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"This is..."
Seeing that his Dark Domain had no effect on Dai Chengfeng, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was truly astonished for the first time.
After all, the Dark Domain was one of its ultimate trump cards.
"Since the Dark Domain has no effect, let's see how long your soul power can last?!"
For a time, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger unleashed a flurry of attacks.
Meanwhile, Dai Chengfeng kept dodging. Even when he attacked, it was mostly just to harass.
Occasionally engaging in direct combat, he would touch and immediately retreat, appearing quite "wretched."
His soul power was rapidly depleting, his aura began showing signs of instability, and his face turned pale.
However, although Dai Chengfeng couldn't defeat the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, his martial soul was the Heavenly White Tiger, wielding the power of the ultimate wind. His speed was by no means slower than the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger...
The reason he appeared so wretched...
was that Dai Chengfeng was feigning weakness, wanting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to believe...
that he had exhausted all his tricks, running out of options, and could barely hold on.
On the other side, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger grew increasingly agitated from failing to land a decisive blow.
It could sense that this human's soul power level was far below its own, yet various methods kept emerging, like a fly...
Nevertheless, it clearly perceived that Dai Chengfeng's soul power was rapidly dwindling.
Until, Dai Chengfeng was once again slapped away by it, spitting out a large mouthful of blood, evidently injured severely.
"Roar!"
Seeing this, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger decided not to hold back anymore. It intended to use its killing move to secure victory in one fell swoop!
It let out a deafening roar towards the sky, the gray currents around its body becoming significantly denser. Simultaneously, the tip of its scorpion-like hook glowed with an intense icy blue light, a soul-shuddering destructive aura beginning to coalesce...
This was one of its ultimate killing moves, the "Evil God Hook," imbued with the utmost evil and curse power!
With this strike, it was confident that even if it couldn't kill this human outright, it would at least severely wound him, dismantling all his resistance!
Now!
The sharp gleam in Dai Chengfeng's eyes, deeply hidden until now, suddenly erupted!
All his previous "weakness" and "struggles" were merely to wait for this moment when the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger went all out, its spirit most concentrated yet most relaxed!
While fully activating the Evil God Protection to defend against possible counterattacks, it focused on the Evil God Hook for the fatal blow…
It inevitably believed it had the upper hand, its vigilance dropping to the lowest!
Dai Chengfeng stopped retreating, instead stepping forward fiercely into the heart-stopping aura of the Evil God Hook!
On his forehead, beneath the skin, a faint golden vertical eye pattern emerged, exuding an unfathomable fate aura.
Three-Eyed Golden Lion Fate Skull Skill—Divine Extreme Kill, activated!
Hum—!
There was no earth-shattering commotion, nor dazzling brilliance.
At this moment, all the killing intent and spiritual power within Dai Chengfeng's body were compressed and refined to the extreme, converging at the faintly visible golden vertical eye on his brow.
His gaze became profoundly deep, as if containing the birth and death of stars, or like the Eye of Judgment, gazing directly at the essence of the soul.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's motion of coalescing the Evil God Hook abruptly froze!
It sensed a tremendous terror originating from the life tier and the depths of the soul!
It was a fatal sense of crisis, locked onto by a higher existence, unavoidable and unblockable!
Its crimson animalistic eyes revealed fear for the first time, instinctively wanting to interrupt the attack and defend fully!
But, it was too late!
The golden vertical eye pattern on Dai Chengfeng's brow suddenly lit up, and an almost invisible yet supremely condensed dark golden line silently shot out!
This line's speed surpassed thought, seemingly ignoring spatial distance. In the instant the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger just conceived the idea of dodging, it had already precisely struck the dense gray current on its forehead—the Evil God Protection!
"Hiss—!"
Like a red-hot branding iron melting into snow, or a blade slicing through brocade.
A faint but piercing tearing sound rang out.
The "Divine Extreme Kill" ray, condensed with Dai Chengfeng's spirit power at the level of a Title Douluo and ultimate killing intent, showcased its terrifying penetrative power!
The Evil God Protection, which the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger prided itself on and confidently believed could resist domain rules.
In the face of this attack specifically designed to break through soul power defenses and directly hit the essence, lasted less than a breath before being forcibly pierced like fragile glass, creating a small hole!
Around the small hole, the gray Evil God power rapidly dissipated as if losing support, revealing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's fur.
"Awooo!!"
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger let out an extremely mournful scream. The forced breaking of the Evil God Protection not only deprived it of its most crucial defense.
The backlash directly injured its core soul, causing it excruciating headaches and momentarily blurring its consciousness.
The half-coalesced Evil God Hook also vanished due to energy loss.
And at the same instant the Evil God Protection shattered, the ancient and absolute rule power of the Arena of Life and Death finally acted on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger without any obstruction!
An irresistible torrent of time enveloped the massive body of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
Amid its terrified and desperate roars, its size rapidly shrank at a visible speed, and its overwhelming soul power dissipated like a deflating balloon.
In just a few breaths, the once majestic and ferocious Dark Demon Evil God Tiger...
had transformed into a black kitten-sized tiger with gray patterns, a small hooked tail, a bewildered look, and a trace of lingering fear—a black tiger cub!
Its internal soul power had completely plummeted to a level barely reaching that of a mere hundred-year-old soul beast, corresponding to its appearance.
Dai Chengfeng slowly approached, looking down at the trembling black tiger cub on the ground, attempting to bare its fangs but only appearing adorably fierce.
He smiled!
This was the method Dai Chengfeng believed was the only way he could defeat the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
Dai Chengfeng knew well that his soul power was inferior to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
If they really fought head-on, he would be no match for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. After all, even just dodging earlier had caused him significant injuries.
But his spiritual power had reached the level of a Title Douluo, not weaker than the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger at all.
The supreme penetrating Divine Extreme Kill, combined with the amplification of his God of Slaughter Domain and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Fate Skull, made Dai Chengfeng believe he could break through the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Evil God Protection.
Sure enough, he succeeded!
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had regressed to its infancy, while despite his severe injuries, he remained in adulthood.
Victory!
"Now, it's my turn."
Dai Chengfeng spat out a mouthful of blood. Before his words faded, he pointed his fingers like a blade, condensing sharp soul power interwoven with dark gold at his fingertips.
Without a moment's hesitation, he gently tapped the forehead of the despairing black tiger cub.
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