Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 401 A Massacre, Soul Saint.

Zhongli Wu was furious, but his voice turned calm: "Fine, fine, I won't let you die easily."

His silver hair danced wildly without wind, and the deathly gray-black soul power around him was like a boiling abyss.

"Death God Puppet, Possession!"

With a hoarse roar, a huge, ferocious gray demonic puppet phantom, entwined with countless vengeful spirits, merged with his main body, and his aura suddenly became extremely cold and terrifying.

At the same time, the ninth spirit ring beneath his feet suddenly lit up—it was a blood-red, 100,000-year spirit ring.

"Bone Dragon King, appear!"

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding sound of bones grinding together, a colossal bone dragon appeared out of thin air, its eye sockets crackling with eerie blue soul fire, radiating a suffocating dragon aura and deathly aura.

This is the powerful beast spirit that Zhongliwu has painstakingly refined.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Death Needle!"

Zhongli Wu unleashed a soul skill that lasted for 100,000 years.

Countless fine gray energy needles, each containing the ultimate power of death and corrosion, rained down on Gula like a storm. Wherever they passed, even the air hissed and wailed, as if life force was instantly stripped away.

The three evil soul masters behind him also released their respective martial souls at the same time, exuding a chilling aura. However, they did not attack immediately, clearly believing that the sect leader's personal intervention would be enough to crush this kid.

Gula's eyes narrowed, and his mind raced.

Zhongli Wu's furious attack was extremely powerful. Although his angelic soul was strong, it was still essentially an energy body and lacked the protection of a real flesh and blood body. If it were to be damaged in its essence or even devoured by the Death God Puppet power that specifically restrained and controlled souls, the loss would be too great.

"Come back!" He immediately summoned back the spirit of the Holy Sun Angel.

At the same time, he instantly entered an angelic possession state, and a dazzling golden light enveloped his entire body once again, but this time it was purely driven by his own soul power. More importantly, his powerful psychic energy surged forth like a tidal wave!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——!
The next moment, countless dark red "Evil Buster VI" projectiles, as if controlled by an invisible hand, instantly appeared around his body, swirling and flying around like loyal guards.

Zhongli Wu's expression finally changed drastically. The power of those few dozen explosions was enough to threaten them, but the detonation of over one hundred and fifty at once...

He couldn't even imagine the devastating scene. But confident in his strength, he didn't choose to dodge, instead roaring, "Bone Dragon King, stand in front! True Martial Soul Form!"

The enormous Bone Dragon King let out a silent roar and suddenly blocked Zhongli Wu's path, its bones radiating a thick, deathly gray light.

Zhongli Wu himself transformed into a gigantic Death God puppet, ten meters tall, with a gray scythe in his hand that seemed capable of slicing through souls—the second soul skill of his eighth soul ring, Death God's Scythe!

He actually tried to withstand the explosion and take the opportunity to get close to Gura and kill him with one blow.

However, Gula had no intention of confronting him head-on.

He looked at Zhongli Wu charging towards him, a mocking smile curving his lips, and silently mouthed "bye-bye".

The next second, a spatial ripple flashed.

Gula's figure, along with the more than 150 "Evil Busters," vanished from its original spot in an instant and appeared directly between the three Evil Title Douluos who were watching the battle from a distance and were caught off guard.

"No—!" The three people's pupils contracted sharply, and their terrified screams had barely left their lips...

Boom, boom, boom—!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A massive explosion, several times more powerful than before and capable of destroying the world, erupted in that area without warning.

The extreme light and fire expanded wildly, instantly engulfing everything! The terrifying energy shockwave tore the earth apart and vaporized rocks!

Those three evil soul masters, titled Douluo, couldn't even put up a decent resistance. Their protective soul power shattered like paper when detonated at such close range by so many "evil nemesis" at the same time.

Their bodies were instantly purified and annihilated in the pure storm of light. Only a mournful, desperate wail echoed briefly amidst the explosions before vanishing completely.

As the light dimmed, Gula's figure appeared like a ghost at the edge of the explosion, his longsword, formed from the ultimate light and fire, slashing down—the Holy Sword of the Sun!
He shattered and purified the purest primordial evil power that remained after the explosion, belonging to the three evil soul master titled Douluo, as well as the resentment of their souls that erupted at the time of their death, transforming it into the purest holy energy, which he poured into the body of the Sun Angel soul spirit that had just returned to the sea of ​​spirit like a torrent.

"Om-!"

The Holy Sun Angel's soul emitted a pleasant buzz, its solidified light fluctuated violently, and its aura surged wildly at a visible speed.

Eighty-five thousand years...ninety thousand years...ninety-five thousand years...one hundred thousand years!

Its age has surpassed 100,000 years in the blink of an eye, and it continues to increase.
The immense divine power prevented it from absorbing it completely at once. With a flash of light, it voluntarily returned to Gura's spiritual sea and fell into slumber to digest this enormous gain.

As the host, Gula also received tremendous feedback. A vast amount of pure energy surged into his limbs and bones, instantly breaking through the solid barrier of his soul power level.

