Fan Lin began to teleport people in small batches. He just realised that this was more efficient than mass teleportation a faster even.
He remembered one instance from a spoilers where Elder Cai was telepathically bickering with someone from Spirit Pagoda before going to brawl and returning beaten up. Although the complete details aren't set but the fact that they can telepathically talk between the two places meant that someone would have definitely asked the Pagoda for help.
So in all fairness, they should be able to come to Shrek's aide by this time.
What about the Soul communicator?Fan Lin was once again pretty sure that at least one person in the Shrek City had the mind to contact and told the Spirit Pagoda about what was happening in Shrek. The network was working fine. It is, right?
"It is."
It could be vice versa as well. Someone can be relaying everything to him. Fan Lin took out his soul communicator and called Qiangu Dongfeng and it got in.
"Idiot."
He cut the call and looked at the sky that had turned purple.
"What is this though? Chibaku Tensei?"
Up in the sky, a big purplish ball of light suddenly appeared. It was slowly gravitating towards the ground.
"On another thought, it's not slow, its just launched too high up in the air."
Fan Lin strengthen the crystal dome and sent a crystal block flying in the air to divert the purple ball to the attackers.
The crystal flew at rapid speed, the purple light descended on the crystal and it wasn't even able to last a second and evaporated. It was destroyed just like Cyrofoam that was dipped in acid and it wasn't even able to reach the purple ball.
"Hmm. Extreme heat, the nemesis of my crystals. How many have I teleported by now? Around 60%. Okay. Then I just need to hold on for minute and 49 seconds more and I have to keep it at bay. That things nasty. I don't think normies would survive it when even my crystals didn't."
"From the speed it is descending, I easily have a minute. The 49 seconds might be the problem. I have already reached my maximum speed for teleportation. Any more and I might fumble and send them to wrong places. I don't have any boosts left and I can't think anything."
"This is pretty chill."
Seconds slowly passed as Fan Lin quietly stood in the air, teleporting people and watching the purple ball 'slowly' come down.
"I am not complaining but why did they launch it so far away. That's a soul missile right? And this is a ninth grade missile?"
"Let is closer then."
He wondered, mistaking the God Killers for Rank 9 missiles. He also didn't know that Yun Ming would do the Evil Soul Masters before they could even attack if they dare launch the God Killers any nearer.
Exactly a minute later.
{Shinra Tensei} (Almighty Push)
When the the purple ball had gotten close to the attacking range of his 'pushing' skill, Fan Lin used it and pushed the purple ball backwards.
"Heh, I can do this all day. I don't even need to do that, just ten more time should be enough. This is turning out to be way easier than I thought."
He emotionlessly spoke but was internally overjoyed until a green flame peeked behind the purple light.
"There were two of these things? Hmmmmm–"
"Whatever. Just thirty more seconds."
He just needed thirty more seconds to teleport all the people. Then he will leave. What about Shrek Academy and its students?
"I am here to stop the normies from dying. Shrek has nothing to do with me. I have nothing to do with Shrek."
"And Tang Sect."
"They will likely survive. One way or another."
"What about the staff? Would they survive? Would they be saved?"
"...I don't think so."
Fan Lin turned to look towards Shrek Academy and found Yun Ming and Long Yeyue looking at him, just two meters away from him.
'The strongest beings of this world are into stalking.'
He looked past them and invaded his crystals inside the Shrek Academy and adding more workload to himself.
He fired another Shinra Tensei in the sky and delaying the purple ball and the green fire above it and felt thankful that whatever these things were, there were quite light to push back.
....
The Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters stared at Fan Lin with deep seated hatred. Their gaze shifted to Yun Ming and Long Yeyue beside him and they icily waited. They couldn't attack.
If they did, Yun Ming and Long Yeyue would realise their location and a one sided fight would occur. From the situation they were in, it was quite obvious that taking care of the two Soul Masters was easier than the Two Godkillers.
But if the Evil Soul Masters didn't come forward, they would not be able to effectively use the two Godslayers to put more pressure on them.
Their strategy was to use the two Godslayers and two of themselves, both being Limit Douluos to attack Yun Ming while someone else would lure out Long Yeyue and they finish her lonely self and then with their full might and some sacrifices, they would swiftly take Yun Ming and the Seagod Pavillion in one fell swoop. It wouldn't even take much time. Just a few breaths. They would then scoot away.
