As the hoarse voice rang out.
The corpses buried all around the cave began swelling and turning red at an astonishing speed.
Even Zhou Yi's body, which Li Qiang had thrown over, began rapidly swelling larger.
At that moment, Zhou Yi's skin was red all over, glowing as if blood were seeping through it, like flames were burning beneath her flesh.
"Ah!!! Xuan Lao, save... save me!!!"
Zhou Yi let out a pained wail.
"No!!!!"
Xuan Zi let out a furious, anguished roar that shook the entire cave.
He wanted to rush over and stop it, but had no idea how to deal with what was happening to Zhou Yi. He could only watch helplessly as her body swelled like the corpses around them.
He let out one desperate, regretful roar after another.
Seeing this, Li Qiang wore a smug, sinister smile.
Hearing Zhou Yi and Xuan Zi's despairing cries filled him with immense joy.
That's right. Just like that.
Suffer! Wail! Then feel your body being blown to pieces in despair.
That was the art of explosions!
But this was only an appetizer.
Back then, Zhou Yi had threatened to cripple their Martial Souls just because they'd talked back. They had worked so hard to get into Shrek Academy, only to have everything ruined by her casual dismissal.
Did Zhou Yi know how desperate they'd been?
She had ruined their lives. They were going to repay her a thousand, ten thousand times over.
Everything happening now was part of Li Qiang's revenge plan.
That included luring Xuan Zi into this cave full of corpses.
He wasn't just taking revenge on Zhou Yi; he was also taking revenge on the powerful people backing her.
If nobody had been secretly protecting Zhou Yi, then he would have killed only her.
But if someone was protecting her in secret, he would lure both Zhou Yi and that hidden protector into this corpse-filled cave.
This was no ordinary cave, and the corpses inside were no ordinary corpses.
He had carefully prepared the cave. Its passages were maze-like and its spaces cramped. Once the explosions began, there would be no chance to escape.
The corpses hanging in the cave were ones he'd secretly moved here while the Death Envoy wasn't paying attention. They were all his corpse slaves.
Each one bore a mark he had carved into it. The moment he activated the Corpse Explosion Technique, every marked corpse would explode. Even if Xuan Zi managed to defend himself right away, so what?
There weren't just one or two corpses. There were thousands upon thousands.
Remember the Corpse Explosion Technique the Death Envoy used in the original story? Just dozens of corpses were enough to leave Xuan Zi unable to look after himself.
Without Huo Yuhao, Xuan Zi would have set a new record: leading a team alone to compete in the Douluo Continent Soul Master Tournament, wiping out Evil Soul Masters along the way—
only to let a Soul King doom both this generation and the next generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters.
But Li Qiang felt no regret over what was about to happen.
He hated them. He still hated them!
The Heavenly Curtain had already exposed what Zhou Yi had done to her students, yet Xuan Zi still insisted on protecting a teacher with such appalling conduct.
Li Qiang had been born from the resentment of the students Zhou Yi had expelled. Once Zhou Yi was dead, he would naturally disappear too.
At the thought, a resolute, icy gleam flashed in Li Qiang's eyes.
So, Xuan Zi. A Level 98 Super Douluo, was he?
Since he wanted to help that wicked teacher Zhou Yi, Li Qiang would fight to the death just to tear a piece of flesh from him.
Li Qiang fell completely into madness, black energy surging from him like a tide.
Then, centered on him, a dense cloud of black energy gradually enveloped the entire cave.
Under its influence, the swollen corpses grew even more violent.
Boom!!!
Empowered by the black energy, they detonated with a deafening roar.
Terrifying explosions sent flesh and blood flying in every direction through the cave.
That wasn't all. The scattered flesh was intensely corrosive, and the blood splattered everywhere like powerful acid.
As the smoke slowly cleared, Xuan Zi was revealed with his clothes blown to shreds and his black hair stained red with blood. Even one of his arms had been blasted halfway off.
Seeing Zhou Yi die right in front of him, the person he'd been trying to protect, and with his own right arm blown halfway off, Xuan Zi let out a hoarse, furious roar:
"You're dead, you hear me!!!"
Then Xuan Zi's back arched sharply, his muscles bulging as two horns sprouted from his head.
The two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red Soul Rings beneath his feet flashed rapidly like alarm lights.
With a boom, a deep crater formed in the ground beneath Xuan Zi's feet, and he vanished from where he stood.
He shot toward Li Qiang like a high-speed cannonball, the air shrieking around him.
Xuan Zi was now absolutely furious. He was a mighty Level 98 Super Douluo, yet a Level 78 Evil Soul Master had killed the person he was supposed to protect right in front of him.
And even blasted half of one of his arms off.
Humiliation! Utter humiliation!!!
How could Xuan Zi not be furious? He was going to crush this evil Evil Soul Master to death!
Seeing that Xuan Zi had only lost half an arm, Li Qiang's eyes filled with regret. Then a flash of madness glinted in their depths.
With Xuan Zi charging straight at him, Li Qiang didn't try to run. He simply stood there, waiting for Xuan Zi to reach him.
"Bastard!!! Die!"
"Hahahaha! Just in time! Then come to hell with me!!!"
As he spoke, more than a dozen corpses appeared beside Li Qiang.
Even in death, they radiated immense power. In life, each had been at least a Titled Douluo.
Li Qiang had dug them up as a precaution from the burial grounds where powerful figures had been laid to rest by the various sects, the Holy Spirit Cult, and even Shrek Academy.
The stronger a corpse had been in life, the more powerful the explosion produced by the Corpse Explosion Technique.
Now, with those dozen or so Titled Douluo corpses—and Xuan Zi charging at him in fury—even if Xuan Zi was a Level 98 Super Douluo and survived, he would be crippled, reduced to a useless man who could only stay at the academy and eat chicken legs for the rest of his life.
"Ultimate Corpse Explosion Technique!!!"
At Li Qiang's command, the corpses began to swell and turn red at an astonishing speed.
Even Li Qiang himself began to swell rapidly.
With a boom, a cloud of blood burst open, completely enveloping Xuan Zi at the very center of the explosion.
"No!!!!"
Shrek Academy.
Fan Yu looked at Qian Duoduo, who was watching the Heavenly Curtain beside him, his face full of worry.
"Hey, Dean Qian, how do you think things are going on Xuan Lao's side?"
"Xuan Lao still hasn't come back. Could something have happened to him?"
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