The Sky Azure Bull Python moved swiftly, and it didn't keep Huo Lie and his two companions waiting long in ambush. Soon, a powerful aura appeared from within the distant forest.
"As expected, it came! Judging by the aura alone, it's a bit weaker than anticipated. Even counting its domain ability, it's probably only at the peak of level 96. But don't let your guard down,"
Hovering in mid-air, Huo Lie glanced at the massive trees crushed beneath the enormous body of the Sky Azure Bull Python in the distance, then spoke to Mu Xiyue and Feng Zhen.
"Mm."
The two nodded slightly.
Although the Sky Azure Bull Python's strength was a bit lower than initially estimated, neither of them dared to be careless. After all, it was still a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and a highly combative one at that. If they weren't cautious, it wouldn't be impossible to suffer a disastrous reversal.
In the next moment, the Lava Tyrant Dragon, Flame Shadow, and Gale Winged Demon martial souls possessed them. Nine soul rings glowed—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black—as powerful soul force surged outward.
"Rumble—"
In the forest, the Sky Azure Bull Python resembled a colossal bulldozer with infinite power. Due to the sheer size of its body, the towering trees and vegetation were all destroyed as it passed through.
On a normal day, as the king of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Sky Azure Bull Python was also a protector of the environment.
But right now, his beloved Sister Xiao Wu and his younger brother Titan Giant Ape Er Ming were facing a life-or-death crisis. The Sky Azure Bull Python couldn't care less. As long as it could get there in time, what did the destruction of the forest matter?
Suddenly, as it sensed the three powerful auras of soul masters in the distant sky, the Sky Azure Bull Python was stunned. Immediately afterward, a wave of intense fear surged within its heart.
It wasn't that the Sky Azure Bull Python was afraid of death it was worried for Xiao Wu and Er Ming.
Right now, Xiao Wu and Er Ming were in grave danger. Even with its tail, it could deduce that these three human Title Douluo were definitely enemies.
If there were three ambushing Title Douluo here, and all three were top-level even among their rank judging by their aura, then what kind of terrifying force would be confronting Xiao Wu and Er Ming?
Even if the enemy forces on both sides were equivalent, with Xiao Wu's soul power unrecovered and Er Ming alone, they would undoubtedly stand no chance.
"Moo—!"
A deafening bellow erupted from the bull's throat. A fierce gleam flashed in the lantern-sized eyes of the Sky Azure Bull Python as it unleashed its innate domain: Slowing Domain, then charged straight toward Er Ming's direction, heedless of anything else.
Xiao Wu and Er Ming were still waiting for it to come to the rescue, and it had already vaguely sensed the intense soul power fluctuations from that direction—there was no time to entangle with these three Title Douluo.
"We can't let you pass."
Seeing the Sky Azure Bull Python attempt to ignore them and charge recklessly toward Mu Yang's position, Huo Lie activated a secret technique. Soul power surged all over his body as he flung out a Lava Spear glowing with flame.
"Secret Technique: Dragon of Extreme Flame!"
"Sixth Soul Skill: Storm Tornado!"
After Huo Lie made his move, Mu Xiyue and Feng Zhen didn't stay idle either. A fiery divine dragon soared into the sky while a highly destructive tornado storm swept down from above.
"Moo—!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python roared in fury, charging ahead without slowing down. A surge of intense cyan light erupted from its massive body.
Accompanied by a thunderous dragon's roar and booming thunder, a dragon-shaped bolt of cyan lightning blasted toward the strongest presence—Huo Lie.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Innate Soul Skill of the Sky Azure Bull Python: Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder!
'Not good!'
There was no time to think. Huo Lie's sixth soul ring lit up as a layer of dark red light shield formed.
Next, six dark red Lava Mirrors materialized in front of the incoming Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder.
"Boom—!"
A thunderous explosion erupted as the dragon-shaped cyan lightning tore through the six lava mirrors like a hot knife through butter and struck Huo Lie directly.
With a flash of thunder, the power-weakened Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder shattered the dark red light shield formed by his sixth defensive soul skill, then turned into a sea of cyan lightning that engulfed Huo Lie entirely.
Fortunately, due to the multiple layers of weakening—from the lava mirrors, the sixth defensive soul skill, and finally the Spirit Gold Battle Armor as the last line of defense—plus Huo Lie's own strength being above that of the Sky Azure Bull Python, he did not suffer serious injury.
Even so, Huo Lie felt a wave of numbness sweep across his entire body.
Compared to those Title Douluo who had just reached the nine-ring level, the terrifying strength of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts lay not only in their powerful physiques and their innate domain abilities but also in their vastly superior skills.
Most Title Douluo in the soul master world do not possess a hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Their ninth soul rings are often around ninety-thousand years old, with some weaker ones falling even short of that.
But hundred-thousand-year soul beasts are different. Their innate soul skills are akin to a soul master's life-bound soul ring abilities and grow stronger as their cultivation years increase, maintaining parity with their level.
The Sky Azure Bull Python's strength was roughly equivalent to a Rank 96 Title Douluo. In other words, this Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder could be considered a hundred-thousand-year top-tier offensive soul skill unleashed by a Rank 96 Title Douluo—its power was absolutely not to be underestimated.
If it weren't for the Spirit Gold Battle Armor greatly enhancing his strength and given that the armor itself also had formidable defenses. Huo Lie, as a Rank 95 Title Douluo, truly wouldn't have had the qualifications to challenge the hundred-thousand-year-old Sky Azure Bull Python.
The cyan lightning soon dissipated. Seeing that this Title Douluo had taken a direct hit from his Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder and seemed completely unscathed, the Sky Azure Bull Python's pupils narrowed. It pushed its limits and further accelerated.
The Sky Azure Bull Python understood—if even its strongest attack couldn't deal with this opponent, then the odds were clearly against it today.
However, it had not yet fallen into despair. Even if it had to die, it would see Sister Xiao Wu and Er Ming one last time.
And if it joined forces with Er Ming, unleashing a desperate self-destructive strike, perhaps it could drag one of these Title Douluo down with it into oblivion.
But at that very moment, the Sky Azure Bull Python's massive body suddenly paused. Its eyes filled with overwhelming sorrow. Due to inertia, its huge form rolled several times through the forest, flattening many towering trees and destroying large swaths of vegetation.
"Moo—! Humans, you all deserve to die!"
A sorrowful bellow rang out. The Sky Azure Bull Python's eyes burned with seething hatred, as if the enmity between it and the three before it was as deep as the sea.
No—this was no "as if." It was.
At this moment, within the Sky Azure Bull Python's perception, the intense soul power fluctuations from dozens of li ahead had already ceased—signaling that the battle had ended.
Though it had not witnessed it with its own eyes, just the fact that the enemy had dispatched three powerful Title Douluo to ambush it made it clear that the victors could not have been Er Ming.
After all, if the enemy hadn't been thoroughly prepared, the ambushers wouldn't have included three Title Douluo. Just that one Title Douluo who had taken its Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder without injury was enough to hold it back.
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