Elder Xuan, Do You Think Elder Mu Will Win?

With a vast dragon roar that shook the heavens, Mu En's hunched body slowly rose into the air.

At this moment, he no longer looked like a dying old man at death's door.

Endless golden light was forcibly drawn from the Golden Tree below, which towered over the sky and earth, forming a vast vortex of energy that crazily poured into Mu En's body.

His head of white hair instantly turned a dazzling brilliant gold, while the wrinkles on his face, dry as dead wood, were forcibly smoothed away by immense vitality!

Even more shocking, his spine, which had been broken for decades, gradually straightened amid a series of violent cracking sounds!

At that moment, Mu En seemed to have returned to the peak he had reached a century ago, when the "Dragon God Douluo" had awed the continent.

No, he was even stronger than before!

Drawing upon the immense energy accumulated by the Golden Tree over ten thousand years, as well as its ultimate light power,

Mu En forcibly broke through the shackles of a level ninety-nine Ultimate Douluo, stepping halfway into that legendary domain of gods.

Demigod!

"Light shall ultimately dispel darkness."

Mu En, restored to the appearance of a middle-aged man in his prime, wore a solemn expression. Liquid golden radiance flowed across his body, making him seem like a god who pitied all living beings.

He pressed his hands down through the air, and behind him, a nine-clawed Radiant Sacred Dragon phantom over a thousand meters long, its scales seemingly cast from gold, coiled and roared.

The terrifying Demigod Realm pressure evaporated the surrounding demonic mist inch by inch, while all the water of Sea God Lake surged backward into the sky beneath that power!

Facing this Demigod might capable of destroying heaven and earth, Qian Jue, standing at the center of the Demon Domain, did not even blink.

He merely rolled his neck, producing a series of crisp bone-grinding sounds.

"Light dispels darkness? Mu En, it seems forcibly absorbing the Golden Tree's power has muddled your mind as well."

Qian Jue slowly raised both hands as the six black wings of a Fallen Angel spread wantonly behind him.

Empowered by the Demon Domain, the endless dark energy around him frantically flowed back into his body, and the Double Soul Core within him began spinning at an unprecedented, terrifying speed!

Even without drawing power from an external object like the Golden Tree, Qian Jue's aura continued to rise steadily. That supreme evil and destructive intent

was not the slightest bit weaker than Mu En in his Demigod state. Under the demon's undying trait, it even carried a more despair-inducing sense of oppression.

"Today, I'll let you watch with your own eyes as the light you believe in, the Shrek you protect..."

Qian Jue burst into wild laughter. His eyes turned completely, profoundly black, and the glaring hundred-thousand-year red soul ring beneath his feet erupted with demonic blood-red light once more.

"...is torn apart bit by bit by me, this demon!"

Before his words had even faded, Qian Jue advanced rather than retreated.

His entire body became a black bolt of lightning that tore through space, carrying demonic power capable of annihilating everything as he charged head-on toward that thousand-meter Radiant Sacred Dragon!

When it came to close combat, Mu En had no intention of backing down.

He had originally been a power-assault battle soul master, and the Radiant Sacred Dragon's formidable physique had reached an inconceivable peak under the Golden Tree's enhancement.

Moreover, facing Qian Jue, whose entire body radiated supreme evil, Mu En did not hesitate to unleash his self-created soul skill specifically designed to restrain Evil Soul Masters—the Dragon Emperor's Domain Shaker!

The dazzling golden dragon phantom and the twelve-winged Fallen Angel collided with a deafening crash ten thousand meters above the ground.

With the Golden Tree below continuously supplying what seemed to be an inexhaustible amount of life and light energy, Mu En's confidence had reached its peak.

He firmly believed that in a clash between equals at the Demigod Realm, he had no rival.

And the course of the battle seemed to fully confirm Mu En's belief.

High in the sky, no matter how strange and tyrannical Qian Jue's demonic power was, it still could not gain the slightest advantage before that pure, vast ultimate light.

Under Mu En's storm-like close-range assault and the absolute suppression of the Dragon Emperor's Domain Shaker,

Qian Jue's pitch-black Demon Domain even began to contract violently, faintly revealing signs of collapse.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

One gold and one black—two afterimages of light and darkness—engaged in the most primitive and brutal collision at the highest point above Shrek Academy.

Each clash between these two terrifying powers that had truly reached the Demigod Realm erupted with a thunderous roar.

Under the turbulence of that destructive energy, the sky itself seemed to become a fragile mirror.

Great swathes of black spatial cracks spread outward like spiderwebs, as though the entire sky were about to be torn apart by this force.

Such a horrifying phenomenon could not possibly be concealed.

Within nearly a thousand li, whether soul beasts at the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest or soul masters from every faction in the surrounding cities, all raised their heads in utter horror.

They stared toward the two-colored heavens over Shrek Academy, which looked as though the end of the world had arrived, feeling that terrifying pressure that compelled all things to submit.

At the same time, on the ground,

Xuan Zi was enduring his injuries as he rapidly organized the inner courtyard students and remaining elders for evacuation.

Though his steps were hurried, his gaze remained fixed on the battle in the sky, not daring to look away for even a moment.

"Elder Xuan..."

A hoarse voice choked with tears came from beside him.

Cai Meier's hands trembled as she held Yan Shaozhe's body, now reduced to charred remains, tightly in her arms.

At that moment, Cai Meier's eyes brimmed with tears of despair and grief.

She looked up at the heaven-destroying clash in the sky, her voice carrying a tremor and fear that even she did not realize she had:

"Do you think... Elder Mu will win?"

Hearing those words, Xuan Zi suddenly clenched his fists, his nails digging deeply into his palms.

He looked at the brilliant golden light in the sky, which held the absolute initiative and was even forcing the darkness back step by step. Taking a deep breath, he spoke with determination.

"Elder Mu will win."

Xuan Zi gritted out those words with absolute certainty, as though encouraging himself and everyone from Shrek alike.

"Evil cannot overcome righteousness. Under the Golden Tree's protection, Elder Mu will never lose!"

The battle continued, and waves of residual energy tore through the clouds one after another like tsunamis.

Although Mu En, bathed in the Golden Tree's radiance, appeared to be firmly suppressing Qian Jue,

holding an absolute advantage, as time passed, an indescribable chill gradually rose in Mu En's heart.

Because he discovered that Qian Jue had not actually suffered much real damage.

Under the bombardment of ultimate light and the grinding force of the Dragon Emperor's Domain Shaker, Qian Jue's body had clearly been torn apart by terrifying energy several times.

Even the six black wings of the Fallen Angel had been broken more than once.

Yet strangely, so long as that profound Demon Domain had not completely collapsed,

and so long as the Double Soul Core within Qian Jue continued to spin, the wounds on his body would be filled by dense dark mist and heal in an instant.