The Battle for Chen An

"Everyone from the Body Sect, charge into Shrek and find Chen An!"

Du Busi wore an arrogant expression as he immediately issued his orders to the Body Sect's elders and disciples.

"Yes, Sect Master!"

The Body Sect's many experts cupped their fists in acknowledgment. A moment later, they soared into the sky, their eyes fixed on the depths of Shrek Academy like hungry wolves.

"Charge! Storm Shrek Academy!"

"Find our Body Sect's disciple! Anyone who stands in our way dies!"

"Elder, where exactly is Chen An?"

"Idiot! Grab someone and interrogate them, and we'll know everything!"

"..."

More than twenty Body Sect experts, all at least Soul Douluos, surged forward like dragons and tigers. In an instant, they tore Shrek Academy's gates apart and charged inside.

At the sight, Mu En's eyelids snapped up. He glared at Du Busi. "Du Busi, you're courting death!"

Mu En knew all too well that once the Body Sect's experts entered Shrek Academy, their lawless temperaments would inevitably bring devastating losses upon it.

Du Busi threw back his head and laughed. His laughter rumbled like wind and thunder, shaking ripples through the air.

"Mu En, if you were in your prime, I'd still show you some respect. But now you're old and crippled. Let's see how you intend to kill me today!"

Age had honed Mu En's shrewdness, and he would not be provoked so easily by Du Busi. Though he had little time left to live and his body was crippled,

with the Golden Tree's power supporting him, Du Busi was no match for him. Still, Du Busi's combat strength had already reached the level of a Limit Douluo, so killing him quickly would not be easy.

Mu En turned and transmitted his voice to Xuan Zi. "I'll handle Du Busi. Xuan Zi, take the others and stop the rest of the Body Sect's experts! Whatever happens, do not let them take Chen An away!"

Xuan Zi nodded. "Mu En, leave it to me!"

With that, Xuan Zi led Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Lin Huiqun, Cai Mei'er, and the other Shrek Academy experts to intercept the Body Sect.

Soon, the experts from the Body Sect and Shrek Academy had engaged in battle.

The Body Sect had dispatched ten Titled Douluo elders and sixteen Soul Douluo deacons this time.

Every one of them had few rivals at their own rank, and could even fight opponents above their level.

However, although the Body Sect's experts were powerful, they were clearly outnumbered by Shrek Academy.

Not only did Shrek Academy have more Super Douluos than the Body Sect, but it also had far more Titled Douluos.

Moreover, they had Xuan Zi, a Peak Level 98 Super Douluo, holding the line.

Shrek Academy gained the upper hand as soon as the fighting began.

The Body Sect's second-strongest expert, Golden Body Douluo Jinpeng, immediately shouted, "Don't hold anything back! Everyone, unleash your body martial soul second awakening!"

In an instant, silver silhouettes appeared behind every Body Sect expert.

Silver-Tier Body Martial Soul Second Awakening increased combat strength by one hundred percent.

With the boost from Silver-Tier Body Martial Soul Second Awakening, the Body Sect's experts fought as though they had taken stimulants, each battling two opponents of the same rank.

Even the Body Sect's Soul Douluos, relying on their powerful physiques and the wild boost of their second awakening, directly engaged Shrek Academy's lower-ranked Titled Douluo elders.

Watching the Body Sect's experts locked in fierce combat with Shrek Academy, Golden Body Douluo Jinpeng immediately called out a reminder.

"Don't get caught up in fighting! Remember, our goal isn't to settle who's stronger than Shrek Academy. It's to take back Chen An, the disciple who belongs to our Body Sect!

"Everyone, find a way to break free, locate Chen An, and bring him back to the Body Sect!"

"Chen An is a student of Shrek Academy! Your Body Sect can forget about getting its way! Take my fist!"

Xuan Zi charged through the air, earthen-yellow light gathering around him. Fierce as a towering mountain, he swiftly bore down on Jinpeng.

Seeing Xuan Zi charging toward him, Golden Body Douluo Jinpeng dared not be careless. Without hesitation, he unleashed his body martial soul second awakening.

Half-gold, half-silver light burst from Jinpeng's body. In an instant, his aura soared. Though his soul power was only Level 97, the boost from his body martial soul second awakening made his presence almost as terrifying as Xuan Zi's.

