Battle Saint Ape Storms the Star Dou Great Forest, Dragon God Claw vs. Ruyi Jingu Bang!

Star Dou Great Forest.

"Your cultivation's too shallow. Go home and be a shut-in!"

"Your Monkey Grandpa only wanted to enter the Star Dou Great Forest and meet that little Auspicious Beast, yet you dared attack me."

"You brought this suffering on yourself. What a waste of several hundred thousand years of cultivation!"

The Battle Saint Ape lay beneath a crooked tree, happily munching on a bright red peach.

Not far away, three little monkeys had surrounded the Scarlet King, bringing down cudgels as thick as bowls again and again.

The Scarlet King, a Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff ranked among the Douluo Continent's ten great Ferocious Beasts, could not fight back against the three little monkeys.

He unleashed his mightiest flames, spewing scorching torrents from all three heads at once.

But the little monkeys opposite him merely twirled their cudgels and blocked every last flame.

Against the blows from those cudgels, however, the Scarlet King had no answer.

He might have had three heads, but he still had only one body. He could not fend off attacks from three directions at once.

Even a Level 98 Super Douluo like Xuan Zi could not withstand the damage those cudgels dealt. How could the Scarlet King, who was weaker than him, fare any better?

The Scarlet King could only suffer in silence.

When the Battle Saint Ape had first arrived in the Star Dou Great Forest, he had taken the form of a sharp-featured young man with a monkey-like face.

The first thing he had said to the Scarlet King was that he wanted to meet the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

As the guard Di Tian had assigned to the Emperor Auspicious Beast, how could the Scarlet King allow that?

He had never liked human Soul Masters, either, so he had attacked at once.

But when the Battle Saint Ape revealed his true form, the Scarlet King's legs nearly shook beneath him.

This was the Ferocious Beast from the Phoenix God Continent who had effortlessly defeated Xuan Zi, wielder of the Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul, in Shrek City!

Even a Limit Douluo like Dragon God Douluo Mu En had to address this being as his senior.

When the Battle Saint Ape lectured him, Mu En had to smile along.

And when the Battle Saint Ape kindly told the Scarlet King how many years he had cultivated, the Scarlet King nearly broke into a cold sweat all the way down to his crotch.

Nine hundred and ninety thousand years?!

He himself had only cultivated for a little over three hundred thousand years. This ape had nearly three times as much?

And in terms of fighting strength, the gap between him and the Battle Saint Ape was greater than the gap between a Soft Bone Rabbit and a Limit Douluo!

He had seen a million-year Soul Beast before, but Tian Meng, that fat worm who did nothing but eat and sleep, was nowhere near this ape's level.

Now the Scarlet King could only hope Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts would hurry over and save him.

Just as the little monkeys were getting into the swing of their beating, the surroundings suddenly darkened.

Even the entire world seemed to plunge into darkness.

The Scarlet King's eyes widened with delight.

The power to command the laws of darkness was the innate gift of Beast God Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.

Had Di Tian come to save him?

The next instant, a furious roar rang out.

"Roar! Filthy monkey, take my Sky-Rending Claw!"

Beside Di Tian, who was wielding the power of darkness, Xiong Jun threw back his head and roared.

The dense golden light around him surged toward his pair of dark-gold claws.

Bands of light flowed across the claw blades, turning both claws a brilliant gold.

Xiong Jun slashed with both claws. Ten rifts tore open the sky and raced toward the Battle Saint Ape.

A violent suction poured from the deep, jagged rifts. Even the Scarlet King and the three little monkeys struggled to stay on their feet.

The Sky-Rending Claw was Xiong Jun's sure-kill technique. Beast God Di Tian had once said that even he would be injured if he took it head-on.

Yet two points of golden light suddenly blazed within the thick darkness.

Brilliant golden flames ignited in the Battle Saint Ape's eyes, piercing the darkness that shrouded heaven and earth.

Fiery Eyes of Truth!

The Battle Saint Ape smiled at Xiong Jun's Sky-Rending Claw.

"Heh, good, good! So there are a few among you worth looking at!"

"Too bad you've never been to the Phoenix God Continent. Haven't you heard that your grandpa's body is famous for being as indestructible as diamond?"

Then the Battle Saint Ape reached out and slapped straight at the Sky-Rending Claw.

Boom!

A terrifying explosion of Soul Power swept across dozens of miles.

With one palm strike, the Battle Saint Ape snuffed out every spatial rift the Sky-Rending Claw had created.

Only a few faint white marks remained on his palm.

"What? How is that possible?!"

The sight made Xiong Jun's scalp prickle. Frightened, he stumbled back several steps.

The ape had met his strongest attack head-on without suffering a single injury. Fear flooded Xiong Jun's heart.

The other great Ferocious Beasts looked stunned as well.

Di Tian's expression grew grave as he descended a short distance from the Battle Saint Ape.

"I am Beast God Di Tian, the eight-hundred-thousand-year Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King. I once served as the Dragon God's captain of the guard and helped him maintain order among the Dragon Clan."

"Though the Dragon Clan has fallen into the lower realm, you Soul Beasts must still respect the Dragon God's decrees!"

"The Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, belongs to the Star Dou Great Forest. If you try to seize her, the Dragon God will punish you!"

The knuckles of Di Tian's right hand suddenly swelled.

Scales emerged one after another, and his hand transformed into a golden dragon claw!

Dragon God Claw!

It was the divine artifact the Dragon God had bestowed on Beast God Di Tian to command all beasts. Its power was terrifying!

Even when facing the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Overlord, whose cultivation had approached eight hundred thousand years, Di Tian had refrained from using the Dragon God Claw because he admired the tyrant's talent.

But the pressure the Battle Saint Ape exerted on him was simply too great!

So Di Tian summoned the Dragon God Claw at once, intending to subdue the Battle Saint Ape!

The Battle Saint Ape gazed at the Dragon God Claw's formidable aura without a trace of fear. Instead, he laughed.

"The Dragon God?"

"I am a king of Soul Beasts, born from the power of creation bestowed by the Phoenix God. I have nothing to do with your Dragon God!"

"Heaven and earth alike bow to the Phoenix God. Do you think those of the Phoenix God's lineage fear your Dragon Clan?"

"The Dragon God gave you a divine artifact. Do you think the Phoenix God gave me none?"

The next instant, the Battle Saint Ape reached into his ear.

He pulled out something like an embroidery needle, blazing with golden light. It grew and grew.

At last, it became a staff as tall as a person, which he held in his hand.

Heavy, solid gold bands capped both ends, their radiance restrained.

Between them was a lustrous, translucent silver shaft, like condensed quicksilver.

Four ancient characters were engraved at the staff's center.

Ruyi Jingu Bang!

The pressure radiating from the Ruyi Jingu Bang dimmed even the golden light of the Dragon God Claw.

Di Tian could no longer suppress his shock. Under the Golden Cudgel's pressure, he was forced several steps back.

"The Phoenix God..."

"Was this Phoenix God Continent you speak of truly created by that Phoenix God from a hundred thousand years ago?"