Chapter 188: No Self-Destruction Allowed

"This one's yours," Su Cheng said, then immediately leaped onto a large tree behind him.

Bibi Dong's expression turned somewhat grim as she gazed intently at the approaching pitch-black Titan Ape.

Before this, the two had indeed made an agreement. Su Cheng brought her here to search for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, but she had to hunt it down independently, showcasing her years of cultivation.

Considering Bibi Dong's current accumulation, battling opponents of a higher level wasn't a significant challenge. Without the enhancement of divine examination, reaching the level of power akin to Bo Saixi in the future was a standard she had to achieve at her current stage.

However, Bibi Dong was unaware that their target this time was a hundred-thousand-year-level Titan Ape. This beast was also a top genius among soul beasts, capable of dominating peers within its level.

Moreover, as a soul master focusing on control, this purely strength-based soul beast with higher cultivation posed some restraint on her.

Without time to ponder, Bibi Dong's fourth, sixth, and eighth soul rings lit up simultaneously, with purple light shining in her eyes, revealing spiderweb-like patterns.

The purple-black Thorny Spider Armor instantly covered her body, increasing her resilience.

With years of level advancement and innate skill practice, her defensive soul skill had also improved significantly. Though not as noticeable as the direct enhancement brought by increasing the age limit of soul rings like Su Cheng's original body, it had undergone qualitative changes compared to the past.

In the next moment, resilient spider silk wove together, blocking the Titan Ape's path forward.

Her sixth soul skill, Spiderweb Restraint, quickly took shape, strenuously pulling the opponent's massive body, representing extreme strength.

Coupled with the mental attack of her eighth soul skill, the Titan Ape's advance slowed slightly.

Obviously, under the double hindrance, it caused quite a bit of trouble for the Titan Ape.

Especially the mental attack, which caused constant stabbing pains in its mind.

Unfortunately, it was just trouble.

Moments later, the flexible spider silk was torn apart by its strong arms.

A faint red light shimmered in the Titan Ape's crystalline yellow eyes.

The mental trauma had completely infuriated it!

Control-type soul masters were better at endurance battles and crowd control. But this ferocious soul beast relied on strength rather than wit, making it difficult for her to restrain.

"Roar!"

Another earth-shattering roar echoed, and the giant ape's powerful hind legs bent and stretched, propelling its mountain-like body to leap forward. In this moment, it burst out with speed completely inconsistent with its size, rushing over in an instant.

At the same time, Bibi Dong felt the surroundings instantly become heavy and distorted, and her body felt as if it had been weighted down.

"Domain!"

Sensing the environmental change, her expression changed slightly.

The hundred-thousand-year soul beast before her actually controlled the power of the domain!

Bibi Dong was no longer ignorant like before and had deep understanding of various soul beasts.

Among countless soul beasts, only a few possessed the potential to cultivate a domain, and the Titan Ape was one of them.

But having the potential didn't mean successful utilization. In fact, among these gifted soul beasts, very few could cultivate and control their domains successfully.

"Gravity is affected."

Though startled, her combat awareness remained unaffected.

With her speed greatly restricted, dodging was obviously too late.

The fifth soul ring under her feet glowed, and with a wave of her hand, a long scythe appeared in her palm.

Bibi Dong's figure slightly swayed, her movements slightly delayed as she reached out from the side to block the huge fist blade that came with a loud breaking sound.

Her angle was excellent, but even so, the ferocious force still made her blood surge.

If it weren't for Bibi Dong starting to practice the second volume of Innate Techniques, she might have been severely injured just from this blow.

After flashing aside, she glanced at Su Cheng, who was watching the battle not far away, with a slightly grim expression that kept changing. Then, gritting her teeth, she still used her seventh soul skill, the Soul Spirit Avatar.

With the illumination of the soul rings, her legs disappeared, replaced by a huge spherical body below her abdomen.

Eight thick, sharp spider legs grew from the sphere, propelling her body, which seemed cumbersome but was actually several times faster than before.

The legs were covered in dense green fur, dripping with a corrosive venom that sizzled when it hit the ground.

Her upper body was covered in an even harder armor, with a piece of carapace covering her face. Underneath her eyes were four small eyes.

In every aspect, she now looked more like a giant poisonous spider.

The expression on Bibi Dong's face, covered by the carapace, was exceptionally ugly.

With her advancement to Soul Douluo and starting to practice the second volume of Innate Techniques, her Soul Spirit Avatar had undergone some changes again, becoming even more similar to the Death Spider Emperor, looking even more twisted and ugly than before.

If not forced, Bibi Dong didn't want to reveal her Death Spider Emperor's true body, let alone use this soul skill in front of Su Cheng.

"Death Domain!"

After the Soul Spirit Avatar, her domain skill was released, and a strong purple light surged from her body, confronting the Titan Ape's gravity domain.

Bibi Dong's Death Domain was extremely powerful, a talent of the Death Spider Emperor. At her current level of cultivation, it had three major effects.

