Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 287 Liu Niandao, Ultimate Attack Power

"give it to me!"

Gula's voice was unusually calm, even carrying a hint of disdain. Facing the titled Douluo's fatal blow, there was no panic in his eyes.

He did not use his unfathomable power, but instead released his spirit rings. A vast spirit ring space unfolded, and a blood-red, crystal-clear illusory feather appeared in mid-air.

The feathers are naturally engraved with mysterious flame patterns, radiating a heart-pounding heat.

"Teacher, may I borrow your real fire?"

Gula whispered, and his feathers instantly erupted with terrifying soul power fluctuations.

hum!
The feathers burst forth with a dazzling crimson light! A clear and melodious phoenix cry seemed to pierce through the heavens! A terrifying heat wave, capable of burning the eight wastelands and forcing all things to submit, suddenly erupted!
boom--!
A condensed, golden fire line, seemingly composed of countless tiny phoenixes, shot out from the tip of a feather, transforming into a fiery phoenix to meet the dark, ghostly claw that blotted out the sky!
laugh--!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a piercing sound like a red-hot iron being plunged into cold water.

The Dark Ghost Claw, which contained the terrifying power of a Super Douluo, melted and vaporized as quickly as ice and snow the moment it came into contact with the Crimson Gold Fire Line, as if it had met its nemesis!
The black-robed Super Douluo let out a horrified scream and hurriedly activated the trump card given to him by the Ghost Emperor to block the Heavenly Phoenix True Fire.

Gula frowned slightly, his spirit rings flashed, and he activated his second golden-red feather. Instantly, the Super Douluo's entire arm and half of his shoulder turned to ashes! If his body hadn't suddenly become ethereal, he probably would have already turned to ashes.

The crimson-gold fire line continued its momentum, as if it possessed a spirit, making a nimble turn in the air and accurately sweeping towards the three evil soul master titled Douluo below who had just launched an attack and were trying to escape.

"Do not--!"

The three titled Douluo unleashed their soul power wildly, recklessly employing various defensive soul skills, but in the face of that wisp of Heavenly Phoenix True Fire, all their defenses were as fragile as paper.

The crimson flames ignited upon contact, instantly spreading throughout their bodies. They only had time to let out half a shrill wail before their bodies, along with their martial souls, were completely reduced to three wisps of ashes in the three towering flames, scattering with the wind without leaving a trace.

Leng Yaozhu's wisp of Heavenly Phoenix True Fire is so domineering! Truly worthy of the name Heavenly Phoenix!
Just as the old power had dissipated and the new power had not yet emerged, and everyone's attention was drawn to the terrifying true fire and the severe injury to the Super Douluo!
A silent, ghostly shadow, seemingly merging into space itself, suddenly burrowed into the crack in the damaged bulkhead of the aircraft!

A dagger, gleaming with a chilling blue light and clearly coated with deadly poison, pierced straight for Gula's back with a cunning and ruthless trajectory!
The timing was impeccable; it was the moment when Gula had just activated his feathers, when his aura was weakest and his vigilance was at its lowest!

The one who made the move was none other than a Title Douluo! He was shrouded in shadow, lurking in the shadows like a silent assassin, waiting for the fatal blow.

This person's aura was extremely restrained, and his actions lacked the sinister coldness characteristic of evil soul masters. Instead, he exuded a well-trained, icy killing intent.

"careful!"

Liu Niandao stood behind Gula, seemingly silent, but his mental power had already enveloped the entire area like an invisible spider web.

The moment the attacker's murderous intent erupted, his eyes, which always carried a hint of indifference and laziness, suddenly became as deep and cold as a frozen pool!
hum!
A vast and powerful spiritual pressure, far surpassing the Soul Emperor realm, erupted like an invisible tsunami!
"Spiritual power of the Spirit Abyss Realm!"

This terrifying mental power instantly locked onto the attacker, like an invisible shackle, causing him to freeze in his tracks!
Gula smiled to himself, using his mental power to help control the attacker.

Liu Niandao activated his telekinetic martial soul!

Fourth Soul Skill: Recovery Lockdown!
The powerful telekinetic energy, mixed with mental energy, instantly covered the attacker like an invisible, viscous glue.

It wasn't a direct attack, but it created a strange force field that frantically suppressed the flow of soul power, the recovery of mental power, and even the natural surge of life force within the opponent's body.

The attacker was horrified to discover that his pride and joy, speed and explosiveness, had been reduced by 30% by this invisible shackle!

"court death!"

The attacker's eyes flashed with ferocity as he forcefully summoned his weakened soul power, making the dagger even more powerful! He was confident that even weakened, with his Title Douluo cultivation, even without the convenience of using his battle armor, he could still pierce through most of the defenses and penetrate Gula's heart with just this level nine Soul-Breaking Dagger!

