Douluo Continent: The creation of Jixia Academy made Bibi Dong drool with envy.

Chapter 159 The Collapse of the Dao Heart, the End of Shrek Academy

The room was deathly silent.

Elder Xuan's cloudy old eyes, always tinged with a hint of drunkenness, were fixed on the character "Dao" on the wall, its strokes flowing like dragons and snakes, seemingly containing the ultimate truth of the universe. He felt his soul, his martial spirit, and his Dao heart, cultivated for hundreds of years and already as firm as a rock, all shattered at this moment by the indescribable, terrifying will contained within that character!

That's neither soul power nor mental power.

It was a more primal, more advanced kind of "intention," seemingly transcending all the rules of this world...

A single word surpasses his centuries of arduous cultivation.

With just a glance, he saw the gap between himself and the owner of the words, a gap as vast as an insurmountable chasm, a gap that filled him with despair!
"puff……"

Xuan Lao felt a sweet taste in his throat, and a mouthful of blood, which he could no longer hold back, suddenly gushed out. His body, already slightly hunched due to his age, swayed violently, as if he would collapse at any moment.

"senior!"

Upon seeing this, Shangguan Wan'er showed a perfectly timed "panic" expression and quickly stepped forward to help her up.

“No need…” Elder Xuan waved his hand, his hoarse voice filled with unprecedented bitterness and dejection.

He didn't look at the character "Tao" again, because he dared not, and... was not qualified to look at it again.

He simply turned around and took a deep look at the elegant and unpredictable young woman in blue before him, as if he could see through her the even more unfathomable, god-like Jixia Academy behind her.

In the end, he said nothing.

Like a gambler who has lost everything in a casino and even mortgaged his soul, he walked out of the quiet room that had utterly shattered his Dao heart, step by step, in a state of utter despair.

Looking at Elder Xuan's desolate figure, which seemed to have aged a hundred years in an instant, Shangguan Wan'er's lips curled into an elegant yet cold smile.

She knew that Shrek Academy, the so-called "holy land" that had been passed down for ten thousand years and was known as the number one academy on the continent, had its last spiritual pillar collapse today.

An academy that has lost its soul and faith, even if it still possesses great strength and foundation, is nothing more than a magnificent sandcastle that could collapse at any moment.

……

No one knows how Elder Xuan left the Jixia Academy or how he returned to Shrek City in a daze.

All that everyone knew was that when this guardian deity of Shrek Academy reappeared inside the Sea God Pavilion...

He was no longer the mad, alcoholic, yet capable of suppressing everything at crucial moments, Taotie Douluo.

Instead, he was a… hollow-eyed, erratic-breathing, seemingly uninterested in everything… a walking corpse.

He did not describe in detail what he had seen and heard at the Jixia Academy to Yan Shaozhe and the others.

He left behind only one sentence that plunged the entire Sea God Pavilion into deathly silence.

"Shrek... is finished."

Then, he locked himself in the deepest part of the Sea God Pavilion and never asked about worldly affairs again.

Elder Xuan's words, along with his despondent state, cast a dark shadow over the hearts of all the Shrek Academy executives.

Although they did not know what had happened to Elder Xuan.

But for a level 98 Limit Douluo to utter such words of despair, the terror of the Jixia Academy had far exceeded their imagination.

surrender?

Or resist?

This choice weighed heavily on everyone's hearts like never before. And just as Shrek Academy was plunged into immense panic and confusion due to Elder Xuan's return...

The Qin Empire, located far to the northwest of the continent, had already completed its final war preparations.

A million elite soldiers, like iron eagles, are stationed on the border.

The thousands of "Armor-Piercing Heavy Cannons," modified by Mozi and Master Luban, are powerful enough to threaten even titled Douluo. They radiate a cold, icy light, resembling a steel forest.

Furthermore, there is an elite assault legion personally led by the Five Tiger Generals, equipped with the latest "Black Armor Series" external soul-guided armor, ready for battle at any moment, just waiting for the order to be given!
at last.

On a stormy night.

Ying Zheng, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, stood on the command platform built from countless bones and glory, and drew the Tianwen Sword from his waist, a symbol of supreme power and iron will.

Pointing southeast, the voice was like rolling thunder, resounding through the sky!

"Soldiers!"

"My empire, my kingdom, shall not be divided, nor challenged!"

"Heavenly Soul Empire, Sun and Moon Empire, you defy the heavens and stubbornly resist; this is your path to death!"

"Today, I will personally lead my army to raze your capitals to the ground, burn your ancestral temples to the ground, and let this entire continent be bathed in the iron-blooded glory of my Great Qin!"

"Preach my will!"

"All troops... attack!!!"

Boom! ! ! ! ! !

At this moment, the war horn was sounded completely!
Like a black torrent unleashed, the million-strong army of the Qin Empire split into three routes.

Led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the Azure Dragon and Greedy Wolf armies marched straight towards the Heavenly Soul Empire!

Led by Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, the White Horse and Iron Cavalry armies are poised to strike at the Sun Moon Empire!

Meanwhile, the central army, personally commanded by the First Emperor Ying Zheng, with the sharpshooter Huang Zhong as the vanguard general, marched with overwhelming force toward Shrek City, the heart of the Heavenly Soul Empire that symbolized the orthodoxy of the continent and was also home to Shrek Academy!

This was a war of annihilation... destined to be recorded in history, and destined to be a bloodbath... a war of national destruction!
When the mighty torrent of steel from the Great Qin Empire, as swift as black lightning, appeared on the border between the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire.

The so-called "anti-Qin alliance" and the seemingly solid border defense line were as fragile as paper in front of the machine army that could fire "armor-piercing heavy artillery"!
It was only an hour of artillery barrage!

The dozens of fortified fortresses that the two great empires had painstakingly built along their borders over a century were razed to the ground!
Tens of thousands of Soul Masters guarding the city were reduced to ashes before they could even see the enemy's face clearly, amidst the devastating roar of artillery fire!
Dimensionality reduction attack!

This is the mechanical technology from the King's Continent, a... dimensional reduction attack on the traditional form of warfare in this world!
When the news reached them, both empires were shaken and panic gripped the courts and the public!
They never expected that the Qin Empire's attack would come so quickly, so fiercely, and so...unreasonably!

Shrek City, Seagod's Lodge.

When Yan Shaozhe and the others received the battle report of the front-line defeat and the fall of the fortress, they all turned ashen-faced and looked as if they had lost their parents.

They knew that Shrek Academy, and indeed the entire Heavenly Soul Empire, had reached... its most dangerous moment!
Just then, Elder Xuan slowly emerged from his secluded meditation chamber.

He was still the same crazy, drunken man, but in his cloudy old eyes burned an unprecedented, resolute and insane light, like a final burst of energy before death!
"Relay my sect leader's order!"

Elder Xuan's voice was hoarse, yet filled with undeniable authority.

"Shrek, fight to the last man!"

(End of this chapter)