"All soul guidance positions, deploy all three defensive lines! Three-Word Battle Armor Masters, follow me forward, Protector Great Array!" Zhang Huanyun's roar drowned out the growls from the Abyss Passage. His four-word battle armor was operating at its peak, and nine spirit rings interlaced, manifesting the terrifying cultivation of this Blood God Legion commander.
Beside him, Vice-Commander Long Tianwu had already donned his three-word battle armor, a bone-chilling cold sweeping across the field. Behind him, twelve Soul Masters wearing three-word battle armor stepped forward simultaneously, joining hundreds of experts to form an indestructible defensive line, firmly blocking the front of the Blood God Grand Array.
Cao Dezhi, atop the Formation Plate, watched this scene as his hands continuously formed hand Seals. Under his guidance, the Nine Great Origins flowed more and more smoothly.
On the other side, the Black Emperor finally recovered from her shock.
She looked at the re-stabilized Seal, her exquisite face covered in bone-chilling killing intent. She had thought the plane consciousness had been defeated, but it turned out to be a false hope.
"Hmph, so what if the great array was successfully executed? Emperors, follow me to break this Formation and slaughter these humans!" The Black Emperor's shriek pierced the Void Realm, the black mist behind her churning wildly. By the time the Blood God Grand Array was activated, as many as twenty-five Emperors had emerged from the passage.
Twenty-five Emperors stood side-by-side, their terrifying pressure erupting unscrupulously. Even under the extreme suppression of the Douluo Continent's plane, it still caused the entire Endless Mountain Range to tremble.
The ordinary soldiers of the Blood God Legion even found it difficult to breathe.
"Kill!"
The Black Emperor was the first to move.
Black wings suddenly spread from her back, and endless demonic mist swept out. Wherever it passed, space was corroded with dense cracks, and oncoming soul guidance shells were instantly swallowed up, failing to even explode.
Beside her, an Emperor brandished twin blades, and abyssal flames capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas condensed into a fire serpent thousands of feet long, turning everything in its path to ash.
Another Emperor opened his mouth and spat out a sky-blotting tide of abyssal insects. These insects fed on metal and energy, frantically gnawing at the soul guidance positions.
Yet another Emperor vanished into the darkness, as countless shadow blades struck from all directions, specifically targeting the weak points of the defensive line.
Another Emperor opened his mouth and inhaled, his terrifying devouring power echoing the Black Emperor's demonic mist, frantically pulling at the defensive line.
More than twenty Emperors attacking at once—this was a terrifying spectacle never before seen in the six thousand years the Blood God Legion had guarded the passage!
"Fire! Fire with everything you've got!" Zhang Huanyun roared, the Bright Mirror behind his head instantly enlarging as the Bright Mirror Domain bloomed to its full extent.
The mirror surface reflected the sky-filling fire serpent and insect tide. In the next second, identical flames and insects blasted out from the Bright Mirror in reverse, colliding violently with the abyssal attacks.
The booming sounds were deafening, and the entire entrance of the Abyss Passage turned into an ocean of energy storms.
As a possessor of an Ice Snow Spirit, Long Tianwu held a geographical advantage here. Endless cold air froze all the insects at the forefront, but those insects, bolstered by the abyssal flames, actually gnawed through the ice barriers and continued their charge.
"Stop... for me!" Long Tianwu bellowed, his Soul Power erupting without reservation. His nine spirit rings shone brightly, and with him at the center, endless ice spikes rose from the ground, forcefully slowing the enemy's offensive.
But he himself was shaken back repeatedly, a trace of blood leaking from the corner of his mouth.
The Flame Demon Emperor sneered and seized the opportunity, slashing out flames several times stronger than before, heading straight for Long Tianwu.
Just as the flames were about to swallow Long Tianwu, an invisible Ruthless Sword Intent sliced through the air, forcefully splitting the fire. It was the Ruthless Sword Intent sent out by Cao Dezhi from the Formation Plate.
