His gaze snapped toward Shrek Academy's formation. Xiao Wu stood behind Tang San, her face deathly pale, her shoulders trembling slightly, her eyes filled with terror.
That aura had erupted uncontrollably from within her moments ago, like a taut string suddenly snapping.
In the top-floor private room, Bibi Dong rose to her feet.
Her movement was slight, yet the pressure throughout the entire Soul Arena seemed to drop in that instant.
Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei shot out from either side of the private room almost simultaneously. Wrapped in the pressure of Titled Douluo, they pounced straight at Shrek Academy's formation.
"Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast! Seize her!"
Yue Guan's voice was shrill and urgent.
Tang San reacted faster than anyone.
In that instant, the vines of his Dark Blue Silver Emperor swelled severalfold. Dark-red roots wound over one another in layers before him, forming a flesh-like wall of shields that barely blocked Yue Guan's first strike.
The bandages around his right arm tore apart as his Soul Power surged, exposing the wound beneath, still seeping black fluid. Yet he seemed unable to feel pain. He stepped in front of Xiao Wu and shielded her behind him.
"Fall back!" Tang San roared.
Chrysanthemum Douluo's second attack followed immediately. Golden chrysanthemum petals gathered in the air into a formation of blades and sliced toward them.
Tang San's vine shield wall was shredded to pieces. He grunted as the impact forced him back two steps, black blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
Gui Mei cut in from the side, his gray shadow so fast it was nearly invisible, his five fingers reaching for Xiao Wu behind Tang San.
Just as those five black nails came within a foot of Xiao Wu, a pitch-black Clear Sky Hammer descended from