BOOM-!!!
Five Titled Douluo-level attacks descended almost simultaneously.
Ice.
Sword light.
The Coiling Dragon Staff.
Venomous stingers.
In an instant, they all slammed into the Ebon Deer of Abundance's enormous body!
Heaven and earth lost their color.
A terrifying storm of Soul Power exploded in an instant.
The ground for hundreds of meters beneath the Ebon Deer collapsed with a thunderous crash, and houses, paving stones, and vines were all torn to shreds.
The shock wave swept across the entire battlefield like a tsunami!
"Fall back!"
"Block it!"
The low-ranking Soul Masters evacuating civilians on the outskirts paled.
They all released their Martial Souls.
Barriers of Soul Power rose hastily, one after another.
Yet even though they were already far from the main battlefield, the aftershocks still forced them to retreat again and again.
Some Soul Elders even sank both legs into the ground, straining with all their might just to avoid being sent flying.
At the center of the battlefield.
Dust billowed into the sky.
The Ebon Deer was completely hidden from sight.
Chen Xin descended from high above.
The Seven Kill Sword returned to its normal size, held in his hand.
He landed beside Guang Ling, his gaze fixed on the scene below.
"That strike."
"Did it kill that deer?"
Guang Ling did not answer.
He merely glanced down.
At the edge of the ruins.
Lin Yuan still stood there.
The Imperial Bow was drawn.
His fourth Soul Ring shone brilliantly.
The blue-green arrow was still continuously taking shape.
He had not released the string.
Guang Ling's gaze darkened slightly.
"Not necessarily."
Chen Xin frowned.
The next moment.
The dust slowly dispersed.
Everyone's gaze fell on the center at once.
Then-
Silence.
The Ebon Deer of Abundance was still standing.
Its body was already a gruesome sight.
One antler had been severed by the Seven Kill Sword.
Great swaths of flesh had been frozen and shattered by the ice.
The Coiling Dragon Staff had blasted a horrifyingly enormous wound into its chest and abdomen.
Purplish-black poison spread wildly through its flesh.
An ordinary Soul Beast subjected to such attacks.
Should have died ten times over.
But the Ebon Deer had not fallen.
Instead-
Its wounds were writhing.
Torn flesh grew anew.
Shattered bones rapidly reconnected.
Even the base of its severed antler sprouted new, pale-golden buds.
In just a few breaths.
Those near-fatal wounds actually healed at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Chen Xin's pupils contracted slightly.
"What kind of regenerative ability is this?"
In the distance.
Yao Kurong, who was being driven back step by step by Snake Lance Douluo, suddenly burst into laughter at the sight.
"Hahahahaha!"
"It's useless!"
His hair was disheveled, and blood still clung to the corner of his mouth.
Yet his expression was fanatical to the extreme.
"The Sacred Deer is a sacred treasure bestowed upon our holy church by Lord Medicine King!"
"As long as life endures!"
"The Sacred Deer shall never die!"
"You mere mortals-"
"How could you possibly kill the Ebon Deer!"
Snake Lance's gaze abruptly turned cold.
"You're fighting this old man."
"Yet you still dare let your attention wander?"
Yao Kurong's expression changed.
Snake Lance was already upon him.
His lance swept across!
BANG!
Yao Kurong was sent flying sideways once again.
His body smashed through a ruined house and plowed a furrow dozens of meters long through the rubble.
"Pfft!"
Blood sprayed from his mouth.
Snake Lance rested his lance on his shoulder.
"You talk too much."
Elsewhere.
Guang Ling stared fixedly at the regenerating Ebon Deer.
His brows had already drawn together.
Their attacks could hurt it.
The problem was-
They could not kill it.
If this continued.
Their Soul Power would run out sooner or later.
While this monster would only recover again and again.
Just then.
A faint wisp of flowing blue light.
Drifted past Guang Ling's eyes.
Guang Ling froze.
Chen Xin raised his head at the very same instant.
A second wisp.
A third.
More and more starlight emerged between heaven and earth.
It was not Soul Power.
Nor was it any element they knew.
The starlight seemed to have crossed a vast distance, falling silently from the farthest reaches of the heavens.
The Titled Douluo abruptly turned their heads.
Lin Yuan was still holding his bow drawn.
But at that moment.
The blue-green arrow in his hand had changed completely.
