Du Busi: Follow Me and Storm Shrek!

"Xuan Zi, how dare you bully my Body Sect!!"

Inside the great hall, Du Busi abruptly rose from his white jade chair, his eyes wide with fury. A dark green pillar of light shot skyward from his towering body as his peak Level 98 cultivation erupted.

Nine soul rings rose and circled Du Busi, three red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings radiating an eerie, overbearing glow.

With Martial Soul Possession, Du Busi's body instantly swelled, growing more than tenfold in the blink of an eye. His dark green skin bulged into enormous muscles like granite.

His mighty soul power shook even space until it shattered, revealing pitch-black cracks like a spiderweb.

Sun Menghan, who had been kneeling below the hall's steps to deliver his report, felt as though a mountain had crushed down on him beneath that terrifying pressure. He instantly fell prostrate, his forehead pressed against the icy floor, trembling like a frightened little animal—a truly pitiful sight.

Before a supreme expert at peak Level 98, even a Soul Saint was merely an ant. A single sneeze from the former could kill the latter.

While Du Busi was still seething with rage, the great hall's doors were pushed open from outside.

An elderly man walked in, wearing golden robes. His hair was graying, his eyes bright and piercing, and his broad frame stood a full two and a half meters tall.

"Sect Master, what happened? Why are you so furious?"

The speaker was Jinpeng, the Body Sect's grand elder. His martial soul was his torso, and his title was Golden Body Douluo.

His cultivation was exceptionally high: he was a Level 96 Super Douluo, whose standing within the Body Sect was second only to Sect Master Du Busi.

He was Du Busi's right-hand man. Whenever Du Busi went out on business, Jinpeng remained behind to oversee the Body Sect's affairs. Calling him the sect's second-in-command or deputy sect master would not have been an exaggeration.

Seeing Jinpeng enter, Du Busi immediately restrained his anger and sat back down on his white jade chair. Then he told the prostrate Sun Menghan, "Tell Elder Jinpeng everything."

As though granted a pardon, Sun Menghan shakily climbed to his feet and began recounting what he had seen and heard in the Star Dou Great Forest.

At first, Jinpeng remained calm, assuming that a Body Sect disciple had merely been bullied in the Star Dou Great Forest. Soon, however, his expression changed drastically.

"What did you say? A true self martial soul!"

Jinpeng's piercing eyes fixed on Sun Menghan as he asked, his face filled with shock.

Subjected to pressure from the two powerful men in turn, Sun Menghan said miserably, "Grand Elder, every word this disciple has said is true. That child named Chen An—his martial soul is himself.

"This disciple might mistake some other martial soul, but when it comes to our Body Sect's body martial souls, I could recognize one with one eye shut from its aura alone. This disciple would never dare spout nonsense."

Jinpeng strode forward, grabbed Sun Menghan by the collar, and hauled him up, saying excitedly, "Where is that child? Take this old man to see him at once."

Yanked up so abruptly by Jinpeng, a Super Douluo, Sun Menghan felt his head buzzing.

He immediately said, "This disciple intended to bring that child back to the Body Sect, but along the way, Shrek Academy's Taotie Douluo, Xuan Zi, appeared. He injured this disciple and took the child away..."

"What!"

Jinpeng's expression changed sharply. His hands loosened, and Sun Menghan slipped straight back down to the floor.

The excitement in Jinpeng's eyes instantly froze.

He had been thrilled that the Body Sect would gain an unparalleled genius, only to discover that someone from Shrek Academy had taken that genius away.

Knowing Shrek Academy's ways, once they had such a genius in their hands, they would never let him go.

If the Body Sect wanted to wrest him from Shrek Academy, a battle that shook heaven and earth was inevitable.

Du Busi looked at Jinpeng and said, "It seems our Body Sect has remained in seclusion so long that the continent has forgotten our mighty name!

"All body martial souls under heaven belong to one family. Every soul master with a body martial soul is considered a member of the Body Sect by default. If Shrek Academy dares steal our disciple, they are declaring war on the Body Sect!!"

Du Busi's gaze was imperious, and his voice rang like a great bronze bell, echoing throughout the hall.

"Someone, pass on my orders! All elders and elite disciples are to assemble in the sect's meeting hall immediately!"

A short while later, inside the Body Sect's meeting hall.

Du Busi sat at the head, with five chairs arranged on either side below him.

Every person seated there possessed an imposing aura, their soul power as vast as mountains and seas, unfathomably deep.

