"Roar"
As earthen-yellow soul light flared, Xiao Ming threw back his head and roared. He activated the innate soul skill Titan Strength, then raised his right arm, thicker than a thigh by several circles, and unleashed the strong-attack-type innate soul skill newly gained after advancing to a hundred thousand years.
With a surge of rolling soul power, the Titan Giant Ape summon Xiao Ming punched out. A dazzling earthen-yellow pillar of light shot skyward.
Titan Firmament Break, the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape's exclusive innate soul skill, evolved from the innate soul skill Titan Giant Fist.
In that instant, the night sky lit up.
Like a world-ending beam, the earthen-yellow pillar, radiating terrifying might, struck head-on the Netherworld White Tiger formed by Star Luo's royal Third Elder, Dai Kun.
"Boom"
A violent detonation rang out. The dazzling earthen-yellow pillar instantly blew apart that Netherworld White Tiger whose strength could rival an ordinary level-94 Titled Douluo, and erased the bodies of Dai Kun and his wife. The pillar's momentum did not abate and smashed into the Nether White Tiger formed by the royal Eighth Elder, Dai Kang.
"Boom"
Another thunderous boom. After the Titan Giant Ape summon Xiao Ming's Titan Firmament Break instantly killed one Netherworld White Tiger at the level of a 94th-rank Titled Douluo, its lingering force blasted apart another Netherworld White Tiger at the level of a newly advanced nine-ring Titled Douluo.
Converted into a spirit master's soul skill, Xiao Ming's Titan Firmament Break was tantamount to a level-97 Titled Douluo, under an attribute-amplifying soul skill, unleashing a hundred-thousand-year strong-attack-type soul skill.
With an attack of that magnitude, instantly killing a level-94 and heavily injuring a level-91 is only natural.
At the very moment Xiao Ming struck, down in the wilds, a dark-gold "chibi" bear swelled in a flash into a nearly ten-meter-tall dark-gold giant bear.
Dark-gold radiance flashed over its claws. A dark-gold claw shadow, filled with terrifying edge, blasted forth and fell upon the Netherworld White Tiger formed by the royal Fourth Elder, Dai Mao.
"Puff"
The dark-gold claw shadow, brimming with lethal sharpness, swept through the air and ran straight through that Netherworld White Tiger from head to tail, its aura in no way weaker than an ordinary level-94 Titled Douluo.
In a blink, the Netherworld White Tiger's aura went chaotic, and its massive body fractured inch by inch midair.
Better to break one finger than hurt ten. Xiao Ming and Xiong Da did not aim at Dai Tao's Netherworld White Tiger, the strongest present, but at the two clearly weaker Netherworld White Tigers formed by Dai Wei and Dai Mao.
The strongest Netherworld White Tiger here could definitely rival a level-97 Titled Douluo, perhaps even surpass it by a hair. Even with surprise, it might not be taken down in an instant.
Of course, Titan Firmament Break's collateral blast smashing an additional Netherworld White Tiger at the early nine-ring level was an unexpected bonus.
Blame it on the lineup. That Netherworld White Tiger happened to be on the same straight line with Xiao Ming and the first target.
With the martial soul fusion skill forcibly blasted apart, the three massive Netherworld White Tigers vanished midair. Under the Gravity Domain's crushing pull, aside from Dai Kun and his wife who were erased by the lingering beam, four badly wounded figures plummeted toward the ground.
Before they could hit, three golden streaks flashed across the night.
One streak split in two, and the four streaks struck the four heads with precision.
"Bang bang bang bang"
Four successive bursts. The gravely wounded four turned into headless corpses and fell.
Without the martial soul fusion skill, their own strength was only eight rings, even seven and six rings among them. At such levels, wounded or whole, they could not withstand Chu Chengzhou's arrows.
The three Netherworld White Tigers fell in the span of an instant.
Having cleanly finished the kills, Chu Chengzhou ignored the four Netherworld White Tigers trapped in the Gravity Domain and the Tyrannosaurus and Wind Thunder Douluo. He drew and nocked again, sighting on another distant Netherworld White Tiger, ready to deliver another finisher at any time.
This youngster truly did not play by the rules.
On the other side, the Dark Devilgod Tiger summon Xiao Hei, deliberately disguised as a cute little black cat, was no slower to move.
In a snap it revealed a tiger body over ten meters long. With a beat of the black wings on its back, it shot into the air and flashed to the side of the Netherworld White Tiger formed by Star Luo's royal Second Elder, Dai Wei, who was pinning down Azure Dragon Douluo.
Xiao Ming and Xiong Da had targeted two Netherworld White Tigers at the level of 94. The stronger Xiao Hei naturally would not pick soft persimmons. While it did not go straight for the strongest one, it went to deal with this Netherworld White Tiger at the level of 95.
Taking down this Netherworld White Tiger would not only reduce the enemy's count by one, but also add a temporary Titled-level combatant to their own side.
Gray light surged over its body. The innate soul skill Devilgod Spike activated. The black barb on Xiao Hei's tail snapped straight, like a black long spike, and lightly tapped the Nether White Tiger that had yet to react.
In a flash, Dai Wei, the controller of the martial soul fusion skill, felt his control over the Netherworld White Tiger slip away. The next moment, the massive Nether White Tiger shattered midair, dissolving into a storm of soul power fragments.
Even the Devilgod Spike of a Dark Devilgod Tiger under fifty thousand years can forcibly break the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape summon Xiao Ming's Gravity Domain.
Xiao Hei's Dark Devilgod Tiger bloodline was constrained by the True Spirit Banner martial soul, but its age surpassed the original by more than sixty thousand years and had crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold. Breaking the Netherworld White Tiger martial soul fusion skill led by Dai Wei, an eight-ring Soul Douluo, was naturally within reach.
Afterward, Xiao Hei ignored Dai Wei and his seven-ring-level wife whose fusion had been broken. Its wings beat as it flew toward Xiao Ming's side.
There were still four big tigers and two Titled Douluo over there, and one of the tigers was very strong, its aura not a whit weaker than Xiao Hei's own. As one of the team's main forces, it needed to go pin it down.
As for Dai Wei and his wife? Someone would finish them in time.
As expected, the instant Xiao Hei turned, a golden streak again traced across the sky, then split in two. The two streaks struck Dai Wei and his seven-ring wife squarely in the head.
"Bang, bang"
Two bursts in quick succession. Two fine heads shattered, red and white splattering.
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