The Peerless Tang Sect: Heavenly Heart Douluo

Chapter 100 The Holy Spirit Cult's Actions and the Shrek Team

Since its defeat in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament four years ago, Shrek Academy's reputation, built up over ten thousand years, has suffered a heavy blow.

Moreover, the uproar caused by the evil soul master in Star Luo City was intensifying under the covert influence of various countries and forces, with countless people secretly criticizing the Shrek Academy's oversight group for interfering in the affairs of other countries.

Furthermore, the death of Mu En led to a vacancy in Shrek Academy's top combat power, forcing Xuan Zi, who had been dismissed by Mu En, to be found by the Shrek Academy elders and forcibly appointed as the head of the Sea God Pavilion of Shrek Academy.

However, Xuanzi clearly lacked the qualities required for this responsibility, whether it was strength or a broad perspective. Even when he was in office, Tang San, as before, sent down divine decrees to guide his actions.

Ultimately, they messed up several things, and Shrek Academy's decline was ultimately irreversible. In the past four years, although Shrek Academy was still the number one academy on the continent and still received the respect of the three kingdoms of Douluo Continent.

However, Shrek Academy's actions were secretly thwarted at every turn, and even Tang San from the God Realm couldn't come up with a good plan to turn the tide.

Moreover, a major event that broke out in Shrek City a year ago completely plunged Shrek Academy into the abyss.

One year ago, Shrek City.

On this day, Shrek City was brightly lit, just like any other. Although Shrek had been defeated three years ago, the news did not have much impact on Shrek City, which was the base of Shrek Academy.

For the people living here, what Wang Yan and Xuan Zi said during the competition—that Shrek Academy students were seriously injured in order to eliminate the evil soul masters, and had no choice but to send the reserve team to participate in the battle, which ultimately led to those despicable and shameless villains of the Sun Moon Empire taking away the championship of this competition—was enough.

In their view, no matter what, as long as Shrek Academy still exists, this honor will eventually return to the hands of the great Shrek people.

However, in the dark corners of the eastern part of the city, a group of Soul Masters dressed in black robes with cold faces were eyeing the prosperous Shrek City with predatory intent.

In the darkness, a hot girl with fiery long hair emerged, the air around her subtly distorted, and dark flames swirled around her.

Without exception, all the Soul Masters dressed in black robes bowed to her with respect and fear, showing their goodwill.

"Your Holiness, all our men have arrived. When shall we begin our operation?" In the darkness, a handsome but pale-faced man knelt on one knee and asked the young woman for her instructions.

This girl was none other than Ma Xiaotao, who had been brought to the Holy Spirit Cult earlier. Under Huo Yuhao's will, she finally accepted Zhongli Wu's invitation and joined the Holy Spirit Cult. In the past three years, her strength has naturally improved by leaps and bounds.

Moreover, under Huo Yuhao's deliberate guidance, Ma Xiaotao also became a member of the process of transforming fear into fear. Ma Xiaotao's role as a saintess in the Holy Spirit Cult was not merely a nominal mascot appointed by the cult leader.

With her terrifying power of extreme fire and darkness, she subdued the unruly Holy Spirit Cult members with her strength. As the fear imprint was transformed, one-tenth of the power extracted from their fear was converted into pure soul power for her use.

In the past three years, thanks to the speed boost from her evil martial soul and the soul power extracted from fear, she has now become a level 90 Title Douluo, and a Title Douluo with ultimate flame. Ordinary Super Douluos would not be able to defeat her in a short time.

The Crow Douluo Wuyun was originally sent by Zhongli Wu to monitor Ma Xiaotao, but after Ma Xiaotao broke through to become a Title Douluo, this relationship was reversed. Unsurprisingly, this level 94 Title Douluo also became one of the servants under the Brand of Fear.

After Ma Xiaotao broke through, she raised her own team and secretly came to Shrek City. Although Zhongli Wu was nominally the leader, the Holy Spirit Cult members hid their whereabouts to avoid being exposed to the world.

Information transmission speed is naturally not as convenient as other forces. Before he could even realize it, Ma Xiaotao had brought this group of evil soul masters to Shrek City.

Ma Xiaotao glanced at the evil soul masters, nodded indifferently, and said, "Then proceed according to plan. Place fixed-position soul-guided cannons throughout Shrek City without alerting the Shrek people."

"Our goal this time is simply to suppress Shrek Academy's reputation and incite hatred between them and the Sun Moon Empire, to muddy the waters. Anyone discovered by Shrek will either have to be killed immediately to silence them, or they will have to commit suicide to atone for their sins. Do you understand?"

