Qian Jue, Get Out Here and Die!

"You... pfft!"

Xuan Zi pointed at Qian Jue. Overcome by rage, he spat out another mouthful of blood, unable to form a complete sentence.

He knew he had been set up. Qian Jue wanted to kill him in body and spirit, utterly destroying his reputation within Shrek!

"Brother Skydream... what do we do? This time, it looks like we really are going to die here..."

Huo Yuhao felt ice-cold from head to toe. Everything before him felt like some absurd, horrifying nightmare.

Dai Yueheng had died a gruesome death. Senior Xiao Tao had lost her cultivation and was suffering worse than death.

And Elder Xuan was now kneeling in a pool of blood like a stray dog, even branded as an infiltrator from the Holy Spirit Cult...

They had clearly been carrying out an Inspection Corps mission, hunting down that Death God Envoy!

How had such a terrifying being, like some demon god, suddenly appeared?

And this person clearly bore a blood-deep grudge against Shrek.

It was Huo Yuhao's first time seeing Elder Xuan wear such a despairing, shattered expression.

Even a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo had no ability to fight back. What did outer-court students like them amount to?

"It doesn't just look that way. Death isn't far off..."

Within Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, Skydream Iceworm's voice was more solemn than ever, even carrying an undisguised tremor.

"Yuhao, that fellow's aura is far too terrifying!

His level of danger is absolutely no less than those ferocious beast overlords deep within the Star Dou Great Forest!

No, that strange power of his is perhaps a hundred times more troublesome than those beasts!"

"Hmph! What kind of man is afraid of this and that? At worst, we die. Let's fight him!"

From the other side of the spiritual sea, the Ice Empress snorted coldly, her tone carrying the arrogance and ferocity unique to the Far North's Three Heavenly Kings.

"Fight? Fight with what..." Huo Yuhao gave a bitter laugh inwardly.

Even with Brother Skydream and the Ice Empress empowering him, before such an absolute gap in strength, he was nothing more than a slightly sturdier ant.

Just as despair welled up in Huo Yuhao's heart, Qian Jue's abyss-deep gaze passed over Xuan Zi, who was kneeling and coughing blood, and precisely locked onto him.

At that instant, Huo Yuhao felt as if all the air around him had been sucked away. A suffocating pressure descended upon him like Mount Tai crushing down.

Within his spiritual sea, Skydream Iceworm and the Ice Empress both reacted as if facing a great enemy, frantically mobilizing their origin power in preparation for one final desperate fight.

"If it really comes to it, Yuhao, the best plan is to run.

I'll use my remaining origin power to forcibly tear open space and teleport you away."

Skydream Iceworm's voice rang through his spiritual sea, filled with the resolve of one staking everything on a final gamble.

"But if we do that, the secrets on your body will definitely be completely exposed and draw that monster's interest. Then, I'm afraid he'll hunt you without end."

Given this hopeless dead end, it was the only path to survival Skydream Iceworm could think of.

"But... Senior Xiao Tao, Elder Xuan, and everyone else..."

Huo Yuhao clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms, his eyes filled with pain and conflict.

Making him abandon his companions and flee alone was more agonizing than killing him.

"Yuhao, Yuhao, where there's life, there's hope!"

Skydream Iceworm urged anxiously.

"This fellow is absurdly powerful. Even a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo is like a toy in front of him, freely handled however he pleases.

In the entire continent today, there are probably fewer than five people who can stand against him!"

Hearing Skydream Iceworm's words, Huo Yuhao's heart sank completely to the bottom, and a deep sense of helplessness surged through him.

"Brother Skydream, is there... really no other way?" Huo Yuhao murmured despairingly inwardly.

"Hard to say. Unless an Ultimate Douluo falls from the sky right now, it doesn't matter who comes today—they'll be walking into death..."

Skydream Iceworm spread his hands helplessly within the spiritual sea, his tone full of bitterness.

He, the mighty Skydream Iceworm, a peerless soul beast with a million years of cultivation, had finally found the perfect spiritual-attribute host. He had thought he could begin a legend of creating a god.

Yet before he could realize his grand ambitions, it would all die before it began, and he would be buried alongside this little fellow...

Just as Huo Yuhao's heart was locked in turmoil and Skydream Iceworm prepared to forcibly burn his origin power.

Suddenly, from above the nine heavens, an enraged roar boomed like a great bell, shaking the entire sky violently:

"Three years... a full three years! Qian Jue, I've finally found you! Get out here and die!!!"

Accompanying that thunderous shout, a terrifying pressure unique to an Ultimate Douluo poured down like a celestial river from the heavens, instantly enveloping the entire mountain peak.

That pressure carried boundless fanaticism and fury, as though it intended to crush this world to dust!

"Oh? The aura of an Ultimate Douluo... There's another expert?"

Qian Jue raised a brow slightly, surprise flashing through his eyes.

Someone had managed to find him even in such a remote wilderness?

If nothing unexpected had happened, the loudmouthed fellow outside should be the Sea God's fervent believer Xuan Zi had mentioned before.

What Qian Jue had not expected, however, was that this fellow seemed to be in quite a rage. Qian Jue had not gone looking for trouble with him, yet he had delivered himself right to the door.

At this, Qian Jue sneered. With a grasp of his right hand at empty air, he actually tore apart the space before him. Taking one step forward, his figure instantly vanished from the spot and appeared ten thousand meters in the sky.

With his departure, that suffocating pressure abruptly dissipated, and the cave finally gained a brief moment of safety.

Watching Qian Jue vanish, Huo Yuhao, sprawled on the ground, was overjoyed, as if he had seized the last straw of salvation.

"Brother Skydream, we... we seem to be saved!"

"Damn! An Ultimate Douluo really showed up?!"

Skydream Iceworm was stunned within the spiritual sea. "There are fewer than five Ultimate Douluos on the continent today. I never thought that, in such a desperate situation, someone would actually descend from the heavens to aid us?!"

Meanwhile, ten thousand meters in the air.

A middle-aged man clad in heavy azure armor stood proudly atop the clouds. His name was Chen Hai, and his eyes were fixed fiercely on the rippling spatial disturbance ahead.

Three years! A full three years!

In his search for Qian Jue, he had traversed nearly every corner of Douluo Continent, yet he had never found this sinner whom the Sea God had personally ordered captured.

It had nearly driven Chen Hai mad.

The Sea God's first divine decree, and he had nearly failed to complete the task entrusted to him!

Fortunately, just as Chen Hai had fallen into despair and was preparing to die to atone to the Sea God, the Sea God Helmet on his head finally transmitted a powerful signal.

It turned out that years ago, the Sea God had secretly branded Qian Jue with a divine-sense mark.

So long as Qian Jue's aura appeared on this continent again, Chen Hai could use this divine artifact personally bestowed by the Sea God to precisely lock onto this heretic!