The moment the Riftbone Lord emerged from the dimensional portal, two of his four arms suddenly released glowing white bone blades. Accompanied by a sharp cry that seemed to tear through space, they slashed toward the Spirit Empire Warriors' commander.
Clang!
A longsword wreathed in golden sacred flames appeared out of nowhere, firmly blocking the dual-blade attack. At the moment of impact, dazzling sparks flew, and the Riftbone Lord trembled from the recoil.
This human was very strong.
Not only him—the three auras following behind were each like ferocious beasts lying in wait, no weaker than any Demon Lord present, and perhaps even stronger.
The Riftbone Lord swung all four arms at once. His bone blades ground against the sword with a teeth-gritting sound, forcing the longsword back half a step. His crimson pupils swept over the four people before him.
"I am the Lord of Bone Splitting. Beings of Douluo Continent, state your names."
Chu Shanhe took one step forward. The scorched rock beneath his feet shattered, and spiderweb-like cracks spread more than ten meters.
"Douluo Continent, Chu Shanhe, Title: Overlord Bone."
"On Douluo Continent, I am Qian Daoliu, bearer of the Holy Heaven title."
Qian Daoliu stood in the air. Behind him, the phantom of a six-winged angel slowly unfurled, its sacred radiance dispersing the surrounding dark crimson evil aura.
"Douluo Continent, Bibi Dong, Title: Spider Empress."
Bibi Dong's lips curved into a cold smile. Behind her, eight illusory spider legs faintly appeared, filling the air with the aura of death.
"Douluo Continent, Tian'e, Title: Golden Crocodile."
At this moment, Golden Crocodile Douluo's arms transformed into golden crocodile claws. Every scale reflected a cold metallic light, and his eyes overflowed with fighting spirit.
Overlord Bone, Holy Heaven, Spider Empress, Golden Crocodile.
The gazes of the seven Demon Lords instantly turned serious. These four were all Demon Lord-level combatants.
The first three, in particular, possessed such powerful auras that even battle-hardened Demon Lords instinctively shuddered.
The Lava Lord, who had just begun to move, stepped forward. Lava-like glow flowed from the gaps in his dark red scales, and the battle axe in his hand blazed with abyssal flames.
"Submit to the demons and you may survive. The power of demons is far beyond what ants like you can fathom."
"Grandpa will make you submit!"
With a roar, Golden Crocodile Douluo transformed into a golden afterimage. His right claw tore through the air, leaving five golden claw marks. Black spatial cracks like spiderwebs appeared where they passed, aiming straight for the Lava Lord's head.
"Courting death!"
Killing intent filled the Lava Lord's eyes. He swung his battle axe downward. Abyssal flames swirled along the blade, forming a dark crimson crescent arc that met the claw strike.
A collision on an unparalleled scale erupted. Golden and red energies clashed violently, blasting away all low-level demons and human Special Assault Battalion members within a hundred-meter radius. Those slightly weaker disintegrated into blood mist in mid-air.
Almost simultaneously, Chu Shanhe, Qian Daoliu, and Bibi Dong shifted slightly.
Chu Shanhe shot forward like a cannonball. Dark golden soul power condensed in his fist. He smashed toward the two Demon Lords on the left. Before the punch even landed, the terrifying pressure caused the ground to sink three feet.
Qian Daoliu spread his six wings.
The Angel Sacred Sword shone brilliantly. He and the sacred sword blocked the attacks from the Riftbone Lord and the shadow-winged Flesh Demon Lord.
The purifying sword intent surged like a tide. Sacred aura scorched the sky like a blazing sun, stagnating the two Demon Lords' evil energies.
Bibi Dong moved like a ghost, elusive. Eight spider legs intertwined behind her.
The auras of the Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor alternated. She single-handedly blocked the two Demon Lords on the right.
A gray aura reminiscent of death filled the air. Wherever it passed, plants withered completely.
The highest-level 7-vs-4 battle erupted in an instant.
Qian Daoliu unleashed a sword strike.
The sword light was like an inverted Milky Way; every strand of sword energy carried the will to purify evil spirits.
The Riftbone Lord swung his four arms, brandishing bone blades to parry. Bone fragments flew with every collision.
The Shadow Demon Lord beside him blended into the shadows and attempted a flank attack, only to be dragged out of hiding by Qian Daoliu's backhand sword, leaving a deep charred wound on his shoulder where bone was visible.
"Damnable divine power…"
The Shadow Demon Lord hissed. Black smoke rose from the wound as sacred flames continued burning his evil core.
The Riftbone Lord's eyes glowed crimson. Bone blades gripped in all four arms sent sixteen pale white blade lights slashing down, sealing all of Qian Daoliu's escape routes. At the same time, he opened his mouth and sprayed thick green poisonous mist that scorched and corroded the very space it passed through.
Yet Qian Daoliu's expression remained unchanged.
The angel-like phantom behind him brought its hands together.
