Silence.
A deathly silence.
In the vast Star Luo Plaza, it felt as if the breathing of hundreds of thousands of people had been cut off in this instant.
Everyone's eyes were wide, staring fixedly at the golden figure lying on the ground in the center of the stage, and the young man standing behind her, unhurriedly dusting off his palms.
One second? Two seconds?
Perhaps not even two seconds had passed.
The absolute core of the Star Luo Team, the Princess Your Highness who had been given high hopes, hadn't even been able to fully release the effect of her first Spirit Ability before she was... gone?
"Whoosh—!!!"
After the brief silence, an explosion like a mountain tsunami erupted.
Only this time, the cheers and exclamations were mixed with many complex emotions.
"Holy crap! Am I seeing things? What just happened?"
"Sigh... Liu Yuan is as strong as ever! Without Ma Xiaotao, the others have even less of a chance to trade blows with him."
"Too brutal! That's the Princess Your Highness! Doesn't he have any pity for the fairer sex?"
"Strong! Too strong! This is the Aura of a new king! Regardless of whether you're a princess or not, anyone who blocks my path gets knocked down!"
Countless spectators sprang from their seats, some clutching their heads in disbelief, others waving their fists with fanaticism.
For the Spirit Master world that admired the strong, Liu Yuan's clean and decisive strike, which treated all fancy tricks as nothing, was simply the Peak performance of violent aesthetics!
What tactics? What coordination? What control chain?
In the face of absolute speed and power, they were all a joke!
"This... this is too fast..."
Although the Shrek exclusive waiting area was mostly empty, in an inconspicuous corner of the spectator stands, several figures wrapped in cloaks were silently watching all of this.
It was Ma Xiaotao and the others, whose injuries had stabilized slightly and who insisted on watching the finals.
At this moment, although Ma Xiaotao's face was still pale, her eyes were exceptionally bright.
She looked at that overbearing figure on the stage, a bitter yet relieved smile playing at the corners of her mouth.
"Liu Yuan, you truly are the man who defeated me with your own hands..."
"This guy is going to win the championship today..."
Beside her, Dai Yueheng clenched his fists tightly, his nails sinking deep into his palms, but he didn't speak.
As the son of the Star Luo Empire's Duke of White Tiger, seeing his own princess being taken down like slicing melons and vegetables made his heart feel a mixture of emotions.
But he had to admit that if he were standing there, his end would only be worse.
At this moment, the most uncomfortable person was none other than the Emperor of Star Luo, Xu Jiawei, sitting in the center of the main stage.
This usually majestic and profound Emperor Your Majesty's face was now as dark as the bottom of a pot.
His large hand resting on the armrest of the dragon throne had veins bulging, nearly crushing the hard, rare metal armrest.
"Is the gap... actually this large?"
Xu Jiawei sighed powerlessly in his heart.
He wasn't someone who couldn't afford to lose.
Before the match began, he had mentally prepared himself for the possibility that the Star Luo Team would lose.
After all, even Shrek had been defeated; expecting the Star Luo Team to create a miracle was indeed asking too much.
But he never expected they would lose so disgracefully!
How was this a final?
This was clearly an adult beating a child! It was a dimensional strike!
In front of hundreds of thousands of citizens, his own tactical core was casually swatted unconscious like a fly; this sense of shame made Xu Jiawei, the emperor, feel a burning pain on his face.
...
On the stage.
"Princess Your Highness!!!"
A shrill roar finally broke the daze of the Star Luo Team members.
Huang Heyun, the attack system Spirit King standing at the front of the team, his eyes instantly turned red.
Only when the dull thud of Xu Jiujiu hitting the ground reached their ears did these knights responsible for protecting the princess finally wake up from their state of mental stagnation.
Shame!
This was an unprecedented shame!
Right under their noses, in the center of their tight protective formation, the Princess Your Highness they were sworn to protect to the death was instakilled!
"Bastard! I'm going to kill you!"
Huang Heyun roared, his spirit power erupting like a volcano.
Martial Soul Possession—Dark Devil Tiger!
Roar!
A tiger's roar filled with a violent Aura sounded, and a pitch-black phantom of a devil tiger emitting a dense dark Aura appeared behind him.
Two yellow, two purple, and one black—five spirit rings rose instantly.
Third Spirit Ability—Devil Tiger Vajra Transformation!
Fifth Spirit Ability—Dark Devil Thunder!
No reservations, no probing.
Anger had clouded his mind; Huang Heyun immediately activated his strongest buffing Spirit Ability and his strongest single-target attack Spirit Ability from the start!
His muscles bulged across his entire body, and black lightning condensed crazily between his claws, turning into a black lightning ball over a meter in diameter, carrying an Aura of world-destroying power as it smashed fiercely toward the nearby Liu Yuan!
"Everyone, charge together! Fight him to the end!"