The rest would definitely perish from the Godslayers and Shrek would be wiped of the map.
Reality proved to be a bit different though. Fan Lin alone had taken care of the Soul missiles, their first distraction. Now the entirety of the Shrek's forces were looking at the sky empty hand. The Tang Sect forces were looking empty handed. Seagod Pavilion's forces were looking empty handed. The other powerful beings in the city were also looking empty handed. Yun Ming and Long Yeyue were also waiting for them. Fan Lin alone was toying with the Godslayers and the Evil Soul Masters were afraid to show themselves and hesitating.
'Should they leave and come back with the third Godslayer an hour later?'
'Or should they push forward?'
Previously they were going to have a go with Yun Ming with 4 to 1, with two Godslayers and two Limit Douluos, now Fan Lin dissolved the threat of the Godslayers, leaving Yun Ming and Long Yeyue to fully focused to not give second chances to them. With the way things were looking, they would definitely go on a full assault with everyone joining.
"I still needs 17 more seconds. It would have been 11 but... okay. Now I need 11."
He looked at the purple ball and called Qiangu Dongfeng. The call was connected. He cut it.
'Hehe.'
'10 more seconds'
He called once more. Qiangu Dongfeng didn't pick up this time.
"8 more seconds to go."
He fired one more Shinra Tensei and then a Chibaku Tensei just above the two and began to inspect the city for anyone left. His spiritual power was useless in sensing this but his crystals were not. They were a part of him and he could use them to sense things. It wasn't the humanly meaning of sense though.
"None. I even got the Outer Court of the Shrek and the entirety of Tang Sect."
The Purple light suddenly grew stronger. It instantly began to erode the upper layer of the crystal dome despite being pulled by the Chibaku Tensei.
Suddenly, the Chibaku Tensei was destroyed. Likely an attack that tore though space time, a signature of the Transcendent Douluos (above 95).
"Hmmmm?"
"Whatever."
"One more second to go."
"And~ done."
The crystal dome disappeared in an instance. He dusted his clothes, ignored the two people behind him and teleported and was intercepted and attacked mid teleport.
'They can attack me mid teleport? It's my teleport right? How did they affect it?'
Fan Lin was thrown towards some buildings, crashing and tumbling through them. Long Yeyue immediately appeared and caught him, stopping his descent.
"I am sorry, I didn't think they would suddenly attack now when you were leaving."
Long Yeyue said to him.
"Here, go to the Seagod island, Ya Li will heal you. She said and disappeared, going to help Yun Ming who had attacked the perpetrator who attacked Fan Lin.
"What the—?"
Fan Lin murmured. His body was shattered as something purple was burning it from within. It was the purple light from the purple ball mixed with some pinkish miasma. It was destroying his body from inside and faster than he could 'heal'.
*Sigh*
"What the heck is this?"
He got up with some difficulties and began to walk towards one of the exit gates, his body crumbling with each step.
'Still not strong enough to fight a Limit Douluo.'
He was not going to the Seagod island. Healing doesn't work on him. His body was no longer human. He will regenerate by himself.
"I don't know if they have recognised me from Qiangu Dongfeng's words but from what I did, I don't think they would leave me alive if they won. I need to escape when I get a chance. They are—"
An Evil Soul Masters appeared in front of him and then was intercepted and dragged away by two teachers.
He turned to look at the sky and it was full of people fighting. He was sure they weren't a few seconds ago. The group included Evil Soul Masters vs Tang Sect, Shrek Academy, and unaffiliated powerful beings.
These were the people that Fan Lin hadn't teleported since they were floating and could escape on their own or die, he didn't care.
"The ones that attack me are focusing on Yun Ming and Long Yeyue. Oh, Ya Li is also helping. Go woman go. Meanwhile, the rest are fighting the Evil Soul Masters. The pain is getting to me. What nonsense am I spouting?"
Fan Lin spoke while taking out a tomato to eat. He could try to teleport now but he was not sure if he might be attacked again as the attacker could actually be hiding and observing the situation from far away.
And he was beyond exhausted in terms of soul power.
