"Dragon Emperor Domain-Shaking Realm!"
Mu En clenched his dragon claw fiercely, unleashing his signature combat technique outright. The instant those three shadows had appeared, his keen senses had caught the heavy stench of blood on Huo Yuhao.
And within that bloody stench was a scent he knew well, like that of an Evil Soul Master.
No, to be precise, he was an Evil Soul Master.
Mu En instantly felt certain. No wonder Huo Yuhao was so powerful. He was an Evil Soul Master after all.
To think even an Evil Soul Master could win Ancestor Tang San's appreciation. His Martial Soul must be extremely unusual!
As Mu En thought this, the Soul Power in his hands erupted at full force, and his courage immediately returned. His two great combat techniques were the bane of Evil Soul Masters. When the time came, he only needed to hold back a little and leave him alive to fulfill his assignment.
A smug smile immediately appeared on his aged face. Its wrinkles bunched together in layer upon layer, squeezing his face out of human shape and making it utterly revolting.
But the very next second, he was dumbfounded.
Huo Yuhao charged straight out of the ring of light. As he twisted, the longsword in his hand traced an arc through the air, leaving a dazzling sword trail.
The shadows in the other three directions immediately made the same motion, charging toward Mu En in unison.
Impossible!
Mu En was stunned. There was nothing wrong with his perception, so how on earth had Huo Yuhao charged out?!
This completely exceeded his imagination.
Over more than two hundred years, how many Evil Soul Masters had he destroyed with this move? Why had it stopped working today?
With no time to think further, Mu En abruptly shot upward toward the Golden Ancient Tree, trying to shake Huo Yuhao's lock on him.
"Old man, can't we enjoy ourselves a little? I haven't even started having fun!"
Huo Yuhao moved his fingers, and countless fine silver glimmers suddenly flashed through the space around them, twisting ceaselessly in the air. Dense as a net, they covered the sky above the entire Sea God Island and swept toward Mu En to bind him.
A closer look revealed countless threads. They stabbed relentlessly toward Mu En in the air, moving so fast that even the eye could no longer track them.
Huo Yuhao kept waving his arms. The threads in the air danced with his fingers, closing in on Mu En from incomparably bizarre angles.
Mu En condensed multiple balls of lightning in his hands and bombarded the great net of fine threads, yet he failed to break even a single strand. He could only spread his spiritual power and keep dodging through the air.
The lightning balls struck the threads again and again, then continued toward the ground without any obstruction.
Crater after crater blasted open across Sea God Island. In some places, the soil melted outright, and magma-like liquid sprayed in all directions. The surrounding grass was scorched so black it was unbearable to look at.
Dormitories in the Golden Ancient Tree were blasted to pieces by the balls of lightning. Half of Sea God Island became a sea of flames, staining the pitch-black curtain of light red.
"What on earth is this? How can it be so tough?!"
Mu En was utterly panicked now. Huo Yuhao's methods were clearly so limited, yet he had no way whatsoever to counter his moves. It was unbearably stifling!
Dense threads had already wound around the trunk of the Golden Ancient Tree, yet the threads in Huo Yuhao's hands seemed endless, extending continuously from his cuffs.
These threads had only one target: Mu En in the air.
Huo Yuhao circulated his Soul Power and abruptly took flight, turning into a streak of purple light that shot into the sky in pursuit of Mu En.
His hands never stopped. As the threads continued to close in, Mu En had less and less room to move.
Mu En fled ceaselessly through the air, immediately darting through whenever he spotted a large gap between the threads.
As time passed, he noticed that fewer and fewer gaps appeared, and his room to maneuver kept shrinking.
No, if this keeps up, I'll definitely have nowhere left to dodge.
Mu En shifted his gaze toward Xuan Zi below.
At that moment, Xuan Zi was surrounded by Zhang Lexuan and the other three. Unable to contend with them at all, he could only keep dodging and defending against their attacks.
Zhang Lexuan's moonlight continuously fired terrifying rays. Xuan Zi could only raise an earthen-yellow barrier to block them before dodging in panic.
Terrifying Ultimate Fire had completely surrounded him as well, forming a ring of flames in the air. The moment Xuan Zi approached, the ultimate flames would erupt.
If he charged out regardless of the consequences, even if he survived, he would lose a layer of skin!
Tang Ya hurled Soul Skills from her hands as though her life depended on it. The Eight Spider Lances behind her had even sliced through Xuan Zi's skin, sending their deadly poison into his body. The depths of Xuan Zi's eyes were already pitch-black; presumably, he was already deeply poisoned.
