Chapter 277 Xuanzi's defenses are breached, and Du Busi reveals himself!
The faint glow of the neon lights shone through the window lattice, illuminating the layer of white frost formed by the laws of extreme cold in the room.
Xuanzi stood several meters away from the bed, feeling as if he had been struck by lightning.
He stared intently at Liu Yuan, dressed in white, sitting on the edge of the bed with a mocking expression, and Xue Di, who was suspended in mid-air radiating an extremely cold light. His old face, hidden in the shadows, began to twitch uncontrollably.
At this moment, Xuanzi's defenses completely crumbled.
He couldn't understand why Liu Yuan knew his whereabouts in advance and even set up such a meticulously planned trap in this room.
Keep in mind, he is a level 99 Limit Douluo.
Before infiltrating the hotel, he used his ultimate level of spiritual domain to forcibly suppress all his soul power, breathing, heartbeat, and even the flow of blood and qi to an absolute state of stillness that even high-altitude detection soul guides could not detect.
He crept along the long street, climbed over fences, and silently opened windows, believing the whole process to be flawless and impossible to attract anyone's attention.
But the situation before him cruelly told him that his every move was, in Liu Yuan's eyes, just a clumsy circus act with a script that had already been read in advance.
"You... how could you possibly have discovered me?"
Xuanzi gritted his teeth and squeezed out a low, hoarse voice.
Overwhelmed by extreme shock and self-doubt, his fists, hidden beneath the long sleeves of his grey robe, clenched so tightly they cracked, and his narrowed eyes were filled with horror and resentment.
Hearing Xuanzi's somewhat exasperated questioning, Liu Yuan leaned against the headboard and rhythmically tapped his bent knee with the fingertips of his right hand.
His closed, double pupils were subtly fixed on the elderly man who had broken down in front of him. He let out a cold laugh, his tone calm yet filled with a dagger-like sarcasm:
"Elder Xuan, you don't need to doubt your concealment skills. I have to admit, your disguise was indeed very good. I was almost fooled by you along the way. Unfortunately, you couldn't keep your composure when you were about to succeed."
At this point, Liu Yuan tilted his head slightly, his cold smile deepening.
"When your fingers were only half a foot away from my neck, you were too smug. Your killing intent and heartbeat suddenly fluctuated violently at that moment. It seems that although you have lived for a hundred years and your cultivation has barely reached the limit, your mental condition for the final step is still not good enough."
"you--!"
When a junior in his early twenties criticized him in a condescending manner for his "lack of mental fortitude," the string of reason in Xuanzi's mind snapped completely in an instant.
Since breaking through to level 99, he has become the focus of attention across the entire continent wherever he goes, and within Shrek Academy, he is the absolute decision-maker.
The slap that Liu Yuan used his mental power to instantly kill the six Shrek students during the day had already made him extremely frustrated. Now, he was caught red-handed during his assassination attempt and had to suffer such merciless humiliation and ridicule. Where could he put his old face?
"Arrogant little brat!"
Xuanzi's face was contorted in extreme pain as he let out a low roar. He took a step forward, his gray robe billowing wildly in the instant due to the intense surge of his soul power.
"So what if they've discovered my whereabouts? Do you think this soul beast can save your life tonight? Since you're courting death, then I'll grant your wish! Discovering me won't help! Here in Mingdu City, no one can save you now!"
Having said that, the earthy yellow light in Xuanzi's eyes suddenly intensified to its peak.
To prevent the commotion from attracting the attention of Mingde Hall and Body Sect, he still suppressed his martial soul and soul rings within his body. However, at this moment, his terrifying soul power as a level 99 Limit Douluo was leaking out without reservation.
boom!
Xuanzi's right palm formed a claw, carrying a heavy soul force that seemed capable of crushing even the void itself, and once again, it was wrapped in a chilling killing intent as he frantically clawed down at Liu Yuan's face by the edge of the bed. This strike was clearly several times stronger than the previous one, and along its path, the air in the room was torn apart with muffled explosions.
However, facing Xuanzi's unrestrained and fully explosive claw attack, Liu Yuan, who was sitting in place, didn't even flinch.
Buzz—!
Just as Xuanzi's right claw was about to pierce through the void, the temperature in the room plummeted again without warning to an appallingly terrifying freezing point within a ten-thousandth of a second.
A layer of pure white light suddenly spread out in the center of the room.
