Xuan Zi: Get Lost! / Du Busi: Xuan Zi, How Dare You Bully My Body Sect!

The old man's movements seemed slow but were actually swift. Under his teeth, the chicken drumstick became a bare bone in an instant. (The previous chapter was revised.)

Holding the chicken bone, he casually tossed it. As though intangible, it sliced through space toward Sun Menghan's left leg a short distance ahead.

Sun Menghan's eyes widened. He sensed an irresistible power within that chicken bone.

He immediately tried to dodge, only to discover that the space around him seemed to have solidified. He could not move an inch.

Smack!!

"Aah!!"

The chicken bone struck Sun Menghan's left leg.

Sun Menghan cried out in pain, staggering several steps backward from the impact.

The skin and muscle of his left leg, tougher than metal and stone, caved in beneath the chicken bone. There was even a sharp crack of breaking bone, and his face turned deathly pale.

Beside Sun Menghan, Zhang Feng, Song Yu, and Qian Shi watched a chicken bone break their leader's left leg. Their expressions changed drastically.

They knew Sun Menghan extremely well. His body martial soul was his legs, making them exceptionally tough. Even a Soul Douluo could not easily damage them.

Yet a featherlight chicken bone had just broken one.

Just how terrifying did this suddenly appearing old man's cultivation and strength have to be for him to break their Soul Saint leader's leg with nothing but a chicken bone, without even using his martial soul?

While Sun Menghan and the others were gripped by fear at the old man's strength,

Zhang Lexuan looked at the old man before her in delighted surprise. "Elder Xuan, you're here!"

Indeed, the man standing between Zhang Lexuan and Sun Menghan was Xuan Zi, a Sea God Pavilion Elder of Shrek Academy, whose cultivation stood at Peak Level 98 and whose martial soul was the Godly Taotie Bull.

Earlier, when she had been unable to break through the surrounding soul beasts, Zhang Lexuan had used Shrek Academy's specially made emergency soul tool to request help.

Shrek Academy was very close to the Star Dou Great Forest. Its gates even faced the forest directly.

That was why Xuan Zi had arrived so quickly.

Having just been taken from Zhang Lexuan by Sun Menghan's group of four, Chen An had thought he would no longer be going to Shrek Academy and would most likely join the Body Sect instead.

But the sudden turn of events made his pupils contract sharply.

Chen An studied the old man standing before Zhang Lexuan.

The old man looked rather shabby. What should have been a white robe had turned grayish brown and was torn in several places, while his hair was a tangled mess. His feet were bare, and an enormous gourd hung at his waist.

The gourd was purplish red, made from some unknown material, and gave off wafts of wine fragrance.

Everything else about the old man looked aged, but his eyes were exceptionally bright. Those crimson eyes had a soul-shaking intensity.

Now, somehow, he had produced another chicken drumstick in his right hand and begun eating it.

Chen An was surprised. Isn't this Elder Xuan, jokingly called the student killer? He moved really quickly this time. Judging by how fast he arrived, even if those uncles hadn't appeared, he probably could have saved Ren Xue, Zhang Lexuan, and me in time.

But I'm afraid Uncle won't be able to take me to the Body Sect now.

As Chen An pondered this,

Xuan Zi took a bite of his greasy drumstick, then lifted his wine gourd and drank a mouthful of fine wine.

His calm gaze carried a hint of mockery as he looked at Sun Menghan, Zhang Feng, Qian Shi, and Song Yu. He said mildly, "Well, isn't this something? Every stray cat and dog dares to walk all over Shrek Academy now.

"You four are quite something! You even tried to snatch Shrek Academy's students!

"Now that their teacher is here, I'd like to see just how you intend to take our people away!"

The moment he finished speaking, Sun Menghan and the others felt as though a towering mountain stood before them. Its terrifying pressure utterly crushed them.

They all collapsed to the ground, unable to move. At that moment, they felt rejected and isolated by heaven and earth itself. They could sense none of the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, only boundless pressure that made even breathing difficult.

"Y-you're the Sea God Pavilion's Taotie Douluo!!"

Sun Menghan's eyes bulged so fiercely that their corners seemed about to split.

As a disciple of the Body Sect, which had a hostile relationship with Shrek Academy, he could recite the academy's renowned experts as readily as counting treasures in his own home.

