Instant Glory (Please Keep Reading)

Since returning that day, the meals outside the cell had been changed five times. These Holy Servants were as precise as humanoid machines, never a second late or a second early.

"Before anyone could react, I unleashed the Lightning Five-Strike Whip! Dai Hao couldn't react at all. I whipped both him and his little girlfriend several times!

Right in front of him, I viciously smacked that girl's face. Right in front of that girl, I dealt a heavy blow to Dai Hao's basket!"

"With that kind of character, he wanted to be captain? He still had five hundred years to go!"

Uncle Yu recounted his past glorious exploits to Lin En and Zhang Lexuan.

Lin En listened with great interest. He had not expected Uncle Yu and Dai Hao, the White Tiger Duke, to have such a tangled history.

"Uncle, didn't you say the White Tiger bloodline has a Martial Soul Fusion Skill? Could you really fight the Hell White Tiger head-on when you were at the same level?"

Yu Mu'en snorted and waved a hand. "Hell White Tiger? Dai Hao? Was that playboy even worthy?"

"A Martial Soul Fusion Skill requires both sides to be of one mind to use it. Never mind that Dai Hao's girlfriend wasn't from the Zhu Family—even if she had been, he wouldn't have been able to use it."

Zhang Lexuan tilted her head. The White Tiger bloodline was also quite famous in the Heaven Dou Empire. After all, it had once been the imperial family, and one of its ancestors had even become a god.

"B-but doesn't the White Tiger bloodline marry into the Zhu Family generation after generation?"

Uncle Yu smiled. "There weren't any suitable girls in the Zhu Family's generation.

"That Dai Hao was a hypocrite. He looked stern and upright, but he was a playboy at heart, and his standards were incredibly high. He looked down on any Zhu Family girl who was older or younger than him."

"His girlfriend was from the Xu Family and became the duchess long ago.

"If she had really been from the Zhu Family, she would have been taken to the western army of the Star Luo Empire long ago. How could she have stayed at home? A Martial Soul Fusion Skill had tremendous deterrent power."

"Ahem, enough about him. Let me tell you about some of your uncle's other great deeds."

"I remember it was during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament. That year, I was still a reserve member, just a young lad. While taking a walk in Ling Dou City, I met her.

"Her black hair reached her waist. A light, fragrant breeze followed her steps. Her legs were fair, her features exquisite, and there was a faint chill between her brows."

"That girl walked through the bustling crowd toward me. At that moment, my brain lost the ability to think. All I remembered was how fragrant she was.

"How could I, still an innocent young man, withstand that kind of temptation? It was like... like encountering a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in your first battle outside the city as a Soul Grandmaster!

"I fell for her and followed her to a hotel."

"That night, the food was fragrant and the red wine was sweet. I even wondered whether I should secretly take some Whale Rubber.

"Before I could think any further, that girl suddenly came close to me. In that instant, Shrek's honor, the restraint of a core disciple—I had forgotten all of it hundreds of years ago!

"I felt my heart pounding wildly. My heart rate shot through the roof!"

Lin En looked disgusted. "Were your lips a little purple too? I suggest you run a few more laps. That way, I can pick a drink for you too."

"I think you're just sexually repressed, Uncle!"

Yu Mu'en viciously knocked Lin En on the head with his spiritual power. "Brat, do you want to hear this or not?"

Lin En bared his teeth. "Make up another five copper soul coins' worth. It's urgent."

Yu Mu'en took a deep breath and continued:

"Amid the sweet fragrance of a young girl, everything before my eyes went black... The next day, I woke up aching all over."

Lin En said, "What can I say?"

"Where's the process?"

"Where are the details?"

"You just skipped over it?"

Zhang Lexuan lowered the hand she had been about to use to cover her face, looking disappointed.

A cross-shaped vein appeared on Yu Mu'en's forehead. His spiritual power turned into fists again and viciously knocked both children on the head.

"I really need to discipline you two. What exactly are you disappointed about?"

"I passed out! I was set up back then!"

"That damned woman tricked me! She got me drunk, and that whole table of food had enough drug in it to knock out a Diamond Mammoth!

"After I passed out, that woman brought her teammates and used spiritual-type soul skills on me. While I was half-conscious, I spilled every bit of information about my Shrek Team members! Including our tactics and personnel arrangements."

