"ATTACK!" Bear Lord roared, his human body quickly transformed into his true form—a terrifying giant bear over a hundred meters in height and with thick dark golden fur on its body.
Its arms are extremely long and thick, extending below the knees. Its shoulders are the most exaggerated, swelling up like little mountains. A pair of sharp dark gold claws have a length of over thirty meters.
It swiped its terrifying dark-golden claws, space tore apart like fragile glass, creating terrifying spatial rifts that stretched outward, threatening to consume everything in their path.
"Haaaa!"
Qian Duoduo stepped forward before his colleagues and raised his right arm, and a squarish shield with a black dragon pattern with red gem-like eyes on its surface. His nine soul rings appeared in tandem beneath his feet: 2 yellow, 2 purple, and 5 black. His seventh soul ring shone brightly.
His body and his Black Dragon Shield shone brightly, fusing into his True Martial Soul Avatar — a 20 meter tall Black Dragon Shield but the red-eyed black dragon pattern looked more life-like and seemed to pulse with an ominous, draconic aura. The massive shield radiated a dark, oppressive pressure, as if a true black dragon was guarding the Shrek forces.
Its ninth soul ring began to shine splendidly — Ninth Soul Skill: Great Dragon Blocks The Heavens!
"Roooooar!!"
The large Black Dragon Shield let out a resounding dragon roar.
Thousands of rhombus-shaped black light appeared in the air, forming a massive barrier of darkness that stretched high into the sky, covering the entire area like an impenetrable dome. The black light shimmered with draconic energy, pulsating with a power that felt like it could block the heavens themselves.
Bear Lord's massive terror claws came, slamming into the barrier with enough force to make the air tremble violently and sending out shockwaves.
BOOOOM!
The impact sent ripples of darkness through the dome, but the barrier held firm, absorbing the immense force of Bear Lord's strike.
However, that didn't mean it didn't do nothing.
"Ack!"
Qian Duoduo spat out a mouthful of blood, his True Martial Soul Avatar became undone. His face was completely pale and he would've fell down to the ground if it weren't for Xian Lin'er catching him.
"Duoduo! Are you alright?" Xian Lin'er worriedly asked.
Qian Duoduo weakly smiled. "Heh... I'm fine, Lin'er. I-It's just a flesh wound... No biggie—ack!!"
He spat out blood again.
"Duoduo!"
Qian Duoduo's Black Dragon Shield is one of the durable defense-type martial souls in the world. His True Martial Soul Avatar enhances his physical capabilities and soul skills by nearly two-fold, moreover, his ninth soul skill was a wide-ranged defensive barrier that could even take several serious punches from Xuan Zi.
Qian Duoduo's defensive capabilities could be said to be called Transcendental Defense; as he is almost invincible among Transcendent Douluos in terms of defense.
However, the Bear Lord is simply built different!
He is often recognized as an exterminator of forests and a destroyer in the world of soul masters. It is appropriate to call him the number one bear in the history of the Douluo Continent.
Moreover, Di Tian is the only one in the Great Star Dou Forest who could tame the Bear Lord — and Di Tian's at the level above of an ordinary Limit Douluo!
That meant to say, Bear Lord was likely at the level of a Limit Douluo.
"Tear them to shreds! Flay their skins and muscles from their bones!" Bear Lord roared, his eyes blazing with bloodlust. But he gritted his teeth.
'Hold back... Hold back...!? Dammit Di Tian! Why can't we massacre them all?!'
He raised his massive claws once more, preparing to annihilate the intruders in a single sweep.
A loud cry of a hawk could be heard and before Bear Lord could react, an emerald light flashed by across his arms, followed by the appearance of a jade-green light across his two massive arms that slowly glowed brighter in the next moment.
'What the—?!' The Bear Lord's eyes widened as the emerald light intensified, and suddenly—
BOOOM!
An explosive surge of wind blades burst from his arms, forcibly pushing him back several meters.
Bear Lord staggered, gritting his sharp teeth, he turned towards a large emerald hawk. It wasn't a soul beast considering it had nine soul rings around it: 2 yellow, 2 purple, 4 black, and 1 red!
Song Yunzhi, or Elder Song she's known for within the Inner Courtyard, is a rank 97 Transcendent Douluo and the mother of Xian Lin'er.
Also the mother-in-law of Qian Duoduo!
"Duoduo. You did a great job! I'll have Lin'er reward you later on!" Elder Song said.
"Mom?!"
Qian Duoduo's eyes shone. "Ah! Mother-in-law complimented me and Lin'er is rewarding me later on—gah!"
"Duoduo!"
"Still...Best. Day. Ever!"
"A strong enemy, heh. Ha! That's good! It's been a while since I fought someone at your level." Bear Lord exclaimed excitedly.
