“Hm.”
Bibi Dong harrumphed coldly. The Rakshasa Scythe in his hand suddenly blew up, turning into nine giant scythes and exploded in front of him. Both of his hands which were clutching onto the scythe were smashed. The Sea God Armament on his arms had also cracked into pieces, scattering everywhere. After he had launched the Sea God Afterglow, his spirit power was feeble, wasn’t enough to defend Bibi Dong’s attack. He groaned then fell down. Fortunately, he had used his divine sense to put the Sea God Trident horizontally in mid-air to reluctantly stop the nine scythes from chasing after him.
The giant sword slashed across the sky. Sword Douluo Chen Xin and his sword were fused into one body, plunging from the Ossifying Godly Dragon to Bibi Dong. At this moment, the eyes of this Sword Douluo were filled with the extreme determination of risking his life. Under such intensive circumstances, his strike had become the strongest strike he had ever made during his whole life.
The giant body of the Bone Douluo also hit Bibi Dong directly. The bones of his entire body were glowing with dazzling light.
At this moment, two elders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan had put all their spirit powers, their vitality into this bursting strike. They understood that if Tang San died in Bibi Dong’s hands now, even if the Spirit Empire didn’t have any other supreme spirit masters, it would still be a disaster for the Heaven Dou Empire.
The sinister visage of Bibi Dong was full of disgust. Light flashed, and she had disappeared, leaving her nine demonic scythes right where she had just stood.
“Bibi Dong, you dare!”
Tang San roared in indignation. Divine light burst out from his eyes as he reluctantly balanced himself in the air. Facing Bibi Dong who had just appeared abruptly in front of him, he didn’t feel fear. In just a blink of an eye, an immense divine power erupted out from Tang San’s body. Two gold rays shot out from his eyes like electric lightning, directly hitting Bibi Dong.
A strange feeling arose in Bibi Dong’s heart. She understood that these two rays were the very last drops of Tang San’s divine energy. This was the strike that he had bet everything he had. However, no matter how much she was wiggling, she still couldn’t dodge them. It seemed that she was being restrained by the lights from his eyes. Her soul was as if it was screaming to get out of her body.
“Not good.”
Bibi Dong screamed. She had never thought that under this situation, Tang San could have gathered another strike at such tremendous power.
However, no matter what happened, Tang San couldn’t control the situation on the other side. Nine Rakshasa Scythes were facing the attacks from Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong.
They had collided almost at the same time. Numerous white bones scattered in the air. The Seven Kill Sword, his spirit, which had been with him for his whole life had broken. The two Tile Douluos, who had been famous on the Continent, had spent their last moment drastically in the air. This was the difference between humans and gods.
Xiao Wu, Ning Rong Rong, and Oscar finally got atop the wall. They were all pale. They had received the message late. When they came, they could only see the last impact between Bibi Dong and Tang San.
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[1] ????: one of the stratagem in the Chinese’s Thirty-Six Stratagems- a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and civil interaction. The idea of “Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao” is to avoid a head-on battle with a strong enemy, and instead striking at his weakness elsewhere.
Chapter 331: The Death of Sea God
When Xiao Wu screamed in fear, Tang San and Bibi Dong had finally collided.
The deaths of Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo weren’t wasted. Their attacks couldn’t hurt Bibi Dong, but their Title Douluo ranked attacks had distracted her. She had to spend much of divine sense and powers in controlling her Nine Demonic Scythes to kill them.
Bibi Dong didn’t expect that Tang San still had powers to strike her again even though he had been pierced through by her Rakshasa Scythe. She then urged her Rakshasa’s divine abilities to come in front of Tang San. She respected this young opponent as she wanted to kill him by her own hands just to make it more certain. However, she had to spend a part of her divine sense to control the Nine Demonic Scythes.
It’s true that Tang San had done his best in destroying the Solar Angel. His divine power’s consumption and his wounds were severe. However, Bibi Dong had forgotten one thing. Before Tang San had become a God, his strongest feature wasn’t his spirit abilities, but his mental power. When Tang San had just reached Title Douluo, his mental power had been even stronger than hers, which had been ranked level ninety-nine at that time.
