Douluo Continent: Building a Divine Kingdom Starting from the Spirit Hall

The Holy Emperor's avatar remained silent, then charged forward wielding the Panlong Halberd.

The Abyss Saint King would not back down, and sensing the power of the Saint Emperor's avatar, he took the initiative to meet it.

The battle below also began, but before the Abyss Emperors could rush over, the mech legion here unleashed a wave of elemental lasers, and apart from the eighteen quasi-gods, the other Abyss Emperors were crippled and fell to the ground.

Then the eighteen quasi-gods were bombarded by countless lasers with various attributes. Even though a single laser beam didn't do much damage, the combined fire of countless attribute lasers was deadly.

"What era are we living in? Still playing the charging game?"

Sitting on the stone chair with his legs crossed, Karl had little interest in this battle whose outcome was already predetermined.

This is Father's art of war. The war has already begun; it is a contest of wisdom and tactics. The final battle is merely a formality. Everything was predetermined in the planning process.

Through careful planning in the early stages, the opponent has been thoroughly analyzed, all possibilities have been grasped, and countermeasures have been prepared. As long as no unexpected events occur, the outcome will not change in the slightest.

This is the form of warfare that should exist in the new era; the old-fashioned, hot-blooded charges are long gone.

"Trying to self-destruct? That won't do!"

Suddenly sensing that the energy of the eighteen quasi-gods had become violent, Karl sat up straight, manipulated the power of the Reincarnation Disc behind him, and with the added privilege of being the Lord of the Underworld Plane, he directly compressed the space where the eighteen Abyss Quasi-gods were located into a scroll painting. It was the two-dimensional foil created by his father, an extremely advanced spatial application.

Even now, he finds it somewhat difficult to use it, and he cannot seal beings with divine positions, not even a third-level god.

There's still room for improvement!

Of course, once the Death Tree and the Reincarnation Disc have completely refined the abyss energy, they will be greatly enhanced. This might not be enough to suppress a first-level god, but they can easily crush a second-level god.

Realizing that all his henchmen had been captured, the Abyss Saint King's expression grew increasingly solemn, but he couldn't deal with it for the time being.

That Holy Emperor's avatar was too powerful. It had actually reached a level comparable to a first-level main god, on par with him, and the power it unleashed was even greater than his.

If his halberd had been of good quality, he would have been defeated long ago.

However, the fight was quite frustrating. Although the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd was incredibly sharp, the opponent simply refused to engage in direct combat with it, and the two halberds hadn't clashed at all so far.

It's impossible to even touch it, let alone cut the opponent's halberd in half; no matter how sharp it is, it's useless.

This is also the shortcoming of the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd: it can only be used for close combat and cannot be used for ranged attacks. It will be very passive when encountering a skill-based opponent with extremely high speed.

Moreover, the opponent's halberd possesses a bit of the original power of the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd, and also has that abyssal characteristic, penetrating without regard to any defense. Even if he were to be hit by it, he would not feel good.

This makes the fight quite difficult.

"Go away!"

The Abyss Saint King, unwilling to continue this entanglement, unleashed his divine power at the level of a main god, blasting the Saint Emperor's avatar back a distance, and then rushed towards Karl, preparing to capture the king first.

The Holy Emperor's clone naturally wouldn't allow it and rushed over to intercept him.

But to everyone's surprise, the Abyss Saint King suddenly stopped, thrusting the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd backward in a swift and sudden counterattack, without any warning.

Caught off guard and with the impact being too fast, the Holy Emperor's clone was unable to react and adjust in time, and his abdomen was pierced by the Heavenly Holy Abyss Splitting Halberd.

"In the end, it was just an avatar!"

With a light laugh, the Abyss Saint King prepared to wield the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd to tear apart the Saint Emperor's avatar before going to destroy that so-called believer.

Before they could even make a move, the Saint Emperor's clone, which was attached to the Heavenly Saint Rift Abyss Halberd, suddenly merged into the Heavenly Saint Rift Abyss Halberd along with the Panlong Halberd. As a result, the entire halberd body erupted with unparalleled sharpness, including the hilt, and the surrounding space was cut into countless tiny cracks.

Sensing something was wrong, the Abyss Saint King decisively let go, realizing at the same time that he had been tricked.

He was scheming against the Holy Emperor's avatar, but who would have thought that the other party was also scheming, and so decisively, quickly integrating the same source power into the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd, thereby vying for control of that super artifact.

If I hadn't let go in time, my hand would have been shredded by that sharp edge.

But he still has a trump card!

The abyssal essence that had merged into the underworld plane was suddenly drawn and gathered around the Abyssal Saint King, quickly transforming into a phantom image that rapidly solidified. Its strength also soared, surpassing the limit of a first-level god in the blink of an eye and reaching the threshold of a god-king.

"Chop him up!"