"My brothers!"
Several Dark Gold Terror Claw Bears and dozens of bear-type hundred thousand year old soul beasts roared as they charged straight towards the wide barrier around the people of Shrek Academy.
They were supposed to charge straight at them when Bear Lord ordered them to, but Qian Duoduo's barrier made them stop. However, confident in the Bear Lord, they started charging up their strongest attack to break the barrier in one go!
"Shit!" Qian Duoduo and other cursed when they saw the wave of soul beasts breaking through the barrier and charging straight at them.
"Everyone—!" Xuan Zi glanced back in worry and was about to turn back to help, when space right in front of him distorted, and a black dragon arm shot out from the void, aiming straight for his chest with terrifying speed.
'Damn it!'
Elder Xuan's eyes widened. He gritted his teeth and his eyes turned completely white, the Godly Taotie Bull behind his back roared fearsomely as a dense and material sphere of dirty yellow light appeared above his clenched right fist.
The energies of heaven and earth converged onto his right fist, like a flood of water and rolling of rocks. The sky above them suddenly became thick with dark clouds.
'I haven't completed this technique nor did I have enough preparation time to use more of its strength, but 20-30% percent of it should be enough!'
Self-created Soul Skill!
Heaven and Earth Resonance!
"Haaaaa!"
Elder Xuan let out a raw cry, his right fist surging with an overwhelming aura of absolute dominance! The Godly Taotie Bull behind him materialized fully, its massive horns gleaming with a dense, earthen glow.
BOOOOOM!
With a mighty swing, Elder Xuan punched forward, unleashing a colossal shockwave that collided directly with the black dragon arm bursting from the void.
The impact was like a meteor striking the ground, shaking the entire forest and causing massive trees to topple over from the sheer force.
The powerful shockwave and earthen energy clashed against the black-scaled dragon arm, causing the space around it to warp and shatter like a broken mirror.
Di Tian's eyes narrowed, slightly surprised as he pulled back his arm. He looked down at it to see trails of crimson blood running down it.
"Impressive. You're not even a Limit Douluo yet, you can muster up a fraction of a law of heaven and earth. Taotie, you have the potential to step into the next stage."
Di Tian turned towards Xuan Zi. "However, that is if you could live long enough."
"Haa...Haa..." Elder Xuan breathed heavily, blood dripping from his right face down to his right hand.
He gritted his teeth.
"Don't you.... underestimate me!"
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"Haa... That bastard always heads on first into a fight without caring for his life and his comrades." Myriad Demon King deeply sighed as he stared at the ongoing battle.
He closed his eyes and sighed. "Why am I complaining? This is the perfect time for me to enter."
He raises his hand, incredibly dense spiritual power exuded from his eyes as he muttered, "Conversion."
At that moment, all of the ancient trees in the vicinity where the Shrek Academy teachers and elders were, had suddenly transformed into Monster Eyed Trees.
The eyes of the grotesque Monster Eyed Trees looked up towards the humans.
"Huh? What the heck is—" A strange force seemed to make one of Titled Douluo teacher looked down, his eyes turned hazy and his movements went stiff.
He wasn't the only one. Several others experienced the same strange phenomenon. Their eyes became dull and lifeless, their bodies frozen in place as if they had became puppets.
Unfortunately for them, the soul beasts that they had been fighting, took advantage of such a situation and dealt severe damage to them—causing them to wake up.
"Aaaah! M-My arm...!"
"Damn you! Augh!"
"Ahhh!"
"Those are! Monster Eyed Trees?!" Cai Mei'er's eyes widened, quickly recognizing the trees.
Monster Eyed Trees aren't considered very strong. This was because they were considered spiritual-type and were most adept at using their tree eye to numb and control their opponents. After that, they would gradually use their corrosive sap to kill them.
While their opponents rotted away, they would turn into nourishment for these Monster Eyed Trees. In terms of lethality, Monster Eyed Trees weren't special among plant-type soul beasts.
But what was most terrifying about them was that momentary lost of focus, in a battle, hesitation would spell death!
She turned and yelled to her colleagues, "Don't look down! Make sure you're not alone! Keep each other from looking downward—!?"
Her eyes widened as a voluptuous female, practically naked, but mostly covered with dense purple scales appeared right in front of her. A strange ring of purple black light spreads out from her body, carrying the terrifying power of a highly concentrated effect of the darkness element's corrosion attribute.
One of the Hell Demon Dragon King's special abilities — Death and Decay!
'Damn it!' Cai Mei'er was too late to react. Her life flashing before her eyes.
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AN: Ngl, I was tempted to just call this chapter and the next as the First Great Beast War...but I'm saving it for later😏
See y'all next time!
2/3 chapters of the week