Chapter 278 Poison Can't Kill You, How Did You Break Through to Level 99 Too?
A violent burst of internal energy exploded in the center of the shattered stone wall, with the bright golden original essence and the earthy yellow ultimate soul power fiercely battling each other.
Xuanzi felt as if his right palm had struck an ancient, seamless divine mountain.
The pure recoil force emanating from the other's arm not only completely neutralized the force from his fingertips, but also unleashed an extremely domineering dark green primordial energy that surged forcefully into his meridians along his palm.
Thump, thump, thump.
Xuanzi's body swayed violently, and under the immense force, he involuntarily staggered back five or six steps.
Each step left a deep footprint on the frost-covered carpet, causing the hard rock floor to crack with fine lines.
He forced down the blood that surged up in his throat, and the determination that had filled his narrowed eyes instantly turned into utter horror.
He suddenly raised his head and stared intently at the burly figure that had suddenly smashed through the stone wall and darted into the battle.
"Who?! And who is plotting against me?!" Xuanzi gritted his teeth, his voice becoming sharp and hoarse due to excessive shock and rage.
As the dust settled, the towering, iron-tower-like structure was revealed.
Poison Undying stood coldly in front of Liu Yuan.
His dark green outfit fluttered in the airflow, and his exposed skin shimmered with a layer of bright golden metallic luster, which was the extremely strong defense of his martial soul at its peak after its second awakening.
His dark green eyes gleamed with a ferocious, beast-like light in the dimly lit room as he looked down at the vulnerable Xuanzi.
Hearing Xuanzi's somewhat exasperated question, Du Busi crossed his arms and a sneer of extreme arrogance and domineering appeared on his aged face.
"Who? Xuanzi, open your dog eyes and see clearly, it's your grandpa!"
Poison Undying's voice reverberated like muffled thunder in the small room, carrying the lawlessness unique to the sect master.
He glanced at Xuanzi's old face, which had turned a deep purplish-red, and his tone was undisguisedly sarcastic:
"I saw your self-deceiving behavior on the field during the day, and I knew you old man would definitely not be able to hold back at night."
"As expected, Shrek Academy's millennia-old reputation has been reduced to nothing more than the despicable tactic of sneaking into hotels in the middle of the night to assassinate juniors in your hands."
"I've been waiting for you here all night long. You've really been a long time coming for me."
"Poison won't kill you!"
Upon seeing the person's face, Xuanzi's gaze immediately turned extremely ugly.
He had planned everything meticulously, but he never expected that Du Bu Si would personally lie in wait in this room.
As a senior member of Shrek Academy, being caught red-handed by the sect leader during an assassination attempt would completely ruin Shrek Academy's millennia-old reputation if word got out.
However, the panic in Xuanzi's eyes lasted only half a breath before being replaced by an extremely sinister and ruthless look.
Having already broken through to level 99, the Limit Douluo, he considered himself to be at the pinnacle of combat power on this continent.
Now that their whereabouts have been completely exposed, there is no point in continuing to cover it up, make excuses, or deny it.
If we kill Poison Immortal, Snow Emperor, and that kid named Liu Yuan right here in this room tonight, all the secrets will remain buried in darkness forever.
Thinking of this, Xuanzi's slightly hunched back slowly straightened, and the terrifying aura of a level 99 Limit Douluo erupted without any suppression.
"Poison won't kill me. I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly."
Xuanzi sneered, his face contorted with murderous intent.
Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red—a total of nine terrifying spirit rings suddenly lit up beneath his feet, accompanied by swirling earthy yellow light. The dense, ten-thousand-year-old red ninth spirit ring caused the surrounding space to crack continuously the moment it appeared.
"Since that's the case, then I won't pretend anymore. Tonight, all of you will die here. Just stay here obediently!"
Having said that, Xuanzi completely abandoned all reservations and went all out.
He clasped his hands together in front of him, and the earth-yellow ultimate soul power within his body exploded wildly like a tsunami within the specific mental barrier of the room.
