natures...

In their minds, the weak human before them was the source of the restraints on their freedom, an object that had to be torn to pieces!

Giant Fang's mountain-like body carried the force of ten thousand tons as he threw a punch!

The wind from his fist howled, crushing the air until it exploded with a piercing sonic boom!

That punch contained all the power of an Eight-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, enough to flatten a small mountain!

Meanwhile, Black Blade silently circled behind Lu Ming. His hands, now completely transformed into demonic claws, struck at Lu Ming's back with a cold gust of wind!

One in front and one behind, strength and speed—working together flawlessly.

This was the hunting instinct carved into their bones from their days as soul beasts!

Facing this pincer attack, enough to drive any Soul King to despair, Lu Ming's face showed not the slightest panic.

"Utterly stubborn."

Lu Ming calmly spoke those four words.

Just as Giant Fang's fist and Black Blade's claws were about to touch his body.

"Domain Expansion: Gluttonous Sea of Light!"

An entirely different force erupted explosively from Lu Ming's body!

Centered on him, endless emerald-green motes appeared out of thin air, instantly filling the entire interior of the Self-Contained Perfect Enclosure!

Two domains!

Expanded at the same time!

The Self-Contained Perfect Enclosure was a cage that imprisoned everything.

And within that cage, the Gluttonous Sea of Light was now the absolute ruler!

In an instant, Giant Fang and Black Blade felt as though they had fallen into a bizarre and fantastical world of plants.

Countless vines, like giant living pythons, burst from the void and tightly wrapped around every part of their bodies!

Though those vines appeared fragile, they contained a vast life energy beyond their understanding. No matter how they struggled, they could not break free in the slightest!

Even more terrifyingly, the emerald-green motes were like billions of tiny insects, crazily pouring into their bodies and into their souls!

"Myriad Essence Life-Eater!"

Lu Ming activated the supplementary technique of the Gluttonous Sea of Light.

Devour!

Devour their senses!

Devour their strength!

Devour their... will!

"Roar... whimper..."

Giant Fang let out a pained wail.

He felt the strength within his body draining away at an astonishing speed, frantically absorbed by the vines and motes!

His muscles, once hard as iron, began to grow weak and powerless.

And the violent will within his mind was constantly washed away and worn down by a gentle yet irresistible life aura...

Black Blade's condition was even more miserable.

His cold, cunning soul was like something meeting its natural nemesis before that vast life energy.

Those emerald motes continuously purified the violence and bloodlust within his soul. The sensation was even more painful than being burned alive by raging flames!

"Hiss... aaah..."

He let out a scream that no human could make.

"Are you awake?"

Lu Ming's voice rang out in the depths of their souls once more.

He slowly walked over to the two monsters bound like rice dumplings by vines, then reached out and pressed his hand against their heads.

"Formless Transformation!"

This time, he used the most direct, most brutal... suppression and erasure!

He was going to erase the beastly natures born from their failed Arrancar transformations from their souls!

"Aaaaargh—!"

Giant Fang and Black Blade let out heart-rending roars at the same time.

Their bodies convulsed and twisted violently beneath the vines binding them.

The bestial traits that had only just emerged began fading at a visible rate.

Their bony armor fused back into flesh.

The black scales fell away inch by inch.

This process was thousands of times more painful than their earlier Arrancar transformations and Resurrección!

Outside the domain.

Xiao Wu and Zhu Mao stared nervously at the enormous white sphere.

They could clearly sense that two extremely violent, chaotic auras had erupted within the domain. Yet before long, those two auras were completely suppressed by another force—vast and brimming with the majesty of life.

Then came two ceaseless, heart-wrenching screams.

Just hearing those cries made Xiao Wu shudder.

...What exactly happened in there?

Did Giant Fang and Black Blade fail too?

Lu Ming... he'll be all right, won't he?

Xiao Wu's heart clenched tightly.

Why... was he going this far?

For that... seemingly illusory "Arrancar Empire"?

Xiao Wu looked at the white sphere, her gaze becoming incomparably complicated.

At last.

The screams gradually subsided.

The enormous white sphere slowly dissipated as well.

The scene within was revealed to everyone once more.

Lu Ming was still standing where he had been. Though his face was somewhat pale, his aura remained steady.

At his feet, Giant Fang and Black Blade had already returned to their human forms after becoming Arrancar. They lay limply on the ground, gasping for air...

When they looked at Lu Ming, there was nothing left in their eyes but the purest, most primal... fear.

Just moments ago, their lives and deaths, their wills, everything they possessed, had depended solely on their master's whim.

"Rest."

Lu Ming said nothing more and turned toward his wooden cabin.

"Next time, come back after you're prepared to try again! If you fail again, it won't end this easily for you..."

Lu Ming's gentle voice made Giant Fang and Black Blade's bodies jerk violently.

Zhu Mao silently stepped forward and helped his two exhausted companions to their feet.

His face remained expressionless, but a trace of nearly imperceptible... relief flashed through his eight dark green compound eyes.

He was relieved that his will had been firm enough that he had not lost himself during Resurrección.

And he was also relieved that he had a... master so powerful, and so dependable.