In the auditorium of Star Luo Plaza, the voices of hundreds of thousands of people wanting their money back were like waves lapping at the edge of Arena.
They spent real money to watch a wonderful peak match, but the final ended in such a hasty manner.
All seven members of Shrek were killed, and the game ended within a few moments of the team battle starting.
These audiences don't care who dies or wins. What they want to see is a wonderful and enjoyable fight, not a massacre that ends before it even begins.
But the overwhelming sound could not suppress the aura of Wrath in Yan Shaozhe that was on the verge of losing control.
The Soul Power all over his body was like boiling magma, and the pressure of level ninety-five Super Douluo exploded without reservation.
The bluestone beneath the feet was cracked inch by inch, Rubble was beating with the fluctuation of Soul Power, and the air within tens of feet around was slightly distorted by this sacred and violent force.
He slowly raised his hand, his fingertips turning white from exertion. The shadow of Bright Phoenix loomed behind him, and golden light feathers flew around the shadow.
Even the Sky Manipulation above the head darkened a bit under the pull of this force, and the clouds were torn into pieces by the invisible airflow and fled in all directions.
"Lu Ren----" His voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, low and hoarse, and every word was laced with blood foam,"
I want you to break your bones and spread your ashes!"
Before he finished speaking, Yan Shaozhe's figure turned into a golden stream of light and rushed straight towards Lu Ren on Arena.
Just relying on the strength of his physical body, when Yan Shaozhe rushed over, it already brought a sharp roar that rent the air.
The golden Soul Power condensed in the palm of the hand is so strong that it is almost substantial. If the palm is hit hard, it can easily break a mountain.0
His anger at the moment had already made him lose all his sanity. He no longer cared about Dean Shrek's dignity or Shrek's eternal glory.
He just wanted to use the most primitive and violent method to personally blast the man who slaughtered all his students in front of him into powder!
"Protect Lu Ren!" Jing Hongchen's face darkened, and he almost instinctively activated all Level 9 Soul Tool on his body.
The bright blue light and red light intertwined around him to form a dazzling light curtain. Dozens of Soul Guidance Ray shot out from all angles at the same time like a heavy rain, weaving an airtight fire net in the air and covering Yan Shaozhe.
At the same time, a huge soul shield appeared out of thin air in front of Lu Ren. Several layers of superimposed defensive formations flowed on the shield surface, and the light was solid as a metal barrier.
"Bang!"
Yan Shaozhe's palm slapped heavily on the soul shield.
The ninth-level soul shield trembled violently under that palm, and the shield surface was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and broken light shot out from the cracks like stardust.
Soul Guidance Ray fell on Yan Shaozhe, but was bounced away by the strong golden layer of Soul Power around him. The moment the energy beam touched Bright Phoenix Soul Power, it melted away like ice and snow meeting fire, leaving not even a trace behind.
But just at the moment when the soul shield was about to completely collapse, a black shadow appeared silently in front of Yan Shaozhe.
Zhang Peng didn't even release Martial Soul, he just raised his calloused right hand and slapped it neatly.
Level ninety-six Scorpion Tiger Douluo's Soul Power formed a dark shock wave in the palm of his hand, accurately hitting the weakest point of Yan Shaozhe's body protection Soul Power.
Yan Shaozhe was sent flying diagonally by this palm. He flipped several times in the air before he managed to stabilize his body. The moment he landed on the ground, a large piece of the bluestone beneath his feet was crushed.
A clearly visible palm print appeared on his left cheek, and a stream of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
Zhang Peng didn't spare any effort with that palm. If Soul Power's body protection wasn't strong enough, this blow would have been enough to smash his skull into pieces.
"Are you so anxious to die?"
Zhang Peng retracted his palms and stood with his hands behind his back, firmly protecting Lu Ren behind him.
There was an expression of indifference on that old face, and his tone was as calm as if he was dismissing a beggar with no eyesight.
Yan Shaozhe stood firm, raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and stared at Zhang Peng with his golden eyes. His voice was cold and full of warning. "Zhang Peng, I believe that since you are publicly born in front of the whole continent this time, the news will definitely reach Mu En."
"Do you think Mu En will let you go? Back then, he spared your life because he thought you had never harmed anyone, but you have repeatedly intervened in Shrek's affairs. Today, you publicly protected a murderer who massacred my Shrek student."
"This is already the third time. Mu En's patience has its limit."
