Xuan Zi Was Still Farming the Jungle

Star Dou Great Forest, deep in the Mixed Area.

Terrifying energy fluctuations kept erupting in a stretch of forest, with thunderous crashes and tiger roars occasionally mingling with human screams.

At the heart of this earthshaking battle were twelve figures dressed in red. They looked thoroughly bedraggled, for the creature they faced was an enormous white tiger over twenty meters long.

The white tiger's sheer size was intimidating enough. Every hair on its body stood upright like a steel needle. Its pupils were black, and a huge Wang-the character for "king"-marked its forehead, proclaiming its status as the king of tigers.

Even a casual pounce could smash a massive crater into the ground, sending tremors that could be felt a hundred meters around.

Now, the area around its pitch-black pupils was blood red. Seething with extraordinary fury, it lunged at the twelve humans before it.

"Detestable humans! You actually killed my child! I'll devour you!"

As it spoke, its aura grew stronger still, as though every mention of its dead child piled another layer onto its rage.

Facing its increasingly powerful attacks, all twelve figures maintained their maximum Soul Power output. The graceful figure leading them bore half the white tiger's attacks herself, the Silver Moon before her blazing as brightly as it could as she stubbornly held off its assault.

The seventh Soul Ring on Zhang Lexuan's body, black as ink, suddenly lit up. She led the Shrek Academy Inner Court students in a fierce struggle against this hundred-thousand-year beast king.

In truth, rather than a struggle, it was a one-sided effort to hold it off. After all, a mere group of Soul Saints had no hope of standing against such a gigantic beast king in a berserk state. Even a team of Soul Douluos could not confidently claim they would escape unscathed.

But Zhang Lexuan was undeniably outstanding. Her exceptional command, cool judgment, and combat strength far beyond others of her rank made her worthy of her title as the Shrek Inner Court's senior sister.

Although they had not yet fallen, they were already losing ground. Their Soul Power was draining rapidly, and they could not hold on much longer.

They had been pursued for an entire day. Every time it caught up, they were forced into another bitter battle before they could escape. Zhang Lexuan could not understand why Xuan Zi, who was supposed to be protecting them from the shadows, still had not come. They had already used up all their signal flares.

Could Xuan Zi not be in this area?

Zhang Lexuan's heart was filled with despair. She had endured far too much over these few short days, and by now she was utterly exhausted in both body and mind.

The White Tiger King's sudden attack had actually been an accident. Just yesterday, they had killed a sixty-thousand-year white tiger to obtain its Soul Ring.

What they had never expected was that the white tiger's mother was a hundred-thousand-year beast king. This hundred-thousand-year creature had followed the Soul Ring's aura and found Zhang Lexuan's group. The moment it saw them, it launched a ferocious attack.

Within a single breath, Zhang Lexuan and the others had fallen into a disadvantage and fled for their lives, hoping to hold out until Xuan Zi appeared.

But a day had passed, and Xuan Zi still had not arrived. All they had was the White Tiger King's relentless pursuit and their steadily spreading despair.

The White Tiger King, meanwhile, was furious beyond measure. A mighty hundred-thousand-year beast king like itself had spent an entire day hunting these rats, mere Soul Saints, without succeeding. Rage burned within it.

Having cultivated for a hundred thousand years, it had developed intelligence and could even speak the human tongue. It could tell that the woman before it was responsible for everything. Had she not been able to harness moonlight to strengthen her shield, it would have slaughtered its way through them long ago.

Now, after pursuing them for a full day and night, the White Tiger King had exhausted its patience. It stopped attacking and began gathering all its blood energy and Soul Power in its throat.

Then it gulped down a breath like a whale, its belly abruptly swelling. Rings of sonic light began pouring from its mouth.

"ROOOAR..."

Deafening tiger roars erupted from its mouth. In an instant, the terrifying force of the vibrations plowed the ground for hundreds of meters before it clean.

This horrific sonic attack covered a radius of at least several miles. Every low-level Soul Beast within that area trembled and fled desperately. Some Hundred-Year Soul Beasts closer to the ground were even blasted apart by the roar and died on the spot.

The sonic attack had turned this stretch of forest into a wasteland, and the Shrek students directly in its path bore the brunt of it. The moment Zhang Lexuan sensed the White Tiger King's movement, she reacted, desperately sheltering the four people nearest her beneath the Silver Moon she was maintaining with all her strength. At the same time, she raced toward the eight farther away.

Unfortunately, she was too late...

The attack was swift and fierce, and there was more than one wave. She had only just started moving when the White Tiger King's sonic attack arrived. The sonic tiger roar, carrying the full might of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's strike, pierced through the surrounding space.

Instantly, everyone felt the world fall silent, as though heaven and earth had always been this quiet.

Even with the protection of moonlight and powerful Soul Power enveloping her body, Zhang Lexuan lost her hearing in an instant. Before her eyes, the eight teammates caught in the sonic attack suddenly began shaking violently. Their Martial Souls all dissipated at once, and then blood poured incessantly from their eyes, ears, noses, and mouths.

"No..."

With this single strike, eight of the Shrek Academy Inner Court's twelve prodigies died on the spot. The three protected by Zhang Lexuan's Silver Moon were bleeding from their ears and had fallen unconscious. Zhang Lexuan knelt on one knee, bloody tears streaming from her eyes.

Looking at the eight classmates and comrades who had spent every day beside her, now lying in pools of blood, Zhang Lexuan's eyes nearly split with anguish. She had never imagined that her first time leading a team of Soul Saints into Star Dou Great Forest for Soul Hunting would cause such devastating losses. Even she herself was about to die here.

She had no Soul Power left.

How am I supposed to bear the consequences of costing the academy so many geniuses? Xuan Zi, where on earth are you?

The Core Area of Star Dou Great Forest.

In an enormous cavern a thousand meters underground, a gigantic white python with a crystalline, translucent body was locked in a desperate battle.

Although it was a hundred-thousand-year beast king, it had no power to resist the disheveled human before it.

One of the dragon horns it had evolved upon reaching a hundred thousand years had already been shattered, and most of its scales had been stripped away. Yet the human before it had only released his Martial Soul, without using even a single Soul Skill. This filled it with utter despair.

"Human powerhouse, are you openly defying the agreement signed between Shrek Academy and our Star Dou Great Forest? Aren't you afraid that the Beast God will unleash another beast tide and plunge the continent's living creatures into misery? Aren't you afraid Shrek Academy will hold you accountable?"

The hundred-thousand-year Dragon-Horned Crystal Python was about to be beaten to death. At this point, it could only invoke the two great powers that had signed the agreement, hoping to frighten away the powerhouse before it. After all, it had only recently reached a hundred thousand years. Its heavenly tribulation was still ten thousand years away. It did not want to die.

"Isn't that why I'm doing this in secret?"

Xuan Zi sneered. It was actually trying to threaten him with Shrek Academy, when he was the academy's own top dog.

With one punch, he knocked out the hundred-thousand-year Dragon-Horned Crystal Python, which was still spouting arrogant nonsense. Xuan Zi seized one of its enormous dragon horns with one hand, then vanished from the cavern at tremendous speed.

"Finally done. The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring is secured. That girl Lexuan will be overjoyed when she finds out."

"I wonder how they're doing."

Hehe, thank you, everyone, for your monthly tickets, investments, recommendation tickets, and bookmarks. Thank you all for your support. A new author with a new book here, begging on my knees for everything.

The plot is gradually heating up. I hope you'll enjoy it. Huo Yuhao is gradually turning into the king of showing off.

And he'll keep showing off to the very end, slaughtering his way through everything.

(End of chapter)