However, Liu Niandao's attack had only just begun!
The Willow Leaf Blade Martial Soul instantly appeared, and its fourth Soul Ring shone brightly!
"Fourth Soul Skill, Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Blade Formation!"

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Twelve beautifully shaped, paper-thin nine-leaf throwing knives shot out from beside him in an instant! But what was even more terrifying was that these twelve throwing knives split apart on their own the moment they left his body! Each one split into nine even finer, thinner, and sharper willow-leaf-shaped blades!
One hundred and eight sharpened blades!
This is the core of Liu Niandao's first martial soul—twelve nine-leaf flying knives! They are not simple weapons; each one contains the sharpness tempered by Liu Niandao's ruthless sword intent.

Just as the blade split, a faint silver light flashed past Liu Niandao's shoulder. It was a silver, blade-shaped phantom, only the length of a finger, with an extremely simple form, like the most basic carving knife.

It has no facial features, only a simple outline of a blade, and its entire body exudes a cold, hard metallic luster. It is ignorant of intelligence, yet it resonates perfectly with Liu Niandao's spiritual power—this is his artificial metal spirit.

This spirit was created by Gula at great expense, using custom-made soul-forged metal from the Spirit Tower and having it awakened.

The Spirit Pagoda had long ago developed a method to create artificial souls by awakening the spirits in metals, but due to its low cost-effectiveness, it could not conduct large-scale experiments, causing the creation of artificial metal souls to remain at the stage of a hundred years.

It is not very intelligent and cannot fight independently, but it is an excellent assistant for Liu Niandao to control his flying knife martial spirit.

With its subtle spiritual blessing, Liu Niandao's control over each throwing knife reached an unbelievable level of precision and responsiveness.

This Soul Forged Metal itself contains the potential to be nurtured and elevated to the Heaven Forged level. Although with Gula's support and ability to see the future, it can only produce a thousand-year-old Soul Spirit for now, it is an indispensable cornerstone for Liu Niandao's future.

One hundred and eight blades, aided by Liu Niandao's incredibly precise and supercomputer-like spiritual power at the Lingyuan Realm level and the metal soul spirit, instantly transformed into an impenetrable net of death blades, covering all the attacker's escape routes!
The blade formation is complete. The power of all the flying blades is interconnected and amplified, forming a unified whole! This is the terrifying aspect of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Blade Formation—it transforms the fragmented into a unified whole, concentrating the power of a hundred blades into a single point!
"First Soul Skill, Thousand Cuts!"

An invisible aura of sharpness instantly infused each blade, causing the already thin, translucent blades to become even sharper and faster than silver lightning. The air was easily torn apart, emitting a piercing shriek!

"Fifth Soul Skill, Blade Soul Resonance!"

A cold, ruthless sword intent, seemingly capable of severing all emotions and desires, accompanied by Liu Niandao's will, instantly merged into every flying knife!

This was not merely a physical cut, but a spiritual torture. The blade aimed directly at the soul! The titled Douluo who launched the sneak attack felt a terrifying mental force that froze his soul, locking onto him. His body was bound by invisible psychic shackles, and his vision was instantly filled with countless silver lights carrying icy killing intent and merciless blade intent!

His eyes flashed with unbelievable horror. He tried to block, to dodge, to unleash his soul power to break free of the restraints... but it was all too late!
Under the mental lock of the Spirit Abyss Realm, the weakening of the recovery blockade, the amplification of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Blade Formation, the accelerated sharpening of the Thousand Cuts and Ten Thousand Slices, and the mental impact of the resonance of the Blade Soul, this Title Douluo was like a lamb to the slaughter!

Puff puff puff puff——!
Like a sudden storm beating down on banana leaves!
One hundred and eight willow-leaf blades, each imbued with multiple terrifying effects, pierced through the attacker's body in a fraction of a second, like the most precise killing machine!

There was no earth-shattering collision of soul power, only a chilling, extremely dense cutting sound!

"Third Soul Skill, Heavenly Flowers in Full Bloom."

The third spirit ring has not yet been activated. The basic sword array composed of 108 flying knives, combined with other spirit skills, is already deadly enough!
The effect of the third spirit ring is to multiply the number of Nine-Leaf Flying Knives by the number of spirit rings, and the consumption also increases by the same factor. The explosive power in an instant has already exceeded the defense of a mortal body.

This is not over yet.

"Second Soul Skill, Shadow of the Blade!"

