Douluo: Expelled From Shrek, I Awakened The Double Pupils! — Chapter 205

Chapter 205: It Really Is Ma Xiaotao! Huo Yuhao Leaps Out

At this moment.

In the dense underbrush just a few hundred meters away from the chaotic battlefield, Huo Yuhao held his breath. He maintained a steady flow of spiritual energy, projecting the distant scene directly into the minds of his companions through Spiritual Detection Sharing.

Beside him, Ju Zi gripped a specialized observation spirit tool. Her knuckles were white, and the metallic casing trembled slightly in her grasp. She turned her gaze toward Yuhao, her voice dropping to a harsh whisper. “Ke Ke just asked you a question. Do you actually know that youth fighting the Evil Soul Master?”

Yuhao gave a stiff nod. “I do. That is Liu Yuan.”

“The one you mentioned before? The champion of the previous Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament?” Ju Zi furrowed her brows, her expression tightening with disbelief.

“Yes, it is him,” Yuhao replied, his eyes fixed on the distant clash of energies. “I have not seen him for a while, but his strength has grown to an entirely different realm since then.”

Listening to their hushed exchange, Ke Ke remained entirely captivated by the devastated river valley ahead. She stared at Yuan’s slender back, then shifted her attention to the terrifying Evil Soul Master. Despite radiating a spirit power rank well over eighty, the woman in red was being completely suppressed. Ke Ke shook her head, her face pale.

“But this is too ridiculous. He is only in his sixties. The Evil Soul Master opposite him is at least rank eighty! Even if the three of us joined forces, we might not survive a single casual strike from that woman in red. How is Liu Yuan suppressing her so effortlessly?”

Ju Zi fell into a heavy silence. The sheer scale of the suppression unfolding before them had completely shattered the conventional boundaries of a Soul Master duel.

Yuhao, however, possessed no desire to analyze the absurd disparity in combat power. His golden-tinged eyes were locked intently on the woman in red, specifically on the terrifying manifestation of her Spirit.

Massive, pitch-black wings wreathed in roaring evil flames lashed at the air. The silhouette overlapped perfectly with a suppressed memory buried deep within his mind.

Closing his eyes, he sank his awareness inward, initiating a rapid exchange within his Sea of Consciousness.

‘Brother Tianmeng, this Evil Soul Master wielding the Black Phoenix Spirit… what do you think?’Within the vast, shimmering expanse of his mental realm, the usually carefree Tianmeng Iceworm responded with a rare, heavy seriousness.’Her spirit power fluctuations are firmly at rank eighty. A Black Phoenix Spirit, possessing an astronomically high flame temperature and an incredibly violent spirit power circulation path. Yuhao, I know what you want to ask. You want to know if there is a possibility she is Ma Xiaotao, right? I feel it is highly likely…’

Yuhao felt his stomach drop. An icy dread spread through his chest.

Following the conclusion of the Soul Master Tournament, Xiaotao had become the absolute center of controversy within the Shrek Academy system. Desperate to wash away the shame of their previous failures, she had thrown herself into cultivation like a woman possessed. The reckless acceleration caused a massive, uncontrollable buildup of her innate evil fire.

Shortly after, during a high-stakes core mission, her Spirit underwent a catastrophic mutation. The dark flames consumed her sanity, transforming her completely into an Evil Soul Master before she vanished without a trace.

Shrek Academy had dispatched countless search parties to track her down, yet every effort ended in failure.

Watching the chaotic black flames scorch the river valley, Yuhao could not stop his mind from racing.

Could it truly be her?

On the opposite side of the valley.

Long Aotian stood atop a high vantage point, his eyes locked onto the devastating exchange below. His hands were clenched so tightly that the bones in his fingers popped in protest.

He turned toward Du Busi, his voice thick with raw, unconcealed shock. “Master, did you see Junior Brother’s current strength clearly? It is truly too terrifying…”

Standing with his hands clasped behind his back, Du Busi tracked Yuan’s every movement. The cold indifference he usually reserved for such small-scale skirmishes had completely evaporated. As a man who placed absolute importance on brutal practical combat and the extreme tempering of the physical body, he was currently witnessing a flawless masterpiece in motion.

Du Busi nodded, a distinct undercurrent of fanaticism bleeding into his rough voice. “There is no need for doubt. Within ten years, there will be no one left in the entire Douluo Continent capable of rivaling him. As long as he maintains this terrifying momentum, let alone rank eighty, even a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo would struggle to gain any advantage against his Soul Spirit system.”

Hearing his Master’s absolute evaluation, turbulent waves of emotion crashed through Aotian’s heart. Without him even realizing it, the chasm separating his own power from his Junior Brother’s had widened into an impassable abyss.

