The Shrek Crew Returns

When crimson light stained the whole world, time lost all meaning within that space.

Falling drops of blood and hurtling Soul Skills—

all stood still.

Even Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile Douluo could only move their eyes. Their bodies would not budge an inch.

Though you had been through much and your sword heart had long since become unbreakable, you still struggled to accept the choice of your old companion, Xiao Tian.

But with a single sentence, she dispelled your grief.

Xiao Tian: "Become a god. Bring me back to life. I'll see you in the Divine Realm!"

Xiao Tian had willingly sacrificed herself for you, yet you dared not promise her. For you, becoming a god was so difficult...

Even when Xiao Tian's soul had burned away, you had not dared to meet her eyes.

In the end, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, whose cultivation had reached three hundred thousand years, became your ninth Soul Ring!

The skull Soul Bone that appeared after her death also completed the final piece of your set.

With the rewards from the Evil God's Divine Trial granted, your current cultivation was:

Soul Power Level: 95.

Soul Ring Configuration: black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red, red!

Soul Bone Configuration: hundred-thousand-year left arm bone, hundred-thousand-year right arm bone, hundred-thousand-year left leg bone, seventy-thousand-year right leg bone, torso bone over five hundred thousand years old, three-hundred-thousand-year skull bone, no External Soul Bone.

At the same time, your Sword God Domain underwent a strange transformation.

Spirit Hall's Tiger Hunt Operation aimed not only to destroy you but also to seize Xiao Tian's Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Yet despite all their scheming, they failed in the end.

The instant the crimson light of the sacrifice faded, every Spirit Hall Soul Master attacked you with all their might.

The two sides were locked in a fight to the death. There was no possibility of reconciliation.

Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile Douluo even set aside their differences and joined forces, sealing off every route of escape.

Spirit Hall's forces—Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile Douluo in particular—were confident that even with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, you could not escape death.

After all...

You were not the only one present with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone!

At your level, unless a Soul Skill or Soul Bone Skill had an outrageously powerful effect,

raw numbers still decided the outcome!

Facing Spirit Hall's encirclement, you did not panic.

Xiao Tian's Soul Ring had only one skill, but that skill was enough to turn the tide!

Ninth Soul Skill: Group Evil God Arena!

In an instant, you pulled everyone present except Ning Rongrong into another dimension.

There was no light, no wind, no boundary, no direction.

Only the Blue Lightning Balls drifting through the air let everyone see one another...

For a moment, the atmosphere was distinctly eerie.

Inside this otherworldly arena, you looked as you had when you first awakened your Martial Soul. So did Bibi Dong, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and everyone else.

It looked like a kindergarten class preparing for recess.

Except the games you were about to play would be bloody beyond belief!

You wasted no words and saw no need to explain. You summoned the Seven Kill Sword and charged Spirit Hall's forces!

In the blink of an eye, two Soul Masters' heads parted from their bodies, and Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile Douluo retreated again and again.

Both had a wealth of combat experience. Once they realized they could not use Soul Skills, they devised a plan.

"Don't panic! Battle Soul Masters, hold the front! Support Soul Masters, fall back! Anyone with a Soul Bone, use your Soul Bone Skills to attack Gao Yang!"

"Enough of these tricks! Gao Yang can't use Soul Skills either! Don't panic, everyone. No matter how good his swordsmanship is, he'll tire eventually!"

One gave orders while the other rallied their forces. In just a few breaths, Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile Douluo had Spirit Hall attacking you in orderly ranks.

But they had still underestimated the swordsmanship of a man devoted wholly to the sword.

You moved as though strolling through a garden. With every step, another Soul Master fell behind you.

These Spirit Hall Soul Masters, who usually relied on their Soul Skills above all else, were now lambs awaiting slaughter before you.

At the sight, Bibi Dong's and Golden Crocodile Douluo's faces grew darker and darker.

If both had possessed weapon Martial Souls, they might have joined forces and drawn on years of combat experience to contend with Gao Yang.