If this guy hadn't suddenly stood in Lu Ren's camp, their Shrek would have forcibly taken down Lu Ren, leaving him no chance to stand on Arena to finish the game.
Every time Zhang Peng appeared, it disrupted all their plans at the most critical moment. The first time was in Mingdu's hotel, and the second time was outside Star Luo City, where he directly destroyed the bait they arranged, and cooperated with Jing Hongchen, killing one of their Super Douluo, who was Sea God Pavilion's old man.
And for the third time, in front of everyone, he blocked the knife for Lu Ren.
This is really too fatal. Who would have thought that Lu Ren would suddenly have a level 96 super fighter?
I don't know what he poured into Zhang Peng to make Zhang Peng worth doing this for him, even against the Shrek Academy.
"Haha." Zhang Peng chuckled and said nothing. He just held Lu Ren closer behind him.
His gaze crossed Yan Shaozhe and fell on the group of pale-faced Shrek students behind him, Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao. The three remaining children were huddled together and shivering.
"Yan Shaozhe, I advise you to take your students back now and stop fighting here. Otherwise, if there is a fight, all the remaining geniuses in your college will really die."
After saying that, Zhang Peng withdrew his gaze and looked at Yan Shaozhe again, without any concession in his turbid old eyes.
At the same time, Jing Hongchen in the distance was not idle either. An eighth-level Eye of Fear had been deployed directly above his head.
It was a dark silver metal eyeball, suspended in mid-air and slowly rotating. The crystal structure in the center of the eyeball reflected a heart-stopping dark red light in the sunlight.
Although it is only Level 8 Soul Tool, Eye of Fear's reputation as the strongest eighth-level soul guide is definitely not in vain.
Its specific effects are: a launch distance of up to three hundred meters, precise positioning by the caster on the ground, and an attack coverage diameter of up to one kilometer.
It can be fired every fifteen to twenty seconds, and the power of level eight Eye of Fear is three times that of level seven, and it also has an additional bombing effect.
A single bombing is enough to eliminate any vegetation within a radius of fifty meters.
Jing Hongchen showed off all his family assets. He stood upright at the moment, his eyes narrowed into two dangerous slits, and his fingers were already on Eye of Fear's position Soul Tool.
The combination of Level 9 Soul Engineer and the strongest Level 8 Soul Tool is enough to threaten the life safety of any Super Douluo.
But when they made a scene like this, the audience who originally shouted for refunds suddenly became interested and shouted, "Frog, this is even better than the finals."
"It's true, it's rare to see these big guys fighting - it's much more valuable than buying a ticket to the final!"
"Fight! Fight!!!"
"We want to see a river of blood!"
"Yes, yes! Rivers of blood!"
Ignoring the shouts of the audience, Yan Shaozhe glanced back and forth between Zhang Peng and Jing Hongchen, a level 96 Scorpion Tiger Douluo and a fully armed Level 9 Soul Engineer.
He really can't break through such a lineup head-on.
He gritted his teeth, glared at Lu Ren fiercely, and squeezed out a cold threat from the depth of his throat. "Don't think that these two can protect you for the rest of your life! Next time, Mu En will come out in person, and you will slaughter all the blood debt of my Shrek students. Sea God Pavilion will never give up."
"I don't intend to let them protect me for the rest of my life." Lu Ren responded expressionlessly.
Then he tilted his head slightly, looked past Yan Shaozhe, towards the sky behind him, and said meaningfully, "Now, you should find where your Xuan Zi is."
Yan Shaozhe's pupils suddenly shrank, and he suddenly remembered that the direction Xuan Zi Just now was leaving was inside Star Luo City.
And there is a humanoid cockroach currently raging in Star Luo City.
He has been confronting Lu Ren on Arena, and has no time left to pay attention to the battle situation in the city.
Now Lu Ren suddenly mentioned Xuan Zi, and the implication could not be more obvious.
They also made arrangements for Xuan Zi, and they want to do something to Xuan Zi!
"If anything happens to Xuan Zi - no matter who it is, they will never be able to save you!"
Yan Shaozhe didn't finish what he said, but the killing intent surging in his golden eyes had already completed all the unfinished words for him.
He waved his sleeves suddenly, turned around and strode away. As he walked, he gave a stern order to the Shrek students behind him, "Everyone, follow me to evacuate immediately and go to the city to join Xuan Zi!"
