238: Halberd Breaks Mo Yuan

The thousand-foot ink-colored flood dragon phantom carried monstrous waves, as if the entire water region was responding to its fury!

Although Lord Mo Yuan's Divided Soul Incarnation only possessed sixty percent of the original body's combat power, its foundation at the Peak of the Middle Stage of the Fourth-Tier still allowed it to erupt with heart-palpitating pressure.

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Before the giant waves even arrived, that bone-chilling dragon pressure originating from the depths of the Bloodline had already enveloped a ten-mile radius; many Qianjiao Cliff water tribes, even with the protection of the Formation, still felt difficulty breathing and their Demonic Power stagnating.

However, facing this pressure, Purple Lightning flashed in Gao De's eyes as he advanced instead of retreating!

"Dharma Body Manifestation!"

With a low shout, Gao De's body swelled against the wind!

Amidst the sound of bones and muscles popping, he instantly transformed from the size of an ordinary person into a thirty-zhang-tall purple-gold dragon-man figure—dragon horns wound atop his head, his entire body was covered in thick dragon scales, and the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd enlarged synchronously with his body to ten zhang in length; thunder-fire and blood-red Evil Qi intertwined on the halberd blade, emitting an aura that could destroy everything!

This was the first time the top-tier Divine Ability awakened after Gao De's Bloodline Breakthrough was used in actual combat!

Although limited by his cultivation to only expanding to thirty zhang, his strength, defense, and total dragon essence all surged by more than threefold!

"Break!"

The thirty-zhang purple-gold dragon-man swung his halberd in a sweep!

The thunder calamity law-breaking halberd tore through the waters; wherever the halberd blade passed, the monstrous waves raised by Lord Mo Yuan were forcibly split by a hundred-zhang gap!

The purple-gold thunder-flame fused with the evil dragon Evil Qi in the halberd, turning into a torrent of destruction that charged straight at Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation against the waves!

"What?!" Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation's pupils shrank.

It never expected that this Purple Lightning Flood Dragon would not only dare to face it head-on but also perform such an overbearing Physical Body Divine Ability!

The thunder-fire Evil Qi contained in that halberd actually made even this Divided Soul feel a hint of threat!

"Mystic Water Armor Condensation!"

Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation roared, and the black water around its body quickly condensed, turning into a layer of profound-black ice armor as thick as a physical object.

At the same time, its dragon tail swung fiercely, carrying the force of ten thousand jun as it lashed toward the halberd light!

"BOOM—!!!"

The moment the halberd light collided with the dragon tail, the entire water region seemed to freeze for an instant, followed by an earth-shaking roar!

At the center of the collision, the black water and purple-gold thunder-fire clashed and annihilated each other frantically.

The terrifying shockwave spread in a ring, completely churning the waters within a radius of several miles into a state of Chaos!

Dozens of Black Water Pool Demon Soldiers who were too close were struck by the aftershocks and instantly exploded into blood mist!

"Deng deng deng—"

Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation was actually forced back several hundred zhang by this halberd strike, the Mystic Water ice armor on its dragon tail shattered for the most part, revealing the illusory dragon body beneath, and its aura clearly withered significantly!

While the thirty-zhang purple-gold dragon-man Gao De had transformed into only swayed slightly before standing firmly, pointing his halberd at Lord Mo Yuan, his voice like thunder:

"Is that all?"

"Arrogant!" Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation was furious, its dragon mouth opened wide, and an extremely condensed black water arrow shot out!

This water arrow was only as thick as an arm, but wherever it passed, space showed slight distortions, and the speck of faint light at the tip of the arrow seemed able to pierce through all things—it was precisely one of Lord Mo Yuan's famous killing moves, the [Mystic Nether Void-Breaking Arrow]! Even if only performed by a Divided Soul, its power was enough to threaten the Middle Stage of the Fourth-Tier!

Gao De's eyes narrowed, but he neither dodged nor avoided it.

"Cloud-Locking Mist Formation, rise!"

He clenched the five fingers of his left hand, and the water vapor and mist within a ten-mile radius responded instantly!

Countless silver threads invisible to the naked eye condensed out of thin air, weaving into layer upon layer of large nets on the trajectory of the black water arrow.

These Cloud Sealing threads seemed fragile, but they contained the Law power of imprisonment and retardation.

Every time the black water arrow pierced a layer of cloud net, its speed slowed by a fraction, and its power weakened by a fraction.

When it pierced the seventh layer of cloud net, its speed was less than thirty percent of the original, and the arrow's body began to show unstable tremors.