The instant the blade pierced the body, each blade left behind an even more illusory yet equally sharp blade shadow along its trajectory!
These shadows, like leeches, clung to the path of the solid blade, slicing across the attacker's body once more, causing secondary damage! And that cold, merciless blade intent, too, impacted his soul once more through these shadows!

The attacker's body remained frozen in place, still in a forward-leaning posture.

The next second, countless fine blood lines burst open all over his body at the same time. His whole body was like a finely crafted building block being dismantled, instantly collapsing and shattering into countless fragments smaller than a fingernail, mixed with internal organs and bones, scattering all over the ground! The scene was extremely bloody and cruel! His spirit was also completely annihilated under the impact of the resonance of the sword soul.

He didn't even have time to unleash his battle armor, let out a scream, or see who killed him before he vanished from the world without a complete corpse!

The gruesome manner of their deaths sent a chill down the spines of Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er, who were accustomed to bloodshed.

The scene was deathly silent. Only the howling wind from the damaged part of the aircraft and the piercing scream of the one-armed evil soul master, Super Douluo, tearing through the air as he fled in terror in the distance could be heard.

Gula slowly turned around, looking at the pile of blood and flesh fragments on the ground that were impossible to identify, and then looked at Liu Niandao.

The coldness in Liu Niandao's eyes quickly faded, and he returned to his dazed and lazy appearance, as if the extremely ruthless killing machine from just now was not him.

One hundred and eight willow-leaf blades silently flew back to her side, reassembling into twelve nine-leaf throwing knives that disappeared into her body. The small metal spirit on her shoulder also vanished.

If we're talking about who's the strongest among the five incarnations, even Gula can't say for sure, but if we're talking about who has the strongest attack power, then it has to be Liu Niandao.

He lacked Bai Yuan and Yin Wansheng's innate domains, Mu Yi's numerous secret techniques, and Qing Liuli's all-pervasive mental attacks. Yet, he possessed the unique twin martial souls, with the two martial souls complementing each other. All his soul skills were designed for faster and more efficient killing.

Just like the plant spirit beast that shaped him, the Killer Willow.

"Well handled." Gula snapped out of his thoughts and said calmly, but his gaze was sharp as a knife as he turned to the direction in which the Super Douluo had fled.

There's no escaping him. There's time to lock onto his moves. Even if the evil spirit master escapes to the other side of the planet, Gura will find him and kill him.

Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er quickly stabilized the falling aircraft, their expressions extremely solemn.

The evil spirit master actually dispatched a Super Douluo to lead the interception! The target was clearly Gula and the others who were helping Shrek Academy regain their honor, and the last attacker seemed to be intentionally hiding his identity.

"Such ruthless methods, such exquisite infiltration and timing of the assassination... This doesn't seem like the usual methods of an evil spirit master."

Cai Yue'er said in a deep voice, looking at the broken pieces on the ground with her brows furrowed, "They look like... well-trained military soul masters."

"You mean..." Zhuo Shi's expression changed.

Gula walked to the pool of flesh and blood, squatted down, ignoring the heavy smell of blood, and picked up a small piece of black fabric that had not yet been completely cut up.

The fragments had a unique texture, with a faint trace of non-soul energy fluctuations remaining on them.

“He’s neither an evil soul master nor a military soul master.” Gula’s voice was icy, carrying a chilling insight. “This last one doesn’t have that nauseating soul power smell of an evil soul master. His movements are methodical, his aura is almost perfectly concealed, and his assassination timing is precise. This style can only be the secret strength of some force.”

He stood up, casually flicked away the fragment of fabric, and his gaze seemed to pierce through the void, landing on a distant place that controlled a vast power.

"The eternal east wind... have you finally given up and decided to personally intervene?"

Gula sneered inwardly. Qian Gu Dongfeng might have thought this assassination would be foolproof, but he knew better than anyone the cooperation between the Spirit Pagoda and the Holy Spirit Cult.

"As an assassin, there aren't many titled Douluo on the continent who have this kind of skill. They didn't release their battle armor because they were afraid of being recognized. It's a pity that the body was severely damaged."

Cai Yue'er and Zhuo Shi are both hot-tempered and are ready to go back to find the culprit. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to cause a huge uproar for them.

As the two were analyzing the killer, the piercing alarm and the roar of the mecha engine grew louder as they approached, tearing apart the deathly silence of the towering mountains.

Several federal-standard high-altitude patrol mechs, flashing blinding red and blue warning lights, swooped down from the clouds like giant steel birds.

The heavy metal body hovered above the ravaged battlefield, its searchlights sweeping like sharp swords across the smoldering Shrek Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle wreckage, which was stuck diagonally on the hillside, as well as the huge charred craters left by the Heavenly Phoenix True Fire and the scattered ashes belonging to the evil soul masters.

(End of this chapter)