Scarlet King and Zi JI heard the voice before they saw its owner.
The two Ferocious Beasts immediately halted in midair, warily watching the black-robed figure who had suddenly appeared before them despite his faint aura.
Their eyes were filled with apprehension. They did not let their guard down just because the person before them was a weakling who had not even reached Titled Douluo rank. Across all of Douluo Star, beings who could appear before them without a sound could be counted on one hand.
"Your Excellency."
Zi JI spoke in a calm tone. Proud as she was, she knew when to rein it in. With less than a tenth of their strength remaining, avoiding trouble was naturally their best option.
But before she could finish speaking, golden light suddenly flared beneath them. Two Golden Hexagram Magic Arrays expanded from tiny points, instantly enveloping them both. As the golden light swallowed them, their figures actually vanished from the spot.
The instant they disappeared, a ghostly figure suddenly emerged from underground and flew straight toward the black-robed figure.
They were none other than Huo Yuhao and Electrolux.
Huo Yuhao was visibly excited. Once Elder Yi returned to his place, he immediately summoned the Divine Dragon Pearl. With a thought, a golden vortex appeared before him, and a Portal abruptly opened. The two walked slowly inside, their auras fading from this stretch of heaven and earth along with those of the two mighty beast kings.
Indeed, Huo Yuhao had taken only a day to absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. The baptism of planar power had taken even less time, and he had emerged from seclusion after just one day.
Upon sensing that terrifying battle, he-the very person responsible for it-had not gone far at all. Instead, he had used planar power to conceal his aura and sat beside Zhang Lexuan throughout, watching the fight.
Only after the two Ferocious Beasts fled with severe injuries did he swiftly teleport over.
His targets were Scarlet King and Zi JI, those two powerful soul rings.
They, along with the chain reactions that would follow, were crucial links in his plan for revenge.
The opportunity could not be missed. Whether he could obtain the gold of life sooner depended entirely on killing these two beast kings.
His confidence came from his own strength, the Bright Half-Plane, and Electrolux, the God of Magic.
After succeeding in a single strike, Huo Yuhao returned directly to his Bright Half-Plane to inspect the two powerful pieces of prey delivered to his doorstep, shipping included.
Inside the Bright Half-Plane.
Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, Scarlet King and Zi JI felt truly stunned for the first time, while terror flooded their hearts. They were certain they were no longer on Douluo Star. This was actually an entirely new world.
Everything in this world, filled with the aura of light, seemed both sacred and eerie. They knew they were now turtles trapped in a jar, so both rapidly recovered their strength, hoping to gain a little more ability to resist.
"Damn it, of all times! Scarlet King, how much soul power do you have left?"
"Less than a tenth. The fight with Xuan Zi was too fierce. It drained too much."
"This is bad. I have less than a tenth left too. This expert can shift heaven and earth in an instant. I doubt we'll get out of this alive today."
Zi JI's voice was grave. She kept a fixed watch on her surroundings, recovering her stamina while searching for anything unusual in the plane.
Suddenly, a ripple spread through the air, and a golden Portal appeared overhead. Eight throwing knives gleaming with golden light shot out like phantom streaks, splitting into two groups of four and hurtling toward Scarlet King and Zi JI.
At the sight of those eight golden throwing knives leaving marks in space itself, both beasts' eyes widened. They began layering their strongest defenses, trying to withstand the piercing attacks of the knives and the terrifying force behind them.
Huo Yuhao sneered.
Once his soul power reached level seventy, he had wasted no time attaching three ninety-thousand-year soul rings to his Divine Dragon Pearl martial soul, advancing his psychic power to the intermediate War God realm. Moreover, the strengthened Divine Dragon Pearl had reached the peak of the intermediate War God realm as soon as it advanced. (An Intermediate War God wielded 130,000 kilograms of force per throwing knife; a peak Intermediate War God approached 200,000 jin of force; an Advanced War God wielded 256,000 kilograms of force.)
Every throwing knife carried a terrifying force of nearly two hundred thousand kilograms.
Together, the eight knives amounted to 1.6 million kilograms of force,
A full three times the force of the Sea God Trident unleashed at full power,
How terrifying!
