This scene was naturally also displayed through the light screen for everyone to watch.
Inside the main hall of the Holy Spirit Cult, everyone's gazes were locked tightly onto the light screen, watching the chest of Nether Thunder Douluo pierced by a long spear, watching the blood mist that Netherworld Douluo turned into, and watching those few Spirit Saints vanish into the air before they even had time to scream.
It was dead silent, and the drop of a needle could be heard.
Zhongli Wu sat on his seat with a gloomy expression, his hands tightly gripping the armrests of the chair, and a sort of extremely complex emotion surged within his sunken eye sockets.
He, Zhongli Wu, the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, a 98th-rank Super Douluo who had run amok on Douluo Continent for so many years, when had he ever been forced to this extent by someone?
There was only ever the part where he made others fearful, only ever the part where he stood high above and looked down on others.
But what about now?
That Shrek Academy inside the light screen, that colossal entity suspended thousands of meters high in the sky, was like a sharp sword hanging above his head, likely to fall at any moment.
And what made Zhongli Wu feel the most suffocated was that he could not even raise the thought of resisting.
If faced with that so-called Beast God Di Tian, the former number one person of Douluo Continent, although Zhongli Wu harbored fear, that fear was also mixed with a trace of greed.
He had thought of turning Beast God Di Tian into his own corpse to refine a Puppet, and he had thought of turning that power belonging to Di Tian into his own use.
At that time he at least dared to think about it, but as for the Shrek Academy before his eyes?
Zhongli Wu did not even dare to think about it.
That Beast God Di Tian, who once made the entire continent tremble because of him, was now sitting in the ordinary audience seats of that Sky Shrek Academy.
Even Di Tian did not dare to do anything to this academy, how could he, Zhongli Wu, dare?
What would he use to contend against it?
Use his corpse Puppets? Use his Evil Soul Master army? Or use his 98th-rank Super Douluo cultivation?
What difference was there between these things and paper-mâché in front of that academy?
And right at this moment, the images within the light screen were still continuing to switch.
The camera turned and fell upon another corner of Douluo Continent.
There was also a group of Evil Soul Masters there. Like Nether Thunder Douluo, they were unwilling to just sit and wait for death like this, unwilling to watch the countdown of their own death approach bit by bit.
They chose to make a desperate struggle, chose to make a move while the competition was still ongoing, and chose to try to prove that academy was not omnipotent.
And then they died.
The figure of a blonde youth appeared within the image, his hands transforming into a pair of huge tiger claws, covered all over with dense white hair, and the tips of the claws were as sharp as knives.
His figure was like lightning, shuttling among that group of Evil Soul Masters. Every time his tiger claws swung down, a head would roll to the ground.
This person was precisely Dai Yueyan, and this group of Evil Soul Masters did not have the slightest bit of resistance power when facing Dai Yueyan.
The image shifted again.
A tall woman held a huge forging hammer in her hand. Every time she swung the hammer, it carried a heavy sense of power. Those Evil Soul Masters smashed by her hammer had their entire bodies directly collapse inward, and even their bones shattered into slag.
This person was precisely Mu Xi. Her movements had no fancy skills; it was just swinging the hammer, smashing down, swinging the hammer, and smashing down again, simple and brutal to the point of making one's scalp tingle.
The image shifted once more.
A delicate-looking youth stood there, surrounded by biting cold qi. Sharp ice cones condensed within his palms, and with a casual wave, those ice cones shot out like arrows, accurately piercing through the chests of those Evil Soul Masters trying to escape.
Those Evil Soul Masters were nailed to the ground by Xu Xiaoyu's ice cones, struggling twice before losing all breath.
There were even more images flashing within the light screen; some Evil Soul Masters were devoured by flames, some were cut by wind blades, and some were crushed into meat patties by gravity.
Those Evil Soul Masters who had run amok on Douluo Continent for decades were at this moment just like ants casually pinched to death by someone, completely devoid of any power to resist.
After such a massacre, the Evil Soul Masters truly did not dare to make any more moves this time.
Those who originally still harbored lucky notions, those who originally still thought of giving it a desperate try, all shrank back into their dens at this very moment, not even daring to breathe loudly.
They truly could not manage to do something like a desperate struggle under the surveillance of that Shrek Academy; these things would only bring forward the countdown to their deaths.