His rough right hand clenched like a knife, and with a powerful stomp on the ground, his body transformed into a gray lightning bolt, tearing through the air in its path. With unparalleled divine power, as if moving mountains and filling seas, it slammed headfirst into Poison Undying's face.
At the same time, he waved his left hand, and a large amount of earth-yellow soul power transformed into countless heavy earth spikes, shooting straight towards the Snow Emperor beside him, intending to drag the two of them into the battle at the same time and kill them on the spot.
Faced with Xuanzi's unleashed, fearless, and frenzied offensive, Du Busi simply stood still and let out an extremely arrogant sneer.
"You want to leave this old man here? Xuanzi, with your meager soul power that you barely managed to amass using Shrek Academy's resources, you think you're worthy?!"
With a roar, the bright golden light emanating from the surface of his skin reached its peak in an instant.
Facing Xuanzi's Taotie right fist that shattered space, he neither dodged nor avoided, but instead raised his own right fist and met it head-on with a wide and powerful strike.
Bang!
The fists of the two top experts collided once again without any embellishment.
However, in the next second, after exchanging only three or five moves, Xuanzi, whose face was originally full of ferocity and confidence, suddenly underwent a drastic change in expression.
He sensed that something was extremely wrong.
In the previous clashes, he had already used the pure physical essence of a level 99 Limit Douluo and the purest earth-attribute soul power.
But when his fist struck the golden arm of the Undying Poison, the feeling was not like striking the flesh of a powerhouse of the same level, but rather like striking an absolute barrier that could not be shaken at all.
No matter how he attacked... he couldn't seem to make any progress against the Poison Undying in front of him.
boom!
Taking advantage of the power of his second awakening, Du Busi transformed his left hand into a palm and casually waved it in the void, shattering the earth-piercing soul power that Xuanzi had been shooting at Xue Di.
Immediately afterwards, Poison Undying's right fist drew a bright golden streak in mid-air, forcefully penetrating Xuanzi's soul power defense with an extremely tyrannical posture, and heavily grazed Xuanzi's left shoulder.
A dull thud echoed, and Xuanzi felt as if the meridians in his left shoulder had been torn apart by a violent surge of his own essence in an instant. The pain caused this level 99 expert's body to sway violently, and his ultimate soul power surged violently backward.
Having survived the poison attack, Xuanzi felt a tightness in his chest as he retreated, and he was beginning to feel the pressure of the opponent's extremely powerful punches.
"This is impossible! I'm already level ninety-nine, how could there be a physical body in this world that I can't break?!"
"Could it be that even that old ghost, Poison Undying, has broken through to a higher level?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, how could he have broken through?"
Xuanzi refused to believe it and roared madly. His pride of ten thousand years and his arrogance from just breaking through his limits made it impossible for him to accept the reality that he would be at a disadvantage in a head-on fight.
He abruptly stopped his retreat, his eyes burning with an earthy yellow light that seemed about to burst forth. His fifth and sixth black spirit rings simultaneously lit up.
"The Taotie descends to earth—the divine ox trembles!"
Xuanzi braced himself with his hands on the ground, and two enormous, ten-meter-tall, illusory phantoms of the forehooves of the Taotie Divine Bull suddenly materialized in mid-air. Enveloped in immense soul power, they resembled two dark yellow mountains, crashing down upon Du Busi with a piercing, tearing sound. This combination of two soul skills was an absolute offensive tactic that he had repeatedly used successfully when facing soul masters of the same level.
However, facing these two earthen-yellow soul power mountains, powerful enough to crush an ordinary Title Douluo into mincemeat, Du Busi didn't even lift an eyelid.
He merely sneered, and the seventh black spirit ring and the eighth red spirit ring beneath his feet shone brightly at the same time.
"Break for me!"
In an instant, Poison Undying's figure grew several feet taller, the golden light emanating from him illuminating the dimly lit bedroom. He didn't use any complex soul skills for defense; he simply relied on the ultimate physical strength brought about by the second awakening of his martial soul, smashing his fists fiercely upwards into the void.
Rumble—!
