"Live on—"
Xie Huanyue's shout resounded through the skies of Rising Sun City. His actions, it could be said, were leading his Straw Hat Brigade to stand against the entire Sun Moon Empire.
"Xiaotao, you have to trust Yuhao." Zhang Lexuan also spoke.
Facing those pairs of resolute eyes, at this moment, Ma Xiaotao only felt her already silent heart suddenly beat violently.
The Demon King, in order to save his woman, had brought his companions to challenge the most powerful empire on the Douluo plane with unwavering determination.
The second destruction of Shrek Academy meant that the home that had watched her grow up since she was a child was gone for good.
Even though they valued Ma Xiaotao's soul master talent, which was unmatched by her peers.
However, in this world, there was still one place she could return to—
Ma Xiaotao's tears flowed uncontrollably, as if all her grievances were being released at this moment. She suddenly stood up, came to the front of the city tower, and shouted back at Xie Huanyue and the others.
"I want to live on—take me back to Yuhao's side too!"
Xie Huanyue smiled, and all the other companions also smiled.
"Snatch Sister Xiaotao back!"
Xie Huanyue shouted, and his Hegemon King's aura instantly swept across the entire field.
"Don't even think about it! Stop them!" Xu Tianran flew into a rage. He stood up, grabbed Ma Xiaotao's hair, and was about to smash her head against the railing.
"Ice, come!" Ling Luochen summoned her Ice Staff. With a raise of her hand, she remotely froze half of Xu Tianran's body, stopping his movements.
The current her was already a Soul Sage of Ultimate Ice!
Although Xu Tianran was a Titled Douluo, he was, after all, a disabled person. Most of his body had been replaced by soul tools. The restraint of Ultimate Ice on metal was fully demonstrated at this moment.
"Bastard!" Xu Tianran hurriedly cleared the ice crystals that were constantly seeping into his body. That extreme low temperature almost wanted to freeze his life through the metal.
"Protect me!"
Several Class 9 soul engineers came back to their senses and activated their soul tools to open their shields.
"Let me break this turtle shell!"
Facing the defense jointly constructed by several Class 9 soul engineers, Cui Yajie was long prepared. With Ning Tian's assistance, the Natural Spiral Storm instantly took shape.
At the same time, Ji Juechen flew out with Zimu's push. His three swords were unsheathed at the same time, sword qi filling the air.
"Three-Sword Style Secret Art—Sword Control Over the Three Realms!"
Bang, bang!
Before he could send out this slash, two bullets had already hit the protective shield first. They were precisely Ju Zi's fifth and sixth soul skills, the two great shield-breaking divine skills bestowed upon her by the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd: Shield-Breaking Seed and Rending Seed.
On Ju Zi's shoulder, she carried a strangely shaped soul tool weapon. It was very long, and its whole body was square. It was made exactly according to a weapon design drawing that Huo Yuhao had left for her. Ju Zi had named it "Ba-Lei-Te" (Barrett).
Ju Zi's attack only broke a fist-sized hole in the soul tool shield, but this was enough for Ji Juechen.
Three slashes landed one after another around the hole. The incomparably hard protective shield was immediately split with cracks by him.
One had to know that among the three swords Ji Juechen used, apart from the meteoric iron sword that was his original martial soul, one was the Sword of Judgment that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had used in the Dueling Soul Contest, and the other was the Sword of Adjudication that Jing Hongchen had personally made for him. Both were at the peak of Class 8 soul tools.
A Class 8 soul tool should not have been able to break the linked protective shield of Class 9 soul engineers. But Ji Juechen had just become fated for three lives with Jing Ziyan, and his sword path had reached great success. This strike had surpassed the original limit of the Three-Sword Style.
After this, Cui Yajie's killing blow followed. With the amplification of Ning Tian's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the destructive power of the Natural Spiral Storm was comparable to the full-strength strike of a Super Douluo!
On the city tower, countless people watched in terror. They saw the sky fill with flames, and the huge nine-tailed fox soul spirit's mouth spewed out huge energy balls, bombarding the soul tool shield. The city tower trembled, and with a loud noise, even more cracks appeared on the linked soul tool shield. The raging elemental storm dyed the entire protective shield a high-temperature crimson red.
The city tower was instantly submerged in flames. The linked soul tool shield, which had suffered too many attacks, finally could not bear the burden. It shattered with a boom before Xu Tianran's terrified eyes. At this time, the city tower where Xu Tianran was, shook violently, on the verge of collapse.
Under such a violent tremor, countless soldiers lost their balance. Some were thrown to the ground, and some were even unfortunately affected by the storm, quickly turning to ashes. The terrifying power of the enemy's soul skills made people feel extremely afraid.
