"Lin Chuan hasn't decided whether you live or die yet."
"Trying to leave?"
Zhang Lexuan looked down at Tang Hao and spoke with disdain.
Immediately afterward.
Her red lips parted slightly, and she uttered a few words.
"Self-created domain."
"Lunar Eclipse Cage · Eternal Night Moon Burial!"
Boom!
A curtain of light instantly exploded outward from beneath her feet.
In the blink of an eye, it swept across a radius of two hundred meters.
An enormous cage rose from the ground.
Lin Chuan, Zhang Lexuan, and Tang Hao were all swallowed inside.
But that wasn't all.
Directly above the curtain of light, a blood moon condensed out of thin air.
Its scarlet light pressed down so heavily that it was hard to breathe.
"Is this... a domain?"
Tang Hao's pupils shook, and fear began to take hold.
He hurriedly tried to work out a way to break free.
Outside, he might still have had a slim chance of escaping.
Now that he was trapped inside.
The accounting of life and death was truly out of his hands.
He gritted his teeth.
He was just about to forcefully use Ring Detonation and fight for his life.
But then...
Tang Hao was dumbfounded.
The Soul Power inside him was evaporating at an alarming rate.
Like a broken, leaking bucket, he couldn't hold on to any of it.
Even more absurdly.
He couldn't summon his Martial Soul.
His Soul Rings showed no response.
From head to toe, he had been stripped clean.
"Impossible... absolutely impossible!"
"How could such a shameless domain exist? This can't be real. It must all be fake."
Tang Hao staggered backward like a madman.
His foot stumbled.
The once supremely arrogant Clear Sky Douluo collapsed onto his backside.
He had completely broken down.
Then again...
Who the fuck wouldn't break down in his place?
This domain was practically a cheat, pure and simple foul play.
Dragged into this damned place, he couldn't summon his Soul Rings or his Martial Soul, and even his Soul Power was pouring away.
Who wouldn't fall apart?
Who wouldn't curse up a storm?
Lin Chuan was still pondering how to deal with Tang Hao when his vision blurred, and his entire body was dragged straight into a separate space.
Sensing the changes around him, his eyelids twitched, and a trace of surprise crossed his face.
Inside this space, Lin Chuan could clearly feel the Soul Power within him leaking out bit by bit, like water from a broken pipe.
This domain is pretty sinister.
Catching Lin Chuan's astonished expression, Zhang Lexuan's beauty capable of toppling cities and kingdoms lit up with a smile, and she explained:
"After you resurrected me, not only did my level rise, but the ages of my Soul Rings increased too. I also figured out a domain on my own."
"It's called Lunar Eclipse Cage · Eternal Night Moon Burial."
"This domain is pretty special. Everyone who enters except me has their Soul Power drained. And that's not all. They can't summon their Soul Rings or Martial Souls, let alone use Soul Skills."
"Of course, it's not impossible to counter. If someone's stronger than me, or about as strong, their Soul Power drains more slowly. They certainly won't be rendered completely useless like Tang Hao."
"And that's not its only effect. It also provides a boost. On this turf, all my attributes directly double. And there's more-I can detonate this domain whenever I want."
"How powerful is it? Probably about the same as the Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation. Oh, no, actually, a bit stronger."
"And not only is it more powerful, but I won't suffer any negative effects either. So this domain is a little unfair, but I like it."
After hearing this, Lin Chuan's eyelids kept twitching. He was too shocked to speak.
This was pure cheating.
To put it plainly, this was an invincible domain.
Once you were dragged inside, your Soul Power poured away, you couldn't summon your Martial Soul or Soul Rings, and you could forget about Soul Skills entirely.
How the hell were you supposed to fight that?
Even more absurdly, if she encountered someone at the same level, the moment they brought out their Martial Soul and prepared to exchange a few moves, Zhang Lexuan could simply detonate her domain.
Whatever Soul Skill you had, she'd scatter you along with your ashes.
How was that not cheating?
Still.
It didn't matter.
Zhang Lexuan was one of his people. Naturally, the stronger his people were, the happier he was.
Besides, after turning it over in his head just now, he had already figured out how to deal with Tang Hao.
Torment Tang Hao a little first...
Give Tang Hao hope first, then give him despair.
Simply perfect...
His thoughts flowed freely now.
Lin Chuan glanced at Tang Hao, who had completely fallen apart across from him, and grinned, the corners of his mouth curling upward.
He spoke unhurriedly:
"I can spare your life."
"But though you can escape death, you can't escape punishment. Cripple one of your own arms and one of your legs, and I'll let you go."
Tang Hao had only just forcibly pulled himself out of the shock of that damned domain, and his head was still buzzing.
Then Lin Chuan's words crashed down, sending all the blood in his body surging into his head with a boom. His eyes instantly turned crimson.
He glared fixedly at Lin Chuan, trembling uncontrollably from head to toe.
"You fucking..."
"How is that any different from killing me outright?"
He roared aloud.
Lin Chuan shrugged indifferently and sneered:
"There's a world of difference."
"At least you'll still be breathing, and you'll still get to see tomorrow's sun, won't you?"
"All right, I don't have time for your bullshit."
"I'll count to three. If you haven't answered by then, there's no need for you to stay alive."
"Three."
"Two..."
Hearing Lin Chuan about to reach one, Tang Hao's scalp prickled, and he panicked on the spot.
Without even turning the thought over in his head, he shouted:
"Fine, I agree! One arm, one leg. I'll cut them off."
He truly had no other choice.
He couldn't win by force, and begging got him nowhere.
Compared to his life, what the hell did losing those two parts matter?
As long as the green hills remained, there would be no fear of running out of firewood.
Besides, even if he truly became a cripple, Tang Hao wasn't without a fallback.
The way to recover was simple.
Ah Yin's Soul Bone.
He had originally intended to save that Soul Bone for Tang San.
Now?
Tang Hao declared outright:
Little San, Dad's sorry.
Your dad's body is more precious than anything else.
"At least you know what's good for you."
Hearing Tang Hao's aggrieved compromise, Lin Chuan nodded in satisfaction.
Then Lin Chuan waved his little hand through the air, and a large chopping blade appeared in it.
Clang.
He tossed the large chopping blade straight down in front of Tang Hao.
One thing was worth mentioning.
The blade was covered in rust.
Not even the slightest cold gleam could be found along its edge. It was so mottled that it looked as though it had just been dug out of a scrapyard.
Staring fixedly at the rusty, battered chopping blade on the ground, Tang Hao's eyelids twitched wildly.
His cheek muscles spasmed, and despite himself, the corners of his mouth twitched violently.
This little bastard...
He must have been planning this for ages, right?
He even prepared this busted chopping blade beforehand, just waiting here for me to walk into his trap?
After all, what normal person carried a rusty chopping blade around in their Storage Soul Tool?
It was too absurd.
And that wasn't even the most absurd part.
Could this rusty chopping blade, dull as it was, really cut off a leg?
Was he trying to make me die of pain?
It was truly too humiliating...
To think that he, the mighty Clear Sky Douluo, hadn't felt this humiliated even when facing three Titled Douluos from Spirit Hall years ago.
But now?
He was like a lamb awaiting slaughter, at another's mercy.