Down in the valley, the brutal clash between Yuan and Xiaotao raged on.

Yuan displayed zero hesitation in the face of his opponent’s frenzied tenacity. His expression remained a mask of absolute calm.

Xiaotao let out a piercing shriek, violently flapping her black fire wings to launch yet another desperate charge. Her entire reservoir of spirit power erupted outward. Under her maddened control, the pitch-black flames ceased being mere sources of heat; they morphed into a highly corrosive storm, aggressively attempting to eat through Yuan’s protective spirit power barrier.

Yuan did not take a single step back.

He simply raised his hand, commanding the dense, grayish-brown energy of the Destruction Beast Soul Spirit.

“First Spirit Ability, Mental Suppression.”

Invisible, crushing ripples of mental force detonated directly beside Xiaotao. Caught in the middle of a high-speed aerial dash, the sudden, violent shockwave slammed into her consciousness, causing her brain to go completely blank for a critical fraction of a second.

Yuan surged forward.

Activating the Dominator skill, he shattered the spatial distance between them, appearing a mere half-meter away in the blink of an eye.

He pulled his arm back, his fist condensing a terrifying amount of force. This strike carried not only the monstrous physical might of his tempered body but also the ancient, destructive power channeled through the Qilin Precious Technique.

The heavy fist slammed brutally into the space just below Xiaotao’s ribs.

A sickening thud echoed across the valley. The violent circulation of spirit power within Xiaotao’s body ground to an instantaneous halt.

It was far more than a simple kinetic impact. The destructive force bypassed her external defenses, seeping directly into her internal organs and violently severing her connection to the dark flames.

The sheer kinetic force launched Xiaotao backward like a broken kite. She twisted desperately in mid-air, forcing her boots into the muddy earth to arrest her momentum, but still stumbled back several heavy steps.

Her face twisted in a mixture of agony and raw fury. The veil of black flames that had previously obscured her features shattered completely under the impact of her scattered spirit power, finally exposing her true appearance to the world.

Those dark red eyes. That iconic, fiery red hair. That beautiful face, now rendered somewhat eerie and pale due to the prolonged erosion of the evil fire.

Yuan stared at the panting woman before him.

It really was her.

Ma Xiaotao.

The instant the black flames dissipated, Du Busi and Long Aotian also caught a clear view of the Evil Soul Master’s face.

“Ma Xiaotao? Is that not Shrek’s Ma Xiaotao?” Aotian furrowed his brows, the memory of the fiery academy genius still fresh in his mind. He shook his head in disbelief. “How did she end up becoming an Evil Soul Master?”

Du Busi let out a cold, disdainful snort. “Fallen is fallen. Whether it is a so-called Shrek genius or an ordinary street vagrant, the moment they step onto the Evil Path, they become nothing more than a target for our Body Sect to eliminate.”

Meanwhile, hidden behind the dense foliage hundreds of meters away.

When that familiar, red-haired visage finally appeared in his line of sight, Yuhao stopped breathing. His chest tightened painfully.

It was Ma Xiaotao.

The fierce senior sister who had once protected and cared for him so deeply at Shrek Academy, now reduced to a monster suffering immense agony due to the fatal defect in her Spirit.

He watched, utterly paralyzed, as Yuan stepped forward and threw another merciless punch. The fist accurately struck Xiaotao’s shoulder, shattering her stance and sending her flying backward. She crashed violently into the muddy riverbank, coughing up a large mouthful of dark blood that stained the earth.

The tragic, broken sight of her made Yuhao feel as though a vice were crushing his heart.

Yuan’s imposing figure closed the distance once more.

Yuhao watched in horror as Yuan raised his arm. A highly concentrated, grayish-brown energy orb began to rapidly condense in the center of his palm. It was unmistakably the preparation for a lethal finishing blow, a strike designed to completely eradicate Xiaotao’s ability to resist.

If that orb connected, even if Xiaotao miraculously survived the blast, her meridians would be permanently shattered into dust.

Therefore.

In that split second.

Yuhao threw caution to the wind. He no longer cared about maintaining a safe distance, nor did he care about exposing his hidden position to the terrifying experts of the Body Sect.

Legs exploding with spirit power, he vaulted out of the bushes, his figure tearing across the battlefield like a desperate bolt of lightning.

He skidded to a halt directly in the dead zone between Yuan and the fallen Xiaotao.

Throwing his arms out wide, Yuhao formed a human shield in front of the broken Evil Soul Master.

He stared up at Yuan, his golden eyes wide and filled with frantic anxiety.

“Please, show mercy!”