Instant Kill

Instant Kill

"Blazing Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy? Never heard of it. What kind of strength do they have?"

In Shrek Academy's waiting area, the students chatted and laughed, completely relaxed.

"Just an ordinary academy, nobodies. What strength could they possibly have? They're not even worthy of appearing in our intelligence reports."

One male student laughed. "They're unlucky to run into us. Their tournament journey ends here."

Another said, "No, this should be their good fortune. We're letting them rest early. Blazing Spirit Academy should thank us."

Shrek's team-leading teacher clapped his hands and said:

"Alright, children, get on stage. Remember to show them Shrek's style."

Shrek's seven main team members walked onto the arena laughing and chatting.

"How long do you think Blazing Spirit Academy can last?"

"One minute?"

"Hahaha, you think too highly of them. We're Shrek."

"Give them some face."

"But fighting rookies like this is so boring. I really want to meet Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy sooner."

The first match of every Soul Master Tournament always pitted Shrek Academy against some cannon-fodder team. It was tradition.

Clearly, Blazing Spirit Academy was now the cannon-fodder team chosen for sacrifice...

At the same time, Shrek would send out all its main members to sweep aside its opponents.

It was not because they valued their opponents, but because they wanted the first battle to let every academy know—

Shrek was still the undisputed number one academy of the past ten thousand years!

The Blazing Spirit Academy students looked terrible. Having heard Shrek's words, they felt deeply humiliated.

"Go on." Qin Sheng spoke.

"Alright."

Blazing Spirit's seven official team members stepped onto the stage, took their positions, and faced Shrek's seven members.

"Shrek! Shrek! Shrek!"

The audience erupted with its loudest cheers, offering all its enthusiasm to this ten-thousand-year academy and going wild for them.

There was not a single cheer for Blazing Spirit Academy.

Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was Shrek's archenemy, and its students stared unblinkingly at the arena.

Their captain said, "I wonder how much Blazing Spirit Academy can force Shrek to reveal. Hopefully, they can draw out some valuable intelligence."

"Difficult. Blazing Spirit Academy is extremely weak. Shrek will definitely sweep them aside, and they won't have any power to resist."

"Sigh, Shrek's Soul Masters really are too powerful."

Not only Sun Moon, but everyone from the former Douluo Three Kingdoms had no confidence in Blazing Spirit.

What kind of strength did Shrek possess?

It had cultivated seven gods, destroyed the evil Spirit Hall, saved the entire continent—a prestigious academy that had stood for ten thousand years, eternally number one!

And what kind of strength did Blazing Spirit Academy possess?

It had only been established for a few decades and had nothing worth praising.

There was a fat man on the Shrek team. Looking at Blazing Spirit's seven members, he gave a disdainful smile.

"An academy like yours should consider it an honor to fight Shrek and experience Shrek's glory."

"Take it in properly. This is the only chance in your lives to come into contact with Shrek students."

Almost no one thought there was anything wrong with the fat man's words. Instead, the cheers grew even louder.

Shrek had the qualifications to be this arrogant. Shrek's glory was something countless people across the continent worshipped.

Blazing Spirit's seven members said nothing. They merely looked at them coldly.

Teacher Qin had said that if a dog bit you, there was no need to bite it back.

Just kick it away.

"Prepare!"

The referee gave the order, and the match officially began.

The Shrek team displayed their Soul Rings one after another. Brilliant light shone dazzlingly—yellow, purple, and black interweaving in a splendid display.

Shrek truly had reason to be proud. Their team had one Soul Emperor, while all the others were Soul Kings.

One had to know that among many participating academies, some members were still only Soul Elders.

But in the next second, cries of shock rose one after another from outside the arena.

"Blazing Spirit Team's Soul Rings!"

"What?!"

"How is that possible?!"

"Heavens!"

Blazing Spirit's seven members unleashed their Martial Souls, and Soul Rings rose around them.

Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black!

Every single one had six Soul Rings that surpassed the optimal Soul Ring configuration, meaning they were all Soul Emperors!

Seven team members—all seven were Soul Emperors!

Even Shrek only had one Soul Emperor!

The current Soul Master Tournament differed from that of ten thousand years ago. Only those under twenty could participate. Reaching Soul Emperor at such an age made one a peerless genius even at Shrek, with only one or two appearing in each generation.

The previously unknown Blazing Spirit Academy Team possessed such strength, shocking everyone so greatly that they wondered whether they were hallucinating.

"How is that possible?!" The fat Shrek student's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"A spiritual illusion soul skill. It has to be!"

"Shrek's glory?" Blazing Spirit's captain said coldly.

"Shatter!"

His Martial Soul was the Gravity Divine Ape, evolved under Qin Sheng's guidance. It could control gravity and surpassed even the Titan Giant Ape in gravitational abilities.

All six Soul Rings flashed in succession, and Shrek's seven members were directly suppressed.

Naturally, the other six did not stand idle. Soul skills erupted one after another.

The once-unrivaled Shrek Team resisted with all its strength, but it was useless.

When the dust settled, the battle was over. The seven of them had already fallen.

An absolute gap in strength could not be bridged. Seven Soul Emperors with extraordinary configurations crushing one Soul Emperor and six Soul Kings was only natural.

"Referee, can you announce the result now?" Blazing Spirit's captain asked.

"Th-this, this..." the referee stammered.

"Blazing Spirit Academy w-wins!"

Outside the arena, silence reigned. Everyone had been so stunned by the sight that their souls seemed to have fled their bodies.

Invincible Shrek, Shrek that had claimed nearly every Soul Master Tournament championship, had been crushed so effortlessly?

Shrek had fallen~

"Bastard!"

Suddenly, a roar rang through the sky. Earth-yellow Soul Power surged upward, and the terrifying pressure made everyone's hearts tighten.