"Might be due to the pinkish stuff that is eating away my soul power. Or the purple light that has seeped into my body and destroying it with every passing moment. I don't know. May be both. Might be both."
"Should I go to the Seagod island? I will run away later."
"...They can stop me for teleporting."
*Sigh*
He took out a flying car and left. Lots of Evil Soul Masters tried to chase him but were intercepted or killed by the others. It was a slaughter in the skies. Fan Lin slowly drove towards the horizon before teleporting away with the car.
"I need rest."
He had teleported around 45 million times. 12 million people, and the rest were grass, trees, plants, his entire training area, birds, dogs, cats, insects, other animals, every inch of Blue Silver Grass, her house, everything around it, the raw materials, produce(food, fruits, clothing, electronics, luxury and such) and the last being the surrounding Star Dou Forest areas near the Shrek that were going to or would have been impacted.
He teleported them all. The people were teleported to the locations from the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to the Heaven Dou City. The rest was teleported in places that he had already found or prepared beforehand.
The previous attack on the Heaven Dou City did gave him a lot of ideas on what the attack here could be and given the gap between the attacks, he had plenty to time to find locations and things that he wanted to save.
The flying car teleported a few different cities and places before Fan Lin put it away and teleported to some random abandoned town.
He reached a shack and layed down, covered and sealed in his Crystallokinesis. He needed to completely regenerate from this crumbling and shattering if he was planning to survive.
Or he can go to Ya Li and have her take a look. She was hailed as one of the best Healers in the world, surely she might help him.
…..
Shrek City
Yun Ming, Ya Li and Long Yeyue tag teamed the Limit Douluos, killing one as the other escaped but with grave injuries, he would likely had to use some special methods to survive or he would die. They ended their fight within a few seconds and turned their attention towards God Killers.
"I don't think we can stop it. One might even be doable but two is... "
"I understand. There's also the threat of us getting pincered when we would be focusing on it."
"Everyone have been rescued. The inner court students have safely left as well. We should clean up the little ones and then leave."
Yun Ming spoke with a heavy heart and Long Yeyue disappeared to take care of the leftover Evil Soul Masters that were abandoned by their master. Yun Ming and Ya Li sensed the students put in the shelter and the Seagod Pavillion and gathered them to leave.
The rest were transmitted a message.
The person who saved the people is the future Seagod Pavilion Master. No mention of his identity should be disclosed to the public so as to protect his identity.
Yun Ming threw Fan Lin under the bus with the best of the intention. This would not keep his identity safe but invited trouble later on.
He and Ya Li gathered and Long Yeyue had cleared all the Evil Soul Masters and most of the "comrades" left, Yun Ming did an extremely showy but powerful attack and diminished the power of the two Godslayers as much as he could while Long Yeyue guarded him.
"Let the new generation create a better Shrek. One that won't be challenged like this again. Today, fate had sealed our destiny, someone just came in between to interfere."
Long Yeyue spoke. Yun Ming stayed silent. He was the Seagod Pavillion Master. He was hailed as the strongest human whose strength can't be measured. And yet, he had failed but not everything has ended. A hope still remained. Only the place was destroyed, the people were protected. The foundation of Shrek still remained.
....
"Smash!" A crystal glass fell to the ground and shattered into countless pieces.
The Sun Moon Federation president's face had turned deathly pale.
"Shrek Academy has been completely destroyed by two Godslayer missiles?" His body was trembling uncontrollably.
As a man of his power and status, he was supposed to remain calm at all times, but how could he keep calm at a time like this?
He was well aware of what it entailed for Shrek Academy to be destroyed. He had always wished to be able to control Shrek City one day, but never had he hoped for the destruction of the number one academy on the continent that had stood for over 20,000 years.
Shrek Academy was a neutral entity, but it was undoubtedly one of the most powerful guardians of the continent, and it was truly a force to be reckoned with.
On top of that, Shrek Academy had connections all over the entire continent. The Godslayer missiles were devastating weapons under the control of the federation. Now that Shrek Academy had been destroyed by two such missiles, the federation would definitely come under immense pressure. Not only did this spell the end of his political career, the entire government and the continent would most likely be plunged into complete chaos.
(It did not)
"Launch an investigation into the three Godslayer missiles right away! Go!"
