One punch... crippled Dai Mubai?

Dai Mubai was utterly enraged.

His sinister double-pupiled eyes instantly turned blood-red, and a towering surge of savage killing intent erupted from his powerful body.

Smack! The two twin girls were hurled backward by his violent aura, landing on the carpet several meters away and trembling.

"White Tiger, possess me!" With a tiger's roar steeped in bloodthirsty malice, dazzling white light burst from Dai Mubai's body.

The muscles in his arms swelled wildly. Inch-long white fur instantly sprouted along them, and gleaming silver tiger claws over a foot long sprang from his fingertips!!

Two yellow, one purple!! Three dazzling Soul Rings slowly rose from beneath his feet, pulsing with suffocating Soul Power pressure.

A level-thirty-seven Power Attack System Battle Soul Elder, the youngest Soul Elder prodigy Shrek Academy had seen in nearly five years.

"Brat! I don't care who you are. You've crossed me, and even the gods won't be able to save you today!"

Dai Mubai grinned viciously as his first and second yellow Hundred-Year Soul Rings lit up simultaneously.

"First Soul Skill, White Tiger Protection Barrier!!" "Second Soul Skill, White Tiger Fierce Light Wave!!"

A dense, thick white shield instantly enveloped Dai Mubai, sending his defense and strength soaring!

Then he opened his mouth wide. A blazing, violent ball of white light as large as a washbasin shot straight at Su Chen's face, shrieking as it tore through the air.

He wasn't finished.

Dai Mubai stamped down, splitting the marble floor with several cracks.

Like a ferocious tiger descending the mountain, he tore through the air with his gleaming silver claws, following close behind the light wave as he viciously lunged for Su Chen's throat!!

The ruthless, lightning-fast combination, backed by the domineering Soul Power of a Soul Elder, was enough to rip an ordinary Soul Grandmaster to pieces on the spot.

"Brother Su Chen, watch out!" Beside the counter, Xiao Wu never even considered intervening. She simply folded her arms and stood there, watching with a bright smile.

Facing the violent Soul Skill rushing toward him, Su Chen didn't even summon his Martial Soul, nor did his feet shift so much as half an inch.

The instant the White Tiger Fierce Light Wave came within a foot of him, Su Chen casually raised his right hand, spreading his fingers slightly.

A wisp of dark-gold Pure Yang Dragon Aura flashed across his palm.

Pop!!

A light, almost casual snap echoed through the lobby.

The White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, powerful enough to blast apart half a brick wall, struck Su Chen's palm like a fragile bubble colliding with a mountain of divine iron.

Without stirring even the slightest gust, Su Chen crushed it with one hand, scattering it into drifting white motes of light.

"What?"

Already airborne in his attacking leap, Dai Mubai's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.

He had crushed his second Soul Skill with a single bare hand? How was that possible?

But the arrow was on the bowstring; he had no choice but to loose it.

A vicious gleam flashed through Dai Mubai's eyes. Suppressing his shock, he used his forward momentum to rake his right claw at Su Chen's face with enough force to cleave mountains and split stone.

"Die!"

Facing the razor-sharp tiger claws mere inches away, Su Chen remained impassive and simply stepped forward.

Boom!!!

With that single step, the terrifying vitality of his fully mastered Ancestral Dragon Hegemony Body Art surged through Su Chen like the celestial river raging across the nine heavens.

The domineering aura of the Primordial Dragon Emperor, supreme above all beasts, radiated invisibly outward.

The entire Rose Hotel lobby shook violently, and fine cracks silently spread across its sturdy load-bearing pillars!!

Within a thousandth of an instant of that vast pressure descending, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, the top-tier Beast Martial Soul within Dai Mubai, let out an agonized cry of utter terror.

His blood nearly froze, and his outstretched tiger claws locked in midair.

Absolute suppression by a higher order of existence!!

"No!! Third Soul Skill... White Tiger Vajra Transformation!"

An overwhelming sense of mortal danger sent every hair on Dai Mubai's body standing on end.

Cornered, he frantically squeezed out every scrap of Soul Power within him, igniting the purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring he took the greatest pride in.

Hum! The thousand-year Soul Skill erupted.

Dai Mubai's already powerful body grew several inches taller. His white fur instantly turned dazzling pure gold, and a layer of protective vajra aura, condensed almost into solid substance, surrounded him.

