It was another Sunday.
Na'er entered her nightmare hours once again.
Li Zha, meanwhile, carried his Fire-Tipped Spear to Phantom Brain Douluo Han Tianyin's room.
The space here was blue and white, with starry skies visible everywhere.
It possessed a deep, mysterious, boundless beauty.
Phantom Brain Douluo Han Tianyin sat at a table and spoke with a smile.
"Come, come. I'll open an illusion space for you, where you'll face different soul masters and soul beasts. I'll make sure you become familiar with fighting some powerful combat martial souls."
Li Zha nodded.
Han Tianyin opened a door to another room, and Li Zha walked inside.
He immediately noticed the space around him changing, transforming into a forest.
A girl holding the Silver Dragon Spear stood before Li Zha.
The girl looked exactly like Na'er.
At least, the naked eye could hardly tell them apart.
Li Zha surveyed his surroundings. He could actually hear insects chirping and birds singing in this forest. Floral scents filled his nose, and the grass beneath his feet felt real, rustling when brushed against.
It was almost indistinguishable from a real environment!
Phantom Brain Douluo's reputation for having the greatest spiritual power on the Douluo Continent was well deserved!
"This is Na'er. I've replicated her actual combat strength. See how long it takes you to beat her."
Han Tianyin's voice rang out.
The moment his words fell,
the illusory Na'er charged straight at him with her Silver Dragon Spear.
Li Zha kicked the spear tip, reversing the Fire-Tipped Spear's direction, and gripped it with both hands, his expression wild and defiant.
"Spear Ray!"
The shadow Na'er thrust her Dragon Spear forward. A burst of silvery-white light gushed from its tip, enveloping Li Zha.
"Breaking Stance!"
Li Zha responded in kind. Scorching Samadhi True Fire erupted from the Fire-Tipped Spear's tip, swiftly covering the white light. Then the Samadhi True Fire devoured it at an astonishing speed.
"Counter Stance!"
Li Zha hurled the Fire-Tipped Spear outright. Flames erupted from its butt, propelling it like a rocket as it shot toward Na'er as fast as lightning.
The shadow Na'er had no time to react before the Fire-Tipped Spear struck her.
The shadow Na'er-
dead!
"Well, damn."
Phantom Brain Douluo Han Tianyin let out an astonished cry.
He had been certain Li Zha was stronger than Na'er. After all, Leng Yaozhu had said that Li Zha's martial soul exerted a mysterious but extreme suppressive effect on dragons.
Naturally, the Silver Dragon Spear fell within that range as well.
But...
Taking her out in two fucking moves was a little beyond Phantom Brain Douluo's expectations.
After all,
the shadow Na'er he had replicated ignored bloodline suppression.
Yet she had been instantly killed the moment they met.
"This little brat has quite a gift for combat."
Flame jets and a charging thrust.
Phantom Brain Douluo was surprised that the Fire-Tipped Spear could even be used like this.
Li Zha had hardly experienced much combat. The only explanation was that he was fucking born to kill.
"Li Zha, you did well."
"In that case, I'll give you a big one."
The next moment,
a teenage boy appeared.
The boy had sword-like brows, star-bright eyes, and black hair. His clothes fluttered, and he looked calm and unruffled.
He held a long spear, its entire length blazing white and almost transparent.
It had a blade on only one side, and that blade was extremely long, taking up almost a third of the spear's length. Flames of light flickered along its sharp edge.
The words "Sky-Cleaving" were engraved on its shaft.
It was none other than the Sky-Cleaving Divine Spear!
And this boy was naturally Sky-Cleaving Douluo, Yun Ming, in his youth!
"Li Zha, this is Yun Ming, Sky-Cleaving Douluo, the current Sea God Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy, known as the strongest in the world."
"Let your teacher see how you compare to the wielder of the Sky-Cleaving Spear, one of the world's finest tool martial souls!"
Li Zha looked at the shadow Yun Ming before him.
He was not fazed in the slightest.
What a joke.
Yun Ming might be called the strongest in the world, but that only meant the strongest in the Douluo Plane.
Nezha was a god of slaughter who had carved out a fearsome name even in the Heavenly Court!
