Youdu Libiao's speed was astonishing, and it was already a formidable opponent to begin with.
More critically, once Hei Loulan had stabilized her footing, she hurriedly applied a single healing technique to herself before immediately rejoining the fight.
She and Youdu Libiao coordinated with seamless synergy, attacking Chu Du from both sides and suppressing him firmly into a disadvantageous position.
Chu Du's appearance was wretched — his leather robe had been torn open in multiple places, exposing the failure of his defenses.
Before long, blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his injuries continued to accumulate.
The Chu family's Immortal Gu Masters wore expressions of extreme gravity. From the look of things, they could not see any hope of Chu Du turning the tide.
The advantage Youdu Libiao brought to Hei Loulan was simply too great!
"Go down just like this!" Hei Loulan seized the momentum and issued a low shout, unleashing her killer move — Force of Eight Directions.
Chu Du was besieged by several phantom figures and temporarily unable to break free.
Suddenly, a shadow loomed overhead — it was Youdu Libiao!
The creature opened its massive jaws and lunged to bite down hard on Chu Du. If that bite connected, even if Chu Du did not die, he would at the very least suffer catastrophic injuries.
At this critical juncture, Chu Du instead burst into hearty laughter. "Finally caught you!"
The next moment, a colossal force-manipulation hand suddenly materialized, grabbing downward with savage power.
Youdu Libiao, caught completely off guard, was seized by the giant hand. It let out a howl and tried to resist with all its might.
Yet after barely a single breath of struggle, the force-manipulation hand clamped down viciously and slammed it into the ground.
Boom!
A tremendous explosion shook the earth, sending soil and stone flying in every direction as clouds of dust billowed upward.
Immortal Gu killer move — Force Evaporation!
Chu Du erupted with a sudden burst of imposing aura. His body swelled violently, transforming into a three-zhang-tall minor giant.
He bared his upper body, his skin flushing red. The fifty-eight thousand pores across his entire body opened simultaneously, and countless beads of sweat rose as steam, enveloping him in a scorching shroud.
Immortal Gu killer move — Heaven and Earth Convergence!
Chu Du extended both arms outward, then with a sharp clap, slammed his palms together before his chest.
The next moment, the assembled immortals cried out in alarm, and Hei Loulan's expression changed drastically.
Within a radius of a thousand li, everything was wrapped and bound by an invisible force, rendering movement extraordinarily difficult for all the Immortal Gu Masters present — like mosquitoes trapped in droplets of oil.
Under the influence of this killer move, Youdu Libiao's speed plummeted, and its threat level toward Chu Du dropped to rock bottom.
"This is practically a domain-level battlefield technique!" Hei Loulan gritted her teeth. The ingenuity of Chu Du's move had far exceeded her expectations.
"I didn't want to use this." Hei Loulan snorted internally, then activated the Feili Immortal Gu within her immortal aperture.
This Seventh Transformation Immortal Gu had been secretly lent to her by Changsheng Tian. Alongside it came a killer move centered on the Feili Immortal Gu, called Seven-Part Effort.
With the situation critical, Hei Loulan immediately activated this technique.
The technique charged up in utter silence, only releasing its explosive surge of power at the moment of release — swift and devastating.
Chu Du attempted to dodge, but failed to escape in time.
Having been struck by this technique, every single action he took, every killer move he attempted, required more than half again as much effort as before.
Seizing on Chu Du's deteriorating condition, Hei Loulan launched another ferocious offensive.
The battle entered a white-hot phase, with neither side able to gain a decisive edge.
The spectating immortals began retreating one after another, withdrawing from the range of the Heaven and Earth Convergence technique. Only then did they find some measure of stability, and they continued to watch the battle unfold.
"Regardless of how this fight ends, these two are undoubtedly peak figures among the Seventh Transformation masters of the Northern Plains!"
"With such terrifying combat power, I dare say either of them could challenge an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu Master."
"Chu Du and Black Moon… the undisputed pillars of the Strength Path in this age — without question, it's these two."
The Immortal Gu Masters sighed with deep emotion. By this point in the battle, whether it was Hei Loulan or Chu Du, both had thoroughly won the admiration of all who watched.
With such evenly matched opponents, interest in the final outcome only burned fiercer among the assembled immortals.
"Wonderful, truly wonderful." Chu Du had sustained multiple fractures, his robe stained with blood, yet he laughed uproariously — such a battle exhilarated him.
Hei Loulan gritted her teeth in silence. She had slipped into disadvantage once again.
The reason remained the same — combat experience.
In every minor exchange, every micro-level decision, Chu Du held a slight edge over Hei Loulan. These marginal advantages, accumulated drop by drop, had tipped the entire course of the battle.
Hei Loulan tried every possible way to reverse her decline, but the more hastily she acted, the more small openings she exposed, giving Chu Du ever more opportunities to exploit.
"He was hit by my Seven-Part Effort technique — how does he still have this much stamina?" Seeing no sign of fatigue in Chu Du, Hei Loulan could not help but feel a chill of disbelief.
Chu Du's foundations ran extraordinarily deep. Hei Loulan had already pushed herself to the absolute limit, yet she still could not bring him down.
For now, all she could do was pin her hopes on the Seven-Part Effort technique gradually wearing Chu Du down.
But another dozen or so exchanges passed.
Before Chu Du showed any fatigue, Hei Loulan had already fallen completely onto the back foot — her situation had become perilous!
Hei Loulan clenched her teeth in secret. She refused to accept defeat. In a position like this, she could only risk everything on one final gamble.
The next moment, Youdu Libiao let out a thunderous roar and lunged toward Hei Loulan in a furious pounce.
Hei Loulan did not retreat — she charged forward instead, merging into Youdu Libiao's body mid-air.
A burst of black light exploded outward. Youdu Libiao's massive form shrank at lightning speed, transforming into a half-beast, half-human shape that clung to the surface of Hei Loulan's armor like smoke, like a phantom.
This was a higher-level application of the Totem technique!
The Immortal Gu Master and her totem became intimately fused — their combat power surged!
"Chu Du, go down!" Hei Loulan roared. Her tiger wings swept once, and she appeared before Chu Du in the blink of an eye.
Chu Du raised both arms to block.
Hei Loulan's iron fist smashed into his crossed arms. A titanic burst of force erupted, and with a sound like rolling thunder, the surrounding air itself was shattered apart. Chu Du's body was sent hurtling backward involuntarily.
His feet struck the ground, instantly carving long, deep furrows through the earth as he skidded backward. But even as he was still being driven back, Hei Loulan suddenly appeared above him.
Boom!
Another devastating blow — Hei Loulan hammered Chu Du straight down into the earth.
Boom, boom, boom…