Huo Yuhao's face immediately turned ugly. Zhongli Wu at his side was also the same.
Although he didn't know what the effect of the Sea God's light was, it was clear that for an evil soul master, it was not a good thing.
"What do you intend to do?" Cai Mei'er's pupils narrowed. She was also not an easy-to-talk-to master.
Give up the hostage exchange? That was absolutely impossible. To let Zhongli Yu stay in Shrek Academy for another day, her situation would become even more dangerous.
A damaged martial soul was different from a physical injury. It could not be transferred away through injury grafting. To take a step back, Huo Yuhao's second martial soul, the Immortal Spirit Wood, was temporarily unusable. Even if he could perform an injury graft, he would not be able to transfer the damage of a martial soul.
Zhongli Wu did not have the same spiritual power as Huo Yuhao, but just from Huo Yuhao's face, he knew that Zhongli Yu's situation was surely not good.
"Yan Shaozhe! Does your Shrek really think our Holy Spirit Cult is easy to bully?"
"Hmph! This demonic girl was suppressed by us with the Sea God's light when she was captured by us. For you to be entangled on this issue now is too late. If you are unwilling to carry out a hostage exchange, we can have a great battle!"
Yan Shaozhe glanced at Huo Yuhao. As early as today, he had received Mu En's meaning. Even if it meant sacrificing Xian Lin'er, he had to execute both Zhongli Yu and Huo Yuhao on the spot!
"Pontiff, Yu'er's Blood Soul Demonic Puppet martial soul has already been shattered. In the future, I'm afraid..." Huo Yuhao transmitted his voice to Zhongli Wu.
Zhongli Wu was silent. Although Zhongli Yu was his granddaughter, compared to the safety of the Holy Son, a Holy Maiden, on the contrary, seemed a little insignificant.
At this time, Zhongli Yu was also looking at Huo Yuhao and her own grandfather with worry. She knew her own situation and hoped that Huo Yuhao and Zhongli Wu could give her up and escape in time.
At the same time, in the depths of her heart, she on the contrary, and paradoxically, hoped that Huo Yuhao could save her at all costs.
Huo Yuhao could not see her expression. The two hostages were both blocked by the soul power of their respective sides' strongest Super Douluos. At this time, all that was needed was one response from Huo Yuhao, and this hostage exchange could be immediately ended.
"Yu'er."
Zhongli Wu suddenly spoke.
Zhongli Yu looked at her own grandfather. Her parents had died early. It had been her grandfather who had raised her since she was young, continuously cultivating her with resentful spirits. At this time, hearing Zhongli Wu's call, her face immediately relaxed. Sure enough, her grandfather was still reluctant to part with her.
"Let's end it here. Grandfather is sorry for you," Zhongli Wu's gaze was deep. It seemed that for him to abandon Zhongli Yu, this Holy Maiden, he had not the slightest bit of reluctance. Her martial soul had been shattered, which also meant that she was completely useless.
Zhongli Yu's beautiful pupils suddenly widened. She couldn't believe that these were the words spoken by the grandfather who had doted on her since she was young. Immediately, she seemed to have thought of something, and a self-mocking smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Yes. She no longer had any need to exist. Her martial soul had been shattered, which also meant that in the future, she could not even be a soul master again.
The Holy Spirit Cult, how could it possibly, for an ordinary person, let Shrek safely return a Super Douluo?
Her heart was as if heavily struck. Her already pale, pretty face had instantly lost its blood color. Her red lips trembled. She used her last bit of a peripheral vision to look at the Huo Yuhao by Zhongli Wu's side.
"Let's go."
Huo Yuhao's face was without any expression. His pair of covered pupils could not reveal any discernible look. And this resolute response had on the contrary become the last straw that had crushed Zhongli Yu's fragile soul.
Zhongli Yu looked at this youth whom she had loved to the point of madness in disbelief. At this time, her heart was almost completely broken. Although this was the worst-case scenario she had prepared for from the very beginning, why, when this moment had come, was she still unable to bear it?
Hearing this, Zhongli Wu's face was filled with gratification. He stretched out his hand and with one hand, pulled the back of Huo Yuhao's collar. With a tap of his heel, he was about to retreat quickly.
"Make a move!"
At this time, Yan Shaozhe's face was as calm as water. A longsword of the Radiant Phoenix that had already been charged up long ago, with an irresistible sharpness, went straight for the Huo Yuhao who was holding Xian Lin'er in his embrace. The posture was to be sure to pierce through both of them together.
Xian Lin'er's state of mind at this time was in what way different from Zhongli Yu's? The man she had once admired had, for the sake of the academy's interests, in the end, still made a move on her.
For Yan Shaozhe to have made a move was surely one of the discussion plans of the Sea God Pavilion's meeting.
The thought that the academy for which she had fought her whole life, and which was like a family, in order to get rid of an opponent, would rather give up herself, Xian Lin'er also couldn't help but shed a tear of relief.
At this moment, whether it was Xian Lin'er or Zhongli Yu, their hearts were sincerely filled with despair. Even if they had thought of this worst-case possibility, at the moment they were truly facing this scene, they were still unable to stop their grief and despair.
