Within the Sky Screen, the Douluo Continent's Chat Interface.
[Xuan Zi: Did you see that? This is the strength of our Shrek Academy! Not only do we have a Limit Douluo guarding us, we also have a divine artifact left by Ancestor Tang San to defend us! How could such a mighty sanctuary for Soul Masters tolerate your wanton insults? You are simply following the Way of Seeking Death!]
Xuan Zi, who had intended to lead the people from the Clear Sky Sect onto Sea God Island, had ultimately been a step too late.
No one had expected the Spirit Hall Empire's fleet to launch a devastating assault directly with the Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell mentioned earlier.
Thus, Xuan Zi could only remain sprawled across a table in the Sea God Pavilion, groaning as he circulated his soul power to heal the injuries on his backside.
At the same time, he wanted to show off Shrek Academy's strength and raise Shrek's reputation to even greater heights.
What Xuan Zi had not expected, however, was that the chat contained no praise for Shrek.
Instead, voices from all three continents condemned him in unison.
[Du Busi: Xuan Zi, you bastard! You started this whole mess, yet you made the Dragon God Douluo take the fall!] [Worship Hall's Second Worship · Azure Luan Douluo: Even though we stand on opposing sides, seeing a Limit Douluo like this on the verge of falling fills me with regret!] [Kong Deming: Dragon God Douluo Mu En is a powerhouse even I admire. Unfortunately, he has an idiot pig who loves chicken drumsticks by his side!] [Zhongli Wu: Heh heh heh, thank you, Xuan Zi, for removing a major thorn in our Holy Spirit Cult's side. Interested in becoming our cult's supreme elder?]
Meanwhile, Elder Song, Elder Zhuang, and the other Sea God Pavilion Elders.
Along with Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and the other teachers and students of Shrek Academy, had all gathered inside the Sea God Pavilion.
They were all staring at Xuan Zi with hatred in their eyes, making the hairs on his back stand on end.
"Why are you all looking at me like that? Don't tell me you believed those words in the Sky Screen meant to sow discord?"
Frightened, Xuan Zi wriggled on the table with his backside sticking up, like a giant fleshy grub trying to escape.
"I didn't know the people of the Spirit Hall Empire were so hotheaded that they'd actually dare attack Shrek..."
But in the next instant, both the Sea God Pavilion Elders and the inner court's teachers and students pointed at Xuan Zi and began cursing him furiously.
If Xuan Zi had not spouted arrogant nonsense in the Sky Screen and offended the Phoenix God, the Spirit Hall Empire would never have surrounded Shrek City!
If Xuan Zi had not ordered Dean Yan to lead people out to withstand the Spirit Hall Empire's assault.
Dean Yan would never have nearly fallen, and Mu En would never have coughed up blood from expanding the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's defenses.
If Xuan Zi had not been so slow to notify the reinforcements.
Mu En might not have needed to fight to the death, taking the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to face the world-destroying attack of the Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell!
Every last bit of this was a calamity Xuan Zi had brought upon himself, yet everyone at Shrek Academy had to bear the consequences!
It was just like that year when Xuan Zi had led the strongest generation of the Shrek Seven Devils into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for soul rings.
In the end, only one person had survived!
And now, that sole survivor stood directly in front of Xuan Zi, pointing a finger at him.
Zhang Lexuan: "Xuan Zi, I XXXXX, you XXXXX, you fucking XXXXXXXX..."
Seeing the normally gentle and graceful senior sister of the inner court now hurling abuse at Xuan Zi like a shrew.
Everyone around her finally lost their restraint as well.
"Xuan Zi, you're a real XXXXX! Back then, why the fuck XXXXX didn't they XXXXXX you..."
"Xuan Zi, I really XXXXXX, your whole family XXXXXXX, eight generations of your ancestors XXXXXX..."
"Still fucking gnawing on your XXXX chicken drumsticks! You're nothing but a XXXXXXXX..."
A thousand fingers pointed at him, and everyone spat their contempt!
When had Xuan Zi ever faced such a scene?
Even though he was stronger than anyone present, he could only shrink into a corner as they cursed him until he was drenched in abuse.
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
"I never expected someone like this to emerge among Shrek's successors."
Qian Daoliu stood atop the Flagship, his three pairs of angel wings shielding the boys and girls beside him, and could not help sighing with emotion.
Only he, a fellow Limit Douluo, knew how difficult it truly was to reach such a level of cultivation.
Ten thousand years ago, Shrek Academy had been nothing more than a fly-by-night academy in some remote backwater. Ten thousand years later, it had nurtured a true dragon like this.
To protect the academy and its people, he had willingly burned his own soul to meet the might of a Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell head-on!
"Roar!"
The radiant sacred dragon that Dragon God Douluo Mu En had become rode the azure sea beneath him, charging toward the golden beam fired by the Flagship.
The boundless sea surged, raising furious waves that swept Gods' Dusk straight into their depths.
Mu En had originally intended to overcome hardness with softness, using the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's oceanic power to gradually dissipate Gods' Dusk's momentum and even capture it.
But he had still underestimated the Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, underestimated the power of soul guidance technology.
Layer upon layer of azure seawater wore away Gods' Dusk's speed, but at the very instant its kinetic energy reached zero.
An incomparably terrifying explosion of energy, powerful enough to tear apart time and space, suddenly erupted from within!
Seeing this, Xu Yi could not help chuckling.
At the very beginning of the design process, he had already considered whether the enemy might capture Gods' Dusk, so he had designed a fuse that would detonate it immediately once its kinetic energy reached zero.
A mushroom cloud of unparalleled heat rose into the sky!
The mighty shock wave became a raging gale that destroyed everything, leveling all of Shrek City and everything within hundreds of li.
The powerful shock wave even forced the ground down dozens of meters, leaving it as smooth and flat as a mirror.
Only the area where Sea God Island stood, originally the very epicenter of the explosion.
Was forcibly protected by Mu En through the power of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
The azure sea was continuously evaporated by the power of Gods' Dusk, and countless fine cracks appeared across the surface of the blue, diamond-shaped crystal.
As a divine artifact whose full power could only be unleashed by a God, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud should have been immune to all attacks below the divine level.
Yet faced with the terrifying power of Gods' Dusk, even this divine artifact stood on the verge of shattering!
"Roar!"
At last, the platinum-colored radiant sacred dragon let out a mournful cry, and the azure sea beneath him evaporated completely!
"Crack, crack, crack..."
The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, a divine artifact formed by the First Generation Sea God from the power of the boundless ocean, shattered with a crash, dissolving into countless azure motes of light.
The radiant sacred dragon's Martial Soul Avatar gradually dissipated, revealing Mu En's thin figure as he plunged into Sea God Lake.
With nothing left to obstruct its power, the Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell destroyed all of Shrek City.
The terrifying orange-red fireball swallowed everything in an instant, leaving nothing intact.
Shrek's city defense soldiers were wiped out, while some of the slower Soul Masters from the Clear Sky Sect were also reduced to ashes.
Only the Sea God Pavilion inside the golden ancient tree remained untouched by the explosion's destructive force.
Just then, aboard the Flagship, Golden Crocodile Douluo's pupils suddenly contracted.
"What's this?"
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