Chrysanthemum Douluo and Immortal Herbs!

The teachers and students of the fifteen Soul Master Academies recovered from their brief shock and immediately leaped from their carriages under the commands of their respective instructors. Soul Power erupted as they raced toward the open ground beyond the hills.

Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the other Shrek Academy teachers looked especially grave. They shielded the little monsters in their midst as Flender barked in a low voice:

"This isn't simple! Protecting the children is our top priority!"

Watching from the side, Tang San noticed that in this moment of chaos, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang was nowhere to be found. A trace of suspicion flickered through his heart.

Just as the more than two hundred people from the fifteen academies retreated in haste and had barely left the area covered by falling rocks, an even graver situation emerged!

From the hills on both sides, densely packed black-clad figures emerged like phantoms—at least fifteen hundred of them—and charged down at the panicked crowd like a tidal wave!

There was no coordination whatsoever between the various academies. They could only fight on their own.

Although the teachers and students were all elite Soul Masters with considerable average strength, there were simply too many black-clad attackers, and their cooperation was exceptionally seamless.

Under the overwhelming numerical advantage and precise coordination, the academies were soon dragged into a bitter struggle, barely holding on as the situation grew increasingly perilous.

"Everyone, close ranks! Use the hidden weapons!"

At the critical moment, Tang San's calm voice rang in the ears of the Shrek group.

Under his command, the Shrek Seven Devils and four substitute members quickly formed a circle. The mechanisms of the Godly Zhuge Crossbows clicked in unison as countless poisoned bolts flew at the charging black-clad men like a swarm of locusts, instantly cutting down a large number of them and temporarily stabilizing their position.

Watching from the side, Tang San saw the familiar Godly Zhuge Crossbows shining in this other world, and a complicated, nostalgic look appeared in his eyes:

The Godly Zhuge Crossbows... in the end, "I" still recreated them in this world.

However, his emotions were quickly interrupted by an even harsher reality.

Just as Shrek Academy gained a slight upper hand with its hidden weapons, three black-clad figures with especially powerful auras stepped forward from the crowd!

With an angry roar, all three released their Martial Souls and Spirit Rings at once!

One Soul Douluo and two Soul Saints!

Immediately afterward, the Soul Douluo-level black-clad man stomped hard. Vast Soul Power erupted from his body, forming an invisible shockwave.

The Godly Zhuge Crossbow bolts shooting toward him were jolted off course by the powerful Soul Power tremor, while others were blocked outright by a Soul Power barrier, clattering to the ground!

The threat of hidden weapons was greatly weakened before a powerhouse of this level.

Everyone's hearts sank in an instant.

Flender and Liu Erlong were tightly entangled by the two Soul Saints. They clearly could not help them.

Just as the Soul Douluo grinned viciously and lunged at the Shrek group—

"What kind of skill is it to bully children? Long time no see, Brother Eagle!"

An aged voice rang out, instantly inserting itself between the Soul Douluo and the Shrek group. Powerful Soul Power burst forth, forcibly halting the Soul Douluo's charge.

The Shrek group felt the suffocating pressure weighing on their hearts suddenly lighten. Looking toward the voice, they saw that it was none other than Long Gong Meng Shu, whom they had once encountered in the Star Dou Great Forest!

"Senior Long Gong!" Tang San and the others were both shocked and delighted, as if they had seen their savior.

Lor Diarra, whose path had been blocked, flashed with irritation. Yet after recognizing the newcomer, he stopped warily, and the two sides began a tense exchange of threats and barbed words.

Long Gong refused to give an inch, his attitude unyielding.

However, Lor Diarra did not choose to fight the Long Gong and She Po couple head-on. Instead, he let out a shrill, piercing cry, seemingly transmitting some sort of signal.

Long Gong's expression changed slightly. "You have accomplices?"

Lor Diarra sneered. "I advise you two to leave at once. Otherwise, when the time comes, you won't be able to leave even if you want to!"

"Hmph! Then step over this old man's corpse first!"

Long Gong's beard and hair bristled as Soul Power surged around him, making clear his determination to protect the Shrek group to the death.

Just as the tension reached its peak, an effeminate voice so chilling it made one's scalp tingle seemed to speak directly beside everyone's ears:

"Oh? So old friends have arrived. No wonder Lor Diarra couldn't handle it.

"It's been a long time, Long Gong, She Po."

