Meanwhile, in the Dragon King era, a blue-haired youth sat in a room at the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City, stroking the little rabbit in his hands.
For some unknown reason, Xiao Wu, who had already regained her human form, had turned back into a rabbit after traveling to the Dragon King era.
"Don't worry, Xiao Wu. Once I find this era's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, I'll definitely find a way to resurrect you!"
"These so-called battle armors and mechas aren't all that impressive!"
Recently, during sparring matches within the Tang Sect, he had defeated one opponent after another using hidden weapons, his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and his soul bones.
Of course, the most important reason was that his opponents, seeing Tang San use only Tang Sect Hidden Weapons without deploying his battle armor, had refrained from deploying theirs as well in the spirit of fairness.
Even so, he had caught the attention of Amorous Douluo Zang Xin, who wanted to take Tang San as his disciple.
But Tang San had flatly refused!
What a joke! He was the illustrious founding ancestor of the Tang Sect on the Douluo Continent, yet someone from twenty thousand years later wanted to take him as a disciple. Wasn't that turning heaven and earth upside down?
"I'll make hidden weapons great again!"
Meanwhile, inside the Star Luo Empire Stadium, some people were alive, but already dead.
That described the great Heavenly Kings of Monster Academy perfectly. Anyone who thought they were under pressure only needed to look at them.
Long Yue's body visibly swelled and grew taller, transforming into a five-meter-tall dragonman in an instant.
Thick, rounded, rocklike brown dragon scales covered his entire body in layer upon layer, each scale raised and bulging, seemingly indestructible.
The towering phantom of an enormous Mountain Dragon King, ten thousand meters tall, slowly solidified.
The instant the Mountain Dragon King's phantom landed, the earth's primal energy surged madly toward Long Yue. The ocher soul power surrounding him became a luminous mist of flowing mountains and rivers, resisting the encroachment of Luo Chen's ice and snow.
Only then did those behind him recover their senses and deploy their One-Word Battle Armor.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's support fell upon Long Yue and Dai Yueyan. By now, Dai Yueyan had activated almost all three of his enhancement soul skills.
"White Tiger Protection Barrier, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, White Tiger Demon God Transformation!" He held the front line alongside Long Yue.
By then, Long Yue had already deployed his Two-Word Battle Armor as well.
His eyes were bloodshot, as though he had lost control. "Fifth soul skill, Mountain Suppression!"
The space above Luo Chen's head twisted violently as the phantom of a boundlessly majestic mountain slowly took shape. Terrifying gravity instantly blanketed the entire arena.
"Boring tricks." Luo Chen merely took a single step forward, and the mountain phantom above him shattered with a thunderous crash. Long Yue and Dai Yueyan, the two power attack system soul masters, were instantly frozen solid.
"Watch out!" Su Mu tried to warn them, but... Luo Chen appeared before him and Ye Zhi in an instant.
"You're the one who should watch out." As Luo Chen's words fell, Su Mu and Ye Zhi turned completely into ice sculptures.
The two agility attack soul masters had also been frozen when Luo Chen froze Long Yue and Dai Yueyan. After all, their speed was simply too slow.
Freezing them had been no more than a casual afterthought.
"I'll take you down with me!" Seeing his lover and companions frozen by Luo Chen one after another, Hua Lantang's eyes turned crimson. On the verge of a breakdown, he charged forward, actually intending to self-destruct and perish together with Luo Chen.
"Your courage is commendable, but you're not qualified to stake your life against mine."
Luo Chen snapped his fingers lightly, and the Wolf King, the last of the seven Heavenly Kings, was frozen by the Ice Ancestral Talisman.
With that, his victory was complete!
Luo Chen had dealt with them so effortlessly that the spectators in the stands had yet to react. From his first move to the finish, only two or three breaths had passed.
"I thought the Star Luo Empire's Monster Academy might actually be strong. Why does it feel even weaker than Shrek Academy?" Luo Chen said.
"Why doesn't your Star Luo Empire just submit to our Sun Moon Federation?"
The more viciously those spectators had cursed him when he first entered the Stadium, the more ridiculous their attempts to pretend they couldn't hear him now seemed.