The two earthen-yellow mountain phantoms, meticulously crafted and powerfully formed by Xuanzi's fifth and sixth soul skills, couldn't withstand even a second of the impact from Du Busi's two pure golden iron fists. Amidst a piercing cracking sound, the overwhelming dark yellow soul power was easily and brutally shattered in mid-air by Du Busi's most savage and brutal methods, disintegrating into countless fragments of light that vanished into the air.
"What?! How is this possible?!"
Seeing his powerful offensive soul skill being broken open by the opponent's bare hands, Xuanzi completely panicked, and his rationality and confidence began to collapse.
The opponent's combat strength had completely exceeded his understanding of Soul Masters of the same level.
Overwhelmed by extreme shame, anger, and panic, Xuanzi's narrowed eyes turned completely bloodshot. He knew that if he couldn't deal with Du Busi here tonight, not only would he fail to kill Liu Yuan, but he would also perish here.
"You can't kill me with poison! You forced me into this mess! Die!"
Xuanzi let out a shrill roar, and the most dazzling and concentrated spiritual ninth spirit ring, a hundred thousand years old, beneath his feet blazed wildly in that instant. The strongest primal attack of a Limit Douluo was unleashed without reservation at this moment.
"Ninth Soul Skill - Gluttonous Devouring Heaven and Earth!"
boom!
A colossal, tens-of-meters-tall gluttonous bull appeared completely behind Xuanzi. Its savage maw, capable of devouring everything, suddenly opened, forming a massive black vortex. Endless spiritual energy and earth-attribute gravitational forces raged wildly within the room. This move was his strongest, desperate trump card after inheriting Mu En's mantle, enough to severely injure any expert of the same level.
However, they fought desperately against Xuanzi's strongest ninth soul skill.
Standing in front of the bed, Du Bu Si's sarcastic smile only widened.
"Going all out? Xuanzi, I told you, your strength is utterly worthless in the face of true power."
Poison Undying casually uttered a sentence, and at the same time, the ninth red soul ring beneath his feet lit up. His right fist, gleaming with bright golden light, slowly retracted to his waist, and all the essence of his body condensed into a single point in an instant.
"Ninth Soul Skill - Divine Fist of True Body, Golden Body Piercing the Heavens!"
Poison Undying took a step forward, his right fist meeting the huge black gluttonous vortex in front of him, and threw a seemingly ordinary yet incredibly heavy punch.
An indescribable, blinding golden light erupted at the point where the two fists collided. Xuanzi's seemingly indestructible, all-devouring ninth soul skill, the Black Vortex, felt as if it had struck an absolutely unshakeable ancient divine pillar the moment it touched Poison Undying's golden iron fist.
Click, click.
Within the first microsecond, the gravitational ripples above the black vortex were blasted into cracks. Then, under the absolutely restrained yet violent impact of Poison Undying's true essence, Xuanzi's proud ninth soul skill was once again as fragile as paper, easily torn apart and completely dissolved in mid-air by that golden fist light.
"ah--!"
The immense backlash from the forced and brute force that shattered the soul skill instantly overwhelmed Xuanzi himself.
Xuanzi let out an extremely shrill scream, his entire body flying like a kite with a broken string, his protective soul power in his chest completely shattered. His body flew backward, skimming the ground for more than ten meters, smashing into a row of marble cabinets at the back of the room and shattering them to pieces.
puff--!
Xuanzi had just regained his footing when he felt a sweet taste in his throat. He could no longer suppress the gushing of thick blood, and his face turned deathly pale in a very short time.
At this moment, Xuanzi completely broke down.
He clutched his chest tightly, staring at the unharmed Poison Undying in front of him, whose clothes were not even disheveled. In his bloodshot, narrowed eyes, there was only endless disbelief and terror.
If he still doesn't understand what happened by now, then he really is a fool.
To be able to so easily break through his fifth, sixth, and even strongest ninth soul skills at his limit level, and even completely defeat this level 99 expert by making him cough up blood and retreat in a head-on melee, there is only one possibility in this world.
Xuanzi stared intently at Du Busi, his voice trembling, and asked incredulously:
"Poison Undying...you...you've also broken through to level ninety-nine...and become a Limit Douluo?!"
(End of chapter)