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Chapter 121: Shrek Academy's Forceful Retaliation
With the two domain-type soul skills, Dark Night Sky and Shadow Domain, no longer blocking it out, silken strands of starlight and moonlight poured down from the night sky, illuminating the surroundings. The sky had become even clearer after the rain stopped, and everyone present stood enveloped in a faint, hazy silver glow.
Ye Xixuan's gaze was icy as he held the long, slender Shadow Spear and stared at Dai Yueheng before him. The sharp spearhead, stained with Kero's blood, rested beside him. Drops of blood slid down its groove, lending it an inexplicably chilling, oppressive air beneath the silvery moonlight.
In the earlier battle, although Ling Luochеn had used her soul skills to restrict Kero's movements, Ye Xixuan alone had defeated him head-on.
One of them was a Five-Ring Soul King, while the other was only a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
Everyone's eyes involuntarily converged on Ye Xixuan. Having just killed Kero, he now carried an added measure of imposing authority, and his gaze at Dai Yueheng was exceptionally sharp.
Even with Dai Yueheng's cultivation and composure, he felt as though needles were pricking his back. Coupled with his guilty conscience, his presence fell more than a notch short of Ye Xixuan's.
Still, he was reasonably quick-witted. He soon collected himself and gave Ye Xixuan a concerned, somewhat awkward smile.
"Xixuan, are you all right?"
"Thank you for your concern, Senior Dai. If I weren't, I wouldn't be standing here." Ye Xixuan answered indifferently, then walked straight past Dai Yueheng toward Han Ruoruo and the others.
Not only Yu Mengdi, Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, and Ling Luochеn, who had already been there, but every Inner Court Disciple, including Han Ruoruo, instinctively held their breath as they watched Ye Xixuan approach, step by step,