"Shatter!"

Gao De swung his halberd and slashed again!

This time, the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd accurately struck the speck of faint light at the tip of the arrow!

"Chii—"

There was no earth-shaking explosion, only a piercing sound of tearing.

The black water arrow was split down the middle by the halberd blade, turning into two collapsing black water currents that were quickly diluted and purified by the surrounding waters.

"Cloud Sealing Technique?! Where did you learn that from?!" Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation cried out in shock, a tone of alarm and suspicion appearing for the first time.

It had roamed the Qian River for hundreds of years and had seen all kinds of Divine Abilities and Magic Treasures, but it had never seen such an eerie and hard-to-defend Restriction method—being able to mobilize the heaven and earth water vapor into a Formation out of thin air, and without any warning!

"A dying demon needs not ask," Gao De sneered, his thirty-zhang body treading the waves as he charged forward, the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd turning into a sky full of halberd shadows, completely enveloping Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation!

The Cloud-Locking Mist Formation he just used was only the most superficial application of the first diagram in the Cloud Restriction Art; its strengths were its hidden and rapid activation and its vast coverage, while its actual lethality was limited.

But used at this moment, it perfectly countered Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation's long-range killing move, forcing it into close combat!

And close-quarters combat was exactly the field Gao De was best at—fusing the powerful physique of a flood dragon, the Dharma Body Manifestation Divine Ability, and the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd, this newly refined ferocious weapon, his close combat power was already approaching the Middle Stage of the Fourth-Tier!

"Boom boom boom boom—!"

The two great flood dragons engaged in a brutal struggle in the depths of the waters!

Though Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation had lost the initiative, its foundation was deep after all; as its black dragon body tumbled, Mystic Water Divine Abilities emerged one after another: sometimes turning into ten thousand water blades to strangle, sometimes condensing into an ice mountain to suppress, sometimes spitting out bone-corroding black mist... However, Gao De was even more ferocious!

The thirty-zhang purple-gold dragon-man's movement was like lightning, and every swing of the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd carried destructive Evil Qi, easily tearing through the Mystic Water defenses.

What was even more terrifying was that the Cloud Sealing threads appearing and disappearing around him could always delay Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation's movements at critical moments, creating opportunities for a fatal strike!

In just a few dozen rounds, Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation was already riddled with wounds, its dragon body torn in many places by the halberd blade, black water constantly gushing from the wounds, and its aura rapidly plummeting.

"General Crocodile! What are you waiting for?! Charge with the whole army and break the Water Mansion Formation!" Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation hissed and roared.

General Crocodile, watching from a distance, was already trembling with fear; hearing this, he did not dare to delay and raised his giant axe high:

"All troops hear my command! Break the Formation!"

The remaining two thousand-plus Black Water Pool Demon Soldiers formed a battle Formation, and under the leadership of twelve Third-Tier Demon Generals, they surged toward the Qianjiao Cliff Water Mansion like a black torrent!

Turtle Three Thousand stood at the highest point of the Water Mansion; seeing this, his expression remained unchanged as he waved the command flag in his hand:

"dark thunder, calamity blood cannon, first volley, fire!"

"Boom boom boom boom—!"

Thirty-six hidden Formation eyes on the periphery of the Water Mansion lit up with dazzling blood-red light at the same time!

Thirty-six blood-colored pillars of light as thick as roof beams tore through the waters, accurately falling into the most densely populated areas of the Black Water Pool Demon Soldiers!

These blood-colored pillars of light were not pure energy attacks, but were transformed from "Calamity Blood Shells" refined by Gao De using dragon blood impurities, Yin Evil Qi, and some evil dragon bone powder.

After each shell exploded, it would release an "Evil Blood Pollution Zone" within a hundred-zhang radius!

The Demon Soldiers tainted by the Evil Blood, regardless of their tier, instantly felt their Bloodlines boiling and their Demonic Power becoming disordered; some Demon Soldiers even failed to withstand the power of the impurity and directly turned into a pool of bloody water.

Low-tier Demon Soldiers went mad on the spot, biting and melting each other; mid-tier Demon Generals also suffered great losses in strength, only able to exert sixty to seventy percent of their power.

With one volley, the Black Water Pool's offensive stalled, and at least three hundred Demon Soldiers lost their combat capability!

"Second volley, fire!" Turtle Three Thousand said expressionlessly, waving the command flag again.

"Boom—!"

Another thirty-six blood-colored pillars of light!

