Douluo Continent: Shrek Prince, Getting to the Root of the Matter

Perhaps influenced by Yu Wudao's mindset, her first two soul skills were both amplification-type skills.

Although the quality of a single soul skill is not as good as Yu Wudao's top-grade skill, the combined effect of the two skills is even more terrifying than Yu Wudao's!

She twirled her spear, held it behind her back, and launched an attack on Yu Wudao!

Step, step, step...

The Golden Dragon Spear slid across the stone slab, sparking as it left a long, thin trail, and rapidly approached Yu Wudao!

A flash of cold light appeared first, then the spear shot out like a dragon!

The golden spear tip, gleaming with a sharp, cold light, sliced ​​through the air and thrust straight toward Yu Wudao's chest!

Although the opponent's aura surged again after being amplified by her soul skill, Yu Wudao was not afraid to confront her head-on.

However, the sharpness of this golden dragon spear is too great; being stabbed by it is no joke.

Yu Wudao dodged to the side, his spear grazing past his clothes. He reached out with his left hand, transforming it into a dragon claw, and grabbed at the woman's neck!

The Golden Dragon Spear is untouchable by anyone without the bloodline of a golden dragon, and the artifact possesses a spirit; otherwise, Yu Wudao would have liked to snatch it away directly.

The woman reacted extremely quickly, raising her hand to flip her spear, then thrusting it upwards to strike Yu Wudao's outstretched dragon claw!

"How naive!"

Yu Wudao sneered, black arcs of electricity crackling from the dragon scales on his left claw, his attack undiminished!

"Damn it! His first soul skill has super armor! The paralysis and pain effects from the strikes have no effect on him! If this strike isn't powerful enough, I'm afraid I'll lose!"

She was startled and suddenly remembered this information she had overlooked. She had been so focused on increasing her power that she had forgotten about this!

"clang--!!!"

A loud clang of metal clashing rang out as a heavy, dark dragon claw deflected the spear and lunged towards her fair neck!

The tall figure was pulled backward by the enormous force, with no chance to exert force again.

"Human combat is such a hassle!"

She gritted her teeth, made up her mind, and the fourth black spirit ring behind her suddenly lit up!

"I'll fight you to the death!"

A strong sense of crisis pierced Yu Wudao like needles. He was startled, cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and he immediately activated the second deep purple soul ring behind him!

"Fourth Soul Skill, Golden Dragon Explosion!"

"Second Soul Skill, Undying Dragon's Fury!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three violent explosions erupted instantly, centered on the woman's body!

The violent explosion stirred up a cloud of dust in the arena, leaving many craters.

She got a chance to catch her breath, quickly retreated, gripped her spear, and looked at the smoke with a fierce expression.

A gentle breeze blew by, the dust settled, and the perfectly intact Yu Wudao was revealed.

His body was covered with a layer of ink-like energy, upon which appeared fine dragon scale patterns. On this energy layer, a golden-red dragon swirled – this was Dragon Qi!

Yu Wudao's second soul ring was taken from an eight-thousand-year-old Xuanjia Earth Dragon King!

This spirit beast may not be known to the world, but it has a more famous relative, the White Armored Earth Dragon!

Unlike the White Armored Earth Dragon, the Black Armored Earth Dragon King is not good at scale defense; in fact, its scale defense is even inferior to some ordinary sub-dragon soul beasts!

Without strong physical defense, one's physical attributes and attack power naturally cannot be very strong.

But what it gained by abandoning all of this was ultimate energy defense!

The energy shield condensed by the Xuanjia Earth Dragon can even rival the defensive power of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!

This is a typical soul beast in nature that takes extremes to the extreme!

It doesn't have a powerful dragon bloodline, nor can it be considered a top-tier power-type soul beast, but Yu Wudao still chose it.

And the results proved how right this choice was!

This purple soul ring allowed Yu Wudao to unlock the Dragon Qi, which is theoretically only something a Soul Saint can begin to fuse with ahead of schedule!

Dragon Qi is the ultimate fusion of Qi and blood, soul power, martial spirit, or bloodline power!

