Chapter 291: Tang Chen Hammers Bibi Dong
With life on the line, the Killing King had no choice but to relinquish control of the body to Tang Chen. However, the parasite still lurked within, ready to reclaim dominance the moment Tang Chen's willpower waned.
Once Tang Chen regained consciousness, he sensed the searing, evil, poisonous aura of the blood river suffusing his surroundings. Immediately drawing on his Extreme Douluo power, he blasted out of the river. At first, he was dazed, but as soon as he spotted Bibi Dong, he erupted in fury, the Killing King's piercing voice shifting to his original, aged male tone.
"Rakshasa God inheritor?! Die, you wretch!!"
A swirl of blood-red light re-formed in Tang Chen's hand. Under nine spirit rings plus the might of an Extreme Douluo, the small hammer from before ballooned to an immense size, its head alone five times larger than Bibi Dong's body, radiating an indescribably overbearing aura.
"Grand Sumeru Hammer!"
Gathering all eight black and one red rings into one, Tang Chen poured them into the blood-marked Clear Sky Hammer, which now exuded an even more terrifying dominance that stifled the air. Even the space around them crackled as if splitting under "ka-cha, ka-cha" sounds.
"Vast Heaven Nine Absolutes—Break!"
Boom!
A crimson energy blast fired straight out of the Slaughter City, looking as though it might pierce the sky. Bibi Dong repeated the Killing King's fate, flying back over a hundred meters and spewing purple-tinged blood as she went.
Tang Chen rushed forward, unleashing his fully evolved Slaughter Domain. With just that domain, he suppressed Bibi Dong's two domains. His once dark, glossy eyes turned blood-red beneath surging killing intent.
Raising that massive blood-red Clear Sky Hammer, he aimed it heavily at Bibi Dong again.
Rumble!
A mushroom cloud soared skyward. Huge swaths of buildings in the Slaughter City's inner sector collapsed, and countless spirit masters were shocked to death. The whole Slaughter City shook as if by an earthquake.
Though the Slaughter City was smaller than Heaven Dou City, Tang Chen wielded near demi-godlike power in these full-force blows. In just a few hammer strikes, he was already on the verge of demolishing it.
The fallen in the outer city, at least protected by thick walls, were relatively unscathed. Swarming like refugees, they ran for the city gates.
The enforcers at the exit stared slack-jawed at the interior of Slaughter City. Even the strongest among them—a Title Douluo-level squad captain—felt certain that if he'd been in the inner city, he'd have perished under the mere aftermath.
"Rakshasa Orca Tooth-Shred Slash!"
Bibi Dong's mind controlled her techniques, lighting up her third, fourth, and fifth spirit rings simultaneously. All three were high-level ten-thousand-year rings obtained from hunting Demon Evil Orcas.
Countless purple-red orca fangs erupted from beneath Bibi Dong's feet, firing in all directions before converging on Tang Chen in a joint assault.
"Hao Tian Protection!"
The enormous Clear Sky Hammer spun before Tang Chen, forming a circle of blood-hued hammer energy that blocked the incoming swarm of red orca teeth.
Within his protective shield, Tang Chen's expression gradually steadied. Eyes closed, two streaks of blood tears trickled—he was sobbing, recalling it all now. Decades of captivity beneath the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's parasitism, lost within a scarlet prison, reigning as the Killing King of the Slaughter City. Over those decades, he had slaughtered countless victims, reveled in countless captive women, indulged himself in a mire of debauchery. In morality, in love—he'd committed atrocities. He had let Bo Saixi down! Damn the Rakshasa!
Tang Chen suddenly snapped his eyes open once more, releasing surging killing intent.
By now, Bibi Dong felt extreme solemnity. The Killing King of the Slaughter City was in fact Tang Chen, that vanished-for-untold-years Clear Sky ancestor never seen in her first lifetime. She couldn't imagine why, but clearly he had no intention of leaving her alive.
Bibi Dong possessed her sixth spirit skill, Undying Body, for self-protection. Facing Qian Xunji, Qian Daoliu, or Bo Saixi, she might have lived if she lost. But Tang Chen was a rank 99 with eight black and one red rings, which might break even her Undying Body.
However, fortune was that they were in the Slaughter City, saturated by thousands of years of death and resentment. Relying on her Rakshasa Domain and Rakshasa God Spirit, she could ceaselessly absorb those grudges and hold nearly boundless spirit power. Prolonged combat gave her a chance to kill Tang Chen.
Tang Chen likewise felt his body's awful condition. Corroded by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, his entire system was riddled with lethal toxins. He couldn't prolong his outbursts for much longer before his body disintegrated.
"All for One—Kill!"
Tang Chen again clutched the Clear Sky Hammer; blood flashed as illusions formed from spirit power swung the hammer in unison, smashing the orca fangs. Under that cover, Tang Chen lunged anew, targeting Bibi Dong—who was still building up enough death aura in her Rakshasa Domain to unleash her Space Rend Abyssal Strike.
Again, Bibi Dong was flung away, catapulted from the inner city to the outer, toppling several buildings in her path.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
In the Slaughter City's outer sector, multiple mini mushroom clouds—blended with dust—spurted forth.
"The Killing King's gone insane! Run for it!"
Outer city degenerates fled en masse to the city gates. The enforcers originally tried to stop them but, sensing the nearing storm and fearful of the Killing King's wrath, opened the main gate and escaped themselves.
Back in the inner city:
Bang!!
Bibi Dong's entire figure was wrapped in purple runes, when Tang Chen's giant Clear Sky Hammer struck her in the ribs. Her tall form folded to the side like paper, sticking to the hammer's surface.
Bang!!
Tang Chen spun, hammering Bibi Dong in the face. Her face turned into a bloody mess, her once exquisitely perfect features crushed from three-dimensional to two-dimensional. Her body flopped like a limp rag doll, bending at will.
Tang Chen stomped on Bibi Dong's long thigh, raising the Clear Sky Hammer overhead, arm muscles bulging. Then, with full force, he brought the giant hammer down on the near-unrecognizable Bibi Dong.
Boom!
Another mushroom cloud soared, and Bibi Dong's physical form was pulverized by Tang Chen's triple hammer strikes.
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