"You go save them, leave this to me!"
The Bone Douluo looked at the Black Firefly below with a serious expression. It was difficult for a normal Titled Douluo to break through his defenses, yet the Black Firefly, a Soul Emperor, had done it. Was this the terror of a 100,000-year soul ring?
The Bone Douluo didn't believe that a single 100,000-year soul ring could narrow the gap between a Soul Emperor and a Titled Douluo so drastically. Therefore, it must be due to her martial soul and other factors.
He glanced at the battle raging in the distance between the Black Jinhsi and Dugu Bo. Although Dugu Bo currently had the upper hand, it seemed it wouldn't be easy to completely defeat the Black Jinhsi in a short amount of time.
Her bizarre abilities—teleportation, time deceleration, status reset, and future prediction—shocked Dugu Bo more and more as the fight went on. He was feeling incredibly frustrated. His signature venom was completely useless against a being composed of negative energy. And his attacks couldn't kill the Black Jinhsi instantly. As long as there was a brief pause, the Black Jinhsi could reset her own status.
In terms of speed, the Black Jinhsi could move through the cracks of time, moving as fast as spatial teleportation. She could also predict his attacks and next moves to a certain extent. Dugu Bo had already taken a hit several times because his attacks were predicted in advance, and he had taken a few direct blows from her sword light.
The sword slashes were even more bizarre. It seemed like she was just casually swinging her sword, but at the same time, four slashes would come from different angles, making it impossible for him to dodge. He could only bite the bullet and endure them. If it weren't for his absolute advantage in soul power, he would have been killed instantly by that seemingly ordinary slash in an equal-level fight!
In this era, anyone who could break through to become a Titled Douluo was a prodigy, and all of them possessed a certain degree of arrogance. But Dugu Bo had to admit that the little girl opposite him had a talent that far surpassed his own. If they were at the same rank, he probably wouldn't even be able to see her back.
Although he understood that negative energy clones were usually more powerful than their main bodies, if this copy was so formidable, how weak could her main body be? Furthermore, that 100,000-year soul ring was genuine, so whatever the copy had, her main body must also possess.
He was filled with doubt, unable to understand where such an absurd Soul Emperor came from to be replicated by this point of defilement. Dugu Bo even began to wonder if the Douluo Continent in his memory was a fake one. He had lived on this continent for so many years and had never encountered such a ridiculous Soul Emperor.
Although the Black Jinhsi's overall combat power was probably at the Soul Douluo level, she was incredibly difficult to deal with. For Dugu Bo, fighting her was even more challenging than fighting another Titled Douluo.
Just as Dugu Bo was mired in a tough fight, the Bone Douluo also found himself in a difficult spot. A fiery red mark had appeared on him at some point. This mark didn't have any actual effect on him right now, but no matter what he tried, he couldn't get rid of it.
Immediately after, the Black Firefly leaped into the air like a cannonball, her 100,000-year red soul ring shining brightly as she kicked down toward the Bone Douluo.
Her Third Soul Skill, "Dead Star Overload," had applied a fire weakness to the Bone Douluo, and her Sixth Soul Skill, "Super Break, Starfall," turned her into a meteorite to deliver a destructive blow to her target.
Although the Bone Douluo wasn't sure what the red mark on his body did, his internal alarm bells rang. Without hesitation, he unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar. In an instant, a several-dozen-meter-long Bone Dragon Avatar materialized, radiating a dense black light to construct an indestructible defense.
The meteorite, formed by black-red flames, dragged a sonic boom cloud behind it as it slammed into the gigantic Bone Dragon Avatar with the force of a lightning bolt.
At this critical moment, the red mark on the Bone Dragon suddenly lit up, and the once-indestructible black soul power barrier crumbled as if it were made of paper. The Black Firefly's devastating kick landed squarely on the Bone Dragon's body without any resistance.