Seeing that the opponent was about to unleash a powerful attack, Karl waved his hand, and four massive mechs, each hundreds of miles tall, appeared. They swung their equally enormous battle swords down, using their overwhelming power to dismember the still-unformed phantoms, and then shredded them.

Although this soul-guided mech is not strong enough to reach the level of a divine skill, its enormous size allows it to unleash a powerful offensive.

Furthermore, since the phantom was only just beginning to condense and far from reaching its peak, it was easily shattered.

However, the Abyss Saint King did not give up. He drew the core of the fallen Abyss Emperor to gather around, absorbed the power of the shattered phantom, and manifested a phantom of 108 layers of abyss around his body. Then, he carried that phantom into the Death Tree and the Wheel of Reincarnation.

Although that phantom was a major trump card, he didn't expect it to succeed; it was merely meant to draw out the opponent's hidden trump card.

I wonder what other tricks they have up their sleeve. I'm really looking forward to it.

Karl did not disappoint the Abyss Saint. He made a grasping motion in his hand, and a silver-white spear appeared and was thrown towards the Abyss Saint.

"Super artifact!"

His pupils contracted sharply as the Abyss Saint King realized that it was a super artifact, no less powerful than his own Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd. Now that he was locked on, it posed a deadly threat; if he were hit, he would be crippled even if he didn't die.

He anticipated that his opponent had even stronger trump cards, but he didn't expect them to be this big.

That's right, the silver-white spear is indeed the Silver Dragon King's Silver Dragon Spear, and it's the one he used in his original form.

Nine-colored divine light manifested, with silver and gold radiance shimmering within, drawing upon the power of the Dragon God to lock onto the Abyss Saint King.

Even if Karl couldn't unleash the true power of this divine artifact, unleashing even a small fraction of it would be enough to kill the Abyss Saint.

After all, the Abyss Saint King is currently only a peak main god, not yet at the level of a half-step god-king in the future. Super artifacts are extremely fatal to him.

"Abyss - Devour!"

It drew upon the abyssal phantoms surrounding it to form a devouring vortex, meeting the oncoming silver dragon spear head-on.

Although his opponent had an unexpectedly strong hand, he was still confident in dealing with it.

The Abyss originates from the Crimson Domain and possesses an extremely strong devouring characteristic. Now, it has been manifested by the Abyss Saint King using the core of the Abyss Emperors. The devouring power it unleashes is so great that even the Silver Dragon Spear cannot break through it immediately.

Taking advantage of this opening, the Abyss Saint King rushed towards Karl, continuing his tactical plan of capturing the leader first.

Karl decisively teleported away, but little did he know that the Abyss Saint had anticipated this. Using the power of the Abyss integrated into the Underworld plane, he formed a link with Karl and was teleported there as well. His palm and fingers, as sharp as knives, stabbed down, aiming straight for the back of Karl's head, intending to sever his soul.

Just then, without warning, Karl suddenly turned around and punched the Abyss Saint to the ground, creating a large crater and smashing his jaw, making his handsome face look much more ferocious.

At the same time, the Silver Dragon Spear broke through the abyss vortex and pinned the Abyss Saint to the ground.

The Holy Emperor's avatar also gained some control of the Heavenly Holy Abyss Splitting Halberd, which flew over and pierced through the Abyss Holy Monarch. Its sharpness surged within the Abyss Holy Monarch, causing widespread destruction.

"Illusory forms aren't incapable of close combat; don't you know how to switch between reality and illusion?"

After straightening his blue robes, Karl resumed his scholarly demeanor, indicating that he was not a violent maniac, but an elegant and intellectual scholar.

He is indeed currently using his martial spirit as the foundation to create a phantom body, but it is not a pure phantom body. According to the path left by his father, it has formed a unique fusion with his body, creating two sides of the same coin that can be transformed at will.

The Abyss Saint was completely stunned. He had clearly sensed that Karl was the kind of illusionary body that had been mentioned before, but that punch was real and incredibly powerful, even shattering his own divine body's jaw.

However, he still had a trump card. After discovering that the divine power within his body was disturbed and difficult to control by the power of the silver dragon spear, he decisively self-destructed.

"boom!"

The self-destruction of a peak-level main god is extremely terrifying, causing the entire underworld plane to shake violently and the Death Tree to tilt. Karl hurriedly mobilized the super computing power of the Reincarnation Disc to stabilize the power.

Just then, a blue-silver halberd flew out, piercing Karl, who was fully activating the Wheel of Reincarnation, and pinning him to the Tree of Death. It was the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd.

It turns out that by taking advantage of the self-destruction, the Abyss Saint King temporarily regained the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd, and then used it to pierce Karl's body.

That wasn't all. After silently channeling the Mother Goddess's primordial power through the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd into the Death God Tree and the Reincarnation Disc, her own soul entered Karl's body, attempting to possess him.

