With the silent cooperation of the second-level gods, one attacking from the front and the other aiming to kill from the side, a holy light suddenly burst forth in Electrolux's gray eyes. He knew he had little hope of victory in such a fierce battle, so he had no choice but to rely on his skills and unique abilities to defend himself.
"Curtain of the Undead, Wall of Sighs."
He swiftly waved his left hand, chanting an ancient, mysterious incantation under his breath. In an instant, a surge of intense, gray-black deathly frost erupted around him, condensing into two massive, thick gray bone walls in front and beside him, each carved with faces twisted in pain and lamentation. On the bone walls, countless phantoms of unjust souls appeared, shrieking directly at the soul, forming both powerful spiritual interference and physical protection.
This was a defensive technique that combined undead magic with Huo Yuhao's spiritual power, capable of withstanding not only physical and energy attacks but weakening spiritual chains as well.
At the same time, his right fingers pointed toward Dai Mubai's charging direction, and the core of the Herrschers in his mind was pushed to its limit.
"Mental Labyrinth, Thousand Nightmares."
Silently, a strange and immense spiritual wave radiated outward. Both the charging Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, who had just finished her thrust, felt a slight trance within their powerful souls. It wasn't a direct attack, but in front of their eyes, in their ears, and even deep within their memories, countless bizarre and distorted illusions flashed before them. The screams of past relatives and friends, hesitation and fear lurking deep in their hearts were infinitely magnified, and their sense of space became disordered as if enemy attacks were closing in from every direction...
This was a high-intensity spiritual illusion crafted from Electrolux's mastery over the power of consciousness and soul, aimed at disrupting Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's judgment and rhythm.
"Mere tricks. Break!"
Dai Mubai's charge slowed only slightly, but the will of the God of War was indomitable. His tiger eyes widened, his body brimmed with golden light, and a torrent of pure, domineering fighting spirit erupted around him. Like a blazing sun melting snow, he forcibly swept away the illusions invading his divine soul.
At the same time, his golden-flamed fist slammed into the Wall of Sighs without any flourish.
BOOM—!
A deafening sound exploded, like a giant drum being struck. The golden divine power of battle clashed violently with the gray-black death energy, attempting to erase it. The Wall of Sighs shook violently, dense cracks spreading across its surface as countless phantoms of unjust souls wailed and dissipated. Yet, the wall did not shatter immediately; Electrolux's undead magic was unique in its defense, fusing the tenacity of the laws of death.
Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing's thrust from the underworld was like a hot knife through butter, easily piercing the side of the bone wall. However, the powerful deathly frost and soul-wrenching screams within the wall slightly slowed her peerless speed, weakening her attack's trajectory and power.
Amidst this brief interference, Electrolux manipulated Huo Yuhao's body, shifting his footing and swiftly retreating backward, even as his hands performed multiple gestures.
"Revival of the Dead Keel Formation!"
A muffled rumble echoed from deep within the wilderness. In the next instant, seven or eight gigantic, metallically gleaming soul beast skeletons erupted from the ground. Faint soul flames flickered in their eyes as they raised their heads to the sky and let out silent roars. They quickly formed a simple formation and, unafraid, charged at Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, spewing corrosive undead breath and swinging massive bone wings and claws.
"Memory Tampering, Perceptual Distortion!"
Electrolux once again activated the power of the Herrschers, this time with a more focused intent. He temporarily blurred Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's perception of Huo Yuhao's exact position, creating several false targets with similar auras, slightly disrupting their awareness of each other's positions and actions, attempting to break their coordination.
"Annoying bones," Dai Mubai roared, tangled with the skeletal beasts. Each time he struck with fists or feet, golden light exploded; he could often shatter a bone beast with a single blow, but their numbers prevented him from escaping quickly, even with damage dealt. Even more troublesome was the spreading spiritual illusions and cognitive interference—sometimes the enemies in front of him appeared blurred or strengthened, making attacks always feel slightly off, and sometimes he could only use seventy to eighty percent of his strength.
