I Said, All of You Come at Me Together

A blood-red light enveloped the entire Shrek Academy.

The air seemed to have turned into thick amber.

Zhao Wuji remained frozen in place, motionless, still holding the pose of bringing his palm down.

His enormous Martial Soul Avatar, like a small mountain, now looked utterly ridiculous.

His bear-like face was filled with blankness.

His mind was completely empty.

Red... red rings?

Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings?

The thought exploded deep within his soul like a bolt of divine thunder.

It blasted him senseless, leaving him utterly shattered.

He had lived for most of his life.

Let alone seen one.

He had never even heard of anyone whose first and second spirit rings were Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings!

This had already surpassed the limits of his understanding.

This had overturned the ironclad laws of Douluo Continent that had stood for ten thousand years!

Monster?

Genius?

No.

Those words could no longer describe the little girl before him.

She was a god!

A deity walking among mortals!

"Teacher Zhao..."

Dai Mubai, still kneeling on the ground, struggled to raise his head.

His voice trembled beyond recognition.

Looking at the two spirit rings beneath Lin Xi's feet, like blood-red abysses, he felt as though his heart was about to stop beating.

He finally understood.

He finally understood what that force was—the force that had made his soul tremble beneath its pressure.

It was divine might!

He had actually dared to provoke a god!

How foolish he had been!

How ridiculous!

The other youths who had come to register, along with the fat boy and little girl who had already passed the test, were all petrified.

Their mouths hung open, their eyes wide, like a flock of ducks being strangled by the neck.

Not a single sound came out.

Although Tang San and Xiao Wu had long known that Lin Xi possessed Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings,

when they saw those blood-red halos representing ultimate power once more, their hearts were still filled with shock.

"Is the test still continuing?"

Lin Xi's voice shattered the deathly silence.

She looked at Zhao Wuji, who stood frozen in place, and asked calmly.

Zhao Wuji jolted and snapped out of his petrified state.

The Soul Power within him was still firmly suppressed.

He had no doubt.

With a single thought from her,

his rank seventy-six Soul Power would instantly go berserk and blow him apart into a cloud of blood mist!

"N-No... it won't continue..."

Zhao Wuji forced the words out of his throat.

His voice was dry and hoarse, filled with reverence.

The Martial Soul Avatar around him began to slowly fade.

It was not because he had dismissed it himself.

Rather, his Soul Power could no longer sustain the Martial Soul Avatar.

Very soon, he returned to being that burly man.

But the arrogance and domineering manner from before had vanished entirely from his face.

All that remained was cold sweat.

And the relief of surviving a catastrophe.

"S-Senior..."

Looking at Lin Xi, his lips trembled, and even the way he addressed her had changed.

"Earlier, this junior failed to recognize greatness and offended you greatly! Please forgive me, Senior!"

As he spoke, he actually bowed deeply to Lin Xi.

The mighty Immovable Ming King Zhao Wuji, a rank seventy-six battle Soul Saint,

was actually bowing and apologizing to a six-year-old girl!

If word of this got out, it would be enough to shock the entire Soul Master world!

Lin Xi accepted his bow.

The spirit rings beneath her feet slowly faded away.

The terrifying pressure that had blanketed heaven and earth dispersed along with them.

Zhao Wuji immediately felt the weight lift from his body.

He was nearly collapsing from exhaustion.

The pressure he had endured just now had been far too great.

It had not merely been suppression by Soul Power.

It had been the crushing dominance of a higher form of life!

"Can we go in now?" Lin Xi asked.

"Yes! Yes! Of course!"

Zhao Wuji nodded frantically.

"The three of you—no, the two young friends and this Senior—are exempt from the test! You pass directly!"

Forget passing.

Even if Lin Xi wanted to tear Shrek Academy apart right then,

he would not dare utter a single word of refusal.

Lin Xi nodded and ignored him.

She turned to look at Dai Mubai, who was still kneeling on the ground.

The moment Dai Mubai met her gaze, his body shook violently.

The force suppressing his soul had vanished.

He could stand up now.

But he did not dare.

Before Lin Xi spoke, he did not dare move.

"Get up."

Lin Xi spoke calmly.

"Yes... yes! Thank you, Senior!"

Dai Mubai scrambled to his feet as though he had been granted a pardon.

He stood off to the side with his head lowered, barely daring to breathe.

Just then,

a somewhat sly voice came from inside the wooden house.

"Well, well, who did I think it was? So it's Wuji."

"What's with such a temper? You even used your Martial Soul Avatar?"

A middle-aged man wearing black-framed crystal glasses, with a rather wretched-looking appearance, walked out of the house.

It was none other than the Dean of Shrek Academy, the Four-Eyed Cat Owl, Flender.

The moment he came out, he saw the strange atmosphere at the scene.

Zhao Wuji was covered in cold sweat.

Dai Mubai had his head lowered, like an elementary school student who had done something wrong.

And there were those terrified new students.

At last, his gaze fell upon Lin Xi, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.

"What... happened?"

Flender pushed up his glasses and asked in confusion.

Zhao Wuji opened his mouth, but had no idea how to explain it.

Was he supposed to tell him

that he had nearly wet himself after being frightened by a six-year-old girl with two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings?

He could not say it.

"Nothing."

Lin Xi answered for him.

"Teacher Zhao merely wanted to spar with us."

"Spar?"

Flender froze for a moment.

He glanced at the wrecked training ground, then at the lingering fear on Zhao Wuji's face.

Did this look like a spar?

This was clearly a one-sided beating!

Stormy waves instantly rose in his heart.

No one knew Zhao Wuji's strength better than he did.

After activating his Martial Soul Avatar, he could even exchange a few blows head-on with an ordinary Soul Douluo.

To force him into such a state...

Could a Titled Douluo have arrived?

Without revealing anything, he sized up Lin Xi's group.

Two six-year-old children.

One twelve-year-old boy.

No matter how he looked at them, they did not resemble Titled Douluos.

"Hehe, so it was a spar."

Flender truly was an old hand.

A warm smile instantly spread across his face.

"Welcome! Welcome, you three little monsters, to Shrek Academy!"

He stepped forward enthusiastically, intending to pat Lin Xi on the shoulder.

But before his hand could reach her, Zhao Wuji grabbed it.

"Dean!"

Zhao Wuji shook his head at him fiercely.

His eyes were filled with warning.

Flender's heart tightened.

He understood.

The problem lay with this little girl!

He withdrew his hand, and the smile on his face became even brighter.

"This little lady is extraordinarily gifted, truly a peerless talent found once in ten thousand!"

"May I ask your name?"

"Lin Xi."

"Good name! Good name!" Flender rubbed his hands together.

"Student Lin Xi, and you two students as well, I'll waive all your registration fees!"

"If you need anything at the academy in the future, just tell us!"

Right now, all he wanted was to quickly placate this great deity.

But Lin Xi shook her head.

"We didn't come here to be students."

Flender was stunned.

"Then... why are you here?"

Lin Xi glanced at the dilapidated academy and the motley bunch before her.

"You're too weak."

"Your training methods are too outdated, too."

"They won't become true monsters if this goes on."

Her words left Flender and Zhao Wuji staring at each other.

"So."

Lin Xi paused, then said something that left everyone dumbfounded.

"I've decided."

"Starting today, I'll take over your training."

"All of you, including you two."

Her finger pointed at Flender and Zhao Wuji.

"And them."

Her gaze swept over Dai Mubai and the few freshmen who had already passed the test.

"All of you, attack together."

"If you can make me move even one step."

"Then I lose."