Immediately afterwards, a woman in a white dress, with an unparalleled beauty yet as cold and aloof as ancient ice, appeared out of nowhere and blocked Liu Yuan's path.
The Snow Empress has made her move again.
With a gentle wave of her jade-white right hand, large swathes of deep blue ice crystals suddenly condensed in mid-air.
Those ice crystals are not ordinary ice, but absolute freezing containing the purest essence of the far north ice and snow.
Bang!
Xuanzi's fully unleashed, earth-yellow right claw slammed heavily against the deep blue ice wall unleashed by Xuedi, producing an extremely muffled sound of flesh colliding.
The violent undercurrents of spirit and soul power raged wildly at the point of impact, but the Snow Empress used an extremely strange ice-sealing domain to firmly imprison the two of them within a small space, preventing even a trace of the aftershocks from leaking out of the hotel room.
Xuanzi felt as if his right palm had struck an unshakable, millennia-old glacier. Not only did it fail to advance even an inch, but the pure white chill that seeped from the other's fingertips spread wildly along his meridians toward his arm, attempting to freeze his entire right arm into ice shards.
"Get out of my way!"
Xuanzi let out a startled shout, his left palm clenched like a knife, and the earth-yellow extreme soul power within his body erupted like a volcano, forcibly shattering the frost clinging to his arm. Using the recoil force, he slid backward several meters again.
Having been blocked twice in a row by a single person, Xuanzi was on the verge of being completely breached.
His old eyes were fixed on Xue Di, who stood in front of Liu Yuan with a cold expression. At this moment, shame and reason were completely intertwined in his eyes.
He naturally recognized the spirit beast before him as the Snow Empress.
But he couldn't understand why the absolute ruler of the far north, the Ice and Snow Maiden with 700,000 years of cultivation, would be so devoted to a 20-year-old human boy, even willing to be his personal bodyguard.
"Snow Emperor!"
Xuanzi gritted his teeth, his voice sharp and distorted with extreme rage, and pointed at Xue Di, shouting, "You are the first ruler of the far north, holding a supreme position among the soul beast race! I truly don't understand why you would lower yourself to come to the human world and become a dog for this brat Liu Yuan?! What benefits did he give you that made you risk your life for him?!"
Hearing Xuanzi's roar filled with humiliation and resentment, Xue Di, standing in front of the bed, showed not a trace of extra emotion on her flawless, cold face.
She merely stared coldly at the somewhat hysterical Xuanzi with her deep blue eyes, a disdainful sneer playing on her lips, her voice as crisp and devoid of warmth as the clash of icy divine crystals:
"Be a dog to humans? You're a dying man, you have no need to know that."
The Snow Emperor's response was undoubtedly the biggest shock to Xuanzi, making him feel as if he had been utterly despised by the entire far north.
"Good! Very good!"
Xuanzi was so angry that he laughed. He suddenly flicked his gray sleeves, which were covered with white frost, and a fierce light, almost insane, flashed in his narrow eyes.
"Since you refuse to listen to reason and are forced to drink the penalty cup, then tonight I'll grant your wish! Don't think I'm really afraid of you, you soul beast! This isn't your far north, where there's no endless source of ice and snow for you to squander! And I... have now successfully broken through the final bottleneck of level ninety-nine and become a genuine Limit Douluo! Today, I'll show you the true strength of a human Limit Douluo!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xuanzi completely abandoned all reservations.
He clasped his hands together in front of him, and the earth-yellow limit of his soul power was no longer concealed, exploding like a tsunami within the room's specific barrier. Although he still did not release the true form of the Gluttonous Martial Soul, the flow of energy in his meridians had soared to its limit, and the heavy aura emanating from him caused the stone floor of the entire second floor of the luxury hotel to faintly creak and groan.
Swish.
In an instant, Xuanzi's figure transformed into countless gray afterimages, tearing through the air from all directions with a piercing sound as he frantically pounced towards Xue Di's position. His ten fingers danced and intertwined in the void, and countless streams of earth-yellow soul power formed a vast net, not only completely sealing off Xue Di's blind spots, but also sending a large portion of the aftershocks straight towards Liu Yuan behind her.
Faced with Xuanzi's all-out, fearless, and extreme offensive, Xue Di's expression also became slightly more serious.
