"Mu En! Let me see how much of your old dominance you still have, you Radiant Sacred Dragon!"
"And whether you still deserve the word 'Limit'!"
Du Busi roared, his body suddenly swelling and growing taller, his knotted meridians coiling around him like flood dragons.
An immense human figure radiating brilliant golden light emerged behind him, towering between heaven and earth. Its wildly violent Soul Power fluctuations shook every cloud apart.
The figure looked exactly like him. It was none other than Du Busi himself.
"Yuhao, watch closely! This is our Body Sect's second awakening!"
"And it's the golden-level Body Martial Soul second awakening you can achieve after becoming a Titled Douluo!"
Heaven and earth suddenly darkened as the golden figure behind Du Busi abruptly merged with him.
As the figure merged into him, Du Busi's aura began climbing higher and higher. Like a demonic god descending into the world, he advanced on Mu En.
Sensing the might emanating from Du Busi, Mu En's expression grew increasingly stern.
Though he lacked that terrifying, sky-swallowing aura, he possessed an indescribable majesty that made hearts and minds tremble.
With perfect unspoken understanding, Mu En and Du Busi flew higher into the sky together to avoid harming the innocent.
When Soul Masters of their level fought, blood could flow deep enough to float shields. Even at their current distance from the ground, the shock waves that naturally spread outward were more than the students and teachers below could withstand.
Mu En's brow was deeply furrowed. He found this affair with the Body Sect quite thorny.
This was not because his strength was insufficient.
Even with his allotted time nearly exhausted, Mu En still possessed the absolute strength to kill Du Busi.
Yet, for that very same reason, even if Mu En mustered his final breath and raised his strength to its peak to kill Du Busi, he would pay an enormous price himself and would inevitably die afterward.
At the same time, the pretext the Body Sect had used to come knocking was truly difficult to handle.
The Body Sect had come looking for trouble in its capacity as the Heaven Dou Empire's guardian sect, standing up for Di'ao Academy after Xuan Zi had bullied it. There was nothing objectionable about that; anyone would have to acknowledge that the Body Sect held the moral high ground.
This left Mu En, who was already in the wrong, in an even tighter bind.
Any mishandling of this affair would certainly plunge relations between Shrek Academy and the Heaven Dou Empire to their lowest point in history.
"Xuan Zi acted rashly and brought serious trouble upon Shrek."
With his hands tied, Mu En did nothing but defend against Du Busi's attacks.
Until he found a suitable successor for Shrek Academy, he dared not let Shrek offend both the Body Sect and the Heaven Dou Empire.
Du Busi noticed Mu En's hesitation.
His circumstances differed from Mu En's.
First, in bringing its might to bear on Shrek, the Body Sect held the moral high ground and had no fear of the continent's criticism.
Second, having gained Huo Yuhao, a successor capable of shouldering its future, the Body Sect no longer feared having no one to carry on its legacy, so it naturally acted without restraint.
Finally, Du Busi had arrived bearing the fury of a hundred years of seclusion. All his pent-up indignation had become towering battle intent, giving him tremendous momentum.
Thus, everything was looking splendid for the Body Sect at this moment.
Du Busi attacked with almost no reservations, his aura growing stronger as he fought, as though even his breath could form a rainbow.
He laughed and swung his fist. "Mu En, you really have grown old! Your Radiant Dragon Claw was never this indecisive before!"
Below them, Xuan Zi heard Du Busi's words and fixed his gaze on Huo Yuhao.
"Yuhao? You're Huo Yuhao?"
Xuan Zi's face was livid. "Aren't you from Di'ao Academy? Why are you with the Body Sect?"
Huo Yuhao stepped forward, neither servile nor overbearing. "My goal from beginning to end was to join the Body Sect."
"Good, good, good." Xuan Zi practically ground the three words out through gritted teeth.
Though rash, he could now see the difficulty Mu En faced in the sky.
Xuan Zi's expression darkened. "If not for you, our Shrek Academy wouldn't be caught in such a dilemma."
Huo Yuhao and the Body Sect members immediately looked bewildered.
"What a shameless old yellow ox." Jin Peng sneered. "Your knack for turning around and blaming the victim has truly opened my eyes."
Earthen-yellow Soul Power fluctuations abruptly erupted from Xuan Zi.
"I disdain arguing with the likes of you. Since this boy caused the matter, let him remain at Shrek Academy to atone!"
He believed that capturing Huo Yuhao would give the Body Sect pause and make it retreat.
The ferocious-looking Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul took shape instantly!
"Xuan Zi, stop!"
Mu En's pupils abruptly contracted high above. His figure flashed as he plunged straight down from the sky.
Yet everything defied his expectations.
Du Busi actually attacked without regard for anything, stopping him like a madman!
"Du Busi! What are you doing?!"
Mu En simply could not understand Du Busi's actions.
He was clearly going to rescue the Body Sect's successor, so why was Du Busi stopping him?
Boom-!
The white power of the Radiant Sacred Dragon crashed into a dark-green vortex with a terrifying, deafening roar.
Du Busi spat out a mouthful of blood and was blasted hundreds of meters away.
Yet his laughter only grew more unbridled. "Mu En! You really are nearing your end! You've actually learned to spare the rat for fear of breaking the dishes!"