In an instant, the black-red flames spread, engulfing the Bone Dragon and turning it into a fire dragon that slammed into the ground. A massive shockwave spread from the point of impact, rippling hundreds of meters in all directions and kicking up a cloud of dust that blotted out the sun.
"Bone Uncle!" Ning Fengzhi's eyes widened in disbelief. In his mind, the Bone Douluo's defense was unmatched. Even the Sword Douluo would find it difficult to break through his defenses. But what had just happened completely shattered his perception.
This Peak-rank 95 Titled Douluo, known for his peerless defense, had not only been forced to use his Martial Soul Avatar, but his defenses had also been broken so easily.
Compared to Ning Fengzhi's shock, the Sword Douluo was much calmer. Although he was also stunned by the scene, he knew the Bone Douluo's true strength. He understood that while the Black Firefly's attack was powerful and had surprisingly broken through the Bone Douluo's defense, it was absolutely impossible for it to seriously injure him.
Just as the Sword Douluo had expected, a deafening dragon roar echoed through the valley. The Bone Dragon frantically flapped its huge bone wings, creating a storm of wind and sand. At the same time, sharp bone spikes shot up from the ground, instantly turning the hundreds-of-meters-wide area into a bone purgatory.
Seeing this, the Black Firefly threw a punch without hesitation. The terrifyingly high-temperature flames instantly turned her location into a pool of magma, successfully stopping the bone spikes from attacking. As a killing machine formed from negative energy, her intuition was astonishingly sharp, allowing her to instantly neutralize the Bone Douluo's fierce offensive.
Furthermore, her main body was an experienced veteran who had gone through countless battles, making her fighting experience incredibly rich. However, even so, the huge gap in soul power was a chasm that was ultimately difficult to cross. Although she had gained the upper hand and suppressed the Bone Douluo with surprise attacks and a soul skill that added a weakness, as long as she couldn't kill him instantly, it was only a matter of time before she lost once the Bone Douluo recovered.
However, in this point of defilement, the one thing she wasn't lacking was companions. And as a being with only a killing instinct and no sentience, she naturally had no concept of a one-on-one fight.
And so, a silver dragon spear, accompanied by the sharp sound of cutting through the air, arrived at the top of the giant Bone Dragon's head like a bolt of lightning.
"Crack!" With a crisp sound of cracking bone, the Bone Douluo's hard dragon bone, struck by the silver dragon spear, shattered instantly. At the same time, he clearly felt his life force and soul power being frantically devoured by the silver dragon spear. Luckily, in his Martial Soul Avatar state, his body was massive, so the shattering of some of his dragon bone didn't cause him a fatal injury. But this scene was still horrifying. If the spear had hit his head, even though it was his most heavily defended part, he doubted he would have been able to withstand the power of the silver dragon spear.
Lu Jingming, who was watching all of this from a distance, couldn't help but twitch his mouth slightly. This Planetary Will was truly a big spender; it had even copied a divine tool.
The silver dragon girl, in her Martial Soul Fusion state, was surrounded by various elemental orbs of light that spun rapidly and emitted a dazzling radiance. She also had a soul ring configuration of two purple, three black, and one red. She and the Black Firefly were now working together, locked in an intense entanglement with the Bone Douluo.
The Silver Dragon Martial Soul could be considered the pinnacle of true dragon martial souls. Although the Bone Douluo's martial soul was a mutated bone dragon that could control spatial power, his strength was still weakened to a certain extent under the suppression of the silver dragon's powerful dragon might.
In this situation, a mighty Peak Titled Douluo was being temporarily held back by two Soul Emperors. Not only that, but the Black March 7th in the distance was also occasionally shooting sneak attacks, causing the battle to enter a stalemate.
"Sword Uncle!" Ning Fengzhi's brows furrowed tightly. The situation had developed far beyond his expectations. This point of defilement was too bizarre. The negative energy creatures that had appeared, in terms of their rank, did conform to the strength of a new point of defilement; the strongest was only a Soul Emperor, and no Soul Sages had appeared yet. But the combat power they were displaying was simply unbelievable.