As the Body Sect's second-in-command, Jinpeng naturally had formidable abilities. His body martial soul second awakening had not reached gold tier, but it had already surpassed silver tier. Calling it half-gold tier was no exaggeration.

If a silver-tier body martial soul second awakening provided a one-hundred-percent boost, then a half-gold-tier body martial soul second awakening could reach a terrifying two hundred percent.

Purple, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red, red! Nine soul rings rose and shone around Jinpeng, the two striking red rings almost dazzling.

Seeing those two conspicuous hundred-thousand-year soul rings, Xuan Zi could not help cursing inwardly.

These Body Sect members relied on their powerful physiques to absorb soul rings beyond their level. Every last one of their soul ring configurations exceeded the norm.

Xuan Zi dared not be careless. Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red—his nine soul rings appeared.

Though Xuan Zi's soul ring configuration fell short of Jinpeng's, his Peak Level 98 cultivation was no empty boast. His soul power far exceeded Golden Body Douluo's.

Xuan Zi looked at Jinpeng and snorted. "Today, I'll show you what it means for every level beyond Level 95 to be a whole heaven apart!"

"You're merely Level 97, yet you dare challenge me at Peak Level 98!"

Jinpeng grinned. "Of course I know I'm no match for you. But why would I need to defeat you? All I need is to break free of you!

"Besides, this is Shrek Academy. Our experts can withstand fighting here, but can your weak students and teachers withstand it?

"And those flimsy buildings of yours are no better than paper in a battle between experts of our level!

"So, Xuan Zi, I advise you to take your people and get out of our way immediately. Otherwise, when Shrek Academy becomes a heap of ruins and your students and teachers suffer terrible casualties, don't blame our Body Sect!"

Xuan Zi raged, "You little bastard! You dare threaten me? Even while protecting Shrek Academy, I can still beat you to death! Die!"

With a furious roar, Xuan Zi unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar. An enormous creature appeared, with a sheep's body, tiger's teeth, human claws, and a pair of gigantic bull horns.

After unleashing his martial soul avatar, Xuan Zi struck Jinpeng with a vicious blow.

Intense earthen-yellow radiance gathered on his horns, then transformed into a beam that shot toward Jinpeng.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar!"

With his body martial soul second awakening empowering him, Jinpeng unleashed his martial soul avatar as well.

Jinpeng's body swelled in an instant, growing to ten meters tall in the blink of an eye. Behind him, a half-gold, half-silver torso silhouette took shape, making his torso look utterly indestructible.

With both his martial soul avatar and body martial soul second awakening boosting him, Jinpeng's strength reached its utmost limit.

In this state, Jinpeng consumed soul power at an extraordinary rate, but his combat strength was also at its greatest.

"Hundred-thousand-year eighth soul skill! Indestructible Body!"

"Hundred-thousand-year Demon Whale Torso Bone skill! Berserk Demon Body!"

Jinpeng became an undying fortress. Xuan Zi's earthen-yellow energy blast struck him, yet inflicted little damage.

It merely sent him hurtling backward several hundred meters, smashing heavily through a teaching building.

Looking at the shattered teaching building, Xuan Zi flushed crimson. He had barely finished boasting before reality slapped him across the face, utterly stripping him of his dignity.

Xuan Zi immediately went all out, drawing upon his Earth Origin and the surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. At the same time, his soul rings condensed into a massive club, which he swung at Jinpeng.

The terrifying blow shattered space itself. Jinpeng's expression turned deathly serious. Not daring to take it head-on, he immediately dodged.

As Mu En and Xuan Zi battled Du Busi and Jinpeng, the experts on both sides were also locked in furious combat.

For a time, terrifying energy fluctuations engulfed every corner of Shrek Academy.

Had the Shrek Outer Court's students and teachers not taken shelter in basements and refuges beforehand, the academy would likely have been strewn with corpses, its casualties disastrous.

Even so, unlucky students and teachers were still caught in the experts' attacks and met untimely deaths.

As time passed, both sides suffered casualties.

In the sky, the battle between Mu En and Du Busi had reached a critical moment.

Mu En drew upon his origin power and unleashed a killing move.

A hundred-meter dragon claw pierced through space, seemingly crossing distance itself, and appeared before Du Busi in an instant.

The claw was vicious and swift, imbued with the Light Origin of Mu En's Light Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and his will to reign supreme beneath heaven. More importantly, spatial power gathered in its palm, locking down space and making evasion impossible.

