"Has this old man lost his mind?"
Luo Feng's eyes widened at the sight.
He had thought he had successfully resolved the problem.
But he had never expected Du Busi to make his move now.
Long Xiaoyao had indeed consumed quite a bit of soul power just now.
But he was still a Limit Douluo!
Even a starved camel was bigger than a horse. Didn't Du Busi understand that?
Du Busi seemed to have gathered many supreme experts from the Three Great Empires.
Yet they had no idea what separated a Limit Douluo from an ordinary Douluo!
It looked like a difference of just one level, but in reality...
"Heh, I had no intention of attacking you, but you've forced my hand today!"
Soon, what Luo Feng had feared came to pass.
There was no cornered dog jumping over a wall.
Nor was there a desperate struggle to the death.
Long Xiaoyao simply turned around calmly.
Then he looked at those surrounding him as though they were already dead.
They had brought this upon themselves!
"Hmph, Long Xiaoyao, you traitor!"
"Even if it costs us our lives, we'll make sure you never leave today!"
"You will atone for your crimes against the Heaven Dou Empire!"
Ignoring Long Xiaoyao's defiant arrogance, Du Busi remained unmoved.
He seemed utterly confident.
Beside him, a level 97 old man also slowly stepped forward.
This was the Dou Ling Empire's Guardian Sun Douluo.
He, too, bore a deep, bitter grudge against Long Xiaoyao.
"And our Dou Ling Empire will settle its accounts with you today as well, you old monster!"
Seeing these two great figures step forward, the others were emboldened.
The few people nearby closed in as well.
Among them were the Star Luo Empire's level 95 Shattered Star Douluo, along with Northern Dipper Douluo and Starfire Douluo, who had accompanied him.
They seemed to be forming an encirclement!
Were they planning to attack like a pack of wolves?
"Husband, should we join them?"
Seeing their formation, Ma Xiaotao quietly came to Luo Feng's side.
But just as she was itching to act, she hesitated.
Luo Feng's warning rang in her ears.
"Xiaotao, forget these muddleheaded old fools. Retreat with me, now!"
"But, husband!"
"No buts. If these old fools want to die, we don't have to follow them!"
At that moment, Luo Feng had no expectation whatsoever that these old men could win.
Even if Ye Xishui stood aside, Du Busi and the others had no hope of victory.
To keep himself and his loved ones from being caught in the crossfire, he made his decision.
Luo Feng chose to withdraw without hesitation.
Seeing his actions, Long Xiaoyao reacted.
A glimmer of approval actually appeared in his eyes.
In truth, the elder had yet to strike.
He was waiting for Luo Feng and the others to retreat.
Otherwise, once the battle began, the boy would inevitably be swept into it.
Blades had no eyes. No one knew what the outcome might be!
"Long Xiaoyao, stop stalling!"
"You can have that venomous woman beside you join in. This place will be the grave of you both today!"
Meanwhile, Du Busi truly thought nothing of his opponent.
He carried himself as though Long Xiaoyao were already in his grasp.
Just as he unleashed his full power, reinforcements appeared.
The Body Sect's other two Super Douluos arrived with a large force!
"Sect Master, we've come to lend you a hand!"
The speakers were Demon Fist Douluo and Black-Haired Douluo.
What surprised Luo Feng was who accompanied them.
Long Aotian and Princess Vina were actually in the ranks as well, utterly heedless of death!
Had those two really grown tired of living?
Luo Feng had originally thought that changing the plot would make a difference.
He had hoped to change the tragic fate of the prodigy Long Aotian.
But now it seemed that some chains of cause and effect were very difficult to alter.
Forcing his way into someone else's fate would not necessarily change the final outcome!
"Ah, what a bunch of fools!"
Luo Feng fled with his wife for more than twenty li.
Only then did he dare turn back!
The battle had already erupted over there!
Rumble!
Boom, boom, boom!
All manner of dazzling soul skills blanketed the entire sky.
Yet they could not conceal the black dragon soaring through it!
This was Long Xiaoyao's true strength!
A Limit Douluo must not be insulted!
