Faced with the terrifying Ten Thousand Dragon Flames, Xuan Zi decisively burned his blood essence and forcibly awakened the Godly Taotie Bull bloodline. His two pairs of horns turned into dragon horns, and he forcibly pushed the flames back.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Ten Thousand Dragon Flames continued to erupt, and the fire they scattered set the surrounding trees ablaze. Xuan Zi was still fighting Di Tian, who had transformed into his Black Dragon King true form. But while one side was burning blood essence and Soul Power, the other had yet to unleash his full strength.
Xuan Zi gradually fell behind, visibly suppressed.
He realized he could not go on like this.
If he kept fighting the Beast God, he and a group of children would die here today.
The Beast God was simply beyond the ability of a Level 98 Super Douluo to contend with. It would take several Limit Douluo working together to have any chance of holding him back.
Xuan Zi roared again, unleashing all his strength and forcibly pushing the Ten Thousand Dragon Flames back.
In that brief instant, he burned his blood essence, spiritual power, and bloodline power, then raced toward Shrek.
He still had to take the children home. How could he fall here?
Burn... burn everything, just to stay alive!
"Run? I will not let you escape."
"Xuan Zi, you will die here today!"
Di Tian bellowed. His dragon wings beat fiercely as he forcibly tore through space and gave chase.
In a mountain range somewhere within the Heaven Dou Empire, Ye Que and the others landed on a relatively flat stretch of ground.
Dragon Subduing Douluo tossed the barely breathing Phoenix Bird in front of Ye Que and said with a smile, "The mission is complete. Young Master, hurry and absorb the Soul Ring!"
Ye Que did not absorb the Soul Ring. Instead, he turned his gaze toward distant Shrek City.
Beneath the distant city, a beast tide erupted like dark clouds pressing down.
They had caused this themselves.
Ye Que said with some guilt, "Shrek won't be overrun, will it?"
Hearing him, the Body Sect experts nearby could not help turning their gazes toward Shrek as well.
Du Busi said, "Shrek still has Mu En. They should be fine, right?"
"Hard to say. Shrek may have a Limit Douluo, but even one Limit Douluo can't stop a crazed Di Tian," Jin Peng added.
Du Busi clasped his hands behind his back and said calmly, "Then we'll go help them in a bit. No matter what, we caused this beast tide."
The Body Sect experts all supported his suggestion.
They were thinking the same thing.
With a beast tide at their doorstep, every man had a duty to fight.
As for how the beast tide started, don't ask. Everyone was just trying to make a living.
Ye Que suggested, "Once I finish absorbing the Soul Ring, let's all go help hold back the beast tide. This whole thing started because of me."
Dragon Subduing Douluo and Guangyu Douluo nodded at the same time.
They might have disliked Shrek and been its enemies, but they absolutely did not want to see a catastrophe that would leave the land strewn with corpses.
Then Ye Que drew the Angel God Sword and killed the Phoenix Bird with a single slash before sitting cross-legged to absorb its Soul Ring.
Rumble!
The death of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast created an enormous celestial phenomenon. Violent Soul Power surged toward Ye Que like a tide.
The powerful experts quickly moved away from him.
With his hands behind his back, Du Busi said to Dragon Subduing Douluo, "With two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, Young Master Ye's strength should be on par with an advanced Soul Emperor, right?"
"And with his advantage against Evil Soul Masters, will any Evil Soul Master below eight rings be able to stand against him?"
"Another powerhouse on par with the Angel God will rise among the descendants of your Spirit Hall."
"Pure luck, pure luck..." Dragon Subduing Douluo replied modestly, having learned his young master's ways.
Du Busi chuckled and stopped talking to the people from Spirit Hall.
He was thinking of returning to the Body Sect and going into seclusion once this mission was over.
With the Immortal Herbs Ye Que had provided, he could break through to the Limit Douluo realm as well.
When that happened, the Body Sect would rise to greatness once more!
Two hours later, Ye Que finished absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and his aura surged.
The Phoenix Bird's Ultimate Fire attribute gave his strength another enormous boost.