"Yes!" The cultists responded respectfully, under the control of the brand of fear, they dared not disobey Ma Xiaotao's words in the slightest.

"Then, let's begin." Ma Xiaotao narrowed her phoenix eyes and looked at the city in the distance. This city held too many memories and past for her, but none of that mattered compared to the person she wanted to follow.

Her figure was hidden in the darkness. Her most important purpose in coming here was to take action against the titled Douluo named Shi Xing in Shrek City, as instructed by Huo Yuhao.

With time-based abilities and being a high-ranking member of Shrek Academy, even though his time-based abilities are limited by the laws of the continent and are not strong enough or too superficial, he is still a very good pawn.

Time passed second by second. Just as dawn was breaking and everyone was completely relaxed, a deafening explosion rang out from Shrek City. At the same time, outside Shrek City, Crow Douluo Dark Cloud released his aura.

In Shrek City, a middle-aged man's furious voice rang out: "Damn it, dark aura! What kind of evil spirit master dares to invade Shrek City!"

This person was none other than the Shrek City Lord, Shi Xing, who possessed the Martial Soul Time-Space Silver Disc, capable of disrupting space and time. His figure appeared in front of Crow Douluo Wuyun in just a few breaths.

Ma Xiaotao observed him from the shadows and discovered that his movements had no trajectory. At the same time, his fourth spirit ring had lit up. This was the opponent's fourth spirit skill, which allowed him to control his own time and space, and was called Time-Space Adjustment.

Crow Douluo let out a strange laugh, and an overwhelming darkness spread out. At the same time, a crisp stopwatch sounded from behind Shixing: "Tick, tick, tick." A huge silver disc floated in mid-air, with only a second hand on it, moving slowly.

A dark current of energy emanated from it and attacked Crow Douluo's soul skill. As soon as their soul skills made contact, the part of Crow Douluo's soul skill that was touched disappeared silently.

This is the popular ninth soul skill, Spacetime Turbulence, with a diameter of 500 meters. Anything that comes into contact with this soul skill will be teleported to some unknown spacetime.

However, as a representative soul skill popular among Time Douluo, Ma Xiaotao had already gathered information about this person before bringing her people here. As the lord of Shrek City and an outstanding graduate of Shrek Academy, she had a complete understanding of the other party's information.

While maintaining the temporal turbulence, the opponent can no longer manipulate their own time and spatial position. The only soul skill that can protect the opponent is the eighth soul skill called Time-Space Freeze, which can freeze the time and space within one meter of the opponent for three breaths.

However, looking at the dense black clouds surrounding the battlefield and the crimson eyes of crows within them, Ma Xiaotao estimated the time: [Thirty seconds left. By this time, some elders from Shrek Academy should be arriving to provide support.]

There are only two titled Douluo permanently residing in Shrek City: the elder of the Treasure Pavilion and Shi Xing, the Time Douluo. Because his abilities are more focused on combat, the elder stayed in the city to appease the people and deal with the disaster after the fixed-position soul-guided cannonball was detonated.

This Time Douluo sensed the aura of Raven Douluo and went out of the city to fight. At this time, the battlefield they chose was outside the city gate furthest from the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy, but at the speed of the Super Douluos, it would only take them a minute to get there.

At this moment, Crow Douluo's eighth soul skill had successfully transformed the battlefield into a suitable dark place. The black clouds were distributed one meter away from Shi Xing, which was exactly outside the effective range of the time-space freeze.

This effectively prevents the opponent from triggering time-space freeze, while also providing cover for Ma Xiaotao's actions, since she is now a dark attribute Soul Master in addition to the Ultimate Flame.

Ma Xiaotao's figure disappeared into the black clouds in the battlefield. At the same time, a faint red light appeared under her feet, which then turned black. At this moment, the ninth soul skill of the Raven Douluo was fully unleashed, and an overwhelming darkness surged towards Shi Xing. Upon closer inspection, this darkness was actually composed of crows made of pitch-black soul power.

Seeing this, Shi Xing spoke up: "Hmph, evil soul master, out of ideas? The elders of Shrek Academy will be here soon. Surrender and we'll at least leave you with a whole corpse!"

Shi Xing estimated the distance between Crow Douluo's ninth soul skill and his own position. [After three breaths, activate Time Freeze, then use Time Turbulence to clear his soul skill. Elder Song and the others should be there soon.]

Then he felt a heat in his chest, and looked at the hand reaching out from in front of his chest in disbelief: "How, how is this possible, me?"