Fear wrapped around all the Evil Soul Masters. They had enjoyed slaughter and plunder for so many years, enjoyed the pleasure of stripping others of their lives for so many years, but by now, they finally tasted the sensation of having one's life and death controlled by someone else.
That taste was quite uncomfortable.
In sharp contrast to this were the ordinary people across various parts of Douluo Continent.
Those villages, small towns, and cities that were usually plagued by Evil Soul Masters to the point of utter misery, those ordinary people who used to tremble whenever they heard the name of Evil Soul Masters in the deep of night, were now watching the scenes of Evil Soul Masters being wiped out within the light screen, their eyes welling up with hot tears one after another.
Some knelt on the ground, kowtowing towards the direction of that Shrek Academy in the Sky.
Some embraced and wept bitterly, the fear and suppression of many years finally being released at this moment.
Some waved their arms and shouted loudly, their voices turning hoarse from excitement.
"Many thanks to Shrek Academy!"
"Those damned Evil Soul Masters can finally die!"
"Heaven has eyes!"
"It's not Heaven that has eyes, it's Shrek Academy that has eyes!"
Various shouts resounded from every corner of Douluo Continent, converging into a vast wave of sound.
Those ordinary people who were once regarded as ants by Evil Soul Masters could finally straighten their backs now, could finally sleep peacefully at night, and finally no longer had to worry that themselves or their family members would become nourishment for Evil Soul Masters to Cultivate.
The acclaim for Shrek Academy was also growing higher and higher.
Inside the Star Luo Empire, Emperor Xu Jiawei looked at the images within the light screen and directly froze in place.
His gaze locked tightly onto Dai Yueyan's golden-haired White Tiger Spirit figure, his pupils slightly contracting.
This fellow... both golden hair and White Tiger Spirit, looked practically identical to the Dai Family.
Emperor Xu Jiawei's brows knitted together; of course he knew what the Dai Family looked like.
The imperial family of the Star Luo Empire, synonymous with the White Tiger Spirit, that iconic head of golden hair, and that innate domineering aura—he was far too familiar with these things.
But the problem was, when did such a young man appear in the Dai Family?
Emperor Xu Jiawei's mind involuntarily conjured up the figure of Wu Siduo.
Wu Siduo also had a White Tiger Spirit, but to tell the truth, she didn't look like it.
But Dai Yueyan was different; this fellow possessed far too many features of the Dai Family.
A trace of hidden worry arose in Emperor Xu Jiawei's heart.
It wasn't that he was afraid of whatever relationship Dai Yueyan might have with the Dai Family; what he truly worried about was whether that Sky Shrek Academy would affect the current layout of Douluo Continent.
Ever since that academy appeared, the original balance on Douluo Continent had been completely shattered.
The balance of power among the four Empires, the power layout of the Spirit Master's world, and even ordinary people's cognition of Spirit Masters were all undergoing heaven-turning and earth-shattering changes.
Emperor Xu Jiawei had indeed once thought of borrowing the power of that Shrek Academy.
After all, with such a transcendent existence standing on his side, the Star Luo Empire could gain the upper hand when contending against the Sun Moon Empire, the Heavenly Soul Empire, and the Douling Empire.
But right now, Emperor Xu Jiawei understood that he simply could not control this academy.
This was even more uncontrollable than that Shrek Academy he had once studied at.
That Shrek Academy on the ground would at least still care about some of the rules and human sentiments on the continent, but what about this Sky Shrek Academy?
They acted entirely based on their own rules, didn't care about any worldly affairs or human sentiments at all, and cared even less about any disputes between Empires.
Emperor Xu Jiawei sighed, hoping that they didn't wish to participate in the current war.
And right at this moment, within the light screen, another figure appeared on the competition stage.
Inside the main hall of the Holy Spirit Cult, when everyone saw that figure, they couldn't help but all freeze in place.
Especially Zhongli Wu; his pair of eyes suddenly widened, and a trace of incredulous expression swept across his gloomy face.
The person who went up was Nangong Wan, that cowardly Nangong Wan, that Nangong Wan who bullied the weak and feared the strong?
When did he, Nangong Wan, ever have this kind of courage?
But now, he actually went straight onto that competition stage under everyone's gazes.
Under everyone's gazes, amidst the astonished gazes of all the Evil Soul Masters, and under the gaze of countless eyes in front of all the light screens, Nangong Wan knelt down directly towards Lin Feng's direction.
Both knees touched the ground, and his head knocked heavily onto the ground.
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