"Since you've all chosen death, none of you will leave today!"
"ROAR!!"
A desolate, ferocious dragon roar tore the sky apart!
The space behind Long Xiaoyao instantly collapsed, and a Dark Holy Dragon a thousand zhang long ripped through the night, descending upon the world!
A Level 99 Limit Douluo, one of the Black and White Twin Holy Dragons-the Dark Holy Dragon's true form!
An area twenty li in every direction suddenly sank into a hopeless, eternal night.
"Du Busi, your brother was once a martial fanatic who stood tall between heaven and earth.
"But you are fit only to form cliques for selfish gain, a petty scoundrel!"
Long Xiaoyao snorted coldly and raised his hand in midair, closing it around empty space!
"Today, I will show you what 'Limit' truly means!"
"Ninth soul skill-Darkness Shrouds the Sky!"
Rumble!
An enormous claw covered in black dragon scales blotted out the sky as it pressed down!
The great starlight defensive formation jointly erected by Guardian Sun Douluo and Shattered Star Douluo exploded like flimsy paper!
Starfire Douluo, the first to bear the brunt, did not even have time to scream before his protective aura shattered.
He spewed black blood as he flew backward and slammed into the earth's depths!
"Golden Awakening! Form up!!"
Du Busi's eyes turned bloodshot.
His martial soul's true form, over twenty meters tall, erupted with dazzling golden light as he led the Body Sect's experts in unleashing a world-annihilating spear of light!
Immediately afterward, Demon Fist Douluo and Black-Haired Douluo lit up their ninth soul rings in unison.
Dozens of energy beams tore through the night sky, hurtling desperately toward the black dragon!
Yet Long Xiaoyao did not move even half a step.
The Dark Holy Dragon swept its massive tail, and its ultimate Darkness Domain transformed into a bottomless abyss.
It forcibly sucked in and devoured the ninth soul skills filling the sky!
"Obstinate fools."
Long Xiaoyao brought his enormous claw crashing down from above!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Both arms of Demon Fist Douluo and Black-Haired Douluo snapped, and they flew several li backward, howling in agony!
Guardian Sun Douluo's class 9 Defensive Soul Tool exploded, his sternum caved in, and he lost consciousness on the spot!
Du Busi, who had taken the attack head-on, suffered even more grievously.
Several wounds deep enough to expose bone were torn across his martial soul's true form, and dark green vital blood poured down like rain!
"Pfft!!"
Du Busi's aura, at the pinnacle of level 98, plummeted like an avalanche beneath his opponent's overwhelming might!
One strike!
In a single exchange, more than half the lineup of Super Douluos assembled by the Three Great Empires were killed or wounded!
In the battle formation behind them, Long Aotian drew his spear and tried to charge, only to be swept up by a wisp of demigod-level draconic might spilling from Long Xiaoyao.
He and Princess Vina beside him were both blasted away, coughing blood, before falling unconscious to the ground!
This was the ceiling of a Limit Douluo's combat power.
Before demigod-level laws, these so-called Super Douluos were nothing more than moths plunging into a raging fire!
On a small hill twenty li away, they watched.
Before them lay the ruins of a battlefield utterly torn apart by the black dragon.
Ma Xiaotao, Nan Shuishui, and Nan Shuishui's daughter were deathly pale, chills running down their backs.
Still shaken, Nan Shuishui clutched the hem of Luo Feng's clothes, her voice trembling. "If we'd stayed there just now..."
"If we'd stayed, the Earth Dragon Sect would have been wiped off the map."
There was nothing he could do!
Some people's fates truly could not be reversed.
It was just like the old saying.
The monk could run, but the temple could not!
Faced with such an outcome, Luo Feng could only sigh with regret.
"Forget about it. Let's head back!"
"Fortunately, my Vanguard Army has withdrawn. We can still barely put together a defensive line!"
"And Long Xiaoyao probably won't be coming back anytime soon!"
He gazed at the smoke of battle in the distance.
Luo Feng could only let out a low sigh.
Was this utter defeat, with every piece lost, really what Du Busi had wanted?
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