Douluo Continent: The Ruler of Time, Reigning Supreme

Chapter 27 Spirit Kite Douluo
Meanwhile, several miles away from the battlefield.

Just as Nebula Douluo Manyi, who had just protected Xu Jiujiu and enabled him to successfully absorb the Thousand-Year Starlight Scorpion Soul Ring, was about to leave with the two of them, her brows suddenly furrowed and she abruptly turned to look in a certain direction of the forest.

"Such powerful energy fluctuations... Are two Title Douluo-level experts exchanging blows?"

A hint of doubt flashed in her cloudy old eyes.

"In this mixed zone, it's extremely rare to see 100,000-year-old soul beasts. Who is fighting so fiercely here?"

She sensed it carefully for a moment, then a hint of surprise appeared on her face:
"One of them is bright and fiery, full of vitality, and somewhat familiar... It should be Yan Shaozhe's Phoenix Martial Soul from Shrek Academy. The other one is... cold, lifeless, and full of evil... What the hell is this?"

"Dean Yan Shaozhe?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Jiujiu, who had just obtained her third soul ring and whose soul power had stabilized at level thirty-one, immediately brightened up with her beautiful eyes.

She immediately thought of her brother Xu Jiawei's long-standing desire to befriend and win over Shrek Academy.

The dean of Shrek Academy seems to be engaged in a fierce battle. If they were to appear now, even if it's just to watch from the sidelines or to lend a helping hand at a crucial moment, it would undoubtedly be a tremendous favor.

"Grandma Manyi, let's go take a look."

Xu Jiujiu immediately made the suggestion, her tone filled with a hint of urgency and anticipation.

"If we can take this opportunity to establish a good relationship with Dean Yan, it will be of great benefit to the Empire."

Man Yi frowned slightly, glanced at Xu Jiujiu and Yin Chen, who was only a Soul Master beside her, and hesitated:
"Your Highness, the battle between Title Douluos is no small matter. Even the aftershocks could injure you. Taking you there would be too risky."

"Grandma Manyi, we just need to observe from a distance and act according to the situation. With you here, we should be safe."

He persisted for a long time, his eyes gleaming with shrewdness.

After a moment's thought, Man Yi sensed that Yan Shaozhe's aura of light was steadily suppressing the deathly, evil aura. Coupled with her confidence in her own strength, she finally nodded.
"Alright, but you must stay close to me and not act rashly."

"Great."

Xu Jiujiu said with delight.

Meanwhile, Yin Chen, standing to the side, was secretly groaning in his heart.

Although he couldn't sense the specific battle fluctuations, he knew with his toes that the only one who could fight Yan Shaozhe was the Nirvana Corpse that had just been born in the Star Dou Great Forest.

After all, the direction was right; the direction Manyi was looking was the direction from which the Nirvana Corpse was born.

'Just what I feared most has come to pass...'

Yin Chen's lips twitched slightly. He just wanted to develop peacefully and had no desire to get involved in trouble of this level.

Especially in battles involving Title Douluo-level beings, even those who merely watch may be caught in the aftershocks and die from unknown area-of-effect attacks.

However, he was now in a weak position and his voice carried little weight. Xu Jiujiu had already made up his mind, and Manyi had also agreed, so he had no room to object.

"Sigh, let nature take its course..."

Yin Chen sighed helplessly in his heart. He could only muster his full attention and follow Nebula Douluo Manyi and the enthusiastic Xu Jiujiu, cautiously approaching the battlefield from which terrifying energy fluctuations were emanating.

Under the protection of Nebula Douluo Manyi, Yin Chen and his two companions quietly sneaked to the edge of the battlefield.

The scene before them was terrifying—a middle-aged man in white robes, his body engulfed in brilliant golden flames, was relentlessly blasting away a black figure emanating a dense aura of death with overwhelming power. The man in white was none other than Yan Shaozhe, the Phoenix Douluo. Each of his attacks contained the flames of light, and his fists and feet stirred up wind and thunder, the phoenix flames scorching the air and distorting it.

However, his opponent, a black-clad woman with a terrifying face and only white teeth bones remaining on the lower half of her face, displayed an unbelievable tenacity.

Yan Shaozhe's powerful attacks, capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, struck her with a dull thud, slamming her into the ground and creating a huge crater, or sending her flying, crashing through dozens of towering ancient trees.

No matter what seemingly fatal wounds she suffered, the woman in black could always struggle to her feet in the next moment, at a speed that completely defied the laws of life. As death surged around her, most of her injuries would have already healed.

Her physical strength was simply superhuman, as if she were not made of flesh and blood, but rather forged from some kind of immortal divine iron.

What's even more surprising is that although this woman in black is also a Title Douluo, the soul power fluctuations she exudes at this moment are far inferior to Yan Shaozhe's, and even less than those of the Nebula Douluo Manyi standing to the side.

Yet it is precisely this weak soul power, combined with her immortal body, that has allowed her to fight against Yan Shaozhe, who is at level ninety-five, until now.

"What...what kind of monster is this?"

After a long while, her pretty face turned pale, and she gasped in surprise, the scene before her was beyond her comprehension.

Manyi's expression was also extremely solemn. She wondered if she were to face this strange being, she would probably find it difficult to defeat it in a short time, and might even be dragged into danger by its immortality.

Yin Chen, however, was experiencing a surge of emotions.

A female Title Douluo, who fell in the Star Dou Great Forest, whose martial soul was the Fiery Spirit Kite... These clues combined gave him a strong sense of déjà vu.

He rapidly searched his mind for fragments of memories from his past life, information about Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago.

It's her!

A flash of inspiration struck Yin Chen, and a name and a piece of information appeared in his mind.

Elder of the Spirit Hall, Spirit Kite Douluo.

Ten thousand years ago, she followed Pope Bibi Dong to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt down the two forest kings, the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape. However, in her eagerness to gain merit, she unfortunately perished at the hands of the two soul beasts.

Whether it's gender, martial spirit, or the place of death, everything matches the Nirvana Corpse before us.

Just as Yin Chen guessed the other party's identity, the situation on the battlefield underwent a subtle change.

The Nirvana Corpse, which had originally been like a wild beast, only knowing how to attack madly and yearning for life, had its crimson eyes now showing a clear and rational light, as the chaos and violence receded like the tide.

She abruptly retreated a distance, ceasing her attack, and the deathly aura surging around her subsided slightly.

Yan Shaozhe immediately noticed his opponent's abnormality. He stopped his attack, his body still burning brightly with flames, and watched his opponent warily.

He could clearly sense that the other party's aura had changed, transforming from a ferocious beast that only knew how to devour into... a being that could be communicated with?

The moment he regained all his intelligence and memories, Lingyuan Douluo understood his own state.

She was awakened from her eternal slumber by an incomprehensible, great, and eerie power, which reshaped her body. However, the price was that she was no longer alive, but had become the dead, the counterpart to the living—a Nirvana Corpse.

She didn't understand why she had been chosen, nor did she know what kind of great being was behind her, but none of that mattered to her.

At this moment, all that filled her heart was bewilderment and a longing for life.

(End of this chapter)