Titan Giant Ape

The entire area fell deathly silent.

The smile on Oscar's face froze, and the sausage he had just rubbed out of his hands fell to the ground.

Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others were equally dumbfounded, unable to believe what they were seeing.

That genius Tang San had actually lost?

And in such a... ridiculous way?

He had tripped on level ground?

At last, a satisfied smile appeared on Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang's face.

"Good! Yiran, well done!"

Chao Tianxiang tapped her cane against the ground and looked at the grim-faced Zhao Wuji.

"Brother Zhao, the outcome has been decided. We'll be taking this snake."

Zhao Wuji's face turned livid. His fists clenched with crackling sounds, but there was nothing he could do.

A loss was a loss. If he went back on his word in front of so many people, Shrek's reputation would be utterly ruined.

And if he made a move now, once Dragon Duke arrived, he would definitely fight them to the death.

"Tsk."

A soft chuckle broke the silence.

Ye Liuyun slowly straightened up and dusted off his clothes.

"Sorry. I just thought of something amusing."

Everyone else looked awful.

Only Xiao Wu failed to read the room and asked curiously.

"What was so amusing?"

Ye Liuyun answered with a smile.

"An old sow from a farm near the academy gave birth to nine piglets."

"Congratulations."

The moment those four words left his mouth, everyone's expressions became darker than pig liver.

"You!"

Dai Mubai clenched his fists until they cracked, yet he could find no way to retort.

After all, it was obviously a nonsensical excuse with no logic whatsoever.

Seeing the Shrek group suffer, Meng Yiran felt thoroughly delighted.

She stepped forward and snatched the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent away in front of everyone.

"Let's go."

Chao Tianxiang cupped her hands toward Zhao Wuji.

"This old woman will take her leave."

Zhao Wuji took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the frustration and fury in his heart.

"There are plenty of Spirit Beasts in the forest. Oscar, Teacher will definitely find you a better one."

Oscar had nothing to say either.

The group left dejectedly, the atmosphere oppressive to the extreme.

Half an hour later.

They arrived at a deep, secluded forest.

Suddenly.

Without any warning, the surrounding air seemed to freeze in an instant. Even the wind stopped moving.

Boom!

A muffled, earth-shaking sound rang out, as though the heart of the land had skipped a beat.

Then came a terrifying aura from the depths of their hearts, like a black tsunami that instantly shattered everyone's mental defenses.

"Roar!!!"

A roar shattered the clouds for a hundred miles around!

Two enormous black hands that blotted out the sky brutally tore apart the canopy overhead.

Amid the flying wood chips and dust, a colossal creature over fifteen meters tall descended from above!

The King of the Forest, the Titan Giant Ape!

Its brilliant amber eyes instantly locked onto Xiao Wu within the group... and Ye Liuyun standing beside her.

The Titan Giant Ape possessed strength beyond that of ordinary Title Douluo. As a beast, its senses were even far sharper than a Title Douluo's.

From its perspective, it did not see a human youth, but a tree-shaped Spirit Beast radiating terrifying pressure!

Even the Titan Giant Ape, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, felt immense pressure.

And such a monster was standing beside Sister Xiao Wu, so close to her!

Unforgivable! Damn invader!

"Roar!"

The Titan Giant Ape erupted in fury, unleashing genuine killing intent!

At that moment, a black gravitational halo spread out as though it were tangible, and the surrounding rocks instantly turned to powder.

It raised its enormous palm, powerful enough to crush mountains, wrapped in black lightning and destructive gales, and smashed down with all its strength toward where Ye Liuyun stood!

"Run!"

Zhao Wuji's eyes nearly split apart. He could feel that devastating power.

If that blow landed, not only Ye Liuyun—even no one within a hundred meters would survive!

"Buff me!"

"Seven Treasures Spin, Glazed Glass Emerges!"

At the critical moment between life and death, Ning Rongrong no longer dared to hold back. She screamed herself hoarse.

"Seven Treasures Have Names: First, Strength! Second, Speed!"

Oscar also frantically made sausages and threw them to Zhao Wuji.

Under the dual enhancement, Zhao Wuji's muscles swelled wildly like inflated balloons.

In that instant, he no longer cared about exhausting his Soul Power, nor did he care about the limits of what his meridians could endure.

