Mu En Enters Ming Capital, Ye Xishui Appears! [Happy New Year!]

After returning to the academy, Xia Ming did not remain on Sea God Island for long.

The next day, he headed to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a Soul Ring.

Besides the academy's assigned escort force, which was sufficient to ensure absolute safety,

there was another eye-catching figure among the group—Zhang Lexuan.

She had broken through her bottleneck on the journey back to the academy, reaching level seventy.

With just one Soul Ring, she would become a Soul Saint.

One had to remember that she was only nineteen.

Such a cultivation speed was considered exceptionally fast even in Shrek Academy's history.

Among all the academy's living members, the only one whose cultivation speed surpassed hers was Mu En.

It was said that Mu En had even prepared an immortal herb for her, waiting for her to absorb it after this Soul Ring hunt.

Perhaps Zhang Lexuan could break the record for the youngest Soul Douluo.

Thus, the two people participating in this hunt could be called the two most gifted individuals in the academy at present.

Moreover, the Soul Rings they sought this time were not thousand-year ones.

As the key to her Martial Soul Avatar, Zhang Lexuan's seventh Soul Ring required a top-tier Soul Beast of at least several tens of thousands of years.

Although Xia Ming's third Soul Ring only needed to be slightly over ten thousand years old, his requirements for a Soul Beast were extremely high.

If it were a Soul Beast on the level of a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, even one that had only just reached ten thousand years could contend with an ordinary Title Douluo.

Therefore, to ensure absolute safety, the academy's escort lineup was nothing short of extravagant.

In addition to Yan Shaozhe, two elders from Sea God Pavilion accompanied them.

One was Elder Song, renowned as the fastest in the world, while the other was Elder Zhuang, whose healing abilities had reached the pinnacle.

A full three Super Douluo accompanied them on their Soul Ring hunt!

Forget merely seeking ten-thousand-year Soul Rings—even ordinary Beast Lords could be handled by them. Even Scarlet King would not be their opponent.

As for why Xuan Zi had not come, it was not because Xia Ming strongly rejected him.

It was because Mu En was not at the academy at the moment.

After sending the team back to the academy, he had quietly gone somewhere else.

As the strongest person remaining behind, Xuan Zi naturally could not leave casually.

After all, the two were merely hunting Soul Rings, not facing genuine danger.

Just as those taking part in this hunt arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest,

Mu En, using his mastery over spatial power, had already crossed vast territory and appeared in the Sun Moon Empire.

More precisely, he was in Ming Capital, the Sun Moon Empire's capital.

Over the past month, through the relentless investigations of the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family and Shrek's intelligence network,

a vague yet crucial clue had finally been pieced together, pointing toward a deeply entrenched organization in Ming Capital's underworld.

"Xishui Alliance..."

Mu En stood in the shadows of a bustling street and murmured the name.

Before him stood a luxurious building that appeared ordinary on the surface, but was in fact heavily guarded.

This was one of the Xishui Alliance's important strongholds in Ming Capital.

He did not rashly force his way inside.

His vast Limit Douluo-level spiritual power silently seeped into the building.

Unless someone of the same level or a spiritual-type Title Douluo was inside, there was no possibility that his probing would be detected.

However, reality often defied expectations.

The instant Mu En's spiritual power touched the building's core area,

a spiritual fluctuation filled with bloodlust and madness, like an awakened venomous snake, suddenly clamped down on his dispersed spiritual power!

That spiritual fluctuation came from a figure entirely shrouded in a broad dark-red cloak.

She paused slightly at first, then that violent spiritual power followed the trace Mu En had left behind and sensed back toward him.

"...Mu En?"

A whisper mixed with astonishment and wild delight came from beneath the cloak. Even its owner seemed unable to believe the discovery.

The next instant, all emotion was swallowed by overwhelming madness.

"Mu En—!"

A shriek so piercing and warped that it carried terrifying spiritual power capable of shattering an ordinary Soul Master's soul erupted violently from within the building like a blood-red storm!

"Boom—!"

Dark-red Soul Power mixed with nearly tangible killing intent shot into the sky, dyeing Ming Capital's night with an ominous crimson hue!

"Xi Shui?!"

Even with Mu En's steady state of mind, he could not help but be shaken.

Although he had long known that she was the Supreme Cult Leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, and had guessed that she was the Xishui Alliance's hidden ruler,

he had never imagined that his very first tentative spiritual probe would strike so precisely upon this most dangerous person!

Yet his shock lasted only an instant.

Facing the blood-red Soul Power assault that tore through the night sky, filled with endless madness, Mu En's gaze instantly regained its calm.

"Roar—"

A clear dragon's roar rang through the night, effortlessly drowning out that shrill scream.

Mu En's figure blurred where he stood.

The next moment, dazzling radiant power erupted around him!

His body expanded slightly, and fine, sacred dragon-scale patterns surfaced across his skin.

Behind him, the phantom of a majestic and holy Bright Sacred Dragon faintly appeared, roaring toward the heavens.

Yellow, yellow, purple, black, black, black, red, red, red!

Nine Soul Rings slowly rose.

Especially when the final three blood-red Soul Rings representing one hundred thousand years circled around him like stars surrounding the moon, a vast Soul Power pressure like an endless sea spread outward.

He slowly rose into the air, and immense, pure light power spread like a tide, illuminating half of Ming Capital's night sky around him as though daylight had descended.

Almost at the same moment Mu En rose into the air, the dark-red figure was already suspended above the ruins of the building opposite him.

Ye Xishui's broad cloak fluttered without wind, snapping loudly as though it were a surging Sea of Blood.

Black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red, red!

Nine Soul Rings likewise rose beneath her feet. Those four shocking blood-red Soul Rings revealed the terrifying foundation of four one-hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.

Unlike Mu En's righteous grandeur, her Soul Rings radiated an extreme chill and a bloody aura.

In the half of the sky she occupied, Soul Power seemed to turn into thick blood, dyeing the clouds and light an eerie dark red.

One light and one darkness, one white and one red.

The two Limit Douluo standing at the very pinnacle of the Soul Master world split Ming Capital's night sky into two utterly different worlds.

Within the shadows beneath Ye Xishui's hood, two scarlet gleams locked tightly onto Mu En.

"Mu En..."

Her voice was hoarse and sharp, yet carried a morbid excitement.

"How dare you come here alone?"

"But that is fine. Since you have come... stay here forever!"

Before her words had even faded, the first of the four blood-red Soul Rings around her suddenly flared brilliantly!

Even more violent blood-red Soul Power crashed down like a flood bursting through a dam, bearing down upon that sacred domain of light!