When a spirit master received the god inheritance, the powers he would receive, apparently, were related closely to the powers of that Primary God and that one’s competence. If not, how could Tang San oppress Qian Ren Xue altogether? Thus, after receiving the god inheritance, Tang San’s divine mental power was stronger than his Sea God’s powers.
When Tang San struck Qian Ren Xue, he had already got hurt by the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe. But only his divine power and his body were damaged. His divine mental power hadn’t been consumed much, just a small part was used for controlling. His head wasn’t hurt.
Gold rays shot out from Tang San’s eyes had carried all of his divine mental power, didn’t retain any bit. His tremendous divine mental power had reached the level he had never been at before. Moreover, as Tang San saw Sword Douluo and Bone Duolou struggling with Bibi Dong’s attack, his worry and indignation had also pushed his divine mental power further. Even if Bibi Dong was in her peak status, this collision would hurt her somehow.
Divine mental power’s impact didn’t generate sound. However, from Tang San’s and Bibi Dong’s reaction, it could be seen how intimidating this impact was. It was even more furious than that of the Sea God Afterglow, which had destroyed the Solar Angel.
When Bibi Dong got hit with those gold rays, it seemed she was struck violently, jolted backward then spun two rounds in the air before she could reluctantly balance her body. But she was shivering. Her Rakshasa Armament was also peeled off, turned into a purple halo and disappeared. A purple cloud appeared above her head, screeching distressingly. Then, she seemed to lose her consciousness, falling and hovering unstably in mid-air. From the seven holes on her sinister face, blood was gushing out constantly.
Tang San’s situation was more serious. When their divine senses had impacted, even though he had the upper hand since Bibi Dong got distracted, he had been hurt already as his divine soul was damaged.
Gold blood was spewing out from his chest and back where the scythe had pierced through. The Sea God Armament was dissolved, turning into numerous gold dots and vanished. His Sea God Trident had turned into a light beam, getting into the Sea God Trident’s mark on his forehead.
The gold blood was gushing out vehemently just like the flood from a broken dam. All aureoles on his body were ceased. He couldn’t control his divine power anymore, falling to the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass.
The purple light eventually turned back to Bibi Dong’s head. She tried to open her eyes, controlling her body. Bibi Dong then cried loudly as her pair of claws had struck toward Tang San. Abruptly, an illusion of a claw appeared in the sky, chasing after Tang San, stabbing through him again right at his left chest.
A gold heart appeared in mid-air, but it was being held in a demonic purple claw.
“NOOOOOOOOOO – “
Some doleful screams echoed at once. Xiao Wu, Ning Rong Rong, Oscar, Grandmaster, Tang Hao, even Hu Lie Na, who was holding Qian Ren Xue on the other side, cried out at the same time.
Hu Lie Na’s face was full of tears, sitting on the ground as if she had lost all of her strength. Qian Ren Xue was awakened from this shake, seeing Tang San’s heart that was being held in the Rakshasa’s claw.
However, none of them could determine the Rakshasa God’s action.
Puff –
Dazzling rays bloomed in the
air. Tang San’s body was wiggling fiercely when his heart had turned into gold beams, scattering everywhere.
Oscar roared in anger. He then swallowed a Mirror Clone Sausage produced with Ma Hong Jun’s blood, soaring up to the sky, taking Tang San’s body, which had no heart anymore.
Bibi Dong was shaking violently while descending. Blood was still streaming out from her facial holes. Obviously, Tang San’s divine mental power attack had struck her hard.
The icy-cold voice reverberated in the air.
“Listen up, Heaven Dou Empire. I’ll give you three days to prepare. You have to declare your surrender after three days. If not, I’ll wash your Heaven Dou Empire with blood. Xiao Gang, because of you, I will give your men three days. Talk some sense into your Emperor. Don’t be stubborn. You can’t resist the powers of the Gods.”
Then, Bibi Dong swung her hand. Purple light appeared as she put on her Rakshasa God Armament. A formidable layer of purple light suddenly covered the entire sky. The laughter that was like broken glass echoed in the void. Purple halo flashed again, and she had disappeared from the Spirit Empire’s formation, together with Qian Ren Xue and Hu Lie Na.