"And my elder brother really did leave you with a fatal wound. He didn't die in vain!"
"Body Sect! Get them! Today, we must capture Xuan Zi alive and demand an accounting for the Heaven Dou Empire!"
Du Busi burned his Soul Power regardless of the cost.
The energy he bellowed out now transformed into three great dragons of white vapor, each over ten feet thick and covered in savage scales, coiling around his fists.
Strength enough to overturn the heavens!
Force enough to upend the seas!
All by himself, Du Busi unleashed the momentum of thousands of troops and horses charging through enemy lines!
His force flowed without end, space humming wherever the wind of his punches passed as he hurled himself ferociously at Mu En!
Meanwhile, Jin Peng and the other Body Sect elders had all activated their second awakenings the instant Xuan Zi's Soul Power began boiling.
In an instant, gold and silver light shot into the heavens, transforming the wind and clouds above Shrek Academy.
The Body Sect's Titled Douluo lunged together, attempting to surround and attack Xuan Zi.
A vicious glint flashed through Xuan Zi's eyes.
His irritation, which had lasted all day, was now fully inflamed.
Yet at that very moment, a ringing dragon cry suddenly sounded!
Roaaar-!
This voice belonged neither to the Radiant Sacred Dragon nor to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. It was a dragon cry Shrek Academy had never heard before!
Xuan Zi froze instantly!
At that moment, with assistance from the spiritual-type Soul Douluo Lang Ya and another Soul Douluo, Huo Yuhao combined the aura of the Ice Empress's Soul Ring with Martial Soul suppression and successfully stunned Xuan Zi!
Even Shrek's Beast Martial Soul Titled Douluo were affected!
The bloodline suppression unique to higher dragons, together with an extremely savage aura, sent a flicker of dazedness through Xuan Zi's eyes, as he possessed a dragon-lineage Martial Soul.
Even as a level 98 Super Douluo, caught unprepared in the face of absolute Martial Soul suppression, he could still be stalled for an instant.
Cold air spread. Not only Xuan Zi, but every Beast Martial Soul wielder present felt fear rising from the depths of their Martial Souls beneath that dragon cry.
Layers of spiraling ripples blossomed from Huo Yuhao, merging into the dragon cry.
Upon hearing the dragon cry he unleashed, almost every Beast Martial Soul wielder present instantly fell into a stupor, feeling fear from the deepest recesses of their Martial Souls.
On the way here, Huo Yuhao had deliberately sought Hong Yue's advice on methods of using spiritual power.
With Hong Yue's guidance and his experience recklessly unleashing Great Heavenly Thunder Sound that day, Huo Yuhao had already become proficient in the Talisman Master secret spiritual technique, Spiral Cone Wave.
It was a spiritual shock wave that relied on a peculiar frequency to inflict effective damage, achieving results similar to Soul Shock through a different approach.
Huo Yuhao regarded them as twin lotuses on one stem. By drawing connections between them, he had grasped their essence so quickly.
At the time, he had suddenly recalled what the Martial Ancestor had witnessed in the Demon Region. An idea then struck him: since oppressive might and spiritual power both came from the soul, could oppressive might become a secret spiritual technique for attacking enemies?
This sparked discussion within the Body Sect, which swiftly began research centered on Huo Yuhao.
They wanted to combine sound with oppressive might to form a spiritual combat technique that struck an opponent's soul directly through sound waves, naming it Soul-Shattering Chant.
For this, the Body Sect delayed its journey for several full days before Hong Yue barely managed to create the combat technique.
And Huo Yuhao, ostensibly using Soul Shock but actually taking Spiral Cone Wave as his foundation, created Azure Sky Soul-Shattering Chant through Hong Yue.
The first time he roared out Azure Sky Soul-Shattering Chant, Du Busi immediately devised a plan to capture Xuan Zi alive.
As long as Huo Yuhao's dragon cry could stun Xuan Zi for an instant and give the Body Sect an opportunity to surround and attack him, the plan had an excellent chance of success!
But Du Busi had not anticipated that Mu En was still alive. This was the greatest variable.
Fortunately, Mu En was in his twilight years. His many years at the academy's helm had long since stripped him of his former soaring spirit and reckless daring, leaving him afraid to strike the rat lest he break the dishes. Only thus could Du Busi hold him back.
All of this seemed slow, but in fact took place in less than half a breath.
"A fully awakened True Dragon Martial Soul, and with an ultimate attribute, too?!"
Mu En instantly realized the Body Sect's plan.
Disregarding his own injuries, he transformed into a Radiant Sacred Dragon over a thousand feet long and spiraled downward.
At this moment, he finally displayed the strength befitting a Limit Douluo!
Yet as phantoms of Body Martial Souls in all manner of shapes merged into their bodies, the Body Sect's Titled Douluo streaked across the sky like meteors and had already completely surrounded Xuan Zi, whose mind had only just cleared!
"Xuan Zi has used his strength to bully the weak, oppressing allies who stand together against the Sun Moon Empire!"
"The Body Sect has come today only to demand justice. We will not harm the innocent!"
Boom-!
In desperation, Xuan Zi decisively activated his Martial Soul Avatar to protect himself!