Douluo: Expelled From Shrek, I Awakened The Double Pupils! — Chapter 204

Chapter 204: complete Suppression of Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao Arrives

The lingering suspicions in Liu Yuan’s mind crystallized into absolute certainty.

A female Spirit Master. A cultivation base exceeding Rank eighty. A Black Phoenix Martial Soul. Every single trait pointed to one specific, infamous identity: Shrek Academy’s Ma Xiaotao.

This realization did not bring fear; instead, it ignited a fierce, surging thrill that electrified every muscle fiber in his body.

Back during the Continental Advanced Spirit Academy Spirit Dueling Tournament, he had still been in his fledgling stages. Defeating a powerhouse like Ma Xiaotao had required the combined, grueling efforts of Long Aotian and the rest of his team. In a pure, one-on-one confrontation back then, he would have been thoroughly outmatched.

But times had changed. The gap in their spirit power ranks remained, but Liu Yuan was no longer the inexperienced youth from the tournament.

Staring down the corrupted phoenix before him, the battle intent blazing in his eyes manifested into violent, tangible ripples of spirit power.

Ma Xiaotao, however, possessed no inclination to grant him a moment’s respite.

The pitch-black wings jutting from her back snapped open, blotting out the ambient light. With a deafening sonic boom, her entire figure blurred into a streak of obsidian light, diving toward him with the devastating momentum of a falling meteor.

Liu Yuan did not even flinch. Dodging was never part of the plan.

“Third Spirit Ability, Extreme Sublimation.”

“Fourth Spirit Ability, Mental Strength.”

As the incantations left his lips, his aura erupted. A torrential flood of spirit power surged through his meridians, pushing his Rank sixty foundation to its absolute, screaming limit. The air around him warped from the sheer density of his energy.

“Forbidden Domain,” he commanded, his voice a low, authoritative rumble.

A semi-transparent, spherical distortion instantly expanded outward, swallowing the battlefield within a fifty-meter radius. Inside this isolated space, the air crackled as countless purple-gold spiritual chains materialized from the void. They crisscrossed with deadly precision, weaving an inescapable net designed to forcibly shackle the diving phoenix.

The moment the Forbidden Domain washed over her, Ma Xiaotao’s blinding speed plummeted. The purple-gold chains lashed out like vipers, wrapping tightly around her limbs and pinning her massive wings.

Yet, the corrupted flames of the Black Phoenix were not so easily subdued.

Pitch-black tongues of fire erupted directly from her pores. This was no ordinary blaze; it was a highly concentrated, corrosive energy born of pure malice. The instant the spiritual chains made contact with the dark fire, they did not shatter physically, they were forcibly carbonized. The terrifying heat incinerated the mental tether connecting them to Liu Yuan, rendering the restraints dead and useless.

“A move of this level cannot trap me!” Ma Xiaotao hissed, her voice dripping with a cold, sinister echo.

Forcing her body into a brutal mid-air twist, she shattered the remaining dead chains. Her hands morphed into razor-sharp talons wreathed in black fire, tearing through the very fabric of space as she lunged straight for Liu Yuan’s heart.

Liu Yuan’s silhouette flickered. He directly activated Dominator.

For a fraction of a second, reality and perception decoupled. The domain’s effect created a fatal visual delay, slipping him entirely out of Ma Xiaotao’s sensory range. In an instant, his physical body shifted fluidly to her exposed right flank.

Simultaneously, he unleashed the Qilin Precious Technique.

His right hand clenched into a fist, the knuckles instantly encased in a thick, suffocating layer of spirit power and ancient, dark-golden runic patterns. It was a terrifying concentration of explosive, raw physical might.

Materializing beside her, Liu Yuan drove his right fist mercilessly into Ma Xiaotao’s lower abdomen.

The kinetic impact was apocalyptic. The force punched straight through her protective layer of corrupted flames, sinking deep into her flesh.

Ma Xiaotao’s eyes widened as an irresistible, crushing weight exploded through her core. The sheer kinetic force launched her backward like a fired cannonball. She tore through the air, violently slamming into the distant rock wall of the valley.

The cliffside cratered upon impact. Boulders shattered into dust, sending a massive plume of rubble and debris rocketing into the sky.

Coughing violently, Ma Xiaotao struggled to pry herself from the spiderweb of cracked stone. A stark trail of crimson blood leaked from the corner of her lips.

While the strike had not completely shattered her combat capabilities, the concussive shockwave had wreaked havoc on her internal meridians, severely disrupting the volatile flow of the evil fire within her.

A feral, enraged roar ripped from her throat. When she looked up, her irises had drowned in a sea of absolute, bloodthirsty crimson.

“Eighth Spirit Ability, Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens!”

The black flames that had momentarily dimmed suddenly exploded outward with apocalyptic fury. Above her head, the fire coalesced into the colossal, screeching phantom of a Black Phoenix.

The ambient temperature skyrocketed. In the blink of an eye, every drop of moisture within the valley evaporated into hissing steam.

This was a pinnacle burst skill of the Spirit Douluo realm, a catastrophic strike capable of reducing anything within a hundred-meter radius to fine, white ash.

Faced with an attack of such overwhelming density and scale, evasion was impossible.

