Boom!!!
A deafening explosion tore through the silence of the entire Blue Silver Forest, and waves of black-and-red energy erupted in every direction from the Blue Silver King.
More than half of the Blue Silver King's enormous body, woven from countless vines, was blasted apart, its shattered branches instantly reduced to dust within the black-and-red energy waves.
The terrifying shock wave surged outward, annihilating all the nearby Blue Silver Grass as a red mushroom cloud shot into the sky.
After a long while, the dust and smoke slowly dispersed.
The blast had gouged a massive crater hundreds of meters across into the ground, and wisps of smoke rose from the scorched earth.
Within the crater, only a small section of the Blue Silver King's trunk remained standing tenaciously, radiating surging vitality.
Roots could still be seen plunging deep beneath the ground around the crater.
The next instant,
Countless stalks of Blue Silver Grass throughout the forest shone with pale blue light. Like myriad streams flowing into the sea, an endless supply of vitality converged on the Blue Silver King.
The remnants that had been reduced to roots regrew at a speed visible to the naked eye. Within moments, the Blue Silver King's body had been restored.
If not for the enormous crater and the devastated surroundings, it would have been as though that strike had never happened.
As the king beneath the Blue Silver Emperor, it possessed an enormous body and exceptionally tenacious vitality.
Its roots sank deep into the earth, holding immense reserves of vitality.
Even if it abandoned all defenses and allowed a Titled Douluo to attack, it could regenerate rapidly within this sacred land of the Blue Silver clan, drawing upon an endless supply of vitality. As long as its roots remained, it could keep repairing itself.
"...You..."
The Blue Silver King's aged face, formed from intertwined vines, appeared again, now filled with terror and horror.
It lowered its head to look at its reconstituted body, then looked up at the pitch-black mecha hovering in midair, its voice trembling uncontrollably:
"What exactly... do you want?"
A pitch-black domain suddenly unfurled.
Void Doomsday instantly covered a radius of a thousand meters.
The power of all the Blue Silver Grass in the forest was suppressed by fifty percent, while the Void Star God Mecha's power surged to three times its original level.
Dark red energy erupted from the mecha and swept through the surroundings, making the nearby woods tremble.
The vitality that had been flowing toward the Blue Silver King abruptly stopped, as though its source had been cut off.
The Soul Power and vitality of every stalk of Blue Silver Grass within the domain were being rapidly depleted at ten times the normal rate.
The Blue Silver King was shaken.
It could feel the power of the entire forest being frantically drained away!
What shocked it most was that it actually sensed the aura of the Blue Silver Forest's vitality coming from that metal creation!
"Impossible..."
Utterly terrified, the Blue Silver King felt it could not let this continue.
It had to gather its strength and take the initiative to strike back at Ye Guixu. Otherwise, sooner or later, he would devour all the power of the Blue Silver Forest, and the sacred land of the Blue Silver clan would cease to exist!
Yet the next moment, Ye Guixu made a move that horrified it even more.
He raised his enormous metal claw and pressed down lightly.
In an instant, a terrifying gravity seemed to descend upon the thousand-meter radius, subjecting all the Blue Silver Grass, along with the Blue Silver King itself, to a hundred times normal gravity.
Their bodies collapsed beneath their own terrifying weight, pinned flat against the ground and completely unable to move.
How was this possible?!
With each successive shock, the Blue Silver King's fear climbed to its peak.
What was this power?
It was just like the Gravity Domain of the forest's king, the Titan Giant Ape...
But it was mistaken. This was not the Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain,
But the power of gravitational collapse contained within Ye Guixu's Terminus Domain.
A Black Hole possessed gravity so extreme that not even light could escape, and his domain naturally allowed him to freely control that terrifying gravitational pull.
He could also change its direction at will.
Directed downward, it was gravity; directed upward, it was repulsive force. If that gravitational pull was concentrated on a single singularity,
It became a miniature Black Hole!!
Merely directing the gravitational pull downward to create a hundredfold gravity was already enough to pin everything within a thousand-meter radius firmly to the ground.
The ten-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass that had reacted tried to extend their vines to support the Blue Silver King, but the moment they entered the domain, that terrifying gravitational pull seized them and pinned them firmly to the ground, leaving them completely unable to move.
