Judgment Sword! You Want to Turn My Ma Xiaotao into an Evil Soul Master?

"Buzz!"

Star Luo Plaza was boiling with noise.

The finals of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament had finally reached its climax under the eyes of the masses.

On the huge alloy arena, the seven official team members of Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy stood opposed, each side holding its ground.

But a closer look would reveal that the members of the Sun Moon Empire, representatives of the continent's most advanced technological might, all had pale faces and foreheads covered in fine beads of cold sweat.

Standing at the very front of the team, Xiao Hongchen clenched his teeth hard.

He poured the soul power inside him into an invincible barrier radiating the fluctuations of a class-nine soul tool, regardless of the cost.

A translucent dark-gold curtain of light locked the seven of them tightly within it.

As if only this turtle shell could give them one pitiful sliver of security.

Across from them, Luo Feng had both hands in his pockets and had not even released his martial soul.

He merely stood there in a lazy posture, as if watching a show.

What truly left the Sun Moon Empire team feeling suffocated was the figure standing in front of Luo Feng: Ma Xiaotao, her red hair whipping wildly, her entire body burning with utterly pure Red Lotus Karmic Fire!

"Ah Feng said that dealing with cowards like you hiding inside iron shells doesn't need him to lift a finger at all.

I alone can roast every last one of you!"

After being deeply purified by Luo Feng's sacred power last night and having her foundation reinforced by the Snow Empress Embryo, the hidden danger of the evil fire within Ma Xiaotao had already been completely suppressed, and had even transformed into the purest ultimate fire.

She let out a clear phoenix cry, and the enormous phantom of a Fire Phoenix behind her shot into the sky.

Her sixth soul ring blazed with light, turning into a sky full of meteoric fire rain that bombarded the Sun Moon Empire's invincible barrier in a frenzy.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Violent explosions rang through the clouds. That class-nine defensive barrier, said to be capable of withstanding a full-force strike from a Spirit Douluo, actually began to ripple with unstable rings like water under the continuous scorching of ultimate fire, as if it might shatter at any moment.

"Damn it! How is this woman's fire so pure? Didn't the intelligence say her evil fire was extremely easy to lose control?"

Beside Xiao Hongchen, official team captain Ma Rulong's eyes nearly split with rage as he turned his head.

Looking at the tottering barrier, a ruthless decisiveness flashed through his eyes.

"We can't wait any longer! Once the barrier shatters, we won't even have a chance to fight back!

Use that thing! As long as we force Ma Xiaotao into madness and make her fall into an Evil Soul Master, Shrek will be ruled to have violated the rules and lose this match on the spot!"

Ma Rulong roared and fiercely slapped the storage soul tool at his waist.

Along with a dazzling burst of black-and-white light, a strangely shaped longsword appeared in his hand.

This sword was divided in two. One half was pure white, radiating scorching light.

The other half was black like an abyss, exuding a nauseating aura of ultimate darkness.

A peak class-eight close-combat soul tool, the Judgment Sword!

In the fate trajectory of the original work, this sword was the ultimate trump card prepared by the Sun Moon Empire specifically against Ma Xiaotao.

The power of dark judgment attached to it could precisely ignite that tiny trace of impurity deep within Ma Xiaotao's martial soul that could not be removed.

It would completely transform her into a dark phoenix Evil Soul Master who had lost all reason and knew only slaughter!

"Ma Xiaotao! Taste this Judgment Sword tailor-made for you! Fall for me!"

Ma Rulong sprayed a mouthful of blood essence onto the blade, and the Judgment Sword let out a shrill sword cry.

Immediately after, the ink-black half of the blade broke free from the hilt, transforming into a silent bolt of black lightning.

It actually ignored the ultimate fire defenses around Ma Xiaotao and slammed straight into the center of her brow!

"Ah!"

The sudden entry of that dark aura into her body caught Ma Xiaotao off guard, forcing a cry of pain from her.

The originally pure Red Lotus Karmic Fire on her body surged uncontrollably the instant it touched that ultimate darkness.

Strange black markings began spreading across her neck and cheeks.

That was the dark evil fire attribute being forcibly triggered!

Seeing this, Elder Xuan in the waiting area was so shocked that he crushed the wine gourd in his hand.

Meanwhile, the Star Luo Emperor and Xu Jiujiu in the VIP seats also stood up in an instant.

Everyone could sense that this Fire Phoenix of Shrek Academy was sliding toward the abyss!

"Hahahaha! It worked! She's going to become an Evil Soul Master! Shrek Academy is finished!"

Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong laughed excitedly, as if they had already seen the first light of victory.

At that critical, heart-stopping instant, the entire arena was shaken with horror.

A long, warm, fair hand, so spotless it seemed untouched by even a speck of dust, suddenly reached out from behind and gently wrapped around Ma Xiaotao's slightly trembling, slender waist.

"You're playing with dark attributes in front of me?

Do you lack even the most basic reverence for the words 'Six-Winged Archangel'?"

Luo Feng's lazy yet endlessly icy voice drifted through the air above the vast Star Luo Plaza.

The next second, two balls of pure golden holy fire, dazzling to the extreme, suddenly blazed to life in Luo Feng's deep black eyes.

There was no grand display, nor any earth-shaking explosion.

Luo Feng merely placed the palm of his other hand gently against Ma Xiaotao's back.

"Buzz!"

A sacred aura that made all things in heaven and earth want to bow in worship

surged into Ma Xiaotao's body in an instant, like the Milky Way of the nine heavens bursting through a broken dam!

The dark power of judgment that had been wildly eroding Ma Xiaotao's martial soul, the instant it touched that ultimate holy light, was like lingering snow meeting the blazing sun, like ice dropping into a furnace.

Without even the slightest chance to struggle, it let out a shrill "hiss."

In just the span of a single breath, the black markings on Ma Xiaotao's face receded like the tide.

The dark blade that had slipped into her body was forcibly driven out.

In midair, it was burned by the sacred flames into the most primordial nothingness!

"Sister Xiaotao, step back. Leave the rest to me."

Luo Feng gently pulled Ma Xiaotao, who had already recovered completely—even her martial soul had become purer than before—behind him.

Then he slowly turned his head.

Those once gentle eyes had now turned pure gold, indifferent to all living beings.

"You wanted to turn my woman into an Evil Soul Master?

Good. Very good.

Originally, I only wanted to go through the motions and let you get off the stage with some dignity. But now, I've changed my mind."

As Luo Feng's words, like the verdict of the god of death, fell, he finally stopped hiding himself.

"Boom!"

Three pairs of pure golden wings that blotted out the sky unfurled thunderously behind Luo Feng!

The blinding holy light instantly robbed hundreds of thousands of people in the arena of their sight, illuminating the entire Star Luo Plaza as if heaven itself had descended.

Immediately after, under the utterly despairing, soul-shattering gazes of Xiao Hongchen and the others, the soul rings beneath Luo Feng's feet began to rise, one after another.

Yellow, yellow, purple.

Red, red, red, red!

Once again, those four hundred-thousand-year god-bestowed red rings that made the soul tremble!

But this time, before anyone even had time to suck in a breath, an ultimate pressure that completely surpassed the laws of this plane descended thunderously from beyond the nine heavens!

The eighth soul ring, bearing the unreachable aura of a god, slowly settled into place.

It was a bewitching, dazzling divine ring that made one want to prostrate themselves in worship with a single glance—orange-gold!

[Eighth Soul Skill, First Form · Law of Deprivation: Divine Forbidden Domain!]