At the same time, the other Star Luo Team members also reacted.
Although fear still spread in their hearts, the anger of their core being instakilled and their dignity as the imperial team forced them to fight!
For a moment, the stage was filled with brilliant light.
The remaining five Star Luo Team members were like five frenzied beasts, pouring all sorts of dazzling Spirit Abilitys toward Liu Yuan as if they cost nothing.
However.
Liu Yuan, at the center of the storm, didn't even have a ripple of emotion on his face.
Looking at the incoming attacks, he only tilted his head slightly, as if dodging an annoying flying insect.
"Too slow."
It was that familiar evaluation again.
The next moment.
"Swish!"
Under Huang Heyun's terrified gaze, his sure-hit strike passed directly through Liu Yuan's body and smashed heavily onto the empty ground.
"Boom!"
A large crater was blasted into the stage, with rubble flying everywhere.
An afterimage?!
It was an afterimage again?!
Before Huang Heyun could react to where Liu Yuan's true body was, a gust of wind had already swept past his cheek.
Extreme Speed.
These two words seemed to become the death sentence for this match.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
No fancy Moves, just the pure kinetic impact brought by speed pushed to the extreme.
Liu Yuan's figure flickered like a ghost through the Star Luo Team's ranks.
Every pause was accompanied by a dull sound of flesh being struck.
"Ah!"
"Pfft!"
Three screams rang out almost simultaneously.
The three agility-attack system and attack system members who had been aggressively surrounding him were hit as if by a high-speed train head-on.
Their bodies were like kites with broken strings, tracing three tragic parabolas in the air before slamming heavily onto the edge of the stage, instantly falling unconscious.
One strike, three people instakilled!
Including the previous Xu Jiujiu, only three Star Luo Team members were left standing on the stage!
"This... how is this possible..."
Huang Heyun remained in his claw-swinging posture, frozen in place, his whole body cold.
In that instant just now, he hadn't even seen the corner of Liu Yuan's clothes.
In just the time it took for a single breath, more than half of his teammates had fallen.
Was this even a human?
This was simply a Vicious Beast in human skin!
"Is this your full power?"
Liu Yuan stopped and stood less than five meters from Huang Heyun, gently brushing away non-existent dust from his sleeve.
His gaze remained calm, with neither the ecstasy of a victor nor the mockery of the weak.
It was as if those he had just knocked down weren't some Spirit King Geniuses, but a few wooden posts blocking the way.
"If you're not convinced, I can give you one more chance."
Liu Yuan said indifferently, "Come on, use your strongest Moves and let me see the backbone of the Star Luo Empire."
These words were undoubtedly the greatest humiliation for the Star Luo Team at this moment, as well as the final provocation.
"Aaaaah! I'll fight you to the death!"
The only remaining Defense System Spirit King, seeing his teammates fall one by one, finally had his mental defenses collapse.
He roared, raising the heavy tower shield in his hand, charging toward Liu Yuan like a madman.
"Even if I lose! I'll take one of your teeth with me!"
Huang Heyun also gritted his teeth, a flash of determination in his eyes.
"Since I can't dodge, I'll go head-to-head!"
He exhausted every last bit of spirit power, and countless black light orbs fell like meteors, attempting to cover all of Liu Yuan's evasion space.
The remaining support system Spirit Master also placed all the buffing halos onto his two teammates for a final desperate struggle.
The struggle of a cornered beast is particularly tragic.
But in the face of an absolute gap in strength, courage is sometimes just a tragic decoration.
Facing this final counterattack, Liu Yuan shook his head.
"Boring."
This time, he didn't even Move his feet much.
His figure just swayed slightly.
Extreme Speed, activated again.
Those falling black meteors seemed to turn into snowflakes in slow-motion playback in his eyes, full of openings and gaps.
He strolled through the dense attack net and arrived in front of the shield-bearing Defense System Spirit King.
"Too fragile."
Liu Yuan extended a finger and lightly tapped the seemingly indestructible tower shield.
A terrifying vibration force erupted instantly.
"Clang—!"
That Defense System Spirit King felt an irresistible force hit him; the tower shield flew out of his hands instantly, and he was sent flying back over ten meters, his eyes rolling back as he fainted.
Immediately after, Liu Yuan turned on his heel and instantly appeared behind Huang Heyun.
At this moment, Huang Heyun had just finished releasing his Spirit Ability and was in a state of stiffness where his old strength was gone and new strength had yet to form.
He only felt a chill on the back of his neck.
"Sleep."
These were the last two words he heard before losing consciousness.
"Thud."
A precise hand-chop.
The Star Luo Team's strongest combatant, Huang Heyun, collapsed limply to the ground.
As for the last support system Spirit Master?
Seeing this scene, his legs went weak, and he slumped onto the ground, raising his hands and shouting tremulously, "I... I surrender!"
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