"Evidence?" A cold smirk tugged at the corner of Gu La's lips beneath his mask. "Isn't the fact that you could personally ask him the greatest evidence? Or are you too afraid to face reality?"
Leng Yulai's body stiffened abruptly. Gu La's words struck a deep, painful chord within her. She had committed countless atrocities over the years—if it all turned out to be a misunderstanding, where would that leave her?
"What do you know… It's too late… Yun Ming…" Leng Yulai's voice trembled with an unshakable disbelief.
"I know far more than you can imagine," Gu La's voice was as cold as ice. "Including how you joined the Holy Spirit Sect and their plans against Shrek Academy."
"Leng Yulai, wake up! You've been used—your hatred and power exploited by the Holy Spirit Sect. Your sister is the one who truly cares about you!"
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!"
Leng Yulai was utterly unhinged now, her rationality shattered completely. She couldn't accept it; she refused to believe!
Decades of hatred had seeped into her very bones, becoming the foundation of her existence! If all of this was wrong… then what was she? What did her dark, fallen life mean?!
"Die! Dark Phoenix True Body! World-Burning Demon Flames!"
Leng Yulai let out a piercing shriek toward the heavens! Her body was instantly engulfed by endless purplish-black flames. Behind her, a colossal shadow of a dark phoenix formed—its wings blotting out the sky, its form entirely composed of purplish-black demonic flames, radiating boundless malice and destructive energy.
The full force unleashed by a Level 97 Super Douluo caused the entire Burial Soul Valley to quake. The air warped under the intense heat, and the endless demonic flames surged forward like an apocalyptic tsunami, carrying the terrifying power to incinerate everything and devour souls, crashing toward Gu La.
She intended to destroy this person who had exposed her deepest, most vulnerable wound—and shatter the truth that threatened the very foundation of her existence!
Facing this cataclysmic attack, the last traces of patience vanished from Gu La's eyes.
"Stubborn fool!"
He no longer hid his strength! An aura far older, wilder, and more domineering than Leng Yulai's erupted from within him like a slumbering ancient volcano awakening!
Far away in another realm, the avatar of Groudon shared its power.
Buzz—!
The ground beneath Gu La's feet instantly turned into molten lava, the terrifying heat radiation evaporating the surrounding miasma on contact. The hard mountain rocks melted like butter.
He seemed to have become the core of the earth itself, drawing in endless geopulse energy with unstoppable ferocity!
He sharply raised his head. Beneath the mask, his eyes had transformed into two blazing suns, molten gold burning with intensity. A horrifying pressure that made all things submit and froze space itself swept outward in palpable waves.
Roar—!!!
A roar, as if from the dawn of creation, filled with the wrath of the earth, echoed across the entire Burial Soul Valley. In Leng Yulai's horrified gaze, a terrifying shadow slowly materialized behind Gu La—a figure beyond description!
The shadow was as massive as a mountain, covered in thick, dark-red armor reminiscent of cooled magma, with streams of golden-red lava flowing through the cracks. Its pillar-like limbs stomped upon the molten earth, each step resonating with the rumble of geopulse energy.
Its grotesque head bore massive horns that pierced the heavens, and its lava-filled eyes burned like falling suns, radiating an anger capable of consuming the world.
Even just its manifestation suppressed Leng Yulai's proud Dark Phoenix Demon Flames, forcing them to retreat with pained wails!
"What… what is this?!"
Leng Yulai's scream was laced with unprecedented fear. She felt her martial soul trembling, her soul crying out in agony.
This power… surpassed Title Douluo, surpassed Limit Douluo—it carried the weight of divine authority, a force no human should possess!
Gu La's molten-gold eyes locked onto the charging purple-black demonic flame phoenix. Slowly, he raised his right hand. The arm appeared forged from molten rock, wrapped in golden, high-temperature lava.
"Get lost!"
Without using any soul skill, merely a low growl imbued with the will of Groudon's avatar, accompanied by the downward motion of his hand!
Boom—!!!
The geothermal energy of the entire Burial Soul Valley seemed to detonate. Endless waves of molten rock surged upward as if alive, forming a monstrous claw composed purely of earth power and magma, vast enough to blot out the sky.
Upon the claw, the power of laws flowed, carrying the supreme will to suppress eternity and shatter all methods. It slammed down mercilessly onto the purple-black demonic flame phoenix.
Like the palm of a giant crushing a mosquito.
Rip—!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the ear-piercing sound of tearing fabric.
The Dark Phoenix True Body demon flames, condensed from Leng Yulai's lifelong soul power and resentment, were instantly torn apart, shattered, and purified upon contact with the magma claw, as if meeting their natural predator.
"Pfft—!"
Leng Yulai was struck as if by a sledgehammer, blood spraying from her mouth. Her True Body collapsed instantly.
Her body flew backward like a broken kite, slamming violently into the hard rock wall behind her, creating a massive crater.
The purplish-black flames around her dimmed to their weakest state, her aura utterly depleted. Her eyes were filled with disbelief, shock, and despair.
The magma claw slowly dissipated, and the terrifying Groudon avatar around Gu La gradually faded.
He still stood in place, the molten rock beneath his feet rapidly cooling and solidifying into black glass-like material. He coldly gazed at the heavily injured, blood-spitting, and disheveled Leng Yulai, his voice as frigid as ice that had endured for millennia:
"Now, are you ready to listen? Dark Phoenix Douluo."
Leng Yulai struggled to lift her head, looking at the figure that seemed like a demon god. Her purple eyes were filled with confusion, fear, and… the vulnerability and wavering that came from being forcibly torn open by absolute power, leaving her no room to escape.
The fortress of decades of hatred had crumbled in the face of incomprehensible divine might.
The entrance of the Burial Soul Valley was once again cloaked in deathly silence.
The black glass-like ground formed from cooled magma still radiated residual heat, while the air carried the lingering scorching and purifying aura of annihilation.
Leng Yulai leaned against the cracked rock wall, her once-elegant purple attire torn and stained with dirt and blood. Her formerly eerie, icy purple eyes now held nothing but dazed bewilderment and a fragility that had been utterly shattered.
She stared at the figure wearing the dark golden mask not far away, as if gazing upon a deity walking among mortals.
The cataclysmic power she had witnessed earlier, imbued with divine authority, sent shivers through her soul.
She didn't even dare to think about what kind of martial soul or power it was.
Though she possessed the "Temporal Divine Shuttle," an artifact imbued with a trace of spacetime power, at this moment, she didn't even entertain the thought of trying.
The image of the magma claw shattering her Dark Phoenix True Body was etched into her mind like a nightmare—the gap between them was simply too vast. It wasn't a difference in technique or soul power, but a complete domination on the level of life essence and laws!
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T/N: F*ck yes ladies and gents! Our boy Groudon is finally making a reappearance lmao!
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