His attack, defense, and strength instantly doubled again, while his resistance to all abnormal conditions increased by one hundred percent.

This was Dai Mubai's strongest trump card. With this move, he had once worn down and defeated a level-forty Power Attack System Soul Ancestor in a head-on battle at the Soto Great Soul Arena.

"Break!" Drawing on the violent amplification of White Tiger Vajra Transformation, Dai Mubai forcibly shook off the divine pressure restraining him.

His golden tiger claws slammed down, howling with the force to destroy everything.

"A grain of light, and you dare compete with the sun and moon."

Expressionless, Su Chen drew his right hand to his waist, then drove an utterly unremarkable punch forward.

That punch held no Soul Ring radiance, no Martial Soul roar-only the supremely pure strength of his ancestral dragon hegemony body, and a wisp of Primordial Dragon Emperor fist intent that could pulverize all things.

Rooar...

Within the void, a faint divine dragon's roar rang out, shaking the nine heavens and ten earths.

A fist-sized vortex of dark-gold energy exploded from Su Chen's knuckles, instantly sucking the surrounding air into a vacuum!!

Crack...

The instant fist met claw, a shattering crash erupted. The golden tiger claws Dai Mubai took such pride in, supposedly as indestructible as vajra, cracked apart inch by inch upon touching Su Chen's fist.

The ancestral dragon fist aura drove forward like a blade splitting bamboo, blasting its way up Dai Mubai's arm.

Boom!!!

The dazzling White Tiger Vajra shield enveloping Dai Mubai-the product of his thousand-year Soul Skill-failed to last even half a breath. It exploded like flimsy paper, dissolving into a skyful of golden light.

"Puaaah..."

Dai Mubai threw back his head and spat out a great cloud of crimson blood, his body hurtling backward like a cannonball.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Amid earth-shaking crashes, billowing dust, and shattered rubble, he smashed deep into the flower bed in the hotel's rear courtyard.

Inside the lobby, splintered wood flew everywhere and dust filled the air.

One punch!! Just an ordinary straight punch, without using a Martial Soul or Soul Skill.

Yet it had reduced Dai Mubai, a level-thirty-seven Soul Elder with a top-tier Beast Martial Soul who had unleashed the thousand-year White Tiger Vajra Transformation, to a cripple on the brink of death.

[Ding! Detected: the host used ancestral dragon fist intent through raw physical strength to blast straight through White Tiger Vajra Transformation, grievously injuring a core member of the destined faction, Dai Mubai, with one strike!!]

[Dai Mubai's Martial Soul Origin has been damaged, and his arrogant heart of cultivation has completely collapsed. Successfully plundered Dai Mubai's core fortune and reduced Tang San's faction fortune by 4,000 points!!]

[God-Level Critical Hit reward settlement triggered!!]

[Congratulations! The host has obtained: god-level self-created combat technique, "Dragon Emperor Void-Shattering Fist" (full mastery allows it to shatter the void and ignore fifty percent of the target's physical and energy defenses)!]

[Congratulations! The host has obtained: 100,000 Gold Soul Coins (deposited into System Space).]

The cold system notifications flashed through his mind.

The profound essence of the fist technique flowed into Su Chen's limbs and bones like an awakening poured directly into his mind. Expressionless, he withdrew his right fist and turned toward the attendant sprawled on the floor.

"The key."

Those two quiet words left his lips, and the attendant felt as though he had been granted a pardon.

He shakily climbed to his feet and respectfully offered Su Chen the brass key engraved with Twin Roses, holding it in both hands.

"Y-your honored Eminence... the 'Red Ocean' on the top floor... please..."

Su Chen took the key, clasped the hand of Xiao Wu, whose face shone with adoration and delight, and headed up the red-carpeted staircase toward the top floor.

In a secluded patch of shadow within the Rose Hotel lobby, a petite figure clad entirely in tight black leather hid silently in the darkness.

The black-clad girl had a delicate yet icy face, and her leather outfit revealed every curve of her striking, voluptuous figure.

Her cold Nether Cat eyes fixed on Su Chen's tall, retreating back, then swept toward the unconscious Dai Mubai in the ruined rear courtyard. Violent waves surged through her heart.

"One punch... crippled Dai Mubai..."