These ten people were the Body Sect's elders, each a Titled Douluo. The top three elders were even Super Douluo above Level 95 (the original work explicitly stated that the Body Sect had eleven Titled Douluo in total).

Below Du Busi and the ten elders stood more than a hundred elite disciples of the Body Sect.

Even the weakest of these elite disciples had Soul Saint cultivation, while those in the front few rows were experts at the Soul Douluo level.

Apart from Du Busi and the ten seated elders, everyone in the hall stood respectfully.

At that moment, the ten elders were red-faced and thick-necked, fiercely arguing over how to bring Chen An to the Body Sect.

The disputing elders were broadly divided into two camps.

One advocated negotiation. After all, Shrek Academy was extremely powerful, and resorting to force might lead to considerable losses.

The other advocated hitting them hard, launching an all-out attack and using force to make Shrek Academy hand over Chen An, their Body Sect's genius.

Indeed, no one in the Body Sect had the slightest intention of backing down. The only question was whether their methods would be gentle.

In the end, the ten elders argued for ages without reaching a conclusion.

Finally, the elders stared wide-eyed at Du Busi at the head of the hall, waiting for him to decide.

Du Busi sat upright in his chair, his dark green eyes surveying the ten elders and numerous elite disciples below. Suddenly, he burst into laughter.

His wild, arrogant laughter, paired with an aura that lorded over all beneath heaven, unleashed such terrifying might that even the surrounding world's energy churned violently.

Brimming with bold spirit, Du Busi declared, "Shrek Academy's Xuan Zi stole our Body Sect's disciple and injured our sect member.

"If our Body Sect doesn't dare let out so much as a fart, if we don't teach Shrek Academy a lesson!

"What face will our Body Sect have left to stand at the pinnacle of this continent?

"All members of the Body Sect, hear my command! Move out! Our destination is Shrek Academy!

"This time, we will not only bring back the disciple who belongs to our Body Sect. We will also make every power on this continent understand.

"The Body Sect's disciples must not be humiliated or bullied!"

Hearing Du Busi's domineering words, the disciples' hearts raced. Their faces flushed with excitement, their blood surged, and every one of them gazed at him with fervent eyes.

"Smash Shrek Academy!"

"Let Shrek Academy know that our Body Sect is the continent's number one power!!"

Meanwhile, inside the outer court library at Shrek Academy.

An exquisitely pretty, six-year-old blond girl was reading in the library.

The library was enormous, covering several square kilometers. Its books were as vast as a sea of mist, encompassing every subject, past and present. It even held books from the Sun Moon Empire.

The little blond girl sat solemnly in a chair taller than she was, holding a thick volume titled A Detailed History of the Douluo Continent in both hands. Her two little fair-skinned legs swung idly, making her look utterly adorable.

The little blond girl was none other than Qian Renxue.

Not long ago, she and Chen An had been brought to Shrek Academy together.

Because of her age, Qian Renxue had temporarily been placed in the outer court under the care of an unmarried female teacher.

Once she turned twelve and reached enrollment age, she would join the outer court to study with children her age.

Qian Renxue had been at Shrek Academy for three days. During that time, she had seen Chen An only once. The rest of the time, she had no idea where he was.

This worried Qian Renxue considerably.

She feared that Shrek Academy would brainwash Chen An, making him one of their own from then on.

Still, Qian Renxue always felt that Chen An was no ordinary six-year-old. He harbored a great secret and would not be so easily brainwashed.

Besides, worrying would accomplish nothing. She was simply too weak right now. Rather than overthink things, she was better off studying more and increasing her own strength.

Thus, for those three days, Qian Renxue meditated and cultivated at night, then visited Shrek Academy's public library during the day to consult various records and texts, learning what had happened on the Douluo Continent over the past ten thousand years.

She would never have known without looking—and once she did, she was startled.

Qian Renxue had never imagined that so much had happened on the Douluo Continent during those ten thousand years.

First was the Star Luo Empire. Its original imperial family, the Dai Family with their white tiger martial soul, had been replaced by the Xu Family of the secluded Star Crown Sect.

Qian Renxue knew the Star Crown Sect extremely well.

Ten thousand years ago, the tokens of their Spirit Hall had borne the images of six powerful martial souls. One of them was the star crown martial soul of the secluded Star Crown Sect.

As for the white tiger martial soul of the Dai Family, the Star Luo Imperial Family ten thousand years ago... unfortunately, it was simply too weak to qualify.

The Star Crown Sect was extraordinarily powerful. Even Spirit Hall had been unwilling to offend it.

