Chen Yi's footsteps echoed through the Thunder Prison. Each light step landed heavily on the hearts of the three severely wounded Demon Lords, making their souls tremble. Their injured bodies instinctively retreated.
In that brief yet brutal exchange, they had finally grasped the desperate chasm between them.
Speed?
The opponent was faster.
Power?
The opponent was stronger.
Spiritual power?
The opponent was even more terrifying. Everything they had once prided themselves on was as fragile as paper before him.
This was no longer a realm humans could reach. The human named Chen Yi had truly stepped into the domain of the gods.
Chen Yi advanced one step at a time. With every stride, the pressure on the three great lords intensified. His cold gaze swept over the weakened invaders.
During his seclusion—especially after successfully absorbing the torso bone of the God-level Thunder Dragon—his power had undergone a qualitative leap. His body had already been tempered to its limit. Fusing with the Thunder Dragon soul bone had pushed that power beyond the limit once more, reaching the pinnacle of the monastic path and bringing him half a step away from a true Level 3 God Body.
Through the tempering of the Thunder Dragon's will, his spiritual power—which had already reached the peak of the spiritual realm—naturally surpassed that critical threshold and fully entered the God Origin Realm. The strength of his current spiritual power already exceeded that of the Grand Elder, who had reached the God Origin Realm many years earlier.
More importantly, a fundamental transformation was beginning deep within the soul power in his body, showing faint signs of shifting toward a higher form of energy. Though the transformation was not yet complete, its purity far surpassed that of ordinary peerless Douluo.
With this foundation, Chen Yi was confident he could rival even the most ordinary gods in the Divine Realm.
The three Demon Lords before him had only temporarily reached the peak of half-god status through special secret arts. In his eyes, they were nothing more than slightly stronger prey.
"Human…" Shadow Demon Lord endured the unbearable pain in his chest while staring fixedly at Chen Yi. His voice was hoarse and tense. "We… are willing to immediately withdraw from the Douluo Continent… and close the interdimensional portal connecting the two worlds ourselves! From now on, we will not interfere with each other!"
The gap was far too vast. A direct confrontation would only lead to certain death. Their top priority was to escape this terrifying human. If they could return to the Demon Realm, they would surely gain a chance to revive by absorbing nourishment from the Demon Realm's source and accumulating power over thousands of years.
Chen Yi paused for a moment. A cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth—a faint yet meaningful one.
In the thunderous space of the Thunder Prison, that smile was especially grating. The blatant mockery and killing intent plunged the three demons' hearts into the abyss.
Chen Yi lowered his eyelids and glanced at the electric arcs dancing on the ground.
"You were the ones who started this war."
"The killings… were triggered by you."
"The souls of the Douluo Continent are weeping. The continent has been reduced to scorched earth, and countless elites of the Douluo Continent's soul master world have been killed or injured."
With every word Chen Yi spoke, the coldness in his voice deepened. The surrounding thunder seemed to respond, growing increasingly fierce.
"Now…" Chen Yi slowly raised his face. In his cold eyes, purple-gold lightning surged like magma. "You said you wouldn't fight… yet in the end, you're still not fighting?"
"Humans! Do you really intend to slaughter us all?!" the Blood Demon Lord roared in fury. They had already lowered their heads in surrender, yet this human remained relentless. This was bullying the demons too far!
"Hmph." Chen Yi seemed amused by the opponent's logic. He shook his head and returned to his usual indifferent tone. "Arguing with you is troublesome."
"You are not worth listening to."
The moment he finished speaking, violent lightning poured into Chen Yi's body, making him look as if the Thunder God had descended to the mortal world.
Immediately after, the deep abyss-like seventh soul ring at his feet shone brightly.
"Seventh Soul Skill—Thunder God's True Form!"
BOOM—!!!
Thunder roared, shaking heaven and earth!
Within the lightning, Chen Yi's body rapidly expanded. In the blink of an eye, a hundred-meter-tall Thunder Giant stood majestically in the center of the Thunder Prison.
Overwhelming divine power instantly engulfed the entire space. Before the Thunder Giant, the three Demon Lords became as insignificant as ants.
"Attack! Otherwise, we'll all die here!" Shadow Demon Lord realized there was no hope of survival and let out a desperate roar.
He suddenly stabbed the twisted bone staff in his hand into his own chest. The staff instantly transformed into countless eerie black runes that spread chaotically across his body as if alive.
This was their ancient, vicious secret method—first curse oneself, then curse the enemy.
"AHHHH—!!!"
The Cursed Demon Lord screamed in agony. His body visibly shrank, and his life force rapidly declined. However, an unprecedented dark light erupted from between his brows. His spiritual power surged like lightning, temporarily reaching God Origin Realm strength.
"Blood Sea Scorches the Sky—God Demon Sword!"
The Blood Demon Lord had fallen into complete madness. He burned all the blood energy remaining in his body and even activated the power hidden in his bloodline. The blood flames around him instantly swelled tenfold, turning into a blood sea that completely engulfed him.
Then the blood flames condensed wildly, forming a massive blood-red blade as crimson as blood above his head. Blood flowed along the blade, emitting a terrifying aura capable of tearing the sky apart. This strike burned everything he had, reaching a realm like a true god.
"Shadow Curtain—Eternal Night Descends!"
The Shadow Demon Lord took a deep breath. The last light in his pupils vanished. Without hesitation, he burned his remaining power.
BOOM—!
