Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 103 Rebirth and Passage Away - Stealing the Origin

The mere sight of him locked onto him made his proud Level 3 divine sense flicker like a candle in the wind, its operation sluggish. This was pressure that no ordinary Level 1 deity could exert! He instantly understood the source of the Shadow Assassin Demon and the Lava Blade Demon's deep-seated fear!

However, Harosa knew that it was precisely at times like these that he could not show weakness! To show weakness was tantamount to surrendering the initiative, tantamount to declaring death!

He gritted his teeth, and the gray-brown, decaying wood-colored divine halo behind him burst forth with unprecedented light! The boundless power of rebirth forcefully dispelled the chill in his heart, and he withstood the terrifying divine pressure!

He raised his head, his gray-white eyes filled with unprecedented solemnity, to meet the pure darkness in the center of the altar, eyes that seemed capable of devouring all light!

The moment their eyes met, Harosa felt as if his soul had been plunged into a cold cosmic abyss, the boundless loneliness and darkness frantically eroding his will! But he held fast to his mind, the power of rebirth building a strong barrier in his sea of ​​consciousness, refusing to yield an inch!

In this silent clash of wills, a thought flashed through Harossa's mind like lightning—"The Holy Sword of the Angels!"

The words of the demon god before his death may not be credible, but the fact that this Douluo artifact is a sealing core and requires the Douluo's origin to resonate with it is logically sound! They have no reason to fabricate an easily exposed lie to deceive him in that situation!

This is the only chance to regain control of the situation!

"I'll risk it all!" A fierce glint flashed in Harosa's eyes, and he no longer hesitated! The power of rebirth within him erupted, and his figure transformed into a gray-brown stream of light that tore through the boundary between light and darkness. Ignoring the heavy, mountain-like pressure, his target was the angelic holy sword that floated above the altar, radiating holy light!

The speed was incredibly fast!

However, just as his fingertips were about to touch the sword hilt flowing with golden divine patterns, and at the critical moment when the pure Douluo origin aura in his body was about to be injected—Harossa's extremely keen combat intuition caught an extremely subtle detail that made the hairs on his body stand on end!

At the center of the altar, seated in the heart of a dark vortex, her body rippled with endless evil energy, Atong's perfect yet icy lips seemed—very, very slightly—to curve upwards?

That was definitely not a friendly smile! It was more like an all-knowing, playful, and mocking expectation?

"Not good!" Harosa's heart felt as if it had been gripped by an icy hand! An indescribable sense of crisis instantly overwhelmed him!

A trap?! Or...?

What if the injection of one's own Douluo Origin doesn't strengthen the seal, but instead becomes the last straw that breaks the camel's back, or some kind of "key" to unlock the final lock?

Given Atong's unfathomable strength and understanding of the seal, it's entirely possible that she devised such a countermeasure!

Once the seal completely collapses, even ten lives wouldn't be enough to fill the void left by a fallen angel god like Harosa in his prime, who is at least at the peak of a first-level god, or even stronger!

In the blink of an eye, Harosa abruptly halted his forward momentum! The hand reaching for the holy sword, just millimeters from the hilt, suddenly twisted and changed direction in an extremely bizarre manner!

Using the force of this forced twist, his entire body, as if defying the laws of physics, was shot backward at an even faster speed, instantly returning to the position where he had just been standing on the edge of the altar!

The entire movement was completed in one smooth motion, so fast that it left only a faint afterimage in place!

Cold sweat silently soaked Harosa's back. He stared intently at Atun in the center of the altar, his heart pounding wildly. That last moment of hesitation was like walking on the edge of an abyss!

Atong's pure, dark eyes seemed to shift slightly, as if silently asking: Why did you stop?

The barely perceptible curve of her lips had vanished, replaced by a cold indifference.

Harosa took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down and analyze the situation. His consciousness was no longer focused on Atong's unsettling eyes, but rather, like the most precise scanner, it meticulously scanned the entire structure of the altar array, the flow of energy, and Atong's current state.

"This magic array—its suppressive power against Atong is still strong!" Harosa quickly came to the key conclusion.

Although the protective barrier was broken, the golden divine runes that formed the altar itself continued to circulate, radiating a powerful aura of holy light. The Angelic Holy Sword still hovered above, continuously drawing upon the primal power (dark red energy stream) of the demonic plane from the void. The vast majority of this power (over 80% according to our own testing) was transformed into pure divine light, which was then injected into the altar runes below, maintaining the operation of the magic circle and continuing to suppress Atong!

Less than 20% of the demonic essence was forcibly drawn in and devoured by the eerie dark ripples around her, turning into nourishment for herself.

It would be very difficult for Atong to break free of the seal with less than two layers of demonic essence.

This oppressive force is like an incredibly sturdy cage! Although Atong has awakened and her aura is terrifying, she is like a tiger locked in a specially made bulletproof glass cage in a zoo! She can roar, exude a terrifying pressure, and even make you feel the threat of death through the cage. But as long as you don't foolishly open the cage door and go in, she cannot cause you any real harm!

Harosa carefully sensed the intensity of the aura emanating from Atun. It was indeed vast and abyssal, suffocating, but it seemed to be firmly bound within the core of the altar by an invisible lock, unable to be fully released.

Her rate of absorbing demonic essence was a drop in the ocean compared to the total amount absorbed by the angelic holy sword!

"At this rate, she intends to rely on the stolen demonic essence to accumulate power and forcibly break through the seal maintained by the Douluo artifact and the demonic plane's essence—" Harosa calculated rapidly in his mind, "It's absolutely impossible without tens of thousands, even thousands of years of painstaking effort! And the demonic plane's essence probably won't last that long either—"

He glanced warily at the dark red energy stream being absorbed by the Angelic Holy Sword; its intensity seemed slightly weaker than when he had first entered? Though minuscule, it was indeed diminishing! The dimensional source was drying up!

A plan so audacious it was almost insane instantly took shape in Harosa's mind!

"Since that's the case," Harosa's lips slowly curved into a smile, a smile completely different from Atun's earlier subtle curve, one brimming with greed and a sense of adventure, "to not take a single bite of this feast delivered right to my lips would be a waste!"

He no longer looked into Atong's unsettling dark eyes, but instead focused all his mind and strength on the angelic holy sword that hovered above the altar like a beacon of light!

"The gates of the underworld are opening one by one!"

Harosa suddenly spread his arms wide to the sides! A vast, boundless divine power of rebirth surged forth, frantically coalescing before him! A profound, incomparably deep...

The enormous portal, with its edges flowing with mysterious gray-brown runes and exuding a rich aura of rebirth and reincarnation, suddenly burst open!

Within the portal lies the passage to his divine realm, imbued with the unique aura of the laws that belong to his divine realm!

Rebirth and Transmission - Stealing the Source!