And unlike his rampage at Shrek Academy, this was being broadcast live before the people of the entire Star Luo Empire. If Luo Chen was allowed to continue making a scene like this, the Star Luo Imperial Family would have no face left to speak of!
Thus, En Ci slowly rose from his chair.
"Luo Chen, how about letting me be your opponent?"
As the foremost expert of the Star Luo Empire, En Ci had to step forward at a moment like this. Only by doing so could he reassure the empire's people!
"En Ci, aren't you thinking a little too highly of yourself? Do you think I came to the Star Luo Empire to play house with you?" Luo Chen suddenly sneered.
"What, are you afraid? What's so impressive about bullying your juniors?" En Ci said.
Although Luo Chen was also a junior, his cultivation was already far, far ahead of theirs.
"Enough talk, En Ci. Begin the Five Gods' Duel! What I'm challenging is your Star Luo Empire!"
Luo Chen's declaration reached not only the spectators throughout the Star Luo Empire, but everyone watching through the heavenly screen as well.
The Five Gods' Duel!
Was Luo Chen going to challenge the entire Star Luo Empire alone?
"What? Is the Star Luo Empire going to refuse?" Luo Chen knew the Star Luo Empire's temperament all too well.
The Star Luo Empire revered martial strength and championed individual heroes. Once a Five Gods' Duel was proposed, the challenged party had no right to refuse. Refusal would earn the contempt of soul masters across the continent.
The Five Gods' Duel was a national dueling ceremony passed down from the ancient Douluo Continent. Only the Star Luo Empire had preserved it in full and continued to practice it to this day.
The weaker side would send a lone challenger to face five experts from the stronger side in succession. If the challenger won all five bouts, the stronger side had to fulfill every condition the challenger set and refrain from initiating war for one year.
But if the challenger lost even a single bout, all their demands would be nullified, and the weaker side would have to compromise and yield.
"Very well, we accept this Five Gods' Duel! If you lose, you must join the Star Luo Empire, become our imperial son-in-law, and remain loyal to the Star Luo Empire for life." After a brief moment of consideration, Dai Tianling gave his response.
"No problem. If I win, I demand that the Star Luo Imperial Family be dissolved and the Star Luo Empire Federation established! And I'll choose who becomes its Federal Speaker," Luo Chen said.
Hearing Luo Chen's conditions, Dai Tianling froze. Establishing the Star Luo Empire Federation-wasn't that openly setting himself against the Sun Moon Federation?
Could it be that Luo Chen wasn't of one mind with the Sun Moon Federation?
The Federation Deputy Speaker, who had also heard those words, was equally shocked. Establishing the Star Luo Empire Federation was an open betrayal of the Sun Moon Federation!
Had Luo Chen actually played them all for fools?
No, he had to send this information back to the Sun Moon Federation. But the two continents were separated by ten thousand miles. Wouldn't it take several months for the information to reach the Federation?
Luo Chen had made this decision on his way to the Star Luo Empire.
The situation in the Sun Moon Federation was now clear. Apart from the great clans, four major organizations-the Spirit Pagoda, the War God Temple, the Tang Sect, and Shrek Academy-stood in contention with one another.
Although the Federation would tacitly permit the Spirit Pagoda to carry out its bombing plan against the Tang Sect and Shrek in a year or two, one must not forget that the Spirit Pagoda had been founded by Huo Yuhao!
Even Chen Xinjie, the master of the War God Temple, was this generation's Sea God Douluo! If Luo Chen truly became enemies with Tang San, all these organizations might turn against him!
Moreover, even as a transmigrator, he had no idea how many domains Tang San had left behind in the Dragon King era. After all, the great clans were led by the Clear Sky Sect!
"Very well. I agree to this," Dai Tianling said.
"We'll set the date for one week from now!" Luo Chen said. He intended to spend that week traveling to Dragon Valley and using the Devouring Ancestral Talisman to raise his soul power to the Limit level!
And upgrade his battle armor to the four-word level!
Oh, Dragon Race, Dragon Race. For the sake of my resistance against Tang San, give off the last of your lingering warmth!
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