A fight?! Were they out of their minds?!
Huo Yuhao's eyes widened. What madness had gotten into Gu Yuena?
In truth, Huo Yuhao had no idea that Gu Yuena had wanted to spar with him ever since he had soundly defeated Tang Hao at the Soul Master Tournament. She simply hadn't found an opportunity. Now that she had finally seized one, how could she possibly let it slip away?
"Beast God, please stop teasing me."
Huo Yuhao gave a helpless, wry smile. "Others might not know, but how could I not know how strong you are? A fight? You clearly just want to beat me up to vent your frustrations, don't you?"
"What kind of talk is that?!"
The corners of Gu Yuena's lips lifted slightly. With a noncommittal smile, she said, "It's nowhere near as exaggerated as you imagine. Right now, I only have this one avatar, and its strength is merely at the level of a human Limit Douluo. Since we're working together, you should at least let me test just how capable my partner really is, shouldn't you?"
Huo Yuhao said, "Ah... well..."
"I want to join in, too."
Before Huo Yuhao could react, Bibi Dong beside him also grew interested. "Yuhao, before you enter secluded cultivation, I would also like to test just how great the gap between us is. That might help me break through to Limit Douluo."
Wait...
Huo Yuhao was utterly dumbfounded now.
Are both of you seriously sick in the head?
"Good. Then we'll do it together."
Before Huo Yuhao could object, Gu Yuena promptly endorsed Bibi Dong's suggestion.
Together?!
Bibi Dong frowned and looked at Gu Yuena in confusion.
"You absolutely mustn't underestimate this fellow."
Gu Yuena chuckled softly. As though she had seen through Bibi Dong's thoughts, she explained, "Never mind his countless trump cards. The soul power reserves of his yin-yang complementary dual soul cores alone are several times greater than ours combined."
"It's no exaggeration to say that, across the entire Douluo Continent right now, you could count the soul beasts and humans capable of truly threatening him on no more than three fingers."
What?!
Bibi Dong's pupils constricted sharply.
Never mind Huo Yuhao's trump cards-even the sheer amount of soul power in these so-called yin-yang complementary dual soul cores was this terrifying?
Infinite soul power?
At this acknowledgment from the Beast God, the corner of Huo Yuhao's eye twitched until it nearly went numb. Looks like this fight is unavoidable. Otherwise, I can forget about cultivating in peace. Perhaps it'll even help with this round of secluded cultivation.
After all, they had already whipped the mood up this far.
If there's no avoiding it... then let's fight...
Half an hour later.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the mountain range behind Spirit City, the piercing explosions of soul power resounded through the clouds. The sudden disturbance alarmed not only all of Spirit City, but even Spirit Hall itself.
At that moment, the seven figures still cultivating in seclusion within the Worship Hall looked up almost simultaneously. Their expressions changed drastically when they saw the strange spectacle in the sky outside the city.
A powerful enemy was attacking?!
They exchanged glances, then vanished from Spirit Hall in unison, turning into seven streaks of light that shot straight toward the mountains outside the city.
Within just a few breaths.
More than a dozen figures appeared in the mountains outside Spirit City. Along with Qian Daoliu and the other six Great Enshrined, Spirit Hall's elders, including Yue Guan and Gui Mei, had rushed over as well.
But when they saw that the people battling in the air were actually Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Bibi Dong, all their eyes widened involuntarily.
What was going on?!
Still, judging by the situation, they probably didn't need to worry too much.
Seeing the arrivals, the corner of Huo Yuhao's eye twitched twice despite himself. They said this was only a spar, but neither of these two is holding back at all. And now they've made such a huge commotion that we've drawn an audience-even the Worship Hall's seven Great Enshrined have been alerted.
Unaware of the circumstances, Yue Guan hurriedly asked Bibi Dong, "Your Holiness, this is..."
"Shut up!"
