Chapter 99

As Emperor Tian's heavy voice fell.

The whole heaven and earth fell into a deathly silence.

Bai Yuan died?

And perished together with the Abyssal Lord?

He can't come anymore?

These three sentences kept echoing in everyone's minds; even though they were enemies, they still left all the Title Douluo shaken in heart and spirit.

They felt it was hard to believe.

"Impossible! He's so strong, able to unleash a god-tier sword strike, able to slay several demigods in a row—how could he possibly perish together with the Abyssal Lord?" Qian Renxue kept shaking her head in doubt.

Emperor Tian looked at Qian Renxue and sighed long: "That's the fact. Not long ago he entered the Abyss, after which three Abyssal passages collapsed, and he couldn't return."

Qian Renxue retorted: "Not being able to return doesn't mean he's dead; maybe he's just trapped and needs someone to rescue him."

Emperor Tian shook his head: "The Abyssal Lord is god-tier; for him to be able to perish together with him already exceeds my expectations."

Qian Renxue was completely dumbfounded; she truly hadn't expected that behind those terrifying Abyssal monsters lay a deity.

All the Title Douluo heard it and were in an uproar.

Deity!

It's actually a deity!

How many years has it been in this world?

No deity has appeared.

After composing herself, Qian Renxue asked: "Does he know there's a deity inside? Why did he have to go in? That deity didn't show up when they besieged him; it should be unable to come over, right?"

After that battle observation, combined with Emperor Tian's words, Qian Renxue quickly deduced a lot of information.

This time it was Emperor Tian's turn to be a bit stunned.

He had never imagined that Qian Renxue would ask so many questions.

After a brief thought, Emperor Tian answered on the spot: "That deity indeed cannot come out; Bai Yuan also knows there's a deity inside. But the Abyssal plane can open passages elsewhere, so to prevent the beings of the Douluo Continent from suffering, he had to go in."

After saying that, Emperor Tian felt embarrassed.

Because he fundamentally didn't know whether Bai Yuan had entered or not; Emperor Tian only knew that Bai Yuan had emerged twice from the Lake of Life.

"To prevent the beings of the Douluo Continent from suffering?" the Title Douluo murmured to themselves, unable to suppress a feeling of admiration rising in their hearts.

Qian Renxue listened, her eyes glazed; Emperor Tian didn't know what she was thinking, only hearing her red lips slightly open and close as she said, "For the greater good, to knowingly do what cannot be done?"

This made Emperor Tian even more embarrassed.

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On the other side, the Slaughter King flew straight toward the direction of the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well at extreme speed, following the deity's guidance.

Just as he flew, the Slaughter King realized something was off.

He discovered he seemed to have flown into a region like the Star Dou Great Forest, a place devoid of soul power and filled with strange energy.

In an instant, the Slaughter King understood.

Someone was waiting for him here.

Without any hesitation, the Slaughter King turned and ran.

But this time, with preparations already in place, how could the Slaughter King possibly escape?

He had just turned when he saw everything before him change; though the Slaughter King was clearly mid-air, he instantly arrived in a forest filled with an unknown number of trees.

"An illusion!" the Slaughter King instantly realized he had been caught.

Suddenly, he subconsciously gazed toward a direction in the boundless forest, only to see countless towering trees parting, and a woman walking out along the path.

The woman was absolutely beautiful, beautiful as a dream, flawless, making one feel utterly unreal, especially the pair of roundness before her, which would make women involuntarily feel inferior and lower their heads to look at themselves.

At this moment, the woman walked silently, her emerald-green long hair flowing behind her, her jade-green eyes utterly without ripple, as if she had merged with nature.

However, unlike before, Mu Junwu was surrounded by five-colored radiance, and faint five-colored divine light flickered in her eyes, making her appear like a goddess dwelling high above the nine heavens.

The one who came was none other than Mu Junwu.

Earlier, when the Slaughter King fled, Bai Yuan had packed up the Five Elements Formation, rushed to find Gu Yue Na, and had her teleport her over.

"It's you!" the Slaughter King's blood-red pupils constricted slightly; his whole body instinctively stepped back, as he recognized the newcomer by aura.

But the next moment, after regaining his senses, the Slaughter King's bloodless face showed a faint smile: "It looks like you paid a heavy price to rush here ahead of time to stop me—your cultivation has dropped to half-god level."

At this moment, Mu Junwu, in order to be a bit more flexible, has already withdrawn from the Five Elements Formation; therefore, the power of the Five Elements Formation has also dropped to Golden Core perfection.

Mu Junwu said with an indifferent expression: "Killing you is enough."

Aside from Bai Yuan and Bai Yu, even if it were Wang Qiu'er, Mu Junwu would not say anything more, nor would he show any emotion.

"Arrogant!" The King of Slaughter is no longer afraid either; an extremely thick blood mist erupts from within him, and a nauseating bloody smell permeates heaven and earth.

Slaughter Domain!

Now that their cultivations are equal, the King of Slaughter relies on the Slaughter God Domain, opening up a blood‑stained expanse of heaven and earth within this forest phantasm.

The empty sky of reality merges with the boundless dense forest, and reality and illusion erode each other.

The lush forest and the sky dyed blood‑red begin to violently collide, vying for control of space.

However, it is obvious that Mu Junwu holds the absolute advantage; although the blood‑red sky has opened up a domain, it is still wrapped by an endless forest that stretches beyond sight.

Without further words, Mu Junwu also made a move.

At this moment, she is like the ruler of this illusory forest; with a wave of her hand, the phantom trees turn into a sky full of thorns, spreading across heaven and earth to strangle the King of Slaughter.

Countless thorns break through the boundary between illusion and reality, burst past the border of the Slaughter Domain, and enter the blood‑red sky.

"Trivial tricks!" The King of Slaughter's body suddenly blazes with blood light; he flashes forward to meet the sky‑obscuring thorns.

His two hands, pale white and tipped with blood‑red nails like claws, keep waving; the heavy blood light on the King of Slaughter also surges up, shattering countless thorns.

However, these thorns stretched endlessly across the sky, and there was no knowing how many there were; the King of Slaughter couldn't even remember how many swipes he had made, yet he still saw an endless stream of thorns pouring forth.

"Are we competing on consumption? I want to see how long you can last." The King of Slaughter waved his claws tirelessly.

He believed that the opponent kept launching large-scale attacks while maintaining a large-scale illusion, and their consumption was surely far greater than his.

But the King of Slaughter could never have imagined that Mu Junwu's consumption came entirely from the Five Elements Formation, and it did not drain his own spiritual power at all.

Of course, if consumption were required, with Mu Junwu's early Foundation Establishment cultivation, he probably couldn't even manage one round, let alone sustain it.

Upon this, Bai Yuan, who had been observing in secret, couldn't help but raise his hand to stroke his own hairless chin, feeling that Mu Junwu was teachable.

This is one of Bai Yuan's methods of calling Mu Junwu.

Using one's own strengths to attack the opponent's weaknesses.

(End of chapter)