Heavenly Flames Make Their Move

"Ancestor... was... was only a Soul Emperor?"

The young disciple's despairing howl became an invisible spike that pierced the deathly silence within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Everyone's pride was utterly trampled into the mud at that moment. How could an ancestor who had barely reached Soul Emperor rank in his entire life uphold the illustrious reputation of the "number one Beast Martial Soul in the world"?

Yu Yuanzhen's body swayed violently. A metallic sweetness rose in his throat, and he nearly fainted on the spot. The faith of his lifetime, the clan's thousand-year glory—it had all turned out to be a joke built upon lies.

Yet before everyone could recover from that devastating blow—

BOOM!!!

A thunderous explosion that shook heaven and earth suddenly erupted from the Sky Curtain's image. It even seemed to pierce through the screen, making the entire Douluo Continent tremble with instinctive dread!

The image that had just been frozen on Yu Tianlin's life summary suddenly turned violent.

The sky darkened. It was not the coming of night, but a suffocating mass of storm clouds. Purple lightning snakes darted wildly through the clouds with crackling bursts, and an aura of destruction far surpassing every bolt of lightning in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan came crashing down upon them.

"W-What is that?"

Someone cried out in horror.

Everyone's eyes were drawn back to the Sky Curtain.

In the image, deep within the Heaven Dou Great Forest, a colossal creature strode forward with heavy steps, smashing countless towering ancient trees as it charged toward a human settlement.

It was a giant dragon over twenty meters long, covered head to toe in purple-black scales. Every scale bore natural lightning patterns. Its head was ferocious, its enormous scarlet eyes filled with brutality and a thirst for destruction. Visible arcs of purple electricity coiled around its body, scorching black ravines into the earth.

"A fifty-thousand-year... Thunderclap Tyrannosaur!"

Within Spirit Hall, a Title Douluo well versed in Soul Beasts cried out in shock, his face filled with disbelief.

Fifty thousand years!

Those three words meant it possessed strength comparable to a human Soul Sage! And it was a top-tier lightning-attribute Soul Beast famed for its savagery and destructive power!

In an era when even Title Douluo were scarce, the appearance of such a Soul Beast in the human world was no different from the arrival of doomsday for ordinary people!

In the image, the Thunderclap Tyrannosaur stormed into a small mountain village built against the slopes and opened its mouth, firing a thick pillar of purple lightning!

BOOM!

The wooden houses were instantly reduced to dust. Amid desperate cries, the villagers were swallowed by lightning and turned to charred corpses.

It was a one-sided massacre.

The people of Shrek Academy watched with their hearts clenched, and Dai Mubai unconsciously tightened his fists.

At that moment, within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Clan Master Yu Yuanzhen stared fixedly at the destroyed village in the image. His cloudy old eyes suddenly widened, his lips trembling as he let out broken, incoherent sounds.

"Th-That is... the ancestral land! That is the ancestral land of our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"

What?!

Every clan disciple's heart skipped a beat.

The place being ravaged by that fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast in the image was actually the birthplace of their clan!

Just as everyone despaired over the small village's fate, a figure ran against the fleeing crowd and charged toward that embodiment of destruction.

It was the Sky Curtain's protagonist—Yu Tianlin!

His face was resolute, and the Soul Power fluctuations around him were unmistakably those of a level-sixty Soul Emperor!

A Soul Emperor was going to challenge a fifty-thousand-year Thunderclap Tyrannosaur?

How was that any different from seeking death?

"Has he gone mad?!" Ma Hongjun blurted out.

"No..." Yu Xiaogang's body stopped trembling. He stared fixedly at the charging figure in the image, an emotion he had never understood striking at the foundations of his theories.

It was not stupidity, but a resolve to do what could not be done.

In the image, Yu Tianlin did not hesitate in the slightest.

"Blue Lightning Earth Dragon, possess me!"