Against such attacks, the two already grievously wounded Ferocious Beasts were utterly overwhelmed. The hard scales covering Zi JI's hundred-meter-long dragon body could barely withstand Huo Yuhao's throwing knives. Scarlet King, however, had only soft fur, and nearly every knife strike against him drew blood.
Huo Yuhao scorned their desperate resistance. At their peak, things might have been different, but how could two utterly weakened beast kings possibly be a match for him now?
Under Huo Yuhao's control, the eight golden throwing knives seemed to dance, attacking Scarlet King and Zi JI with an eerily precise rhythm. They accelerated and slowed in turn, crossing paths again and again. Just when they seemed about to collide, they sliced accurately into the two Ferocious Beasts instead, drawing agonized howls from time to time.
The golden throwing knives surged beyond the speed of sound. With bodies so enormous, Scarlet King and Zi JI had nowhere to dodge, and in their weakened state, they could not withstand the knives' cutting attacks.
The two three-hundred-thousand-year-old Ferocious Beasts who had once commanded the winds and clouds were now like meat on a chopping block, being sliced away piece by piece. It was also like boiling frogs in warm water: once their blood ran dry, they would slowly be ground to death.
Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao was still chatting with Electrolux as calmly as a gentle breeze beneath light clouds.
The difference between them was clear at a glance!
After holding on for only half an hour, Scarlet King had already become a mangled mass of flesh and blood. With his aura fading, his will to survive erupted. The aura of his power suddenly soared, but his blood vitality plummeted. He had been forced to start burning his blood essence.
"Aaargh! I'll take you down with me!"
"You've got guts!"
Huo Yuhao offered sincere praise. Scarlet King had not hesitated in the slightest and wanted only to drag him into death together. He truly possessed the backbone of a Ferocious Beast king.
Facing the ferociously charging Scarlet King, Huo Yuhao made no move to dodge. Giving his all was the greatest respect he could offer an enemy. He would crush this beaten dog head-on, on every level.
His Spirit Eyes martial soul instantly possessed him, his golden eyes flashing with dazzling golden light. As he released his martial soul, the enormous phantom of a golden White Tiger appeared behind him, brimming with dominance as it looked down upon Scarlet King.
With the physical strength of a Titled Douluo and the threefold all-around enhancement from his Spirit Eyes' gold-level second awakening, the Thunder Battle Blade in his hand began emitting a terrifying vibrational force.
"Scarlet King, my strength surpasses yours even at your peak."
Watching Scarlet King burn his blood vitality and charge over with his strongest attack, Huo Yuhao roared as well, swinging the blade in his hand and meeting him head-on.
In the sky, the three-headed hellhound unleashed black flames that blotted out the heavens and the sun, as though intent on burning this entire world to ashes. Beneath him, a blade-wielding figure leaped upward. In midair, Huo Yuhao arched his waist into a half-moon, the blade in his hand nearly touching his heels.
The next instant, the two figures collided violently.
That heaven-shaking slash seemed ready to cleave the entire sky apart.
After the clash.
Huo Yuhao landed steadily with his blade in hand. He did not look back.
Above, the black flames had vanished, and sunlight once again shone upon the earth. Only now, a rain of blood suddenly fell from the sky.
Boom!
Immediately afterward, two thuds rang out as objects struck the ground. Only then did Huo Yuhao slowly turn around. Gazing at Scarlet King's enormous corpse, cleaved in two, his eyes held unfathomable depths.
For a mighty Ferocious Beast king to meet his end like this was truly enough to draw a sigh.
Sensing that Zi JI had already fled far away, Huo Yuhao found it inwardly amusing. After putting away the three-hundred-thousand-year Torso Bone from Scarlet King's corpse and seeing the condensed Blood-Red Soul Ring, he finally turned his attention to Zi JI, who was fleeing frantically.
Where do you think you can run in my world?
Hop into my bowl already!
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Killing the two beast kings wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision by Tutu. This is a main plotline. As I said before, Huo Yuhao has already entered the main storyline.
Things won't be boring from here on. There will be plenty of scenes where he shows off.
(End of chapter)
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