The Undead from Ten Thousand Years Ago

Lingyuan Douluo looked around. This forest was both familiar and unfamiliar.

She looked at Yan Shaozhe and the others, who stood ready for battle, and asked in a somewhat hoarse, dry voice:

"Who... are you people? And where... is this place?"

The question left Yan Shaozhe, Zhang Lexuan, and the others stunned.

They had never expected that, after regaining her senses, she would ask such an almost... ignorant question.

Yan Shaozhe's thoughts raced. Evil Soul Masters at the Title Douluo level were exceedingly rare, and he tried to draw out information from her.

"I am Yan Shaozhe of Shrek Academy. As a Title Douluo, why pretend to be mysterious? What organization do you belong to?"

"Shrek Academy? Organization?"

A trace of confusion flashed through Lingyuan Douluo's eyes. She had heard of Shrek Academy, but since when did Shrek Academy have such powerful Title Douluos?

A sense of foreboding rose in her heart, and she hurriedly asked, "Spirit Hall... does it still exist? What year of the Martial Soul Calendar is it now?"

"Spirit Hall?!"

The moment those words came out, not only Yan Shaozhe, but even Xu Jiujiu and Manyi beside Yin Chen wore expressions of extreme astonishment.

Ma Xiaotao was blunt by nature and could not help saying:

"Spirit Hall was destroyed ten thousand years ago. The continent is now in the age of empires. What Martial Soul Calendar could there possibly be?"

"Ten thousand years... destroyed..."

Lingyuan Douluo's body swayed slightly. Her scarlet eyes were filled with disbelief and the dazed disorientation of time itself having gone awry.

She murmured, "What about the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire?"

"The Heaven Dou Empire split long ago into the two great empires of Heaven Soul and Dou Ling, which now stand alongside the Star Luo Empire."

Zhang Lexuan added calmly, having keenly noticed that something was wrong.

These were matters of common knowledge to Soul Masters of the present day, yet coming from the other party's mouth, they seemed utterly out of place.

Thinking of how she had clawed her way out of the ground, with deathly aura covering her entire body, an absurd thought suddenly thundered through Yan Shaozhe's mind—a thought that nevertheless seemed to be the only possible explanation.

This "person" before them was not an Evil Soul Master at all... She was very likely an ancient person... resurrected from ten thousand years ago?! An undead being... possessing the memories of her life?!

The thought sent a chill down even the well-traveled Bright Phoenix Douluo's spine, and his pupils contracted violently.

Rising from the dead was already a miracle. Awakening after spanning ten thousand years of time was something unheard of.

Unless one was a legendary immortal deity, how could such a thing be possible...

The atmosphere on the battlefield abruptly shifted from a life-and-death struggle into an eerie silence.

An undead soul from ten thousand years ago and the foremost experts of the present age had just completed a horrifying conversation across time and space within the Star Dou Great Forest.

After learning from Yan Shaozhe and the others that Spirit Hall had vanished ten thousand years ago, and that she herself had slept for such an unimaginably long time, Lingyuan Douluo fell into profound confusion.

Ten thousand years had passed. Seas had turned to fields, and all her old acquaintances had become dust. There was no longer any trace in the world that she recognized.

But the instinct to survive instantly overwhelmed her daze.

She could clearly sense that, besides the powerful Yan Shaozhe before her, another Title Douluo-level presence had appeared not far away. Moreover, Yan Shaozhe's undisguised killing intent and light Soul Power sent waves of stinging pain through her deathly body.

"I have to leave!"

The thought rang through her mind like an alarm bell.

Having finally returned from her eternal slumber and gained a second life, even as a Nirvana Corpse, she absolutely did not want to end it here so easily.

As her thoughts whirled, Lingyuan Douluo hesitated no longer. Deathly aura erupted from her body, and she transformed into a dark-red streak of light that twisted space itself, speeding without hesitation toward the deeper regions of the Star Dou Great Forest.

She was far faster than before.

"Trying to run? Stay!"

How could Yan Shaozhe allow her to escape?

Too many secrets lay hidden within this resurrected undead being. Her very existence posed an enormous threat to the world of the living.

He had long sensed the arrival of Nebula Douluo Manyi. At this moment, he called out without hesitation:

"Lady Nebula, please help me keep this creature here. It is no benevolent being, but a resurrected undead. We cannot allow it to roam freely through the world."

Nebula Douluo Manyi, who had already received Xu Jiujiu's signal, immediately replied, "This old woman understands."

Light flashed in her hand, and an exquisite Nebula Fan, seemingly formed from countless fragments of starlight, appeared in her grasp.

Her figure flickered, and she instantly arrived in the path of Lingyuan Douluo's escape. She gently waved the Nebula Fan at the empty air ahead.

"Fifth Soul Skill—Galaxy Barrier."

In an instant, the space ahead seemed to twist beneath an invisible force. Countless brilliant specks of starlight emerged from nowhere, like a miniature Milky Way descending from the heavens and stretching across the forest.

The starlight flowed, forming an incomparably sturdy energy barrier. It not only blocked the way forward, but also radiated immense gravitational force, attempting to slow and bind Lingyuan Douluo.

At the same time, Yan Shaozhe moved as well.

He knew how troublesome this resurrected undead was, so he no longer held back. His seventh Soul Ring suddenly lit up.

"Martial Soul Avatar!"

A clear phoenix cry resounded through the heavens. Yan Shaozhe vanished from where he stood, replaced by a Bright Phoenix with a wingspan exceeding ten meters, its entire body wreathed in pure golden flames.

Sacred, majestic, and overwhelmingly powerful, the aura of light spread like a tsunami. It burned the surrounding deathly aura until it hissed, while vast stretches of forest ignited without flame before being instantly purified into ash by pure light energy.

The Bright Phoenix beat its wings, reaching an extreme speed. Though it moved later, it arrived first, instantly catching up behind Lingyuan Douluo. A gigantic phoenix claw formed entirely from light flames descended viciously, carrying the will to purify all evil like Mount Tai bearing down upon her.

"Sixth Soul Skill—Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike."

The Galaxy Barrier blocked her path ahead, while the Bright Phoenix's killing blow came from behind. The combined attack of two Title Douluos possessed earth-shaking might.

A fierce glint flashed through Lingyuan Douluo's scarlet eyes. She let out a piercing shriek as the nine Soul Rings around her body flashed frantically, driving her deathly aura and Soul Power to their limits.

Rather than evade, she turned around and thrust out both palms. Dense dark-red deathly aura intertwined with flames, forming a destructive torrent that clashed head-on with Yan Shaozhe's Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike.

"BOOM—!!!!!"

It was like two meteors colliding.

The golden and dark-red energy storm exploded in an instant, forming a massive sphere of energy over a hundred meters wide before it abruptly expanded and burst apart.

A terrifying shockwave of energy spread outward in a mad ring.

Everything in its path, whether ancient trees so massive that several people were needed to encircle them or solid mountain rock, was crushed and vaporized in an instant.

The ground was violently plowed by the invisible shockwave, leaving behind a crater dozens of meters deep. The earth at its bottom had turned to glass and billowed with thick smoke.

However, the cost of taking Yan Shaozhe's full-force strike head-on was enormous.