Her white dress billowed wildly in the frigid air, her jade-like hands forming several profound hand seals in front of her. With each movement, layers of the Imperial Frost Heaven and Great Cold Snowless Domains overlapped and unfolded within the small room, the laws of extreme cold colliding fiercely with Xuanzi's massive, mountain-like earth-attribute ultimate soul power in an instant.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A continuous, dull rumbling sound echoed throughout the room.
Xuanzi's attacks were extremely fierce. As a level 99 Limit Douluo, every punch and every claw transformation he made contained terrifying, pure power, like moving mountains and filling seas. Although Xue Di was equally powerful and possessed an extremely rich soul beast essence, as Xuanzi said, this was the Mingdu of the Sun Moon Empire, far from the far north, without the endless extreme cold and snow of nature to provide a constant source of replenishment.
In addition, Xuanzi has indeed recently crossed the final threshold and reached the peak cultivation level of level 99 that Mu En once possessed.
After dozens of rounds of frantic exchanges and physical clashes, the situation in the battle began to subtly change.
The white frost that Snow Empress unleashed began to tremble slightly under the relentless, heavy, earth-yellow soul power net that Xuan Zi relentlessly pounded, each punch heavier than the last. Although Snow Empress's face remained absolutely calm and composed, her figure, under the powerful double punches from Xuan Zi, had unknowingly fallen slightly at a disadvantage, her body sliding back half a step.
Seeing that Xue Di's figure showed signs of retreating for the first time under his powerful punch, Xuan Zi, who had been feeling frustrated, was overjoyed.
"Hahahaha! I knew you beast couldn't protect him today!"
Xuanzi burst into laughter, his entire being radiating extreme smugness and arrogance. He felt that the resentment he had been suppressing for two days had finally been completely avenged. Overwhelmed by his inflated ego and overconfidence, he was certain that he would win tonight. As long as he suppressed Xue Di, that brat named Liu Yuan would be completely at his mercy.
Thinking of this, Xuanzi's eyes flashed with ferocity, and he gave Xuedi no chance to catch her breath or adjust her defenses.
"Get out of my way!"
Xuanzi roared, concentrating all his maximum soul power into his right shoulder and right fist in that instant. Using the immense momentum of his forward charge, he unleashed an extremely heavy close-quarters strike, like a violently crashing earth-yellow mountain, slamming it hard into the ice crystal shield that Xue Di had just conjured in front of her.
Bang!
A crisp cracking sound rang out in the dimly lit room.
The extreme cold ice shield that Xue Di unleashed shattered into a shower of emerald green powder upon impact with the full-power physical essence of the Limit Douluo. The immense recoil force intertwined with the earth-attribute soul power, finally forcibly sending Xue Di, whose expression had slightly changed, flying backward several meters away before she landed unsteadily on the other side of the bed.
Having successfully knocked Xue Di back with a single punch, Xuan Zi's defenses instantly revealed a huge, excellent opening.
At the end of that gap, Liu Yuan, dressed in white, still stood calmly by the bedside, his body completely unprotected by any soul power, leaving him wide open.
"Die, you little brat!"
Xuanzi let out a ferocious laugh, and his right hand, covered in frost and blood, transformed into an extremely ruthless gray lightning bolt in an instant. Carrying the final killing intent of a level 99 Limit Douluo, it aimed at Liu Yuan's defenseless neck and launched a final, deadly attack with madness, speed, and ruthlessness.
In his view, without the Snow Empress's obstruction, this twenty-year-old boy was no different from a lamb to the slaughter in his hands. In the next second, he could personally crush Shrek's biggest threat in the past five years.
What Xuanzi never expected was...
Just a fraction of a second before his fingertips were less than three inches from Liu Yuan's snow-white collar, before his triumphant laugh could even fully bloom on his face, the next second had passed.
Boom—!
The thick stone wall of the bedroom, which had been tightly closed, was suddenly and without warning smashed to pieces from the outside in an extremely barbaric and violent manner.
Amidst the rubble, broken walls, and billowing dust, an extremely tall and robust old figure, radiating an extremely violent and suffocating dark green primal light, forcefully pierced through the crack like lightning.
That thick right arm, covered in explosive muscles and gleaming with a rich emerald green luster, suddenly and like ancient divine iron, blocked Xuanzi's path in the one-millionth of a second before his fingertips were about to touch Liu Yuan.
BOOM!
The physical essence and soul power of two peerless experts at the pinnacle of the entire continent collided fiercely and without any pretense in the center of the small room at that moment.
(End of chapter)