Had he not been suppressing it with his cultivation as a Limit Douluo, he would probably have already lost the ability to fight.
Jiang Nannan, an agility-attack type, harassed him from the surroundings as well. The moment Xuan Zi let his guard down, she would immediately attack, denying him any chance to catch his breath!
Mu En shook his head helplessly. Turning into a streak of light, he sped through the space around the Golden Ancient Tree, searching for an opportunity to counterattack.
"Old man, sometimes getting distracted... isn't a good thing!"
A crazed, laughing voice suddenly rang out behind Mu En, making his heart clench!
The breath of death instantly enveloped him, and his mind raced wildly.
When? I clearly only glanced toward Xuan Zi. To think even my spiritual power failed to catch Huo Yuhao's movements.
Huo Yuhao had actually appeared directly behind him.
The threat of death finally roused the combat instincts he had possessed a hundred years ago, and the spiritual power in his mind abruptly erupted.
King's Landing!
His unique spiritual attack transformed directly into an invisible dragon claw that struck behind him, and then his body twisted strangely.
His Soul Power changed direction in an instant, and he plunged toward the ground, abruptly opening the distance between himself and Huo Yuhao.
Under the threat of life and death, these movements took less than half a second. He instantly left his original position and launched a counterattack.
"So this is a Limit Douluo? A little interesting, but if that's all you've got, you can be on your way."
The Soul Power flames flickering in the airborne Huo Yuhao's pupils shone brightly. Like ghost fire, those purple flames stood out starkly against the dark sky, as though he were an evil ghost from hell about to begin harvesting souls.
Huo Yuhao was already bored. Mu En did nothing but flee. Even that last desperate counterattack had felt like nothing more than a scratch to him.
The excitement within his body slowly ebbed away, and Huo Yuhao lost all interest.
Mu En's heart jolted violently!
He no longer dared hold anything back and activated his Martial Soul Avatar outright.
Mu En's figure vanished entirely. The space behind him suddenly split open, and an enormous golden dragon claw emerged from the terrifying turbulence of space and time. It seized the edge of the spatial rift and violently tore it open!
An enormous golden dragon head thrust out, its scarlet slit pupils staring at Huo Yuhao in the air, its killing intent locking directly onto him.
Then a terrifying dragon body burst out of the space. Its immense wings spread, each at least fifty meters long. As they beat in midair, they immediately whipped up countless hurricanes, indiscriminately destroying everything on the ground!
The hundred-meter-long dragon flew out completely. Finally, its tail flicked lightly behind it, stirring up the spatial rift. The tail swung again like an enormous hammer, smashing the originally raging spatial rift to pieces!
Huo Yuhao's heart, which had settled down, slowly began to accelerate. He had something to play with again.
"Nothing to do today but slay a dragon!"
Laughing loudly, Huo Yuhao turned in midair and charged straight toward the Golden Sacred Dragon Mu En had become.
The threads in his hand anchored themselves in the air. Freeing his left hand, Huo Yuhao abruptly gathered boundless Soul Power and threw a punch!
The Golden Sacred Dragon watched Huo Yuhao charge toward him, his dragon eyes full of mockery at that toothpick-like arm.
Countless streams of light energy gathered in his jaws as he prepared to release his dragon breath.
At that very moment, Huo Yuhao's fist slammed into the Golden Sacred Dragon's body!
Boom!
Terrifying punching force erupted, and the Golden Sacred Dragon's brain froze outright. His condensed dragon breath sprayed uncontrollably toward the Golden Ancient Tree, leaving faint marks on its bark.
The dark-purple energy possessed tremendous penetrating power. A pillar of purple light shot skyward, passing straight across the Golden Ancient Tree's crown and piercing the black canopy overhead without stopping. It lasted a full two seconds before slowly weakening.
Under that terrifying force, the entire dragon body abruptly hurtled skyward. Countless threads scraped across his scales, sending countless sparks flying. The threads cut into the Golden Sacred Dragon's body, and golden blood sprayed out in torrents!
A closer look revealed that the Golden Sacred Dragon was hanging in midair. A hole more than ten meters in diameter had appeared in his chest, and golden blood poured from it like a waterfall!
Only charcoal-like traces remained of the immense crown, with thick black smoke continuously drifting out...
The Golden Ancient Tree's crown had actually vanished entirely!