Gift of the 'Eight Extremes Blazing Sun Flower', Qian Renxue's Obsession

The female host announced in a clear, ringing voice:

"Today, Shrek Academy faces one of the five elemental academies, Elephant Armor Academy. Let us see if they can resolve this battle within three minutes as they have in previous matches. Let us wait and see!"

Upon hearing this, the Elephant Armor captain, Huyan Li, swept a glance at the host in the air and said with displeasure, "Hmph! You look down on our Elephant Armor Academy far too much!"

"We are not like those trash academies from before!"

The female host gave an awkward laugh and hurriedly changed the subject: "Next, I invite both teams to release their martial souls. The battle is about to begin!"

No sooner had the words left her lips than the Elephant Armor team, led by their captain Huyan Li, released their martial souls one after another.

A moment later, golden elephant phantoms appeared behind each of them; it was clear that every member possessed the Diamond Mammoth as their martial soul.

In the high-seat viewing area, Huyan Zhen saw this scene and revealed a rather proud smile.

"Heavens! The Elephant Armor Sect actually has three Spirit Ancestors, and the other four members are all at the threshold of the Spirit Ancestor realm. Shrek Academy has truly encountered a formidable foe!" the female host exclaimed.

As soon as she finished speaking, the newly formed 'Shrek Seven Devils' also revealed their martial souls and spirit rings.

Without the fortuitous encounter with immortal herbs, the spirit power of Tang San and the others was noticeably lower.

"Dai Mubai, martial soul Evil Eye White Tiger, level 42 Power Attack System Spirit Ancestor, please advise!"

"Tang San, martial soul Blue Silver Grass, level 41 Control System Spirit Ancestor, please advise!"

"Oscar, martial soul Sausage, level 40 Food System Spirit Elder, please advise!"

"Ma Hongjun, martial soul Evil Fire Phoenix, level 39 Power Attack System Spirit Elder, please advise!"

"Xiao Wu, martial soul Soft Bone Rabbit, level 39 Power Attack System Spirit Elder, please advise!"

"Xu Yao, martial soul Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, level 42 Power Attack System Spirit Ancestor, please advise!"

"Chen Xiao, martial soul Heaven Net Banner, level 41 Support System Spirit Ancestor, please advise!"

Seeing this, Qin Xuan stroked his chin and fell into deep thought:

These two newcomers are quite interesting.

It is likely that because of my interference, the original timeline has changed.

Since I could encounter Song Qingling and Xia Hui, it is only natural that Shrek could encounter other geniuses.

These two are young, yet they broke through to the Spirit Ancestor rank without the aid of immortal herbs. This alone proves their talent is not inferior to the likes of Dai Mubai.

Especially this Xu Yao, who actually possesses the rare super martial soul, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. It is truly surprising!

The attack power, defense, and land-based melee capabilities of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear are top-tier, not much weaker than the Golden Crocodile King.

If one looks at the spirit beast hierarchy, a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear with a century of cultivation is enough to fight across ranks against thousand-year spirit beasts.

Even as a transmigrator, this is the first time I have seen a spirit master awaken the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!

Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing glanced at the solemn-faced Qin Xuan but did not say anything.

She was currently wondering why that little witch, Ning Rongrong, had withdrawn from Shrek Academy.

Following the female host's command, the match officially began.

Boom—

The sounds of colliding spirit power rang out across the Soul Fighting Arena one after another.

In just five minutes, every member of Elephant Armor Academy had lost their ability to fight!

Huyan Li, Huyan Ba, and the other members had all sustained varying degrees of serious injury!

The female host flew onto the arena and, after scanning the unconscious Elephant Armor team, revealed an excited expression:

"Heavens! In just five minutes, Shrek Academy has defeated the seeded team, Elephant Armor Academy. This is truly incredible!"

"I announce that the winner of this match is Shrek Academy!"

As she finished, intense cheers erupted from the scene:

"Shrek!"

"Shrek!"

"Shrek..."

At this moment, Qin Xuan led Zhu Zhuqing away from the arena in silence.

On the way back to Spirit City, Qin Xuan did not say a word, clearly still unable to recover from his shock.

The spirit skills of Tang San, Xiao Wu, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai were the same as in the original story, with no differences, and their strength was roughly what Qin Xuan had expected.

The key points were Xu Yao and Chen Xiao.

Xu Yao stood two and a half meters tall with robust muscles and a rugged, stubbled face; standing there, he looked like a small mountain, even a size larger than Tai Long.

Chen Xiao was a young girl, 170 centimeters tall with a sweet appearance.

Although their spirit rings were all the unremarkable two-yellow, two-purple configuration, the quality of their spirits was on par with super-tier spirits, comparable to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

The four buffs of the Heaven Net Banner, from lowest to highest, were morale, speed, spirit power, and immunity.

In particular, this fourth spirit ability, "Immunity," was extremely perverse; it could ignore all negative effects for five seconds, including poisoning, berserk, suppression, paralysis, freezing, burning, and decay, among others.

It was no exaggeration to say that this spirit ability was equivalent to a weakened version of the "Nine Treasures Invincible Divine Light."

However, this spirit ability shouldn't be able to ignore the negative effects of a ninth spirit ability, right?

If that were truly the case, it would be simply too perverse.

But compared to Qin Xuan's "Nine Nether Evil God Transformation," it seemed rather ordinary.

As for Xu Yao's fourth spirit ability, "Dark Gold Wild Strike," it was also extremely formidable.

This spirit ability could launch three powerful claw strikes in total, with the power increasing each time; when the final claw was swung, it could trigger a "Rending Effect"!

The Copper Wall Iron Wall Formation of the Elephant Armor Academy had been broken head-on by this very move!

The more Qin Xuan thought about it, the more he felt a lingering fear. How was it that after Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong withdrew, two monsters with even more perverse talents had joined instead?

Was it a coincidence, or...

Thinking this far, Qin Xuan looked meaningfully toward the endless sky.

Half a month later.

Inside the Emerald Spring Villas.

Qin Xuan slowly opened his eyes, and a total of five spirit rings—purple, purple, black, black, black—rose from his feet in sequence.

"I have finally reached the level sixty bottleneck; it is time to obtain my sixth spirit ring!"

"A hundred-thousand-year spirit beast is no small matter. According to what Bibi Dong said back then, besides her accompanying me personally, I must also bring the two elders, Ju and Gui, as well as ten Spirit Douluos!"

"This Bibi Dong is certainly cautious."

"It is said that when she hunted the Death Spider Emperor of the same origin, she had at least five Title Douluos helping to hold the line!"

"She managed to wear the Death Spider Emperor, which possessed an 'Undying Body,' to death!"

Muttering this to himself, Qin Xuan set off for the Pope Hall.

There was less than two months left before the official start of the grand finals.

Currently, Qin Xuan and the women like Zhu Zhuqing were all busy with their own affairs.

Song Qingling and Xia Hui were training within the Purple Heaven Sect, while Zhu Zhuqing was training her agility alone in the Mimicry Environment Training Hall of the Spirit Hall Academy.

As for Qin Xuan, having finally reached the bottleneck after half a month of bitter cultivation, he naturally had to go hunt the hundred-thousand-year spirit beast he had been longing for!

Qin Xuan had originally thought that without the fortuitous encounter with immortal herbs and the Nether White Tiger, it was a toss-up whether Shrek Academy would even make it to the grand finals.

But after watching the previous matches, he realized his worries had been unnecessary.