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After flying high into the sky, Luo Nan immediately reined in his aura and, relying on the Dark Demon Dragon's mastery over the dark elements, perfectly hid his figure in the night.
"Phew... I'm finally out."
He looked back at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace below, which had already descended into complete chaos, and a sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.
Although the Heaven Dou imperial family had numerous soldiers and generals, its biggest shortcoming was that it lacked a Titled Douluo of its own to hold down the fort.
The strongest among them was only a Spirit Douluo.
A Spirit Douluo was simply not qualified to intercept him!
As long as he flew into the sky and hid in the darkness, absolutely no one in this vast Heaven Dou Empire could stop him!
However, just when Luo Nan thought he had safely escaped and was preparing to accelerate and leave, a sudden change occurred!
"Buzz—!"
The Void Realm in front of Luo Nan suddenly distorted violently without any warning.
Immediately afterward, a huge spatial rift resembling a dilapidated skeleton, exuding an extremely bizarre and chilly aura, was forcibly torn open in the night sky!
"Your Excellency visited the imperial palace late at night and took something. Do you want to leave so soon?"
"Isn't that taking the Heaven Dou Empire far too lightly?"
Accompanied by this voice, an extremely tall elderly man slowly walked out of the spatial rift.
He wore a greyish-white robe, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and eerie green ghost fires flickered in his eyes.
Beneath his feet, a total of nine spirit rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black—were slowly revolving, exuding a terrifying and suffocating pressure!
Seeing this elderly man blocking his path, Luo Nan's pupils shrank sharply, and his expression instantly darkened.
"Bone Douluo, Gu Rong!"
Luo Nan recognized the newcomer's identity at a glance. He was one of the two pillars of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, a ninety-fifth-rank Titled Douluo, and a super powerhouse possessing the Bone Dragon Spirit!
Luo Nan had never expected that, despite all his calculations, he would run into Gu Rong right here!
At this moment, Gu Rong's heart was likewise filled with shock.
He and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Sect Master, Ning Fengzhi, happened to be in Heaven Dou City over the past few days, secretly discussing some important matters with Emperor Xue Ye.
Tonight, he had originally been meditating and cultivating at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's outpost within Heaven Dou City.
However, just a moment ago, the imperial palace's alarm bell had rung.
Gu Rong immediately realized that a supreme powerhouse had broken into the imperial palace, so he did not hesitate to tear through space and directly intercept the escape route of this dark aura.
"This old man never expected that there would still be someone in this world daring enough to single-handedly break into the Heaven Dou imperial family's treasure pavilion to steal things."
Gu Rong's eerie green eyes stared fixedly at Luo Nan, who was hidden in the darkness:
"The dark aura on Your Excellency is so pure that even this old man's Bone Dragon feels a shudder. Exactly who are you?"
"Hand over what you took from the treasure pavilion, and this old man might consider leaving your corpse intact!"
Facing Gu Rong's threat, Luo Nan was left speechless in his heart.
What kind of situation was this?
He had managed to avoid the imperial family's heavy guards with great difficulty, only to be caught red-handed by a Bone Douluo who happened to be on a business trip in the city! This luck was simply rotten to the core!
However, speechlessness aside, Luo Nan had no intention of wasting words or entangling with Gu Rong.
This place was too close to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace. Once delayed by Gu Rong, by the time the imperial family's honored guests and Ning Fengzhi and the others arrived, he truly wouldn't be able to escape even with wings!
If he were stopped here, he would be beaten to death in mere minutes!
"Old bone, you want to keep me? Just based on you, you aren't qualified!"
Luo Nan let out a cold snort, a murderous intent flashing fiercely in his eyes.
He didn't give Gu Rong any time to react at all, instantly driving the Soul Power within his body to the absolute limit!
"Roar—!!!"
The Dark Demon Dragon appeared!
At the same time, the hundred-thousand-year red spirit ring ranked first beneath Luo Nan's feet suddenly lit up with a blinding blood-red light!
"A... a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring?! And it's even the first spirit ring?!"
Seeing that dazzling red light, Gu Rong, who had originally maintained a lofty posture, nearly popped his eyeballs right out of their sockets!
His skeleton-like face was instantly filled with unbelievable and extreme horror!
How could this be?!
This completely defied the common sense of the Spirit Master's world!
He wouldn't say anything if a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring appeared as the ninth spirit ring, but for your first spirit ring to be a hundred-thousand-year one, what kind of nonsense was this?
However, Luo Nan didn't give him any time to be shocked.
"First Spirit Ability—Dark Heaven-Rending Claw!"
Luo Nan shouted angrily, his right hand violently swinging forward.
In an instant, the dark elements between heaven and earth gathered frantically.
A gigantic, terrifying dragon claw seemingly condensed from the purest darkness directly tore apart the night sky!
Wherever this dragon claw passed, space collapsed inch by inch like fragile glass, revealing large swaths of pitch-black nothingness.
A terrifying sharpness capable of destroying the world and tearing apart everything instantly locked onto Gu Rong's Qi, slamming down fiercely in an inescapable posture!
"Not good!"
Feeling that terrifyingly fatal threat, every hair on Gu Rong's body stood on end.
He knew that if he took this strike head-on, he would definitely die!
"Seventh Spirit Ability—Martial Soul True Body!"
"Ninth Spirit Ability—Bone-Formed Divine Dragon!"
At this critical juncture of life and death, Gu Rong erupted with all the potential of a ninety-fifth-rank Titled Douluo.
He unhesitatingly released his strongest defensive Spirit Ability and life-saving Spirit Ability.
Countless huge white bones surged out from his body, instantly transforming into a massive Bone Dragon that wrapped around him.
At the same time, the space behind him distorted violently, attempting to teleport him to a safe place.
However, in front of the extremely terrifying power of the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ability Dark Heaven-Rending Claw, all defenses were futile!
"Boom—!!!"
The dark dragon claw slammed fiercely onto the Bone Dragon!
That Bone Dragon Spirit, hailed as the number one defense in the world, the moment it came into contact with the dark dragon claw—
didn't even last for a single second before letting out a miserable wail and instantly shattering into a sky full of bone powder!
"Puff—!"
As if struck by lightning, Gu Rong violently spewed out a large mouthful of fresh blood.
Although he barely managed to avoid the front-and-center lethal core of the dragon claw, that terrifying dark tearing force still fiercely swept across half of his body!
"Ah—!"
Gu Rong let out a miserable scream. Half of his iron-hard body was forcibly torn open with several terrifying wounds deep enough to see bone, and fresh blood surged out wildly like a fountain.
His entire body, like a kite with a broken string, plummeted straight down from high in the air, heavily smashing into a forest outside Heaven Dou City, his life or death unknown.
One strike!
Merely a single strike!
A ninety-fifth-rank Peak Douluo, the Bone Douluo Gu Rong, who was renowned for his defense, was severely wounded on the spot by Luo Nan, nearly losing his life!
That claw was capable of directly injuring Di Tian; for the Bone Douluo to take a claw and not die was already due to good luck and a great tenacity for life!