Expedition · Punishment · Shrek

Shrek City, Shrek Academy.

Warm sunlight poured over the campus, casting everything in peaceful serenity.

The outer academy students either walked toward the teaching buildings in small groups, sparred and practiced on the field, or exchanged insights beneath the shade of trees. Everything was orderly.

The inner academy was even quieter, with only occasional ripples of pure Soul Power drifting from the various cultivation rooms.

Within the Sea God Pavilion, several elders on duty either sipped tea and played chess or rested with their eyes closed. They appeared perfectly at ease, as though 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 rapidly covered by a patch of "dark clouds" without warning.

Yet they were not actual rain clouds, but a massive field of pressure formed by dozens of powerful Soul Power auras converging and moving at high speed!

The "dark clouds," carrying a suffocating sense of oppression, hurtled toward Shrek Academy at an astonishing speed!

Inside Shrek Academy's offices.

Yan Shaozhe suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing sharply. In the next instant, he vanished and appeared in midair.

A pair of golden phoenix wings burst open behind him, the aura of light making him resemble a sun god bird descending upon the mortal world.

He hovered above the academy, his gaze fixed on the rapidly approaching "dark clouds."

"Friends from afar, please halt!"

"This is Shrek Academy! If you dare trespass any further, do not blame Yan for being discourteous!"

His warning did not stop the "dark clouds." On the contrary, after reaching a certain distance, that mottled mass of clouds began to disperse on its own.

At the forefront stood eleven figures whose auras were as deep as abyss 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 stood a dense mass of more than sixty figures!

Even 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 vicious eyes and savage expressions, radiating undisguised hostility, as though they would smash the academy beneath their feet to pieces in the next moment!

The leader was none other than 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 lift an eyelid.

Yan Shaozhe's only response was the dazzling, molten-gold radiance that suddenly erupted from Jin Peng's body!

That was right. It was his Martial Soul—the Torso!

He stopped, then 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 that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring swept down upon Shrek Academy like a tsunami!

The outer academy 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 crashing of desks and chairs rose one after another. The previously orderly campus instantly descended into chaos.

The panic spread like a plague, even reaching the inner academy.

Above Shrek Academy, one powerful aura after another erupted as well.

The Titled Douluos and Soul Douluo-level teachers remaining at the academy appeared one after another, staring uncertainly at the murderous force in the sky.

Jin Peng still did not speak.

He merely raised his right hand and slowly curled his Five Fingers, as though gripping something invisible in the air.

In the next instant, an incomparably domineering giant claw of golden Soul Power formed out of thin air and seized at Yan Shaozhe's head!

There was no explanation, no pleasantries. His first move was Thunderous Might!

Yan Shaozhe was horrified!

He had never imagined that the Body Sect would be this tyrannical, skipping even the most basic negotiations and formalities to attack directly!

Caught off guard, he could only dodge miserably. The giant golden claw swept past his phoenix wings.

It instantly tore away several golden feathers, which scattered into points of light and vanished in midair.

"Hmph." Seeing Yan Shaozhe narrowly evade the attack, Jin Peng snorted disdainfully. "Little brat."

He slowly shook his head, then suddenly brought both hands together before his chest!

In an instant.

Two even more massive golden walls of light appeared out of nowhere to his left and right, closing in on Yan Shaozhe with the force to crush everything!

Yan Shaozhe's expression changed drastically. His wings beat furiously as he tried to shoot upward through that deadly 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, and the terrifying squeezing force brought his body to a halt!

Bang!

With a muffled impact, Yan Shaozhe was firmly crushed between the gap of the two golden walls of light.

Yan Shaozhe was like an insect trapped in amber, unable to move. His Martial Soul flickered unstably beneath the pressure of the light walls.

Jin Peng took a step forward and appeared before Yan Shaozhe. His golden-glowing right hand clamped around Yan Shaozhe's throat like iron pincers!

His icy gaze swept over the growing number of Shrek powerhouses below. "This old man's target is not you little fish and shrimp."

"Go. Tell Xuan Zi to get his ass out here for this old man!"

"Old bastard Jin! Release Old Yan!" A furious feminine shout rang out.

Then, a graceful figure wrapped in fierce Soul Power fluctuations shot upward from below.

This person was Yan Shaozhe's wife, Shrek Academy's Vice Dean of the Martial Soul Department, Cai Mei'er!

Striking in fury, she had already gathered the light of a soul skill in her palm.

Yet she could not even approach within thirty yards of Jin Peng!

"How dare you!" A furious roar sounded from Jin Peng's side.

The Body Sect's Second Elder, Wu Zheng—known as Elder Wu—another Super Douluo, attacked brazenly!

His Martial Soul was unleashed in an instant, and a ghastly white radiance erupted around him.

A horrifying giant claw condensed from countless thick, savage white bones.

Though launched later, it arrived first, slamming viciously into Cai Mei'er's chest!

Pff—!

Cai Mei'er was struck as though by a heavy hammer. Her protective Soul Power shattered instantly, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.

She flew backward like a kite with a severed string, her aura immediately 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 expression equally ugly.

Only then.

The remaining elders of the Sea God Pavilion, along with several other Titled Douluos within the academy, finally arrived.

Seeing Yan Shaozhe captured and Cai Mei'er severely wounded in a single strike, everyone drew in a sharp breath, their expressions becoming grave to the extreme.

Elder Song, one of the most senior elders, stepped forward from the crowd, leaning on her Dragon Head Cane.

Her aged face was covered in frost. "Vice Sect Master Jin Peng!"

"Shrek and your Body Sect have always kept out of each other's way, each living in peace."

"Yet today, you have gathered such a force, brazenly intruded into the sacred grounds of our academy, and injured our elders. What exactly do you intend?"

"Do you truly intend to start a war?!"

"Keep out of each other's way? Hahahahahaha!" Before Jin Peng could answer, the hot-tempered Elder Wu threw back his head and laughed wildly.

It was as though he had heard the most absurd joke in the world. Then he pointed directly at Elder Song's nose without the slightest courtesy.

He cursed, "Bullshit! Keep out of each other's way? You old hag think you have the right to say that?!"

"That old bastard Xuan Zi destroyed the foundation of our Body Sect's peerless genius, a talent seen only once in a century! He is now half-dead, barely clinging to life!"

"Today, the Body Sect has come to collect this blood debt! 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 elders behind her.

But they looked at one another and mostly shook their heads. Clearly, they either knew nothing of the matter or did not understand it well.

Elder Song saw that the other side spoke with conviction, yet could produce no further evidence.

In her view, coupled with their arrogant behavior and ruthless attacks, anger inevitably rose in her heart. She believed the Body Sect was making a pretext to cause trouble and behaving unreasonably.

Just as she was about to refute them, demand that they present evidence, and insist that Yan Shaozhe be released first...