Ultimate Light

The three Grandmaster had been searching the Sunset Forest all night.

Luo Sanpao ran in the lead, his slightly chubby purple body close to the ground, his nose twitching constantly. Every now and then he would turn back and call out to Yu Xiaogang before continuing to run forward.

Flender pushed aside the bushes blocking his way and whispered to Liu Erlong, "That kid Wang Xingyu has done the Grandmaster a great service."

Liu Erlong nodded, "The three of us are one. You have done Xiaogang a great favor, so you have done me a favor too!"

Before the Grandmaster could say anything more, a sinister voice suddenly came from the treetop above. "I heard you're looking for me?" The three of them looked up sharply.

Dugu Bo sat on a tree branch, his long, dark green hair hanging down his shoulders, his emerald green pupils gleaming slightly in the moonlight.

Liu Erlong clenched her fist instantly, her Soul Power surging, and pointed at her opponent, "Dugu Bo, where did you take Wang Xingyu and Tang San!"

Flender stepped forward, placed his hand on Liu Erlong's shoulder, looked up at Dugu Bo, and said in a steady voice, "Poison Douluo, if you're interested in Tang San's detoxification abilities, we can sit down and talk. Make your demands, but please don't harm my two students."

Dugu Bo looked down at them, a slow smile creeping onto his lips. "Sorry, I've already killed them both."

"What?" Yu Xiaogang's pupils contracted sharply. Flender's glasses reflected the moonlight, and his voice turned cold. "Dugu Bo, you're asking for death!"

"I'm courting death?" Dugu Bo laughed, having heard another amusing joke. "With just the two of you Soul Saint and a useless Soul Grandmaster who's barely level 30?"

Liu Erlong and Flender both looked at Yu Xiaogang.

Their eyes met, and without hesitation or retreat, they nodded almost simultaneously. A triangular formation instantly took shape, and three streams of Soul Power flowed rapidly between them. Golden light suddenly burst forth from beneath their feet, illuminating the entire dark forest as if it were daytime.

Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Sun and Moon Radiance, Golden Transformation.

Luo Sanpao raised his head and roared, his slightly plump purple body swallowed by golden light.

Amidst the golden light, its body suddenly elongated, its purple fur transformed into brilliant golden scales, a pair of enormous dragon wings unfurled from its back, its head held high, and its golden pupils blazing like two suns.

A Golden Sacred Dragon, thirty meters long, soared into the Air Break and hovered above Sunset Forest, its wings creating a powerful wind that shook countless leaves to the ground.

This is the majesty of the dragon race, a miracle forged by the Golden Iron Triangle with their lifelong bond.

Dugu Bo looked up at the golden dragon circling in the moonlight, his eyebrows slightly raised.

"Oh, that's interesting."

He stretched out his right hand, and his Seventh Soul Ring suddenly lit up— the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar.

He transformed into a forty-meter-long Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, its dark green scales gleaming with a chilling light under the moonlight. The Serpent King's vertical pupils slowly locked onto the Golden Sacred Dragon in the sky.

The two colossal beasts confronted each other in mid-air. The Golden Sacred Dragon launched the first attack, its mouth opening wide and a scorching golden dragon breath gushing towards the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

Wherever the dragon's breath passed, the air was scorched and slightly distorted. The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor dodged to the side, its tail sweeping across with a foul wind, but the Golden Sacred Dragon dodged with agility disproportionate to its enormous size, drawing a golden line in the air and circling to the side of the Serpent King before unleashing another dragon breath.

The aura of the sacred dragon has a natural suppressive effect on poison; the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's poisonous mist was completely purified as soon as it approached the golden dragon breath.

Relying on its aerial advantage, the Golden Sacred Dragon launched a relentless attack, forcing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to retreat repeatedly.

Dugu Bo frowned inside the Serpent King's body. He didn't want to use a more powerful Soul Skill to directly crush it, as that would damage the medicine garden.

His serpentine eyes narrowed slightly, and a layer of grayish-white light emanated from his head— Medusa Skull Skill, Medusa's Gaze. A grayish-white ray shot out from the Serpent King's eyes, freezing the air in its path into grayish-white stone dust, heading straight for the Golden Sacred Dragon.