Bibi Dong was growing more astonished the longer she fought. Huo Yuhao was exactly as Gu Yuena had described-even under their combined pincer attack, he showed no sign of falling behind. She immediately said coldly, "No one is to interfere in this spar!"
What?
A spar?
Why did it look as though the Pope and the Beast God were ganging up on Huo Yuhao?
"Yuhao! I'm getting serious!"
Bibi Dong grew increasingly excited as the battle continued. Then her body shifted, and her upper body lowered toward the ground. The purplish-black carapace covering her instantly spread, transforming her into an enormous spider. The green hairs on all eight of her legs turned purple at once.
A hazy purple radiance shone over her entire body. Wherever that purple light passed, the air turned a scorched yellow. This was Bibi Dong's martial soul avatar, the Death Spider Emperor.
"Good! Then I'll get serious, too!"
Gu Yuena's eyes were also brimming with excitement. She immediately manifested the Silver Dragon Spear and held it pointing diagonally toward the heavens.
Rumble!
Rumble!
A series of deep, muffled rumbles suddenly rang out across the cloudless sky.
"This is... the Silver Dragon Spear's lightning element!"
Huo Yuhao jumped in alarm and inwardly lamented, This was supposed to be just a spar, yet Gu Yuena has actually brought out a divine artifact.
He dared not take any chances.
Hum-
A gray ring of light rippled outward horizontally.
Huo Yuhao's eyes turned gray at that same instant. This was the heart of undead annihilation of his Holy Necromancer martial soul.
Heart of undead annihilation enhanced him and stripped away his emotions, allowing Huo Yuhao to enter a state of absolute calm while remaining immune to any mental interference.
Before Bibi Dong could even strike, she felt an unprecedented pressure the instant the Holy Necromancer appeared.
No wonder Tang Hao had suffered such a crushing defeat. Only when Bibi Dong truly faced Huo Yuhao herself did she understand just how powerful an opponent she was confronting.
Triple martial souls!
To think he really had been hiding his strength!
Was he even human?!
As far as Bibi Dong knew, no soul master with triple martial souls had ever appeared on the continent-not even in the records of the Douluo Calendar.
The Holy Necromancer's gray radiance made Bibi Dong's heart tremble despite herself. She was the person closest to that realm, and she likewise felt a profound rejection toward that sacred aura. She was certain that even if Huo Yuhao's third martial soul was not a divine martial soul, it had to be infinitely close to that level. There was no doubt about it.
Because even her Death Spider Emperor martial soul felt suppressed at that moment.
"Watch out! Soul shock!"
Under the effects of heart of undead annihilation, Huo Yuhao had become exceptionally calm. Rather than passively receiving their attacks, he took the initiative. "Gate of the undead!"
Almost simultaneously with unleashing soul shock, Huo Yuhao summoned the gate of the undead.
Such powerful spiritual power!
Mental and physical attacks! The mental attack is primary, with the physical attack supporting it? Even someone as powerful as Bibi Dong felt as though her spiritual power were being torn apart.
Though Bibi Dong's thoughts were in turmoil, she dared not underestimate the gray gate that had appeared out of thin air before her. Intense purple light surged from her body, and her death domain spread open in an instant.
The Death Spider Emperor's innate domain had exceptionally powerful effects. It increased all of Bibi Dong's attributes by ten percent and reduced all of her opponent's attributes by twenty percent, while also exerting mental intimidation. Her own spiritual power increased in strength by twenty percent, while her opponent's spiritual power weakened by twenty percent.
Roar!!!
A dragon's roar rang out as an enormous bone dragon, dozens of meters long, burst from the gate of the undead. Gray-black death energy coiled around its bones, and eerie green ghostfire flickered in its eye sockets. Spreading its skeletal wings, it charged toward Bibi Dong, spewing dragon breath filled with death energy capable of eroding souls.
What shocked Bibi Dong even more was that her normally unstoppable domain had actually failed against this bone dragon.
It felt no pain? And it didn't fear death?
That was right.
The undead were dead to begin with.
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