"First, taste a few crushing blows from my cudgel, little monkey, and see what your Grandpa Saint Ape can do!"
The Battle Saint Ape whirled the Golden Cudgel so tightly that not a drop of water could get through, then leaped high and brought it crashing down with Forcefully Split Mount Hua.
His chosen opponent was the Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming, who had already been forced to reveal his true form, becoming a giant ape over ten meters tall.
Boom!
The Ruyi Jingu Bang was a divine artifact Feng Xuanyuan had custom-made for the Battle Saint Ape, using primordial refined gold he had personally gathered from the Phoenix God Continent.
After all, no matter how he looked at the Battle Saint Ape, he resembled Sun Wukong from Feng Xuanyuan's previous life. Feng Xuanyuan had simply given him this divine artifact and taught him many skills as well.
Skills such as the Fiery Eyes of Truth and the Seventy-Two Transformations had all been personally created by Feng Xuanyuan and passed on to the Battle Saint Ape.
As the undisputed strongest among ape and monkey Soul Beasts, he could even be called the strongest Soul Beast in the entire Douluo Plane.
Not only did the Battle Saint Ape's bloodline naturally suppress Er Ming, but the Golden Cudgel in his hands also struck with tremendous weight and force.
Er Ming had intended to counter this Forcefully Split Mount Hua with the gravity control he excelled at.
During their earlier exchanges, he had also gauged the Golden Cudgel's weight. It was only a little over ten thousand jin, hardly anything worth worrying about.
But what Er Ming had not expected was that, just as the Golden Cudgel entered his Gravity Control Domain...
The Battle Saint Ape suddenly let go, then pointed at the Golden Cudgel.
"Grow!"
In an instant, the Golden Cudgel, which had been about as thick as a stalk of sugarcane, became a gigantic cudgel so wide that even two people together could not wrap their arms around it.
Its weight increased more than a hundredfold to match.
Like a thousand-year-old tree felled by a woodcutter, it slammed Er Ming straight into the ground.
"Er Ming!"
Da Ming immediately panicked at the sight.
Until then, he had been trading blows evenly with Di Tian.
Although the Sky Azure Bull Python's bloodline belonged to the dragon lineage and was suppressed by Beast God Di Tian's bloodline...
He had still managed to withstand Di Tian's attacks thanks to the trace of divine power within him.
But when he saw Er Ming suffer under the Battle Saint Ape's attack, Da Ming could no longer hold back and unleashed the full extent of his cultivation.
A gigantic python over thirty meters long appeared, its entire body covered in blue-green scales.
Beneath its belly was a pair of enormous claws, a sign that it was on the verge of transforming into a dragon.
Stranger still, he had an enormous bull's head, which was letting out repeated moos.
"Di Tian, now that I'm using my divine power, you're no match for me!"
At Da Ming's words, Di Tian smiled faintly, then raised his right dragon claw.
The Dragon God Claw was a divine artifact personally bestowed by the Dragon God upon Beast God Di Tian, patriarch of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King clan.
The Dragon God Claw represented the true dragon lineage and the sovereign of all Soul Beasts.
No Soul Beast could withstand the might of the Dragon God Claw.
Naturally, the Soul Beasts of the Phoenix God Continent were an exception.
But even though Da Ming had attained cultivation at the Divine Official level, he could not withstand the power of the Dragon God Claw.
Had the Divine Realm still been there, he might have been able to contact it and seek help from Tang San.
Now, however, Da Ming had no chance left.
Nine-colored light flashed and vanished. The Dragon God Claw pierced his chest, directly extinguishing every trace of life within him.
"No..."
Da Ming's eyes brimmed with unwillingness as he collapsed limply to the ground.
"Oh, what a terrible waste!"
Suddenly, Xu Yi dove down from high above, piloting the Divine Mecha Golden Crow.
Immediately afterward, he tossed out a small Soul Tool.
The Soul Tool was golden all over and seemed to have been carved from a special crystal, its surface covered in countless intricate patterns.
Before throwing it, Xu Yi had pressed something on its surface. The entire Soul Tool instantly lit up, sending rings of golden ripples spreading outward.
