Li Muwan?

He gripped a thick, ancient tree with both hands, gasping for air.

Cold sweat, mixed with dirt and blood, streamed continuously down his cheeks.

He lowered his head to look at his hands.

The White Tiger claws he had once been so proud of were now charred black.

The skin on his arms was covered in blisters, stinging with agonizing pain at the slightest touch.

Damn it, what kind of hellish place is this...

Dai Mubai gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with humiliation and resentment.

As a dignified prince of the Star Luo Empire and the leader of Shrek Academy, when had he ever suffered such indignity?

In that brief moment just now, he had even felt the shadow of death.

If he hadn't run fast enough, he would have ended up just like that guy named Yan—turned into a pile of ash.

After steadying his breathing, Dai Mubai began to survey his surroundings.

This was a very remote, deep valley.

All around him were towering cliffs that pierced the clouds.

A faint white mist permeated the air.

Just then, the crisp sound of flowing water drifted over from not far away.

Hearing the water, Dai Mubai's parched throat couldn't help but bob.

He was incredibly thirsty.

The intense heat from that fireball earlier had nearly evaporated all the moisture in his body.

Dragging his heavy legs, Dai Mubai slowly walked in the direction of the sound.

He pushed aside a patch of waist-high weeds.

A crystal-clear pool appeared before his eyes.

Above the pool was a small waterfall, with clear mountain spring water cascading down the rock face, creating a pleasant, melodic sound.

The area around the pool was covered in unknown wildflowers, emitting a faint, lingering fragrance.

Dai Mubai's eyes lit up, and he prepared to rush forward for a long drink.

However, when his gaze swept over a large cyan boulder at the edge of the pool, his footsteps came to an abrupt halt.

He stood frozen in place, as if struck by a binding spell.

There, sitting on the flat cyan stone, was a young woman who looked like a fairy from a painting.

She wore a moon-white long dress, with delicate cloud patterns embroidered along the hem.

Her long, raven-black hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall, reaching all the way to her waist.

At this moment, the woman was facing away from Dai Mubai, soaking her jade-white, bare feet in the clear pool and swaying them gently.

The water rippled in circles, and under the refraction of the sunlight, her feet appeared even more translucent and crystalline.

The woman turned her head slightly, revealing half of her stunning profile.

Her skin was whiter than snow, and her features were so exquisite that not a single flaw could be found.

Her brow carried a gentle, water-like temperament that made one want to pull her into their arms and cherish her at first glance.

Dai Mubai swallowed hard.

The fear and exhaustion that had filled his signature evil eyes vanished without a trace.

In their place was an undisguised, burning heat.

There was even a hint of greed.

In the Douluo Continent, he had been with countless women.

He had played with the baby-faced, busty Zhu Zhuqing.

He had even played with twin sisters.

But he swore that in his entire life, he had never seen a woman with such an ethereal temperament and such peerless beauty.

Compared to the woman in the white dress before him, all the women he had been with before were nothing but common, vulgar powder.

Even Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong from Shrek Academy were inferior to her in terms of temperament.

Hiding behind the weeds, Dai Mubai's breathing grew heavy.

He quietly released a sliver of spiritual power to probe the woman in the white dress.

A few seconds later, a wicked curve tugged at the corners of Dai Mubai's mouth.

"No soul power fluctuations."

"There are no traces of that strange energy circulating within her body."

"Is she just an ordinary person?"

Dai Mubai calculated silently in his heart.

He felt his deduction was perfectly logical.

Although the men in this Renegade Immortal World were all monsters who would start fires at the drop of a hat, surely the women couldn't all be perverts, right?

The woman before him looked delicate and weak, and she carried no weapons.

Furthermore, for her to be out here in this desolate wilderness washing her feet alone, she must be a civilian from a nearby village who had lost her way.

Thinking of this, the lust in Dai Mubai's heart could no longer be suppressed.

He had just been driven away like a stray dog by that grey-robed youth, and the sense of humiliation had driven him to the brink of madness.

He desperately needed to vent.

He desperately needed to reclaim his lost dignity and confidence from someone weaker than himself.

And this stunning, fragile woman before him was undoubtedly the perfect prey.

"Since the heavens have let me run into you here, I won't be polite."

"Consider this collecting a bit of interest from this world."

Dai Mubai licked his dry, cracked lips.

He straightened his scorched clothes, trying his best to look less disheveled.

Then, he silently parted the weeds and lightened his footsteps, approaching the woman in the white dress sitting on the bluestone step by step.

Just as he was less than five meters away from her, thinking he had the victory in the bag, the lecherous smile on his face bloomed completely.

He lunged forward, reaching out his hands, prepared to tackle that delicate body onto the bluestone.

However, at the very moment his body was airborne, the woman in the white dress, who had been facing away from him, suddenly stopped the gentle swaying of her feet and tilted her head slightly to look over.