The president forced himself to calm down before issuing a series of orders. However, he knew that none of this would help his cause. The destruction of Shrek City was going to turn virtually the entire continent against him.
.....
"Why? Why?! Tell me why!" Heavenly Phoenix Douluo Leng Yaozhu's eyes were completely bloodshot. She slammed her hands down onto the desk before her amid a resounding boom, and despite the fact that the desk had been constructed from many types of resolute alloys, it was still instantly reduced to dust.
A tall and broad middle-aged man stood on the other side of the desk. He had a set of handsome facial features with a pronounced nose, but a pair of rather small eyes. There was a powerful aura emanating from his body.
His brows were tightly furrowed at the sight of the distraught and furious Leng Yaozhu. "Calm down, Yaozhu. Everything happened far too abruptly, and I have no idea what the situation is like, either. A thorough investigation will have to be launched before we learn what's truly happened."
"Do you think I'm a naive little child, Qiangu Dongfeng? Do you think I don't know what kind of man you are? No matter how powerful the Holy Spirit Cult is, there's no way they could've gotten their hands on Godslayer missiles! There's no way they could've snuck all of those soul missiles into Shrek City unless you gave them your assistance! It was you, wasn't it?"
Leng Yaozhu stabbed a finger directly at Qiangu Dongfeng as she spoke. The man standing before her was the chairman of the Spirit Pagoda, a powerful being who ranked alongside Atlas Douluo Yun Ming.
(This was after Yun Ming had sacrificed part of his strength to save Ya Li and keep her alive)
Qiangu Dongfeng's expression immediately darkened upon hearing this. "Yaozhu, you're the vice-chairman of our Spirit Pagoda; how could you accuse me of something like this? Have you forgotten that the founder of our Spirit Pagoda, Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, was once one of Shrek's Seven Monsters? Our Spirit Pagoda has no direct conflict with Shrek Academy; why would I plot against them? Besides, just because I'm the chairman doesn't mean I get to call all the shots."
His tone became a little softer as he continued, "Yaozhu, this incident has taken place far too abruptly, and even I'm still reeling in its aftermath. Who could've possibly predicted that the Holy Spirit Cult would already be brazen enough to attack Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect headquarters? Do you think it benefits me in any way to see the Holy Spirit Cult become more powerful? What we should be doing now is contributing as much as we can to the rebuild effort and to track down the Holy Spirit Cult. I know that Yun Ming's death has dealt you a heavy blow, and I'm also very sad to see him pass. However, we must remain calm in the face of this calamity."
"Remain calm? How do you expect me to remain calm?" Leng Yaozhu's aura was fluctuating violently as she threatened, "Qiangu Dongfeng, don't let me find out that you were behind this. Otherwise, I'll kill you even if it means giving my own life!"
After that, she departed from the room, leaving Qiangu Dongfeng standing alone with a thunderous expression on his face.
"Chairman." A side door was opened, and a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance walked quickly into the room. Despite his mundane looks, there was a sharp aura about him.
"Give me the breakdown."
"The Holy Spirit cult says that Shrek Academy was completely destroyed with no survivors. Our sources have gathered that Shrek's Seven Monsters were also in the academy at the time. Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect headquarters were situated at the epicenters of the explosions, and there were no survivors from them. They even launched another ninth-grade soul missile toward Shrek Academy after the event to kill any remaining survivors. "
"In order to detonate those two Godslayer missiles, they sacrificed close to 20 of their Soul Douluos and also hundreds of the intermediate evil Soul Masters."
"But..."
The Old Man stopped mid sentence.
"But what?"
Qiangu Dongfeng asked with impatient. There was a name he wanted to hear but it hasn't come.
"The information provided by the Holy Spirit Cult doesn't match with ours."
"Lots of people were teleported here and there, they are from Shrek City. The Holy Spirit Cult haven't spoken about it though. Mostly likely, he escaped. The attack on the Shrek is likely a failure."
"We don't have enough information on it at the moment."
"I need the information by tomorrow."
"Yes, Chairman."
The Old Man gave a bow and left. Qiangu Dongfeng silently stood in the office and took out his soul communicator.
He called Fan Lin. No one picked it. He checked the location and it was in the Spirit Pagoda.
"Mocking me even now."
Qiangu Dongfeng's eyes turned frosty.