"Shut your mouth!"
When Chen Xinjie heard Qiangu Qingfeng's words, his eyes immediately turned bloodshot, and he panted like a bull.
He could not accept anyone profaning his first love, his beloved-the woman who had once borne his child, the woman he loved most.
Back then, he had personally given her to another man. This was the pain of his life, so he had resolved to protect her well.
From then on, Long Yeyue had enjoyed the love of two men, and he had always protected her very well.
But now, under his and Yun Ming's protection, Long Yeyue's life was actually being threatened.
This was unbearable to him, and he could accept even less that this fellow Qiangu Qingfeng dared to humiliate Long Yeyue-the most perfect being in his heart.
"Qiangu Qingfeng, you have already given me reason to kill you!"
"Come on, then! You'd better be able to kill me today!"
A trace of madness flashed through Qiangu Qingfeng's eyes. Dragon roars began ringing incessantly from the Infernal Halberd, and an exceedingly evil dragon soul aura emerged, sending his combat power soaring wildly.
Meanwhile, Han Tianyi also threw caution to the wind. His body martial soul was slowly changing from bronze to silver.
With a Silver Rank second awakening of a body martial soul, a Body Soul Master's strength would increase by 100% across the board-a full doubling.
Han Tianyi's spiritual power instantly broke through to Divine Origin Rank. This was why he was called the continent's foremost spiritual Soul Master.
With this trump card of his body martial soul's second awakening alone, his strength had already reached that of a demigod.
Together with another demigod unleashing explosive power, the two of them joined forces. Unless Chen Xinjie gave it his all, he absolutely could not defeat them in a short time.
And Han Tianyi dared to act precisely because he was not afraid that Chen Xinjie would kill them.
This fellow dared to give his own woman away and was willing to do anything for the War God Temple. How could he possibly bring catastrophic trouble upon it?
This was also why Han Tianyi had dared to come along with Qiangu Qingfeng.
When Chen Xinjie saw that the two not only refused to let him leave but were instead fighting him with their lives on the line, he was utterly enraged.
Even the hand gripping the Sea God Trident began trembling as fury burned within him:
"You... you... aaah... I really am angry!"
The three immediately became locked in battle.
Meanwhile, Yun Ming's heart also sank after hearing Chen Xinjie's words.
He understood why not a single person had arrived yet-it was the Spirit Pagoda!
"Spirit Pagoda, you deserve to die! Qiangu Clan! If we of Shrek survive today, we will settle the score with you afterward!"
Wait, if Chen Xinjie has been held back, doesn't that mean...?
Although he was very reluctant to admit it, the Spirit Pagoda's combat strength was extraordinarily formidable. Its three top combatants were not the slightest bit weaker than Shrek Academy's.
He immediately called Zang Xin, only to hear the sounds of fierce fighting from the other end. His heart instantly went cold. Just as he had thought.
"Who stopped you?"
"Qiangu Dongfeng.
"He attacked me the moment he arrived. I seriously can't take this.
"I won't be able to make it over there. My elder brother's chances probably aren't looking good either.
"Is that girl Ling Zichen all right or not?"
"She's been temporarily evacuated. She's your goddaughter, so naturally, I gave her special protection.
"But don't count too much on luck. This heavenly tribulation Di Tian triggered is no small matter. Tens of millions of people from Shrek City have fled outside, and no one knows what unexpected accidents might happen."
"If you don't come, I can't guarantee anything either..."
"Yun Ming, you must guarantee it!
"Even if I have to blow myself up along with him, I'll make it over there! If anything happens to Zichen, my elder brother and I will fight you Shrek people to the death!"
With that, Zang Xin ended the call and began fighting Qiangu Dongfeng with his life on the line.
Yun Ming no longer even felt like making calls.
Zang Xin had been intercepted by Qiangu Dongfeng, so Cao Dezhi on the other side had probably been tied down by Qiangu Dieting.
