Douluo Continent: Steadily Growing Stronger in Shrek Academy

Chapter 57 Refusal

Seeing this, the old man's expression also turned cold as he stared at Lin Chen. "What do you mean?"

"I forgot to tell you, I'm a student at Shrek Academy. Aren't you afraid they'll come looking for me if you take me away?" Lin Chen threatened, using his identity as a Shrek Academy student as leverage.

"Shrek Academy? Hahahahahahahaha..." The man in black robes laughed loudly, as if he had heard a joke.

Lin Chen wasn't annoyed; he just stood there, quietly watching him.

"I'm afraid you don't know this, but my Holy Church's two Holy Maidens, the Blue Silver Saintess and the Fire Phoenix Saintess, are from your Shrek Academy. Do you think my Holy Church is afraid of your academy?" the black-robed man said sarcastically.

Hearing the words of the black-robed elder, Lin Chen was also somewhat surprised. He did not expect that Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao had become saintesses so quickly. At this rate of cultivation, they were very likely to have reached the peak of Soul Saint, or even Soul Douluo.

"What does this have to do with me? Evil spirit masters are condemned by everyone in the world. Do you think I'd go with you?"

Although Lin Chen didn't have a good impression of the Holy Spirit Cult and was disgusted by Ye Xishui's self-delusion, the Holy Spirit Cult hadn't done anything to him, so there was no question of disgust.

He himself doesn't have that much of a sense of justice; he just needs to do everything in accordance with his conscience.

Upon hearing this, the man in black robes was not angry. Instead, he nodded and said, "Well, with your Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul, you are indeed not suitable to become an evil soul master. In that case, you can die."

After speaking, the man in black robes raised his right hand and grabbed at the void in Lin Chen's direction, black soul power surging in his hand.

Just before the decisive battle with Wang Lei, the man in black robes planted a mark in Lin Chen's body, which was his eighth soul skill.

At that time, the man in black robes decided that if Lin Chen did not go back with him, Lin Chen would surely die under his eighth soul skill.

At this moment, he had already activated his eighth soul skill, and was beginning to look forward to Lin Chen's entire body rotting away and turning into a pool of flesh and blood.

But Lin Chen remained standing as if nothing had happened.

"You don't really think your crappy soul skill can threaten me, do you?" Lin Chen said contemptuously.

In the dungeon earlier, when the old man in black robes left his mark, Qian Renxue made her move. With her skills, breaking through a Soul Douluo's eighth soul skill was easy, and it was done without the opponent noticing.

The man in black robes could no longer sit still. A huge black hand appeared behind him and reached out to grab Lin Chen.

"Go to hell!"

Lin Chen remained calm and put away the Seven Kill Sword.

Raising his right hand, Lin Chen ignited a ball of intense light in his palm. With a wave of his hand, the light instantly adhered to the enormous black hand. The moment it touched the black hand, the light seemed to be ignited, burning ever more fiercely, and within seconds completely incinerated the enormous black hand.

The man in black robes finally realized that things were spiraling out of his control.

At first, he was confident that even if Lin Chen was strong enough to slaughter the entire Wang family, he would not be able to escape his grasp. But now it seems that he had clearly underestimated Lin Chen.

"Twin Martial Souls? The ultimate Light Martial Soul?" The composure on the black-robed man's face finally vanished, and he exclaimed in disbelief. He wasn't stupid; to break through his soul skill so easily, Lin Chen's soul power was clearly insufficient. Only attribute restraint could allow such an easy breakthrough.

The only element that can counter him is the ultimate Light Element Martial Soul.

"Yes, you guessed right." Lin Chen didn't stop, throwing ball after ball of bright fire at the man in black.

The suppressive power of extreme attributes is terrifying. When he was at the seventh ring, he could fight against a titled Douluo. Now that Lin Chen is a Soul Emperor, fighting a Soul Douluo is still no problem.

The only problem is that his second spirit has no spirit rings attached, making his attack methods extremely limited.

The black-robed man, who was struggling to defend himself using his soul skills, had obviously noticed this as well. "Kid, your martial soul doesn't have any soul rings attached yet, does it? For twin martial souls, soul rings are usually attached to the second martial soul only when the first martial soul reaches nine rings."

Lin Chen ignored him and continued his attack.

"Hahahaha, even if you have the ultimate attributes but no soul skills, you can't do anything to me. Die!" The black-robed old man's body shone brightly with black light as he activated his Martial Soul True Body.

Without hesitation, Lin Chen stopped using his second martial soul, retrieved it into his body, and the Seven Kill Sword reappeared in his hand.

Lin Chen originally wanted to show the black-robed man in front of him his skills so that he would back down, but he did not expect that the other party would directly use his Martial Soul True Body to try to kill him.

The second martial soul's attack methods are clearly insufficient; currently, only the Seven Kill Sword can fight against it.

The man in black robes flew high into the air and hovered in mid-air, with eight soul rings—four purple and four black—bursting out from his body.

Upon seeing such a combination of spirit rings, Lin Chen's heart skipped a beat; this battle was going to be tough.

"Boy, you've witnessed the power of the Holy Church, haven't you? The soul ring configuration of Holy Church members is a goal that ordinary soul masters like you can only dream of, but the Holy Church can achieve it with ease."

Lin Chen was too lazy to waste words with him. Six spirit rings appeared: one yellow, three purple, and two black. On the surface, he had two fewer ten-thousand-year spirit rings and one fewer thousand-year spirit ring than the black-robed old man.

However, he actually has two fewer thousand-year soul rings and three fewer ten-thousand-year soul rings than him, but two more hundred-thousand-year soul rings, so he is not inferior at all in terms of soul ring ratio.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Demonic Void Seal!"

Suddenly, a huge black tower-shaped building appeared directly above Lin Chen.

"Judging from this soul skill, he should be a weapon spirit like me," Lin Chen thought to himself.

With a wave of his hand, the enormous black tower in the sky, carrying the oppressive aura of a Soul Douluo, descended upon Lin Chen.

Lin Chen, wielding the Seven Kill Sword, charged forward to clash head-on with him.

This soul skill covers a very large area, and Lin Chen is in no condition to escape it quickly, so he can only tough it out for now.

The Seven Kill Sword clashed violently with the Black Tower, but within seconds, Lin Chen was slammed back to the ground by the power of the Black Tower, creating a deep crater.

Before Lin Chen could react, the black tower pressed down on him once more.

Lin Chen quickly picked up the Seven Kill Sword to defend himself.

Having just gone through a major battle, Lin Chen's condition was now less than half of his peak; he was just barely holding on.

At this moment, the life domain had completely lost its function. The entire palace was filled with death energy, rendering the life domain useless.

Lin Chen was still gritting his teeth and holding on; he didn't want to die here.

Seeing that Lin Chen was still struggling, the black-robed old man waved his hand and increased the output of his soul power.

The immense pressure instantly made Lin Chen gasp for breath.

"I finally wiped out the Wang family today, and you want me dead? No way!" Lin Chen roared.

His powerful willpower caused his body to repeatedly regenerate from the brink of collapse. As if reaching a certain critical point, Lin Chen's body erupted with a powerful energy.

(End of this chapter)