As those words fell,
the shadow Yun Ming charged straight at him.
But Li Zha moved even faster. He raised his hand and hurled the Fire-Tipped Spear.
The shadow Yun Ming gripped his spear with both hands and struck the side of the Fire-Tipped Spear with all his strength, knocking it off course. The recoil also forced him several steps sideways.
Before the shadow Yun Ming could recover, Li Zha sent another Fire-Tipped Spear flying!
Bzzzt!
The spear streaked amid sparks and lightning.
It raced toward the shadow Yun Ming with thunderous speed, instantly piercing his body!
The shadow Yun Ming-
dead!
Han Tianyin was even more astonished this time.
"Wait, is your Fire-Tipped Spear a close-range weapon or a ranged one?"
"And how can it split into two spears?"
Li Zha beckoned, and the Blazing Dragon Spirit fetched both Fire-Tipped Spears in its mouth. The two spears merged into one.
"Both work."
Han Tianyin's mouth twitched.
Both fucking work, my ass.
How underhanded could you get?
A tool martial soul that suppressed noble dragons.
And the soul skill [Hundred Slashes Across the Prairie] could charge up, growing stronger the longer he fought.
Not only that,
it could also be thrown at range, and even split into two spears.
Could you fucking tell me if there was anything remotely fair about this?
"Li Zha, in your teacher's opinion, you'll definitely have a place on the Young Prodigy Rankings in the future."
Even though Leng Yaozhu had repeatedly asked Han Tianyin to be strict with Li Zha,
Han Tianyin still could not resist praising him.
Li Zha accepted it without modesty. "Nothing more than a flick of the wrist."
"Teacher, got anything else? This isn't putting any pressure on me. Give me some evil soul masters. Start with a two-ring one, preferably that skeleton guy from last time. I want to see whether I can smack him to death."
Han Tianyin shook his head with a chuckle, then complied with Li Zha's request and brought out the skeleton man from last time.
Li Zha eagerly began fighting.
Han Tianyin let out a light breath.
He felt rather fortunate that he had not been born in the same era as this little monster.
"Killing Yun Ming at the same level with two spears? Interesting."
"Heh, hurry up and grow up, little fellow. I'm really looking forward to you slapping those Shrek fellows in the face."
"Hmph, they swagger around like they're worth a fortune. All they do is skim the cream off the entire continent..."
Han Tianyin had no fondness for Shrek whatsoever.
He possessed a body martial soul and had undergone a second awakening through the Body Sect.
However,
the secret method for this second awakening was actually kept at Shrek Academy rather than the Body Sect!
Even Han Tianyin, who stayed out of worldly affairs, felt that this was far too fucking overbearing!
Mu Ye, the Body Sect's current sect master, spent all day obsessed with red-grade mecha, while barely being able to break through to Super Douluo himself.
Being useless himself was one thing, but Mu Ye could actually swallow this insult.
Even though Han Tianyin belonged to the Spirit Pagoda, he was deeply displeased about this.
What business did Shrek Academy have keeping something that belonged to the Body Sect?
"Hmm... the Fire-Tipped Spear can overpower both the Sky-Cleaving Divine Spear and the Silver Dragon Spear. Li Zha's other martial soul, the lotus flower true body, is probably terrifying too."
"Tsk, tsk. After some time, I'll send Li Zha to the Body Sect. If his lotus body can undergo a second awakening, he might become the Body Sect's next sect master!"
"Shrek, oh Shrek. When that time comes, we'll have to make you hand it over."
Han Tianyin made his plans.
Soon,
three years passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Zha went from six years old to over nine, and so did Na'er.
His soul power level had also soared all the way to rank 29, just a step away from becoming a three-ring Soul Elder!
Na'er lagged slightly behind.
One thing worth mentioning was that,
strangely, Li Zha's height had stopped changing altogether. It seemed locked at one and a half meters.
Even Na'er quickly caught up to him in height.
"It's been three years."
"According to the rules of the academies outside, you can be considered graduates of the Junior Soul Master School now."
"So, to celebrate your graduation, your teacher will give you a test. If you pass, I'll take you away on vacation for half a month."
Leng Yaozhu looked at the boy and girl before her.
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