Who would have thought that a Soul Emperor could fight a Titled Douluo, and even hold their own? This was something they had never even dared to imagine before.
The Sword Douluo had remained still, secretly protecting Ning Fengzhi, Xue Qinghe, and the others in case of any unexpected events. Furthermore, he could see from the battle that although the situation was in a stalemate, with enough time, both Dugu Bo and the Bone Douluo would eventually emerge victorious.
However, Ning Fengzhi felt that they couldn't just wait around any longer. The Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda glowed with a brilliant seven-colored light. Several colored rays shot out from the pagoda, landing on the Poison Douluo, Bone Douluo, Sword Douluo, and the others.
As the Sect Master of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, Ning Fengzhi was far more powerful than Ning Rongrong. He had long reached the realm of the Seven Orifices Glazed Heart, which allowed him to cast seven soul skills on seven targets simultaneously. With the support of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's auxiliary soul skills, Dugu Bo felt his soul power, spiritual power, and his offensive and defensive capabilities all skyrocket.
"Hahaha, is this the power of the number one auxiliary martial soul in the world? This old man has truly experienced it today." Dugu Bo laughed heartily, finally experiencing the treatment that the Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo enjoyed on a daily basis.
At the same time, his eighth soul ring glowed, and he activated his Eighth Soul Skill, "Time Condensation." A green ripple centered on him quickly expanded, reaching the Black Jinhsi in an instant. The Black Jinhsi wasn't afraid of a control soul skill that touched upon the laws of time; after all, she herself had the ability to manipulate time. However, Dugu Bo knew this, which was why he hadn't used this powerful control soul skill before.
But with the strong support of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, his Eighth Soul Skill's power had been greatly enhanced. Even the Black Jinhsi, who could manipulate time, couldn't help but pause for a moment. In that fleeting instant, Dugu Bo didn't hesitate to activate his head soul bone skill, the Gaze of Medusa. A petrifying light shot out like an arrow, instantly landing on the stiff body of the Black Jinhsi. In a flash, gray petrification patterns spread with astonishing speed. In just a few seconds, the Black Jinhsi was completely petrified and fell from a hundred meters in the air.
The completely petrified Black Jinhsi would inevitably be shattered into a thousand pieces upon impact. Although her actual combat power was not to be underestimated, her soul power cultivation was only at the Soul Emperor level, so her resistance to soul skills was limited. Not to mention, Dugu Bo's strength had been greatly enhanced by the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's all-around amplification.
Not only did Dugu Bo benefit, but the Bone Douluo's aura also suddenly soared under the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's blessing. In an instant, countless bone spikes shot out from the void like a torrential rain, forcing the Black Firefly and Black Silver Wolf to retreat, unable to resist.
Witnessing the main battlefield's situation reverse, everyone's eyes lit up, and their morale instantly surged. In a moment, the light from their soul rings illuminated the entire valley like brilliant stars. A dazzling array of soul skills were cast one after another, and a large group of black-armored soldiers were quickly wiped out in this tidal wave of attacks.
However, unlike the others, Lu Jingming's eyes were fixed on the Black March 7th and the Black Robin. Others might not know much about their soul skills, but Lu Jingming knew them like the back of his hand.
Sure enough, the Black March 7th's fifth soul ring glowed brightly. She nocked an arrow and shot it at the petrified Black Jinhsi. The ice-blue light arrow landed on the petrified Black Jinhsi like a shooting star, then transformed into specks of light that melted into her body.
In an instant, the gray petrification patterns covering the Black Jinhsi quickly receded, and she was instantly freed from her petrified state. This was March 7th's Fifth Soul Skill, "Pristine Vow," which could not only cleanse negative statuses but also provide powerful defensive capabilities.