"How dare you?!"

A man in ragged clothes, with disheveled hair and a chicken leg in his hand, appeared on the arena.

He checked on Shrek's seven members. All of them were badly injured.

The chicken-leg man abruptly turned his head and stared at Blazing Spirit's seven members. His eyes were bloodshot, as though he wanted to devour them.

"Speak! Who exactly are you people?!"

He had merely gone out to buy a chicken leg, yet when he returned, Shrek had actually lost?

This was an elimination round. Losing meant going home!

Ten-thousand-year Shrek would not merely fail to contend for the championship this time—it had directly become one of the top 131, the first to be eliminated.

How could this old man, who regarded Shrek's glory as his life, possibly accept that?

Something was wrong. There had to be something wrong with Blazing Spirit Academy. One Soul Emperor could be explained as finding a genius by chance, but how could they possibly have seven Soul Emperors?

Such geniuses appearing at Shrek Academy would be normal. Apart from our academy, no one else could possibly have the ability to cultivate such a lineup!

Anyone outside who cultivated this quickly had to be... had to be...

Inherently evil Evil Soul Masters!

The chicken-leg old man believed he had seen through the truth.

"What? Shrek can't accept defeat?"

Qin Sheng stepped forward and looked at the old man, recognizing his identity.

Chicken Leg Douluo—no, Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi. His Martial Soul was the Godly Taotie Bull. A level 98 Super Douluo, his strength ranked among the top ten on the continent.

In the Soul Master cultivation system, Titled Douluo was the final realm. Levels 91 to 94 were ordinary Douluo, 95 to 98 were Super Douluo, and level 99 was the limit. The gap between those three tiers was immense.

"You lost to us in full view of everyone. Shrek has already been eliminated."

Qin Sheng said, "What are you standing out here for now? Are you planning to use Shrek's reputation to force the Heaven Dou Empire to change the result?"

"This match should not count! Shrek's glory cannot be defiled!" Xuan Zi roared.

"There is something wrong with your Blazing Spirit Academy. In the name of the vice commander of the Shrek Inspection Corps, I will investigate you!"

"You're sick." Qin Sheng shook his head.

"Come down."

Blazing Spirit's seven members obeyed, but Xuan Zi blocked them.

"No one is allowed to leave!" He directly reached out to seize Blazing Spirit's seven members, wantonly trampling the rules.

Qin Sheng's expression turned cold. "You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit."

Without taking a step, Soul Rings rose around him one by one.

Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Gold!

Vast spiritual power, as profound as the heavens, surged forth and blasted Xuan Zi away.

"Since you extended that hand, you can leave it behind."

Bang!

With an explosion, Xuan Zi's right arm turned into a cloud of blood, and he collapsed unconscious to the ground.

"A level 98 Titled Douluo can't accept defeat. If anyone else from Shrek refuses to accept this, they are welcome to come find me."

Qin Sheng left with Mother Qin, Zhang Lexuan, and the others. The scene was so silent that a pin dropping could be heard.

Everyone present was completely muddled. Everything before their eyes had happened too fast for them to react.

What exactly had happened?

The Heaven Soul Emperor's body had gone rigid. Only after the Blazing Spirit group disappeared did he seem to regain his senses.

He said hoarsely, "Investigate it. Find out exactly what is going on with Blazing Spirit Academy."

"Under no circumstances are they to be offended. Whoever dares anger Blazing Spirit Academy, I will exterminate their nine clans!"

"Then, Your Majesty, how should this match be ruled?"

The Heaven Soul Emperor gave the official who spoke a death glare.

"I recall that you studied at Shrek?"

"Go home and retire."

How else could a match with such an obvious outcome be ruled?

If they replayed it, how many heads would be enough for Blazing Spirit Academy to kill?

To ask such a question was practically treason!

Shrek Academy's people hurried away with the unconscious Xuan Zi and their team members. They were all at a loss and could only quickly send word back to the academy to see how it should be handled.

Whether it was Shrek's top-131 result or Xuan Zi's severe injuries, both were earth-shattering matters.

As today's match ended, the names Blazing Spirit Academy and Qin Sheng spread rapidly across the continent as if they had grown wings.

A team that had absolutely crushed Shrek...

At fourteen years old, with eight red Soul Rings and one gold Soul Ring, he had defeated the level 98 Taotie Douluo in a single move—the youngest Titled Douluo in history!

It was as though several hundred Level Nine Fixed Soul Ammunition shells had been dropped across the entire continent.

The whole continent exploded!

Heaven Soul Hotel.

After Qin Sheng entered the room, the Snow Empress appeared as well.

"Not a very exciting match." The Snow Empress shook her head.

"Your opponents were too weak. There was nothing entertaining about it, and they were utterly unreasonable."

"I don't understand. It was just one lost match. Why did that Titled Douluo act as though the sky had fallen?"

The Snow Empress was genuinely puzzled.

In the Far North, the Titan Snow Demon King had once confessed his love to the Snow Empress, and she had beaten him into paralysis. Yet afterward, everyone had still gotten along peacefully.

"Because of that so-called Shrek glory, I suppose." Qin Sheng smiled.

"I can't understand it."

The Snow Empress said, "This Shrek Academy seems to be humanity's number one Soul Master Academy and its strongest faction. If they lost one match, would their glory vanish? Would Shrek no longer be number one?"

"From what I know, the human world has held this kind of tournament since ten thousand years ago. Back then, the strongest was... Spirit Hall, right? Their team must have lost before as well."

"After losing, Spirit Hall should still have remained the strongest faction, right?"

Qin Sheng patted the Snow Empress on the shoulder and said:

"You're a normal person, so don't try to understand them."

(End of Chapter)