It increased all her attributes by ten percent, including her spiritual power intensity. At the same time, the enemy's attributes would be reduced by ten percent, and it could also restrict the movement of enemies within the domain.

In addition, the most terrifying feature of this domain was its ability to create a powerful poison environment.

When the Death Domain was released, the entire area covered by the domain would be filled with the Death Spider Emperor's poison, which had extremely corrosive and spreading properties.

Even if the enemy only had mild poisoning from touching flesh, their body would weaken until death. If this domain was used on the battlefield, its area-based killing ability was no less than that of Dugu Bo.

However, although her domain was of extremely high quality, she was still a Soul Douluo confronting a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and it was the Titan Ape, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast with a strong foundation. It was still inevitably suppressed.

With eight spider legs moving like flying, her massive lower body didn't seem sluggish at all.

In her movements, she continuously released spider webs to hinder the Titan Ape's pursuit.

Although the tough spider silk seemed somewhat weak against the formidable force of the giant beast, it still played a considerable restraining role.

Su Cheng stood with his hands behind his back on the treetop, silently watching the battlefield not far away, while also focusing part of his attention on the seemingly calm lake surface on the other side.

Underneath that lake surface, there was currently a stronger aura hidden.

However, now apart from these two forest overlords, there is no other trace of the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts here, and it is unknown where Xiao Wu and her mother are now.

As time slowly passes, the Titan Giant Ape's roar becomes increasingly impatient, evidently displeased with its battle against Bibi Dong, feeling a pent-up frustration from a power with nowhere to vent.

During this time, Bibi Dong fully utilized her strengths as a control-type soul master, doing her utmost to create a favorable combat environment for herself and constantly engaging with her opponent.

However, continuing like this would only result in delaying the inevitable, with no way to reverse the situation.

In terms of profound soul power, she was far inferior to the soul beast opposite her, and as the battle progressed, the situation would only become more unfavorable for her.

At this moment, Bibi Dong's eighth soul ring suddenly lit up again under her feet, a spider-web-like purple light flashed in her eyes, and the next moment it pierced into the head of the Titan Giant Ape.

At the same time, the purple light on the sickle blade in her hand surged with strong soul power fluctuations, and the blade also shimmered with a profound and sinister light, clearly containing potent poison.

The eight spider legs beneath her body first bent slightly, then shot up, and the sickle blade directly aimed at the giant beast's chest.

After suffering another heavy blow to its spirit, the Titan Giant Ape shook its head and looked up again. When it saw the sharp sickle blade slashing towards it, a hint of extremely human-like anger and mockery appeared in its huge eyes.

Instantly, the tenfold increased gravity abruptly disappeared, transforming into a tenfold weakening in the blink of an eye.

Its huge fist swung out, and all the earth elements in the surrounding air rapidly condensed into this punch.

Bibi Dong had been forcefully increasing her speed to assault despite the suppression of the gravity domain, and now with the sudden disappearance of gravity, her speed increased several times in an instant.

At this moment, she seemed to be actively meeting the incoming fist, and it seemed she was about to be directly hit.

It's conceivable that once hit, even if she didn't die, she would lose half of her life.

But the Titan Giant Ape underestimated Bibi Dong.

Before this, Bibi Dong had already estimated the gravity domain and had always reserved more than thirty percent of her strength.

With the sudden change in gravity, she also quickly changed her tactics, accelerating with the help of force. Her figure suddenly accelerated by several times, narrowly avoiding this powerful attack by a hair's breadth, and the sharp edge of the sickle blade swept across the majestic chest of the Titan Giant Ape.

With this blow, Bibi Dong exerted all her strength and released several times the usual amount of poison.

"Hiss—"

A huge wound visible to the bone traversed the chest, black blood gushing out, accompanied by a large amount of smoke rising. This was the corrosive effect of the Spider Queen's potent poison.

Under the intense pain, the Titan Giant Ape roared in agony, and the toxins mixed in its blood quickly spread throughout its body. In an instant, its mind even felt a little dizzy.

Soon, the rolling wound began to slowly corrode and rot outward, continuously flowing with a foul-smelling black blood, occasionally emitting smoke on the ground, causing the surrounding vegetation to wither rapidly upon contact.

After landing a successful blow, Bibi Dong didn't linger in the battle but quickly withdrew from the center of the fight, returning to the edge of the battlefield to seek opportunities.

After this round, the momentum of offense and defense between the two had completely reversed, and the initiative of the battle had completely fallen into her hands.

The Titan Giant Ape roared while wildly waving its mountain-like fists, its crystalline yellow eyes swirling with strands of pain.

Even though Bibi Dong had not yet ascended to the rank of Title Douluo, the terrifying nature of her Martial Soul as the Death Spider Queen, combined with her choice of an extreme poison development direction, made her Martial Soul's poison extremely frightening.

