Chapter 148 It seems that what you encountered was Amon
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"Eternal Creation" is unaffected by physical defense, but energy defense is reduced by fifty percent. Once it hits, the wound will spread endlessly, only able to be resisted by soul power, until the soul power is exhausted and the oil runs out, leading to death.
Although it's not a completely rule-based skill, it still possesses some characteristics of rules. Just a small wound can bring fatal consequences.
The effect of Amon using it with a level 48 avatar is certainly not as good as Bibi Dong's, but the characteristic of "endless spread" is still terrifying.
Dugu Bo didn't hesitate to activate "Time Freeze" again, the eighth soul ring blooming with a dark light.
It didn't freeze "Eternal Creation," but it slowed down the speed a lot. The emerald green cross-shaped light wave was slow, but steadily continued forward.
Dugu Bo flashed away, disappearing from the original path of the light wave.
The effect of "Time Freeze" disappeared, and the emerald green light swept across, leaving a wound on the ground.
Dugu Bo breathed a sigh of relief. He had a premonition that the attack just now was very terrifying, no less than a Soul Douluo's eighth soul skill.
Just then, the "Ruyi Treasure Pouch" suddenly exploded.
A soul bone emitting a lustrous light shot out from it, and then starlight flourished.
A translucent worm with twelve rings and starry colors crawled out of the soul bone.
Soul power permeated the air, and a figure wearing a black robe, a pointed soft hat, and a monocle on his right eye emerged from the starlight.
It was Amon! He had hidden the Worm of Time in the soul bone!
He crossed his hands, and the emerald green light wave appeared again, this time, released almost point-blank when Dugu Bo was most relaxed.
After the Amon clone that fought Dugu Bo released "Eternal Creation," the clone hidden in the soul bone immediately activated "Steal," stealing the soul skill.
With Amon's main body actively cooperating from the outside, there was no possibility of failure in this theft!
Dugu Bo had no time to defend or dodge and was hit in the chest head-on.
His expression changed, "A clone?"
He casually launched a counterattack, killing this Amon.
Realizing that the wound was constantly spreading and expanding, he immediately used soul power to resist.
Soul power resistance was effective, but it could only delay, not eradicate.
As a Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo's combat awareness was naturally not weak. He immediately thought of a solution, which was to dig out the wound along with the surrounding flesh! But that required the cooperation of a healing-type soul master.
If the wound was on his limbs, he wouldn't mind directly severing the limb to survive, but the current wound was on his chest and was very deep, making it impossible to do so.
Because Amon's own soul power wasn't strong, the effect of "Eternal Creation" was greatly reduced. Suppressing the spread of the wound didn't consume too much of Dugu Bo's soul power, so he could still continue fighting for a long time.
Dugu Bo already had the intention to retreat. He had suffered a troublesome injury, while the opponent hadn't changed much. He didn't know how much longer he could last.
If it really came down to it, he would take Dugu Yan to live in seclusion under an assumed identity, finding a remote corner away from the strife to live out their lives. Although terrible, it was better than losing his life!
As soon as this thought arose, it was suppressed by another thought… No, no, he couldn't let Yan Yan live such a useless life. Thirty percent, if he still hadn't killed Amon when his soul power was only thirty percent left, he would retreat!
Dugu Bo set a standard in his heart and continued to fight with Amon.
Because he needed to resist "Eternal Creation," his soul power was consumed much faster.
During the battle, Amon still looked like he was struggling to hold on. Dugu Bo wasn't fooled by him and remained vigilant, guarding against him launching "Eternal Creation" again.
However, Amon only continued to defend and dodge, occasionally using "Air Bullets" to counterattack, and never used that emerald green light wave attack again.
Ten minutes passed, and Dugu Bo's soul power consumption had reached the warning line he had set earlier. The number of times Amon used "Invincible Golden Body" had also reached one-third.
"Invincible Golden Body" wasn't activated all the time. In order to extend the effective time, he would only briefly activate it when facing some attacks that he couldn't block or dodge. Therefore, the time Amon could truly be "invincible" in battle would be far more than the theoretical 600 seconds.
Dugu Bo hesitated for a moment, preparing to retreat directly as planned, but the idea of retreating wasn't very strong.
Amon reached out his right hand, making a grabbing motion, and stole Dugu Bo's not-so-strong thought of retreating.
The idea of killing Amon and the fluke that "maybe he's about to collapse" took the upper hand, and Dugu Bo continued to fight.
When he had twenty percent of his soul power left, Amon was already on the verge of collapse, seemingly able to be killed in the next second.
Amon once again stole Dugu Bo's thought of retreating, strengthening his desire to kill him.
After a long and arduous battle, Dugu Bo had seen through Amon's combat skills and attacked much more fiercely, so much so that Amon had to frequently activate "Invincible Golden Body" to resist.
When Amon only had forty-odd uses of his Steal soul skill left, Dugu Bo still had about fifteen percent of his soul power left.
