Xuan Zi Picks a Fight, Gets Sent Flying by the Maid's Kick

[Ding!]

[The new students saw that you had brought along an unbelievably adorable maid and were green with envy—Emotion Points +99!]

[The upperclassmen saw that, despite being a freshman, you had such a beautiful maid, and their teeth itched with jealousy—Emotion Points +99!]

[Several female upperclassmen saw that your maid was even prettier than they were and felt both envious and curious—Emotion Points +99!]

Jiang Ziming walked ahead without changing expression, gradually growing accustomed to the attention.

Xiao Wu paid even less heed to it. Her gaze remained fixed on the back of the young man ahead of her, and everything around them had nothing to do with her.

The two crossed the main road and arrived at a spacious plaza.

Several enormous stone statues stood in the center of the plaza.

They were statues of seven people.

The first-generation Shrek Seven Monsters.

Standing in the very center was a man holding the Sea God's Trident. He looked valiant and extraordinary, his gaze cast toward the distance.

Beside him stood a graceful woman with a radiant smile, her long hair flowing in the wind, rendered with lifelike detail.

Jiang Ziming stopped and looked at the statues, then at Xiao Wu beside him.

"Xiao Wu, I think that statue isn't nearly as pretty as you are in person."

He could not help teasing her.

Xiao Wu's ears immediately turned red.

She lowered her head, her voice carrying a trace of shyness.

"Master... that was all a long time ago. Please don't tease me about it."

She paused. Her voice grew softer, yet more resolute.

"The Xiao Wu of today is not one of the Shrek Seven Monsters. I belong only to Master."

Jiang Ziming smiled at her serious expression and did not continue teasing her.

Just then.

On a bench at the edge of the plaza.

A white-haired old man who was gnawing on a chicken leg without the slightest regard for his image suddenly stopped.

He wore a gray robe stained with grease. His hair was grizzled, his beard unkempt, and he looked entirely like a vagrant, utterly out of place amid the academy's youthful atmosphere.

This was Xuan Zi, one of the Sea God Pavilion's members at Shrek Academy, a Rank 98 Super Douluo—the Gluttony Douluo.

Xuan Zi had originally only been basking in the sun, eating chicken legs, and taking the opportunity to see whether any promising talents had arrived among this year's freshmen.

Then he saw the girl in the maid outfit.

What a beautiful little girl.

By instinct, he released his soul power and tried to investigate her cultivation.

However, in the next instant, his pupils suddenly contracted.

He could not probe her?

His soul power seemed to have struck an invisible wall, unable to penetrate the girl's body at all.

He could not see through her cultivation whatsoever.

Xuan Zi's expression instantly turned grave.

For someone who could make even him, a Rank 98 Super Douluo, unable to discern her cultivation, she might possess some extraordinarily advanced divine artifact capable of concealing cultivation.

Or her cultivation was above his.

Either possibility meant that this woman was far from simple.

She had concealed her cultivation and infiltrated Shrek—she must be up to no good!

Without the slightest hesitation, Xuan Zi tossed aside his chicken leg. His body shot forward like a cannonball as he struck a palm toward Xiao Wu!

He used seventy percent of his strength in this strike.

He intended to subdue this suspicious woman first, then interrogate her at leisure.

Yet just as the force of his palm was about to touch Xiao Wu, she moved.

She did not even turn around.

The instant she sensed killing intent, she pulled Jiang Ziming beside her into her arms. With a light tap of her foot, her entire body drifted backward like a fallen leaf.

The next second, the spot where they had been standing exploded!

Rubble scattered and dust billowed as a deep pit several feet wide appeared in the bluestone pavement.

The students in the plaza cried out and scattered in every direction to avoid it.

Xiao Wu landed steadily and looked down at the young man in her arms with concern.

"Master, are you all right? Are you hurt?"

Jiang Ziming shook his head, stepped out of Xiao Wu's arms, and dusted off the corner of his clothes.

"I'm fine."

Then Xiao Wu turned around and looked at the old man who had launched the sudden attack.

The girl's gaze turned cold.

"Why did you suddenly attack us?"

Her voice remained gentle, but the tenderness in her pink eyes was gone, replaced by icy scrutiny.

Xuan Zi emerged from the dust, patted the dirt off his body, and sneered.

"What exactly is your purpose in infiltrating Shrek? Confess honestly, and this old man may consider dealing with you leniently."

Jiang Ziming frowned and pulled out the letter of recommendation from his robes, raising it high.

"Teacher, I'm a freshman. I'm here to register."

Xuan Zi glanced at the letter and snorted disdainfully.

"A freshman? What freshman brings a maid whose cultivation even I can't see through? Do you take this old man for a three-year-old child?"

Before his words had even faded, his body surged forward again, charging straight at Xiao Wu!

Seeing this, Jiang Ziming did not waste any more words. He stepped back several paces and said to Xiao Wu.

"Xiao Wu, fight him without worry. Don't hold back."

Xiao Wu nodded.

Her toned calves, wrapped in black stockings, bent slightly, and then...

She charged straight at Xuan Zi!

Their figures collided violently in midair!

Boom!!!

The massive collision of soul power erupted across the plaza like thunder striking level ground!

Dust rolled, shockwaves surged, and the ground cracked outward from the two of them as stones flew everywhere!

The next instant.

A figure flew backward like a kite with its string cut!

It was Xuan Zi.

Xiao Wu had kicked him—more precisely, the heel of her high-heeled shoe had struck him squarely in the chest.

His entire body flew backward out of control, tracing an arc through the air, and then...

Boom!

He crashed precisely into the statue at the center of the plaza.

By sheer coincidence, his body struck the statue right in the head.

The head of the imposing statue of the man holding the Sea God's Trident shattered on the spot, chunks of stone clattering to the ground.

The area around the plaza fell deathly silent.

All the students stood with their mouths agape, staring blankly at the stone head that had rolled onto the ground.

That was Tang San's statue.

The statue of Tang San—the leader of the first-generation Shrek Seven Monsters, the Sea God, the Asura God!

A woman in a maid outfit had kicked a Super Douluo flying, then used that Super Douluo's body to smash the statue's head to pieces...

Xiao Wu gave Xuan Zi no chance to catch his breath.

Her figure flashed, and she vanished from where she stood.

The next second, she appeared where Xuan Zi had fallen. Manipulating her soul power, she grabbed his collar from afar and lifted him like a chick.

Then, with another flash, she returned to Jiang Ziming's side.

The entire process took less than three seconds.

Xiao Wu bound Xuan Zi in midair with soul power, as though even grabbing him with her hands would dirty them.

Then she lowered her head and adjusted her maid outfit, confirming that her skirt had not gotten dusty and that her stockings had not snagged before she looked up in relief and gave Jiang Ziming a sweet smile.

"Master, mission accomplished."

Jiang Ziming looked at Xuan Zi, who was suspended in midair by soul power, his face bruised and swollen, with who knew how many broken ribs. The corner of his mouth twitched.

Then he nodded.

"Mm, well done."

He paused, then added.

"Bring him along too. We'll go to the Academic Affairs Office together."