"As a result, in the match on the third day, Dou Ling Royal Academy knew us inside out. Whether it was our tactics or lineup, they countered us in every way."

"If the captain that year hadn't turned the tide and erupted at the end, Shrek Academy would have been eliminated in the quarterfinals."

"Pfft!"

Lin En broke.

Yu Mu'en raised a brow. "What are you laughing at?"

"I remembered something funny." Lin En used his composure skill again.

"Ahem."

Yu Mu'en looked at Zhang Lexuan outside the cell. "What are you laughing at?"

"I also remembered something funny." Zhang Lexuan quietly took a step back to avoid getting knocked on the head.

Yu Mu'en took a deep breath and said helplessly:

"I finally got to recall a little of the past, only to remember how miserably we lost."

"Alright, alright. That year, after I went back, my great-grandfather beat me terribly. I ran one hundred laps around Shrek Academy by myself, with Xuan Zi on my back. That old man's palms were greasy as hell. I nearly threw up."

"After that..."

Uncle Yu dragged out the words, his gaze lowering. A set of footsteps sounded in the distant corridor. It was the sixth meal. Lin En and Zhang Lexuan both realized what was about to happen.

"I disappointed my great-grandfather."

As his words fell, dazzling golden light suddenly erupted. The chains binding Uncle Yu rattled violently, and the dense core formations flickered between bright and dim, destabilized by the impact of that terrifying Soul Power.

The golden light swept through the entire corridor with a vast will. The footsteps stopped, followed by the dull sounds of bodies crashing into the ground.

Those Holy Servants, only Soul Elders and Soul Ancestors, could not withstand the Sovereign Over All Under Heaven of an eighty-eighth-level Soul Douluo. They were sent to meet the Holy Spirit on the spot.

That light was like a signal. The remaining seven adults began erupting with Soul Power together.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Brother Yu, I've waited so long!"

The burly man locked inside a cell let out a booming laugh. Illusory flames ignited across his body, and his surging Soul Power made the air shriek.

The man's body rapidly expanded, dense black fur covering him from head to toe. The fur gleamed like steel. His hands became dragon claws, his fangs protruded outward, and he looked savage and primordial.

Everyone liked to call this burly man from the Star Luo Empire Old Wolf. His Martial Soul was the Dragon Wolf, a top-tier Beast Martial Soul. He had once served in the Third Soul Master Legion under the Star Luo Empire's imperial family as its deputy commander.

Later, because he was stuck at his level, he chose to resign and travel across the continent, befriending heroes from every side in search of an opportunity to break through.

Yet before he found that opportunity, he was ambushed by Evil Soul Masters and captured here.

Despite being suppressed for years, a Soul Douluo was still a Soul Douluo. His powerful aura caused every iron cage to explode with a bang!

Two yellow, two purple, and four black Soul Rings circled Old Wolf's body. In an instant, he became a seven-meter-tall giant. He tore apart the chains that had bound him, forcibly pulled the iron spike from his chest, and used Soul Power to stop the bleeding.

The Soul Tools binding Old Wolf were three seventh-level ones. Those Evil Soul Masters had assumed that a weakened Soul Douluo could not break free from these Soul Tools, and they had been mostly right. Corroded by evil energy, Old Wolf had remained permanently weakened and simply could not break free.

But burning one's origin was a special case. It meant a Soul Master had abandoned everything, similar to a Soul Beast's sacrifice, allowing them to unleash strength even greater than at their peak for a short time.

Yu Mu'en was in a similar situation. The chains binding him were an Eighth-Level Soul Tool set. Ever since he had been ambushed, he had remained weakened and unable to escape.

Even burning his origin might not have broken them. But if the core formations of the binding Soul Tools were destroyed from outside, breaking free would become much easier.

That was their plan as well. Old Wolf had volunteered to be the first. He would turn himself into a key and unlock everyone's shackles.

A wolf-like, dragon-like roar echoed through the air. Old Wolf laughed and said:

"I have eight minutes left. I didn't expect my Soul Power Level to break through at the end of my life."

"Ha ha, fate truly plays tricks on people."

"Everyone, wait there and preserve your Soul Power and origin! I'll save you!"

At the moment he burned his origin, the bottleneck that had troubled him for years shattered. He broke through to level eighty-two.

He placed both his life origin and spiritual origin on one side of fate's scales. He would rather blaze brilliantly one final time than live on and rot.