"This pressure?! Limit Douluo?!"
"Fuck! Shrek had another old monster? No one told me this bullshit!"
The extreme pressure exuding from Di Tian's body terrified the evil soul masters.
This terrifying sensation was something they've only felt from either the Supreme Leader and Chief of the Worship Hall! Since Mu En was quickly killed by Death God, they didn't have much of an impression of him and thought of him as being weaker than the two.
Yet, the intimidating and soul crushing pressure emanating from Di Tian made them think that the Supreme Leader and Chief Worshiper were weaker than this expert!
Death God proved himself worthy as their leader as he quickly composed himself. Thinking about what Di Tian had said, he quickly connected the dots.
However, it was terrifying! If who he thinks is really him then they're fucking screwed!
This was a guy that not even his mother and stepfather, both Limit Douluos, wouldn't be able to win against! Him killing a severely crippled Mu En doesn't mean he was at the same level as an expert Limit Douluo.
Even the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception had only served as a buffer, if Mu En wasn't at his last breath of life and was at least healthy, this so-called Death God wouldn't have been able to blink before he realized he was dead.
That was basic understanding of what a Limit Douluo is. They are people who are the closest to reaching Godhood, anyone below their level are basically ants.
Death God, Feng Ling, and the other evil soul masters understood this greatly. So when Di Tian slowly walked over towards them, each step in the air causing ripples and tears in space—they turned around and tried fleeing.
That was Beast God, Di Tian! The strongest mortal soul beast in the world!
Unfortunately for them however, Di Tian had almost perfect mastery over spatial strength. They all slammed against an invisible war in front of them. Desperate, they all tried using their strongest soul skills against the spatial lock around them.
Even an ordinary Limit Douluo holds no claim of being an expert over the space element in front of this beast, how could a group of Titled Douluos and even Transcendent Douluos have a chance?
"....Beast God, we have no quarrel with you. In fact, considering the history between the Great Star Dou Forest and Shrek Academy, wouldn't you both be mortal enemies? We can help each other," Death God tried to bargain in a low tone of voice. A bead of cold sweat dripped down his face.
With the threat of confronting Beast God, he naturally tried talking to him.
Unfortunately for him, this was Beast God. If what they offer him doesn't align with his interests, then he doesn't care.
Di Tian calmly replied, "Unlike you humans, us soul beasts take our words seriously."
Without wasting any more words, he raised his right hand and a black dot appeared in the middle of the Evil Soul Masters. Suddenly, an intense suction force emitted from the gradually expanding black dot.
It was a miniature Black Hole.
!!!
"Scatter!" Death God yelled, his eyes condensed with bright bluish-red color. His seventh and eighth soul rings shone intensely. He took on the appearance of a Death God, a large ten meter tall skeleton wearing a black robe with a long-bladed scythe, deadly death aura emitted from his body.
Seventh Soul Skill: Death God True Body
He swung his scythe, and a needle-thin beam of purple light that sparks a flame called the Withering Flame shot towards the rapidly expanding Black Hole.
Eight soul skill: Godly Death Needle!
Di Tian didn't do anything. He watched the desperate Death God and his subordinates with a cold, disdainful gaze.
With his masterful control over the space around them and the expanding miniature Black Hole he created, and none of them having some mastery over space. It was only a matter of time before they all perished by a simple move he created.
Unlike the time with Xuan Zi and the others, he isn't holding back this time.
Cracked!
"What?!" Di Tian's eyes widened as he saw the miniature black hole he created was destroyed by Death God.
That was a miniature Black Hole! Even he, the creator, couldn't easily cancel it out.
Di Tian was further shocked when he sensed that the "space" in the area of the Black Hole had completely disappeared!
No, it was "killed". Creating a rift in reality, like the cracks from a mirror as the plane tries righting this wrongness.
'This sensation... Is that the power of the Goddess of Death? Is he a divine successor? No, I don't sense a lick of the divine realm or the underworld from this man. Plus, Death wouldn't pick an evil soul master that kills indiscriminately.
This must mean that whatever power he's using is of divine level. If he reaches Limit Douluos, within a few hundred years, he might ascend to become a Demon God!'
First it was Huo Yuhao, now some pretentious evil soul master calling himself Death God has the potential to become a God. What's up with this era?!
Di Tian wasn't going to lie, he felt a bit pissed off.
While he cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years trying to become a God, in just the last ten thousand years, there had been several newly ascended Gods! Heaven and earth truly have no fairness!
A popped vein on his forehead, Di Tian's expression grew colder. An immense amount of soul power burst out of his body, within it, a pitch black ball and dazzling silver ball spun in opposite directions.
Yin Yang Complement Technique — Black Dragon Core and Space Element Core, revolution!
A black sun and a purple moon appeared behind him as they overlapped and illuminated one another. Di Tian's frightening aura began to surge once again at an incredible rate.
He raised his right hand and made a handseal, pinching his middle finger and thumb together. Appearing before his fingers was a small ball of purple light, arcs of silvery-black lightning flickered across it.
"Black Dusk!"
*BOOOOM—!*
The moment Di Tian uttered the name of his technique, the sky twisted violently, as if all of reality had just flinched. Time itself seemed to go still.
The overlapping black sun and purple moon behind him pulsed once in unison—and the small purple light between his fingers detonated in slow, agonizing silence.
*Black Dusk* wasn't just an attack.
It was a spatial collapse compressed into a pinpoint moment, fused with the concentrated power of Ultimate Darkness.
The ball of purple light blinked forward, skipping distance and sound, appearing in the center of the Evil Soul Masters' formation—right where the miniature black hole had failed.