Facing Mu En's signature technique, Du Busi dared not hold anything back.

He immediately unleashed his martial soul origin poison and various hundred-thousand-year enhancement soul skills, clashing fiercely with Mu En.

Meanwhile, some of the Body Sect's experts had broken through Shrek Academy's interception.

One Body Sect Titled Douluo elder whose martial soul was his brain had even captured an Inner Court teacher with Soul Douluo cultivation and forcibly pried open his memories.

In the Shrek Outer Court's square stood a thin, small-framed middle-aged man with an unusually large head. Brilliant light flashed from his eyes, and his terrifying Spiritual Power violently warped all the surrounding air.

His left hand held a burly middle-aged man bleeding from all seven facial orifices. His lips curled into a smile.

"So Chen An is on some damned Sea God Island."

After muttering those words, he immediately distorted the light with his Spiritual Power and vanished.

The two Shrek Academy Titled Douluos pursuing him arrived just in time to witness this scene and could only stare at one another.

For the moment, they had no way to locate the Body Sect expert.

As Titled Douluos, their Spiritual Power was naturally formidable and had long since reached the formless substance realm.

Yet before a Body Sect Titled Douluo whose martial soul was his brain, their Spiritual Power was clearly insignificant. No matter how they searched, they could not find so much as a hair of his.

Inside a tower on Sea God Island.

Chen An was being protected there alongside numerous Inner Court students.

Because of his special circumstances, Chen An had the tower's top floor to himself. Through the window, he watched Shrek Academy and the Body Sect's experts wage a heaven-shaking battle over him.

He watched the white dragon coiled across the entire sky, the earth-shaking giant who resembled a god or demon, and the cloudless, golden heavens.

Ripples stirred in Chen An's dark eyes like the surface of an unsettled lake, and his fair hands involuntarily clenched tight.

"Is this the strength of the continent's greatest experts? Powerful enough to change the very color of heaven and earth! How mesmerizing."

Chen An's goal had always been clear: to ascend to the pinnacle of Soul Masters and become a god at level one hundred.

Thus, as long as a faction could provide a sufficiently safe cultivation environment with abundant resources, he did not particularly care which one he joined.

Whether it was Shrek Academy or the Body Sect... the decision was not his to make anyway.

Though Chen An possessed peerless talent, he was only six years old and clearly had no say in the matter. No one would ask what he thought or seek his opinion.

Chen An thought, Shrek Academy has abundant resources, and Dragon God Douluo Mu En is here to oversee it. After he dies, he'll leave behind a precious Dragon Core, too. There's also the Golden Tree, which enhances comprehension...

But the Body Sect isn't bad either. The Sect fiercely protects its own and hunts hundred-thousand-year soul beasts for its disciples. Besides, my martial soul is True Self, so cultivating in the Body Sect would clearly be more suitable.

At the same time, only the Body Sect possesses the secret techniques and methods for a body martial soul second awakening.

All things considered, both sides have their strengths and weaknesses. If possible, I'd really like to cultivate with both.

But Chen An also knew that Shrek Academy and the Body Sect were as incompatible as fire and water. The previous Body Sect Master had even been beaten to death by Dragon God Douluo Mu En. With a grudge of that magnitude, they clearly would not give him a chance to reap benefits from both sides.

If he tried to play both sides, the most likely outcome was that neither would welcome him.

Chen An thought, Forget it, forget it. No more thinking about it. What good will all this thinking do? I'll just go with whichever side wins.

While Chen An weighed his thoughts, a thin middle-aged man with an enormous head silently appeared behind him.

He swept Chen An with his Spiritual Power. Seeing that the boy matched the image in the Inner Court teacher's memories he had searched earlier, he instantly knew he had found his target.

The big-headed middle-aged man could not even be bothered to speak. At such a critical moment, talking was far too much of a waste of time.

He immediately aimed a casual hand chop at Chen An's neck, intending to knock him unconscious and take him back to the Body Sect.

Just as the big-headed middle-aged man assumed his chop was certain to land,

Chen An's figure suddenly turned illusory for an instant, and the chop inexplicably missed.

The big-headed middle-aged man's face filled with astonishment. How is this possible? With my strength, there's no way this little child could dodge me! Who's interfering?