Level 70! Soul Saint!

Without the slightest hesitation, Gula switched martial souls in a flash.

Emerald green light replaced the brilliant gold, and the phantom of Celebi, full of life and the breath of time, appeared behind him.

At the same time, a green-gold soul ring containing an indescribable ancient and life-giving aura suddenly rose from beneath his feet, flashed for a moment, and then quietly disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

……

In the distance, Zhong Liwu, who had just survived the shockwave of the explosion, was furious when he sensed that the auras of his three capable henchmen had vanished instantly.

He then suddenly realized that Gula's target from the beginning was not him, but his subordinates.

He killed three evil titled Douluo and used their souls and essence to nourish the angelic martial soul, aiding his cultivation.

"Asshole! How dare you play tricks on me!"

Zhongli Wu witnessed his three capable subordinates being reduced to ashes in a spectacular explosion of light. Overwhelming rage instantly overwhelmed his reason, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

At this moment, in his mind, Gula instantly transformed from a tiny insect that could be crushed at will into a cunning, ruthless, and cunning enemy!

He even had a vague premonition that Gula's crazy actions at Sun Moon Academy might have been intended to provoke them and lure them out so that they could become nourishment for him to improve his strength.

"Good, good, good! You bastard! You actually plotted against our Holy Spirit Cult! You deserve to die! You deserve to die a thousand deaths!" Zhongli Wu was like a madman, his silver hair dancing wildly.

Although he withstood the main impact of the explosion with the help of the Bone Dragon King and his Martial Soul True Body, his soul power was greatly depleted. However, the precious Bone Dragon King under his feet had cracks and even shattered in many places, which made him feel extremely distressed and his hatred for Gula reached its peak.

"Bone Dragon King, the ultimate wind! The ultimate fire!"

Zhongli Wu frantically channeled his soul power, fusing his own power with that of the Bone Dragon King to unleash the Bone Dragon King's powerful ultimate move.

In an instant, a gale howled, will-o'-the-wisps spread like wildfire, the wind fanning the flames, and terrifying destructive energy began to gather wildly, its power enough to flatten mountains.

He refused to believe that Gula, a mere Soul Master at most a Soul King, could escape such a large-scale devastating attack with his teleportation soul skill.

However, just as this devastating energy was about to erupt, Gula had already adapted to the surge in soul power.

A slight smirk played on his lips, and a flash of green light emanated from his body—

Seventh Soul Skill - Martial Soul True Form - Forest Guardian - Time Spirit!
At the same time, a clone was created, disguised as his original form, and stood in place.

His true form instantly donned a large black robe capable of blocking spiritual detection. The mysterious man in black, who had once met Xuanzi in the Star Dou Great Forest, reappeared.

Beneath the black robe, Gula had already secretly donned his battle armor, and his strength instantly soared.

The green-gold spirit ring pulsed beneath his feet, unleashing a torrent of life and time power.

In his Martial Soul True Form state, all his attributes are doubled. Furthermore, he establishes a mysterious connection with the surrounding Jingyang Mountains—in battles within the forest, the damage and energy he receives are shared by the entire forest.

Even more terrifying, he gained the terrifying ability to summon his past and future selves to fight for him!
"Breath of the Forest!"

Gula raised his hand, his voice coming through his black robe, deep and authoritative.

As if he had heard the command, the plants within a ten-mile radius began to grow wildly. Countless emerald green light spots converged from all directions of the forest, condensing into an incredibly solid green beam of light in his palm, containing terrifying energy.

This is one of Celebi's signature moves, gathering the energy of the forest to deliver a fatal blow that ignores defenses.

The Jingyang Mountains are one-third the size of the Star Dou Great Forest. Although the time was short and it was impossible to gather all the power, the power of this attack had already reached the terrifying level of a level 99 Limit Douluo.

Almost simultaneously, Zhongliwu's "Extreme Wind, Extreme Fire" roared out, and the destructive torrent of yin wind and ghost fire collided violently with the seemingly gentle but actually life-giving green beam of light.

Amidst a deafening roar, the cliff beneath their feet could no longer withstand the force and collapsed completely.

All plants, life, and rocks within a radius of one mile were instantly reduced to ashes by the terrifying energy ripples.

However, Gula's Martial Soul True Form effect activated, with the Forest Authority and the Power of Time taking effect simultaneously.

Those plants that had just been destroyed seemed to revert to their original state, growing back at a speed visible to the naked eye. They were destroyed and then instantly restored, repeating this cycle endlessly.

Although it consumed a lot of Gula's soul power, it truly protected the forest and demonstrated his absolute control over this region.

Moreover, he had no fear of the burden and consumption on the forest.

"what?!"

Zhongli Wu stared in horror at the almost unharmed man in black, and at the bizarre scene of constant destruction and rebirth around him, and roared in fury:

"No wonder, no wonder that little thief Gula dared to take such a risk and provoke my Holy Church. So you were backing him up! Who exactly are you?! To be an enemy of my Holy Spirit Church, my Supreme Elder will never let you get away with this!"