He burned his blood essence. His eyes blazed crimson as he let out an incomparably tragic roar.

Boom!

Seven Spirit Rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black—flared at once as though exploding!

Zhao Wuji's body swelled rapidly with the wind, golden fur growing wildly as he instantly transformed into a Dark Gold Giant Bear standing seven meters tall.

That was not ordinary Martial Soul Possession, but a Martial Soul Avatar formed by burning the source of his life!

"First Spirit Skill: Immovable Bright King Body!"

"Second Spirit Skill: Vajra Palm!"

"Third Spirit Skill: Gravity Enhancement!"

"Fifth Spirit Skill: Gravity Squeeze!"

Zhao Wuji fought like a madman, releasing every defensive, offensive, and control Spirit Skill in succession in that instant.

Layers upon layers of golden barriers formed around him, as solid as cast gold.

The gravity field around him twisted to its utmost limit, trying to offset the crushing gravitational pressure of the Titan Giant Ape.

He raised both arms high. Golden light blazed from his massive bear paws as if he were lifting two blazing suns, charging without hesitation toward the descending "black curtain."

It was the resolve of an ant trying to shake a tree, and even more so, the responsibility of someone called a teacher.

"Hold it... hold it back!!!"

Rumble!!!

Heaven and earth fell silent.

The black giant palm collided with the golden giant bear in midair.

There was no stalemate as imagined.

At that moment, it was as though a mountain had smashed into a golden egg.

Crack...

The crisp sound of shattering was especially piercing amid the enormous rumble.

Zhao Wuji's prized Immovable Bright King Body was like fragile thin ice before that black giant palm, which seemed to contain the laws of heaven and earth. Cracks instantly covered it.

Immediately after.

That violent gravity domain was directly crushed apart by the Titan Giant Ape's even more domineering gravity!

"Puh!!!"

Zhao Wuji's enormous Martial Soul Avatar did not even last a second before collapsing in midair.

Golden light shattered, and blood mist filled the sky.

Like a fly being swatted, his whole body was sent flying backward at a speed ten times faster than when he had charged forward.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

His body smashed through dozens of towering ancient trees that would have taken several people to encircle, before crashing heavily into the hard rocky ground.

The earth caved in, and shattered stones flew everywhere.

A bottomless crater appeared before everyone. At its base, Zhao Wuji was covered in blood, his limbs twisted at bizarre angles, his chest deeply caved in. Whether he was alive or dead was unknown.

But he had done it.

With that desperate strike, he had forcibly made the Titan Giant Ape's fatal palm pause for an instant. Using the rebound force, he had even slightly diverted where it landed.

That palm descended beside Ye Liuyun.

Boom!!!

The ground instantly vanished, replaced by a massive palm print dozens of meters deep.

The terrifying shockwave threw everyone around them away. Tang San and the others rolled across the ground like tumbling gourds, scattered by the blast and coughing up blood.

Only Ye Liuyun's Blue Silver Grass rooted beneath his feet, barely allowing him to steady himself.

He immediately locked onto Xiao Wu, who had been caught in the blast and flung into the air.

He stretched out his hand, intending to summon Blue Silver Grass to pull her back, but then thought that she had arrived home anyway.

If he pulled her back, wouldn't he have to fight the Titan Giant Ape after all?

He pointed at Xiao Wu and said to the Titan Giant Ape.

"Your sister flew away!"

After saying that, his expression turned strange as he thought about how this stupid ape had no sense of restraint.

Good thing it was not Xiao Wu's mother who had been sent flying. Otherwise, for the Titan Giant Ape, wouldn't that be...

The Titan Giant Ape also seemed not to have expected this human insect to slightly block its attack.

It paused briefly, and then the killing intent in its eyes intensified.

But at that moment, it saw Xiao Wu being blown away by the shockwave.

Sister Xiao Wu!

The red light in the Titan Giant Ape's eyes instantly faded, replaced by a trace of panic.

With a sweep of its massive hand, it accurately caught Xiao Wu amid the dust filling the sky.

Then it warily glanced at Ye Liuyun, who stood at the edge of the palm print, his clothes whipping in the wind yet his body as steady as Mount Tai.

That monster... wasn't dead?

The Titan Giant Ape held Xiao Wu in its hand. Now that she was safe, the desperate momentum it had summoned to save her immediately collapsed.

It turned and ran.