Their Soul Power and vitality were also draining away frantically at ten times the normal rate.
"As expected of the Blue Silver Forest. Such pure vitality."
Ye Guixu felt the Void Star God Mecha continuously drawing in the Soul Power and vitality of countless stalks of Blue Silver Grass throughout the forest. The entire mecha radiated a terrifying aura of life.
He himself was deep within the cockpit, and as that endless vitality washed through his body, the very essence of his life was slowly transforming.
If he had not been held back by the world's rules because he had yet to obtain his fifth Soul Ring,
That endless vitality would have allowed him to break through one level after another until he became a Titled Douluo.
"Master, your might is divine!"
Yan Lingji lavished him with sweet words from beside him, her beautiful eyes sparkling as she watched the utterly suppressed Blue Silver King below.
"Master, do you intend to kill the Blue Silver King once and for all?"
"Or..."
The purple gemstone on the Void Star God Mecha's chest flashed several times, and Ye Guixu's figure emerged from it.
He lowered his head and looked thoughtfully at the Blue Silver King, pinned to the ground below by a hundredfold gravity.
Within the Blue Silver Forest, the Blue Silver King was indeed extremely difficult to kill, bolstered by such an immense supply of vitality.
As long as even a little of its roots remained, the other Blue Silver Grass could supply it with vitality to revive and regenerate.
Unless every root was dug out, or the entire plant was infused with enough energy to annihilate it completely-and the force of that annihilation would have to far exceed what it could withstand.
"Master, it seems you don't simply hate the Blue Silver King. It was caught up in this for some other reason, wasn't it?"
Tide Siren slowly approached Ye Guixu's side, her gaze shifting slightly as her red lips parted.
"That's right."
Ye Guixu stared down at the suppressed Blue Silver King, his gaze deep and shadowed.
The reason he wanted to kill this fellow ultimately came down to that damned rat.
Tang Hao had hunted him down as soon as he arrived in this world. Only afterward had he dug up Tang Hao's wife, the Blue Silver Emperor, and taken the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
He had even considered coming to the Blue Silver Forest to cut down the Blue Silver King, preventing Tang San from awakening his Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline and leaving him short, stumpy, and ugly for the rest of his life.
"Then, Master, if you want revenge on that man, killing the Blue Silver King won't be as satisfying as killing the man and crushing his heart."
Yan Lingji moved closer, pressing her voluptuous curves against his side as she leaned toward his ear and whispered.
"Oh? Do you have an idea?"
Ye Guixu glanced at her. These two enchantresses were perceptive indeed, having so easily discerned his thoughts.
"Master, haven't you already transplanted the Blue Silver Emperor into the Serenitea Pot? Since you've already turned her dark, why not turn the Blue Silver King dark as well?
"Then this Blue Silver Forest will become your territory. And with all the Blue Silver Grass vitality here, why not take complete control of it?"
The Blue Silver King heard their conversation. Rather than being horrified by the fate awaiting it, it was stunned by the news of its emperor.
The emperor was actually in this man's hands!
"You... you! Let the emperor go! I-I'm willing to become your tool!"
The Blue Silver King pleaded, its voice trembling and urgent.
Ye Guixu glanced down at it.
"If I control you, won't you be my tool all the same?"
At a thought from him, an enormous block of Void Profound Ice condensed in the Void Star God Mecha's hand and melted straight into the body of the suppressed Blue Silver King below.
In an instant,
Dark red light erupted from within the Blue Silver King, and its aura surged severalfold.
At the same time, however, its body began twisting frantically, branches and leaves flailing as it screamed in agony.
Starting from its roots, black-and-red markings spread upward section by section, corroding its originally crystalline blue vines inch by inch.
Amid the Blue Silver King's agonized howls and frantic thrashing,
Those blue vines turned black and red at a speed visible to the naked eye, growing thick and hideous. Barbed thorns even sprouted from their once-smooth surfaces.
Before long, the Blue Silver King's transformation into darkness was complete, and it became the Dark Blue Silver King.
The black-and-red vines writhed frantically, gathering once more into an enormous treant that knelt on one knee before Ye Guixu in the sky, its voice reverent and devout:
"Greetings, Master!"
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