The Heaven Dou Empire’s and Spirit Empire’s soldiers, both hadn’t been yet awakened at this moment.
The duration of this fight was really short, but the results had stunned and scared both sides.
Just a moment ago, the Heaven Dou Empire still had the upper hand. But now, the wind had changed altogether. Although from the Heaven Dou Empire’s side, there were only three people died, including Tang San, just like what Bibi Dong had said, who could resist the God’s powers?
Oscar brought Tang San’s body descending from the sky. Ning Rong Rong was the first person came to them. Tang Hao got back to the wall. Everybody surrounded Tang San’s body.
“Ge —“
Xiao Wu was screaming wildly, stormed over to Tang San. The wounds on his chest looked really terrible. Besides the hole on his right chest, the one on his left chest, as big as half a tchi, was the deadly one. Gold flesh, veins, and bones were exposed. Blood was still gushing out from the wounds. There was no gleam or breath of vitality on his face. It was just a short time, but his body was already cold.
The purple mist had covered the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass quickly. Xue Beng was bewildered, bending down beside Tang San. Tang Hao and Grandmaster were baffled. Just a moment ago, their son was still a noble Sea God, but now he was just a corpse.
No one noticed the Chief of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Ning Feng Zhi, who seemed to have gotten ten years older, halted out of the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass. Although he couldn’t collect them fully, he still wanted to collect the Sword Douluo’s and Bone Douluo’s scattered bodies.
“Ge, how could it be? Why did you leave me like that? You cannot die, cannot die!”
Xiao Wu cried until her voice was hoarse. But Tang San couldn’t answer her at this moment.
“Ge, you have promised me. You promised to marry me. You promised to hold the biggest wedding for us. Your promise is not fulfilled, how could you die like that? Please. Please. Wake up. Please wake up! No matter how much I have to pay, as long as you can wake up, I’m willing to do it.”
Even a man like Oscar had tears streaming down on his face.
“Yeah. Little San, how could you go like that? We have promised. Wait until the war is over, our Shrek Seven Devils will travel through the Continent. There are so many places we have never been to. Didn’t you tell me that you wanted to visit the North Pole? I will get you there. Wake up! I will get you there!”
Puff ~ Grandmaster paled, fell on the ground as he muttered, “Am I truly a jinx? Why have all of my relatives encountered bad luck like that? Even if he has become a God. It’s because of me. All because of me. I shouldn’t let Tang San take me as his father. No. I should die instead of him. Why didn’t he let me go? Little San, you shouldn’t have revived me. I wish I could die. The old men shouldn’t deliver the young man.”
Liu Er Long hurried to him, hugging him tightly. “Xiao Gang! No, it’s not like that. Don’t scare me!”
Tang Hao pushed people aside, walking to Tang San. He didn’t cry. He was the only one who didn’t cry among this crowd. But his eyes were bloodshot. Looking at Tang San in Xiao Wu’s embrace, his eyes showed no spirit of the intimidating Clear Sky Douluo.
“Little San, do you remember the time we lived in the Saint Spirit Village? I’d been drunk every day. You’d taken care of me. We had just spent our days like that. You are a good son, but I’m not a good father. All is because of me. I haven’t spent one day fulfilling a good father’s responsibilities. I have thought that wait until the war ends, your mom and I will make it up for you. But now I have no chance. Your mom doesn’t want to see the bloody scene of the war; she is staying in the Heaven Dou City. I have no courage to see her again. Slow down on your way to heaven, wait for your dad. I will join you very soon.”
Then, Tang Hao turned around, heading out of the wall.
Oscar’s reflex was fast. He jumped, hugging Tang Hao by his waist.
“Uncle, you can’t go!”
Tang Hao had to stop. The powers of his Mirror Clone Sausage were still effective; the Title Douluo’s strength was strong anyway.
“Let off me. Whoever can return to the Heaven Dou city, please send my words to A Yin. I don’t have the face to see her again. Ask her to return to the Star Dou Forest. For my whole life, I haven’t done anything for my son. He’s gone now. Being his father, should I be a coward turtle retracting its head? Don’t stop me. None of you could stop me. Dying on the battlefield is more satisfying than waiting to die.”