The problem was that both possessed Beast Martial Souls. Charging in now would be nothing but handing Gao Yang their heads!

They exchanged a glance, each seeing the other's helplessness and fury!

It was a hundred-thousand-year ninth Soul Skill like any other, so why was Gao Yang's so invincible? It might as well have been made for him!

Once dragged into this space, Gao Yang was, for all intents and purposes, invincible!

Under your merciless slaughter, Spirit Hall's forces finally mounted a powerful counterattack!

As Spirit Hall's elite, this squad of Soul Masters had one Soul Bone for every five members.

Under Bibi Dong's command, their Soul Bone Skills drove you back again and again.

The skills were weak and slow, but there were so many kinds—and so many of them!

However strong your swordsmanship, your body was only that of a small child.

Even a minor wound could deal a devastating blow.

"A contest of Soul Bone Skills? I hadn't wanted to bully you."

With that, you charged Spirit Hall's forces again.

This time, you held nothing back!

Apart from that one Soul Bone several tens of thousands of years old, all your other Soul Bones were over a hundred thousand years old, and each granted you two skills!

Your torso bone in particular granted you two skills that restored Soul Power and stamina!

They let you fight tirelessly, like a machine that would never stop.

As Spirit Hall's Soul Masters dwindled, despair deepened in Bibi Dong's and Golden Crocodile Douluo's eyes.

Golden Crocodile Douluo was the first of the two you killed.

The old fellow had some strength. At the very least, his corpse stuck to the sole of your boot so firmly that you could not pry it off!

Just as you were about to deal Bibi Dong, that beauty with a heart as venomous as a snake's, the killing blow, purple light enveloped her.

It blocked your attack and carried her out of your Evil God Arena.

With power like that at work, you could guess the truth: like you, Bibi Dong was the inheritor of a Deity.

It seemed her Deity feared that her death would sever the line of inheritance, and so had intervened to save her.

"What a loyal, caring Deity. So much better than the two behind me."

After muttering that, you left the Evil God Arena.

No matter how much time passed inside the Evil God Arena, to those outside, it lasted only an instant.

Ning Rongrong was holding her daughter when everyone, including you, vanished before her eyes.

In the next blink, she saw you standing where you had been. Spirit Hall's people had become corpses, sprawled across the ground.

Among them, Ning Rongrong even spotted Golden Crocodile Douluo's body.

Then Ning Rongrong tossed your daughter into your arms and began her favorite part.

She crushed every corpse with her own hands.

She did it both to collect Soul Bones and to vent her hatred.

Normally, she would even have pulled you close and staged a passionate Battle of Red Cliffs right in front of the corpses!

But Xiao Tian's sacrifice and her daughter's birth had left her with no appetite for that today.

With Bibi Dong fleeing for her life and Golden Crocodile Douluo dead, Spirit Hall's Tiger Hunt Plan had failed completely!

Even if Qian Daoliu came in person now, he could not kill you!

And rather than continue fighting alone, you joined the Star Luo Empire. After an earnest appeal, the Star Luo Emperor agreed to your plan.

From that moment on, the Star Luo Empire was openly at war with Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall!

Over the years, you had killed far too many of Spirit Hall's high-ranking fighters. On top of that, the Heaven Dou Empire truly was no match for the Star Luo Empire.

So in the years that followed, victory reports poured in from the Star Luo Empire, and its territory kept expanding.

As Imperial Preceptor, you devoted all your time outside essential duties to Ning Rongrong and your daughter, Xiao Tian.

Yes. In memory of your old companion, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Xiao Tian, you had given your daughter the same name.

Age 30: On this day, besides reports of victory, you received another piece of good news.

The Shrek monsters, missing for years, had returned!

And every one of them had now reached the rank of Titled Douluo!!

A few days later, when you met Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others again, you had barely begun to exchange greetings when Ning Rongrong tossed your daughter Xiao Tian into your arms. Then she shrieked and threw herself into an embrace with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing...