The world knew only Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, not the Holy Necromancer Electrolux

Zhang Geyang had not expected the Ice Empress to attack him either, and he failed to activate his battle armor's defenses immediately.

Instead, he relied on his soul power to withstand the blow.

The emerald-green pillar of icy light exploded against Zhang Geyang, its extreme cold flooding inward along his soul power pathways.

"Luo Chen, do you want to make an enemy of the Spirit Pagoda?" Zhang Geyang roared.

But the Ice Empress gave Zhang Geyang little time to think.

"Ice Empress's Pincer!"

Diamond ice crystals covered her hands and forearms, forming enormous scorpion pincers that struck at Zhang Geyang.

This time, Zhang Geyang was clearly prepared. He had already donned his three-word battle armor, combining it with his rank-98 soul power.

This gave Zhang Geyang combat strength comparable to a Limit Douluo.

"Someone like you doesn't deserve soul spirits!" the Ice Empress shouted angrily.

"Hmph! You have no right to criticize how I treat my soul spirits! They're nothing but a bunch of beasts," Zhang Geyang said.

Inside the Stadium, the four great soul spirits, now freed from their frozen-statue state, heard Zhang Geyang's words and involuntarily let out cries filled with profound sorrow.

The Thunderclap Infernal Prison Vine, in particular, suddenly crackled with lightning all over and even wanted to sever its soul spirit contract of its own accord.

Within the Sky Screen, black currents surged around Di Tian as he heard those words, his eyes blood-red.

"Humans truly are a greedy, insatiable lot! Since I now know the Auspicious Beast's whereabouts!"

"It's time to unleash another beast tide!"

"This time, I will personally raze Shrek to the ground!"

Zhang Geyang's words had once again enraged Di Tian of the Peerless era, and this time, there was no telling whether Shrek could withstand another beast tide.

"Luo Chen." Just then, Gu Yue's voice reached Luo Chen's ears.

"Have the Snow Empress and the others hold Zhang Geyang off. I'll take all four of his great soul spirits into the Myriad Beast Platform inside the Dragon God's Heart."

After hearing Gu Yue's words, Luo Chen nodded to show he understood.

Then a pale-blue figure emerged from Luo Chen's Sea of Consciousness.

She had sky-blue eyes like icy sapphires, a slender figure, and flawless, snow-white skin.

She wore a seamless white gown formed from ice crystals, fitted to her graceful figure.

It was none other than the Snow Empress.

"Th-this is another Ferocious Beast?" Dai Tianling's face was filled with disbelief. One Ferocious Beast was shocking enough. Who could have imagined that Luo Chen had others?

And Dai Tianling's shock had only just begun.

As the Snow Empress appeared, Xiao Bai and Bajiao followed right behind her.

Another Ferocious Beast!

And a hundred-thousand-year Plant-type Soul Beast!

Was Luo Chen even human?

In particular, the Monster Academy students who had boasted so shamelessly the previous week now felt waves of lingering fear.

Any one of Luo Chen's soul spirits could probably finish them off in an instant, couldn't they?

Without Luo Chen needing to say anything, the Snow Empress, Xiao Bai, and Bajiao attacked Zhang Geyang together.

Meanwhile, Gu Yue remained in the spectator stands, attempting to communicate with Zhang Geyang's soul spirits.

Seeing the situation gradually spiral out of control, the referee hurriedly turned to Dai Tianling.

"Luo Chen, what is the meaning of this?" Dai Tianling stood up and asked.

"Do the competition rules forbid attacking a Soul Master? They don't, do they?"

"Besides, having my soul spirits fight shouldn't violate the rules, should it?"

"And my opponent doesn't seem to have any intention of surrendering."

Those few remarks from Luo Chen left even the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire at a loss.

The competition apparently had no rule forbidding attacks on the opposing Soul Master, so Luo Chen's actions did not count as a violation.

Instead, Zhang Geyang had broken the rules by using battle armor.

The match had only just begun. Was he supposed to declare Luo Chen the winner again?

Dai Tianling hesitated.

Zhang Geyang, however, did not think that far ahead. He furiously challenged Luo Chen.