Then—*impact.*
Everything went dark.
A sphere of absolute nothingness expanded outward from the center, swallowing light, air, sound, even soul power and spiritual power—disintegrating it into nothing.
Not breaking it down, not scattering it—erasing it.
The screams of more than half of Eight Honorary Elders were cut off mid-breath as their bodies flickered—disappearing in layers. No blood.
No dust.
Only silence.
The sheer size and magnitude of the attack was enough to cover the entire academy, if it weren't for Beast God's spatial lock around him and the evil soul masters.
So that it distorts space around them, making it so that it was larger the area they were in.
In the view of outsiders, the attack was the size of a large boulder.
Feng Ling screamed, trying to activate her martial soul body to escape, but her soul power was consumed before the skill could even ignite. Surprisingly, this caused her to escape the Black Dusk and fall into the ground. The other "fortunate" Honorary Elders had also somewhat ended up in the same state.
Zhongli Wu, wrapped in the full power of his Death God True Body, managed to survive the initial erasure zone—but barely.
He dropped to one knee, panting, the robes of his skeletal transformation charred and flickering like static. His Mystic Eyes glowed fiercely, but they were dimming—he'd used too much.
"H-How... the hell...! Is that even allowed...?!" he gasped, blood trailing from his mouth.
Di Tian finally spoke again, his voice like thunder rolling across a dead sky.
"This is what happens.... when you threaten the balance of the forest. Of underestimating the word of a soul beast."
The silver lightning cracked again as the second pulse of Black Dusk began to build up.
"You die."
"Haaaa..."
Di Tian narrowed his eyes and turned his head, finding an elderly man, tall, with silver hair combed as neatly as could be. His face is rosy like an infant's, and his long eyebrows drape down from either side of his face.
Booom!
The second pulse of the Black Dusk came, generating a gigantic black sun that swallowed everything in a 100 mile radius. The spatial he placed around them cracked.
Even the seemingly absolute shield over Shrek Academy and Shrek City dimmed considerably.
Di Tian didn't look at it however, his eyes stayed on the old man, who now has his hand over someone's shoulder.
From the side was an utterly confused Death God, who slumped in relief upon seeing who saved him.
"I was wondering when you'd show up, Dragon Emperor." Di Tian sneered, not put off by the appearance of this old man. Instead, he only has intense disdain and disgust at him.
Limit Douluo, title: Dragon Emperor! Long Xiaoyao!
How could he have any respect for a human that arrogantly calls himself the Dragon Emperor? Even none of the original Dragon Kings have the nerve to call themselves the Dragon Emperor.
The ones who had the qualification to call themselves the Emperor of Dragons were the Golden Dragon King, Silver Dragon King, and the Dragon Clan's Crown Prince.
That wasn't even mentioning Mu En. At least this man only calls himself an emperor, but that man had the gall to name himself the Dragon God Douluo?
If he wasn't in public right now, he would've given this so-called Death God a double thumbs up and a slight smile.
No human or even a Dragon King has the qualification to call themselves the Dragon God! The strongest divine beast in existence! His God, his ancestor!
If it weren't for the divine object that was the Golden Tree, Di Tian would've stormed straight to Mu En and strangled him.
"U-Uncle Long..." Death God muttered, his voice barely above a whisper, filled with equal parts desperation and shame.
The sight of Long Xiaoyao brought him a flicker of hope—but also a slap of reality. If he had come in person, then things had escalated far beyond what any of them expected.
The truth was that Long Xiaoyao had secretly been accompanying this stepson of his. One was to protect him, the second was to stop him from wrecking havoc in Shrek Academy.
That was his alma mater! He didn't want it and the innocent students and all of the faculty members from dying.
He thought he would've gotten at least one single conversation with his old friend, who would've thought that this stepson of his had actually killed him instantly!
The sight of Mu En's split dragon body falling into the ground shocked him so much that even the appearance of Di Tian didn't wake him up.
It was only after the appearance of the Black Dusk that he snapped back to reality.
Long Xiaoyao gave Zhongli Wu only a brief glance. "You've made a mess," he said flatly.
Then he turned his eyes, sharp and cold, toward Di Tian. Though calm in appearance, a storm brewed beneath his composed expression.
The air around them thickened instantly, space compressing under the weight of two beings that stood at the apex of the mortal plane staring each other down.
"Beast God," Long Xiaoyao said, his tone respectful but firm. "This has gone far enough."
Di Tian's gaze was cold, expression indifferent. "I decide when it's far enough."
"...."
There was a moment of silence.
Di Tian's fingers twitched, transforming into dragon claws.
A powerful dragon might burst out of Long Xiaoyao's body and nine soul rings materialized from underneath his feet: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red.
Just as Di Tian was about to make a move, Huo Yuhao's voice entered his mind.
'Let them go.'
Di Tian stilled.
'....Why?'
'They can still be useful in the future. However, the other evil soul masters stay. I have a use for them in the present.'
Di Tian was confused but decided to comply. It wasn't like he had any grudge against them anyway, plus, this should be enough to show the world of the power of the Great Star Dou Forest and how they were allied with Shrek, but only with Huo Yuhao to those who truly knew the real details.
"Go. However, the rest of them stay."
"Huh?" Long Xiaoyao and Death God stared at him.
Di Tian didn't elaborate further and just stood there, staring back at them.
Although he had many questions, Long Xiaoyao didn't hesitate. He grabbed Death God and the two flew towards the direction of the Sun Moon Empire, disappearing into the horizon.
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AN: Sorry for the late update. A blackout occured in my town, it's happening often now because of the constant harsh weather we're getting for the entire month.