Zhu Zhuqing's movements were erratic, darting among the skeletal beasts with blinding speed, making it difficult for them to touch her. But Electrolux focused on disrupting her spatial awareness and targeting ability, introducing subtle deviations and delays in what was almost teleportation-level precision. Such deviations could prove fatal in god-level combat, causing several of her brilliant assaults to be narrowly evaded or blocked by Electrolux.
The battle rapidly escalated.
The longer Dai Mubai fought, the braver he became. The divine power of the God of War erupted like a volcano. Sacrificing some accuracy, he began using wide-range attack techniques.
"Domain of the God of War—Let the Tiger's Roar Shake the Heavens!"
Centered on him, a massive golden field hundreds of meters wide unfolded. The domain radiated fierce fighting intent, scorching holy flames, and terrifying gravitational suppression. Countless golden tiger-shaped energy phantoms roared and rampaged, indiscriminately affecting all non-allies in the field.
Within this domain, the remnants of the bone beasts were swiftly pulverized and purified. The domain began to slightly distort the real space, making it difficult for Electrolux to summon undead and greatly disrupting the maintenance of his spiritual illusions.
Zhu Zhuqing maximized her speed advantage, transforming into countless indistinguishable shadows, circling and striking at high speed around Electrolux. Each shadow could be a real attack or mere illusion. Her assaults were like a storm and a boiling sea of bones, forcing Electrolux to maintain his highest level of spiritual awareness and defensive strength, dramatically increasing his energy consumption.
"Death withers, eternal slumber!"
Under immense pressure, Electrolux had no choice but to unleash an even more powerful forbidden undead technique. He raised both hands high, sending a shaft of gray light straight into the sky. Thick, leaden gray death clouds condensed above, and a fine gray-black rain began to fall. This rain possessed potent life-draining and soul-freezing effects, swiftly withering all vitality within its range—even the golden light of Dai Mubai's God of War Domain dimmed slightly.
At the same time, a soul-piercing, drowsy requiem echoed over the battlefield, attempting to forcibly soothe or hypnotize the fighting spirits and souls of the two gods.
"The underworld cracks open!"
Zhu Zhuqing felt the sleep-inducing melody affecting her awareness, a cold gleam flashing in her eyes as she finally unleashed an even more powerful magical technique. Instantly, her figure split into hundreds of solid, peerless shadows, shifting in all directions, unleashing ultimate thrusts at Electrolux from every angle, each carrying the power of spatial severance. It was as if she alone launched a saturation attack, leaving no escape.
"White Tiger—Destroy and Kill!"
Dai Mubai broke free at the same moment, condensing the majority of his divine power into his right fist. A massive, highly condensed tiger's head appeared above his fist, unleashing a destructive will with fierce fangs. This blow condensed the essence of the God of War Domain, targeting Electrolux, aiming to shatter him along with his troublesome undead magic.
Facing this nearly fatal assault, Electrolux pushed the last reserves of his divine consciousness, Huo Yuhao's soul power, and the energy of the Herrschers's core to the limit. He erected his strongest spiritual defense, hoping to soften the godly impact of the two attacks. At the same time, he sacrificed and detonated all remaining undead creations he had summoned in an instant, creating a gray storm of death and soul impact, chaotic energy, and clashing with both attacks together.
BOOM! BOOM! WHOOM—!!!
Three forces capable of shattering heaven and earth collided at the heart of the wasteland. An indescribable explosion erupted. It began as a pinprick of highly compressed light, then expanded into a sphere of annihilation that swallowed everything.
The glowing sphere was half blazing white-gold, half devouring gray-black, with edges constantly shimmering and split by dark, slicing threads. Inside, energies fought desperately, laws groaned and twisted. Immediately after, a spherical shockwave of destruction spread outward.
Where the ring passed, the earth was not just torn—it evaporated and vanished. In an instant, a massive crater over a kilometer wide and several hundred meters deep formed. The rim of the hole glowed with molten, glassy rock, while the bottom seethed with chaotic currents of energy and spatial rifts.
