High above the Star Luo Empire.
The sounds of "bang bang bang" rang out one after another.
Ning Rongrong and the Abyss Saint Lord were still locked in fierce combat. The two sides had clashed for who knows how many rounds.
Compared to Ning Rongrong, who had the formation to replenish her, the Abyss Saint Lord appeared slightly fatigued.
"No Trace"
Countless afterimages flickered in the sky as Ning Rongrong instantly appeared behind the Abyss Saint Lord.
The Glazed Holy Sword thrust out fiercely.
Clang!
The weapons collided with a crisp sound. The Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd blocked Ning Rongrong's attack.
"Human, don't get too arrogant." The Abyss Saint Lord roared. He placed both hands on the long handle of the super-divine weapon and forcefully pushed the Glazed Holy Sword away. Then, with both hands, he spun the weapon.
"Skill—Abyss."
The Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd erupted with intense energy. Seizing the moment, he thrust forward.
Aiming straight for Ning Rongrong's neck.
"Four Ounces to Move a Thousand Pounds"
Seeing this, Ning Rongrong retreated half a step. Her other hand assumed a defensive posture, her palm supporting a profound energy. An adhesive energy field formed around her entire body.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle
The straight thrust of the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd, along with its carried energy, was twisted as if it had lost balance.
From the beginning of the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd to the Abyss Saint Lord himself, his entire body was flung outward.
"Sword Technique—Double Dragon Strangulation"
Ning Rongrong gripped the sword with both hands and launched her attack the moment the Abyss Saint Lord lost balance and was sent flying.
In an instant.
On the left and right sides of the Glazed Holy Sword, illusory images of an ice dragon and a fire dragon appeared respectively.
As the sword swung, the two dragon phantoms crossed paths, letting out dragon roars as they were released. They charged toward the Abyss Saint Lord at extreme speed.
Wherever the ice and fire dragon-shaped illusions passed, they brought extreme cold and extreme heat.
It was as if ice and fire existed in two heavens.
"Little brat, tricks like this that fool children—don't bother using them on me." As a first-level god, even if he was momentarily at a disadvantage, he could quickly adjust. This was also why the Abyss Saint Lord far surpassed his younger brother Yan Long.
"Abyss Domain"
In an instant, the entire sky and earth were covered with sounds resembling the wails of hellish ghosts.
Both heaven and earth turned pitch black.
"It's useless!"
Ning Rongrong spoke coldly.
The next moment, the Abyss Saint Lord's domain was filled with dense cracks.
Then, with a "bang," it shattered completely.
"Impossible." The Abyss Saint Lord stared in disbelief at the ice and fire dragon illusions now right in front of him.
Even his mother, the Crimson Mother, would find it difficult to destroy his domain in such a short instant.
Suddenly, the Abyss Saint Lord thought of something and looked up toward the high sky.
That massive Taiji array pattern stretched endlessly, impossible to see the end of it at a glance. It was extremely transparent—if one didn't look carefully, it was impossible to notice at all.
"It's a domain—you set up a domain in advance!"
The Abyss Saint Lord finally understood why his domain had shattered in an instant. Creating a domain inside someone else's domain—wasn't that like turning on a light in the toilet?
Only now did the Abyss Saint Lord notice that the oppressive feeling from the sky's domain was no less than his mother's aura.
"You... how despicable!"
Even as he spoke in such a tone, the Abyss Saint Lord's hands did not stop. With the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd at the center, he released energy to form a barrier.
Boom!
In his panic, the Abyss Saint Lord managed to block the move, but he was still blasted away by the explosive energy.
"Ugh!"
Blood sprayed from his mouth. The Abyss Saint Lord retreated several hundred meters before barely coming to a stop.
"Don't get cocky. I'd like to see how much energy you have left to maintain such a massive domain."
The Abyss Saint Lord gritted his teeth.