There was a special aura on Tang Hao’s body. No one dared to directly look at him in the eyes. Oscar slowly loosed his grip.
Tang Hao was about to walk away, the stiff voice of Grandmaster arose, “Wait a second. Little San doesn’t have only one father. Taking revenge for our son, how could I not join you? Even if we can’t take revenge for him, we can follow him. Would they spare our lives after three days? Die on the battlefield. Tang Hao, let’s die on the battlefield together.”
Tang Hao stared at Grandmaster’s eyes with his bloodshot eyes. Grandmaster’s eyes were totally calm now, but that calmness looked more intimidating than Tang Hao’s red eyes.
Liu Er Long didn’t stop Grandmaster. She just held his hands tightly, “On the way to heaven, take me with you.”
“I’ll go with you.”
Xue Beng took out his long sword, turning to see Marshall Go Long.
“Marshall, after I set off, I leave everything in the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass to you. Three days later, you should take our forces to surrender the Spirit Empire. Also, you have to control them, not to let them protest anymore.”
“Your Majesty, what are you doing?”
Marshall Go Long was scared, hugging Xue Beng’s arm.
Xue Beng shouted indignantly, “This is my order. Do you want to go against me?”
Even thought Go Long got shouted in his face, he didn’t let go of Xue Beng’s arm.
“I don’t. But as long as I’m still breathing, I will not just sit there and see you set off to die.”
Xue Beng said faintly, “My teacher has died for this Empire. Whether I’m the Emperor or his disciple, I can’t live cowardly. I am the Emperor of the Heaven Dou. Even the time I’ve been ruling is not too long, being the emperor, I have my responsibilities. I have ordered to start this war. Facing two Gods now we have no chance to claim victory. If so, even if we are stubborn enough to continue fighting against them, we just blow up the casualties. I can’t stand letting my soldiers, and my innocent fellows die in vain. Thus, I order you to lead them to surrender. This could reserve our Heaven Dou Empire’s last hope. Everybody can surrender but not me. I can’t fail my ancestors. I can’t fail the previous Emperor. Marshall, you don’t need to stop me. When I leave the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass, you should lead the generals and soldiers. I only hope that my dea
th could light up a light of hope in your hearts. I strongly believe that one day, our Heaven Dou Empire will come back in glory.”
“Your Highness –“
All generals and soldiers on the city wall kneeled down. Their eyes reddened. No doubt that Xue Beng, as their Empire, had conquered their hearts.
“We wish to live or die together with you. There are no cowards in Heaven Dou Empire.”
Marshall Go Long kneeled down. “Your Majesty, if you decide to go, please give the surrender mission to someone else, and allow me to go with you.”
The heroic aura burst out. Although Tang San had died, atop the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass, the emperor and his men were filled with the powers they had never had before. This is what we called ‘Pity soldiers will win’. Vehement spirit was filling their hearts.
“Your Majesty, please order. We have a hundred myriads of soldiers, what if she is a God? We can use our overwhelming number to crush her. We would rather die than surrender.”
“Rather die than surrender!”
The indignant roars grumblingly reverberated, even to a further distance of several li around there. People in the Spirit Empire’s base could even hear that.
At this moment, inside the Spirit Empire’s barrack, Bibi Dong was holding Qian Ren Xue in one hand, her other hand pulling Hu Lie Na. They’d just arrived at the temporary tent.
Having listened to the sound echoed from the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass, Bibi Dong’s ferocious complexion couldn’t help but beam out a gleam of disgust.
“Won’t surrender? Alright, three days later, I will wash the Auspicious Hill Mountain Pass with their blood.”
She put Qian Ren Xue and Hu Lie Na to the ground.
“Teacher.”
Hu Lie Na’s voice was trembling. She couldn’t help but burst out crying.
“You…you really killed him?”
No matter whom she was facing, even if she was her own daughter, Bibi Dong’s face always showed her coldness. Only when she met Hu Lie Na, her cold countenance could be a little bit softer.
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