Chapter 275: Elder Xuan Beaten Like a Dead Dog, Di Tian Left Deeply Shocked
"That's not right... You're not Zi Ji. The real Zi Ji is not this powerful!"
After crashing face-first into the ground, Elder Xuan staggered back to his feet.
Zi Ji was ranked ninth among the Ten Great Fierce Beasts, with a cultivation approaching three hundred thousand years. At most, her strength was comparable to a rank ninety-seven Super Douluo.
But he was a rank ninety-eight Peak Douluo.
How could Zi Ji casually swat him away with a single strike?
Not even Elder Mu, the pillar of Shrek Academy, could accomplish such a feat.
Unless...
The Beast God, Di Tian, from the Star Dou Great Forest, had personally arrived.
"Old fool, I am Zi Ji."
"Since you just tried to harm the hundred-thousand-year soul beast of our Star Dou Great Forest, then have a taste of my Hell Demon Dragon Claw."
Zi Ji looked at Elder Xuan coldly.
As Bibi Dong's spirit soul companion, and with Bibi Dong's cultivation having already reached the peak of the quasi-god realm...
Zi Ji's own cultivation had likewise approached one million years, granting her strength equivalent to a peak quasi-god.
The next instant, soul power surged around her.
A colossal purple-black dragon claw, hundreds of meters in size, materialized above her.
Feeling the terrifying might contained within that attack, cold sweat poured down Elder Xuan's face.
This Hell Demon Dragon Claw was undoubtedly the most terrifying attack he had ever witnessed in his life.
"Stop!"
"I'm from Shrek!"
"Shrek Academy is the Sea God's faith on the Douluo Continent!"
With no other options left, Elder Xuan could only reveal his background, hoping to intimidate Zi Ji.
"The Sea God?"
"Then it's the Sea God's followers I'm beating!"
The moment she heard those words, Zi Ji poured even more soul power into her attack.
The gigantic purple-black claw expanded even further, radiating an even more terrifying aura.
Seeing that Zi Ji had become even angrier, Elder Xuan glanced at Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue, who stood behind her watching coldly, and his own anger flared.
Pointing at the two women, he shouted,
"You traitors to humanity!"
"You've sided with soul beasts!"
"You're betrayers of all human soul masters!"
Watching the old fool continue pointing at her while hurling insults, Bibi Dong couldn't help laughing in amusement.
"Zi Ji."
"Help me tear off that arm of his."
"And leave him alive."
"Letting the old fool die so easily would be letting him off far too lightly."
In the calmest tone imaginable, Bibi Dong delivered the cruelest command.
"Understood."
The Hell Demon Dragon Claw behind Zi Ji lunged toward Elder Xuan.
Its target...
Was his arm.
Seeing the attack approaching, Elder Xuan immediately unleashed his Taotie Divine Bull True Body as nine soul rings revolved around his body.
Facing the descending Hell Demon Dragon Claw, the Taotie Divine Bull True Body charged forward to meet it head-on.
"Don't underestimate this old man!"
Elder Xuan even had the leisure to boast as he rushed forward.
But the very next moment...
A miserable scream echoed across the battlefield.
"AAAAAH!"
"My arm!"
"My soul power... my cultivation!"
The Hell Demon Dragon Claw effortlessly tore off Elder Xuan's arm, the very arm fused with his soul bone.
The instant he lost that arm, his soul power plummeted by an entire ten levels.
From a rank ninety-eight Peak Douluo...
He fell directly to rank eighty-eight.
"Zi Ji."
"Capture him."
Bibi Dong spoke once more.
"Understood."
Zi Ji responded softly as the Hell Demon Dragon Claw immediately restrained Elder Xuan.
At that moment, Bibi Dong stepped forward through the air and looked down upon Zhang Lexuan from above.
"You."
"Member of Shrek."
"Go back and inform your leaders."
"If they want this old fool back..."
"They can come in person."
"A rank ninety-eight Peak Douluo..."
"Especially now that the Master of your Sea God Pavilion is on the verge of death..."
"He should be worth quite a hefty price, don't you think?"
