At that moment, Nanmen Yun'er lay sprawled in the mud.
She looked up at the figure standing before her.
His three-headed, six-armed form looked especially fierce and imposing in the fading light of dusk.
Her mind went blank for a moment. What kind of Martial Soul was this?
She had never seen such a bizarre form in any of Shrek Academy's textbooks or ancient records.
But before she could recover from her shock, the Evil Soul Master leading the group had already reacted.
"I don't care what kind of monster you are. Kill him!"
The Evil Soul Master roared. Three Soul Rings appeared beneath his feet—yellow, yellow, and purple.
A burst of Soul Power, at rank thirty-five, erupted in an instant.
His arms warped, and long gray-white bone spikes extended from his fingertips. Trailing corrosive black smoke, they shot straight toward Ning Feng's throat.
"Watch out!" Nanmen Yun'er cried, her voice sharp with alarm.
At that very moment, two more figures arrived.
Vina and Mu Xue quickly appeared beside Nanmen Yun'er, helped her up, and retreated to the edge of the trees.
Before Nanmen Yun'er could say anything, Vina gave her a reassuring look and said steadily, "Don't be afraid. Stay back. He's strong."
Before the words had even left her mouth, the Evil Soul Master's bone spikes were less than three inches from Ning Feng's skin.
Ning Feng neither dodged nor defended himself.
The two arms directly in front of him moved at once.
His left hand blocked the attack and seized the man's wrist, while his right hand clenched into a fist, brimming with powerful Soul Power, and slammed into the Evil Soul Master's forehead.
"Bang!"
The bone spikes shattered the instant they struck Ning Feng's fist. Then, under the force of his blow, the Evil Soul Master's entire skull caved in.
Brain matter and bone fragments burst outward. The Evil Soul Master's body toppled backward like a felled tree.
Even after he hit the ground, his body continued to twitch. He was clearly beyond saving.
Nanmen Yun'er froze.
One hit.
That man had been a rank-thirty-five Soul Master, yet this three-headed, six-armed figure had blown his head apart in an instant?
"So strong..." Nanmen Yun'er murmured. Beyond the shock in her eyes, she felt a flicker of relief at having escaped death.
By then, even more Evil Soul Masters had surrounded them.
"Boss!"
Seeing their leader die so horribly, the other nine Evil Soul Masters didn't retreat. Their comrade's death only roused their ferocity.
"Kill him! No matter how strong his Soul Power is, he's still just one man!"
The nine remaining men quickly spread out. Some used long whips to bind him, others sprayed poison from a distance, while two circled around the side and tried to attack from Ning Feng's blind spot.
Ning Feng snorted. The advantages of his three heads and six arms were on full display.
He shifted his stance and activated all his enhancement skills.
"Three Phases World-Suppressing!"
"Six Paths Control Heaven!"
"Formless Dharma Body!"
A blast of air surged outward from Ning Feng in every direction.
The two Evil Soul Masters attempting to sneak up behind him were struck by the powerful fluctuation of Soul Power. Their internal organs were damaged, and their movements faltered for a moment.
"Senior Sister, get ready to move," Ning Feng said. His voice was calm, but his killing intent was overwhelming.
At his words, Vina immediately entered the battle.
She didn't approach the fight. Instead, she stood at a distance with her hands clasped, her golden Snow Lotus Martial Soul floating behind her.
"Mu Xue, let's support Junior Brother."
After reminding her, Vina pressed both hands downward. A delicate, precisely controlled mental force enveloped the nine Evil Soul Masters surrounding Ning Feng.
It was a unique skill of the Body Sect: Mental Disturbance.
This force didn't attack them directly. Instead, it was like countless tiny threads forcing their way into the Evil Soul Masters' brains, disrupting their balance and vision.
An Evil Soul Master was about to swing his bone whip at Ning Feng when Ning Feng suddenly seemed to split into several figures before his eyes. His otherwise precise strike landed on a nearby tree trunk instead.
"Bastard! That woman's messing with us!" the Evil Soul Master shouted angrily.
He turned and prepared to charge at Vina with several of his companions.
"You're going after them?"
Ning Feng spun around and appeared in their path like Gui Mei.
The two arms on his left grabbed an Evil Soul Master by the shoulders and slammed him hard into another man.
Their chests crushed together, and the sound of breaking ribs rang out.
Then Ning Feng swung his right hand and struck with Collapse Iron Force, punching straight through another man's abdomen.
At that moment, another Evil Soul Master seized his chance and drove a short dagger coated in poison into Ning Feng's left forearm.
The venom seeped through the wound, and Ning Feng's forearm instantly turned bluish-purple.
Ning Feng didn't even furrow his brow.
He grabbed the Evil Soul Master's head and slammed it into the dirt. All six of his arms exerted force at once, snapping the man's spine and killing him on the spot.
Just then, Ning Feng felt the poison spreading through his arm, and his movements began to grow heavy.
"Junior Brother!" Vina had been watching Ning Feng closely. Seeing him wounded, she immediately activated her Snow Lotus Martial Soul.
"Snow Lotus Healing!"
A gentle, pale-blue light flew from Vina's hand and sank into Ning Feng's injured left arm.
The poison that had been eating away at his meridians was quickly forced out by the sacred power of the Snow Lotus Martial Soul, and the wound began to heal before their eyes.
Ning Feng felt sensation return to his arm. In fact, thanks to the healing, his strength increased slightly.
At that moment, the three remaining Evil Soul Masters, unable to break through Ning Feng's defenses or get close to Vina, turned their attention to Mu Xue, who was nearby controlling their formation.
"Kill the one using ice first!"
All three dropped their long weapons, pulled black poison beads from their clothes, and hurled them at Mu Xue.
Mu Xue's expression changed.
But just as the poison beads were about to touch her, the air around them froze.
"Frost Barrier."
Mu Xue remained perfectly calm. She gathered all her frigid energy in front of her, forming a translucent wall of ice.
The poison beads struck the wall with a sizzling sound. They penetrated halfway through, but froze inside the ice and caused no harm.
Just as the three Evil Soul Masters were preparing to change their tactics, they suddenly felt a chill at their backs.
Ning Feng had somehow circled behind them.
"Where are you looking?"
Ning Feng's icy voice rang in their ears.
Before the three could react, all three pairs of Ning Feng's fists came crashing down at once.
The three were killed instantly. Their bodies were blasted away, crashing into several trees.
And with that, all ten Evil Soul Masters, each at rank thirty-five or above, had been killed.
The open clearing fell silent once more.
Ning Feng withdrew his Martial Soul and turned to check that Mu Xue and Vina were unharmed. Only then did he look at Nanmen Yun'er, still slumped on the ground nearby.
By now, Nanmen Yun'er was completely dumbstruck.
Her eyes widened as she stared at the three of them, her heart full of shock.
She had thought she was as good as dead.
She hadn't expected these three to appear like gods descending from the heavens and save her...
And what shocked Nanmen Yun'er most was...
All three looked about the same age as her, yet every one of them was incredibly powerful.
Especially that three-headed, six-armed guy...
Was he even human?!
Nanmen Yun'er was truly baffled.
What academy had trained students like these?
Why did they seem even more monstrous than her, a student from Shrek Academy?
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