"Tut, tut. Xuan Zi was really going to go down in history this time."
You stood high in the sky, looking down at the slaughterhouse below, your grin almost stretching from ear to ear.
"To face two 'god-level' powerhouses at once all by yourself—this 'honor' has been yours alone for nearly ten thousand years!"
Su Chen was practically giddy. There was nothing quite like having the Captain of the Shrek Inspection Team dancing in the palm of his hand.
He was scared to tears!
At the center of the battlefield.
Xuan Zi's mouth hung open, his cloudy old eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
"Two... There are actually two?!"
You bastard, what kind of joke was this?!
In his field of vision stood two identical figures, both radiating an overwhelming aura of evil.
Their terrifying pressure was as deep as an abyss and as oppressive as a prison, even several times more terrifying than Mu En had been back then!
This was... the power of a god?!
Neither you nor your Bionic Body double said a word.
There was no need to waste words on the dead.
With a thought, the Gate of the Undead swung open. Countless undead creatures, reeking of decay, surged toward Xuan Zi like a gray tide, blotting out the sky.
"Enough with your tricks! I'll tear you apart!"
Xuan Zi roared and was just about to call on his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul to fight back.
Suddenly—
There was no sign of an attack, nor had he seen any enemy move.
"AAAH!!!"
A shrill scream ripped through the sky.
Xuan Zi stared in horror as his hands separated from his body without warning, blood gushing out like fountains!
Then his legs!
Splurt! Splurt!
It was as if invisible blades had sliced through him in an instant. Even as a Level 98 Super Douluo, he couldn't defend himself. In a flash, he had been reduced to a torso.
In the Undead Plane, you were the absolute ruler. Electrolux could have killed Xuan Zi with a mere blink, but you chose not to. Instead, you magnanimously let him live a little longer.
Xuan Zi's armless, legless body crashed heavily to the ground.
The ravenous undead creatures around him swarmed him at once, tearing into his flesh.
The pain was excruciating!
But worse than the pain was the humiliation of being devoured by ants!
"GRAAAH!!!"
Xuan Zi's eyes were bloodshot, nearly bulging out of their sockets.
A true man could be killed, but never humiliated!
He was none other than the second strongest person in Shrek's Sea God Pavilion, Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi! How could he die in the mouths of these filthy undead?!
"You want me dead? Then don't expect to get off lightly either!"
BOOM!
A brutally fierce aura erupted from Xuan Zi's ruined body.
He was burning through his essence! He was detonating his Soul Core!
To preserve his last shred of dignity, Xuan Zi forcefully drained his life force, pushing his cultivation all the way to the level of a Level 99 Limit Douluo!
A gigantic, earthy-yellow phantom of a Godly Taotie Bull appeared behind him. Driven by the madness of a mutual death, it charged straight at you!
Even if I go to hell, I'll drag you down with me!
"Had enough?"
Facing Xuan Zi's prelude to a self-destruction that could destroy heaven and earth, you didn't even bother to raise an eyelid. A mocking smile curled your lips.
"In this world, life and death are mine to decide, not Heaven's. Want to die? Did I give you permission?"
Electrolux merely glanced at him, his gaze as if he were looking at an ant trying to shake a tree.
"Be still."
Just one word, and reality obeyed!
Xuan Zi's Soul Power had been raging wildly in reverse, on the verge of exploding into a mushroom cloud. In an instant, he was like a duck with its throat squeezed shut, every trace of energy vanishing without a trace.
"How... How is this possible?!"
Xuan Zi was horrified to discover that he had lost control of his body! In this bizarre space, even the right to kill himself had been taken away!
With his Soul Power gone, the Level 99 Limit Douluo fell flat on his face, utterly graceless and stripped of every last shred of a powerhouse's dignity.
"GRAAH!"
All around him, the ravenous undead army surged forward like a tide.
The irony was that Xuan Zi, known as Taotie Douluo and famed for his gluttony, had now become a feast for the undead.
"AAAH!!"
His shrill screams echoed through the demi-plane.
Even as he was devoured, Xuan Zi stubbornly refused to back down, glaring at you with venomous eyes.
"Kill me... Mu En will never let you get away with this! Shrek... will crush—"
His voice cut off abruptly.
A powerhouse of his generation, the Shrek Inspection Team's deputy captain, Level 98 Super Douluo Xuan Zi, had fallen!
"Quiet."
You waved your hand coldly, and a beam of black light enveloped Xuan Zi's remains.
The next moment, his soul was forcibly extracted, and his body was refined anew.
When the black light faded, a faint presence had appeared in your shadow—your second trump card, an undead puppet: Xuan Zi!
Once all this was done, you dispelled the Undead Demi-plane and reappeared in the outside world.
You checked the time. From entering to coming back out, not even five minutes had passed.
You brushed the fallen leaves off your clothes, acting as if nothing had happened, as though you'd merely stepped away to use the bathroom instead of killing a Super Douluo.
"Su Chen! Are you all right?"
Elder Ma, who had been waiting for a long time, finally relaxed when you returned safe and sound.
He glanced around, saw no sign of Xuan Zi, and assumed you had used some secret technique to drive him off.
Elder Ma didn't ask any questions about it. He simply looked at you with a little more awe.
Little did he know that the imperious Taotie Douluo was now obediently lying in your Martial Soul space, working as your security guard.
Time flew by, and half a day passed in the blink of an eye.
As the Soul Ring was fully absorbed into your body, the turbulent fluctuations of Soul Power finally began to settle.
Haa—
You let out a long breath, feeling the new power surging through your body.
Level 52!
At that moment, your cultivation broke through the barrier and settled firmly at Level 52, the Soul King realm.
You had worked another miracle. At thirteen, you were a Soul King—Elder Ma was at a loss for words.
After absorbing the Soul Ring, you and Elder Ma didn't linger. You immediately headed back to Xingluo City.
Three days later, Xingluo City.
When you and Elder Ma returned to the hotel, dusty from the road, Meng Hongchen hurried over at once, beaming.
"Captain! You're finally back! I have good news—we've successfully advanced!"
You smiled and nodded, but your gaze passed over everyone and settled on the competition arena outside the window.
At that moment, Shrek Academy was facing Tianzheng Academy.
On the field, the boy named Huo Yuhao was still standing out, his Spiritual Detection Sharing covering the entire arena.
Yet your brows furrowed slightly.
Something was wrong.
A trace of extreme cold was missing from Huo Yuhao's aura.
Throughout the entire match, he hadn't used the abilities of his Second Martial Soul, the Ice Jade Scorpion, even once!
No—more precisely, you couldn't sense the presence of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion in him at all!
"Looks like the butterfly effect has begun..."
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