"Luo Chen, Pagoda Master Qiangu won't let you get away with this!"

"Oh? Qiangu Dongfeng?" Luo Chen sneered.

"Don't worry. Once I get back, he'll be the first one I settle accounts with! The Qiangu Family has monopolized the position of Spirit Pagoda master for so long. It's time someone else took over."

"You!" Zhang Geyang wanted to say more, but just then, he suddenly realized that his contracts with all four soul spirits had been severed!

"Luo Chen! What have you done?" Zhang Geyang flew into a rage. Those were all his soul spirits! Without those four great soul spirits, he no longer had the slightest chance of becoming a Limit Douluo.

"Nothing much. I just helped lighten your burden. Didn't you say soul spirits were useless? So I took them off your hands."

As Luo Chen spoke, his expression gradually turned cold. "Soul spirits and Soul Masters are meant to have an equal contractual relationship. There was never supposed to be one ordering the other around. That was Electrolux's original intention when he created soul spirits!"

Electrolux?

At those words, the same question arose in everyone's mind.

Who was Electrolux? Hadn't Huo Yuhao created soul spirits?

Luo Chen looked at the puzzled faces around him and sighed.

[As expected, ten thousand years later, the world knew only Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, not the Holy Necromancer Electrolux.]

[Electrolux was clearly the true creator of soul spirits. Huo Yuhao merely popularized them.]

[Yet ten thousand years later, almost no one knew that Electrolux had created soul spirits. Who knew whether Huo Yuhao simply didn't care, or Tang San had deliberately made it so?]

[Come to think of it, after Huo Yuhao became a god, did he ever visit other planes to search for his teacher's scattered divine sense?]

[Right, he even changed his name to Huo Yuhao, so why would he care about any of this? After all, back in that era, aside from him, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and the others never became gods.]

Outside the Sky Screen, in the Peerless Tang Sect era, Bei Bei was filled with confusion upon hearing those words.

"The Shrek Seven Devils of Tang San's generation all became gods. Why didn't our generation? Did our little junior brother really betray us?"

Meanwhile, within the Body Sect, Electrolux wore a forlorn expression inside Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.

Had the disciple he had poured everything into teaching truly betrayed him?

Had someone close to him betrayed him yet again?

Huo Yuhao looked nervously at Electrolux, his voice firm. "Elder Yi, I would never betray you!"

Looking at the Huo Yuhao before him, Electrolux truly could not reconcile him with the Huo Yuhao Luo Chen had described.

"Just where did this so-called Tang San begin turning Huo Yuhao into that other Huo Yuhao, step by step?" Electrolux was deeply puzzled.

Electrolux would understand all of this once Luo Chen returned to the Federation and found the Qiankun Asking Love Valley near Mingdu.

Meanwhile, within the Sky Screen,

A beam of nine-colored light shot from between Gu Yue's brows, silently taking away all four of Zhang Geyang's great soul spirits.

The spectators present all assumed that Zhang Geyang had abandoned the match and voluntarily recalled his soul spirits.

Facing the combined might of the Ice and Snow Empresses, Zhang Geyang was utterly outmatched. Within a few breaths, he had already been defeated.

Luo Chen looked at the referee. "It's already the second day. How are you still so slow on the uptake? Can't you see the match is over?"

Only then did the referee come to his senses, and he could only announce reluctantly,

"Five Gods' Duel, second match. Luo Chen wins."

In the spectator stands, Xie Xie asked Xu Xiaoyan beside him,

"Xiaoyan, do you think Luo Chen could take on an entire nation alone?"

Xu Xiaoyan gazed at Luo Chen on the stage, a faint glimmer of starlight flashing in her eyes.

"If it's him, he'll definitely be fine!"

Her words earned a disdainful look from Xie Xie. "All right, all right. You like Luo Chen so much, of course you'd take his side!"

"Hmph! None of your business." Xu Xiaoyan folded her arms across her chest and turned her head away.

I only like him a tiny little bit!

Just then, Luo Chen, who had been about to leave, stopped in his tracks, because...

The conquest system had issued another new conquest target.