"Angel's Blessing."
A golden light shield instantly unfolded.
The poisonous mist collided with the shield and vanished like boiling water meeting ice and snow.
The sixteen blades stabbed into the light shield but only created ripples.
In the next instant, Qian Daoliu raised his longsword high. His seventh soul ring blazed. "Spirit True Body."
The six-winged angel phantom fused with his main body. Sacred light swelled tenfold, and sword light poured down like a torrential rain.
The expressions of the Riftbone Lord and Shadow Demon Lord changed drastically. This human, blessed by divine power, completely overpowered the two of them.
On the other side, Chu Shanhe's fighting style was entirely different. Every punch he threw was simple, direct, and brutally violent.
The two Demon Lords blocking him were: one with a massive beetle-like form clad in heavy black armor, and the other a humanoid dual-wielding spears that crackled with deep crimson lightning. Facing Chu Shanhe's fist, the Beetle Demon Lord roared, stomped its six legs into the ground, and used the hardest part of its carapace to meet the attack head-on.
Thud!
The Beetle Lord was sent flying backward rapidly, leaving deep craters with every step. Clear fist imprints were etched into its hard carapace, with cracks spreading like spiderwebs. Its six compound eyes were filled with terror.
Seizing the opportunity, the Dual-Spear King charged, transforming his spears into blood-red lightning aimed at Chu Shanhe's back.
The moment the spear tip touched Chu Shanhe's defensive qi, Chu Shanhe didn't even turn his head. He countered with his left elbow.
Clang!
Elbow met spear tip with a metallic clash.
The double-bladed spear traced a terrifying arc. The spear wielder's hand split open, black blood sprayed, and his eyes glowed madly red.
"This human's strength is…"
"Again."
Chu Shanhe exhaled and swung another fist downward. Dark golden soul power transformed into two massive fist imprints. As one of the two unparalleled Douluo on Douluo Continent who had condensed dual soul cores, his soul power was vast as the sea and possessed nearly inexhaustible endurance. Every strike was delivered with full power and without the slightest hesitation.
The two Demon Lords had no choice but to stack armor, spears, and evil shields together to resist with combined strength. Yet when the fist imprints landed, shields shattered, carapaces cracked, spears howled, and terrifying force penetrated their bodies, shaking their internal organs.
In a nearby area of the battlefield, Bibi Dong flitted between the two Demon Lords like a butterfly of death.
The phantom of the Death Spider Emperor towered behind her; with every swing of its eight legs, it left gray-black trails in the air.
One noble accidentally brushed against a spider leg.
The flesh at the wound instantly turned gray. The potent toxin spread to the bone like maggots, then rapidly extended to the rest of his body.
"Dissolve!"
The lord roared and tried to expel the toxin with evil energy, but it had already seeped into his bone marrow.
Bibi Dong chuckled softly. Her figure turned ethereal, and when she reappeared, she stood behind another lord.
The Soul Devouring Spider Emperor phantom flashed. An invisible, sharp cone-like mental shock pierced the opponent's sea of consciousness.
The lord's body stiffened for an instant. Immediately after, Bibi Dong pierced his chest with a spider leg.
"Damn it!"
The wounded lord roared in fury. Ignoring the spreading poison, he burned his primal evil energy and attacked with a black flame whirlwind.
Bibi Dong calmly retreated, transformed into the Death Spider Empress, and her eighth spirit ring shone brightly.
"Domain of Death."
As the gray-black domain expanded, the laws of death were amplified and life auras were suppressed. The two Demon Lords immediately felt their evil energy dull and their vitality slowly draining away.
"We can't delay any longer!"
The two lords exchanged glances and sensed the heaviness in each other's eyes.
While the seven lords were being held back by four, the torrent gushing from the Demon Realm passage showed no signs of stopping.
Tens of thousands of low-level demons surged forward like a tide, among them dozens of powerful Great Demons.
Union army powerhouses such as Chen Zhen and Xie Xiaoqing led their respective units toward the front lines.
Chen Zhen's ninth spirit ring glowed. With one strike, a crack dozens of meters wide opened in the ground, instantly turning dozens of high-level demons into bloody chunks of flesh.
Behind him, the Spirit Empire Warriors formed combat formations. Their giant shields stood like walls and their war hammers like forests, firmly withstanding the frontal assault of the demonic tide.
Hong Yue moved gracefully. Her sword flowed like a swimming dragon, targeting only Great Demons. At level 97, her exquisite movements were unbearable for ordinary Great Demons.
Wherever she passed, demon heads rolled and black blood sprayed.
However, there were simply too many demons. Every second, warriors fell.
The special assault teams were wiped out, and even the legions began suffering casualties.
Low-level demons sacrificed their lives to open breaches, allowing higher-level demons to infiltrate. Often, stopping a single Soul Douluo-level demon required multiple Soul Douluo-level powerhouses working together.