He broke through to Soul Emperor, becoming a six-ring Soul Emperor. His Soul Power reached a terrifying Level 66, while the Phoenix Bird's Soul Bone transformed into energy that strengthened his six Angel Soul Bones.
What's more, Ye Que's Sixth Soul Ring also granted him two skills.
They were: Solar Storm Sword and Angel Nirvana Power.
Combined with the Indestructible Diamond Body, Ye Que could be reborn through Nirvana even if only a single drop of his blood remained.
Now, Ye Que finally had what it took to contend with the powerful figures on the continent.
"Young Master, how do you feel?" Dragon Subduing Douluo came over and asked.
Ye Que smiled. "Nothing unexpected. I got two more Soul Skills. It's not convenient to demonstrate them right now, though. The beast tide has already begun, so let's go help hold it back."
He turned to look at Yu Mengdi and said, "I didn't expect so many things to go wrong. You'll have to get your Fifth Soul Ring in Shrek City."
Yu Mengdi replied gently, "I'll do as you say, Young Master."
Then the Body Sect experts set out once more, heading for Shrek City to help repel the beast tide.
It wasn't that they wanted to help Shrek. They had no choice, because Shrek had been built beside the Star Dou Forest.
It sounded noble to say that Shrek had been built to suppress the Star Dou Forest and hold back beast tides.
But everyone knew that when Shrek could no longer hold the line, the continent's powerful figures would have to step in. It was as if everyone had been bound together.
If the Soul Beast army broke through Shrek City, the continent's people would be plunged into misery and suffering.
Shrek City, atop the walls.
All the teachers, experts, and elders of Shrek Academy had joined the effort to repel the beast tide. The defenders on the city walls operated the Soul Guidance Rays, raining fire down on the enemy below.
The smoke of war shrouded the entire battlefield.
Countless Soul Beasts died, and countless defenders fell, yet the Soul Beast army continued charging forward, one wave after another.
The battles between the Ferocious Beasts and the elders were fought with such ferocity that heaven and earth seemed to darken.
But there was one piece of good news: after burning a tremendous amount of blood essence, Xuan Zi had successfully escaped back to Shrek and joined Mu En in resisting the beast tide.
At that moment, high above Shrek City, the Bright Sacred Dragon and the Black Dragon King Di Tian collided again and again, unleashing skills and power at each other. The surrounding space trembled, and layer upon layer of dark clouds rolled overhead.
Even so, the Bright Sacred Dragon that Mu En had transformed into was still brutally suppressed by the Black Dragon King Di Tian, displaying the terrifying foundation of a generation's Beast God.
Di Tian was not afraid of these human Limit Douluo. He had been holding back all along.
There were many things he had to do.
He had to protect his master while she recovered from her injuries, protect the people of the Star Dou Forest, and keep the greater picture in mind.
So whenever humans hunted Soul Beasts for Soul Rings, as long as they did not go too far and it remained within acceptable bounds, Di Tian would turn a blind eye. He was waiting for his master to fully recover and lead the Soul Beast Clan back to the Divine Realm.
But those cunning humans had repeatedly provoked the Beast God's authority and challenged his limits.
And now, after losing two Super Soul Beasts, Di Tian had gone completely berserk. Even a Limit Douluo could only be suppressed by him.
"Elder Mu, I'm coming to help!"
Just then, Xuan Zi, having recovered his strength with the help of the Golden Ancient Tree, transformed into the Godly Taotie Bull once more and charged at the Black Dragon King Di Tian's true form.
Di Tian grabbed the Bright Sacred Dragon by the horns and struck, shattering space with one claw.
Crack!
Space shattered. The Godly Taotie Bull was grievously wounded by the claw and sent tumbling back onto Shrek's city wall.
Seeing this, Mu En suddenly broke free of Di Tian's hold and breathed out Bright Dragon Flame, escaping the Black Dragon King's control. He shouted, "Di Tian, do you truly want to be locked in a fight to the death with Shrek? Why break our agreement and unleash a beast tide? Do you really think you can destroy Shrek?"
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