Long Xiaoyao's figure was sent flying backward.
Thunder rumbled through the heavens, lightning splitting the skies as if the very heavens themselves raged in fury.
The Goddess of Destiny pursued him relentlessly, thrusting her spear once more.
Long Xiaoyao gritted his teeth, his body erupting in black scales as he unleashed every ounce of his power.
But how could those scales hope to withstand the piercing edge of the Icefire Dragon Spear?
With a single strike, the spear tore through his defenses, nailing him to the ground.
No matter how he struggled, he could not break free.
The scorching and freezing dual forces rampaged uncontrollably through his meridians.
And with the spear's inherent dominance over dragon-type martial souls, Long Xiaoyao's aura plummeted rapidly.
All his strength was consumed just trying to suppress the twin rampaging forces wreaking havoc inside his body.
Seeing how effortlessly the Goddess of Destiny subdued Long Xiaoyao, Wang Yiheng, Liao Mengkai, and the Soul Engineers behind them erupted into unprecedented cheers.
"Long live His Majesty!"
"Long live Her Majesty the Empress!"
The remaining Evil Soul Masters had already been annihilated by the mirror lotuses' released soul skills.
The power of techniques at the Ultimate Douluo level was not something they could possibly resist.
Even Feng Ling was reduced to ashes — her flesh consumed by blazing phoenix fire until even her bones turned charred and blackened.
The Goddess of Destiny then joined the battle between the Snow Empress and Ye Xishui.
With a motion of her hand, the Twilight Sword appeared within her grasp.
Behind her, a ten-thousand-year soul ring lit up with golden brilliance.
Raising her left hand, she struck downward toward Ye Xishui.
That golden palm carried a divine, awe-inspiring might that none could defy.
The blow shattered Ye Xishui's Death God Tower's charging energy, hurling her into the ground.
She crashed down, utterly demolishing what remained of the Holy Spirit Cult's buildings.
Every soul skill engraved by Jiang Qingtong manifested upon the mirror lotuses,
while Jiang Shengyu's soul skills remained within the soul rings orbiting the Goddess of Destiny.
As the golden ten-thousand-year ring shone behind her, the rest of Jiang Shengyu's soul rings unfurled as well —
encircling the crescent moon to form a radiant, multicolored galaxy.
Ye Xishui's expression flickered as she looked at the Goddess of Destiny standing side by side with the Snow Empress.
Her gaze snapped to the side — to where Long Xiaoyao lay impaled by the Icefire Dragon Spear, struggling in vain, unable to move.
Her fury ignited in an instant.
"All of you… DIE!!"
Though Ye Xishui had never openly accepted Long Xiaoyao, she would allow no one to harm him.
Seeing him so gravely wounded shattered what restraint she had left.
A mocking smile crossed the Goddess of Destiny's face.
Two of the soul rings on her inner ring circle flared to life —
black and white flames burst forth, transforming into twin dragons of fire that roared downward toward Ye Xishui!
Ye Xishui countered with a beam of Death God's Light, clashing head-on with the twin flames.
The violent explosion that followed engulfed the battlefield for hundreds of meters,
forcing Wang Yiheng and the others to retreat to a safer distance with their Soul Engineers.
This battlefield now belonged solely to the Ultimate Douluo.
Through the raging storm of energy, Ye Xishui's Blood Soul Demon Puppet tore through the energy mist, charging toward the Goddess of Destiny.
At the same time, Ye Xishui herself soared into the skies, shouting:
"Boundless Sea of Blood!"
The heavens turned crimson.
Thick, viscous blood rained down upon the Evil Forest — a downpour of gore.
The earth below became a sea of blood, the stench nauseating and the sight utterly horrifying.
The Goddess of Destiny swung the Twilight Sword, cleaving apart the Blood Soul Demon Puppet charging at her.
From the blood pooled on the ground, eerie energy forms began to rise — resentful spirits coalescing above the corpses of the slain Evil Soul Masters.
Threads of energy extended from Ye Xishui's hands, latching onto each spirit, pulling them upward into the sky.
Even Feng Ling, whose body had been reduced to dust, was no exception.
As the strongest among the Evil Soul Masters, Ye Xishui would never let her soul escape her grasp.
Fusing these countless resentful spirits with others she had accumulated over the years,
Ye Xishui formed a terrifying Blood-Colored Giant Puppet steeped in boundless negative emotion.
It towered hundreds of meters tall, shrouded in suffocating blood mist and deathly aura.
Members of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion and the Terrorclaw Soul Engineer Legion clutched their heads in agony.
Their faces turned pale — some of the weaker ones even screamed uncontrollably.
They were utterly helpless before the oppressive presence of this pure resentment and death.
Wang Yiheng and Liao Mengkai had no choice but to lead their troops farther back —
yet they didn't stay idle.
Before, the targets had been too small to aim at precisely.
Now, with such a colossal figure before them, not firing would be a disgrace to their profession!
Both commanders immediately ordered a mobile formation to be constructed.
All long-range Soul Tools were deployed — their sole target: the Blood-Colored Giant Puppet!
Shell after shell of soul-guided artillery, and beams of multicolored light from Soul Cannons, poured relentlessly into the giant's body.
Standing atop the giant's shoulder, Ye Xishui controlled the Death God Tower, unleashing beam after beam of Death God's Light upon the Goddess of Destiny and the Snow Empress.
Yet her attacks were like waves crashing against an unyielding cliff — insignificant before the Goddess of Destiny's might.
Though the Goddess of Destiny possessed only Ultimate Douluo-level power,
she held a privilege no one else could reach — the Authority of the World Itself.
Though that authority was still limited by the strength of Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong, even restricted, she could easily mobilize the elemental power of heaven and earth within the surrounding domain.
Under that divine empowerment, the Goddess of Destiny swung the Twilight Sword.
Together with the Snow Empress's Snow Dance: Righteous Sun, the two coordinated flawlessly.
In only moments, the Blood-Colored Giant Puppet — formed from countless resentful spirits — was utterly destroyed.
When it exploded, clouds of blood mist erupted outward.
But before the foul vapor could spread, the Snow Empress froze it instantly,
transforming it into dark-red shards of ice that fell gently to the ground.
The Snow Empress and the Goddess of Destiny stood side by side,
each wielding a holy sword of extreme frost.
Their voices, cold and resonant, echoed as one:
"Imperial Sword — Absolute Ice Unrivaled!"
At that instant, it was as though the eternal glaciers of the Far North descended upon the Evil Forest.
Two dazzling blades of light cleaved down toward Ye Xishui!
Her Death God Tower shattered, releasing waves of resentful energy so violent that space itself fractured.
Yet the Snow Empress and the Goddess of Destiny did not stop there.
They raised their hands once more.
"Imperial Palm — Great Cold Without Snow!"
Their slender, jade-like hands descended with an irresistible divine might,
the overwhelming chill of ultimate ice instantly freezing Ye Xishui solid.
Her body was flung backward, smashing into the earth and carving a massive ravine into the land.
Crimson blood seeped from the cracks of the ice.
Ye Xishui finally broke free from her frozen prison —
her face pale, her breath chaotic, blood trailing from the corner of her lips.
The destruction of the Death God Tower, combined with the double strike of Great Cold Without Snow,
had left her soul power surging violently out of control. Her injuries were severe.
Without the Death God Tower in hand, either the Snow Empress or the Goddess of Destiny alone could have defeated her.
But at that very moment—
the earth suddenly split apart.
A vast chasm opened, and from its depths burst forth a beam of dark purple light, piercing through the ground and into the sky!
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