Qiangu Dieting was a heaven-defying elder of the older generation who possessed nine red soul rings, with strength sufficient to rival his own.
If Cao Dezhi had faced Qiangu Dieting, he had probably already lost by now.
And that was indeed the case.
At this very moment, within an enormous valley.
No, this had originally been a mountain range. It was just that the mountain range had now been shattered into a valley.
The air was filled with an aura of destruction. Holding the Coiling Dragon Staff, Qiangu Dieting gently wiped the blood from it and looked with a hint of regret at the defeated figure before him:
"I originally thought I might get to see you brothers' Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Who would have thought one of you would be in the Blood God Legion and the other in the Tang Sect, worlds apart? The Federation really does keep its guard up against you.
"Still, you did let this old man scratch his itch for a fight. Your sword is quite good."
"Qiangu Dieting, you bully the young with your seniority and help a tyrant do evil! Our Tang Sect will not let this matter rest with you. If anything happens to Zichen, I will fight you to the death!"
"This old man isn't dead yet! And I'm hale and hearty. Living another few decades will be no problem at all-enough time for my grandson, great-grandson, and clansmen to grow up.
"What the hell does your Tang Sect amount to?"
Qiangu Dieting made no attempt to hide it.
"I don't want things to get too ugly. Until Shrek's heavenly tribulation ends, you will stay here and behave yourself.
"Actually, I would quite like you to go throw your lives away. But what this old man hates most is an unpredictable factor. Your Martial Soul Fusion Skill is one, and I dislike it very much, so I cannot let the two of you get together."
"I won't let myself be captured without a fight!"
Cao Dezhi spat out a mouthful of blood, determination in his eyes. Terrifying, merciless killing intent, imbued with the utmost icy chill, surged as he charged at Qiangu Dieting once again.
At this moment, it was not only the powerhouses of these few major factions who had been intercepted.
For every faction on friendly terms with Shrek, the Spirit Pagoda had sent a pagoda master to intercept them.
Today could be called quite lively indeed.
Within Shrek City, the thunderclouds were still brewing furiously.
However, the lightning in the sky had now condensed to the utmost limit, as though it might fall at any moment and blast everything into drifting ash.
Yun Ming had now burned himself to the utmost limit as well. He had even forcibly drawn a large amount of power of faith from the unconscious Ya Li again, forcibly maintaining his demigod divine position and raising his condition to its peak.
Just then,
Rumble-
The World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment that had brewed for more than two full hours finally crashed down beneath the eyes of the masses-no, amid the terror of countless people.
This heavenly tribulation primarily targeted Di Tian.
The first bolt of Purple-Gold Divine Lightning pierced the curtain of the sky. A bolt a hundred zhang thick, carrying terrifying divine might, struck Di Tian with unerring accuracy.
Di Tian neither dodged nor evaded, bringing his nine hundred thousand years of cultivation to bear as he resisted with his life on the line.
In truth, he could not dodge it anyway. Soul beasts could not undergo human transformation when facing a tribulation; they had to face it in their original bodies.
With such an enormous target, the lightning could not possibly strike the wrong place.
After the thickest bolt struck Di Tian, it exploded into lightning that filled the sky.
More than half of it fell upon Di Tian's draconic body, striking his dragon scales with a series of crackling explosions.
The remaining half instantly swept across all of Shrek Academy. Every building in Shrek, which covered a thousand li, was instantly vaporized and annihilated. Those sturdy soul-tool buildings and solid pavilions built from all kinds of ten-thousand-year-old materials were all reduced to drifting ash.
The lightning spread even farther into Shrek City outside, sweeping across more than half of Shrek Academy.
All the civilians who had failed to escape were swallowed by the lightning.
This first bolt of tribulation lightning alone destroyed Shrek Academy in its entirety, and more than half of Shrek City vanished with it.
Even the Spirit Pagoda on the outermost edge was now bathed in terrifying lightning.
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