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After completing the preparations, Peter arrived at the deepest part of Ta Lo Village.
A massive stone mountain came into view.
Embedded in the center of the stone mountain was a stone gate whose surface was covered in dragon scales.
Perhaps because the Soul Eater behind the door was so terrifying, the dragon scales on the surface of this stone gate had now been completely stained pitch black.
The dragon scales were also covered in fine cracks, which squirmed like blood vessels, faintly revealing a dark red color.
Peter stood alone before this great gate.
Gathered behind him was almost the entire fighting force of Ta Lo Village—over two hundred villagers, clad in dragon-scale armor and wielding dragon-scale weapons, were currently standing ready.
Daisy stood at the very front of the crowd, a shimmering dragon-scale bracer on her arm, the Quake in her palm already primed and ready.
"How do you plan to open this door?" Ying Nan couldn't help but ask.
"The most primitive way."
As he spoke, Peter raised his right fist, which was adorned with the Ten Rings.
One punch.
Boom—!
The earth shook and the mountains swayed; the entire stone mountain trembled visibly to the naked eye.
The cracks on the stone gate spread across a large area, and wisps of black energy leaked out.
From behind the stone gate, a woman's voice could be faintly heard:
"Wenwu, have you finally come to save me? I've been waiting for you here for many years. Thank God, you're finally here."
The moment she heard this voice, Ying Nan's expression became incredibly grim.
This damn Soul Eater was actually still mimicking her sister's voice even now.
She didn't dare imagine how crazed Xu Wenwu would be right now if the one who had come here wasn't Peter, but him.
While she was thinking about these things...
Boom!
A second punch, heavier and more powerful, slammed into the stone gate.
Terrifying energy fluctuations formed visible ripples.
Immediately after, the massive stone gate shattered into countless pieces in an instant.
The terrifying black energy from within shattered the stone gate instantly, and the fragments were blown in all directions by a storm formed of black mist.
Everyone present except Peter subconsciously turned their heads away.
At that moment, the night sky, which had been clear with a bright moon and few stars, was instantly covered by thick black fog. The clouds completely obscured the moon, making everything around pitch black.
In this darkness, a black mist with a foul stench emanated from the cave entrance.
"Skreeee~!"
The black mist churned and took shape, eventually forming small Soul Eater minions with wings, no eyes, and numerous tentacles beneath their bodies.
These small Soul Eater minions screeched excitedly, flying toward the villagers of Ta Lo Village like swarms of locusts.
"Do it! Hurry! According to ancient records, once these things touch your body, they will instantly devour your soul!"
Guang Bo's voice cracked with excitement, and the villagers of Ta Lo Village stood ready, their arrows flying toward the Soul Eaters in the sky like raindrops.
Dragon-scale weapons were still effective against these Soul Eaters; basically, a single strike could shatter these small Soul Eaters into patches of black mist.
The problem was that these Soul Eaters, once turned into black mist, did not disappear; instead, they would continuously reorganize and merge in their misty form until they formed new Soul Eaters.
At the same time the villagers of Ta Lo Village were battling these small Soul Eaters...
A roar, over a hundred times more piercing than before, came from behind the door, followed by a massive behemoth over 50 meters long roaring as it flew out.
It looked like an enlarged version of those small Soul Eaters, but the sense of pressure it exuded was incomparable to those little things.
That terrifying aura almost made one want to kneel and surrender.
The Soul Eater flew into mid-air and let out a piercing roar. Along with its roar, countless points of light emerged from the villagers of Ta Lo Village, flying toward the Soul Eater in the sky like fireflies.
That was the Soul Eater draining their souls; once their souls were drained by the Soul Eater, these people would forever become mindless walking corpses!
Panic filled the scene. Facing an enemy of this level, no one knew what to do.
"Relax. With me here, none of this is a problem~"
Just as the villagers of Ta Lo Village were panicked and anxious to the extreme, Peter's lazy voice rang in everyone's ears.
Following that, he snapped his fingers. In the next second, his form visibly split in two.
Good Peter, with a smile on his face, turned the Omnitrix on his wrist, and visible changes occurred to his body.
A cyan halo surrounded him, and then, within this halo, two dragon horns grew from Good Peter's forehead, and a layer of fine dragon scales visibly covered his body.
He had almost completely turned into a... Dragon Boy!
At this scene, let alone the surrounding villagers of Ta Lo Village, even the Divine Dragon, who was about to step in to protect the villagers, couldn't help but be stunned.
While they were dazed, the Dragon Boy-form Good Peter spread his arms. In the next second, countless cyan light spots scattered like raindrops toward the villagers of Ta Lo Village.
Bathed in these light spots, a cyan shield visibly appeared on the villagers' bodies, with dragon-shaped patterns faintly visible and quietly moving on the shields.
The moment they were enveloped by this cyan shield, their soul power, which was being continuously drained by the Soul Eater, instantly became incredibly stable.
It was as if the channel for transmitting souls had been instantly cut off by this shield.
Noticing this, the Soul Eater's expression changed, and it then roared and charged toward Good Peter, attempting to completely crush this damn fool who was trying to stop it from having a feast.
But before it could act, a wild and arrogant shout caught everyone's attention:
"Sludge monster, your opponent is me!"
The moment the voice sounded, everyone felt a blur before their eyes.
In the next second, a golden figure slammed heavily into the Soul Eater's body.
What was even more unbelievable was that, despite the vast difference in size between the two sides, the Soul Eater was actually knocked flying by this golden streak of light.
Its massive body slammed into the ground, instantly turning the surrounding structures into powder.
"Roar!"
The Soul Eater let out a roar full of pain, its pitch-black face contorting wildly, as if it couldn't believe this was actually happening.
How could an immortal being like itself actually feel pain?
Coming to its senses, the Soul Eater roared, its massive body struggling to climb up from the ground, and it swung its huge claws to strike heavily at Peter!
"Good, very spirited!"
Looking at the massive palm striking down, almost blotting out the sky, Evil Peter's lips curled into a cold arc, followed by a roar full of overwhelming madness:
"Then taste this... Fire Wash!!!"