In the blink of an eye, the entire wilderness had turned into a bloody meat grinder. Soul skill lights and evil energies collided and intertwined. Swords sliced flesh and bone; claws tore through armor.
Screams, roars, growls, and explosions mixed together.
The air was thick with the stench of blood and sulfur.
At the rear of the army, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo stood side by side, not advancing a single step.
They were powerful individuals capable of Spirit fusion skills and served as one of the alliance's strongest trump cards below the Limit Douluo level.
However, they now had an even more important task.
Behind the two of them, the Immortal Douluo, Ye Ci'en, sat cross-legged. Behind him, a gigantic Nine-Hearted Begonia slowly rose.
The Nine-Hearted Begonia emitted a soft light that spread across the entire battlefield like mercury. The wounds of injured soldiers healed at a visible rate.
As long as they were not killed instantly, nearly all allied soldiers could recover through the Nine-Hearted Begonia's healing power. Therefore, every demon charge had to pay several times the usual price to inflict meaningful damage.
"Damn it! Kill the healers first!"
One of the Lords, who was fiercely battling Chu Shanhe, roared furiously. "If we don't eliminate that healing-type soul master, the demon army will be completely stalled."
Before the roar faded, a black figure shot out from the chaotic battlefield!
A mid-stage Lord-level figure left afterimages in the air as it headed straight for Ye Ci'en.
"Thinking of leaving?"
Suddenly, a surging wave of flames appeared. A giant flaming hand slammed down, striking the massive wolf demon's chest directly.
Boom!
The giant demon's forward momentum halted abruptly. Its enormous body was blasted dozens of meters backward, mowing down a group of low-level demons and carving a deep trench into the ground.
Xie Xiaoqing stood in the air, her body blazing with phoenix flames. Behind her, her spiritual phantom pulsed powerfully. Each beat resounded like an ancient war drum, igniting the bloodlust of the demon army below.
Weak, low-tier demons bled from their mouths and noses and could not even stand properly.
After absorbing the 100,000-year soul bone sent by Chen Yi, she had advanced to level 98. All her soul bones were at the 100,000-year level. With the help of Golden-level third awakening, she could be considered the strongest existence below an unparalleled Douluo.
"Human… you deserve to die!"
The giant demon rolled to its feet. Multiple charred marks remained on its chest. Its eyes glowed with ferocious light. Ignoring its injuries, it charged again while releasing evil lightning around it.
At the same time, multiple powerful auras rose from within the passage.
Five highest-tier demons appeared simultaneously. Their appearances varied: a bat demon with wings on its back, a troll in bone armor, a witch demon controlling rotting poison, a dual-wielding shadow demon, and a lava behemoth whose aura was closest to a Lord.
The five demons shared the same target—Ye Ci'en!
"Stop them!" Chen Zhen shouted. He tried to rush back to help but was blocked by three massive demons.
Hong Yue pushed back her opponent with a sword strike and turned to help, but she was obstructed by a horde of low-level demons.
Just as the five demons were about to break through the defensive line, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo exchanged glances. Their bodies intertwined, backs touching.
"Bipolar Static Domain!"
A strange force field suddenly spread. Colorless, transparent ripples swept across the battlefield.
The six demons that had advanced halfway suddenly froze. Even the evil energy storms they had stirred froze in mid-air.
"Now!"
Xie Xiaoqing's ninth spirit ring shone brightly. Deep crimson and golden flames soared into the sky, condensing behind her into a blazing fire phoenix with a wingspan of a hundred feet.
"Ninth Soul Skill—Holy Phoenix Burns the Heavens!"
The flame phoenix cried out toward the sky and charged toward the frozen group of demons with the power to incinerate everything, distorting the air wherever it passed.
On the distant mountain peak, Glowing Feather Douluo drew the Glowing Feather Divine Bow to its maximum.
The bowstring trembled like a dragon's roar. The arrowhead emitted cold light, firmly locking onto the six frozen demons.
"Eighth Soul Skill—Infinite."
An ice-cold blue light streak tore through the sky. The moment the arrow struck the center of the demon horde, it exploded into a rain of ice crystals. Each arrow carried extreme cold; the space it passed through appeared frozen solid.
The flame phoenix and ice arrows—extreme heat and extreme cold—converged at a single point just before the static domain collapsed.
Boom!!!
Blazing white and icy blue light collided violently, transforming into a towering pillar of energy. The dazzling light temporarily blinded everyone on the battlefield.
Terrifying energy turbulence tore through the space. The six demons vanished into the light without even a chance to scream.
As the light faded, the six highest-tier demons had disappeared, leaving only scattered ashes and ice crystals, along with a scorched crater a hundred meters in diameter.
The demon army's charge halted. After a moment of stunned silence, the allied soldiers erupted in deafening cheers.
From deep within the passage came repeated fierce roars. Each one carried pressure so intense that even unparalleled Douluo would change color.
The gates of purgatory had only just opened.
The true catastrophe… had only just begun.
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