At the very moment Dai Mubai was airborne, thinking he had the victory in the bag, the woman in the white dress, who had been facing away from him, suddenly stopped the gentle swaying of her feet.

Dai Mubai met those eyes while in mid-air, and his heart gave an inexplicable, violent jolt.

This was not at all the look an ordinary, weak woman should have when encountering a villain.

It was a form of indifference.

A cold, aloof gaze, as if watching an ignorant ant dancing before her.

Before Dai Mubai could even react to what that look meant, the woman in the white dress moved.

She didn't even turn her body around; she simply raised her jade-white right hand, pressed her slender index and middle fingers together, and pointed lightly at Dai Mubai in mid-air.

Whoosh!

The previously calm and clear pool seemed to be imbued with life at that moment.

The water instantly boiled, and several water columns as thick as a man's thigh erupted from the surface like giant pythons.

These water columns intertwined rapidly in mid-air, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into five crystal-clear chains of water that radiated a bone-chilling aura.

The speed was too fast.

Dai Mubai's reaction speed, which he took such pride in, seemed completely stationary before these water chains.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

A series of crisp sounds echoed through the valley.

The five water chains wrapped precisely around Dai Mubai's limbs and neck.

The water, which had been soft moments ago, became harder than tempered steel the instant it bound him.

Dai Mubai's forward momentum came to an abrupt halt, and his massive body was forcibly frozen in mid-air.

"What is this!"

Dai Mubai was terrified, his muscles tensing instantly as he tried to break free from these water chains using the power of a level 37 Battle Spirit Grandmaster.

A low tiger's roar rumbled in his throat, and the three spirit rings on his body flashed frantically.

"Break for me!"

He exerted every ounce of his strength, thrusting his arms outward with a violent heave.

But no matter how hard he struggled, his face turning a deep purple, those seemingly fragile water chains remained unmoved.

Not only that, but as he struggled, the chains only tightened further.

The icy water of the pool carried an indescribable, crushing pressure, digging bit by bit into his flesh.

Snap.

A bone-chilling sound of grinding joints echoed through the air.

Dai Mubai let out a muffled groan of agony; he felt as if his arms were about to be torn clean from his sockets by that immense force.

Only then did the woman in the white dress leisurely withdraw her feet from the pool.

Water droplets slid down her smooth, fair calves, leaving not a single trace of moisture on her skin.

She reached out to pick up a pair of embroidered shoes resting beside a blue stone, slipped them on, and then slowly stood up, turning her head to inspect Dai Mubai, who hung suspended in mid-air.

The woman's willow-leaf brows furrowed slightly, a flicker of disgust crossing her eyes.

"Where did this crude beast come from, daring to run wild in the territory of the Luohe Sect?"

The woman's voice was melodious, like an orchid in a secluded valley, but the icy tone within it made one's blood run cold.

Dai Mubai hung in the air, his limbs stretched wide, his posture humiliating to the extreme.

He looked at the breathtakingly beautiful woman before him, the lust in his heart long since extinguished by a bucket of ice water, leaving behind only profound terror.

He finally realized what a foolish mistake he had made.

On the Douluo Continent, those without soul power fluctuations were merely ordinary people.

But in this damned Renegade Immortal World, the lack of soul power fluctuations might simply mean that the power system they cultivated was something he couldn't comprehend at all!

Douluo Continent, Shrek Academy.

The atmosphere on the training grounds dropped to freezing.

Everyone stared with wide eyes at the rapidly reversing scene on the Sky Screen.

A second ago, Dai Mubai had been lunging at his prey like a starving wolf.

The next second, he was strung up in mid-air by a few water chains as if he were a slaughtered pig, without even the room to struggle.

Within the crowd, Zhu Zhuqing's body trembled slightly.

Her cold, beautiful face was now a tapestry of anger, humiliation, and disappointment.

As Dai Mubai's fiancée, seeing her man scurrying about like a dog to save his own life was shameful, yet she could understand it as a necessity for survival.

However, when she saw Dai Mubai, after escaping death, immediately display such a disgusting, lecherous expression upon encountering a seemingly fragile woman—even attempting to take advantage of the situation to commit a vile act—Zhu Zhuqing's heart turned completely cold.

"So this is the prince of the Star Luo Empire..."

Zhu Zhuqing bit her lip tightly until a drop of blood seeped out.

"A bully who cowers before the strong, his mind filled with nothing but filthy, depraved thoughts."

"Even if he doesn't die in this Renegade Immortal World today, I will never entrust the rest of my life to such a person."

Ning Rongrong, standing to the side, also curled her lip in disdain.

"How disgusting. Dai Mubai always acts like the big boss at the academy, but I never expected him to be so base to the core."

"He deserves to be dealt with!"