The only remaining people, Huo Yuhao, seemed to have received amnesty, and they rolled and crawled to keep up with Yan Shaozhe.
Wang Dong'er looked back at Lu Ren before leaving. Those pink-blue eyes were full of complex emotions, but Lu Ren never looked at her.
"Okay, they're gone, it's time for us to go back." Jing Hongchen confirmed that all the people in Shrek had left Star Luo Plaza, put away Eye of Fear, and strode to Lu Ren.
He lowered his voice, with a hint of uncontrollable expectation in his tone. "At this time, Xuan Zi must have been trapped by your people, right? He won't be able to free his hands next time?"
"That's right, Shrek only Xuan Zi is the existence of Level 98. Although Yan Shaozhe is also Super Douluo, he is only level ninety-five."
"As long as Xuan Zi is trapped, the remaining people are just meat on the chopping board to us." Lu Ren nodded, his voice calm and cold.
"So next, we can safely and boldly carry out a massacre on Shrek, starting from Star Luo City and killing all the way. I want those old guys Sea God Pavilion to know that if they want to play tricks on me, they must first pay the price with blood."
"Very good." Jing Hongchen's eyes almost overflowed with murderous intent. He raised his hand and patted Lu Ren's shoulder heavily, "As long as Shrek is seriously injured, the next step will be just Three Great Empires, who has not been taken seriously by us Sun Moon Empire."
"Master, please take the students away from Star Luo City first. It won't be safe here." Lu Ren turned to look at Jing Hongchen with a hint of seriousness in his tone, "This battle is no longer just about Arena. If Xuan Zi can still come out, then the entire Star Luo City will become a battlefield."
"At that time, it will not be easy for you, Hall Master, to protect so many students by yourself. Let us at least ensure that the students leave Star Luo City safely before starting the war, so that there will be no worries.
"No problem, I will lead the team myself, and Star Luo Empire won't dare to stop us."
Jing Hongchen nodded solemnly, turned around and strode towards Sun Moon Team's meeting point, and began to organize students to evacuate the city that was about to turn into a battlefield as soon as possible.
Lu Ren and Zhang Peng withdrew into a secluded alley.
The high walls on both sides of the alley isolate the hustle and bustle of Star Luo Plaza from the outside. The eaves above the head shield Sky Manipulation, with only a few rays of sunlight leaking through the gaps in the tiles.
At this moment, a Cursed Spirit with a huge mouth slowly emerged from the shadow at the feet of Lu Ren.
It was one of the Grade 3 Cursed Spirits he had created in the past month. It was good at swallowing and had an independent space in its body. It could swallow any target into its belly and preserve it during battle.
Its big mouth, which occupied almost two-thirds of its entire body, opened slightly and spit out an intact human body.
Ma Xiaotao was lying on the ground wet, and her clothes were stained with the unique transparent mucus in Cursed Spirit's body, but her body was intact, with no stab wounds, no blood, and not even a hair missing.
Her chest was rising and falling slightly, her breathing was steady and even, but her eyes were closed tightly, and she was still in a deep coma.
Zhang Peng was completely stunned by this scene.
He knelt down and felt the breath of Ma Xiaotao carefully.
Alive, truly alive!
Moreover, the Soul Power in Meridians is still flowing slowly, and the heart is beating steadily in the chest.
He raised his head and stared at Lu Ren with an expression of shock and confusion. "What happened? I clearly remember that you cut her into pieces in that field. How could she still be alive?"
"Her other teammates really didn't even leave their bodies intact. Why did you only leave her alone?"
Lu Ren was not in a hurry to explain.
He knelt down and took out from his arms a small Cursed Spirit that was only the size of a fingernail, completely black, and shaped like some kind of parasitic larvae.
He grabbed Ma Xiaotao's chin, forced her mouth open, and then fed the little bug Cursed Spirit into her throat.
The moment the bug came into contact with the inner wall of her mouth, it turned into a very thin black line, slid into her body along the esophagus, and silently integrated into her Meridians system.
After doing all this, Lu Ren stood up, used Soul Power to evaporate the remaining mucus on his hands, and explained, "I used Spiritual Power to disguise this in advance, so that everyone would think that Ma Xiaotao is not even a scumbag left."
"Actually, I used this thing to swallow her completely into the space inside my body and preserve it. From the beginning to the end, I had no intention of killing her. After all, she is still useful, and I can use her to weaken a wave of Shrek's combat power."
