If Gangzi Had Even a Little of En Ci's Courage, He Wouldn't Have Passed Fifty While Still at Level 29

An enormous white halo enveloped almost the entire Sports Arena.

Within the halo, white dragons suddenly appeared one after another, then slowly rose into the air.

An intense aura of light surged upward as though it were tangible, turning the entire competition platform into an ocean of light.

Radiant Sacred Dragons brimming with a holy aura of light circled above the Soul Fighting Arena.

With the enhancement of his Four-Word Battle Armor's domain, En Ci's aura swelled to its peak.

"Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain!"

Two halos surged outward from beneath Luo Chen's feet. The inner layer was the Ice Empress's crystalline, emerald-green Permafrost Domain, while the outer layer was wrapped in the Snow Empress's pure-white veil of wind and snow.

White and green cold air intertwined and fused, rapidly expanding into a boundless ice field.

The light between heaven and earth abruptly dimmed. Tiny shards of ice drifted through the air, and the white mist of each exhaled breath froze into fragments of ice crystals the moment it appeared.

"Aren't you going to release your battle armor yet?" En Ci asked gravely.

He did not believe for a moment that Luo Chen lacked his own Four-Word Battle Armor.

After all, even his mecha was made entirely from heavenly forged metal. Luo Chen's Four-Word Battle Armor was probably far superior to his own.

But even so, he would give this battle everything he had! He wanted to see what separated his Four-Word Battle Armor from Four-Word Battle Armor made through Heavenly Forging!

Luo Chen did indeed have Four-Word Battle Armor, but not a complete set-only half a set, which he had obtained through frantic forging during this recent stretch of time.

"If you want me to use my battle armor, then let's see just how much weight you carry as the strongest man in the Star Luo Empire!" Luo Chen said.

Outside the Sky Screen, within Shrek Academy in the Peerless era.

Yan Shaozhe was already too stunned to speak.

Battle armor had domains of its own?

This was simply something he could turn a deaf ear to!

Qian Duoduo, meanwhile, wore the smug look of a petty man savoring his triumph.

"Shaozhe, you saw that, didn't you? This is the power of soul guidance technology. If I had Four-Word Battle Armor, do you think you'd still be a match for me?"

Even after witnessing a battle armor domain with his own eyes, Yan Shaozhe's stubborn mouth remained harder than stone.

"Even if you put on Four-Word Battle Armor, you still wouldn't be a match for me! A domain? It's not as though I don't have one!"

"Hmph! You're utterly unreasonable!" Qian Duoduo said indignantly.

Within the Sky Screen,

The two great domains collided with a thunderous crash, the tide of pure-white holy dragons slamming head-on into the Blue-White Ice and Snow Storm in midair!

The Radiant Dragon Flame of Thousand Dragons Dancing continuously scorched the wind and snow, while white dragons rammed into the icy mist.

Every holy dragon that struck the ice was instantly coated in thick white frost, and the light flowing over its body visibly dimmed.

Within the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, the white dragons racing back and forth abruptly slowed, their circling paths dragged and impeded by the ice.

The oppressive might of En Ci's domain, once unstoppable, was worn away layer by layer by the boundless, bitter cold.

"En Ci, is this all your domain can do?"

"Or is this as far as your strength goes?"

As Luo Chen's words fell, the figures of the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress appeared behind him.

With the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress joining the battle, the power of the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain surged to a full three times its previous strength!

And with each successive clash, En Ci's battle armor domain was visibly swallowed by the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain.

"The Imperial Preceptor seems to be losing!" On the dais, Dai Tianling stared at the scene in a daze. Could the Star Luo Empire truly be destroyed in my hands?

Dai Tianling was not the only one with this thought. Many of the spectators watching felt the same way, including En Ci himself.

"Am I really... going to lose this time?" En Ci's mind grew somewhat dazed.

How many years had passed since he had last lost a match?

"What's wrong, En Ci? Are you going to admit defeat?" Luo Chen suddenly asked.

"Back then, your martial soul was nothing but a trash martial soul with a trace of the Radiant Sacred Dragon's diluted bloodline. When everyone looked down on you, did you admit defeat?"

"Back then, when your talent was so poor that you only broke through to Soul Elder at thirty, did you admit defeat?"

"Do you still remember how, as a mere Soul Elder, you stormed Monster Academy alone, fought bitterly for eighteen days, and defeated every four-ring student there?"

Hearing Luo Chen's words, En Ci's soul began to tremble violently.

"Tell me, En Ci! Now that you hold a lofty position and have become a Limit Douluo, do you still dare to face the fearless man you once were?!"

Luo Chen's final words thoroughly jolted En Ci awake.

That's right. Once upon a time, even though I had only awakened a trash martial soul, I feared neither heaven nor earth.

How had I become so timid instead after breaking through to Limit Douluo?

En Ci began to yearn for his former, fearless self-the man who had insisted on making his way through the Soul Master World even with a trash martial soul.

As En Ci reminisced about the past, a ring of white light radiated outward from his body.

With the appearance of that white halo, somewhat blurry images began to emerge around En Ci.

"This is... thought manifestation!"

Hu Jie, the Tang Sect's Laughing-Face Douluo, abruptly rose to his feet. Although he had not reached the level of a Limit Douluo, he had still heard of thought manifestation.

Countless images flowed around En Ci: being told by everyone around him that his martial soul was trash after awakening it, then breaking through to Soul Elder at thirty.

Storming Monster Academy alone, reaching level 98 in twenty years, then spending another five years teaching himself to forge battle armor.

Spending ten years nurturing his Three-Word Battle Armor into Four-Word Battle Armor...

Outside the Sky Screen, Bibi Dong was filled with emotion as she watched this scene.

"If Xiao Gang had possessed even a little of En Ci's courage back then, he wouldn't have passed fifty while still at level 29."

They both had a diluted Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline, so why was the gap between them so enormous? What exactly had I seen in him back then?

Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang, who had finally managed to get discharged from the Psychiatric Hospital in the Legend of the Dragon King era, stood at the gates of Shrek Academy.

"I'm here to apply for a teaching position at Shrek."

"Oh. Your age, martial soul, and soul power level?" the interviewer asked.

"Yu Xiaogang. Martial soul: Luo Sanpao. Soul power: level 33," Yu Xiaogang said confidently.

After taking the immortal herb, nine-grade purple ganoderma, his soul power had finally broken through level 30. He was no longer the useless man everyone called him!

Who could have expected the interviewer's expression to darken the instant he heard that his soul power was only level 33?

"Seriously? How do you have the nerve to apply to Shrek Academy at level 33? Don't you know what kind of place Shrek Academy is?"

"So what? I'm the Grandmaster of martial soul theory! Teaching your Shrek students would be more than within my abilities! Do you know Tang San? I was the one who taught him!" Yu Xiaogang appeared supremely confident, paying the interviewer no heed whatsoever.

At those words, the interviewer's face twisted into an extremely unpleasant expression. He took out his Communication Soul Tool. "Hello, is this the Psychiatric Hospital? One of your patients has escaped."

Yu Xiaogang: "???"

Before long, Yu Xiaogang was taken away by the Psychiatric Hospital's staff once again. And this time, because the call had come from someone at Shrek Academy,

He was sent straight to a higher-security psychiatric hospital.

Yet even as Yu Xiaogang was being taken away, he refused to give up and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"I, Yu Xiaogang, will definitely return! I'm the founder of martial soul theory! Shrek will regret passing me over!"