The Black Water Pool Demon Soldiers' Formation was completely disrupted, and the casualty numbers rose sharply.

General Crocodile was furious, personally leading three Third-Tier Yaksha Commanders in an attempt to forcibly attack a Formation eye.

However, as soon as they approached, a dense white mist suddenly rose in that water region, and countless silver threads flashed within the mist, trapping the four within a hundred-zhang radius—it was precisely the simplified version of the Cloud-Locking Mist Formation that Gao De had set up in advance!

Although it couldn't trap a Third-Tier Demon King for long, delaying for dozens of breaths was more than enough.

And these dozens of breaths were sufficient for the dark thunder, calamity blood cannon to complete the third and fourth volleys... "Damn it! Damn it all!" General Crocodile hacked frantically in the mist Formation but was unable to escape for a while.

Meanwhile, on the main battlefield.

"Lord Mo Yuan, your Divided Soul should disperse now." Gao De seized a flaw in his opponent, and the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd, carrying the force of ten thousand jun, stabbed fiercely into Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation's dragon neck!

"Puchi—!"

The halberd blade pierced through the body, and the evil dragon Evil Qi and Purple Dawn thunder-fire raged frantically inside the Incarnation!

"Roar—!!!"

Lord Mo Yuan's Incarnation let out a shrill scream, its hundred-zhang dragon body struggling violently, but it could not escape the pinning of the halberd blade.

It stared venomously at Gao De, its dragon mouth opening and closing as it issued a final curse:

"Purple Lightning... my true body is already a thousand miles away... you kill my Divided Soul... when I arrive in person... I will surely..."

Before the words were finished, the thunder-fire Evil Qi in the halberd erupted with a bang!

"Bang—!"

Lord Mo Yuan's Divided Soul Incarnation completely exploded, turning into a sky full of black light spots and dissipating into the waters.

Only that black dragon scale, which served as the vessel and was now covered in cracks, slowly drifted down.

Gao De reached out and caught the dragon scale, sensing the residual aura of Lord Mo Yuan within it, as well as... a faint, indistinct sense of the true body's location.

"A thousand miles away?" A cold smile curled his lips. "It seems he's hiding somewhere, waiting for his Divided Soul to test out all my trump cards before arriving in person to settle everything in one go. Unfortunately, your Divided Soul fell too quickly; no trump cards were forced out at all."

He put away the dragon scale, and his thirty-zhang body slowly shrank, returning to his human form.

Despite the successive fierce battles, thanks to the terrifying amplification of dragon essence by the Dharma Body Manifestation Divine Ability and the continuous replenishment of vitality from the yimu azure dragon pearl, his current consumption was not great, and his combat power remained above eighty percent.

Scanning the chaotic Black Water Pool army in the distance, a cold killing intent flickered in Gao De's eyes:

"Turtle Three Thousand, pass the order. Fully open the Water Mansion Formation, and have all remaining members strike out, cooperating with the dark thunder, calamity blood cannon to wipe out the remnants of the enemy."

"Yes!" Turtle Three Thousand's voice was excited.

"Also, have Iron Pincer lead the Shadow Snake Guards to circle around and cut off the enemy's retreat. I want this battle to completely annihilate the invading enemy, leaving not a single one!"

"As you command!"

As the order was given, the gates of the Qianjiao Cliff Water Mansion swung wide open!

Eight hundred Mysterious Crocodile Guards, five hundred Shadow Snake Guards, and two thousand elite auxiliary water tribes, under the command of Turtle Three Thousand, formed a battle Formation, and like tigers released from a cage, they pounced on the Black Water Pool army which was already at the end of its strength.

While Gao De stood in the center of the battlefield, holding the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd, his dragon pressure enveloping the entire field like a stabilizing pillar of the sea, and also like a life-taking Yama.

He did not personally slaughter the grunts again, but instead spread his Divine Sense, staying alert to the darkness further away.

If Lord Mo Yuan's true body was really a thousand miles away, he would surely sense it now that his Divided Soul was destroyed. Would he arrive in a rage? Or avoid the edge for now?

Over at Red Scale Cave, Lord Chilian is about to break the Formation; once he escapes, will he continue to attack the Beehive Fortress on the Flower Burial Plain? Or will he sense the change in the Lake battle situation and come to support?

And those third-party forces hidden in the shadows... what exactly are you all waiting for?

Gao De slowly raised his head, looking toward the northern horizon.

There, a faint crimson fire soared into the sky, accompanied by a furious hiss.

Lord Chilian is about to break free.