Pseudo-God VS Demigod!

As two yellow, one purple, three black, and three red Soul Rings—nine rings of extraordinary caliber—rose into view.

The pressure displayed by those three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, in particular, restored everyone at Shrek Academy's confidence. Look, this was the foundation that had allowed their Schlke Academy to stand unshaken for ten thousand years!

"Students of Spirit Hall Academy, this is the power of a peak Spirit Master. Do you see it?!"

Yan Shaozhe, dean of the Spirit Master Department, was more excited than anyone. This was his teacher! The Soul Tool Department had been getting increasingly fond of stirring up trouble lately. Their Spirit Master Department was the academy's true leader!

"Yan Shaozhe! With enemies at our doorstep, this is not the time to fight with my Soul Device Department!"

Qian Duoduo, vice dean of the Soul Device Department, dearly wanted to beat up this Spirit Master Department dean whose mind was filled with nothing but power! Was this really the time to say such things?

"Hehehe, this dean is merely introducing things to the students. Why are you getting worked up again? Fine, since all our Spirit Master Department students are heaven's chosen, we won't lower ourselves to the level of the ordinary people from the Soul Tool Department."

Qian Duoduo flew into a rage. "Yan Shaozhe, you..."

In the distance, Xu Xiao gave a disdainful smile when he heard Yan Shaozhe's words.

A piece of trash who had consumed enormous resources just to barely reach Rank 95 as a Super Douluo—what right did he have to mock soul devices? It could only be said that these traditional Spirit Masters were far too conservative.

"Elder Zu, aren't you angered by that man's words?"

Seeing that Zu Chongzhi was unaffected, Xu Xiao was curious.

"A pitiful man who sees the world from the bottom of a well. He will soon pay the price for his arrogance."

It turned out Elder Zu had already decided to teach Yan Shaozhe a lesson after the Demigod battle ended.

In the sky,

A Bright Giant Dragon several thousand meters long appeared, its entire body covered in white dragon scales, shrouded in golden mist, and radiating a pure aura of light and holy majesty!

The dragon head opened its enormous jaws toward Bai Qi on the water's surface.

"Holy Dragon's Sigh!"

A torrent of light energy compressed to the absolute limit surged from its gaping maw!

At that instant, it was as if all sound had been drained from heaven and earth. Everyone stared in shock, while some beast-type Spirit Masters were instantly pressed flat against the ground on all fours, unable to move after the giant dragon appeared!

Yan Shaozhe could only endure the pressure from the Martial Soul while half-crouching. Yet he still shot Qian Duoduo a provocative look. See? This was the power of a peak Spirit Master. Your Soul Tool Department would never catch up!

Wherever the torrent of ultimate light passed, space warped in ripples. The sky over the entire Shrek Academy had long since been filled with the aura of the Light Holy Dragon. This was an invisible domain!

The torrent of light, carrying dragonkin pressure, was about to engulf Bai Qi.

A blade of ultimate killing intent swept out, slicing the entire torrent of light cleanly in half. It fell onto both sides of Sea God Lake.

Fortunately, Mu En reinforced Shrek Academy's ground defenses in time. Otherwise, the academy would have been destroyed.

As the blade light appeared, Bai Qi's nine Soul Rings—five black and four red—emerged as well.

"That... How is that possible?!"

Mu En was even more shocked than when Bai Qi had effortlessly broken through his dragon breath.

Xu Xiao knew that those four blood-red Soul Rings likely came from the more than four hundred thousand Zhao Kingdom soldiers Bai Qi had buried alive.

The sky and surroundings of Shrek Academy also began to be stained crimson.

Blood rain began to fall from the sky. Everyone from Shrek Academy had already withdrawn beyond the academy grounds. They had just seen a Soul Douluo accidentally touched by a drop of blood rain, only for his entire body to melt into liquid.

The blood in his body was absorbed by the blood rain and carried down toward the ground.

Mu En did not dare let his attention slip. He knew Bai Qi's next move would be powerful, so he could only have the Golden Tree secretly protect Shrek Academy's buildings.

