Chapter 185: One Against Three, the Powerful Du Busi
The atmosphere above the tree-lined path had grown so dense it felt as though the very oxygen had been vacuumed away. A suffocating pressure clamped down on the area, making every breath a struggle.
Yan Shaozhe, Elder Song, and Xian Lin'er positioned themselves in a flawless triangular formation. Beneath their feet, the rhythmic oscillation of their nine soul rings spun at maximum velocity, casting a blinding, multicolored glare across the night. As the foundational pillars of Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion, these three possessed an ingrained arrogance. They firmly believed that by joining forces, there was no corner of the continent they could not walk unchallenged.
Behind Yan Shaozhe, the phantom wings of the Light Phoenix flared wide. The sheer soul power of a Rank 97 Super Douluo erupted without reservation, illuminating half the night sky with a holy, daylight-like brilliance.
To his side, verdant shadows flickered violently around Elder Song. Her Rank 97 Green Shadow Divine Eagle martial soul materialized, emitting a razor-sharp aura of speed that seemed to physically slice through the howling wind.
Though Xian Lin'er's cultivation was slightly lower, the domineering, explosive attributes of her Rank 96 Azure Flame Dragon ensured her raw combat strength rivaled the others.
Yet, standing directly across from this overwhelming display of power, Du Busi remained perfectly still. He didn't even shift his stance.
"You three..." Du Busi's voice was a low, rumbling thunder. "If this is Shrek's final line of confidence, then I can only say I am deeply disappointed."
The moment the words left his lips, a terrifying, earth-crushing aura exploded from his body.
This was the absolute suppressive force unique to a Rank 98 Peak Douluo. Emerald-green soul power surged outward like a tidal wave, physically battering against Yan Shaozhe's holy light and forcibly compressing it back to within a mere three meters of the Shrek dean's body.
Elder Song moved first.
Recognized as the absolute fastest entity within Shrek Academy, she knew that in the face of such an impossible gap in raw strength, only extreme speed could carve out a sliver of hope.
"Emerald Sublimation!"
Her withered hands blurred into a series of complex seals. In that instant, her pitch-black ninth soul ring flared with an eerie, blinding radiance. This was her ultimate amplification skill, a technique that instantaneously pushed all her physical attributes—especially her agility—into a superhuman realm.
Immediately following that, her seventh soul ring ignited. Elder Song's physical body vanished into a burst of verdant light, instantly replaced by a massive divine eagle over ten meters wide, its feathers crystalline and translucent like carved emerald.
"Green Shadow Confusion!"
A piercing eagle cry tore through the void.
Elder Song's massive Martial Soul Avatar violently fractured into countless, needle-thin shadows of green light. Every single shadow contained a claw strike potent enough to shred through a standard Titled Douluo's ultimate defense. To the Imperial City Guards watching from afar, it appeared as though Elder Song had split into thousands of clones, swarming Du Busi from every conceivable angle.
Yet, amidst the chaotic barrage, her true target remained locked on Du Busi's most vulnerable blind spot—the dead center of his spine.
"Petty tricks."
Du Busi's eyes narrowed into cold slits. His own seventh soul ring flared to life.
A sickening chorus of grinding bones echoed across the path. His already massive three-meter frame expanded further. His skin darkened into a deep, toxic green, and every muscle fiber bulged outward, hardening until he looked as though he had been forged from ancient, cursed metal.
He didn't even bother to dodge. He simply stood there, allowing the thousands of razor-sharp green shadows to crash directly into his exposed back.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The deafening ring of metal striking metal sparked through the air. Elder Song's claw strikes, capable of shattering gold and jade with ease, rained down upon Du Busi's back—and failed to leave even a single white scratch on his skin.
"Got you."
Just as Elder Song realized the futility of her attack and attempted to pull up into the clouds, Du Busi's torso twisted at a grotesque, physically impossible angle. His massive hand, now coated in a thick layer of dark green keratin, punched straight through the storm of illusions. His fingers clamped shut like a steel vice, accurately crushing around the neck of the true Green Shadow Divine Eagle.
"Get lost!"
Du Busi roared, pulling his right arm back. The muscles in his shoulder coiled, and he threw a terrifyingly simple punch.
There were no flashy soul skill effects. No dazzling lights. There was only pure, unadulterated, ultimate physical violence.
Suspended by her throat, Elder Song had absolutely no room to evade. She could only watch in horror as that colossal fist slammed directly into her avian chest.
Crack.
The sickening sound of caving ribs echoed clearly over the battlefield.
Elder Song vomited a massive spray of blood. Her massive Martial Soul Avatar was sent hurtling backward like a kite with a snapped string, plowing violently into the earth. The impact cratered the ground several meters deep, and the brilliant green light surrounding her form flickered and dimmed to a dying ember.
"Elder Song!"
Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er screamed, their eyes practically splitting at the seams from sheer rage.
Never in their wildest nightmares did they expect Elder Song—a genuine Super Douluo—to be critically injured in a single exchange, failing to last even one round against the Body Sect Master.
"Du Busi! Do you truly wish to forge a blood feud with my Shrek?!"
Yan Shaozhe howled in grief and indignation. The Light Phoenix phantom behind him completely fused into his flesh. A terrifying hint of suicidal frenzy bled into his normally holy aura. Igniting his strongest ninth soul skill, he transformed into a colossal, blinding white meteor, hurtling toward Du Busi with a searing, apocalyptic heat meant to incinerate all creation.
"Azure Flame Annihilation!"
Xian Lin'er flanked from the side, entirely abandoning her defense. Her Azure Flame Dragon Avatar became wreathed in dark, sickly green flames—a terrifying fire that not only possessed extreme temperatures but also carried a highly corrosive property that devoured soul power.
The dragon's maw unhinged, unleashing a thick, concentrated pillar of azure dragon breath. Containing the very essence of her lifelong cultivation, the blast synchronized perfectly with Yan Shaozhe's meteor strike, forming a desperate, pincer execution.
Facing the absolute peak combined assault of two Super Douluos, the arrogant smirk on Du Busi's face only widened into a manic grin.
"Good! Let me see just how much weight you frogs at the bottom of the well actually carry!"
Du Busi threw both arms wide. Dense, emerald-green soul power rapidly condensed, forming a monolithic, crystalline shield directly in front of him.
BOOM—!
Three apocalyptic forces of soul power collided head-on. The resulting shockwave ripped through the air, tearing up the paving stones and forcing the spectating Imperial City Guards, Princess Weina, and the others to retreat frantically by several hundred meters just to survive the backdraft.
Yan Shaozhe's holy light and Xian Lin'er's corrosive azure flames frantically chewed away at Du Busi's emerald shield, desperately searching for a single structural weakness.
Yet, Du Busi stood behind the barrier like an immovable mountain weathering a storm.
"Get! Back!"
Du Busi's arms jerked forward with explosive violence. The emerald-green shield detonated outward.
A tidal wave of pure physical kinetic force, fused with an ocean of soul power, physically crushed the offensive momentum of the Light Phoenix and the Azure Flame Dragon.
Yan Shaozhe felt an unmatched, invasive surge of brute force tear into his meridians. Even relying on the ultimate purification properties of the Light Phoenix, he simply could not dissolve such an overwhelming level of violence in time.
His glowing figure convulsed violently in mid-air before he was swatted away like a cannonball. He slammed heavily into the distant palace wall, the sheer impact spider-webbing the reinforced stone into dust.
Xian Lin'er's situation was far more tragic. Her soul power cultivation was two entire ranks lower than Du Busi's.
In the direct, head-on clash of raw power, her Martial Soul Avatar reached its breaking point. Massive azure scales shattered and rained down like bloody glass. Her dragon form forcibly dispersed, leaving her human figure swaying unsteadily in the wind.
"Is this all you've got?"
Du Busi sneered. His massive frame flickered, blurring into the void.
While his movements lacked the flashy, ethereal grace of Elder Song's speed, every single step he took seemed to compress space itself, instantly closing the distance.
Over the next few agonizing minutes, the sickening, wet thuds of flesh-to-flesh impacts echoed relentlessly above the ruined path.
It was a one-sided, merciless slaughter.
Relying on the completely abnormal defensive properties of his Body Martial Soul's Secondary Awakening, Du Busi utterly ignored any desperate long-range harassment from Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er. Every time he closed the distance, his fists and feet left bone-deep wounds on the two Shrek deans.
A brutal whip kick caught Yan Shaozhe in the ribs, the sickening crunch of bone preceding his horizontal flight through the air.
Xian Lin'er desperately thrust her Azure Flame Spear forward, only for Du Busi's iron-like palm to casually swat it aside. The weapon shattered into useless motes of light, and a backhand slap sent her crashing face-first into the dirt.
Slowly, the choking dust began to settle.
Yan Shaozhe, Elder Song, and Xian Lin'er stood huddled together, leaning heavily on one another just to remain upright. Their faces were as pale as fresh corpses.
Their Martial Soul Avatars had long since been violently shattered. Their once-magnificent, pristine Shrek robes were reduced to blood-soaked rags, and their internal soul power was in a state of chaotic collapse.
In stark contrast, Du Busi stood a few paces away. Aside from a slightly elevated breathing rate, there was not a single scratch on his body.
He casually deactivated his Martial Soul Avatar, his muscles shrinking back to their normal, yet still imposing, proportions. Clasping his hands behind his back, the master of the Body Sect looked down with cold, absolute disdain at the three Supreme Elders of Shrek Academy.
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