Liu Yuan did not hesitate. He activated the Undying Body.

A brilliant, unyielding golden light erupted from his skin, elevating the structural toughness of his physical form to an beyond understanding extreme.

Instead of retreating, he planted his feet and launched himself directly into the maw of the giant Black Phoenix phantom.

The black flames swallowed him whole, violently clashing against his golden aura with a deafening, crackling roar. The corrosive heat rapidly scorched his flesh, but the Undying Body worked in overdrive, regenerating his damaged cells at a terrifying, visible rate.

Pushing through the inferno, Liu Yuan simultaneously triggered two skills from his Soul Spirit.

“Mental Confusion. Mental Suppression.”

For Ma Xiaotao, whose sanity was already hanging by a frayed thread and whose emotional state was a volatile mess of rage, these two stacked mental-control skills were the ultimate insult.

Her mind violently fractured. Her control slipped.

The devastating wave of black fire that was meant to incinerate Liu Yuan’s vital organs wavered. The intense mental interference caused a critical gap in her targeting, forcing the deadliest streams of fire to deviate just enough to miss his core.

Liu Yuan seized the opening with ruthless efficiency.

Closing the final distance, he pivoted his hips and swung his right arm like a battering ram, burying a devastating punch directly into Ma Xiaotao’s shoulder. Bone groaned under the impact.

Before she could recoil, he followed up with a brutal left hook that sank deep into her ribs.

In the brutal arena of close-quarters combat, Liu Yuan was an absolute monster. He fused the overwhelming physical might of the Qilin Precious Technique with the innate, suffocating suppression of his Destruction Beast Soul Spirit.

Every single strike carried a vicious, hidden force that bypassed her external defenses, violently shaking her internal organs.

For the first time in the fight, genuine panic pierced through Ma Xiaotao’s madness. She felt an unmatched, lethal threat.

No matter how intensely she spiked the temperature of her flames, this youth always found a way to neutralize the heat, only to answer with bone-shattering physical blows.

Between the massive energy expenditure of her Eighth Spirit Ability and the relentless, heavy trauma inflicted by Liu Yuan’s fists, the corrupted flames inside her were rapidly spiraling out of control.

She realized the grim reality of her situation. If she stayed in this valley, she would be beaten to death.

She had to retreat.

Using the momentum from Liu Yuan’s latest strike, Ma Xiaotao allowed herself to be knocked backward. Instead of counterattacking, she rapidly gathered a dense ring of fire beneath her feet.

“Second Spirit Ability, Phoenix Bathing in Fire.”

Her silhouette instantly ignited into a fiery red afterimage. Her speed violently doubled, tearing through the air as she desperately fled toward the valley’s exit.

But Liu Yuan had already calculated her exact trajectory.

Behind his back, the external Spirit Bone, the Amethyst Giant Wings, snapped fully open.

Powered by the Amethyst Giant Wings and supercharged by the speed amplification of the Qilin Precious Technique, Liu Yuan’s velocity eclipsed even her desperate, boosted flight.

A streak of black light tore across the sky.

Liu Yuan materialized directly in the center of Ma Xiaotao’s escape route.

Without a shred of hesitation, he torqued his body in mid-air. His right leg whipped downward, carrying a suffocating, dull wind pressure, and slammed like an executioner’s axe onto Ma Xiaotao’s injured shoulder.

The kick landed with a sickening thud.

Ma Xiaotao’s center of gravity shattered. Stripped of all momentum, she plummeted from the sky like a kite with a severed string, crashing violently into the muddy earth below.

Liu Yuan descended smoothly, his boots touching the ground without a sound.

He looked down at the corrupted phoenix, who was currently trembling and struggling to push herself out of the mud, and let out a cold, mocking laugh.

The battle was over. Ma Xiaotao had been completely and utterly suppressed.

From the initial clash of raw power, to the high-speed aerial pursuit, down to the precise, surgical restraint of her Spirit Abilities, Liu Yuan’s tactical execution had reached a terrifying pinnacle.

The current Ma Xiaotao was simply no longer qualified to be his opponent.

Meanwhile, hidden behind a thick patch of tall grass less than three hundred meters from the epicenter of the battle, three figures crouched in absolute silence.

It was none other than Huo Yuhao, Keke, and Juzi. They had sensed the apocalyptic energy fluctuations while en route to execute their mission and had immediately taken cover.

Concealed by the dense bushes, they slowed their breathing to a crawl, eyes wide as they witnessed the devastating one-sided duel unfold.

Keke’s knuckles were white as she gripped the fabric of her uniform. Even as a dedicated Soul Engineer, she had never witnessed a high-level Spirit Master deathmatch of this terrifying caliber.

Juzi’s expression was deadly serious. She held a miniature observation spirit tool steady in her hands, carefully recording every single second of the brutal combat ahead.

But it was Huo Yuhao whose expression was the most intense.

From the very first exchange, his eyes had been glued to the youth who dictated the entire flow of the battlefield.

Even though the bizarre Soul Spirit hovering beside Liu Yuan was somewhat blurry from this distance, Huo Yuhao would never, ever mistake that figure.

Slowly, a name slipped past his lips, carrying a heavy mix of shock and complex emotion.

“Liu Yuan…”

“It’s actually him…”