With an angry roar, he unleashed his Martial Soul. That draconic creature, scorned by countless descendants, let out an unyielding roar and coiled around his body. Six Soul Rings—two yellow, three purple, and one black—pulsed around him.

Beneath the Thunderclap Tyrannosaur's sky-blocking form, his resistance seemed so insignificant, so laughable.

The Thunderclap Tyrannosaur's enormous scarlet eyes caught sight of the ant that dared challenge it. Two scorching arcs of electricity burst from its nostrils, carrying boundless disdain.

Yu Tianlin's third Soul Ring flashed beneath his feet, and his body suddenly accelerated. He narrowly evaded the lightning arcs' bombardment, then leaped high into the air as his fifth Soul Ring shone brilliantly!

"Fury of the Thunder Dragon!"

Power gathered in his right fist. This was his strongest single-target soul skill!

Yet when that punch landed heavily on the Thunderclap Tyrannosaur's lower leg, it failed to even shatter a single scale.

Instead, the violent purple lightning around the Thunderclap Tyrannosaur surged back along his arm!

"Pfft!"

Yu Tianlin spat out a mouthful of blood and was violently blasted away by the tremendous force. He crashed through several large trees before falling miserably to the ground.

The gap in strength was simply too great!

The difference between a Soul Emperor and a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast was like an uncrossable chasm.

The hearts of everyone watching the Sky Curtain sank. The disciples of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could barely breathe. They had just looked down on this ancestor's talent, but now they could only watch helplessly as he fought a doomed bloody battle to protect their ancestral land.

Yu Tianlin struggled to his feet, wiped the blood from his lips, and charged forward once more.

He was sent flying again and again, only to rise again and again.

His bones broke, his internal organs were battered, and the blue lightning around his body grew dimmer and dimmer.

Yet his steps never retreated.

He used his own body to buy time for the surviving clansmen in the village to escape.

At last, the Thunderclap Tyrannosaur lost patience. It unleashed an earth-shaking roar, its massive tail wrapped in thunderous force as it swept toward him!

This time, Yu Tianlin no longer had the strength to dodge.

BANG!!!

With a dull impact, his body was struck viciously. He cut a miserable bloody line through the air before crashing heavily to the ground, his fate unknown.

It was over.

Those two words surfaced in everyone's minds.

Within Spirit Hall, the cold curve on Bibi Dong's face faded. She had expected to witness the life of a coward, but instead saw the tragedy of an ordinary man. Though foolish, he was still... worthy of a sliver of respect.

The Thunderclap Tyrannosaur walked with heavy steps toward the barely conscious Yu Tianlin. Its massive head lowered, and it opened its blood-filled maw crackling with purple lightning, preparing to devour this troublesome insect once and for all.

Just then!

Just as everyone believed Yu Tianlin was about to die!

A sudden change occurred!

A wisp of ghostly white flame, as though capable of devouring all light, surged from Yu Tianlin's body without warning.

It was not Soul Power, nor was it lightning, but a power unlike anything seen before—strange to the extreme!

That black flame appeared for only an instant. Immediately afterward, an indescribably frigid aura erupted from Yu Tianlin's body!

A vast wave of white vapor mixed with blue flames spread outward in an instant!

Crack—crackcrack—

The air froze! The light froze! Even the purple lightning pillar that the Thunderclap Tyrannosaur was about to spew froze in midair the instant it emerged!

The brutal expression on that once-unrivaled fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast's face was frozen forever.

A layer of black-and-white frost spread from beneath its feet across its entire body at a visible speed, instantly turning its massive form, along with everything around it, into a lifelike ice sculpture!

All was silent.

The entire world seemed to contain only that eerie black-and-white ice sculpture and, rising slowly from within it, a... black, fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring!

It died?

A fifty-thousand-year Thunderclap Tyrannosaur... had been frozen to death?!

Everyone on the Douluo Continent who witnessed this scene felt their minds go completely blank.

Before the gates of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen's pale face froze.

Within Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong rose from her throne. Even her breathtakingly beautiful face showed a trace of shock.