"Boom--" A deafening explosion rang out as Luo Sanpao's Soul Skill, Heaven-Shaking, Earth-Splitting, precisely collided with the Medusa Ray. The two energies exploded in the air, and the shockwave ripped away swathes of trees in the surrounding area.

Dugu Bo's serpentine eyes narrowed slightly. "You blocked it the first time, but can you block it a second time?"

Another Medusa's Gaze has already formed in the Serpent King's eyes.

Yu Xiaogang's voice rang out, deep and firm.

"Golden Sacred Dragon, Ultimate Secret - Sacred Dragon True Form, Dragon Roar!" The Golden Sacred Dragon roared to the sky, golden sound waves spreading from its mouth, carrying the purifying power of the sacred dragon race against all evil, and crushing towards the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

Dugu Bo sneered and activated Medusa's Gaze once more.

The gray-white ray collided with the golden Dragon Roar. This time, the gray-white ray didn't even last a moment before being swallowed up by the Dragon Roar.

The Dragon Roar's roar, still powerful, hurtled towards the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor with a world-destroying force. Dugu Bo's pupils contracted sharply—he had underestimated the true power of this sacred dragon.

"Eighth Soul Skill - Frozen Time." The space around the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor suddenly solidified. The golden sound wave that was about to hit the Serpent King's face, along with the rubble and dust that were kicked up, was all frozen in place. Time stopped flowing at this moment.

Yu Xiaogang and the other two remained motionless, surrounded by black and white. Dugu Bo clapped his hands and stepped out of the frozen time, his dark green hair standing out starkly against the black and white world.

"Brilliant, brilliant. You should be proud to have pushed me to this point."

He looked at the three people before him, a hint of regret flashing in his emerald green snake eyes. "But now you can die."

He raised his hand, and a dark green Soul Power condensed at his fingertips—just then, Yu Xiaogang's eyelids twitched. It wasn't a struggle, nor a tremor, but a natural opening.

He broke free from the black and white world, and a very faint yet pure light shone from his body.

The light wasn't dazzling, but it gradually pushed back the surrounding stillness, causing the color of withered leaves to reappear on the ground.

"I don't think the three of us will die here." Yu Xiaogang's voice was calm, yet carried an unprecedented lightness. "And I've never felt so refreshed."

A beam of light emanated from him, enveloping Flender and Liu Erlong. The two broke free from the time freeze. Liu Erlong was the first to look at Yu Xiaogang, her voice filled with barely suppressed surprise. "Xiaogang, you've broken through to level 30?"

Flender looked over as well, his eyes wide behind his glasses.

Yu Xiaogang nodded. "That's right, Sanpao and I have broken through to level 30. Thank you both."

He looked at the two men before him, one hot-tempered, the other stingy, who had been with him since his youth. "Now, the real battle begins."

Flender and Liu Erlong exchanged a glance. "Haha, alright, let's show this Old Poison the true skills of our Golden Iron Triangle."

Dugu Bo withdrew his hand, his expression turning truly serious for the first time. "How did you break free from my eighth Soul Skill?"

"Dugu Bo," Yu Xiaogang raised his head, his gaze meeting those emerald green snake eyes, "The worst decision you made was hurting both of them."

He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Ultimate Attribute, Ultimate Light! Light Shroud!"

The Golden Sacred Dragon roared to the sky, breaking free from Dugu Bo's eighth Soul Skill, and its entire scales erupted with dazzling golden light.

That light was neither dragon breath nor Soul Skill; it was pure, ultimate light—of the same origin and quality as the faint light emanating from Yu Xiaogang's body.

Under the Light Shroud, the dark green frozen time melted away as quickly as morning mist under the sun, without struggle or resistance, just as something that belonged to the daytime finally awaited the dawn.

With a soft cracking sound, the dark green Soul Power barrier beneath Dugu Bo's feet crumbled inch by inch, shattering into countless points of light that dissipated into the air.

Dugu Bo stood amidst the dissipating fragments of the barrier, looking up at the sky above him, which was shrouded in golden light, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, good! Good! I haven't felt this good in years!" He withdrew his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar and transformed back into a man with long, dark green hair. His emerald green serpent eyes burned with an unprecedented fighting spirit. His Soul Power was no longer suppressed, and he no longer cared about the surrounding environment. The full aura of Titled Douluo crushed outwards like a collapsing mountain.

"Today I will cast aside all my reservations and fight you all properly!"