Shrek City, Shrek Academy.
Warm sunlight spilled across the campus, bathing it in peace and tranquility.
The outer courtyard students either headed toward the teaching buildings in small groups, sparred on the training grounds, or exchanged insights beneath the shade of trees. Everything was orderly.
The inner courtyard was even quieter. Only pure Soul Power fluctuations occasionally drifted out from the various cultivation chambers.
Within the Sea God Pavilion, several elder masters on duty were either drinking tea and playing chess or resting with their eyes closed. They seemed utterly at ease, as if the turmoil and clamor of the continent had nothing to do with this academy.
However, that tranquility was abruptly torn apart.
The previously clear sky was swiftly covered by a patch of "dark clouds" without warning.
But they were not true rain clouds. They were a massive aura field formed by dozens of powerful Soul Powers gathering together and moving at high speed!
Carrying a suffocating sense of heaviness, those "dark clouds" were hurtling straight toward Shrek Academy at an astonishing speed!
Inside Shrek Academy's offices.
Yan Shaozhe abruptly looked up, his eyes flashing with sharp light. In the next instant, he vanished and appeared in the air outside.
A pair of golden phoenix wings suddenly spread behind him. The aura of light made him resemble a sun divine bird descending into the mortal world.
He hovered above the academy, his gaze fixed on the rapidly approaching "dark clouds."
"Friends from afar, please stop!"
"This is Shrek Academy! If you dare trespass any further, do not blame Yan for being impolite!"
His warning did not make the "dark clouds" stop. On the contrary, after approaching within a certain distance, that motley cloud mass began to disperse on its own.
At the forefront stood eleven figures whose auras were as deep as abysses and as imposing as mountains, suspended in the air.
The pressure emanating from two of them was especially terrifying. They were unmistakably Super Douluos! The other nine were all Titled Douluos as well!
Behind those eleven Titled Douluos was a dense mass of more than sixty figures!
The weakest Soul Power fluctuations among them were at the Soul Saint level, and there were no shortage of dozens of Soul Douluo-level powerhouses!
Every one of them had fierce eyes and savage expressions, radiating undisguised hostility. It was as though they would smash the academy beneath them to pieces in the next moment!
The leader was the Body Sect's Vice Sect Master, the Golden Body Douluo, Jin Peng!
His face was resolute and cold. Faced with Yan Shaozhe's warning, he did not even raise an eyelid.
And his response to Yan Shaozhe was the dazzling radiance that abruptly burst from his body, as brilliant as molten gold!
That was right. It was his Martial Soul—the Torso!
He stopped and gradually released his Soul Rings: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red!
The final one, his ninth Soul Ring, was actually a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
The oppressive force brought by the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring swept down upon Shrek Academy like a tsunami!
The outer courtyard students below immediately fell into panic beneath that pressure, as though the heavens were collapsing and the earth was splitting apart!
Screams, cries, and the clatter of desks and chairs rose one after another. The once orderly campus instantly descended into chaos.
That panic spread like a plague, even affecting the inner courtyard.
Above Shrek Academy, powerful auras erupted one after another as well.
The Titled Douluos and Soul Douluo-level teachers remaining at the academy all appeared, staring uncertainly at the murderous force in the sky.
Jin Peng still said nothing.
He merely raised his right hand and slowly curled his five fingers, as if gripping something invisible in the air.
The next moment, an incomparably tyrannical giant claw of golden Soul Power formed out of thin air and descended upon Yan Shaozhe's head!
There was no explanation, no exchange of pleasantries. His first move carried Thunderous Might!
Yan Shaozhe's expression changed drastically!
He had never imagined that the Body Sect would be so overbearing, skipping even the most basic negotiation and empty courtesies before launching an attack directly!
Caught off guard, he could only dodge in a sorry state. The giant golden claw swept past his phoenix wings.
Several golden feathers were instantly torn away, dissolving into motes of light in the air.
"Hmph." Seeing Yan Shaozhe narrowly evade it, Jin Peng gave a disdainful snort through his nose. "Little brat."
He slowly shook his head, then suddenly brought both hands together before his chest!
In an instant.
