Elder Xuan Flexes His Power

"Your Highness! Run!"

Qin Shubao stood in front of Princess Weina. The spirit power inside his body had long since been exhausted, and waves of sharp, tearing pain racked his meridians, but he gritted his teeth and held his ground tenaciously.

As the princess's bodyguard, even if he had only one breath left, he would never retreat half a step.

"Brat! This old man will give you one last chance! Join Shrek Academy!"

Elder Xuan stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes revealing a condescending sense of charity, as if being able to join Shrek Academy was a blessing the young man had cultivated over several lifetimes.

Yet just moments ago, the price of this "blessing" was that he had personally slaughtered Princess Weina's friends one by one, and even that hot-headed Young Sect Master Long Aotian had his chest shattered by a single palm strike from him to protect Princess Weina, blood splashing all over the entire wall.

"Are you people from Shrek Academy declaring war on the Heaven Soul Empire?!"

Even though Weina was terrified, she still could not suppress the anger erupting from her bones. She had heard too many rumors about Shrek Academy's arrogance and overbearing nature, but she had never imagined that the other party would dare to brazenly break into the Heaven Soul Empire's lounge during the main competition of the Soul Master Tournament and commit murder right before her eyes.

How arrogant, how utterly lawless this was! She clenched her fists tightly, her eye sockets turning red as she forced back her tears.

"Hmph! The Heaven Soul Empire? They're just a bunch of dogs with broken bones! Even if this old man kills you, they wouldn't dare let out a fart!"

Elder Xuan sneered, his tone full of disdain and contempt. In his cognition, the Heaven Soul Empire was an empire and the Body Sect was a sect; the two were distinct and unrelated.

However, in the team before him, apart from Qin Shubao, the substitute guard, all the starting members possessed Body Martial Souls.

The Body Sect was within the borders of the Heaven Soul Empire, and since all these team members possessed Body Martial Souls, they naturally belonged to the Body Sect. This was a completely obvious matter.

Yet somehow, Elder Xuan, a Super Douluo, simply could not see it.

The reason he was so certain was that in his mindset, the Soul Master Tournament had never stipulated that sects could not enter separately.

If the Body Sect truly wanted to participate, they could simply register directly in the name of the Body Sect; there was no need to hide things and borrow the name of the Heaven Soul Empire.

Therefore, he felt that his actions had no problem at all. So what if he killed a few juniors who did not know the heights of heaven and earth? Would the Heaven Soul Empire really dare to fall out with Shrek Academy?

However, his missing intelligence failed completely to realize an extremely serious problem.

For Shrek Academy to blatantly make a move against the Heaven Soul Empire, one of the four great empires, and even start a massacre right inside the Heaven Soul Empire's lounge, this was no longer a simple personal grievance, but a blatant and naked provocation.

Even more fatally, this matter happened on Star Luo Empire's territory. As the organizer of the tournament, how could the Star Luo Empire tolerate such a thing happening on its own soil? This was tantamount to offending both the Heaven Soul and Star Luo empires simultaneously.

On the other side, the Sun Moon Empire's hatred for Shrek Academy had never extinguished for even a moment; they had been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to tear Shrek Academy apart completely.

As long as someone initiated the fight first, the Sun Moon Empire would definitely follow up in a split second, and might even add the most fatal slash.

Elder Xuan's move was tantamount to personally pushing Shrek Academy onto the countdown to destruction.

Yet this self-important Super Douluo was still immersed in his own arrogance at the moment, completely unaware that he had lit a fuse, and at the end of that fuse was the collapse of Shrek Academy's ten-thousand-year foundation.

However, his arrogance could no longer be sustained either, because the commotion he stirred up here had completely brought out all the Titled Douluos in the Star Luo Empire's Shrine Hall, and had also attracted Xu Feng.

Just as Xu Jiawei led the powerhouses of the Shrine Hall to rush to the scene in a hurry, the sight before him made his pupils shrink violently and his heartbeat skip a beat.

The corpses of the Heaven Soul Empire's guards lay sprawled in pools of blood, almost all the starting members were dead, and what made his scalp tingle the most was that Princess Weina was slumped in the ruins, with only Qin Shubao still standing.

"Xuanzi! Do you want to declare war on the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Soul Empire at the same time?!"

Xu Jiawei clenched his fists tightly. This situation was quite literally his worst nightmare coming true—to think there really was a lunatic with a death wish who dared to openly assassinate important figures of the Heaven Soul Empire within the territory of the Star Luo Empire, and had almost slaughtered the princess of the Heaven Soul Empire to boot!

Pros and cons spun rapidly in his mind. If nothing unexpected happened, that Princess Weina was the key chess piece sent by the Heaven Soul Empire to engage in a political marriage with the Sun Moon Empire's crown prince Xu Feng.

Although the specific progress of the negotiations between the two sides remained unclear, should this marriage be finalized, it would mean that the Heaven Soul Empire had boarded the massive battleship of war that was the Sun Moon Empire.

By then, the Star Luo Empire would face the desperate predicament of a pincer attack from the Sun Moon and Heaven Soul empires, and the strategic buffer he had painstakingly cultivated for many years would vanish into thin air overnight.

He had guarded against everything, even secretly sending people to keep an eye on every single movement along the border, precisely to avoid giving the Sun Moon Empire an excuse to start a war early.

Yet look at what happened: Elder Xuan right here had actually personally handed this poisoned blade smoothly into the enemies' hands! This was clearly playing with the national destiny of the entire Star Luo Empire!

"Hmph! What the hell does this have to do with you? This old man is merely taking Shrek Academy's students back!" Elder Xuan's aged face was full of disdain.

He didn't even spare Xu Jiawei a proper glance, as if the top powerhouses of the Star Luo Empire beneath him were merely a group of noisy ants.

After all, he was a ninety-eighth-rank Super Douluo; looking across the entire continent, he existed at the very peak of the pyramid. The strongest patron of the Star Luo Empire was only rank ninety-seven anyway, and stationed at the border at that, so what the hell did he have to be afraid of? Even if the Star Luo Empire used the full strength of the nation to encircle and suppress him, he still had the confidence to carve out a bloody path.

"My ass! I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen someone as shameless as you!"

Cheng Gang trembled all over with anger, pointing at Elder Xuan and cursing vehemently. He had lived for the better part of his life and considered himself to have seen all versions of shameless scoundrels, yet he had never seen anyone who could elevate twisting right and wrong to such a peak of perfection.

That fellow named Qin Shubao was clearly a bodyguard dispatched by the Heaven Soul Empire to stay by the princess's side, but in your mouth, he lightly turned into a student of your Shrek Academy. Just how thick must one's skin be to be able to utter such ghost stories without changing expression?

However, just as both sides were about to strike, the appearance of a single person changed the battle situation once again.

Things are quite lively over here. It's a good time for Us to stretch our limbs as well.