He looked down at the unconscious Ma Xiaotao and confirmed that the current Ma Xiaotao had indeed been backfired by Cursed Energy.
Otherwise, Lu Ren wouldn't have to use Cursed Energy to guide the Evil Fire in Ma Xiaotao's body, causing her Evil Fire to burn herself.
"Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul is Evil Fire Phoenix. She has been eroded by Evil Fire since she was a child, and has been barely suppressed by Shrek's resources."
"But Evil Fire is like a spring. The longer it is pressed, the harder it rebounds. I stabilized her life just now, but I did not suppress Evil Fire for her, because what I want is for her to be completely swallowed up by Evil Fire." Lu Ren's voice was flat, "Her current Martial Soul has been completely swallowed by Evil Fire, and the Soul Power in her body has been transformed into Evil Soul Power by Evil Fire. Strictly speaking, she is no longer an ordinary Soul Master, she is a Evil Soul Master."
"And Martial Soul is also a Evil Soul Master who is of extremely high quality and top talent, and is in his early twenties. I'm afraid there won't be another youngster like this in the entire continent. This bargaining chip is enough to make anyone's heart flutter."
Lu Ren paused and looked at Zhang Peng: "Brother Peng, I may have to trouble you next."
"How do you say that?" Zhang Peng raised his eyebrows, and a glimmer of enlightenment flashed in his eyes.
He had already vaguely guessed what Lu Ren was going to say next, but he still wanted to hear the young man speak out in full the plan that was so bold that it was almost crazy.
"I will return Ma Xiaotao to the people of Shrek later and ask them to take Ma Xiaotao back."
"Then you send this news back to Holy Spirit Cult, saying that Star Luo City has discovered a Evil Soul Master super genius in his early twenties. Martial Soul is of extremely high quality and has Limitless potential. He is now at his weakest and easiest to absorb new members."
Lu Ren continued, "I believe that with Holy Spirit Cult's temperament, they will never miss this opportunity. They will try their best to contact Ma Xiaotao and absorb her into Holy Spirit Cult."
Just like in the original work, Holy Spirit Cult will definitely rush into Shrek to snatch people because of the existence of Ma Xiaotao, and then conflict with Mu En, weakening Mu En's status.
Otherwise, with what he is doing now, he plans to make Shrek's people bleed like rivers of blood. Then Mu En will probably rush over and fight him desperately before long.
A desperate Level 99 Limit Douluo, if he doesn't use a wave of Holy Spirit Cult's power to attract Mu En or even weaken his combat effectiveness, nervous sweat will appear on Lu Ren's face.
With his current abilities, there is no way he can fight Tsukumo-level Mu En. He, Lu Ren, is not so arrogant.
The moment the words "Holy Spirit Cult" came out of Lu Ren's mouth, Zhang Peng's movements froze slightly.
He was silent for two breaths, then slowly straightened up and looked at Lu Ren with a very meaningful self-light.
The expression on that old face was no longer the usual cheerful look, but a complex look that was mixed with surprise, relief and some inexplicable joy.
"It seems that little brother has long known that I am from Holy Spirit Cult."
His voice was hoarse and low, but there was no trace of anger or embarrassment after being exposed. Instead, he seemed to be confirming a fact that he already knew.
"Yes, after all, I know the legend of Brother Peng. Scorpion Tiger Douluo, because Martial Soul needed to suck blood, he was labeled Evil Soul Master by the world, wanted by Original Three Nations, and finally caught by Mu En himself."
Lu Ren's tone was still calm, as if he was recalling a piece of history that had nothing to do with him.
"Mu En missed you and never harmed anyone, so I let you live. You retired for decades, and during this time, you joined Holy Spirit Cult, because it is the only place where you are not excluded or treated as an alien."
"So I'm not surprised that Brother Peng would join Holy Spirit Cult. In the final analysis, you just chose a place that allows you to survive."
"Then the little brother is still willing to believe me?" Zhang Peng tilted his head slightly, his eyebrows twisted into a strange arc, and a trace of unconcealable confusion flashed in his cloudy old eyes.
"Holy Spirit Cult acts extremely secretively, but anyone who knows the inside story must know that this is an organization composed of Evil Soul Master."
"I'm very curious about where you got these inside stories, but more importantly, you know that I am a Holy Spirit Cult, a Evil Soul Master that everyone in the population says will be punished. Are you still willing to believe me?"