It was worth mentioning that after the Golden Tree recovered to its peak, it could also contend with an ordinary Demigod.

Of course, its main function was still defense. Its offensive ability was inferior to Mu En's, so it could only do its best to protect the land and buildings of Schlke Academy from being corroded by the blood rain.

The blood rain in the sky grew heavier and heavier, crashing down like a torrential downpour. Xu Xiao felt that even a Limit Douluo would be reduced to a puddle of blood if they entered it.

Gripping the Killing God Sword, Bai Qi finally slashed at Mu En!

"Self-Created Divine Skill, Killing Heart Through Clarity!"

Even space was torn apart by this terrifying slash, revealing patches of Space Rifts.

The Golden Tree could only mend those rifts as they appeared. Thanks to its home-field advantage, it weakened that terrifying crimson slash once!

"Self-Created Divine Skill, King's Descent Upon the World!"

Mu En also unleashed all his remaining divine power to meet this overwhelmingly powerful slash of killing intent.

The several-hundred-meter-wide giant hand of light did not hold out for long before it was torn apart by the dozens-of-meters-long slash. The remaining force struck Mu En's Martial Soul Avatar in full!

Mu En had no time to evade and could only meet it head-on. Killing intent continuously gnawed at his mind by his ears, and in a daze, he seemed to return to the first time he had killed someone.

That had also been the first Evil Soul Master he killed. The other man had laughed miserably before exploding amid curses, scattering mangled flesh and blood everywhere. Mu En had not eaten anything containing meat for an entire month afterward.

He had vomited on the spot. The bloody bits of flesh seemed to grow wings as they flew toward his younger self, as if they wanted to perish together with him!

"Boom!"

The exploded blood splashed over him, as though it intended to corrode him completely.

"Why does it hurt so much?! Aaaahhh!"

The young Mu En dropped to his knees. The bloodwater had corroded away all the organs in his body, leaving only his heart. Once his heart was corroded, he would die as well.

As the bloodwater spread and was about to crawl over his heart, the young Mu En suddenly remembered that he should be fighting Bai Qi right now.

False God Power erupted, purifying every last drop of bloodwater!

Above Sea God Lake, Shrek Academy

Mu En struggled to open his eyes. His Martial Soul Avatar had not lasted long before Bai Qi's Killing Heart Through Clarity shattered it.

He had also erupted with all his divine power to resist it, but he still suffered grave injuries and collapsed atop Sea God Lake.

The water around him had been dyed red by Mu En's blood. If not for his Divine Sense exerting itself just now, he likely would have fallen into an endless loop of his first killing in his youth and become a vegetable.

This showed just how terrifying Bai Qi's Self-Created Divine Skill, Killing Heart Through Clarity, truly was.

And that was with him holding back when he released it. Otherwise, a mere Pseudo-God would have long since died beyond death! So long as he wished it, this move could kill anyone beneath the gods.

Even a Divine Official without a godhood might be severely wounded by it.

The blood rain in the sky had already stopped, and rainbows began to appear. Mu En struggled to his feet.

He sent a voice transmission, telling Shrek Academy's many experts to help the Golden Tree clear the remaining bloodwater from the ground and buildings.

If one's Spiritual Power was insufficient, even touching a single drop could turn them into a slave driven by killing intent.

Bai Qi was already gone, but his slash had left an indelible impression on everyone at Shrek Academy.

Seeing that Mu En had awakened, Elder Zu aimed the Video Soul Device at him.

"Schlke Academy agrees to cooperate. However, the specific details will still need to be discussed thoroughly at a Sea God Pavilion meeting."

Xu Xiao nodded in satisfaction.

He planned to have Bai Qi return to the Taiyue Empire. For the time being, he would leave matters regarding the cooperation to Elder Zu. Shrek Academy now indirectly belonged to his forces as well.

Leaving Elder Zu here also served as a form of supervision. It just so happened that Shrek Academy had some kind of Soul Device Department.