However, Qian Renxue had never expected the Star Crown Sect Xu Family, who had always remained secluded and avoided worldly conflicts, to replace the Dai Family and become the emperors of the Star Dou Empire themselves.

What puzzled Qian Renxue, though, was that after replacing the White Tiger Dai Family, the Star Crown Sect Xu Family had not exterminated them. Instead, they had granted the Dai Family the title of White Tiger Duke.

For a moment, Qian Renxue could not make sense of it. Was the Star Crown Sect Xu Family truly so magnanimous? Or were they simply too confident to fear the Dai Family reclaiming the throne?

The Star Luo Empire was not the only one to undergo tremendous change. The Heaven Dou Empire had changed dramatically as well.

The Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family had been incompetent, and its great kingdoms had grown into a tail too large to wag. Ultimately, it had split into the Heaven Dou Empire and the Dou Ling Empire.

The Xue Family, the former Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family, had been driven south within the Heaven Dou Empire's territory, where they established the Dou Ling Empire.

Still, compared to the White Tiger Dai Family, who had been completely replaced, the Xue Family had fared reasonably well. At least they had retained half their ancestral foundation.

After three days of voracious reading, Qian Renxue had gained a fairly deep understanding of the era ten thousand years later. At the very least, she was no longer as confused about the continent's situation as before.

A thoughtful, intelligent light shone in Qian Renxue's golden eyes.

Qian Renxue thought, The Douluo Continent is now divided among four empires. Of them, the Sun Moon Empire is the strongest.

Soul guidance technology advances with each passing day. It can greatly enhance soul masters' strength, even allowing those with weak martial souls to unleash tremendous combat power.

In large-scale wars, soul tools with astonishing destructive power can even take the lives of Titled Douluo.

After the strongest, the Sun Moon Empire, comes the Star Luo Empire. The two weakest nations are the Heaven Dou Empire and the Dou Ling Empire, which split from the original Heaven Dou Empire.

Qian Renxue let out a long breath, closed her book, and tilted her head back to gaze at the library ceiling.

Now, friction persisted between the Douluo Continent's four empires. As the Sun Moon Empire continued achieving breakthroughs in soul guidance technology, its capacity for warfare and production had entered a period of explosive growth.

Thus, ambition filled every level of the Sun Moon Empire. They wanted to unify the entire continent, wash away the humiliation of their defeat thousands of years ago, conquer the Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, and Dou Ling Empire, and achieve complete unification.

As outsiders of a foreign people, the Sun Moon Empire faced united resistance from the Douluo Three Kingdoms, the continent's native inhabitants. Yet the three imperial families were far from united themselves, constantly holding one another back.

Logically, the divided Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, and Dou Ling Empire should have been no match for the Sun Moon Empire.

However, with the wholehearted support of top powers such as Shrek Academy, the Xuanming Sect, and the Clear Sky Sect, the Sun Moon Empire was instead no match for the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Qian Renxue thought, Ten thousand years have passed. The continent's situation seems to have changed, yet it seems little has truly changed at all.

The imperial families of the Douluo Three Kingdoms are merely rulers on the surface. The continent's true rulers are still those soul master sects with legacies spanning ten thousand years and unfathomably deep foundations.

They are this continent's true masters, its true nobility.

Qian Renxue let her thoughts drift. She felt that this truly was the worst of eras, yet at the same time, it was the best.

It was the worst because the four empires fought ceaselessly, evil soul masters ran rampant, and nobles and soul masters used their absolute military power to squeeze the common people dry. Ordinary people were displaced, struggled to survive, and could not be certain they would live to see tomorrow.

It was the best because she saw opportunity amid this chaos.

The six-winged angel martial soul could rapidly increase her cultivation through killing evil soul masters and wicked people.

She could even draw upon the power of faith to break through the Level 99 bottleneck and become a god at Level 100.

Qian Renxue's eyes grew deep. Although Spirit Hall has perished, and historical records say the Angel God's divine position shattered as well.

This chaotic era is precisely my chance to spread my wings. My ancestor could end an age of chaos, establish a divine position, and become the Angel God.

Why can't I do the same? I will end this chaotic age. I will rebuild Spirit Hall. I will make all living beings place their faith in me. I will ascend to a divine position!

Just as Qian Renxue clenched her little fists, brimming with ambition, a small hand patted her shoulder.

"Xiao Xue, what are you thinking about? You're so absorbed. I've been standing behind you for ages, and you still haven't noticed."