Pluto Douluo Harosa's battle armor originally had only a gray cloak on the back, but the moment his voice fell, a pair of huge gray wings suddenly unfurled from beneath the cloak.
Those wings were not physical entities, but were condensed from the pure power of death and annihilation.
With a movement of his body, he transformed into a streak of gray light, rushing rapidly in the direction of Huo Yuhao.
Although Huo Yuhao's Domain of Eternal Frost had frozen space, rendering conventional spatial Teleportation impossible to cast.
However, the speed of Harosa's charge was not at all inferior to Teleportation; that streak of gray light cut through the ice mist and, almost in the blink of an eye, reached right in front of Huo Yuhao.
Facing a close-range attack from a Limit Douluo, Huo Yuhao knew very well that he absolutely could not withstand it head-on.
His battle armor was instantly covered by a layer of gorgeous scale armor. The scales fit perfectly onto the surface of the silver battle armor, each one shimmering with a dazzling luster of intertwined blue and red, looking exceptionally gorgeous and magnificent in the dim space.
This was precisely the external Spirit Bone that Gu Yue had given him back then—the ice and fire dragon king armor!
The ice and fire dragon king armor possessed a terrifying defensive power that could not be breached by anyone below a Titled Douluo. However, Huo Yuhao had not expected that the first time this scale armor was truly used, the opponent he faced would be a Limit Douluo standing at the very pinnacle of the continent.
Even with the protection of the ice and fire dragon king armor, if he were to take a solid sword strike from Harosa, he would likely be at least seriously injured.
Within the Spiritual Sea, Electrolux had already prepared to possess and take over Huo Yuhao's body.
However, just as he was about to act, a sudden change occurred.
A black light shot out from between Huo Yuhao's brows without warning; it was a pitch-black, fan-shaped scale—the black dragon reverse scale that Di Tian had gifted him back then.
The Reverse Scale hovered before him, instantly erecting a black light barrier that enveloped him entirely.
However, Harosa's attack was incredibly domineering; the black light barrier held for less than a breath under the sword's edge before shattering with a boom.
Yet, at the very instant the black light barrier shattered, another silver light flew out from between Huo Yuhao's brows—seemingly another defensive treasure.
Watching the life-saving treasures emerging one after another from Huo Yuhao, a trace of irritation and impatience could not help but appear on Harosa's pale face. He had not expected that killing a Spirit Saint would be such an arduous task.
This silver-white scale did not erect a defensive light barrier like Di Tian's Reverse Scale. Instead, the moment it detached from between Huo Yuhao's brows, it suddenly erupted with a dazzling, seven-colored radiance.
The radiance was not blinding, yet it carried a strange fluctuation that made even Harosa, a Limit Douluo, feel a sense of trepidation.
Almost instinctively, he brought his forward momentum to a sudden halt. Flapping the gray wings on his back, he drifted backward for over a dozen meters like a wisp of smoke.
His gray eyes stared fixedly at that seven-colored radiance appearing out of thin air, his brows furrowed in shock and uncertainty.
Then, he saw a tall, slender figure instantly appear within the seven-colored radiance. It was a stunning girl in a white dress, her long black hair cascading down to her waist like a waterfall, her purple eyes filled with a sharp, piercing intensity.
As soon as she appeared, her mental force swept across the entire field like a storm. Only after confirming that Huo Yuhao was safe and sound did the coldness in those purple eyes melt away slightly.
The person who had appeared was naturally Gu Yue. The primary purpose of the Silver Dragon King Reverse Scale she had given to Huo Yuhao was to teleport her to him whenever he encountered danger.
And so, she had arrived!
With a thought from Gu Yue, a set of gorgeous battle armor instantly covered her tall, slender body. Then, with a flash, she appeared by Huo Yuhao's side, standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
Huo Yuhao turned his head slightly to glance at Gu Yue. A flash of surprise crossed his eyes, but he quickly guessed the reason—it must have been the effect of that Silver Dragon Reverse Scale.
He wasted no time and used mental force to transmit his voice: "The one opposite is Pluto Douluo Harosa, a Limit Douluo!"
Gu Yue nodded with a serious expression, her gaze fixed on Harosa opposite them.
Harosa's gaze also swept over Gu Yue, a flash of confusion crossing his gray eyes.
The space here had been locked down; even he could not tear through space to teleport within this Domain. How had this girl appeared out of thin air?
Harosa did not dwell on it. From the moment he had attacked until now, accidents had been occurring one after another, and Harosa had completely lost his patience.
The gray spiritual crystal on his head suddenly lit up without warning, and the surrounding gray mist began to surge and boil violently.
With Harosa at the center, huge gray light gates suddenly appeared a hundred meters away. Those light gates were constructed entirely from solid gray mist, their frames engraved with dense, intricate runes.
There were twelve light gates in total, distributed evenly in a ring, firmly enclosing the entire battlefield in the center.
Then, the twelve gates slowly opened simultaneously, and twelve tall, burly figures stepped out in perfect unison.
These were twelve giant knights, each standing about four meters tall, clad in heavy gray-black armor. In their left hands, they held tower shields large enough to cover half their bodies, and in their right hands, they gripped massive swords.
Beneath each of their feet was a halo of light—the Domain halo of a Three-Word Battle Armor. They were all experts equipped with Three-Word Battle Armor.
Only cold, murderous intent remained in Harosa's gray eyes. These twelve death knights were the true trump card of his Underworld Rebirth Domain.
They had come into existence along with the Underworld Rebirth Domain. Initially, they were merely ordinary skeleton soldiers, but he had spent hundreds of years of painstaking effort, using the flesh, blood, and Souls of countless living beings as nourishment, to cultivate them step by step to their current state.
Each death knight possessed strength equivalent to a Super Douluo among human Spirit Masters, and the battle formation formed by the twelve of them could unleash terrifying combat power capable of rivaling a Limit Douluo.
The sudden appearance of twelve Super Douluo-level death knights caused the expression of Han Tianyi, who was locked in combat with Leng Yulai and Nana Li, to change drastically.
He instantly realized that Harosa was finally getting serious; this was the true trump card of this Pluto Douluo.
However, he was currently being tightly entangled by two experts of the same level and had no time to attend to that side. He could only watch helplessly as Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue were surrounded by those twelve iron tower-like figures.
He did not know if his Disciple, who had created miracles time and again, could manage to escape unscathed from the Limit Douluo's lethal strike this time.
Beside Huo Yuhao, Gu Yue's brows were tightly furrowed, and her fists were clenched unconsciously.
After taking human form, her current strength was far from recovered to her Peak state as the Silver Dragon King.
Facing one or two Super Douluo, she might still be able to struggle, but facing twelve Super Douluo-level death knights simultaneously, she was truly no match with her current cultivation.
She had just been teleported from the Dragon Tomb, where the legacy left behind after the Dragon God's fall resided, containing a portion of the Dragon God's Origin power from when he was alive.
If she were to trigger that power prematurely, she might be able to resolve this life-or-death crisis.
However, that Dragon God Origin was prepared for her future Fusion of the two great Bloodlines—the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King—to ascend to the legendary position of the Dragon God.
If she used it here and now, her goal of becoming the new Dragon God might never be achieved.
She turned her head, her purple eyes gazing at the chiseled profile of Huo Yuhao beside her, and in that instant, she made her decision.
However, before Gu Yue could make a move, Huo Yuhao flashed and shielded Gu Yue behind him.
Then, Gu Yue saw the four red spirit rings beneath Huo Yuhao's feet—which she had never seen before—quietly dissipate in an instant, replaced by a single, eerie gray spirit ring.
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