The terrifying explosion echoed through the sky, heard for thousands of miles. The dazzling light illuminated the land as if it were day, instantly swallowed by endless dust and chaotic energy. The tempest of energy and spatial shock could be felt hundreds of miles away.
As the light and dust gradually settled, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing could be seen at the center of the crater, each keeping their distance. The divine radiance around them was somewhat disordered, but they were not seriously harmed, though clearly drained, their expressions solemn.
Where Electrolux had been, only a cracked, transparent gray spiritual barrier remained, surrounded by a heap of powdery ash. He knelt on one knee, his face pale as paper, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, the gray light enveloping his body dim and flickering.
Electrolux's spiritual aura was clearly weakened, his remaining soul appearing as if it could drift away at any moment. The power of the Herrschers, undead magic—he had barely survived the wave of attacks at great cost. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing still had strength in reserve.
"It's over," Dai Mubai said calmly, golden eyes flashing with killing intent as he stepped forward.
"At last, we'll give you a chance to tell us Xiao Wu's whereabouts," Zhu Zhuqing's figure appeared at his side, blocking Electrolux's last escape route.
Electrolux looked up, and a faint smile appeared on his lips. Reinforcements had arrived.
In the eastern sky, a violent purple thunder roared, carrying fury and monstrous hatred, threatening to destroy everything at incredible speed. Even before the figures arrived, the terrifying coercion containing the power of the Thunder King had already enveloped the entire battlefield.
"Pawns of the Sea God, your lives are accepted by this Empress!"
A cold, murderous voice full of demonic majesty echoed as thunder fell from the heavens, exploding across the desolate wasteland. Almost simultaneously, the northern air plummeted in temperature, and snowflakes suddenly condensed and drifted down.
A graceful figure of ice and snow began to walk down a staircase of frost, as if descending from the Celestial Palace. Wherever she passed, the air froze, everything coated in frost—a cold, sacred, yet boundless divine power of ice and snow clashing with the fierce might of thunder.
"From the distant north, the Snow Empress, goddess of ice and snow, has come to witness the skills of the God of Speed and the God of War."
A cool, pleasant female voice rang out. Though it lacked the fireworks of battle, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's pupils suddenly contracted. The situation had changed completely.
At Electrolux's most critical moment, two powerful allies had boldly appeared.
The wind still wept over the wasteland, the crater's glassy rim glowed with searing afterheat, and the energy turbulence at the bottom had not yet subsided, the twisted spatial rifts standing like hideous scars on the earth.
At the instant Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing saw the Snow Empress and Demon Empress, their pupils contracted instinctively, the whites of their eyes faintly bloodshot from the intensity.
It wasn't just the overwhelming aura of their opponents, but the divine aura surrounding them—so pure and clear, intimately connected with the world's laws. Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, veterans of the God Realm for decades, knew the feeling of true godhood well.
A hundred true gods without a god position, no matter how strong their divine power or consciousness, had a freely drifting aura—a rootless force that did not resonate with the world's will. But true gods with a god position were different; their power was anchored, resonating with the corresponding laws of heaven and earth. Even standing still, the surrounding energy would naturally bend and yield.
The icy-blue divine radiance around the Snow Empress was faintly connected with the laws of ice and snow of the Douluo Continent. Each step she took on the staircase of frost resonated with all the water vapor in the wasteland, even causing the leaden gray clouds above the crater to begin condensing into fine ice crystals.
The purple lightning enveloping the Demon Empress was even more terrifying—the power of the Thunder Overlord seemed poised to rend heaven and earth, its destructive aura reminding Dai Mubai of the chaotic sea of thunder at the edge of the God Realm.
"Impossible..." Dai Mubai's voice suddenly sank, a trace of shock slipping out even as he frowned, his tiger eyes filled with disbelief. "The God Realm's divine thrones have long been saturated and fractured. The Douluo Continent is but a lower plane—how can so many true gods possess complete god positions?"
As a God of War, he understood the laws of the God Realm all too well: a god position was the embodiment of the world's laws, each requiring a corresponding authority to be born and maintained. The God Realm was the place where the laws were strongest; the laws of the lower realms were too thin to sustain true god positions.
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