High in the sky, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei shouted in unison as golden and silver flames erupted from their bodies. As they drew near each other, their forms began to fuse, and a pillar of light shot upwards, creating a powerful aura around them.
Their nine spirit rings, each glowing brightly, began to swirl and merge into one massive, dual-colored ring. The fusion resulted in a massive golden and silver light ring that expanded outward, freezing everything it touched in place.
In an instant, Lin Yu was enveloped by the domain.
"So, this is the Twofold Static Domain?" Lin Yu thought as the powerful space manipulation of the fusion technique began to immobilize everything within its reach. His body was locked in place, and he felt the pressure of the domain's immense power.
At the same time, two deadly attacks neared—Chrysanthemum Douluo's golden beam and the swarm of black ghostly figures unleashed by Ghost Douluo.
The golden beam was Yue Guan's Eighth Spirit Ability: Gate of Holy Light, a devastating energy blast capable of obliterating castle walls. Meanwhile, the black ghostly figures from Gui Mei's Eighth Spirit Ability could tear through even the most fortified defensive martial spirits.
Facing such overwhelming attacks, Lin Yu recalled his previous battles against powerful foes like Yu Yuanzhen and Sword Douluo Chen Xin. He knew his Earth Element Yellow Flag wouldn't be able to block both attacks fully since their combined power was far greater than anything he'd faced before.
But Lin Yu wasn't without options.
"Time to show them something new," he thought.
"Seventh Spirit Ability: Chaos Lotus True Form!"
In response to the immobilizing effect of the Twofold Static Domain, Lin Yu activated his Chaos Lotus Martial Spirit's seventh ability, transforming into his true form and summoning his Chaos Domain.
In its normal state, the Chaos Domain granted Lin Yu the abilities of Creation and Return to Origin. However, when unleashed in its true form, the domain's power expanded, and new abilities became available. Among them was a new skill that Lin Yu had recently discovered—Replication, an ability to duplicate any force or energy within the domain.
Lin Yu surmised that this ability stemmed from the chaotic nature of creation, where all things originate from chaos and can return to it, allowing chaos to replicate anything within it.
As his Chaos Domain expanded, Lin Yu activated its replication ability and formed a smaller version of the Twofold Static Domain inside his own. This newly replicated domain immediately nullified the immobilizing effect of the original, freeing Lin Yu from its control.
In a flash, Lin Yu vibrated his Wind and Thunder Wings and shot forward like lightning, breaking free from the domain's grasp.
Yue Guan's Gate of Holy Light missed its mark, slamming into the forest below and exploding in a blinding flash. The destructive force ripped through the landscape, leaving a massive crater in its wake.
At the same time, Gui Mei's ghostly apparitions swirled aimlessly, unable to keep up with Lin Yu's lightning-fast movements.
"What?!" Yue Guan and Gui Mei were both stunned. Their Twofold Static Domain, a technique that had never failed them before, had just been shattered. Their combined attack had been completely neutralized.
Before they could react, Lin Yu appeared in front of them, his Godslayer Spear sweeping out with brutal force. With one powerful strike, he sent both Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo flying, the impact severing their connection to the domain.
"Ugh!" Both Douluos spat blood as their martial soul fusion was forcibly broken. Their bodies spiraled downward, crashing toward the forest below.
Seeing her two most trusted lieutenants overwhelmed so easily, Bibi Dong frowned. Summoning her Death Spider Emperor Martial Spirit, she extended her spider legs and launched two silken threads, catching Yue Guan and Gui Mei before they could hit the ground. She eased their descent, but the two were no longer in any shape to continue fighting.
"So, this is the best your Spirit Hall has to offer?" Lin Yu taunted, his Godslayer Spear pointing directly at Bibi Dong as he hovered in the sky. "If you can't beat me, don't expect me to hand over anything."
Bibi Dong's eyes narrowed, her voice calm but sharp. "You're strong, Lin Yu, stronger than we anticipated. But I didn't come all this way to leave empty-handed."
With those words, Bibi Dong put away her Pope's Scepter and her beautiful yet deadly expression hardened. She activated the Death Spider Emperor's twin arm spirit bones—bones from a 100,000-year-old Death Spider Emperor, a rare creature that had granted her immense power.
These spirit bones gave her two abilities: the ability to transform her arms into massive scythes and the ability to detonate them for a devastating explosion that could both defend and attack.
A surge of dark energy enveloped her arms as they transformed into two long, razor-sharp black scythes. With a single motion, Bibi Dong became a purple streak of light, hurtling toward Lin Yu with lethal intent, her scythes cutting through the air with a terrifying screech.