Chapter 14: [Prison Dragon Rod], [Heaven-Evil Inverse Scale Dragon]
At this moment, golden light surged across the heavenly screen, revealing a real-time image of Wang Yan.
[Heavenly Screen Punishment, Dual Spacetime Synchronous Broadcast...]
However, the next words from the heavenly screen caused everyone's smiles to freeze on their faces.
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[First Punishment: Distortion!]
[His ambition is commendable, but his actions are contrary.]
[His heart yearns for the light, yet his methods are evil.]
[Now, by the power of the Heavenly Dao, I shall assist him in fulfilling his long-cherished wish, while also making him bear the cost.]
[Distorting the Martial Soul into 'Prison Dragon Rod', and distorting the Martial Soul True Martial Soul into 'Heaven-Evil Inverse Scale Dragon'!]
As the voice fell, a thick, black-gold lightning bolt crashed down from the heavenly screen, precisely pouring into Wang Yan's body!
"Ahhhhhh—"
A shrill scream, unlike anything human, erupted from Wang Yan's mouth!
The bones throughout his entire body crackled, and his skin cracked inch by inch.
Black flames and golden lightning clashed and fused crazily within his body!
That Coiling Dragon Rod Martial Soul was forcibly extracted from his body and suspended in mid-air.
A sleeping golden dragon shadow roared in pain within the rod.
It was exactly the Martial Soul True Martial Soul that Wang Yan had dreamed of: the Heaven-Awakening Saint Golden Dragon!
But under the infusion of the black-gold lightning, the sacred golden dragon scales began to fall off one by one.
Replacing them were pitch-black inverse scales flickering with an evil, dark light!
The dragon horns became hideous and twisted, the dragon eyes turned blood-red, filled with an aura of violence and destruction!
The Heaven-Awakening Saint Golden Dragon was completely distorted and mutated!
Becoming an existence that was the exact opposite—
[Heaven-Evil Inverse Scale Dragon]!
The Coiling Dragon Rod itself also let out a groan of unbearable burden.
The dragon carving on the rod became more ferocious, even growing sharp barbs, and the entire rod emitted a heart-palpitating evil aura!
Prison Dragon Rod Martial Soul!
"Ahhhhhh—"
Through the close-up on the heavenly screen, everyone could see Wang Yan's twisted, painful face and hear his desperate wails.
That intense pain, which seemed to touch the very origin of the soul, made everyone watching this scene feel their scalps tingle and shiver.
But, right in the midst of this extreme pain.
A massive amount of Soul Power suddenly gushed out from within his body!
Level 61, Level 62...
Level 65...
Level 69...
Finally, it steadily stopped at Level 70!
Soul Saint!
This agonizing process lasted for a full incense stick's time.
When the light dissipated, Wang Yan knelt on the ground, covered in blood, gasping for breath.
But the light in his eyes was brighter than ever before!
He could feel a power within him that he had never possessed before!
The Martial Soul True Martial Soul had been awakened!
In a way he had never imagined!
Everyone was stunned.
"Is... is this a punishment?"
On Shrek Square, a student muttered, asking the question on everyone's mind.
"Martial Soul mutation, True Martial Soul awakening, jumping directly from a Level 60 Soul Emperor to a Level 70 Soul Saint!"
"If this is a punishment, please let this punishment come to me!"
"Isn't the heavenly screen supposed to punish hypocrites?"
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[Douluo 1 Era]
Yu Xiaogang's face, which had been flushed red with excitement, had now turned the color of a pig's liver.
He pointed at the heavenly screen, his lips trembling, unable to utter a single word.
Finally, with a "pfft" sound, he was so overcome with rage that he spat out another mouthful of old blood!
"Xiaogang!"
Flender and Liu Erlong were horrified and hurriedly supported him.
"Absurd! Utterly ridiculous!"
Yu Xiaogang struggled, pointing at the heavenly screen and roaring.
"What kind of Heavenly Dao is this! What kind of justice is this!"
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Inside the valley
Tang San's expression was also incredibly ugly.
His fists were tightly clenched, and his eyes were filled with deep wariness and a trace of bewilderment.
"This heavenly screen... it doesn't care about so-called good or evil at all. Its standards of conduct are completely unpredictable."
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In the Elder Hall, it was a different scene.