Forget it. I'll just use this life of mine to repay the academy's kindness of recognizing me!
Farewell, my little man. Your Holy Maiden, even in another world, will not hate you...
Facing Yan Shaozhe's surprise attack, Zhongli Wu had long been prepared. A flash of his trigger-type soul tool protective shield, and a light membrane was in an instant about to envelop the two of them.
And just at this critical moment, Huo Yuhao suddenly laughed.
Whether it was the half-old-crone hostage or his wife, Zhongli Yu, I want them all!
He fiercely pulled Xian Lin'er into his own embrace. The scorpion tail at the end of his ice-crystal wings had firmly fixed her to his chest. And his freed two hands had quickly come together before him.
This was the result of his several days of devoted recuperation. Thanks to the Goddess of Life, he could, every day, briefly use one skill of the Ten Thousand Demon King's twin palm soul bones.
"Sage Art—All Wood Capturing Hands!"
Everyone had thought that Zhongli Wu would take Huo Yuhao and quickly break out of the encirclement. But Huo Yuhao's figure, which had originally been in the latter's soul tool protective shield, had suddenly turned into a phantom.
"Yuhao!"
"Holy Son!"
"Bastard!"
A huge, wooden palm had broken through the city tower and had grabbed Zhongli Yu in its palm. At the critical moment of Yan Shaozhe's move, it had broken through his soul power protection and had successfully taken Zhongli Yu away from his side.
And Yan Shaozhe's longsword had on the contrary gone straight for Huo Yuhao. The latter had on the contrary turned to the side, had thrown the Xian Lin'er in his embrace to one side, and had used his left chest to take this sword.
Huo Yuhao's phantom was precisely one of the ultimate skills of his liberated Ice Wheel Moon, the Remnant Ice Phantom. By condensing countless tiny ice prisms in the air to distort the light and to conceal himself, just when the two sides had begun to negotiate, Huo Yuhao's main body had already left Zhongli Wu's protection range.
Subsequently, he had used his once-a-day soul bone skill to save the Zhongli Yu who had been heavily surrounded by the Shrek experts. At the critical moment, he had, with his ultimate speed, avoided Yan Shaozhe's fatal sword strike, and incidentally had also saved the hostage, Xian Lin'er.
All of this had happened in a flash of lightning. Even many of the spectators had not been able to react in the first moment, and Huo Yuhao had completed an extreme rescue and self-preservation.
With the longsword entering his body, Huo Yuhao bit down hard. With his ultimate ice, he had quickly frozen the wound, had fixed the sword's body, and then had quickly drawn back.
Yan Shaozhe, in his shock and anger, had not forgotten to twist his longsword, releasing his light power in an attempt to destroy Huo Yuhao's internal organs. But Huo Yuhao's speed was too fast. Forcibly holding on against the intense pain brought by the churning of Yan Shaozhe's longsword, he had drawn back and had pulled the longsword out.
A few of the Shrek experts who had reacted had quickly soared into the air and had flown towards the hostage, Zhongli Yu, who had been taken away by the wooden palm. But how could Huo Yuhao have given them this chance?
He saw the wooden palm quickly rise from underground, lifting Zhongli Yu high up, just happening to be rescued by a Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo who was acting as support.
"Make a move together! Exterminate the evil soul masters! Kill the Holy Son, Huo Yuhao!"
Countless Sea God Pavilion experts' figures had flashed, quickly closing in on Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er, which had made the Zhongli Wu at the side have no choice but to go all out, trying to block the attack on Huo Yuhao.
Manpower sometimes has its limits. Even if the Pontiff, Zhongli Wu's, soul power was as high as level ninety-eight, for one person to face the long-planned surprise attack of dozens of Titled Douluos, he was also unable to do so. His entire person had been directly sent flying.
"Everyone, make a move! That Huo Yuhao is already at the end of his rope! It is by no means possible for him to escape with his life!"
Yan Shaozhe roared angrily and was the first to rush towards the flying-back Huo Yuhao. His offensive was without the slightest bit of mercy. Even with Xian Lin'er being imprisoned before Huo Yuhao's body, his attack had not slowed down in the slightest.
"Exterminate the evil soul masters! Kill Huo Yuhao!"
A bitter smile was revealed on the corner of Huo Yuhao's mouth. At this critical moment, he could even only condense all his soul power to open a Myriad Flower Ice Mirror that was five zhang long and five zhang wide before him. In the situation where his Spirit Eyes could not be used, this was his final protective means.
Unless the silver dragon reverse scale on his chest could sense his crisis and, without any regard for his position, make a move to save him.
Seeing that all of Shrek's side's Titled Douluos were closing in, the ice prism mirror before Huo Yuhao's body shone with a great blue light, trying to make a final struggle.
At the same time, on his chest, the silver dragon reverse scale was emitting a trace of a faint, unobservable silver light.
And just at this moment, a hurried sound transmission had crossed hundreds of meters and had gone straight into Huo Yuhao's ear.
"Huo Yuhao, quick! Transfer the control of that ice mirror to me!"