At this moment, facing the attack of the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, Oscar's right hand formed a claw and pulled out bolts of lightning. As he swung his claw, the lightning merged with a storm and formed five thunderous wind blades that slashed toward the dark golden ripples.
The powerful strike was launched, but what surprised Oscar was that this attack did not block the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King as he intended. The five wind blades passed directly through the golden ripples and went straight toward the creature itself.
"An attack that ignores physical defense?" Oscar frowned slightly.
His reaction was not slow. With a flap of his black wings, he retreated ten meters.
Before he could figure out this beast's abilities, Oscar would not risk a head-on clash. Clearly, this Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King was far stronger than the one in the original story.
Oscar avoided the attack, but the bat king did not dodge his strike. Instead, it charged straight forward.
The five thunderous wind blades struck its body, but they caused no harm, only dimming its golden glow slightly.
The bat king's speed was terrifying. With just a flap of its huge wings, it crossed several dozen meters. Its claws gleamed blood red, radiating a violent aura, and swiped directly at Oscar.
Sensing the terrifying energy, Oscar's evil eyes flickered. His left hand swung the jade sword unhurriedly, and sword force surged.
A loud clang rang out as the jade sword clashed with the claws, sparks flying. Oscar continued to slash, while the bat king relentlessly struck with its talons.
At close range, Oscar fully realized the strength behind its attacks. Its raw power was not weaker than his own, meaning its strength was already at the level of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
Oscar was shocked. He had assumed this bat king was at most comparable to a fifty-thousand-year beast, but he had underestimated it.
Although he did not know what change had caused such a powerful Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King to appear, at this point neither he nor Dugu Yan had any other path. To pass through the Hell Road, they had to bring down this beast.
After blocking another fierce claw strike, Oscar's eyes gleamed coldly. A terrifying sword aura spread around him. Dugu Yan clung tightly to him, doing her best not to hinder his movements.
She also realized how strong the bat king was. Leaving Oscar would only distract him, so the best she could do was hold on and protect herself.
The next moment, icy blue and fiery red hues spread across both edges of Oscar's jade sword. The extreme cold of ice and the blazing heat of fire reached a balance.
This was the dual-element power of his second martial soul. When he had absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot, his external spirit bone had mutated under their combined influence and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, gaining ice and flame abilities.
Later, when the external spirit bone evolved into a martial soul, these attributes remained.
"Sword stance Ice and Fire Double Heaven!"
His jade sword swept out, unleashing terrifying sword qi mixed with freezing cold and scorching flames. The strike clashed against the bat king's claws.
Though Oscar was only level seventy, his soul power foundation was not weaker than an average Soul Douluo. Coupled with body and spirit comparable to a Title Douluo, he could even exchange a few blows with one.
The terrifying sword energy slashed through the bat king's claws, severing them, and its golden glow quickly dimmed.
Oscar pressed the attack. His right hand claw gathered lightning, storm, darkness, and evil energy together.
"Dark Evil Thunder Break!"
The claw, carrying terrifying power, slammed into the bat king's chest. Its wingspan was ten meters, but its body was less than two meters long.
The impact sent the bat king tumbling through the air. Then, the four energies combined into a violent explosion, blowing open its chest. Blood and organs sprayed out as its aura weakened sharply.
But Oscar was not done. He raised his jade sword again, gathering sword qi. Countless green flying swords formed around him.
Ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand…
Though his external spirit bone had become a martial soul, its traits remained, just as the ice and fire elements had.
The cutting and condensing abilities of his spirit bone were inherited as innate talents of his second martial soul, making it a truly top-class martial soul.
"Ten Thousand Swords Return to One!"
Soul power drained rapidly from his body, but Oscar did not care. The bat king was too dangerous. He had to strike while it was weakened, otherwise more accidents might arise here.
The torrent of sword rain poured down like a flood, covering the bat king and even the thousands of blood bats around it.
Oscar's intent was not only to kill the bat king but to wipe out every bat in sight.
But just as the swords rained down, Oscar and Dugu Yan were shocked to see the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King emit a strange sound. The blood bats swarmed toward it, and then it swallowed dozens of them in one gulp.
Its chest wound healed at visible speed, and it continued devouring more.