Even with the formidable physique of the Titan Giant Ape, it was still being eroded bit by bit.

At this point in the battle, the outcome was only a matter of time.

"Second brother!" Countless water splashes flew above the lake behind the beast's body, creating large areas of dazzling flashes.

A huge bullhead with a diameter of over four meters suddenly emerged from the water and rose into the sky.

Under the bull head was a long and thick body, with dark green scales reflecting bursts of cold light.

The snake-shaped body that was only partially exposed on the surface of the lake was over twenty meters long, and it was unknown how much of it was hidden beneath the lake.

Its imposing manner was even stronger than the Titan Giant Ape's just now.

This huge monster with a bull head and snake body sprayed a cyan light from its mouth, shouting loudly, "Let's team up and not waste any more time."

The sky-blue bull python spoke human words, and its cold gaze looked like a sharp sword at Bibi Dong, who was half spider and half human.

At this moment, a strong killing intent surged in its heart.

However, with the cultivation base of a Soul Douluo, if this person were to ascend to the rank of Title Douluo in the future, it would undoubtedly be a disaster for all soul beasts.

As it spoke, a cyan light flashed beside it, and it was about to use its own deceleration domain.

At this moment, a calm voice came, "Don't disturb them."

Then, a powerful azure domain appeared instantly, enveloping the huge body of the sky-blue bull python in the pressure of the deep sea in an instant.

The next moment, this huge and powerful hundred-thousand-year soul beast was as if trapped like an insect in a lake, unable to move.

Only the huge eyeballs in its eyes rolled slightly, looking astonished at Su Cheng, who appeared by the lake's edge at some point.

Under his feet, three crimson hundred-thousand-year soul rings silently displayed a terrifying deterrent force.

"Big brother—"

"Swoosh—"

A sword qi flashed by, slashing in front of the charging Titan Giant Ape's huge body.

The unprepared beast's half-arm was instantly cut off.

This was the terrifying power of innate sword qi!

Even with the formidable body of the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape, it was still defenseless against this sword qi.

However, Su Cheng appeared to be handling it with ease, but in reality, it was not easy at all.

After all, he had only recently broken through to the rank of Title Douluo, and he had not fully mastered his strength. The innate sword qi could only condense to the extent just shown, and there was still much room for improvement.

Moreover, at this moment, he also had to restrict a soul beast with even stronger power, which made it much more difficult than simply killing it.

However, when experts fight, there is only a fine line between life and death.

This level of strength is completely sufficient to kill the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in front of him, and it doesn't even require much effort.

"Win against her, and I'll let you go."

Su Cheng, however, had no intention of continuing to take action, just calmly looking atthe Titan Giant Ape as he spoke.

The Titan Giant Ape looked at him with eyes filled with despair, no longer possessing the arrogant and domineering aura it had before.

In the next moment, an aura far beyond its limits surged madly on its body.

Immediately, another sword qi came, piercing through its ribs, directly interrupting the rapid expansion of its soul power.

"Do not self-destruct," Su Cheng commanded.

The Titan Giant Ape: "..."

The Sky-blue Bull Python: "..."

Bibi Dong: "..."

Half an hour later, the colossal body of the Titan Giant Ape finally fell to the ground, its powerful aura completely dissipating.

Soon after, a crimson hundred-thousand-year soul ring slowly appeared on the giant beast's body, covered with numerous fine wounds and rotting ulcers.

Simultaneously, a hundred-thousand-year left arm bone also appeared.

When a hundred-thousand-year soul beast dies, it produces a soul bone, and the generated soul bone will always fill the vacant position on the body of the soul master who killed it.

Since Bibi Dong hadn't absorbed any soul bones yet, the soul bone produced by the Titan Giant Ape also appeared on her left arm.

Retracting her Martial Soul True Body, Bibi Dong returned to her former appearance as the stunning beauty, breathing slightly heavily as she looked towards Su Cheng.

Seeing this, Su Cheng nodded gently at her. "Take a moment to recover, then absorb the soul rings and soul bone."

Bibi Dong's face immediately lit up with joy at his words.

A hundred-thousand-year soul ring plus a hundred-thousand-year soul bone; this was a top-tier treasure she had never possessed before, and she couldn't help but feel excited.

Moreover...

Bibi Dong glanced at Su Cheng's back, her tongue lightly licking her lips, her eyes flashing with intense heat.

It's a double blessing.

At this moment, the Sky-blue Bull Python, which had been suppressed by the Tide Domain on the surface of the lake, shimmered with extreme sadness and hatred in its eyes.

It had grown up together with the Titan Giant Ape since childhood, and after tens of thousands of years together, their relationship was closer than that of blood relatives.

In its heart, it had already made a firm decision: in the future, it would definitely seek revenge for its second brother.

But at this moment, it obviously didn't know that Bibi Dong possessed the unique advantage of a second Martial Soul.

Today, neither of them, the two brothers, can escape.

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