Xuan Zi vs. the Battle Saint Ape: One Staff Strike Shatters a City!

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[Du Busi: Hahahaha! What's Xuan Zi doing? Is he hungry and digging up potatoes to eat?]

[Jing Hongchen: Xuan Zi truly lives up to his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul. He'll put anything in his mouth! Even dirt?]

[Great Enshrined of the Worship Hall · Golden Crocodile Douluo: No wonder he said Shrek's teaching was second to none. It certainly lives up to its reputation! He even demonstrates farming himself. I'm impressed!]

Across the Douluo Plane, countless beings collapsed with laughter.

A moment later, Xuan Zi finally used his formidable cultivation to wrench himself out of the ground.

"Ptooey! Ptooey!"

Spitting dirt from his mouth, Xuan Zi looked up and saw the gleeful messages scrolling across the Sky Screen.

His face darkened until it was black as the bottom of a pot.

"You damned monkey!!!"

Xuan Zi pointed at the Battle Saint Ape, eyes bloodshot and breathing like an ox.

"You dared attack me from behind!"

The Battle Saint Ape shrugged, looking innocent.

"Me? Attack you from behind? I just blew a little air."

"But then..."

"Those youngsters from the Spirit Hall Empire asked me to teach you a lesson."

"I heard you dared disrespect the Phoenix God?"

"I'd like to see just how many guts you've got in that belly!"

The instant those words fell, the Battle Saint Ape vanished.

The next moment, he appeared right in front of Xuan Zi.

A seemingly weightless punch drove straight toward Xuan Zi's face.

There was no spectacle to it, not even a whisper of wind.

Disdain flashed through Xuan Zi's eyes.

With a cold snort, he casually raised one hand to catch the punch.

But then—

Bang!

The instant fist met palm, a terrifying force beyond words erupted!

The disdain on Xuan Zi's face froze.

Then he flew backward like a cannonball fired at full force.

Boom!

With a thunderous crash, his body punched a human-shaped hole through Shrek City's sturdy wall, dozens of meters high.

At the Body Sect's headquarters, Du Busi's eyes nearly popped out of his head.

[Du Busi: Wait. Did I see that right?

Xuan Zi's Godly Taotie Bull is a Martial Soul renowned for brute strength, yet he couldn't even withstand one punch from that... senior?

Just what sort of being is he?]

Outside Shrek City's eastern gate, Xuan Zi crawled out of the hole in the wall, covered in dust, a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth.

Yet he still held his head high, looking utterly unconvinced.

"That one doesn't count!"

"I let my guard down and didn't dodge!"

"Take another move from me if you dare!"

As soon as he spoke, Xuan Zi slammed a hand against the ground and shot skyward.

"Taotie Possession!"

"Seventh Soul Skill: Taotie Avatar!"

Xuan Zi's body swelled in midair, transforming into a terrifying monster over thirty meters long.

It had a sheep's body, eyes beneath its armpits, tiger's teeth, and human claws.

An enormous pair of bull horns grew from its head.

His Martial Soul Avatar—the Godly Taotie Bull!

Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red!

Nine Soul Rings became halos circling between the horns, while powerful Soul Power swept in every direction!

Xuan Zi threw back his head and let out a sinister cackle, his eyes fixed on the tiny monkey below.

Then he raised his enormous hoof and brought it down on the Battle Saint Ape, blotting out the sky.

"I'll stomp you flat, damned monkey!"

"I'll show you what Shrek Academy is capable of!"

Faced with Xuan Zi's crushing stomp, the Battle Saint Ape merely chuckled.

He plucked a golden hair from his body, held it to his lips, and blew gently.

The hair flickered in the wind and instantly became a pitch-black Dark Iron Staff.

"So what if you're big?"

The Battle Saint Ape hefted the Dark Iron Staff, then sprang into the air.

With unstoppable momentum, he smashed the Dark Iron Staff down toward the massive hoof.

One strike, and a gale erupted!

Within several kilometers, the wind unleashed by that strike uprooted trees!

Shrek City's entire eastern wall shook violently beneath its force.

The Godly Taotie Bull that Xuan Zi had become blanched in terror. He no longer dared hold anything back.

"Power of the Earth!"

He roared at the sky, yellow light blazing from the eyes beneath his armpits.

Xuan Zi swept both hands in a circle before his chest, and a huge ocher sphere of light appeared.

The earth for dozens of kilometers trembled.

Boundless power was torn from the veins of the earth and poured into the ocher sphere.

Yet that sphere, condensed from the Power of the Earth across dozens of kilometers,

could not last even a second against the unremarkable-looking Dark Iron Staff.

Crack!

The ocher sphere shattered on impact and vanished.

Boom!!!

The staff did not slow. It slammed squarely into the Godly Taotie Bull.

With a shrill scream, Xuan Zi's Martial Soul Avatar was forcibly broken by that single strike.

His huge body fell, then slowly shrank back to its original form.

Blood spraying from his mouth, he plummeted like a kite with its string cut.

Even after destroying Xuan Zi's Martial Soul Avatar, the force of the strike continued unabated.

Rumble...

The eastern gate that Shrek Academy had spent a fortune building, along with a stretch of wall dozens of meters high, was reduced to dust in an instant.

A trench several meters wide and too deep to see the bottom was gouged into the ground.

One staff strike had shattered a city!

Xuan Zi crashed into the ruins below, throwing up a cloud of dust.

He struggled to rise, only to find that every bone in his body felt ready to fall apart. He could not move a finger.

It's over...

Xuan Zi's heart sank little by little.

Am I really going to die here today?

But to his surprise,

the terrifying monkey, whose strength defied imagination, did not finish him with another blow.

The Battle Saint Ape strolled over and grabbed Xuan Zi by the belt.

He lifted Xuan Zi as easily as a chick.

Then, in a flash, he appeared atop the ruined wall.

The Battle Saint Ape hung Xuan Zi securely by his belt from a battlement, leaving him swaying in the wind.

The image in the Sky Screen thoughtfully gave Xuan Zi a close-up.

His pitiful appearance, filthy and sprawled with all four limbs in the air, was broadcast in full across the Douluo Plane.

The Battle Saint Ape dusted off his hands and grinned up at the Sky Screen.

"You youngsters had better watch closely!"

"Next, I'm going to pull this brat's pants down in front of everyone!"

"Then I'll give his backside a good beating with my big staff!"

"That'll teach him a lesson!"

Xuan Zi, who had been pretending to be unconscious, snapped his eyes open!

Gravely wounded? At death's door? He was suddenly cured of it all!

"Don't!"

"Grandpa Monkey, please don't!!!"