Two even larger golden walls of light appeared out of thin air to his left and right. Carrying the force to crush everything, they closed in on Yan Shaozhe!
Yan Shaozhe's face changed sharply. His wings beat frantically as he tried to shoot upward through that fatal gap.
However, the range of those two walls of light far exceeded his expectations!
He had only risen several yards when the edges of the golden walls were already right before him. The terrifying squeezing force caused his body to stall!
Bang!
With a muffled impact, Yan Shaozhe was firmly crushed between the gap of the two golden walls of light.
At that moment, Yan Shaozhe was like an insect trapped in amber, unable to move. His Martial Soul flickered erratically beneath the pressure of the light walls.
Jin Peng took a step forward and was already before Yan Shaozhe. His golden-glowing right hand was like an iron pincer as it instantly clamped around his throat!
His cold gaze swept over the increasingly gathered Shrek powerhouses below. "This old man's target is not shrimp like you."
"Go. Tell Xuan Zi to get the hell out here!"
"Old bastard Jin! Release Old Yan!" An angry female cry rang out.
Immediately afterward, a graceful figure wrapped in fierce Soul Power fluctuations shot up from below.
She was Yan Shaozhe's wife, Shrek Academy's vice dean of the Martial Soul Department, Cai Mei'er!
Striking out in fury, she had already condensed the light of a Soul Skill in her palm.
Yet she could not even enter within thirty yards of Jin Peng!
"Insolence!" A furious roar sounded from Jin Peng's side.
The Body Sect's second elder, Wu Zheng, known as Elder Wu, another powerhouse who had reached the level of Super Douluo, brazenly attacked!
His Martial Soul was released in an instant, and a ghastly white radiance erupted from around his body.
A horrifying giant claw formed from countless thick, savage white bones.
Though launched later, it arrived first, viciously striking Cai Mei'er's chest!
Pfft—!
Cai Mei'er was struck as if by a heavy hammer. Her protective Soul Power shattered instantly, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.
Her entire body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, her aura instantly weakening.
"Mei'er!" A cry of alarm came from below as Xian Lin'er's figure flashed.
She caught the falling Cai Mei'er in time, her own expression equally ugly.
Only then.
The other elder masters of the Sea God Pavilion, along with the other Titled Douluos within the academy, barely managed to arrive.
Seeing Yan Shaozhe captured and Cai Mei'er heavily wounded in a single blow, everyone drew in a sharp breath, their expressions turning grave to the extreme.
Elder Song, one of the most senior elder masters, stepped forward from the crowd with her Dragon Head Cane.
Her aged face was covered in frost. "Vice Sect Master Jin Peng!"
"Shrek and your Body Sect have always kept to our own affairs and lived in peace."
"Today, you have mobilized such a force, brazenly intruded upon our academy's sacred grounds, and injured our elder masters. What exactly do you intend?"
"Could it be that you truly intend to start a great war?!"
"Keep to our own affairs? Hahahahahaha!" Before Jin Peng could answer, the hot-tempered Elder Wu threw back his head and laughed wildly.
It was as if he had heard the most absurd joke in the world. Then, without any courtesy, he pointed straight at Elder Song's nose.
He cursed loudly, "Bullshit! Keep to our own affairs? You old hag think you deserve to say that?!"
"That old bastard Xuan Zi destroyed the foundation of the greatest genius our Body Sect has seen in a hundred years, leaving him half-dead and barely clinging to life!"
"For this blood-deep grudge, our Body Sect has come to collect the debt today! Tell me, who should we collect it from?!"
A trace of shock and confusion flashed across Elder Song's face. "Elder Xuan... destroyed your genius's foundation? How... how did that happen?"
She instinctively turned to look at the other elder masters behind her.
But they exchanged glances, and most shook their heads. Clearly, they either knew nothing of the matter or knew very little.
Elder Song saw that the other side spoke with such certainty, yet they could not provide any further evidence.
In her view, coupled with their arrogant conduct and ruthless attacks, anger inevitably rose in her heart. She believed the Body Sect was using this as a pretext to stir up trouble without reason.
Just as she was about to refute them, demand that they produce evidence, and insist that they release Yan Shaozhe first...
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