Countless streams of starlight were converging from every direction.
One wisp.
Ten wisps.
A hundred wisps.
In the end, even the stars hidden beneath the daylight seemed to be casting their light onto that arrow.
The Imperial Bow hummed softly.
Humm-
The sound was not loud.
Yet it made everyone's soul tremble at once.
For the first time, the Seven Kill Sword in Chen Xin's hand trembled of its own accord.
Guang Ling's Light Feather Divine Bow even let out a low hum.
Not out of fear.
But in submission to a bow of a higher order.
Immediately afterward.
The space behind Lin Yuan began to twist.
A phantom.
Slowly manifested.
Towering.
Distant.
Standing amid a sea of stars that seemed not to exist in this world.
No one could make out His face.
They could not even truly raise their heads to look directly at Him.
All they could see was-
A bow.
And an arrow nocked on its string.
That figure held the exact same pose as Lin Yuan.
Raising the bow.
Drawing the string.
The arrowhead-
Pointed at the Ebon Deer of Abundance.
Guang Ling's breath caught.
For the first time, the composure on Chen Xin's face finally vanished completely.
"This..."
No one answered.
But at that very moment, the Ebon Deer of Abundance abruptly raised its head.
It had seen it.
And sensed it.
"Yooo-!!!"
For the first time, its shrill cry carried unmistakable terror.
It reared up abruptly.
All four hooves slammed heavily into the ground.
BOOM!
The entire district shook violently.
The next instant.
The eerie plants that had spread throughout the surroundings all lit up at once.
Towering trees.
Vines.
Flowers.
All those plants spawned by the power of Abundance radiated a pale golden glow.
Wisps of rich vitality were drawn out of the plants.
They turned into streams of golden-green light.
And surged madly toward the Ebon Deer from every direction!
The vines severed by Sword Qi rapidly withered.
Leaves fell from the towering trees in great swathes.
The flowers wilted in an instant.
The life force stored within them-
Was all returning to the Ebon Deer!
The massive wound just blasted open in the Ebon Deer's chest rapidly closed.
Its broken antlers grew back.
Its presence even began to surge once more!
Lin Yuan's pupils contracted.
"It's absorbing those plants' life force!"
Guang Ling reacted instantly.
"Stop it!"
"Smash all those things to pieces!"
The icy-blue longbow was drawn again!
Guang Ling did not hesitate in the slightest.
Cold light instantly gathered across the sky.
"Loose!"
Boom!
Countless ice arrows suddenly rained down!
Like a torrential downpour of ice blanketing the district.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
The Abundance plants were pierced straight through, one after another.
Frost instantly coated their branches and trunks.
Before they could continue supplying life force, they froze solid and shattered!
Chen Xin raised his sword as well.
The Seven Kill Sword pointed to the heavens.
Sword intent soared into the sky.
The next moment.
Countless sword phantoms appeared behind him at once.
Ten.
A hundred.
A thousand!
They hung densely across the heavens.
"Ten Thousand Swords-"
Chen Xin abruptly brought his blade down.
"Return to the Origin!"
Hummm!!!
Hundreds upon thousands of streaks of sword light plunged at once!
Wherever they passed.
Towering trees were severed at the waist.
Vines shattered inch by inch.
Those golden-green plants that had only just lit up were torn into a sky full of fragments by the sword rain in the blink of an eye!
On the other side.
Qian Jun and Jiang Mo turned around at the same time.
Two Coiling Dragon Staffs slammed into the ground!
Violent Soul Power spread through the earth.
Boom!
Masses of roots were blasted out of the ground.
The next instant.
Both staffs swept across!
Dozens of towering trees shattered on the spot.
Pufferfish abruptly inflated his body.
Purple-black poisonous light gathered madly on his spikes.
"Now-"
"Rot!"
Venomous spikes shot out, filling the sky!
Once they pierced a plant.
Deadly poison spread instantly.
Branches and leaves that had been brimming with vitality rapidly blackened and rotted.
The flow of life force.
Was forcibly cut off.
For a time.
Across the entire battlefield.
A torrential downpour of ice!
Ten thousand swords falling together!
Coiling Dragon Staffs sweeping across!
Venomous spikes filling the sky!
The target of every Titled Douluo was no longer the Ebon Deer.
Instead-
It was to destroy every Abundance plant around it that could supply life force!