Qianjun and Devil-Subduing Douluo went from despair to shock, and then to wild joy; the violent fluctuations in their emotions made the two grown men unable to help but tear up.
"Big Brother! Did you see that!"
"Heaven has not abandoned the Qiangu family, nor has it abandoned Spirit Hall!"
...
Before everyone could react to this absurd "punishment".
The second punishment on the screen had already appeared.
[Second Punishment: Exile!]
[Since you are a grave digger, you should stay away from the old land to start a new chapter.]
[Exiling Wang Yan to—the Blood-Colored Gobi!]
A huge blood-colored light gate, radiating spatial fluctuations, slowly opened behind Wang Yan.
Behind the gate was a desolate blood-colored desert, where wild winds howled, filled with killing intent and dead silence.
It was the uninhabited forbidden zone located in the northwest of the continent, near the border of the Sun Moon Empire!
"No!"
Elder Xuan suddenly snapped back to reality and let out a heaven-shaking roar!
"You cannot let him go!"
"He is a traitor to Shrek, his hands are stained with the blood and shame of Shrek, and he must be judged by Shrek personally!"
"No one can take him away!"
The fear in his heart had reached its peak!
This Wang Yan had not only overturned Shrek's reputation but was also the greatest hidden danger deep in his heart!
Letting a tiger return to the mountain will cause endless trouble!
He must not be allowed to leave alive!
"Stay here for this old man!"
The terrifying Taotie giant claw condensed once again, carrying earth-shattering power, more violent than any previous time, and fiercely grabbed at Wang Yan, who had just stood up!
However, an invisible barrier silently blocked in front of him.
The Taotie giant claw slammed into it, but it was like a mud ox entering the sea, not causing the slightest ripple.
[The Heavenly Screen's ruling cannot be defied.]
These eight cold words declared that all of Elder Xuan's actions were futile.
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[Douluo 1 Era]
Seeing this, the two Douluo, Qianjun and Devil-Subduing, finally let go of their long-suspended hearts, their faces showing the relief of surviving a disaster.
Their descendant had survived!
And, he had gained even greater power!
Qian Daoliu also nodded slightly.
This heavenly screen's actions were truly unexpected.
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[Douluo 2 Era]
Wang Yan slowly stood up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
He stood in place, his glasses long since shattered, and those deep, pitch-black eyes scanned the surroundings.
His gaze finally landed on Han Ruoruo.
That gaze was complex and hard to understand; there was guilt, there was pity, but in the end, it all turned into solid ice.
His life had long since had no turning back.
"Have you not heard that Heaven never closes all doors?"
"Shrek, we will meet again!"
He whispered to himself, then laughed out loud, and walked towards the blood-colored light gate without hesitation.
The moment before stepping into the light gate.
He suddenly turned around, his gaze passing over everyone, and took a deep look at the maddened Elder Xuan.
A brilliant and eerie smile bloomed on his face.
He didn't speak, but silently mouthed five words to Elder Xuan.
"I, know, it, is, you."
Boom!
Elder Xuan was struck by lightning!
He... he knows my identity?!
He must know!
This thought, like a poisonous needle, pierced deeply into the depths of Elder Xuan's soul!
"You little beast! This old man will kill you!"
Extreme fear turned into extreme anger.
Elder Xuan went completely crazy, launching an attack again regardless of everything, the Taotie phantom roaring at the sky!
But everything was in vain.
Wang Yan's figure had already fallen backward into the light gate, leaving behind only a burst of crazy laughter filled with rebirth and arrogance, resounding through the sky!
"Hahaha... Hahaha hahaha!"
The blood-colored light gate suddenly closed, and the laughter came to an abrupt end.
The entire Shrek Square was left with dead silence, along with Elder Xuan's unwilling roar.
However, just as everyone was still immersed in the shock brought by Wang Yan's departure.
"Ah!"
A painful groan came from the ranks of the Shrek students.
It was Xu Sanshi!
He clutched his head and knelt on the ground in pain.
He felt his Martial Soul, the Xuanming Turtle, was uncontrollably emitting a cold aura, as if it were about to devour his own vitality!
"My Martial Soul... my Martial Soul is also not right!"
On the other side, the female student whose Martial Soul was the Withered Vine also screamed; the vines on her hands were faintly revealing an eerie blood color.
In an instant, everyone finally woke up from their dream!
Wang Yan had been exiled.
But the dark hands he left inside them were still here!