Shadows spread violently around him, instantly covering half of the Thunder Prison space with a massive dark sky that seemed to devour all light. Countless twisted shadow tentacles writhed in the sky, stretching toward the Thunder Giant.
Facing a desperate situation, the three great lords simultaneously unleashed their ultimate trump cards. They burned their lives and souls to release terrifying power far beyond their usual strength.
In an instant, cursed insects filled the sky, the god-demon blood blade slashed across the heavens, and the dark curtain covered the sky! Three powerful attacks—each capable of threatening a true god-level existence—slammed toward the towering Thunder Giant from different directions.
"Human! This is your last chance. Accept my terms, and I will retreat and never do this again!" The Cursed Demon Lord bled from all seven orifices as he roared with his final strength, charging into the last battle.
The Thunder Giant's enormous eyes were made of lightning. They indifferently looked down at the three dying demons below. The purple-gold lightning within those eyes did not waver in the slightest.
The answer was clear.
Seeing the giant show no reaction, the last glimmer of hope in the Cursed Demon Lord's eyes completely vanished, turning into the poison of madness.
"Kill—!!!"
The sky was filled with screaming cursed insects that attacked the giant first. Right behind them, the god-demon blood blade—possessing the power to sever everything—slashed down, radiating a world-destroying crimson light.
The fastest-moving dark curtain had already covered most of the Thunder Giant's massive body. Countless shadow tentacles clung to it like persistent leeches, trying to drag it into the abyss of eternal darkness.
These three fatal attacks struck simultaneously. Even a half-god would despair before such a threat. The Thunder Giant finally moved.
His ninth soul ring suddenly shone with light bright enough to illuminate the entire Thunder Prison.
"Uooooh—!"
A majestic and oppressive whale roar echoed throughout the Thunder Prison space.
Immediately after, the void behind the Thunder Giant distorted violently. A mountain-sized purple-gold giant whale phantom suddenly appeared.
The enormous whale was entirely formed of destructive lightning. Fierce bone spikes protruded from its back, and its eyes were like two small thunder suns, exerting suffocating pressure.
"Ninth Soul Skill—Thunder God Whale's Demonic Fury!"
"Go!"
At the Thunder Giant's deep command, the terrifying Thunder Whale phantom let out an ear-piercing roar. It swung its massive tail fin, unleashed continuous torrents of lightning, and charged forward with ferocious momentum.
It fearlessly collided with the descending darkness from above, the slashing crimson giant blade, and the swarming cursed insects!
DOOOON—SNAP—!!!
DOOOON!!!
Terrifying explosion sounds that shook the earth reverberated through the Thunder Prison space at deafening volume. Lightning, blood, and black light collided violently. Violent energy turbulence surged in all directions like a storm, shaking the entire Thunder Prison as if it were about to collapse.
Outside, the battlefield where the Demon Army and the Douluo Continent Allied Forces were engaged in fierce combat stretched out.
Whether ferocious demons or brave soul masters and soldiers locked in deadly combat, countless creatures involuntarily stopped moving and stared in terror at the massive lightning sphere in the distance.
The giant lightning sphere flashed violently, with constant terrifying roars echoing from within. Even the faint aftershocks leaking out caused nearby low-level demons and soul masters to tremble, blood flowing from their mouths and noses.
"Is that… Lord Chen Yi in his true form fighting the Demon Lords?" a soul master asked in a trembling voice.
"What… what a terrifying sound! Could a mere human really produce such noise?"
"The Douluo's true form… is invincible!" someone shouted first.
Immediately after, like sparks igniting across a prairie, warriors from the Douluo Continent erupted in thunderous cheers one after another.
"The Douluo's true form is invincible!"
"The Tyrant is invincible!"
The cheers spread across the entire battlefield like a tsunami. Meanwhile, the Demon Army sensed the decline of the three lords in the Thunder Prison and immediately fell into chaos.
"Has the great lord… been defeated?"
"No… impossible!"
"Run!!!"
Panic spread like a plague. The Demon Army's formation began to collapse. Cowardly demons ignored orders and fled in disarray.
Buzz—!
At that moment, the fiercely flashing Thunder Prison in the distance suddenly dimmed, turned transparent, and finally… completely vanished!
Thunder, blood, darkness—all strange phenomena disappeared.
In the center of the battlefield, only a devastated space scorched and destroyed by terrifying energy remained. Even that space had not fully recovered.
In the middle of the open space, a tall and slender purple figure slowly emerged.
The surrounding lightning had completely vanished. His breathing was calm, and his clothes were barely wrinkled.
Chen Yi walked with a composed demeanor, his expression serene. Behind him, the center of the battle was completely empty.
The Cursed Demon Lord, the Blood Demon Lord, and the Shadow Demon Lord were gone.
Not even a trace remained. No demon energy, no energy fragments.
In that heaven-shaking collision, the six Demon Lords had been completely erased from existence by Chen Yi alone!
Utterly destroyed, without a trace left behind!
"We won!!!"
"The Douluo's true form has triumphed!!!"
"The leaders of the Demon Realm have been annihilated!!!"
"The Tyrant is invincible! Long live the Tyrant!!!"
After a brief silence, thunderous cheers erupted from the Allied Forces. Countless soldiers shed tears, raised their weapons, and shouted at the top of their lungs.
Meanwhile, the Demon Army that witnessed everything lost even their last will to resist and completely collapsed.
"The great lord… is dead!"
"Everyone's dead! Run!"
"Escape back to the Demon Realm!!!"
"No—!!!"
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