Smash It!

A little after nine in the morning, Shen Yichen and Zhang Lexuan appeared at a training ground in the Shrek Outer Court.

Mu En was lying in a recliner at the training ground, where he had once again been waiting for quite some time.

"You're here?" Mu En smiled at the two of them.

"Mu En, I had nothing to do, so I came along."

Mu En nodded and beckoned to Shen Yichen. "Little fellow, come here."

Shen Yichen ran over to Mu En on his short little legs.

"Do you like Meditation Cultivation?"

"Hmm..." Shen Yichen hesitated for a long while before answering, "I don't know."

"Haha, you don't know? What an answer!"

Just as Shen Yichen thought Mu En was about to say something about "cultivating for the rise of Shrek"...

Mu En said, "It's all right if you don't know. Take your time to look and think. One day, you'll figure it out."

"Come on, today I'll start by taking a look at your Martial Soul."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu En activated Martial Soul Possession. The Radiant Sacred Dragon appeared, accompanied by nine Soul Rings.

Perhaps because Mu En was deliberately holding it back, Shen Yichen felt no pressure.

"Hit me with all the strength you can muster!"

"All of it?"

"That's right!"

All right!

Shen Yichen was curious too, just how much could he do at full strength?

The Golden Cudgel appeared in his hand in an instant. As before, he held one end and used the staff like a baseball bat.

The difference was that the end in his little hand was much the same thickness, but the other end had grown as thick as a washbasin.

"Teacher, here I come!"

Whoosh~

The wind howled as the cudgel swept through the air.

Bang!

A muffled grunt rang out. Mu En's blood surged for an instant, and his Soul Power roiled. His feet did not budge, but cracks spread across the specially made ground beneath them.

An ordinary Titled Douluo could not have withstood that simple strike head-on.

No wonder Xuan Zi had been sent flying before. Without any advance warning, even Mu En himself would not have fared well.

"Was that already your strongest?"

When Shen Yichen did not answer immediately, Mu En understood. "Don't hold back for any reason. Use all your strength."

Shen Yichen pressed his lips together. You're the one insisting I make it stronger.

"Ruyi Jingu Bang, grow!!!"

Whoosh!

This time, the Golden Cudgel did more than simply grow thicker. Its diameter was like that of an ancient tree a thousand years old, and it stretched to around a hundred meters long.

Smash it!!!

Boom!!!

In an instant, the earth quaked and the mountains shook.

Dust billowed up.

The explosive roar and the invisible shock wave that accompanied it traveled who knew how far.

Zhang Lexuan, who had been standing beside Shen Yichen, was also flung dozens of meters away by the impact.

Without the Indestructible Diamond Body that came with the Golden Cudgel, Shen Yichen's little body would probably have died from his own AOE damage.

Whoosh!

A flash of golden light, and Mu En appeared. "Put your Martial Soul away."

Shen Yichen had just put his Martial Soul away.

The scenery before him changed. There was no trace of Shrek's training ground, only green waters and mountains.

"This is..."

"The outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest." Mu En looked toward Shrek City with a complicated expression.

Shen Yichen followed Mu En's gaze and could just make out a mushroom cloud of dust rising into the sky.

There were also Soul Power fluctuations coming from quite a few of Shrek Academy's elders. Their distinctive Soul Power tinged a swath of the sky.

"Teacher, did I cause trouble?"

At the sight of Shen Yichen's restrained little manner, Mu En didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't think the little fellow had caused trouble. It was probably this old fellow himself who had.

"Little fellow, was that your strongest attack just now?"

Shen Yichen shook his head. Although he didn't know where the Golden Cudgel's limit lay, there was no doubt that the move just now only counted as an enhanced basic attack.

He could make the Golden Cudgel thousands, even tens of thousands of meters long.

Seeing that Shen Yichen said nothing, Mu En was numb.

He could have taken that attack head-on, but there had been no need.

With a flash, he had easily dodged it.

He could move out of the way, but the land Shrek Academy stood on couldn't.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang Martial Soul had utterly shattered the worldview he had built up over hundreds of years.

How could someone whose Martial Soul had just awakened possibly kill a Titled Douluo?

It wasn't just Mu En who thought it was ridiculous. Even Shen Yichen himself thought so.

His Martial Soul was the Ruyi Jingu Bang, completely unweakened.

Making it bigger or smaller didn't consume any Soul Power at all!

Shen Yichen even had a premonition that, if someone drove him to fury, he could take everything down with him. He could smash the Douluo Continent apart with one strike!

Boom!!!

"What villain dares?!"

Bang!!!

The great wave kicked up by the shock wave shattered vast stretches of glass in the teaching buildings with a clatter. Even many of the walls cracked.

Fortunately, the buildings in this part of Shrek Academy weren't shoddily built. Otherwise, all of Shrek would have been reduced to rubble.

Even so, though the buildings' frames were still standing firm, they could no longer be occupied.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

In an instant, no fewer than ten Titled Douluo flew into the air above the training ground.

"Yan Shaozhe, what happened?!" an elder asked urgently.

Judging by the state of the training ground, it didn't look like an explosion had caused it. It looked more like... a huge crater smashed into the ground.

Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe had been shocked and flustered, but suddenly their expressions settled, as though they had received a message.

Qian Duoduo flew a little higher and cleared his throat. His voice, carried by Soul Power, spread throughout Shrek City.

"Students and teachers of Shrek Academy, do not panic. The explosion just now was a detonation test of a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell developed by Shrek's Soul Tool Department. Its power was simply somewhat greater than expected."

"The Shrek Outer Court's teachers and students will have some time off. The date classes resume has yet to be decided."

Although the break might send all sorts of wild rumors flying in the outside world, Shrek's teaching buildings had all become "dangerous structures," so there was no choice. The buildings hadn't collapsed yet, but if they came down during class, that would be a real problem.

Over the next while, Shrek Academy would probably have to be torn down and rebuilt.

The financial loss alone was enough to make Yan Shaozhe's heart ache.

After Qian Duoduo stepped forward to give most of the ordinary teachers and students an explanation, it was Yan Shaozhe's turn to give the elders in the sky one.

"Elders, let's go back to the Sea God Pavilion."

Returning to the Sea God Pavilion meant they could close the doors and speak frankly among their own people.

But how to explain it was another question.

Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo knew no more than anyone else.

All they knew was that, after the explosion, Mu En had sent them a voice transmission.

He had told them to pin the explosion on a Soul Tool, and if that didn't work, to pin it on Mu En himself.

Mu En had the confidence that, in Shrek, no one would dare demand an explanation from him.

Mu En might have had that confidence, but Yan Shaozhe, as his disciple, couldn't just state it so bluntly. Yan Shaozhe wasn't much good at cultivation, but he had grasped a few subtleties of the art of speaking...