At the same time, a sky-ring slowly appeared above the Black Robin's head, and a pair of pure white wings unfolded on her back. As a series of melodious songs rang out, soul-power-condensed musical notes materialized out of thin air, falling on the Black Jinhsi, Black Firefly, and the others.
The Black Robin cast her three main soul skills one after another: "Wingspan Chorus," "Feathered Aria," and "Sky-Ring's Echo," to comprehensively enhance her teammates' attributes. The effect was even more significant than the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's.
Then, she activated her Fourth Soul Skill, "Concert of a Thousand Voices." In an instant, the fifth soul rings on the Black Firefly and the others all turned blood red, temporarily upgrading to 100,000-year soul rings.
Following that, her Fifth Soul Skill, "Starry Fugue," also took effect on the Black Silver Wolf and the others. Their auras erupted, and their soul power cultivation rapidly increased, quickly breaking through the Soul Sage barrier. Each of them gained a red seventh soul ring that represented the power of a Soul Sage.
Finally, her Sixth Soul Skill, "Key and Harmony," created a soul power network, tightly connecting all her teammates. As long as one person consumed soul power, the other teammates in the network would recover ten percent of an equal amount of soul power.
Under the Black Robin's powerful support, the entire "Black Team" successfully broke through to the Soul Sage rank, once again showcasing a terrifying dominance. Dugu Bo, who had already used his Martial Soul Avatar and turned into a hundred-meter-long Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor, was being completely suppressed on the ground by the Black Jinhsi, who had transformed into a Chronos Dragon.
The massive mech, which was over fifty meters long and covered in black-red flames, condensed a huge emerald-green longsword in its hands. A several-hundred-meter-long sword light slashed down. Under the high-temperature slash, a shocking sword mark was left on the Bone Douluo's giant bone dragon body. The beautiful but black-aura-clad silver dragon, though tainted with blackness, still had a noble aura. Its claws were tightly gripping the Bone Douluo's bone wing, as if to tear it off.
The change in the battle was too fast. From the moment Ning Fengzhi cast the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda to buff the Bone Douluo and the others, to the Black Robin casting her support skills to help the Black Jinhsi and others, allowing them all to break through to the Soul Sage rank and use their Martial Soul Avatars, only a few minutes had passed.
"Fengzhi, you all must be careful!"
The Sword Douluo could no longer sit still. After a quick word of caution, the Seven Kill Sword appeared in his hand, and his figure instantly vanished.
The moment the Sword Douluo disappeared, the white-haired boy on the black throne suddenly opened his eyes.
The Seven Kill Sword intent, now solidified on the longsword, turned blood red in an instant and appeared before the Black Robin in a flash. As someone who had directly experienced the effects of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's support, the Sword Douluo knew very well that the reason the situation had suddenly turned against them was due to the Black Robin. Therefore, his target was the Black Robin from the very beginning.
After all, from the current situation, the Black Robin's displayed support abilities seemed to have surpassed Ning Fengzhi's. Although it was hard to believe, seeing the suppressed Poison Douluo and Bone Douluo, everyone had to accept this fact.
Just as the sword light flashed, the Black Butterfly, who had been guarding not far from the Black Robin, also opened her eyes. She held a black-aura-clad purple scythe and swung a sharp purple blade of light, instantly meeting the blood-red sword light.
The sword light and the blade of light collided fiercely, creating an invisible shockwave, and the Sword Douluo's figure reappeared. The Sword Douluo looked at the girl who had successfully blocked his attack, then looked down at the purple aura that was binding his legs. He frowned tightly.
It turned out that the moment the Sword Douluo approached, the Black Butterfly had activated her Second Soul Skill, "Eremitic Domain," unleashing a domain of death that caused the Sword Douluo to be corroded by death energy, lowering all his attributes. In this domain of death, the Sword Douluo clearly felt that the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's support on him had been greatly weakened.
The Sword Douluo immediately formed a sword gesture with his fingers, instantly condensing another Seven Kill Sword. He pointed it at the Black Butterfly, his sword intent erupting and his killing intent seeping out.