"Old Cao, focus on stabilizing the great array; we've got this!" Zhang Huanyun roared back, but before his voice could fade, the Black Emperor's figure had already pierced through the energy storm. Her pitch-black claws, carrying the power to tear through everything, lunged straight for the space between his eyebrows.
Zhang Huanyun's expression changed drastically, and the Bright Mirror was instantly positioned in front of him. "Bright Mirror Reflection!"
The light from the mirror's surface surged, attempting to replicate the Black Emperor's attack, but the demonic mist instantly swallowed the light, and the claws slammed violently onto the Bright Mirror.
*Crack!*
Dense cracks appeared on the mirror surface at the sound. Zhang Huanyun was struck as if by a heavy blow, spitting out a mouthful of blood as his body was sent flying backward.
Although he had four-word battle armor, there was still a massive gap between him and the Black Emperor. The Black Emperor was the sovereign of the ninth level of the abyss, with strength comparable to a demi-god and combat experience far beyond his own.
"Commander!" Several Three-Word Battle Armor Masters roared and rushed forward, wanting to stop the Black Emperor, but with a swirl of demonic mist, they were all swept aside.
Under the fierce onslaught of the Emperors, the defensive line collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
On the Formation Plate, Cao Dezhi's eyes were nearly splitting, veins bulging on the hand gripping the Ruthless Sword, but he could not move.
With the nine rings interlocked, he was the core of the great array. If he left, the entire Blood God Grand Array would instantly disintegrate, which would lead to nothing but catastrophe.
He could only exert all his strength to drive the great array, using the plane's power to continuously reinforce the Seal while sending out more Sword Intent to support the front lines. However, with every strike of Sword Intent, he suffered a backlash from the Formation, his face growing increasingly pale.
"You cannot stop this Emperor!" the Black Emperor laughed wildly, the demonic mist behind her surging again. She transformed into a pitch-black demonic spear piercing through the Void Realm, heading straight for Zhang Huanyun.
This strike carried the power of a demi-god!
Zhang Huanyun watched the rapidly approaching demonic spear and looked at his comrades who had fallen heavily injured behind him.
He looked at Cao Dezhi, who was struggling to hold on atop the Formation Plate.
He looked at the soldiers who, despite being covered in wounds, still gripped their weapons and refused to retreat even half a step. The obsession he had guarded all his life erupted completely at this moment.
He could no longer remember how many years he had guarded this land. From an ordinary soldier to the position of Blood God Legion commander, his entire life had been tied to this Abyss Passage.
Although the Blood God Legion was powerful, there were many more experts within the continent who were not here.
He could retreat, preserve his strength, and return to the Douluo Continent to better resist the abyss with other experts.
However, he chose to die on the battlefield with his soldiers.
Right here, right now!
"Ah!"
Zhang Huanyun roared toward the sky, his entire Soul Power burning frantically without reservation. The cultivation barrier that had already been bordering on the limit shattered with a bang under the impact of this life-or-death crisis!
Breaking through the limit!
The Bright Mirror behind his head transformed into a high-hanging blazing sun, and the Bright Mirror Domain expanded to its limit. His four-word battle armor radiated an unprecedented, brilliant light.
He had officially stepped into the Limit Douluo Realm!
four-word battle armor in the hands of a Limit Douluo and in the hands of a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo were two completely different concepts!
"Bright Mirror Hanging High, All Laws Return to the Source!"
Zhang Huanyun formed hand Seals, and the Bright Mirror in front of him enlarged, forcefully catching the demonic spear the Black Emperor had transformed into.
Amidst the earth-shaking explosion, the demonic spear disintegrated inch by inch, and the Black Emperor was forced to reveal her true form.
"The Commander has broken through!"
"Battle!"
The soldiers of the Blood God Legion instantly erupted in sky-shaking cheers. Their previously low morale surged, and the heavily injured Long Tianwu also struggled to stand up, his eyes filled with wild joy.
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