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"Lunatic…" Bibi Dong murmured softly, but a smile involuntarily curved her lips.
This overbearing and unreasonable style of action indeed matched Xuan Ming's personality, and it also… made her feel an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.
Just then, the destructive tribulation clouds in the sky accumulated to their peak!
Xuan Ming's Blood Spear pointed directly at the massive pale bone gate entrance below. The terrifying energy, fused with the divine laws of Slaughter, Evil, and Lightning, found an outlet and, guided by his will—
Rumble rumble rumble—!!!
A destructive lightning pillar, over a hundred meters in diameter, interwoven with dark red, black-gold, and ghostly white colors, descended like a spear of judgment thrown by a god, tearing through the firmament. With the might to annihilate everything, it fiercely struck the entrance of Slaughter City!
The massive gate, constructed from countless bones and rocks and imbued with powerful death prohibitions, was instantly vaporized like paper before this fused divine lightning, leaving not even a speck of dust!
The lightning pillar continued its descent unabated, directly pouring into the bottomless passage!
This was just the beginning!
Immediately after, the second, third… countless smaller but equally terrifying bolts of lightning, imbued with the power of the three laws, poured down like a torrential rain, precisely striking the entrance and any potential cracks and weak points in the surroundings!
Even more terrifying, the destructive energy that poured into the passage did not dissipate. Instead, like a destructive spider web with Life and will, it wildly spread, permeated, and ravaged through the intricate passages and spaces within Slaughter City!
Wherever the lightning passed, rocks melted, space twisted, and the fallen ones immersed in slaughter and desire—whether ordinary criminals or powerful law enforcement officers—were reduced to ashes in the divine law-infused lightning, unable even to let out a scream!
The lightning of Slaughter roared and surged through the dark underground World, mercilessly cleansing every corner.
Shrill wails, desperate roars, the colossal sound of collapsing buildings… all these sounds were drowned out by the deafening destructive roar of the lightning.
This divine punishment-like lightning bombardment lasted for nearly ten minutes.
When the last bolt of lightning gradually dissipated and the strange tribulation clouds in the sky slowly receded, the valley where the entrance to Slaughter City once stood had completely transformed.
The massive pale bone gate, along with a large section of the surrounding mountain, had vanished, replaced by a bottomless, crystalized crater. Destructive energy and faint arcs of electricity, still lingering, emanated a chilling aura from within the crater.
The air was filled with a scent of charring mixed with strange ozone. The once dense bloody smell and evil fluctuations had become extremely faint, almost imperceptible.
The vile land that once resided here, absorbing countless sins and Life—Slaughter City, along with all its inhabitants—was completely erased from the earth in this ten-minute baptism of divine lightning.
Xuan Ming slowly descended from the sky, his face slightly pale. Simultaneously invoking and controlling three divine laws and unleashing such a level of destruction had almost completely drained his spirit power.
Just as the destructive lightning completely dissipated, and Xuan Ming, breathing slightly and with his spirit power almost depleted, landed back on the ground—
"Roar—!!!"
A roar, filled with endless pain, fury, and madness, yet carrying a hint of a deeper, more domineering clarity, distinct from the previous pure chaos, suddenly erupted from the bottom of the bottomless, crystalized crater!
A bloody light, like the last counterattack of a dying beast, fiercely shot out from the destruction-filled crater, hovering in mid-air.
It was the Slaughter King!
However, his condition at this moment was utterly miserable.
His once burly body was covered in scorch marks and cracks, large patches of dark red skin peeled away, revealing wriggling flesh and wisps of black gas beneath. The aura around him, a mixture of Asura God Power and the Nine Headed Bloody Crimson Bat King's filth, had also become extremely unstable, like a flickering candle in the wind.
Yet, his crimson eyes were no longer filled with the pure chaos and brutality of before.
Deep within them, a suppressed, decades-old extreme anger, humiliation, and killing intent belonging to "Tang Chen" erupted like a volcano, locking onto the pale-faced Xuan Ming below!
"It's you… who destroyed this place… destroyed this King's foundation!!" The Slaughter King's voice was hoarse and distorted, yet it carried a chilling clarity and hatred. "You took my blood pool… destroyed my kingdom… you… damned lunatic!!"
He clearly perceived that it was this human before him who first took the blood pool energy that sustained Slaughter City, and now had unleashed this World-destroying divine lightning, turning the foundation he had built over countless years, and all his "subjects," into nothingness!
Overwhelming hatred drowned the will of the Nine Headed Bloody Crimson Bat King, and also broke its final suppression of Tang Chen's remnant soul.
A mad and desperate thought formed in the Slaughter King's consciousness—mutual destruction!
It realized that with its current shattered state and the opponent's mysterious methods, there was no chance of winning in a normal battle.
Only by awakening the peak power of the "Clear Sky Douluo," the original owner of this body, which it had suppressed and honed for decades, could it drag this lunatic to hell with him!
"Old man… wake up!! Look at what your continent has become! Look at this culprit who destroyed everything!!"
The Slaughter King let out a sharp mental roar, actively abandoning its interference and pollution of Tang Chen's remnant soul consciousness. Instead, it forcefully poured the current situation of the continent, the tragedy of the Clear Sky Sect, the rise of the Spirit Empire, and the existence of this lunatic Xuan Ming, like a torrent, into Tang Chen's long-dormant consciousness core!
At the same time, it burned its last bit of primordial blood power. A blood-red light, like a living entity, Binding Tang Chen's broken body, forcefully repairing the wounds severely damaged by the lightning, temporarily stabilizing the body on the verge of collapse, attempting to briefly restore this body to a state capable of bearing the power of the "Clear Sky Douluo"!
Buzz—!
A completely different, pure, domineering, and terrifying pressure, filled with a sense of power and ancientness, began to rise from the Slaughter King's body!
The unstable bloody light around him began to converge inward, condensing. In his crimson eyes, chaos and brutality were gradually replaced by a cold, dead, yet World-destroying anger!
The scorch marks and cracks on his body surface reluctantly healed under the effect of the bloody light. Although he still appeared disheveled, the oppressive feeling, like a sleeping lion awakening, instantly made Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena's expressions solemn!
"Not good! He's forcefully awakening Tang Chen's true consciousness and temporarily repairing his body!" Bibi Dong said urgently. She could feel the aura of the Clear Sky Douluo, once known as invincible on land, rapidly returning!
A hint of sharpness also flashed in Gu Yuena's silver-purple eyes. The heart of the dragon god subtly fluctuated, preparing to intervene.
However, just as they were about to act—
"Enough."
A cold, hoarse voice, yet carrying unquestionable authority, came from the figure in mid-air.
The Slaughter King—no, perhaps at this moment he should be called Tang Chen—slowly raised his head.
His eyes, though still bloodshot, had regained clarity. It was a clarity born from endless torment and degradation, imbued with bone-deep hatred and resolve!
He stared intently at Xuan Ming below, his gaze like two icy Clear Sky Hammers, wanting to smash him into a pulp!
"Boy…" Tang Chen's voice was like grinding metal, filled with endless pain and killing intent, "You… deserve to die!"
He felt the power within him, forcefully awakened yet burning rapidly like a rootless duckweed, and understood the Parasite's intention.
But at this moment, none of that mattered.
What mattered was that this person before him had destroyed his prison of degradation, cut off his last faint chance of returning to normal, and was also one of the root causes of the continent's turmoil!
New grudges, old hatreds, and overwhelming fury at his own fate, all transformed into killing intent towards Xuan Ming!