But in the next moment, a black long spear, wrapped in black-red lightning and carrying a fierce, world-breaking intent, came like a flash of lightning. The Sword Douluo's face changed drastically, and he quickly held his Seven Kill Sword horizontally in front of him. The spear tip precisely hit the sword body, and the black-red lightning surged wildly. The sword intent and spear intent collided fiercely, causing the surrounding space to seem to freeze.
The Black Butterfly and the Black Robin's figures moved like lightning, rapidly retreating and instantly moving away from the center of the collision.
With the Black Robin's support, the Black Lu Jingming's body slowly revealed two purple, one black, and four red soul rings. Among them, the sixth and seventh soul rings had golden lightning patterns, making them especially eye-catching.
The four blood-red soul rings made the Sword Douluo's eyelids twitch uncontrollably. His peripheral vision subconsciously glanced at the real Lu Jingming beside Ning Fengzhi in the distance.
"Brother Lu, I thought you were a swordsman?"
Xue Qinghe looked at the Black Lu Jingming, who was holding a black long spear, wrapped in black-red lightning, and was fighting fiercely with the Sword Douluo. He turned to look at Lu Jingming with a strange expression.
"I am a swordsman, but I never said my martial soul was a sword," Lu Jingming said, shrugging his hands helplessly with an innocent expression. He had indeed been practicing swordsmanship, but who said that a swordsman's martial soul had to be a sword?
"Brother Lu, you truly have given me a lot of unexpected surprises!"
Xue Qinghe's gaze returned to the battlefield, staring at the strange 100,000-year soul rings on the Black Lu Jingming, especially the golden lightning patterns. His face changed uncertainly. As a descendant of the Angel God and with a divine martial soul, Xue Qinghe knew many unknown secrets. For example, when a Soul Master reached rank 100 and became a god, their tenth soul ring would be a Divine Ring, and its color would be golden.
Seeing such a strange soul ring on the Black Lu Jingming, his first thought was a Divine Ring. However, he quickly dismissed this idea, because if it were a Divine Ring, there was no way the Sword Douluo could have blocked that spear.
So, he guessed that the power behind Lu Jingming was similar to the Spirit Hall, possessing a divine legacy. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain this abnormal soul ring configuration and those strange soul rings.
Furthermore, he could deduce that everyone who had appeared in this point of defilement was very likely Lu Jingming's companion. After all, in the point of defilement that appeared in the Star Luo Empire, with the Sword Douluo as the core, a copy of Ning Fengzhi had appeared. With a precedent, Xue Qinghe wasn't the only one who could guess this; Ning Fengzhi also knew it in his heart.
At the same time, based on the support abilities the Black Robin had shown, they further deduced that Lu Jingming's true soul ring configuration should be two purple, two black, and two red. This undoubtedly strengthened Xue Qinghe's guess that the power behind Lu Jingming was similar to the Spirit Hall and Sea God Island, with the shadow of a god supporting them. Otherwise, without a god, he couldn't imagine how Lu Jingming could absorb soul rings beyond his rank. Even he, with his innate rank 20 soul power, a divine martial soul, and countless rare treasures from the Spirit Hall, hadn't absorbed soul rings beyond his rank. Of course, he didn't need to; once he started his Divine Test, his soul ring configuration would naturally increase, so there was no need to risk absorbing soul rings beyond his rank.
"Brother Lu, what do you think we should do next?"
Xue Qinghe frowned slightly and turned to look at Lu Jingming. Since this was a copy of Lu Jingming's own self, he must know the Black Lu Jingming's current strength like the back of his hand.
Lu Jingming gently stroked his chin, without any intention of hiding anything. He said straightforwardly, "The Sword Douluo is extraordinarily strong, and with his soul power suppression, he's more than capable of defeating that version of me, but he will have a hard time killing 'me' completely."