"Is this Tang Sui?!"
The elders who witnessed Tang Sui's instant outfit change were startled. Before they could even ponder Tang Sui's sudden appearance, they saw Tang San turn without hesitation, soaring into the air with his Blue Silver Emperor soul bone. He poured his immense spiritual power into the Sea God Trident, and a faint golden barrier instantly enveloped him.
"What is Tang San trying to do?"
The Third Elder, noticing Tang San's actions, knitted his brows. Suddenly, wisps of scarlet, like falling sheer veils, smoothly cascaded from the sky.
The divine radiance dimmed, and inauspicious dark red and shadowy patches filled the originally dense sky like an irregular jigsaw puzzle.
Everyone's vision shifted from the distant heights to a broader expanse.
"What is this?!" The disciples of the Clear Sky School, realizing the anomaly, exclaimed.
Tang Xiao also belatedly discovered that the Cloud Abyss scenery around him had changed.
The snowflakes scattering in the air had, at some unknown point, been replaced by ash-like black dust, falling from the sky.
The snow-capped peaks that had erupted from the ground seemed to have never existed. A vast, boundless basin and rugged mountain ranges lay in the distance like a skeletal dragon, bearing cracks.
The unending red dyed the air murky. The bone-chilling snow wind vanished, and the air the disciples breathed in and out had, at some point, become mixed with a strong scent of blood. The disciples of the third generation, who had lived in seclusion for years and rarely encountered blood, were the first to feel unwell. They covered their mouths, their faces pale as they suppressed the churning in their stomachs, their eyes wide with terror as they stared at the scene before them, which resembled a doomsday cataclysm.
"They're finally here." Xiao Wu, as if facing a great enemy, watched the changing scenery around them and heightened her vigilance. She explained to the bewildered Tang Xiao, "This is the ultimate evolved form of Sui Sui's Twin Spirit Domain."
"You say this is a domain?!"
Tang Xiao, seeing Tang Sui's demon domain manifest for the first time, was filled with shock.
"Incredible... I've never seen any Soul Master master their domain to such an extent. Even with the domain materialized, its coverage is too terrifying, as if one has stepped into another world, like..." a divine miracle.
The last two words were lost on Tang Xiao's trembling lips.
A Yin, whose innate energy was purer and kinder, covered her mouth and nose uncomfortably. Tang Hao, his face grim, noticed his wife's discomfort out of the corner of his eye and pulled her into his embrace.
"Click, click."
A sound of rotating mechanisms came from above Tang Xiao and the others.
Everyone looked up.
In the turbid red light, countless retro pavilions and narrow corridors that appeared out of nowhere seemed to be pieced together by an invisible giant hand, twisting and layering before their eyes like a mirage.
Thick shadows stretched out across the rugged basin, and a chilling sensation instantly swept through their bodies, triggering alarms in the minds of every living Soul Master, screaming danger and escape.
"Alas."
At the critical moment, a sigh sounded, and golden light suddenly appeared, enveloping Tang Hao and his group, as well as the sect disciples on other peaks – no, now they should be considered ground observers – with a uniform glow.
The sacred and gentle power of the Sea God's light dispelled the chilling sensation brought by the domain. Some disciples who harbored great malice towards Tang San and his family looked with complex gazes at Tang San, who stood with his back to them, also observing Tang Sui's battle.
Meanwhile, the five sect elders, targeted by the domain with the utmost malice and without the protection of the Sea God's light, were in dire straits.
The boundless black and red demonic energy filled the heavens and earth, continuously forming, assembling, and encroaching. The pavilions and corridors that occupied the sky domain repeatedly collided with the Clear Sky Array, which was resisting their expansion.
The five elders displayed their unique abilities. While maintaining the Clear Sky Array and using its recoil force to push back the demonic energy-formed pavilions, the Seventh Elder, who had the second-highest attack power among them, directly used his domineering soul skill, transforming one Clear Sky Hammer into two to pound these aggressive structures.
But this was merely an appetizer.
Tang Sui, experiencing her demon domain for the first time in a conscious state, felt her blood boiling, screaming for slaughter.
At this moment, Tang Sui truly understood the meaning of Shang Yang's words, "In the demon domain, you are the master."
Within the domain, invisible to human sight, seemingly infinite demonic energy was nurtured and born, transforming into several black and red chains. These chains, except for the golden barrier of Sea God's divine power, penetrated the Clear Sky Array without pattern or break, penetrated the aerial pavilions, and also pierced through the bodies of the five elders shrouded in the black light pillars. Like a falling bead curtain, they formed an unshakeable confinement, connecting heaven and earth, locking the entire world.
With a slight shift of her mind, countless grotesque and terrifying twisted creatures surged out from a black tide invisible to the naked eye.
These were projections of power from the Misty World, possessing the full strength of the monsters that had submitted to Tang Sui.
They roared and extended insect-like limbs to tear through space, squeezing out. Some used long tongues, like those of frogs, which could stretch and were covered in barbs and corrosive liquid, to encircle the black light pillar around an elder. To their horrified expressions, the black light, which was shattered into fragments and black foam, became dimmer under the围堵 of different monsters. Su Dan Novel Network.
The monsters, possessing self-awareness, twisted their various absurd and horrifying body parts with greater excitement, charging towards their surrounded prey. Even if their bodies were shattered, they madly rushed forward, densely packed together, causing the five elders to break out in cold sweat.
"Roar, roar—!"
Everyone, including Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, as well as Tang San, watched this scene with rapid breathing or involuntary held breaths.
This was a scene that, no matter how many times, would subconsciously evoke fear and terror when recalled.
Tang San could feel that each of the strange creatures that appeared out of nowhere possessed power no less than that of a Soul Emperor. As for the larger or exceptionally small creatures, they gave him a sense of threat no less than that of a Titled Douluo.
His expression became solemn as he looked at Tang Sui, who was suspended in the void.
Tang Sui's delicate face, like that of a porcelain doll, bore a cold smile at the corners of her lips, mixed with bloodlust and excitement that made her seem like a top predator hunting other animals, emanating an overwhelming inhuman dread.
In her eyes, now covered with a layer of ink, he saw no reverence for life, only coldness and mockery. Looking at the Clear Sky Array, which was already struggling to maintain itself without needing to break any formation core, Tang San felt a sense of headache he hadn't experienced in a long time.
Sui Sui seemed to have no intention of holding back.
Had she forgotten that the reason she unleashed her domain was to break the formation more effectively?
Within the black light pillars, the elders, who were experiencing firsthand what it meant to be in a no-win situation, all had faces as dark as iron, realizing the taste of lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet.
Originally, they had jointly used the Clear Sky Array to resolve this challenge more quickly and efficiently. Little did they know that this step would become the final blow that pushed them into the abyss. If they disbanded the formation now, they would face the attacks of these terrifying creatures, becoming a situation where their fists were no match for their four hands.
In the current situation, the only way out was... surrender...
— Author's Note —
The next chapter will finally have no fighting; it will be a happy plot of retribution.
Frankly speaking, Douluo Dalu I is a low-martial world, so the leader monsters of the Cthulhu series can be considered Titled Douluo level for them.