Douluo: Manifesting the Black Abyss and White Flower at the Start-Chapter 316 - 315: World Tree

Where the Titan Giant Ape passed, every obstacle was mercilessly crushed.
Ruined walls and shattered rubble were trampled to dust like toys; the hard foundations splintered inch by inch beneath its colossal palms. The violent shockwave it kicked up swept gravel hundreds of meters into the air—its momentum was terrifying beyond measure.
Confronted by this calamity-like beast charging in, Lu Jingming merely raised his hand without haste. A knight's lance of elegant design, its whole body flowing with a soft, pure white glow, appeared in his grip out of thin air.
With a deft twist of his wrist, the lance—named "White Flower"—was driven steadily into the ground before him.
Hum—!
An invisible yet vast surge of life energy spread out from the lance like ripples on water—gentle, yet swift.
At the very instant the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape's immense body, like a falling meteor, was about to slam into him—
A sudden upheaval!
Countless tender green shoots and vines, brimming with astonishing vitality, burst madly from the sundered earth without warning.
They grew at a near-insane speed—lengthening, thickening, hardening to incredible toughness.
Those instantly born trunks and branches seemed to gain life and will of their own. Like giant pythons roused from slumber, breathing a moist, fresh loam-scent, they wound and bound with startling agility around the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape's pillar-like limbs and cliff-like torso.
In just moments, centered on Lu Jingming, an ancient, dense primeval forest surged up out of nothing across several kilometers.
Towering trees shot skyward; their thick leaves interwove rapidly above, forming an immense green net that blotted out the sun and the sky, sealing the raging Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape completely within.
"Roar—!!!"
From the forest's depths came the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape's furious, unwilling bellow.
It flailed arms strong enough to rend steel; corded muscles unleashed world-shattering strength, tearing and crushing the thick branches binding it.
Yet these trees—jointly catalyzed by the Denro Authority of the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and the White Flower's heaven-defying regenerative power—were preternaturally tough, and possessed a near-bug-like vitality. Branches ripped to shreds one second would sprout even greener, thicker shoots and vines from the break the next, recoiling to rebind at a despair-inducing speed.
Endless, inexhaustible—life without end—they dragged the brute-force Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape into a quagmire of attrition.
Soon, the wildly proliferating forest swallowed the ape's massive form from sight. From outside, only its increasingly irritable roars and the constant crack of breaking boughs could be heard. Clearly, it was trapped for the moment, unable to break free.
Lu Jingming regarded the rule-defying forest domain he had wrought with his own hands, satisfaction on his face.
Combining the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's Denro Authority with the Black Abyss White Flower's absurd restoration and regeneration was far more than one plus one. Who said healing and life-aligned powers could only save the dying?
Using the Denro Authority to madly accelerate tree growth, then gifting them with near-immortal regeneration at the cellular level via White Flower's restorative force—not only did this make the trees tougher than any known flora, but it also let them self-repair at extreme speed the instant they were damaged.
Better yet, by reversing the Denro Authority, the forest could quietly and continuously siphon a captive's life force and soul power.
Once snared by this law-etched forest, it was like falling into an endless nightmare.
The more you struggled, the faster you burned out; the quicker your life drained away—until you were too weak to resist, reduced to a lamb awaiting slaughter.
Unless… the captive possessed absolute destructive power that far exceeded the forest's regenerative limit—enough to annihilate all in a single blow.
As if to prove the point—
"ROAR!!!!"
A bellow, angrier and more frenzied than any before, detonated from the forest's deepest heart.
An invisible yet crushing gravitational pulse erupted from the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape like a cataclysmic tsunami.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The entire forest twisted and heaved under the tyrannical force.
Leaves cascaded down; massive trunks bowed, snapped, and even burst outright beneath gravity that had multiplied dozens of times.
In an instant, the lush, sun-blotting forest collapsed across more than half its breadth, reduced to splintered timber.
The Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape's muscles bulged like granite; its brown-black fur stood on end like steel needles.
Catching that fleeting moment when mass collapse outpaced regeneration, it unleashed all its strength and tore the remaining bindings to shreds.
The next heartbeat, its hulking body turned into a black cannonball that ripped the sky, surging straight up—smashing free of the forest's confinement.
"As expected, taking him down that easily was a bit much to ask."
Lu Jingming looked up at the towering figure that had burst free, raging as it climbed to several kilometers in the air. His face showed no surprise—only the calm of foreknowledge.
Though Titan Giant Ape had not truly stepped into the realm of an Ultimate Douluo, he was nonetheless a bona fide level-98 Super Douluo. Backed by the top-tier bloodline and talent of the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape, his real combat power was terrifying.
Lu Jingming had no doubt: if Xuan Zi were here, facing Titan Giant Ape's full eruption, he'd likely be ground into the dirt.
His true strength was already brushing the limits of human soul masters.
High above, the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape's colossal figure briefly paused, like a spring compressed to its limit.
The next moment, under the double blessing of its own immense mass and its domineering gravity field, it became a kindled meteor—rending the air and plunging toward Lu Jingming below.
Rumble—!
Air scorched and compressed along its hide, igniting into a blazing inferno and trailing a searing red plume across the heavens, even twisting, evaporating, and scouring the high clouds along its path.
Faced with this heaven's-judgment impact, Lu Jingming could have used the Black Abyss's space-disintegrating authority to blink away. But a powerful impulse rose within him—he wanted to see with his own hands how far his strength now reached.
He chose the most direct, most savage, most force-expressive answer—take it head-on.
Zzzrra—!!!
Blue-white lightning exploded around him like a beast loosed from its cage.
Snakes of current surged into the Black Abyss spear in his hand.
That annihilating charge was forced by sheer will into tighter and tighter confinement—until it became viscous, deep, black-red lightning, reeking of endings and death, coiling the cold spear-tip like a living thing.
The intent of Ending, Death, and Destruction merged perfectly into that hyper-compressed thunder.
Lu Jingming's figure blurred—becoming a black-red lance of lightning that tore the sky as he charged up, defying the overwhelming gravity, to meet that world-ending "flesh meteor" head-on.
He seemed to fuse with the thunder-spear, trailing motes of black-red light as he drew a straight, clean line through the air—like a blade of judgment splitting the world in two.
"BOOOOM—!!!!!!!!!"
The hyper-condensed black-red lightning collided with the burning meteor.
Time froze for a heartbeat.
Then a visible ring of shock—mingled thunder and flame—detonated outward from the point of impact.
The terrible shockwave lashed the sky like God's whip—shredding and scouring the clouds, cleaving the blue dome into stark halves.
"Arrroar—!!!"
The Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape howled in agony.
That black-red bolt pierced its adamantine body in an unstoppable flash, tore through for hundreds more meters, then finally faded into the heights.
Lu Jingming's form resolved again, standing steady in the sky above, the spear-tip's dreadful black-red glow slowly receding.
The electromagnetic acceleration's brutal kinetic strike, combined with the Black Abyss's dominion to decompose and extinguish life—together they left a ghastly hole, meters across, in the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape's hundred-meter form.
The flesh and fur at the wound's rim had carbonized under the supreme heat of lightning and been reduced to nothing by decomposition—so there was no gushing blood. Even so, the pain biting into soul and marrow wrung a soul-rending wail from the beast, and its huge body, strength gone, tumbled toward the ground like a severed kite.
BOOM—!!!!
The earth shuddered, a crater tens of meters wide blasted out, a mushroom cloud of dust surging skyward.
In the drifting haze, the Titan Giant Ape Giant Ape lay curled at the pit's bottom, battered and spent, its aura rapidly waning.