At this time, he suddenly woke up, realizing that he had unknowingly crossed the preset bottom line so much?
Amon tried to steal the other party's thought of retreating but failed. His thought was already firm to the point of exceeding the range of Amon's stealing.
Amon didn't hesitate and immediately launched "Eternal Creation," targeting Dugu Bo's leg. At the same time, he returned all the "retreat" thoughts.
The previously disappeared thoughts exploded in Dugu Bo's mind, causing his behavior to be somewhat chaotic for a time.
It was this short period of chaos that prevented him from dodging "Eternal Creation," and his left calf was grazed.
Dugu Bo hardened his heart, and his right hand formed a hand blade. With the blessing of soul power, he cut off a large piece of muscle from his calf at once. He glanced at Amon, and without looking back, rushed towards Heaven Dou City.
He had accepted the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family's employment. Although he hadn't completely joined, he was protected by them to a certain extent.
As long as he went to Heaven Dou City, he could have a healing-type soul master treat him and remove this bone-gnawing "Eternal Creation."
"You can't escape… I've already sent someone to find Dugu Yan," Amon's voice, like a life-threatening ghost, came from behind.
Dugu Bo paused for a moment and fled even faster. He silently calculated his soul power in his heart. If it was the originally planned thirty percent, it would definitely be enough, but now that he had consumed so much more, it was a bit lacking. In addition, the injury on his leg was also affecting his speed.
While running, he dug out the flesh from the less deep areas on his chest, trying to reduce the area of the wound caused by "Eternal Creation" and thus reduce the soul power consumption used to resist the "wound spreading" effect.
Watching Dugu Bo's departing figure, Amon's body suddenly stiffened, and then his fingers moved slightly, and a dozen Worm of Time corpses fell.
These corpses were cyanotic, obviously poisoned to death.
During the battle just now, Amon had switched the external appearance of the Worm of Time several times to be in human form. Even with the protection of materialized soul power, he couldn't completely avoid being poisoned in the battle with Poison Douluo.
This aggregate Amon was also nearing his limit. If Dugu Bo didn't retreat, it was still unknown who would win in the end.
But what was certain was that even if Dugu Bo finally succeeded in killing the aggregate Amon, he would be dragged down by the effects of "Eternal Creation."
Through this battle, Amon also roughly understood his limits. Killing ordinary Titled Douluos without paying too much of a price was already his limit, and he had to prepare in advance.
If he had faced super Douluos like Chen Xin, Demon Subduer, or Qian Jun this time, he would definitely be the one to die.
The reason he could perform so strongly at the Soul Master Competition before was because he took action in a premeditated manner at a specific time in a specific environment. It wasn't that his strength had really reached that level.
Of course, if he didn't care about the cost and summoned all of Amon's clones, it wouldn't be impossible to forcibly exhaust a super Douluo, but he would definitely not do such a thing that seriously violated his interests.
Amon stared at the direction Dugu Bo was leaving, picked out a monocle, put it on his right eye, and slowly raised the corner of his mouth, muttering to himself, "Heh… you can't escape!"
A Titled Douluo's traveling speed was very fast. When the sky was dimly lit, Dugu Bo saw Heaven Dou City.
At this moment, he was exhausted, and the soul power in his whole body was almost exhausted, but the destination was close at hand, and he breathed a sigh of relief, he was going to make it!
"Who's there? Stop!"
Seeing Dugu Bo rushing towards them, the city guards shouted loudly.
"It's not yet time for the city gates to open, please wait a quarter of an hour!" the guard shouted.
"Shut up, this old man is Dugu Bo, a consultant hired by the royal family. I have urgent business to see Emperor Xue Ye!" Dugu Bo shouted.
"Please show your credentials!" The guard seemed a little stubborn. Even if the other party clearly was a soul master, he remained unmoved.
"Hurry up and let me through. You can send someone with me to enter the palace to see the Emperor!" Dugu Bo was about to be angered to death by these guards. The little figures he usually didn't bother to glance at were now giving him a headache.
"Heh… you think you can see the Emperor just because you say so?" The stubborn guard still refused to budge.
His colleague pulled him, seemingly trying to remind him not to be so rigid. The other party was obviously a soul master, so even if he refused, he had to speak politely.
But this new guard didn't understand the meaning of his workplace senior, and his mouth crooked, revealing an evil and unrestrained smile:
"Not letting you through means not letting you through. This is the rule. Unless you show your credentials, even if you are a noble soul master, don't even think about stepping into this Heaven Dou City."
The guard subconsciously raised his right hand and pinched his right eye socket.
This action, which usually seemed very inconspicuous, caused Dugu Bo to freeze. A bone-chilling chill rose from his heart. He stared at the guard, his eyes filled with indescribable horror.
Seeing Dugu Bo's expression, the guard was stunned for a moment, looked at his bent, semi-circular index finger and thumb, realized that this action had exposed himself, outlined the corner of his mouth, and put on a playful expression:
"It seems that what you encountered was Amon!"
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