Gula changed his voice, making it sound old and ethereal, like a whisper from an ancient forest:
"You may call me... the Forest Guardian. Your Holy Spirit Cult slaughters soul beasts, refines their souls, and disrupts the ecological balance; you deserve this calamity!"

"Absurd! The law of the jungle prevails, it's only natural! Die!"

Zhongli Wu ignored all of this and fired the Death Needle again, while simultaneously controlling the Bone Dragon King to pounce.

The man in black shook his head, seemingly with some regret: "Zhongli Wu, your death is near."

He raised his hand, not to attack directly, but to activate the most overpowered ability of his Martial Soul True Body—summoning his past and future selves.

hum!
The sky seemed to have been torn open into a giant black hole, and a mysterious fluctuation of time spread out.

Immediately afterwards, to Zhongli Wu's utter astonishment, one after another, figures dressed in identical black robes stepped out of the black hole.

The aura emanating from each of them was no less powerful than that of the man in black before them.

Moreover, his eyes were bright and his aura was solid, far surpassing that of ordinary clone soul skills.

The next moment, all ten men in black raised their hands at the same time.

"Breath of the Forest!" *10
Ten beams of emerald green light, no weaker than before, instantly coalesced and merged into one, transforming into a devastating green torrent that swept towards Zhongli Wu, crushing everything in its path.

"Do not--!"

Zhongli Wu let out a desperate roar. The Bone Dragon King beneath his feet was the first to be hit. Under the terrifying power that had been fused with ten times the breath of the forest, it couldn't even last a second and was instantly pulverized and purified, turning into dust everywhere.

Zhongli Wu was struck as if by a heavy blow, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood. His ninth spirit ring instantly became dull and lost its luster, suffering a severe backlash.

But he couldn't care less about the heartache at that moment. The intense crisis of death made him make the most instinctive choice—escape!
He suddenly threw out several level-nine defensive soul tools he carried with him for self-defense. Without even looking at the result, he burned his soul power and transformed into a gray-black stream of light, fleeing madly towards Mingdu without looking back at an astonishing speed.

The black-clad figure that Gula had transformed into pretended to chase after them for a short distance before stopping.

With his Martial Soul True Body and Celebi's various overpowered abilities, he was indeed no longer afraid of Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao. However, his Angel Soul was still dormant and digesting. Killing Zhongli Wu now would waste a future "gift package" and bait to provoke Ye Xishui into action.

He looked at the fused version of "Breath of the Forest" that had not yet completely dissipated, and manipulated it to gently return its remaining energy to the forest below.

A surge of life energy descended, and the previously destroyed areas were revitalized at an even faster pace, growing even more lushly.

Having done all this, Gula released the call to his past and future selves. The black-robed figures nodded slightly to him, then stepped back into the spacetime black hole one by one and disappeared.

Gula breathed a sigh of relief, secretly rejoicing: "Luckily, we're in the forest, otherwise summoning so many 'selves' would probably drain me dry."

With the battle over, it was time to check his spoils. He landed on the wrecked ground and found several decent-quality ten-thousand-year-old soul bones left behind by the three evil soul master titled Douluo, which he casually put away.

Then he immediately sat down cross-legged and began to circulate his soul power, completely transforming the enormous power fed back by his soul into his own stable cultivation.

……

In the distance, Huo Yuhao and his two companions had spent a thrilling night.

The initial terrifying explosion and the subsequent burst of power comparable to that of the Elder Xuan terrified them.

Huo Yuhao wanted to go and check, but was sternly stopped by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ice Emperor. Then, the appearance of that vast and boundless power full of life made them completely give up the idea.

The three continued the experiment with trepidation, but their minds were already elsewhere.

Later, when they were besieged by a pack of golden wolves, Huo Yuhao remembered Gula's instructions in a moment of crisis. He gritted his teeth and detonated the "Evil Buster". The violent explosion severely damaged the wolf pack, and they managed to escape, but they were all injured and in a sorry state.

……

Zhongli Wu burned his life essence all the way back to the Holy Spirit Cult's secret stronghold in a sorry state. He immediately announced that he would go into seclusion to cultivate, but in reality, he was silently licking his wounds and repairing the damage caused by the backlash of his martial soul.

He wanted to immediately go to his mother, Ye Xishui, to complain and ask for help, but the losses this time were so heavy that he couldn't save face, so he was still hesitating.

However, he still sent someone to warn Crown Prince Xu Tianran, lest this reckless fellow cause further trouble and ruin the Holy Spirit Cult's plans.

The message is simple: Gula is protected by a Super Douluo with a strength of at least level 98 and extremely strange and unique abilities; do not make any further moves for now.

Inside the Crown Prince's residence, Xu Tianran received the news and was so angry he almost smashed his beloved teacup, muttering under his breath, "Useless!!"

But he was helpless. After all, he was not the emperor yet and could not mobilize the empire's true resources to deal with such a mysterious powerhouse. He could only suppress his endless frustration and killing intent for the time being and plan for the long term.

The undercurrents in Mingdu have temporarily fallen into an eerie calm due to the battle at Jingyang Mountain.

(End of this chapter)