A Golden Soul Ring rose from Da Ming's lifeless corpse, appearing before everyone.
When a Divine Official-level Soul Beast fell, what it produced was naturally the legendary Divine Soul Ring!
The Soul Tool Xu Yi had thrown out was called a Soul Ring Storage Device, designed specifically to store the Soul Rings of dead Soul Beasts.
It could even absorb the Soul Beast's origin energy that would form a Soul Bone.
An ordinary Soul Ring Storage Device could store, at most, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
But Xu Yi was using a specially made Soul Ring Storage Device of his own, constructed entirely from heavenly forged metal.
Da Ming's Golden Soul Ring turned into a streak of golden light and was drawn into the Soul Ring Storage Device.
"Oh, you're pretty quick!"
Holding the Golden Cudgel across his shoulders with both hands, the Battle Saint Ape strolled over.
Di Tian glanced at him and said with a soft chuckle.
"It seems I defeated my opponent first!"
The Battle Saint Ape chuckled at that, then pointed.
Di Tian followed the direction of his finger and froze.
At some point, Er Ming had already been pushed through the doorway into two dimensions.
The ever-growing Golden Cudgel had actually flattened him into a paper-thin figure.
Xu Yi was taking out another Soul Ring Storage Device to store the Divine Soul Ring that had burst from Er Ming.
"Killing a Divine Official... a divine artifact alone couldn't accomplish that..."
Shock appeared in Di Tian's eyes.
"You're already on the verge of becoming a god, with divine power in your body?"
The Battle Saint Ape pulled out a peach and took a huge bite, then said with a grin.
"A bet's a bet. The Emperor Auspicious Beast is coming with me to the Phoenix God Continent!"
"According to our wager, as long as she chooses to stay, she'll have nothing more to do with your Star Dou Great Forest!"
Di Tian nodded helplessly, though he was not particularly worried.
After all, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, had grown up in the Star Dou Great Forest, with Bi Ji, the Scarlet King, and the others looking after her.
No matter how he considered it, there was no way the Emperor Auspicious Beast would become so attached to the Phoenix God Continent that she would never return to the Star Dou Great Forest.
Meanwhile, in the Douluo God Realm.
"The Phoenix God... could he be the one from back then?"
The God of Destruction stepped aside and spoke quietly to the Goddess of Life.
As first-generation God Kings of the Douluo God Realm and its predecessor, the Divine Dragon Realm, both of them had a profound impression of the name Phoenix God.
The reason was simple: the battle between the Phoenix God and the Dragon God back then had nearly shattered the entire Divine Realm.
Whether it was the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, or even the two old God Kings, Kindness and the Evil God, who seemed unfathomably powerful...
Before the Nine Dragon Clan God Kings of the former Dragon God Realm, and the Dragon Prince, who was already stronger than those nine God Kings, they had all been mere peripheral figures.
And before the Phoenix God, even the nine God Kings and the Dragon Prince had been nothing more than juniors.
If the Phoenix God was still alive, he could only be stronger now than the Dragon God had been back then.
Just how powerful had the Dragon God been? Even attacks from God Kings wielding Super Divine Artifacts could not break through his dragon scales!
"If it really is Lord Phoenix God..."
The Goddess of Life left her sentence unfinished, but her meaning was perfectly clear.
They could either surrender or flee. Fighting him was certainly out of the question.
Back then, the Dragon God had single-handedly fought eighteen God Kings of the Divine Dragon Realm. Had he not been intent on dying, he might even have slain all eighteen!
And the current Douluo God Realm did not have eighteen God Kings for the Phoenix God to slaughter for sport.
Meanwhile, Xiao Wu suddenly hurried over and leaned close to Tang San's ear.
"Brother San, don't get worked up yet!"
"Let me tell you..."
Tang San's expression changed at her words, and he said in shock and anger.
"How dare he do something like that? Doesn't he know it violates the Divine Realm Rules?"
Then, however, he fell silent for a moment and looked toward the Sky Screen.
"But if it's him, perhaps he really can turn the current situation around!"
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