The hand slowly withdrew from his body, and his soul power dissipated, leaving him unable to fly in the air. He fell straight to the ground. At the same time, the pitch-black flames at the wound continued to devour his body, turning both his physical tissues and soul power into fuel for the flames.

Shi Xing stared in astonishment and fear at the two evil soul master figures whose wings of dark soul power formed behind them and who were flying and controlling them. Just as he was about to fall to his death, his sixth soul skill was barely activated. The black flames that were burning continuously seemed to be suppressed by something unknown and slowly shrank.

No, to be precise, it should be gradually returning to its initial state, but with the massive loss of soul power, the black flames began to burn fiercely again. [I...I don't want to die! Elder Song, Elder Zhuang...someone save me!]

Ma Xiaotao coldly said as she watched Shi Xing fall, "Let's go now, the timing is perfect."

She and Crow Douluo Wuyun then concealed their presence and quickly left the place. Not long after, a blue figure flashed by. It was Elder Song, the elder of the Sea God Pavilion who possessed the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle Martial Soul.

She sensed the faint aura emanating from Shi Xing and quickly lifted him up, flying swiftly towards the Sea God Pavilion.

Ultimately, with the help of another elder, Zhuang, whose martial soul was the Tree of Life, Shi Xing was pulled back from the brink of death.

However, what no one knew was that, on the verge of death from his serious injuries, Shi Xing's heart had been branded with the fear of Huo Yuhao, and at the same time, his soul had declared its submission to Huo Yuhao.

After that, he resigned from his position as the city lord of Shrek City and entered the inner academy to become an elder in the Sea God Pavilion, responsible for teaching the inner academy students.

The news of Shrek City's terrorist attack by evil soul masters spread throughout the continent. Whether it was the fixed-mount soul-guided cannons used by the evil soul masters or the news of Shrek City's lord's serious injury and retirement, it undoubtedly dealt another heavy blow to Shrek Academy, which was already weakening.

At the same time, the attitude of the Soul Master world towards Soul Guidance Devices has also undergone a subtle change. Meanwhile, in the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy, there is less than a year left before the next All-Continent Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.

Xuanzi remained unchanged, staring with his dim old eyes at the new Shrek Academy inner disciples in front of him, who were the students participating in the Continental Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition this year.

The leading official team members were Mu En's great-grandson, Bei Bei, followed by Xu Sanshi and Tang Ya, then He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Zhu Lu, Xie Huanyue, and substitutes Cao Jinxuan, Zhou Sichen, and the Lan sisters.

Because of the series of butterfly effects caused by Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, who was originally going to wipe out the entire Iron Blood Sect but was eventually discovered by the Holy Spirit Cult and become a saintess, stayed at Shrek Academy to take care of the injured Bei Bei.

Meanwhile, when Mu En died, Tang San secretly used him to evolve the martial soul of this Tang Sect Master, who was originally just a tool, into the Blue Silver King, enabling him to be successfully selected for this year's Shrek Academy team.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng were recalled to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School because Shrek Academy's reputation had been damaged during this period, and they did not enter the inner courtyard to continue their studies. At the same time, they invited Jiang Nannan, who came from a commoner background but had outstanding talent, to leave.

The Shrek Academy team is now formed.

Beibei, a six-ring Soul Emperor, possesses the Martial Soul of the Light Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Xu Sanshi, a six-ring Soul Emperor, wields the Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield as his Martial Soul.

He Caitou, a six-ring Soul Emperor with a cigar-shaped martial soul, is also a level six Soul Master. Because Huo Yuhao was not present, he naturally did not trigger the Sun Moon Empire's exchange student program. In the end, He Caitou became a quasi-level six Soul Master in the Sun Moon Empire's evaluation standards at Shrek Academy.

Tang Ya, a five-ring Soul King, with the martial soul Blue Silver King.

Xiao Xiao, a five-ring Soul King, possesses the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and the Nine Phoenixes' Auspicious Flute.

Evil Illusion Moon, Five-Ring Soul King, Martial Soul: Pipi Elephant.

Zhu Lu, a four-ring Soul Master, whose Martial Soul is the Netherworld Spirit Cat.

Reserve players

Cao Jinxuan, a four-ring Soul Master, whose martial soul is Time Flies.

Zhou Sichen, a four-ring Soul Master, possesses the Martial Soul Manual.

Lan Susu, a four-ring Soul Master, with the Martial Soul Hair.

Lan Luoluo, a four-ring Soul Master, whose martial soul is hair.

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