In the original timeline, this was a power unique to Tang Wulin. Its uses were extremely wide-ranging: defense, amplifying offensive power, integrating into weapons and soul skills, enhancing domains, body tempering, explosions…

Leaving aside the spiritual aspect, it is practically omnipotent! It can be said to be the most versatile ability in the entire Douluo Continent system!

Without this soul beast, Yu Wudao would still need to cultivate to the Soul Saint level and unlock the True Soul of the Martial Soul before he could fuse with the Dragon Qi on his own.

But the Xuanjia Earth Dragon King only used a purple soul ring to help Yu Wudao pry open the golden lock of this treasure vault!

The reason is that the Xuanjia Earth Dragon King's energy defense was originally the prototype of Dragon Qi, but it failed to condense into true Dragon Qi because its bloodline was not strong enough!

Furthermore, because this soul skill is characterized by its use of Dragon Qi for defense, it will become stronger and stronger as Yu Wudao's Dragon Qi grows stronger, until it reaches the limit of energy that a soul ring of this age can utilize!

"Isn't this outrageous? A thousand-year-old soul skill taking a ten-thousand-year-old soul skill right at point-blank range!"

"Is this really a battle between a Soul Master and a Soul Venerable? Why do I feel like even if I become a Soul King, I still can't beat them?"

"Bro, what are you feeling? Stop pretending! I'd respect you even if you could last ten seconds!"

……

"The battle continues!"

Yu Wudao twisted his neck, his eyes sharpened, and his playful mood completely vanished.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down the woman's forehead, and she unconsciously tightened her grip on the spear.

tread!tread!tread!

Yu Wudao took heavy steps, and as the distance closed in, he gradually completed his dragon transformation, and his speed increased!

Dark lightning seeped from the gaps in the dragon scales on the right claw, then converged on the claw, accompanied by thunderous roars that spread like a raging dragon across the heavens and earth!

Then, the dragon energy surged wildly into his body! It didn't stop until it dyed the inky lightning a black-gold color!

Ancient Dragon Power - 100% boost to all attributes!

Dragon Transformation - Increases Dragon Claw attack power by an additional 200%!

The total increase is 400%, plus the additional destructive power boost from the Dragon's Fury's soul skill!

Even when facing the Soul Emperor, Yu Wudao was confident that he could contend with him using this move!

"You're the first to experience this move! Come on! Tyrant Dragon Prison Slayer!"

The woman's expression was solemn, golden light shone between her brows, and a crack slowly appeared. The golden dragon spear in her hand trembled slightly and emitted a soft hum.

Just as she raised her golden dragon spear, preparing to do something, a burly figure suddenly blocked her way.

It was Du Weiren, who was covered in sweat.

He instantly summoned his martial spirit, raised his palm, and condensed a soul power shield to block Yu Wudao's dragon claw!

Rumble—!!!

Black and gold lightning suddenly erupted! Centered on Yu Wudao's dragon claw, it roared like a group of mad dragons dancing wildly in the air!

The attack lasted for nearly ten seconds before it stopped.

Du Weiren withdrew his hand, his eyes filled with a mixture of shock and disbelief, clearly frightened by the power displayed by Yu Wudao!

Because Yu Wudao's cultivation level was not high enough, he did not have a specific understanding of his own attack power, but Du Weilun could feel it clearly.

This attack is powerful enough to inflict effective damage on a powerful offensive Soul Emperor like Dai Yueheng, and it can even kill some weaker Soul Emperors in one strike!

He looked at the woman behind him with a sense of relief. Although she seemed to be about to do something, Du Weiren didn't think she could really withstand that move.

Even later, Duvelen himself wasn't entirely confident he could save her in the battle.

He withdrew his martial spirit, concealing the eight spirit rings behind him, and loudly announced the result.

"Yu Wudao, freshman assessment: full marks."

Ignoring the gasps of surprise around him, Yu Wudao strode over to the woman.

"Your name".

"Long Jingni".

She parted her thin lips slightly and uttered three words.