Ma Hongjun opened his mouth, wanting to defend Dai Mubai, but looking at the humiliating, miserable state of his boss on the light screen, he ultimately swallowed his words.

After all, what Dai Mubai had done was truly dishonorable.

Tang San's focus was clearly different from that of the girls.

His eyes glowed with purple light as he stared fixedly at the water chains binding Dai Mubai on the screen.

"No soul rings, no process of martial soul manifestation."

Tang San's voice was somewhat dry as he turned to look at Flender and Zhao Wuji.

"Dean, Teacher Zhao."

"That woman merely lifted her finger, and the pool water turned into a weapon harder than steel."

"Such absolute control over natural elements—even a Control-type Soul Douluo from our Douluo Continent couldn't do it so effortlessly, could they?"

Flender took off his crystal glasses, wiped the cold sweat from them with his sleeve, and gave a bitter, helpless smile.

"San, you overestimate the Soul Douluos."

"Let alone Soul Douluos, even those Title Douluos must rely on their own martial soul characteristics and soul skills to manipulate water."

"The methods they are using have transcended the scope of the martial arts we understand; it is more like the legendary sorcery."

Zhao Wuji sighed from the side, saying in a muffled voice, "It's over. The kid Mubai has kicked an iron plate this time."

"That woman looks soft and weak, but her strikes are no less ruthless than that grey-robed youth from before."

Hearing the conversation between the teachers, Yu Xiaogang stood in the corner, saying nothing.

He truly dared not offer any more casual analysis.

This Renegade Immortal World was permeated with strangeness at every turn; his theories were nothing but a joke here, and the more he spoke, the more he erred.

Star Luo Empire, the imperial palace.

Within the resplendent, gold-adorned hall, the atmosphere was so oppressive it made one gasp for air.

The Star Luo Emperor sat upright upon his dragon throne, his complexion ashen.

His eyes, usually brimming with majesty, were currently burning with a raging inferno of fury.

Below the dais, a group of Star Luo Empire officials and royal clansmen stood in silence, so terrified they dared not even draw a full breath.

"Disgraceful!"

The Star Luo Emperor slammed a palm onto the armrest of his throne, the immense force instantly deforming the solid gold dragon head.

"This is my fine son!"

"A dignified prince of Star Luo, instead of thinking about how to endure and explore this new world to seek opportunities for growth—"

"He gets blinded by lust after narrowly escaping death and attacks a strange woman!"

"And if attacking her wasn't enough, he actually let himself be strung up like a chicken!"

The Star Luo Emperor's voice echoed through the cavernous hall, every word dripping with disappointment and rage toward Dai Mubai.

Standing below, the First Prince, Dai Weisi, allowed an imperceptible cold smirk to tug at the corner of his mouth.

He stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Father, please calm your anger."

"Brother Mubai has been lecherous by nature since he was young; that is no secret in Star Luo City."

"It is just that this son did not expect him to bring such unseemly habits into the Renegade Immortal World."

"With the entire continent watching this live broadcast, Brother Mubai's actions have truly dragged the reputation of our Star Luo royal family through the mud."

Dai Weisi's words appeared to be an attempt at consolation, but in reality, they were adding fuel to the fire.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, the Star Luo Emperor's expression turned even uglier.

"Pass on my decree."

The Star Luo Emperor took a deep breath, his voice cold as he announced his decision.

"From this moment forth, Dai Mubai is stripped of his status as a prince of the Star Luo Empire!"

"Should he be fortunate enough to survive in the Renegade Immortal World, he is never to set foot in the Star Luo Empire again!"

As these words fell, the gathered officials in the hall all gasped in unison.

They knew that the Star Luo Emperor was completely abandoning this third prince.

In the face of royal dignity, a son with decent talent but inferior character meant nothing at all.

Renegade Immortal World, by the edge of the pool.

Dai Mubai had no idea that he had already lost his status as a prince in front of the entire continent.

His mind was currently occupied entirely by how to save his own life.

"Miss... Fairy, spare me!"

Dai Mubai endured the sharp pain radiating from his arm, struggling to squeeze the words through his teeth.

He looked at the cold, indifferent face of the woman in the white dress, attempting to use the eloquence he was most skilled at to sway her.

"I—I did not mean to offend you..."

"I was merely lost in these mountains, exhausted and thirsty. Seeing someone by this pool, I was anxious and rushed over to ask for a drink of water, accidentally bumping into you, Fairy."

Dai Mubai spun a clumsy lie, hoping that she might show mercy given his sincere attitude.

The woman in the white dress stood quietly in place, listening to Dai Mubai's defense, a flicker of mockery crossing her eyes.

"Asking for a drink of water?"

The woman let out a soft laugh; though the smile was beautiful, it sent a chill through anyone who saw it.

"Do you take me for one of those unrefined, common mortals?"