And the most prominent expert of Shrek Academy was unquestionably Taotie Douluo, Xuan Zi. (In the original story, Mu En had not appeared publicly for a long time, and the Soul Master World believed he was dead.)

His cultivation was said to have reached the peak of Super Douluo. In terms of strength, he was only a notch below their sect master, Du Busi.

He was one of the five strongest experts on the Douluo Continent, someone they absolutely could not afford to offend.

For a moment, sweat poured down Sun Menghan's back. He felt that he and his brothers were done for.

Xuan Zi swept his crimson gaze over them, lingering briefly on Sun Menghan's legs.

Then he said mildly, "You brats from the Body Sect, for the sake of that old monster Du Busi, I won't hold today's matter against you. Otherwise, that old monster will accuse me of bullying the younger generation."

"Get lost!"

"Thank you for showing mercy, Senior."

Zhang Feng, Qian Shi, and Song Yu hurriedly carried Sun Menghan, whose thigh was broken, away.

Xuan Zi glanced at their retreating figures and paid them no further attention. As a Peak Level 98 Super Douluo, he disdained bullying a few Soul Saint juniors.

Turning to Zhang Lexuan, Xuan Zi asked, "Lexuan, why did you suddenly use the emergency soul tool? Tell me exactly what happened."

Zhang Lexuan immediately explained how she had discovered the two prodigies, Chen An and Ren Xue, while carrying out a supervisory mission to kill an Evil Soul Master in Qinghe Village.

Then she explained that, after hunting soul beasts for them, she had been preparing to return to Shrek Academy when they encountered a soul beast rampage. Unable to break through, she had requested help.

After hearing Zhang Lexuan's explanation, Xuan Zi's eyes lit up.

Two prodigies with innate full soul power—one with a Holy Swan, and the other using himself as his martial soul, just like that old monster Du Busi. They had truly stumbled upon treasure.

Xuan Zi immediately turned his gaze toward Qian Renxue and Chen An.

Under the old man's gaze, Qian Renxue felt as though she were facing some primordial beast. The impression he gave her was hardly inferior to her grandfather's.

Qian Renxue dared not be careless. She used her inherited soul bone to maintain her disguise with all her strength, afraid that a single lapse would expose her Six-Winged Angel martial soul.

If her Six-Winged Angel martial soul were exposed, she would very likely be in danger.

As an inherited soul bone left by the Angel God, its disguise skill was incredibly powerful and should, in theory, have been impossible to detect. But no matter how effective a skill was, a person still had to use it.

And people made mistakes. If she used it poorly, there might be a tiny flaw.

Before the terrifyingly precise Spiritual Power of a peak expert, even the smallest flaw would be discovered.

Qian Renxue thought, The Shrek Academy I remember was merely a third-rate faction. The entire academy had only two or three Soul Saints.

Yet ten thousand years later, Shrek Academy has grown into such a colossus. An expert like this... probably only Grandfather could defeat him.

While Qian Renxue did everything she could to use the Angel God's inherited soul bone skill to conceal her Six-Winged Angel martial soul's aura from Xuan Zi,

Xuan Zi merely glanced at her before turning his attention to Chen An.

A martial soul on the Holy Swan's level was merely average in the Shrek Inner Court. Plenty of people possessed stronger ones, so it was perfectly natural that she failed to attract Xuan Zi's interest.

Looking at Chen An, Xuan Zi reached out with his greasy hand, patted his shoulder, and squeezed his muscles. His previously calm crimson eyes immediately brightened.

"Good! What an excellent True Self Martial Soul, and what an astonishing physique! Your physique has already surpassed that of many Soul Elders."

Xuan Zi said, "Good lad, activate your martial soul possession. Let me see your martial soul."

Feeling the greasy handprint on his shoulder, Chen An nearly twitched at the corner of his mouth. Xuan Zi was far too slovenly.

But although he grumbled inwardly, he could not stop moving.

Chen An immediately activated Martial Soul Possession, and a purple soul ring rose around his body.

Gold and silver power poured out of him, shimmering brilliantly as it formed a gigantic humanoid phantom behind him.

In an instant, Chen An seemed to age by two or three years, changing from a six-year-old child into a young boy.

His formerly black hair turned silver, and dense Spiritual Power swirled in his eyes, giving off a silver glow.