Before the voice faded, a white-clad figure wearing a veil like Lor Diarra's appeared soundlessly in the middle of the battlefield like a phantom.

The instant Long Gong heard that voice, his expression became incomparably grave:

"It's you?! You... you came too!"

The white-clad man chuckled in his distinctive effeminate voice:

"Since you've seen me appear, you should understand just how seriously we take this matter.

"Leave now, and you still have time."

The muscles on Long Gong Meng Shu's face twitched, and his eyes were filled with conflict.

After a brief silence, determination flashed through his eyes. He suddenly raised his head, his tone incomparably firm:

"Must you kill these children? Let me tell you—if you truly kill that child, you will definitely regret it!"

These words completely revealed his stance—he would not retreat!

Upon hearing this, the white-clad masked man showed obvious surprise for the first time, seemingly not expecting Long Gong to possess such courage.

Then that surprise turned into cold mockery. "So you've made up your mind to become my enemy?"

He turned to Lor Diarra, his tone indifferent yet unquestionable. "What are you standing around for? Attack.

"I'll deal with these two old fools who don't know when to quit."

"Yes!" A vicious glint flashed through Lor Diarra's eyes. His golden wings spread once more, and his Soul Power erupted at full force as he prepared to seize Tang San regardless of the cost!

At this moment of despair.

A layer of soft yet resilient golden-red radiance spread from Xiao Wu's body without warning, forming a faint barrier that protected her, Tang San, and the others beside them.

The instant that wisp of light appeared, the previously composed white-clad Title Douluo's body shuddered violently!

He even ignored Long Gong and She Po, who were about to fight him. His figure flashed as though he had teleported, and he instantly appeared before Xiao Wu, sending the descending Lor Diarra flying with a single palm strike!

He stared fixedly at the golden-red light around Xiao Wu. His voice trembled from extreme excitement, completely stripped of its previous effeminate composure:

"This... this is... Lovesick Heartbreak Red! You... you actually gained the recognition of Lovesick Heartbreak Red?!"

Then, his sharp senses rapidly swept across the other members of the Shrek Seven Devils, and the shock on his face deepened:

"And... the auras of Aromatic Silk Beauty, Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum...?! You... you actually consumed so many Immortal Herbs?!"

Tang San, watching from the side, was far more shocked than anyone on the battlefield!

[Lovesick Heartbreak Red?! The king of Immortal Herbs?! Wasn't that a divine object that existed only in the legends of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record? It really exists? And it even recognized Xiao Wu?! There are so many other Immortal Herbs too?!]

Soon, from the conversation between both sides, everyone learned the identity of this white-clad Title Douluo—

An elder of Spirit Hall, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan!

And his Martial Soul was none other than the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum!

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan looked at the Shrek group, and a trace of regret flashed across his face.

His gaze locked onto Tang San again, his tone decisive and beyond dispute:

"We can discuss the Immortal Herbs later.

"But Tang San... you must die!"

Just as the tiny hope of survival that had arisen among the Shrek group because of the Immortal Herbs was shattered once more, plunging their hearts into despair—

"Oh? Yue Guan, who do you want dead?"

A clear, calm voice rang distinctly in the ears of everyone present, directly drowning out all the shouts of battle and the thunderous clashes of Soul Power!

Before they could even see the speaker, a heaven-shaking transformation had already taken place on the battlefield!

"Rumble—!!!"

The ground shook violently, as though some enormous creature were awakening beneath the earth!

Before the horrified eyes of everyone present, centered on the location of the Shrek Academy group, gigantic Blue Silver Trees erupted from the solid ground within a radius of several hundred meters. Each was several meters thick, their trunks covered in blue and silver veins with faint threads of green!

These "Blue Silver Trees" grew at an unbelievable speed, forming an incomparably dense, dark-blue forest almost instantly!

The more than fifteen hundred black-clad men, including the Soul Saints and the Soul Douluo Lor Diarra, had no time to react effectively. As this sudden Blue Silver Forest came into being, countless wildly growing thick branches and resilient vines mercilessly swallowed, entangled, and crushed them!

Screams, the sound of shattering bones, and the cracking of Soul Power shields rose one after another, only to be swiftly drowned out by the tremendous creaking of growing trees.

In only a few breaths, the battlefield that had been filled with deafening battle cries became a silent, eerie sea of Blue Silver Trees.

Every black-clad man was buried and imprisoned within the suddenly descended blue forest, their fate unknown!