The golden glow returned in full. By consuming its underlings, it had completely restored itself.
The middle head opened its maw and unleashed an even stronger golden wave, accompanied by a piercing buzz that made their heads spin.
The terrifying wave spread outward, shattering the rain of swords piece by piece.
Dugu Yan cried out, "It can regenerate? And it seems even stronger than before."
Oscar remained calm. Staying composed was one of his traits. He continued summoning sword rain while eating two super recovery sausages to replenish his soul power.
Seeing him so unhurried, Dugu Yan grew anxious. "If it can restore itself by devouring its underlings, then what is its weakness?"
Oscar glanced at the bat king, which was still spewing waves to block the sword rain, and replied steadily, "It can heal by eating underlings only if its injuries are not fatal. If all three heads are destroyed, it should not be able to devour anymore."
Dugu Yan looked at the two heads still devouring and understood his reasoning. If it lost all three heads, it would have nothing left to swallow with.
She loosened her grip on him and flew up on her own, the green glow of the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone flaring. She activated its flying ability.
Her emerald eyes locked onto the bat king. Dragon tail swaying, two crystalline dragon horns and a diamond-shaped gem on her forehead gleamed green. "Then let us fight together. My strength may not match yours or this beast, but my poison and control should still help."
She also took out a pure white sausage shaped like a swift and ate it. White wings sprouted from her back.
The Blue Silver Emperor leg bone granted flight but not great speed, so with Oscar's speed-boosting sausage, she now matched a Soul Douluo of the agility attack type.
Oscar smiled faintly. "Good."
The next moment, Dugu Yan raised her right arm, which transformed into a purple-green snake head. With a hiss, it spat a toxic arrow toward the bat king's gaping mouth.
"Venomous Bone Snake right arm soul bone skill: Corrosive Heart-Piercing Arrow."
The venom arrow streaked out like a shooting star. This twenty-four-thousand-five-hundred-year soul bone skill was no weaker than a Soul Emperor's sixth skill. It pierced straight through the golden wave and into the bat king's central head.
The poison spread instantly, corroding half the head, and the venom continued spreading.
With the head destroyed, the golden wave vanished. The sword rain, unobstructed, fell directly upon the bat king.
It had no way to dodge. Yet to their surprise, it did not even try. Its wings spread wide, holding its body still in midair.
As the swords rained down, its left head released a golden light wave,but not toward its enemies, rather upon itself.
Golden smoke engulfed it, and its massive body suddenly exploded, turning into hundreds of golden bats scattering in all directions.
Oscar's attack destroyed many of them, but not all. At most half of the golden bats were annihilated.
"Clones?!" Oscar and Dugu Yan's hearts sank.
This was unexpected. He remembered that in the original story, this creature had troubled Tang San and Hu Liena, but he had not imagined its abilities would be this hard to kill.
After all, this bat king was clearly stronger than the one in the original.
Even so, the blood bats were not endless, and his sword rain wiped out most of them.
When the rain ended, only about a hundred bats, both blood and golden, remained.
Then the surviving golden bats screeched, merged together, and devoured the remaining blood bats. Within moments, all the bats fused back into one huge Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King.
After several rounds of battle, all the underlings were gone, Oscar and Dugu Yan had spent much of their soul power, yet the bat king stood restored once more.
Its three heads and six eyes glared at them in fury.
The eerie screeches rang out again, but it did not attack. Instead, the central head spat another golden wave while the wings carried it swiftly downward into the darkness.
At the same time, the right head glowed brightly, its golden aura flaring stronger.
Dugu Yan's expression changed. Dodging with Oscar, she said grimly, "Its heads have regeneration and clone abilities. If I'm right, this skill is a self-enhancement. If it completes the boost, we will be in trouble."
Oscar also understood, but the bat king had already plunged into the dark abyss, blocking their pursuit with the golden wave as it gathered energy.
Its screeches grew louder, its glow brighter, until it dove into the blood-red magma below.
Oscar and Dugu Yan both frowned. They did not know how strong it would be after the enhancement, but for now they had no way to stop it.
The two exchanged a glance, then turned and flew forward at full speed. Since they could not strike the bat king, they would try to escape before it returned.
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