His previously lustrous skin also shone with a faint golden light.

Chen An's aura surged with martial soul possession. Although his soul power was only level fifteen, the presence he unleashed was no weaker than a Soul Elder's.

Such a presence immediately aroused Xuan Zi's intense curiosity.

After all, both Chen An and Du Busi used themselves as their martial souls, yet Chen An's True Self Martial Soul felt even higher in quality than that old monster's body martial soul.

Xuan Zi naturally released his Spiritual Power, which stood at the peak of Formless Substance, and began examining Chen An's talent in detail.

Inside Chen An's Sea of Consciousness, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm noticed the expert's examination and immediately concealed part of Chen An's talent, suppressing his Soul King-level Spiritual Power to the Soul Elder level.

After all, a Soul Master possessing Soul King-level Spiritual Power was simply too inconceivable, too far beyond common sense. Being excessively outstanding would only be troublesome.

Naturally, neither Xuan Zi's Spiritual Power cultivation nor the vastness of his Spiritual Power could compare with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who possessed a million years of cultivation and the mental attribute. With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm concealing it, Xuan Zi failed to discover Chen An's true level of Spiritual Power.

Even so, it was enough to shatter Xuan Zi's composure as an expert. His eyes widened in shock.

Xuan Zi discovered that Chen An's True Self Martial Soul actually possessed two attributes—and they were the most powerful physical and mental attributes.

Although that old monster Du Busi's martial soul was also himself, its attribute was poison. In this respect, it fell an entire tier below Chen An's physical and mental attributes.

Because of his attribute, Du Busi's Spiritual Power was on par with Xuan Zi's. Both stood at the peak of Formless Substance, never having managed to break through to Formed Substance.

And without sufficiently powerful Spiritual Power to reach Formed Substance, one could never become a Limit Douluo in one's lifetime.

But Chen An was different.

Xuan Zi was certain that, with Chen An's talent and attributes, he would inevitably become a Limit Douluo in the future, a legend of his generation.

This discovery filled Xuan Zi with wild joy.

Because Elder Mu, the pillar holding up Shrek Academy's sky, had little time left.

Shrek Academy had searched high and low, inside and out, again and again, and trained one Inner Court student after another. Yet they always fell just a little short.

These promising students had a strong chance of becoming Super Douluos, but not one had any hope of reaching Limit Douluo.

Once Shrek Academy no longer had a Limit Douluo to oversee it, could it still remain the sacred land of the Soul Master World?

Could it still hold its ground and suppress the dissatisfied Douluo Three Kingdoms, as well as the Sun Moon Empire, which watched like a tiger eyeing its prey, burning with ambition to unite the entire continent?

This question had weighed on Xuan Zi and Shrek Academy's other senior figures for a very, very long time.

But today, Xuan Zi knew that heavy stone would no longer burden his heart, for he had found an unparalleled prodigy who could inherit Elder Mu's position.

Xuan Zi wiped his greasy hands, then patted Chen An's little head.

"Good lad! Hahaha! Come, I'll take you back to Shrek Academy!"

With that, Xuan Zi scooped Chen An up in his broad palm and, with a whoosh, became a pillar of earthen-yellow light that flew toward Shrek Academy.

Three days later.

In the Heaven Dou Empire, an unbroken mountain range stretched into the distance, countless peaks rising and falling.

The tallest peak touched the sky, its summit covered in thick snow. The mountains resembled silver pyramids, glittering beneath the sunlight.

The valleys were bottomless, wreathed in clouds and mist that lent them an unfathomably mysterious air.

Before such a natural barrier, humans seemed so insignificant.

This was the home of the continent's most mysterious sect, the Body Sect.

The terrain was precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, while the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy was abundant. That was why the first Body Sect Master had established the sect here.

Atop the highest peak stood a grand hall, engraved with the words "Body Sect" in bold, sweeping strokes like soaring dragons and dancing phoenixes.

Inside its most magnificent chamber,

A tall old man sat in a broad white-jade chair.

His complexion was ruddy, and his hair and eyes were dark green, though not a single hair grew atop his head—truly "brilliant to the very crown." His entire presence was unfathomable and immensely imposing.

But now, after listening to his disciple Sun Menghan's report,

He could not help roaring, "Xuan Zi, how dare you bully my Body Sect!!"