Xuan Zi: Lexuan Really Is a Good Child-Pfft!

Late at night, Star Luo City was utterly silent.

By a lake in a forest on the outskirts, the water glimmered with a cold light when a piercing scraping sound suddenly shattered the stillness.

A bloodied hand clawed desperately at the mud on the shore, its knuckles whitening from the strain.

Then, the arm suddenly exerted force, and a wretched figure struggled out of the lake, crashing heavily onto the ground and splashing mud everywhere.

The man was drenched in blood. His right arm was completely gone, leaving behind a mangled, bloody stump. Three fingers were missing from his left hand, and even the remaining two trembled faintly. His clothes had long since been burned to tatters, his wounds deep enough to expose bone. Blood continuously dripped from them, pooling into a small puddle beneath him.

His hair looked even more miserable. Half had been scorched and curled into black, charred strands, while the other half was bald, clearly burned away by the flames.

"Luckily... this old man's life is tough..."

A hoarse voice squeezed from his throat. It was none other than Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi, who should have perished in the Fire Lotus explosion.

He had actually survived Long Yaoyan's world-destroying flames by sheer luck.

At this moment, his heart held nothing but overwhelming hatred and an intense obsession—he had to return to Shrek Academy as soon as possible and tear Moyan and Dugu Luo, those two bastards who had ruined everything for him, into a thousand pieces!

Rustle... rustle...

Just then, faint footsteps suddenly sounded from deep within the forest.

Xuan Zi's nerves instantly tightened. Though severely injured, he still erupted with the pressure of a Limit Douluo. A vicious glint flashed through his clouded eyes. "Come out here!"

"Elder Xuan."

A familiar female voice rang out,