After the three Titled Douluos entered Thunderclap Valley, none tested the waters, and none spoke.
The man on the left cliff stepped down first, nine Spirit Rings rising around him. As his Seventh Spirit Ring lit up, his body rapidly grew taller. Gray-black armor plates covered his arms, shoulders, and back, a thick horn thrust forward from his forehead, and the enormous Giant Rhino phantom behind him solidified amid surging Soul Power.
The moment his Martial Soul Avatar formed, the entire valley seemed to sag beneath its weight.
Yu Yuanzhen met him head-on, his right arm rapidly undergoing Dragon Transformation amid the lightning, scales spreading all the way to his shoulder. Their first direct collision erupted in a muffled boom wrapped in thunder, and broad cracks burst through the stone beneath their feet.
The Giant Rhino Titled Douluo staggered backward along the cliff, his heavy avatar crushing several jutting rocks in succession. Yu Yuanzhen's shoulder merely rocked backward before he stepped forward to press the attack.
But the second Titled Douluo's Spirit Ring had already lit up.
His Martial Soul was a long, pitch-black chain. When his fifth Soul Skill unfolded, four chain shadows did not bind Yu Yuanzhen directly, but drove into the surrounding stone instead. Black light rapidly spread between them. Yu Yuanzhen's right foot, which he had just stepped forward with, suddenly sank, and the space available for him to maneuver shrank.
Only then did the third man, deep within the valley, move.
Two slender black blades extended from the outer sides of his forearms. He skimmed across the stone so swiftly that he barely left a complete afterimage. Of the first two men, one forced Yu Yuanzhen to respond head-on while the other restricted his movement. Only when Yu Yuanzhen turned to deal with the Black