The flesh and divine power scattered by the self-destruction returned and enveloped Karl's body, eroding it.

Compared to his divine body, his divine soul is actually more powerful.

He particularly enjoyed this kind of battle between souls, especially the possession.

His soul was already infinitely close to the realm of a God-King, and had even touched the threshold. As long as it was not a being of the God-King level, it would be difficult for it to escape his devouring.

Unfortunately, Karl happened to have a backup plan left behind by a God-King, and that God-King was a Supreme God-King.

"No!"

The Abyss Saint King's divine soul entered Karl's sea of ​​consciousness, and then he saw a sword-shaped phantom, which was a power of pure will, and he sensed the great terror of death upon it.

I gasped in surprise and instinctively wanted to back out, but unfortunately, some places are easy to get into but hard to get out of.

As the sword light flashed, the consciousness of the Abyss Saint King was shattered by that sword intent. Karl's divine soul rushed forward and activated the Death God Demon Puppet Martial Soul to devour the Abyss Saint King's divine soul and absorb and organize its vast memories.

Directly devouring the soul in this way is not advisable, as it will leave behind fatal hidden dangers.

There are generally five forces in living organisms, from highest to lowest: consciousness, soul, spiritual power, energy, and the life force represented by the body.

Among them, the absorption of life force is the most common and the most stable, and there are basically no hidden dangers, because life force is the same for everyone. Next is energy, which has different attributes. If the attributes do not match, conflicts will occur, or even an explosion will occur.

Next is mental strength, which can lead to mental breakdown if not handled properly. Then comes the soul, and finally consciousness.

The further back in time, the deeper the imprint of each individual life will be, and the greater the hidden dangers caused by the devouring will be.

For example, Ye Xishui used her martial soul to devour many souls in the past, and even formed the Light of Death as the energy source of the Tower of Death, which further aggravated her mental problems.

This was only because the other party used martial spirit to devour, rather than directly devouring the soul; otherwise, they would have gone mad long ago.

However, Karl is different from the Abyss Saint King. The martial soul power of the Zhongli lineage of the Holy Spirit Cult originated from the gift of the Abyss Saint King and is a power of the same origin.

Just like the angel race and the angel god, both can perfectly absorb each other's power. When the angel god was in his divine consciousness state, he could accept sacrifices from the six-winged angel lineage, and the angel race could receive the divine power baptism from the angel god.

Similarly, the Abyss Saint King can devour the power of the Zhongli lineage without any side effects, and the Zhongli lineage can also devour the power of the Abyss Saint King without any side effects.

This is part of the Underworld Plan. Relying on Karl's Death God Puppet Martial Soul inherited from Zhongliwu, he perfectly devoured the Abyss Saint King. Then, with the help of the Abyss Saint King, he wielded the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd. Finally, he adjusted the power of the Abyss Plane and perfectly integrated it into the Underworld Plane. Everything was quite perfect.

At the same time, the Silver Dragon King, who had been standing at the top of the Death Tree, watched the shrinking dimensional vortex. His gaze seemed to be meeting that of a woman who was also standing at the peak, and the gaze only ended when the dimensional vortex completely calmed down and disappeared.

As he gracefully descended, the Silver Dragon King gazed at the slowly rotating Wheel of Reincarnation embedded in the Tree of Death. He could vaguely sense a force eroding towards the core of the Wheel of Reincarnation, which must be the power of that person.

This should be the Abyss Saint King's last resort, to seize the Wheel of Reincarnation and then use it as a foundation to take over the entire Underworld plane.

However, she did not stop it, because it was part of the plan.

That thing had already deduced all the possibilities and had corresponding countermeasures for each; it was destined to win.

Before long, Karl used the Death God Puppet Martial Soul to initially devour the Abyss Saint King's soul, as well as his flesh and divine power. As for refining it, it would take a long time, so he had to take it slowly and couldn't rush it.

He pulled the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd from his chest, activated the power of the Abyss Saint King to manipulate and transform it, and soon the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd turned into a scythe, which merged with the scythe in the hands of the Death God Demon Puppet Martial Soul.

Zhongli Wu's eighth soul ring has two soul skills, one of which is the Death Scythe. It was retained when Tian Hao modified it and made into a weapon spirit that coexists with the Death Puppet spirit.

Karl has been focusing on cultivating that Death Scythe, but unfortunately, he has not been able to integrate it with any divine-level materials. So far, it is still in the form of a martial soul and not a physical weapon. What he is waiting for is the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd.

The Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd is not only a super artifact, but it is also a melee weapon. Its material is among the best of all super artifacts. Now, it is perfectly complemented by the fusion with the Death Scythe. With the addition of characteristics that target the soul, it can also be used for ranged attacks.

As long as Karl continues on his path and becomes a God-King, he will have enough power to evolve to the level of a supreme artifact like the Dragon God Spear.