Through a secret method, he contacted his mount, the Heavenly Bull Emperor, as well as the Black Emperor, ordering them to lead the abyssal army in an assault on the Douluo Continent.
"Is that so?" Hearing the Abyss Saint Lord's roar, Ning Rongrong remained noncommittal. "Tian Yuan, for you to survive, your mother probably paid quite a heavy price."
"Even your younger brother Yan Long was likely part of that price."
Ning Rongrong stopped speaking at this point.
"What do you mean?" The Abyss Saint Lord's eyes darkened slightly. He had already placed Ning Rongrong on the same level as himself and felt that her words carried hidden meaning.
"Since even your younger brother Yan Long could be part of the price, then what about you?"
"Hmph, I don't know what you're talking about!" The Abyss Saint Lord snorted coldly. His hands swung the super-divine weapon once more as he charged toward Ning Rongrong again.
"Is it that you don't know, or that you don't want to think about it?"
Perhaps there were other plans as well? Ning Rongrong did not voice the rest.
"Abyss"
The Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd thrust toward Ning Rongrong once more, only to be blocked by the Glazed Holy Sword in her hand.
As fellow super-divine weapons, countering the Abyss Saint Lord's defense-ignoring "Abyss" was not impossible.
Moreover, Ning Rongrong herself had reached the Extreme of Power. Ignoring the special skill of the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd was also within her capability.
Originally, Ning Rongrong and the Abyss Saint Lord had been preparing for another fierce clash.
Suddenly, both sensed something. They withdrew at the same time, pulling apart the distance.
Aside from remaining vigilant toward each other, they also directed part of their perception toward the abyssal passage.
Boom!
A heaven-shaking explosion rang out.
The entire abyssal passage shattered. A massive shockwave erupted from within the passage.
Ning Rongrong's delicate brows furrowed slightly as she fully resisted the energy bursting out from the abyssal passage. The Abyss Saint Lord did the same. Neither of them knew exactly what had happened.
Immediately after, countless abyssal creatures surged out from the abyssal passage.
They were not attacking. On their inhuman faces appeared panic, anxiety, and even fear.
Ning Rongrong's mental power that had probed into the abyssal passage was also repelled. If not for having reached the Extreme of Heart, that rebound just now might have severely injured her.
A somewhat familiar fluctuation.
"Roar~"
From within the still-collapsing passage came a clearer sound.
A dragon's roar.
This time Ning Rongrong heard it clearly, and her heart sank with a thud.
Gu Yuena... and the Crimson Mother.
A streak of red flame flew out from the passage.
At the same time.
The entire abyssal passage collapsed.
No—rather than saying it collapsed, it was more accurate to say that a massive section of the Star Luo Empire had caved in, forming a vast expanse of pitch blackness. The abyssal plane had begun to fuse with the Douluo plane.
"Damn it!"
Ning Rongrong cursed under her breath.
She really was more hindrance than help.
No longer paying attention to the Abyss Saint Lord, she used the formation to conceal herself and flew directly toward where Qian Renxue was.
However, Ning Rongrong still sensed the Abyss Saint Lord's situation.
A woman with shoulder-length red hair, dressed in a dark red long skirt. At this moment, her hair and clothes were disheveled, blood overflowed from the corner of her mouth. She gripped the Abyss Saint Lord's neck with one hand.
The Abyss Saint Lord didn't even have time to let out a wail before he directly turned into blood-red energy and merged into the woman's body.
Even the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd was grasped in the woman's single hand.
"Die, you damned Silver Dragon!"
The Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd, now covered in red light, shot forth like an arrow loosed from a bow, carrying endless divine power toward the collapsed space.
"Explode!"
The woman let out a light shout.
As her words fell, the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd, like an arrow, plunged into the pitch-black void.
A violent explosion erupted across the range of the Star Luo Empire. Blood-red light burst outward in all directions.
Like a blazing sun that had long refused to set on the horizon, it was clearly visible across the entire Douluo Continent.
(End of chapter)