The corners of Bibi Dong's lips curved upward into a bewitching smile.
Simply destroying Shrek Academy outright would be letting them off too easily.
Bibi Dong wanted to watch Shrek decline step by step, its reputation utterly ruined, until it finally perished in despair.
Zhang Lexuan looked at Elder Xuan, who was held in Zi Ji's dragon claw like a dead dog.
"I understand."
"Please don't kill Elder Xuan."
"Our Shrek Academy will definitely come to ransom him."
Without another word, Zhang Lexuan hurried away.
Despite the injuries covering her body, she still rushed back toward Shrek Academy as quickly as possible.
Not long after Zhang Lexuan left...
Zi Ji and Bibi Dong seemed to sense something.
Zi Ji turned her gaze toward Elder Xuan, who was still hanging there like a dead dog. Purple-black soul power condensed into a palm before slamming into the back of his head.
Elder Xuan immediately lost consciousness.
The next instant...
A black dragon several hundred meters long appeared in the sky above Zi Ji and Bibi Dong.
The enormous dragon transformed into a human figure before descending in front of them, his eyes filled with both shock and confusion.
He was shocked because two experts whose strength rivaled his own had suddenly appeared within the Star Dou Great Forest.
He was confused because one of them looked exactly like Zi Ji from the Great Fierce Land and even belonged to the Hell Demon Dragon King clan.
"Who are you?"
Di Tian finally voiced the question that had been troubling him.
"I am Zi Ji."
"But I'm not the Zi Ji of this spacetime."
Zi Ji calmly explained her origins.
"Not... from this spacetime?"
Di Tian was completely dumbfounded.
This was far beyond anything he knew.
Although he couldn't understand it, he silently accepted the explanation.
Thinking of the other world's Zi Ji, whose strength rivaled his own, as well as the two human soul masters accompanying her, Di Tian voiced another question.
"If you're this powerful..."
"Are you from the future?"
"And the fact that you've come here together with two human soul masters..."
"Does that mean humans and soul beasts have already learned to coexist peacefully?"
Although the idea of humans and soul beasts living in harmony was difficult for Di Tian to believe...
Zi Ji was one of the Great Fierce Beasts.
She would never betray the soul beast race by colluding with humanity.
"We're not from the future."
"We're from a time ten thousand years in the past."
"In that era, an extraordinary man appeared in the soul master world."
"He brought peace between humans and soul beasts."
"He united the entire Douluo Continent."
"And he became the sovereign above countless gods."
Zi Ji spoke with heartfelt reverence.
After learning the history of ten thousand years later, she understood even more clearly just how great Yun Yuan truly was.
He was nothing less than the savior of the soul beast race.
Unfortunately...
This world had no Yun Yuan.
Instead, someone as despicable as Sea God Tang San ruled the age.
After hearing Zi Ji's explanation, Di Tian couldn't help feeling envious.
"The two beside me are Lord Yun Yuan's wives."
"Oh, that's right."
"Our Lord is also one of Lord Yun Yuan's wives."
Zi Ji introduced Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to Di Tian.
"Our Lord... is Lord Yun Yuan's wife?!"
Di Tian was stunned once again.
"It seems the relationship between our soul beast race and humanity isn't merely peaceful..."
"It's actually extremely close."
"Your guess is correct, Di Tian."
"The relationship between soul beasts and human soul masters in our era is indeed very close."
"We have Spirit Soul Contracts."
"Soul beasts can form contracts with soul masters, providing them with soul rings while becoming their lifelong battle companions."
"At the same time, soul beasts grow alongside their soul masters, eliminating the need for countless years of cultivation."
"After the soul master dies, the soul beast is also able to separate from them once more."
"It's an incredibly friendly system for our soul beast race."
"The woman beside me is Bibi Dong."
"I am her spirit soul companion."
"The reason I've become this powerful is because I've grown together with her."
"And once she becomes a god..."
"I'll ascend alongside her as well."
Zi Ji continued explaining the Spirit Soul Contract system to Di Tian.
End of Chapter
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