"You're useless, so you should lie there and eat dirt. The old and the young can lie down together—it'll make for a nice, tidy scene!"
As Huo Yuhao laughed wickedly, a phantom silver eye opened behind him, leaving only a chill in the hearts of Bei Bei and the mysterious woman with powder-blue hair, the last two still barely holding on in the arena!
"You... How can you be so savage? We're the greatest geniuses on the continent. Shouldn't we cherish and respect one another?"
The powder-blue-haired woman suddenly walked toward Huo Yuhao and spoke softly. Her voice was as pleasant as silver bells, making the audience feel their hearts soften, as though they didn't want to make an enemy of her.
"Ha ha ha ha! Why would the strong cherish the useless? Especially you. From the moment you showed up, you gave me a really uncomfortable feeling. I can't be bothered to guess what schemes you're plotting."
"Tell the people behind you this: you're useless, and you're fake!"
Smack!
Huo Yuhao actually slapped the powder-blue-haired girl across the face, as if he were hitting a ball, sending her flying clean off the arena!
"AAAAAAAH..."
The powder-blue-haired girl let out a pig-like squeal as she flew through the air. She seemed unable to believe that, with her peerless beauty, this young man could treat her so crudely!
Didn't he know the least bit about cherishing a woman?
When she crashed heavily to the ground, just like Xuan Zi and Dai Huabin, the veil that had covered her face was already in tatters. But this time, the audience gave no cheers or gasps of admiration.
Confused, she instinctively touched her face. Her expression stiffened.
Her peerlessly beautiful face had swollen into a complete pig's head!
"Huo Yuhao! I'll kill you! AAAAAAAAH..."
After a fit of screaming, the girl fainted!
In the end, this farcical final ended with Shrek Academy suffering a crushing defeat!
In the final team battle, Huo Yuhao alone had swept through every member of Shrek, while not a single person from the Body Sect had fallen! It became the most lopsided and absurd final in history!
This generation of the "Shrek Seven Devils" had fallen from the "Golden Generation" to becoming a byword for disgrace!
"Would he really treat me like that...?"
Beyond the Sky Screen, in a certain room, the short-haired girl with powder-blue hair watched the screen, her feelings tangled with both fear and unease.
Why? Why did she have to meet someone so terrifying...?
After winning the final, Du Busi caused a bit of chaos in Ming Capital, then led Huo Yuhao and the others away through the underground passages.
Not long afterward, news arrived: the Sun Moon Empire had launched a continental war, intending to unite the continent at one stroke and destroy the Original Three Empires.
Aside from the Body Sect and Shrek Academy, the Sun Moon Empire had captured nearly every competitor from the sects originally belonging to Douluo Continent!
After the continental war broke out, the Body Sect didn't take on the role of protector sect for the crumbling Heaven Dou Empire, as originally planned, nor commit all its main forces to fighting the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers and the Holy Spirit Cult's Evil Soul Masters.
That was because the Body Sect now had a new technology: the "Soul Spirit" Huo Yuhao had suddenly introduced!
While Shrek Academy was desperately locked in bloody combat with the Sun Moon Empire's army, the Body Sect secretly established contact with the Land of Great Calamity in the Star Dou Great Forest. They conducted several experiments with "Soul Spirits," and every one of them was a great success.
After returning, the Star Dou Great Forest's imperial Auspicious Beast secretly took human form and followed them back to the Body Sect. She stubbornly insisted on joining, so the Body Sect had no choice but to accept her.
At twenty-one, Huo Yuhao broke through to Titled Douluo and finally completed his Gold-Grade Awakening! By then, the combined forces of the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult had finally attacked the Body Sect's headquarters, and countless Body Sect elites died in the battle.
Yet among those fighting were even a few people from Shrek Academy, lurking in the corners and striking—especially targeting Huo Yuhao with sneak attacks!
"Despicable scum. Die!"
Huo Yuhao held the badly wounded Vina in one arm and grabbed a black-cloaked elder from the Sea God Pavilion with the other. As the elder stared at him in terror, golden light flashed behind Huo Yuhao, and golden beams burst from his eyes.
Boom!
The head of a Super Douluo exploded on the spot. He was killed instantly!
After Huo Yuhao escaped with Vina and a handful of other survivors, Vina's eyes were red, tears streaming down her face.
"What kind of allies are they? What happened to 'when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold'? Because we wouldn't stand at the very front and throw our lives away, because we wouldn't sacrifice our sect's elites for nothing, Shrek Academy went straight for us?"
Vina's voice was choked with sobs, brimming with hatred.
She had lost almost everything in that battle. Not long before, she had received word that Heaven Dou City, the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, had fallen, and that her parents had been taken prisoner.
And in this battle, her senior brother and boyfriend, Long Aotian, had died protecting her. Now, all she had left was the junior brother at her side!
"Yuhao, Yuhao... I'll give you everything I have. Promise me you'll avenge me, all right?"
As if clutching at her only remaining hope, Vina grabbed Huo Yuhao's hand and pressed it straight against her ample bosom.
Even her boyfriend, Long Aotian, had died beneath the Sun Moon Empire's artillery before he had the chance to taste her!
"Wouldn't doing this betray Senior Brother Aotian...?"
Huo Yuhao sighed. But his hands didn't stop for a moment; he deftly laid Vina down on the bed.
"...At a time like this, why would you say something so cruel...?"
"What I mean is, maybe a little stimulation could make Senior Brother Aotian so angry he comes back to life? What a pity about him. If I were Senior Brother Aotian and saw those bedsheets turn red, maybe I really would be furious enough to come back to life!"
Huo Yuhao's voice seemed to carry a trace of sorrow and regret.
"Don't worry. I'll avenge all the elders who died, and Senior Brother Aotian too. Shrek Academy—hmph!"
After settling Vina and the others, Huo Yuhao went alone into Shrek City and began his hunt for revenge!
By now, Huo Yuhao was truly powerful, especially with his Body Martial Soul after its Gold-Grade Awakening.
With his mastery of spiritual power, even the Titled Douluo of Shrek Academy couldn't sense the slightest thing when Huo Yuhao passed right by them.