Disciplining Hulk

Hulk's heavily falling body was kicked flying halfway down. "By coincidence," he landed right where General Ross's convoy was.

"Damn it!"

"Scatter quickly! Retreat separately! Second group, stay behind and cover us!"

"Get the fighter jets airborne! Fire the missiles!"

General Ross was, after all, a battle-hardened general. Though panicked, he remained composed, directing the retreat while issuing attack orders in an orderly fashion.

The kick Hulk had taken this time was much heavier than all the blows Peter had landed before, and the pain was excruciating. As a result, his fury was higher than ever.

"Hulk!"

He let out a furious roar, grabbed an armored vehicle, and flung it at another retreating convoy like a bowling ball.

Amid a series of agonized screams, two vehicles were overturned together. The tremendous force ruptured their fuel tanks, whose explosions ignited the ammunition. The ammunition detonated in turn, sending shrapnel flying in all directions and inflicting secondary injuries on those who had luckily survived the initial attack.

After these successive waves of destruction, not a single person remained alive in those three armored vehicles.

But Hulk clearly still hadn't vented his anger. With a mighty leap, he caught up with another tank, seized its cannon barrel, swung it up, and hurled it toward another convoy.

However, because the first convoy had delayed them, this one had gotten a little farther away. The tank landed behind the convoy, bounced once off the ground, and rolled forward, knocking over only one armored vehicle. It did not explode.

The soldiers inside were shaken senseless by the impact, and it was impossible to tell whether they were still alive.

Hulk wanted to continue the pursuit, but the fighter jets arrived. From a distance, they launched missiles at him, and under the guidance system's control, the missiles struck Hulk's body with precision.

"Hulk!"

Hulk cried out in pain, then grabbed the wreckage of another armored vehicle from the ground and threw it at the fighter jets. But the jets had already climbed away and flown off.

This made Hulk even angrier.

However, during that delay, the military convoy had already escaped into the distance.

Hulk swept his gaze around and discovered that the man who had hurt him earlier was now being treated by another man.

As long as there was someone he could vent his anger on, Hulk didn't care who that person was.

"Hulk!"

He roared and charged toward them in great strides.

Zhan Liu had just given Peter some basic first aid to stop the bleeding. Then he sent qigong into Peter's body and helped him heal by circulating his energy.

Peter's injuries were indeed serious. He had multiple bone fractures and had lost a great deal of blood, but for a martial artist at the Magnetic Field Rotation level, those injuries were not fatal.

As long as he performed first aid and kept Peter from dying immediately, Peter could slowly heal himself by circulating his energy. Of course, taking him to the hospital for a blood transfusion and emergency treatment would be faster.

He glanced at Hulk charging over and was also interested in testing exactly where Hulk's limits lay.

However, Peter had only just stabilized, and it would be extremely unwise for him to suffer the shockwaves of another battle. There was no choice but to end this quickly.

"Magnetic Field Rotation, Twenty-Five Heavens!"

He drove his power to its absolute limit, then used the Ultimate Battle Step. In an instant, he appeared behind Hulk and struck him hard in the spine.

He deliberately focused all his power into the punch without allowing it to spread outward, so the resulting shockwave was extremely small. But the more concentrated the force, the greater its destructive power.

With a sharp crack, Hulk's spine snapped.

It turned out that Hulk's defensive power was not MAX, after all. As long as one's strength was sufficient, he could be knocked down in a single blow.

"Hulk!"

Hulk let out a miserable howl and crashed to the ground with a thud. After struggling for a long while, he still couldn't get up.

However, seeing the muscles writhing across Hulk's back, Zhan Liu knew that Hulk was already regenerating. This attack would not kill him.

Zhan Liu had no intention of killing Hulk, either. He planted one foot on Hulk's back and said coldly, "Shrink back and let Doctor Banner come out."

"Hulk!" Hulk's face was full of defiance, and the fury in his eyes seemed capable of burning Zhan Liu to ashes.

"Heh. You haven't learned your lesson, have you? Fine, then. I'll discipline you today!"

Zhan Liu aimed at Hulk's spine, which was about to heal, and stomped down hard again.

With another crack, Hulk's spine snapped once more.

"Have you learned your lesson? You haven't, huh? Then let's keep going."

After Zhan Liu repeatedly kicked Hulk's spine apart more than a dozen times, Hulk was finally frightened. The defiance vanished from his face, leaving only a pitiful, aggrieved expression.

Hulk possessed intelligence, but it was limited to the level of a young child.

When dealing with troublesome children, reasoning with them wasn't impossible, but it took too long to work. The simplest method was to let them experience the might of bamboo shoots stir-fried with meat. They would naturally become obedient afterward.

As the green color gradually faded from Hulk's body, his figure shrank along with it. What finally appeared was a... naked man.

Zhan Liu took off his coat, tossed it to Banner, then turned around and flew away with Peter in his hands.

"Hey, wait! How did you do that? Can you help me?"

Doctor Banner waved and called out from the ground, but Zhan Liu didn't even look back.

The reason he had awakened Doctor Banner was so that Banner would understand who had saved him. Zhan Liu wasn't interested in being an unknown hero.

Doctor Banner was also an important member of the Avengers, as well as a scientist. Having him and Tony become senior apprentice-brothers and work together to study how to break through the limits of the Ultimate Limit Qigong would be an excellent arrangement.

But Zhan Liu wasn't going to force the matter. A reluctant trade was no trade at all.

If Doctor Banner wanted to learn how to control his emotions, what could be better than the Ultimate Limit Qigong?

As long as he didn't want to remain troubled by Hulk forever, he wouldn't be able to escape Zhan Liu's grasp.

Zhan Liu carried Peter to the hospital.

Because of the great battle that day, the hospital was filled with injured people, and beds were impossible to find.

But that didn't trouble Zhan Liu. He called Tony, and the hospital director soon came running over with a group of people to greet him.

After skipping all the unnecessary pleasantries, Peter was given priority and sent into the examination room. He received a blood transfusion, an IV, and hospitalization in one seamless process, without needing to worry about anything.

Sure enough, although Senior Apprentice-Brother wasn't a monkey, he was useful wherever he went.

Zhan Liu was very thorough in his work. After sending Peter to the hospital, he called Ben Parker.

Peter's battle with Hulk had been broadcast live on television, so the Parker Couple had naturally seen it.

Later, Hulk had been lured away by Peter, causing the broadcast to be interrupted. No one knew what had happened afterward. The Parker Couple had been secretly worrying about their nephew when they received Zhan Liu's call, so they hurriedly drove to the hospital.

After the two arrived, Zhan Liu left Peter's care to them.

In any case, as far as Zhan Liu was concerned, an injury this minor wouldn't kill Peter. Staying here and wasting time would be pointless. He might as well return and give his disciples another boost of motivation, striving to produce several more entry-level disciples as soon as possible.