At this point, all the protection in front of Xu Tianran had disappeared.
Ju Zi reloaded her bullets and accurately hit the scepter in Xu Tianran's hand with one shot. If there were bombs on Ma Xiaotao's body that were enough to threaten her life, the scepter that Xu Tianran had been clutching tightly in his hand from the beginning was very likely the detonation switch. At the same time, Nan Men Yun'er, who had transformed into a jade-green electric light, flashed past, grabbed the paralyzed Ma Xiaotao from the ground, and quickly flew back.
"Nice!" Everyone cheered. There was not a single Titled Douluo among them, yet they had completed such a feat.
The battle situation below finally made the Dragon God Douluo Mu En, who was entangled with the Demon Empress, change his expression drastically. The Sea God's Pavilion could be rebuilt if it was destroyed; it was just a symbolic building. But if something happened to Xu Tianran, the entire Sun Moon Empire would probably fall into complete chaos.
At that time, without the strong support of this Crown Prince, who was about to ascend the throne, Shrek Academy would probably find it difficult to move an inch in the Sun Moon Empire in the future.
"You... have angered this old man..."
An astonishing aura suddenly erupted from Mu En's body. The Demon Empress, who was entangled with him, had a slight change in her pretty face, and her delicate body was immediately shaken away by the thunderous aura. Taking this opportunity, Mu En dived down at an astonishing speed and struck Cui Yajie's huge Nine-Tailed Fox soul spirit with a Thunderous Dragon Claw.
"Leave that guy to me." Xie Huanyue leaped up. Facing the dragon claw condensed from lightning, he did not dodge, but forcefully withstood this blow.
"Kid, your body is rubber in its martial soul possessed state, right!" Although Mu En's eyes were filled with killing intent, he had, after all, been through a hundred battles and quickly figured out the reason why Xie Huanyue was immune to lightning.
"To be able to take my thunderous attack head-on without injury, you are the first person in this world!"
"Mu En—" Xie Huanyue's right arm suddenly expanded, becoming as thick as three people's arms combined.
Seeing that Xie Huanyue dared to charge at him, a trace of anger flashed across Mu En's old face. Did he really think that just because he was young, he could challenge him, a long-famous Ultimate Douluo?
Xie Huanyue's wild gaze was like lightning. He threw a punch, and his fist expanded again in the instant it was thrown.
Although Mu En's body was sturdy, he seemed small under Xie Huanyue's suddenly enlarged fist. Xie Huanyue struck with a heavy punch, and a huge force immediately pressed down on Mu En like a mountain. Mu En was sent flying into the sky by the huge force.
"Ohohohoh..." Then Xie Huanyue let out a roar. His body turned into a streak of lightning. The space he passed through was slightly distorted. Mu En, in mid-air, was unable to dodge and was once again hit directly, his whole person continuing to fly out.
Xie Huanyue's figure flashed again, instantly appearing behind the backward-flying Mu En. He smashed his fists, carrying an innate, supreme power, straight at Mu En's back.
In the eyes of outsiders, Xie Huanyue's every move was tight and ferocious. Mu En could only barely resist. A series of muffled sounds continued to ring.
"Kid, don't get carried away..."
In Mu En's hand, at some unknown time, he had taken out the cold-iron mace that had once fought with him in all directions. This fearsome weapon had tasted the blood of countless evil soul masters. This time, he was going to use it to clean house, and to cripple these rebellious students who had once studied at Shrek, one by one!
Xie Huanyue could clearly see that on the cold-iron mace in Mu En's hand, lightning was flashing, and the pressure of Reign Under Heaven was almost completely integrated into this one strike.
"Rubber—" Neither physical blows nor lightning had any effect on him, Xie Huanyue. Xie Huanyue's heart was set. He threw his fists back, his center wide open as he rushed towards Mu En.
"Thunder Roar—Hegemon's Cut!"
Mu En's right foot took a step forward. The aura of Reign Under Heaven suddenly retracted. That simple and unadorned cold-iron mace, with an incomparable momentum, smashed onto Xie Huanyue's face.
Xie Huanyue only felt his brain go blank, followed immediately by an intense, fatal pain that swept through his whole body. His next attack had not even had time to be launched before he was sent flying by Mu En.
"Xie Huanyue!"
"Fatty!"
Seeing this scene, everyone's faces showed horror, especially the princesses, Wei Na and Xu Jiujiu, who had already hidden far away.
Mu En slammed his mace heavily on the ground, his rough face full of disdain.
"Kid, what king did you say you wanted to become?"
He knew the power of his attack all too well. That one strike was enough to instantly kill any opponent below the Titled Douluo level!