Chapter 95: Ambush
The clash between the gray and multicolored Dou Qi painted the night sky in brilliant hues. The terrifying waves of energy could be sensed clearly even from miles away. The Tagor Desert, usually alive with nocturnal activity, fell eerily silent. Countless creatures shrank back into hiding. The only sound that remained was the constant roar of battle overhead.
"Surrender! If you give in now, I'll spare your people. Otherwise, the moment you fall will be the moment your entire race is annihilated!"
Xie Bi Yan hovered in midair, exuding a powerful Dou Qi pressure. His eyes glowed with a ghostly gray hue, making him look like a demonic god as he gazed down at Queen Medusa. As the strongest expert of the Chu Yun Empire, he held absolute confidence in his strength.
Below Dou Zong, no one could match him!
Even against a true Dou Zong, he believed he could still put up a fight—so dealing with Queen Medusa today would be the perfect opportunity to demonstrate what it meant to be a quasi-Dou Zong powerhouse!
Queen Medusa twirled her sword slightly. The blade rang softly as the rainbow glow around her intensified. Her voice turned even colder. "Old fool, do you always talk this much nonsense?"
"I gave you a chance to live, but you didn't take it," Xie Bi Yan said darkly. As his voice echoed across the battlefield, his vast Dou Qi surged like a flood through his meridians. The very space around him rippled visibly from the force of it—an effect no ordinary Dou Huang could create.
As the energy swelled, his aging figure straightened, and blood-red markings began to spread across his body.
"To have pushed me to this extent… you should be proud."
He smiled grimly, unleashing his full power. Even his incomplete "Blood Soul Art" was activated, boosting his aura to the next level. His Dou Qi wings vanished into thin air—yet he stood firmly in midair on nothing but air.
Standing unsupported in the sky—this was the mark of a Dou Zong!
Queen Medusa's expression darkened. She hadn't expected him to have such a trump card, one capable of briefly boosting his strength to the Dou Zong level. The gap between Dou Huang and Dou Zong was enormous—even a single rank's difference meant a massive disparity.
In the Dou Qi Continent, a Dou Zong was already considered a top-tier powerhouse—even in the powerhouse-filled Central Plains.
Looks like I'll have to stall him… Queen Medusa narrowed her enchanting eyes, steeling herself for the worst. At this point, all she could do was buy time and wait for reinforcements from the Snake-People. Alone, she had no chance against him.
Just then, a familiar voice echoed in her ears: "Keep his attention on you. Caidie and Hai Bodong will strike from behind."
"?!"
Queen Medusa was shocked but kept her expression unchanged. Instead, her aura surged even higher. A strong, rainbow-colored Dou Qi wrapped around her sword like a radiant veil, radiating immense energy.
"Pointless struggle!"
Xie Bi Yan sneered, unimpressed by her display of defiance. He raised his hand and condensed a massive, dozens-of-meters-wide gray palm of energy. With a roar, he struck down toward Queen Medusa.
Only those who had stepped into Dou Zong could truly understand the gap between Dou Huang and Dou Zong. The strength didn't just come from Dou Qi or mastery of spatial force, but also in the manipulation of heaven and earth energy. Their Dou Techniques gained an entirely different level of potency.
"Slash!"
Queen Medusa shouted, unleashing a massive sword strike over ten meters long. The concentrated Dou Qi it carried caused even space itself to tear slightly in its wake.
This was her strongest attack. She held nothing back—this single strike consumed more than half her Dou Qi.
Boom!
The two attacks collided in midair, erupting in a deafening explosion as energy ripples blasted outward.
Queen Medusa was thrown backward by the shockwave.
Meanwhile, Xie Bi Yan calmly raised his hand, forming a spatial barrier in front of him that blocked all incoming force. His gray-lit eyes remained locked on Queen Medusa. He didn't follow up with a finishing blow—he didn't want her dead. Draining her blood or devouring her whole body would be far more useful to him.
If necessary, he even planned to help her cultivate until she reached Dou Zong, then devour her. If she awakened her Sky Swallowing Python bloodline in the process—all the better.
At that thought, the greed in his eyes grew.
People often fantasize about their rewards just before success—this is usually when they're most vulnerable.
…
"Frost Dragon Ascension!"
"Nether Serpent!"
Two furious roars echoed from behind. In the blink of an eye, two tremendous energy auras surged toward Xie Bi Yan. Even before he could turn fully around, a colossal ice dragon and an enormous deep-blue serpent were already crashing down upon him.
These sneak attacks came with such overwhelming force that they gave him no time to react.
Impossible!
Xie Bi Yan's heart roared in disbelief. How had two Dou Huangs gotten this close without him sensing them? And to have time to charge such powerful Dou Techniques? That kind of buildup usually made sneak attacks impossible!
But clearly, there was no time to find answers.
These two attacks were no less than full-power strikes from peak Dou Huangs—and they were coming right at his face.
In desperation, he tried to summon his spatial force to defend himself, but it wasn't enough. These strikes were far too powerful for his half-baked spatial mastery to withstand. The energy shattered his fragile barrier almost instantly and exploded directly against him.
Boom! Boom!
A bone-chilling storm of energy swept through the sky, even causing snowflakes to swirl in the air.
Queen Medusa, still falling, was suddenly caught by a pair of arms. Yao Yan held her by the waist, looking toward the battlefield where Hai Bodong and Caidie's attacks had landed squarely on Xie Bi Yan. He whispered, "That old man isn't a true Dou Zong. At the very least, his body hasn't reached that level. Taking two hits at this range—if he's not dead, he's heavily injured."
Yao Yan could clearly sense Xie Bi Yan's energy plummeting. It had already fallen from Dou Zong levels down to Dou Huang—and it was still dropping.
In the end, it was just a secret technique that had forcefully raised his power—not true strength.
Like a balloon inflated to its limit… all it took was a single pop.
(END CHAPTER)
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